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Kelly, Gallego urge DHS to halt planned ICE detention facilities in Surprise and Marana
Arizona U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego are urging the Trump administration to put a halt to two planned detention facilities in the state as opposition to them grows and questions continue to mount, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Arizona Mirror. “Given the scale and pace of these efforts and the […]
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Republicans want to give individual legislators the power to order arrests
State Rep. Tony Rivero thinks the Arizona Legislature doesn’t have enough power to arrest people who don’t show up when lawmakers demand. The Peoria Republican wants to change that by giving the Arizona Senate president, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives or any committee chairman in either chamber the power to unilaterally issue […]
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Katie Hobbs sitting on $7.2M war chest, outraising both GOP challengers combined six to one
In her bid for a second term, Gov. Katie Hobbs is sitting on a campaign war chest that is six times what both of her Republican challengers have combined, and she raised nearly twice as much as Andy Biggs and David Schweikert did in the first three months of the year. In the first quarter, […]
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A single vote kept Trump’s Iran war authority intact as Hegseth says U.S. remains ‘locked and loaded’
WASHINGTON — The approval gap on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran narrowed slightly Thursday in the U.S. House, when a War Powers Resolution gained a handful of votes, though still falling just short of passage. The effort to force Trump to seek congressional authorization before further action in Iran failed 213-214, with one Republican voting […]
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Voters face a crowded 2026 ballot as legislators push back against citizen-led initiatives
More than a third of state ballot measures that voters will be asked to consider this year relate to democracy, with questions on voting rights, election processes, redistricting and similar issues. “It’s the redistricting fights that are really getting heated after the Trump administration began pressuring Republican-led states to shore up the GOP majority in […]
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Trump says he’s going after Medicaid fraud, but is mostly targeting ‘political enemies’ in blue states
The Trump administration is taking aim at what it calls rampant fraud in state Medicaid programs. But by focusing almost exclusively on Democratic-led states, it has handed ammunition to critics who say it mainly wants to embarrass its political enemies, not save taxpayer dollars. In announcing earlier this month that Vice President JD Vance would […]
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Republicans block Iran war vote, again, as poll shows voters blame Trump for gas prices 2-to-1
WASHINGTON — An effort to force President Donald Trump to seek congressional approval for further war actions in Iran failed in the U.S. Senate for the fourth time Wednesday, with all but one Republican continuing to support the president’s Middle East conflict. Senators voted down the measure, 47-52, with a similar partisan breakdown as earlier […]
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Court clears the way for entrepreneur Hugh Lytle to run for Arizona governor as an independent
Independent candidate for Arizona governor Hugh Lytle is still in the running after both challenges trying to block him from the ballot were rejected. “The judge’s decision is not a personal win for me,” Lytle said in a Wednesday statement. “It’s a win for the voters, for democracy and for Arizona’s growing Independent movement which […]
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Trump’s ‘Make America Skilled Again’ job training program would slash existing funding by $1.2 billion
WASHINGTON — Tucked into President Donald Trump’s new budget request is a plan that could dramatically change — and, critics say, slash — how much money and help states provide to people needing jobs and training. Trump’s latest budget proposes a federal “Make America Skilled Again’’ grant that would combine a dozen current programs and provide […]
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She sold MAGA merch. Now she’s running for governor as a Green Party candidate.
Risa Lombardo was a Republican precinct committeeman until days before she filed a statement of interest to run for Arizona governor as a Green Party candidate in 2026. In 2023, Lombardo was hawking “Kari Won” buttons and supporting far-right Republican campaigns, alongside her husband Michael Lombardo, who remains a Republican precinct committeeman for Legislative District […]
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Hobbs vetoes first bills under moratorium as Arizona budget standoff drags on
Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed three bills on Tuesday, following through with the promise she made a day earlier to veto any bill sent to her desk until legislative Republicans publicly release their budget proposal. In her veto letters for all three measures, the governor chided GOP lawmakers for failing to engage in “good faith budget […]
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Forest Service shake-up will boost states’ role — but even supporters have concerns
A sweeping reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service signals that the agency is planning to lean heavily on states to help manage millions of acres of federal land, foresters across the West say. State officials and timber industry leaders say they’ve been given scant details about the plan, which will move the agency’s headquarters from […]
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Phoenix tells AG Mayes its ban on ICE staging areas doesn’t violate state law
The City of Phoenix says it is not violating a state law barring local governments from blocking the enforcement of federal immigration law, as a Republican state lawmaker insists. Because it has constitutional protections as a charter city and the managing of municipal property is “a matter of purely local concern,” the city says that […]
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DOJ’s voter data push is a pretext for building a national voter list, Michigan official says
The Department of Justice’s stated reason for obtaining sensitive personal data on millions of voters masks the Trump administration’s true intention for obtaining state voter lists, Michigan’s top election official asserted in federal appeals court Monday. Attorneys for Michigan Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson made the allegation in a brief in the 6th U.S. Circuit […]
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Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap discussed election records, litigation with feds
New records show a top Maricopa County official directly corresponded with the U.S. Department of Justice last year about election records and litigation as the department sought to obtain Arizona’s voter roll and probe the county’s past elections. The emails, obtained by watchdog group American Oversight and shared exclusively with Votebeat, show Maricopa County Recorder […]
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Hobbs to Republicans: Show me your budget or every bill you send me is dead
Gov. Katie Hobbs says she won’t sign any more bills until Arizona’s Republican legislative leaders reveal their budget plan. The Democratic governor paused budget negotiations three weeks ago after she said that the Republicans who control the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate refused to negotiate on Proposition 123, a school funding measure […]
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Federal judge blocks Arizona AG from prosecuting Kalshi, says it violates the Constitution
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Attorney General Kris Mayes from pursuing criminal charges against the online prediction market company Kalshi, concluding that the Trump administration is likely to succeed in its lawsuit arguing that federal law bars states from regulating the industry. Federal Judge Michael Liburdi granted a temporary restraining order late last week […]
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‘I have no fear of the Trump administration’: Pope Leo fires back after president attacks him
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lashed out at Pope Leo XIV Sunday night following the pontiff’s sharp criticism of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran and wider Middle East conflict. In a lengthy post, littered with falsehoods, on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump accused the first U.S.-born pope of being “WEAK on crime” and of […]
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Anti-abortion lawmakers seek to redefine ‘abortion’ to exclude medical treatment
Some anti-abortion state lawmakers are pushing to revise the definition of “abortion” so abortion bans don’t apply to cases in which the death of an “unborn child” is the result of medical care provided to the pregnant woman. In the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to ban abortion, stories continue to emerge of […]
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‘Appallingly short’ of basic human dignity: Democrats demand answers about Mesa ICE facility
After three Democratic members of Congress made a surprise visit to a Mesa Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility Thursday night and saw detainees in holding cells “like sardines,” the trio are now demanding answers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. That visit came in the wake of the Arizona Mirror’s reporting earlier Thursday […]
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