The testimony of Oro Valley Republican Mark Finchem to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection sheds gives new insight into a man who has been instrumental in misinformation around Arizona’s electoral process. Read more»
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Mark Finchem, the Republican nominee for Arizona secretary of state, sent a cease-and-desist letter this week to Arizona television stations demanding that they stop airing an ad from his opponent that accuses him of organizing the Jan. 6 riot. Read more»
The FBI has raided Mar-a-Lago. We learned this from Trump himself who made a very whiny post about it on his joke of a social media platform, Truth Social. He’s partly upset the FBI didn’t give him, a guy with a habit of flushing evidence, advance notice of their raid. Read more»
President Trump was repeatedly warned about armed rallygoers on Jan. 6, and he responded by calling for the Secret Service to reduce security so he could have a larger audience for his speech that preceded the violent attack on the Capitol. Read more»
Part of Donald Trump’s plan to reverse his loss in the 2020 presidential election hinged on replacing legitimate electors in a handful of swing states with “fake electors” - and the the Jan. 6 House committee revealed some intriguing details of the fake elector plot. Read more»
Republican Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers testified Tuesday that former President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Rep. Andy Biggs and others were directly involved in efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 election results in their states. Read more»
State House Speaker Rusty Bowers will testify during the fourth Jan. 6 hearing about how Donald Trump pushed state officials to overturn Biden’s victory in Arizona and discuss pressure he received directly from Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others. Read more»
The House Select Committee investigating the events of of Jan. 6 laid out its evidence Monday about the role former President Donald Trump played in maintaining that the 2020 election was stolen against the advice and findings of experts and his own counsel. Read more»
Though Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is just days old, Russia has been working for years to influence and undermine the independence of its smaller neighbor - as it happens, two prominent Americans have played a role in that effort. Read more»
Phil Waldron, the suddenly famous election denier behind the circulation of a PowerPoint filled with plans to overturn the 2020 election and one of the proponents of the "audit" in Maricopa County, has a long history of election subversion attempts in multiple states. Read more»
Donald Trump continued his election grievance campaign Friday with a new claim that the 2020 election in Pima County was "rigged and stolen" from him, emailing supporters about supposed "staggering anomalies and fictitious votes." Read more» 2
Shiva Ayyadurai appeared to have absolutely no knowledge of Maricopa County policies and procedures - a shortcoming that would be a consistent theme as he presented his findings as part of the so-called 'audit' of the election in Maricopa County. Read more»
3 Arizona GOP lawmakers spread long-debunked claims about the 2020 election at a “Cyber Symposium” organized by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, where one of the cybersecurity experts Lindell hired said that Lindell failed to provide the data he had promised to deliver. Read more»
Dominion Voting Systems, the company that provides Maricopa County’s ballot tabulation machines, filed several new defamation lawsuits against people and organizations that have promoted false claims of election fraud, including leading fundraisers of Arizona’s election review. Read more»
The leader of the Arizona Senate’s election review released a list of financial contributors, showing the 'audit' has been funded by organizations that have aggressively promoted baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election — and in some cases sought to overturn results. Read more» 2
On the six-month anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, hundreds of rioters who attempted to stop lawmakers from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory still need to be found - and officials are ramping up security measures.
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