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»

Arizona lawmakers are demanding Gov. Ducey call a special session to allow the legislature to waive a spending cap that threatens to cut $1.4 billion in public school funding across the state, accusing him of dragging his feet despite clear lawmaker support and his own promises.  Read more»

"For the first time in memory, as a lifelong Republican, I cannot vote for or endorse any of the federal or state candidates in Arizona my party put on the ballot this election." — Dick Walden Read more»

The failure of Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Republican legislative leaders to appoint members to an obscure but technically important board that considers tax issues is causing big headaches for local governments trying to administer their tax codes. Read more»

Arizona’s legislative study committee on murdered or missing Indigenous women and girls is returning, with an expanded mission to investigate violence against all Indigenous people, including men, boys, two-spirits and LGBTQ. Read more»

Tucson Mayor Regina Romero joined a a bipartisan group of U.S. mayors at the National Nonpartisan Conversation on Voting Rights and laid out a goal of making voting in America as easy as getting a glass of water. Read more»

An Arizona law that would make it illegal to create video recordings of police in certain circumstances will not go into effect Sept. 24 as planned, after a federal judge temporarily blocked its enforcement. Read more»

All three of the defendants in a lawsuit filed last month by a coalition of news organizations and civil libertarians say they won't defend a law set to go into effect later this month that would make it a crime to take video of police officers in some situations. Read more»

Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, was trounced in Tuesday’s primary election by David Farnsworth, one of several legislative candidates endorsed by former President Trump who unseated incumbent Republicans. Read more»

The Arizona Republican Party formally censured House Speaker Rusty Bowers Tuesday as “unfit to serve” the party, less than one month after he testified to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Read more»

After winning praise for telling Congress how former President Donald Trump tried to intimidate him into illegally overturning the 2020 election in Arizona, House Speaker Rusty Bowers earned derision for saying that he’d vote for Trump in 2024. Read more» 1

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»

Thank you Rusty Bowers for protecting Arizona's right to decide the direction of our government. I know rejecting the pressure to overturn the 2020 election was hard. That's the point. Read more» 1

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»