The nearly $18 billion plan includes $500 million in tax cuts, 5% agency reductions and SNAP and Medicaid restrictions the governor has already rejected story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

“We don’t need Democratic votes to pass this budget. I understand the Democrats believe the governor will veto this bill. And then what? We have a unified Republican majority.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

“It is inhumane. We are violating so many laws by doing this, and I don’t understand why every city official isn’t sitting there and saying this shouldn’t happen.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com

“This is an anti protest bill intending to make it harder for us to protest, to have our First Amendment right of free speech and protest.” story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

“This ruling represents the latest in a series of failed attempts by right-wing groups to dismantle election administration in this critical battleground state.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Ethics Chairman James Lankford says the Senate panel works "in a quiet manner" to avoid the "theater of the allegation" that comes with public investigations

State legislators asked the AG's Office to investigate ordinance passed by the Pima County Board of Supervisors as part of widespread backlash against ICE via @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com/@tucsonsentinel.com

A dozen Republican state attorneys general are moving to defend President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail ballots from legal challenges mounted by Democrats

The proposal would strip local agencies of the choice to opt out of immigration enforcement — even for people who haven't been convicted of a crime story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

The judge ruled that the Department of Water Resources cannot “be allowed to rationalize a new rule by camouflaging it as just a new implementation of an old rule.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

A judge invalidated 40% of Risa Lombardo's signatures but found she still had enough to remain on Arizona's July 21 primary ballot story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

This is the first of what I hope will be many pieces in the Mirror from @elviadiaz.bsky.social, who is one of the most insightful writers on Arizona politics, government and culture

The Trump administration is arguing the senator's "unique sway over the military" cuts against First Amendment protections — an argument Sen. Mark Kelly's lawyers call unprecedented

The city will also receive $300,000 a year for lost property taxes after negotiations with Secretary Markwayne Mullin

Only three people officially registered in support of the proposal, while 337 registered against it. Republicans passed it any way. story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Experts say Medicaid fraud has no partisan pattern, but the administration's list of targets reads like a map of Trump's political enemies

Dozens of bills nationwide are aiming to make it harder for citizens to put measures on the ballot, shifting more power to state legislatures

“The judge’s decision is not a personal win for me,” Lytle said. “It’s a win for the voters, for democracy and for Arizona’s growing Independent movement which gains momentum every day.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Risa Lombardo was a Republican Party official until days before she filed to run for #azgov — and the Green Party says she’s a sham candidate story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

“Until the legislative majority shows us their plans for a balanced budget that works for middle-class Arizonans, their bills will be dead on arrival.” story via @jimsmall.bsky.social

New emails raise questions about whether Heap is coordinating with federal officials as they seek to investigate past elections and obtain voter information in Arizona via @sashahupka.bsky.social/@votebeat.org

Hobbs says Republicans are hiding their plan to avoid public scrutiny, while GOP leaders said she is "throwing a tantrum" and engaging in "political theater" story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Gallego’s change of heart came days after he took to social media to defend Swalwell against those allegations. story by @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep. Adelita Grijalva said. “It is frightening in there. It is disgusting.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Alejandra Gomez, the executive director of LUCHA, denounced the bans as an “abuse of power” and a violation of civil rights story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

Because of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, more than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits -- including 180,00 children story via @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social/@propublica.org

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“Given that 85% of American women change their name when they get married, the impact on women is going to be huge and it’s going to be very problematic.”

“The next administration could come in and investigate our service members for alleged war crimes. And they should, to demonstrate renewed fidelity to U.S. law, to the law of war.”

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Population at the Mesa facility dropped sharply in the seven days after Democrats Yassamin Ansari and Greg Stanton announced their visit — then climbed again almost immediately after story via @jerodmacevoy.com

“Type 2 diabetes is curable,” Trump's health secretary said. “You can reverse the diagnosis by changing the food source.” That isn’t true. story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Oil prices dropped sharply and stocks surged on ceasefire news, but Iran retained control of the Strait of Hormuz and strikes continued across the Gulf region

State prosecutors are nearly finished with their criminal investigation into GOP legislative candidate Neil DeSanti for allegedly voting illegally since 2012 story via @jimsmall.bsky.social

A law firm that previously represented Katie Hobbs filed a challenge arguing that Hugh Lytle's nominating petitions used a business address instead of the residential address required by law story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

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The Senate president referred his likely attorney general opponent to the DOJ after she asked whether confidential voter data was included in records he gave the FBI story via @jerodmacevoy.com

“We're seeing Democrat-run local governments put radical political agendas ahead of public safety," Senate President Warren Petersen said story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

“Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is,” the top Senate Democrat said

“Birthright citizenship is not just a legal principle. It’s a statement about who we are as a nation. It affirms that America is not defined by bloodlines or exclusion, but shared values and equal rights.”

President Trump said the US military would bomb bridges, power plants and maybe even hospitals and schools if Iran won't agree to his terms to end the war by tomorrow night, including free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz

Republicans say years of litigation over the Elections Procedures Manual prove the current process is broken story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Turning Point USA's volunteers are collecting completed ballots from voters in the Salt River Project service area — a practice the group's late founder Charlie Kirk spent years attacking story via @jerodmacevoy.com

The Trump administration's CFTC sued Arizona over its efforts to regulate Kalshi, escalating a legal battle that could reach the Supreme Court story via @jimsmall.bsky.social

“I think for a lot of people, it sounds and looks a lot like we’re building an infrastructure for concentration camps.”

Every form of voter registration drive would effectively end under the SAVE America Act as currently drafted in the Senate

“The greatest threat to the safety and security of our elections is Donald Trump continuing to lie about them.”

Trump administration's fiscal 2027 budget request asks Congress to cut nondefense programs by 10% and increase defense funding by 42% www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

“It replaces tailored evidence-based counseling with a one-size-fits-all, state-scripted message, undermining professional judgment and effective sex education.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

The 9th Circuit dismissed every argument from the Arizona Legislature, including claims about lost mining revenue and diminished control of state land story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social