#Arizona politics

[titleknown]

So, in other news, they're trying to push an Age Verification Bill in Arizona.

Which, I've talked a fair bit about why this is bad but long story short, it would be a massive privacy risk, whether requiring government IDs or facial scanning, and it would lead to massive amounts of self-censorship in an effort to avoid leading to being categorized under that bill, which means more stuff like the Tumblr purge.

Or, as in the case of other states who've passed laws like this, pull out of them entirely.

Bad news is it's passed the State House and Senate, good news is our state governor, Katie Hobbs, can still veto it.

If you live in Arizona, call her office at 602-542- 4331 and tell her to veto this terrible censorship bill.

There's a terrifying push for laws that'd restrict online speech on a federal level, but we cannot forget about the ones threatening us at the state level.

#free speech #freedom of speech #arizona #arizona politics #internet #internet freedom #please boost

[many-sparrows]

If you want to advocate but can't protest, are under voting age, want to do more, whatever, my roommates and I made a bunch of solidarity stickers. Palestinians are begging us to not look away, to force awareness-- we made these to easily and quickly stick up everywhere that people might see them. I'm talking Starbucks windows, light poles, crosswalks, electrical boxes, street signs, bus stops etc to keep this on people's minds. They also make easy post cards-- stick one on an index card and mail it to congress.

I bought 150 mailing labels from Staples for about $15, but you could also use scrap paper and clear packing tape. I also tried to use some different phrasing-- a lot of people shut down when they read "free Palestine" or "from the river to the sea" so I tried to bypass the "pOLiTiCaL" angle and appeal to the humanitarian one.

Also also, if you want to contribute and have some time, sending physical mail to representatives is a good thing to do. For this issue, it doesn't even have to be long or complicated letters, it can literally just be a note that says "cease fire now xoxox, your constituent, [name]" or whatever. It can be easy to ignore Twitter and brush off voicemails left with their staffers, it's time to get stuff in their desk.

#free Palestine #israel #palestine #activism 101 #disabled activists #advocacy #all eyes on gaza #all eyes on palestine #arizona #arizona politics #ceasefire #ceasefire now

[rhpotter]

'So, in 1864, a legislature of 27 white men created a body of laws that discriminated against Black people and people of color and considered girls as young as ten able to consent to sex, and they adopted a body of criminal laws written by one single man.

And in 2024, one of those laws is back in force in Arizona.

Now, though, women can vote.'

#arizona politics #politics #u.s. politics #reproductive rights #arizona #fucking VOTE #as if your bodily autonomy depends on it #because IT DOES

[conservethis]

I’m sorry but if I had to see it so do you

#original content #sorry #arizona politics #arizona

[reavenedges-lies]

Thank You Analise Ortiz, Katie Hobbs and Chris Mayes!

#arizona politics #arizona #analise ortiz #gov katie hobbs #chris mayes #abortion access

[sonpat-rides-again]

Phoenix Police: *keep shooting people*

Phoenix Police Chief: Obviously, the problem is not enough gun control.

#arizona politics #he's a californian transplant

[knightwick]

Uh

#my little post #twitter #politics #Arizona politics

[thenewdemocratus]

Mox News: Video: CNN's OutFront: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Vetos Religious Freedom Bill

Kire Schneider on Google+ The New Democrat on Facebook The New Democrat on Twitter It looks like Barry Goldwater’s visions of freedom and keeping big government out of people’s lives and are still alive in Arizona. The state is moving away from its presumptive status as a Bible Belt state of the West. Conservative libertarian values, which are fundamentally in conflict with evangelical christian…

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#Arizona Politics #Arizona Religious Freedom Bill #CNN #Erin Burnett #Governor Jan Brewer #Homophobia #Homosexuality #OutFront Tonight #Religious Right

[uboat53]

So as usual, conspiracy theories ignore inconvenient facts. For example, if Katie Hobbs has been cheating in Arizona elections to help herself and other Democrats win, why is she trying to force a conservative county to certify its votes instead of letting Democrats win a House seat and the state superintendent race?

I'm sure there's a convoluted answer out there somewhere, as soon as they come up with something. :P

#politics #katie hobbs #us politics #the arizona republic #arizona #arizona politics #conspiracy theories

[worshiptheglitch]

“She doesn’t care about how this will help us take control of the Senate,” he said, referring to Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-AZ) reelection campaign. “She actually predicted that we would lose control of the Senate in front of [Republican Senate leader] Mitch McConnel while she was getting an award from him.”

#kyrsten sinema #mark kelly #arizona politics #mitch mcconnel

[grimm-the-tiger]

The only two things my mom and I can agree on: climate change is going to kill us all, and fuck Blake Masters. 

#arizona politics #politics #climate change #climate anxiety #shitpost #good news: with luck i should be leaving az by next year #bad news: with luck i'll be leaving to georgia and i doubt it's much better there #politically at least #i've been and it's pretty nice #at least the people in the cities seem equally as exasperated by the state of the country #so that's promising

[publicdomainbooksdevotee]

Fuck, now Kari Lake is leading the AZ gubernatorial GOP primary.

#dammit arizona #arizona #arizona politics #zonies what the hell

[reportwire]

Arizona GOP Senate Debate Filled With Several Revealing Moments

Arizona GOP Senate Debate Filled With Several Revealing Moments

An energy tycoon, a billionaire-backed populist, Arizona’s attorney general head the list of candidates vying for the Republican nomination in this year’s U.S. Senate race. And if the antics at a GOP debate on Thursday were any indication, they all want to push the seat far to the right. An older — but energized — crowd of more than a thousand packed into the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix to…

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#Arizona GOP #Arizona politics #Arizona Senate #Blake Masters #border #debate #Elections #FreedomWorks #gop #Jim Lamon #Mark Brnovich #Mark Kelly #Politics #Primary #Trump

[conservethis]

Giggling very professionally about this

#original content #archiving #archives #arizona politics #preservation #newsletter #library #libraries #old paper

[bard-llama]

(blows kiss) I hope you're doing well, sweet thing, I wish you luck.

Aww, thank you! I am doing decently well! Buying a car proved to be a huge fiasco (my last one got totalled and ugh the courthouse is NOT being helpful in getting that ticket resolved), BUT my work has really kicked off these past two weeks and it's going pretty well!

And because I am who I am, I gotta talk politics. Shit SUCKS lately. The draft decision on Roe v Wade has already paved the way for the TX Governor to challenge children's right to a public education. Interracial marriage and same sex marriage will be next. And they may even be able to go after Brown v Board of Education (you know, the court case that desegregated schools in the US). This draft opinion would set a HORRIBLE legal precedent, the likes of which have literally never been seen before. It's pretty bad.

BUT it's not hopeless! Protests do have the power to change the Justice's opinions before the final ruling and people can demand that their state and local legislators enact protections for if/when the federal government refuses to do its fucking job. It's not ideal, but it's not hopeless.

And, to be quite honest? We could not have asked for a better recruiting tool. They have gone so batshit over the edge that people who were previously wholly unengaged are reaching out to volunteer! They have SERIOUSLY pissed off a LOT of people and if all of those people go out and vote in November? We can turn Congress blue. We can turn states blue. AZ's election this year has a LOT of statewide races on the ballot and if the Democratic candidates can win, it will mean HUGE changes for the state. Imagine having a Secretary of State who will PROTECT voter rights instead of pursuing another fucking Fraudit. Imagine having a Governor and a State Legislature that isn't run by fringe minorities, but actually listens to their constituents.

Would it be perfect? No, there's WAY too much work to do for that. But my county is one that has been historically dismissed by the State Democratic Party as being "too red to bother with". This year, we have a real chance of turning blue and I get to be part of that effort, which is pretty cool! (the state party still basically told us to fuck ourselves, but they're a fucking disaster anyway. Fortunately, we've got some amazing organizers who are committed to STAYING in this county even when they try to bring us all to Maricopa if we want to get paid, and honestly, the county party has it more together than the state's coordinated campaign (which so far has proven very uncoordinated).

Oh, and you know something cool about AZ? In our constitution, citizens have the right to write laws and get them on the ballot for voters to decide on. In fact, when we tried to become a state, the federal government was not about that and told us to get rid of that - so we did, became a state, and then put it right back into the constitution 😂 But what it means is that if your ballot initiative gets enough signatures (based on the voter turnout in the previous election), voters can codify it into law. The PROBLEM is that our state legislator keeps explicitly undoing the things voters decided on in order to give their lobbyists tax breaks. Seriously, it's disgusting. BUT one of the iniatives I'm working on (Arizonans for Fair Elections) would put protections in place so that the legislature can't keep willfully going against the voters' wants. And it would restore all the voting rights they've spent this year so far taking away, including our Permanent Early Voter List (the list to get a mail in ballot every election), which... my county and state literally are the MODEL for how to do mail in ballots. Other states followed our example. 80% of the population votes by mail INCLUDING REPUBLICANS! So what they're doing is WILDLY unpopular and you know what? It's never been easier to get bipartisan signatures. EVERYONE is pissed at lawmakers not doing their fucking jobs and again, if all of those people who are angry actually turn out and vote? We can turn AZ and my county blue. That would be HUGE!

Anyway, uh, thank you for reaching out lol. I'm doing pretty okay on the whole. I'm restarting physical therapy today, so I will actually be able to MOVE, and work is going really well! I need to do more tax work for my mom, but I've been so swamped lately, I haven't even had the chance. I also might be getting another contract very soon doing the same work, but expanding the locale and I'm very excited!

#american politics #arizona politics #me #vote! #seriously if everyone who is pissed right now goes out and votes we have this in the bag #and if you think your vote doesn't count #then i have news for you about how close some of these races are #the last race a friend of mine ran? lost by TWO VOTES #THAT'S IT! #TWO #your vote very much counts and as much as the system sucks #we do not have a better way to dismantle it than to work within it #unless people are ready for revolution #which I'm here for but most of the public is super not #get out the vote

[batboyblog]

Senate 2022: You'd Better Vote!

If you're an American VERY IMPORTANT! elections are coming up on November 8th. Since the 2020 election the US Senate has been tied at 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans with Vice-President Harris casting the tie breaking vote that gives Democrats their majority. Even with such a tight margin Democrats have managed to pass the largest climate action taken by any country so far on earth (yet), lower prescription drug costs, pass the first gun control law since the 1990s , made lynching a federal crime after over 100 years of trying, made Juneteenth a federal holiday, confirmed the first black woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court, passed a trillion dollar infrastructure bill to rebuild our roads, bridges, transportation, better internet, clean water, and support electric cars, saved the US Post Office, passed a renewal of the Violence Against Women Act which had been in limbo since 2019.

Imagine all that the Democrats in the Senate could get done in the next 2 years with a stable majority? On the Flip side if Republicans net just one seat Mitch McConnell has made it clear there will be no progress if he's majority leader again. There are 35 Senate seats up on November 8th, I'm gonna list out the 9 seats with vulnerable Democrats who need re-electing and seats Democrats can flip to expand their majority. Everyone needs to vote, but voting is the start, the most basic thing you need to do, if you live in any of these states PLEASE sign up to volunteer for these candidates, to go talk to voters, to register new voters, to give rides to the polls etc. If you don't live in any of these states, you can still volunteer to make phone calls or text voters it's easy! if you have money to give please please give money campaigns are so expensive. Finally most of these campaigns have merch shops so if you feed more comfortable buying a shirt or a bag or whatever do that lots of them have cool pro-choice things.

Arizona

Mark Kelly (Re-elect)

Senator Mark Kelly was elected in a special election in 2020 and is running for a full term this year. Kelly is a former astronaut and the husband of gun violence survivor and gun control advocate Gabby Giffords. Kelly is a strong supporter of gun control an issue he's worked on with Giffords as an activist for 10 years before Congress. Republicans have nominated Blake Masters, who worked for one of Trump's top supporters, Peter Thiel, Thiel spent 13 million dollars to get Masters nominated. Masters calls himself a "America First Conservative" and a "hard-core nationalist". Masters has embraced the racist "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, supports Trump's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being stolen, is against gay marriage, says gun violence is all the fault of black people, and is against aid to Ukraine. Kelly is a good democrat, Masters is a white nationalist and election denier, we need Kelly back in the Senate, and we need to keep Masters far far away

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Florida

Val Demings (Flip)

Congresswoman Val Demings has represented the city of Orlando in the US House since 2017. Before that she served as Orlando's first woman chief of police. In Congress Demings has used her law enforcement background to lend credibility to gun control and police reform. Demings also served as one of the impeachment managers in Trump's first impeachment trial. If elected Val Demings will be Florida's first woman and first black Senator. Demings is running to unseat Republican Senator Marco Rubio. After running against Trump in the 2016 primaries Rubio became one of Trump's biggest supporters in Congress. Rubio reacted to the Parkland shooting in his state by doubling down on opposing any gun control, Val Demings voted to ban assault rifles. Rubio has also been a cheerleader for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' anti-LGBT/anti-Trans policies that bully queer students in Florida, he doesn't believe in the right to same sex marriage and is for banning books. Rubio also wants a total ban on abortion in all cases, Val Demings has a 100% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America. Florida needs a strong supporter of Gun control, climate action, the right to choose, and LGBT rights in the Senate, Florida needs Demings not Rubio

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Georgia

Raphael Warnock (re-elect)

Senator Raphael Warnock was elected in a special election in 2020 and is running for a full 6 year term this year. Warnock is the first black senator from the State of Georgia and the first Democrat elected in 20 years. Before becoming a senator Warnock was the pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's church and a center of the 1960s civil rights movement. Warnock used his position to protest and fight against the death penalty, to expand medicare in Georgia, for gun control, and for voting rights. In the Senate, Senator Warnock has been one of the most outspoken on voting rights pushing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act named after his late friend Georgia Congressman John Lewis. Republicans for nominated former football player, and Trump super fan, Herschel Walker to try to unseat Senator Warnock. Walker vocally supported Trump's election lies, posting many times on social media that Biden did not win the 2020 election. Walker declared this week that climate action was "giving money to trees" and "don't we have enough trees?". Walker believes in a total ban on abortion, and is against LGBT rights. Walker is against gun control and floated the idea of the government monitoring all social media and internet usage by Americans instead of gun control. Walker beat his now ex-wife Cindy Grossman, and threatened her with a gun and knives multiple times, after the divorce Grossman feared Walker would kill her and her boyfriend. Walker also is a dead beat dad who has a number of children out of wedlock that he has no contact with, he has criticized black men many times for being absent fathers. The US Senate doesn't need a man who threatens to shoot women, re-elect Senator Warnock.

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Nevada

Catherine Cortez Masto (re-elect)

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto was narrowly elected in 2016 and his running for her second term in the Senate. Senator Cortez Masto is the first women elected to represent Nevada in the Senate and the first and to date ONLY Latina elected to the US Senate. When she was Nevada's attorney general Cortez Masto sued Bank of America for it's predatory lending practices and won nearly a billion dollars against the bank. As a US Senator Cortez Masto has been a major supporter of clean energy jobs and hopes to turn Nevada into the solar energy capital of America. Republicans have nominated former Nevada attorney general Adam Laxalt to try to unseat Cortez Masto. Laxalt spent his time as AG (2015-2019) suing the Obama Administration EPA to fight against strong climate regulations. Laxalt opposed a multi-state law suit against ExxonMobil for it's role in downplaying Climate change. Laxalt also sued the Obama administration to stop DACA, filed briefs supporting radical anti-abortion laws from Texas and Mississippi when they went to court, and sued the Obama Department of Labor to stop certain workers being paid over time. After leaving office Laxalt was the Chairman of Trump's 2020 re-election effort in Nevada. As Chairman Laxalt was the leading figure in the election conspiracy in Nevada claiming the election in his state was fraudulent and Biden hadn't really won Nevada. Laxalt has made many false claims of election fraud in Nevada in the 2020 election. Laxalt launched his 2022 campaign for Senate claiming "woke corporations" "academia" and "the radical left" have taken over America. Nevada has to send Cortez Masto, the only Latina in the Senate, back for another term, Laxalt is dangerously unfit.

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New Hampshire

Maggie Hassan (re-elect)

Senator Maggie Hassan was elected in the closest senate race of 2016 and is running for her second term in the senate. Senator Hassan was a key vote to save Obamacare from repel in 2017. During her time in the US Senate Senator Hassan has helped pass bills to more than double the funding to help treat the opioid crisis as well as banning surprise medical billing. Senator Hassan first ran for office 20 years ago as a way to advocate for her son who has Cerebral palsy, she's been a strong advocate for disability rights and special education through out her time in public service. Because New Hampshire has one of the latest primaries (September 13th) we don't know for sure which Republican will be nominated to face her in November. The front runner is a retired general named Don Bolduc. Bolduc's first foray into into politics was spinning and supporting 2020 election denial conspiracy theories, even after the January 6th riot. Bolduc has closely tied himself to Trump. Bolduc called fellow Republican, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu "Chinese Communist sympathizer" and accused him of "supports terrorism" for not being conservative enough and loyal to Trump enough. New Hampshire should send back a Senator who gets things done and not a wing-nut calling people in his own party communists and terrorists.

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North Carolina

Cheri Beasley (flip)

Former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Cheri Beasley is running to fill a Senate seat opened up by the retirement of Republican Senator Richard Burr. In 2008 Beasley became the first black women to win a state wide election in North Carolina when she was elected to the Court of Appeals. In 2012 she was appointed to the state Supreme Court and won election in 2014. She was appointed the Chief Justice in 2019 the first black woman to serve as the State's Chief Justice. Beasley lost by less than 500 votes her run for a full term as Chief Justice in 2020. In her time as a public defender and elected Judge and Justice Beasley has stressed fairness and equity. If elected she'd be the first black Senator from North Carolina. She's stressed health care and abortion rights as key issues of her campaign. Republicans have nominated Congressman Ted Budd to try to fill the seat. Congressman Budd is a member of the radical "House Freedom Caucus". He voted to repeal Obamacare in 2017. Budd was also a major support of Trump's attempt to over throw the result of the 2020 election. Congressman Budd voted against certifying the election result on January 6th, even after the capital had been stormed by violent Trump supporters. Budd is Trump's hand picked candidate for the North Carolina Senate seat, Budd only launched his campaign after meeting with Trump in Mar-a-Lago. North Carolina doesn't need an election denying Trump toady for Senator, send Cheri Beasley to Congress.

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Ohio

Tim Ryan (flip)

Congressman Tim Ryan is running to fill a Senate seat being opened up by the retirement of Republican Senator Rob Portman. Congressman Ryan has represented the Youngstown area of Ohio since 2003. In his time in Congress Ryan has been a champion of unions and American workers. His Senate run is focused on protecting American manufacturing jobs and bring well paying union jobs back to the American heart land. Ryan is strongly pro-choice. Republicans have nominated author and venture capitalist JD Vance. Vance is closely tied to Trump money man Peter Thiel as well as Arizona candidate and white nationalist Blake Masters. Vance has publicly said that women should stay in abusive marriages. Vance is against abortion in all cases even rape or health of the mother. Vance has also publicly stated he sees the populist, antisemitic, anti-LGBT dictatorship of Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orbán as a model for America. Vance talked about how he hopes in a second Trump term to purge all civil servants who don't agree with Trumpism and replace them with "our people". America does not need a pro-fascist who supports wife beating in the Senate, send Tim Ryan to the Senate instead.

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Pennsylvania

John Fetterman (flip)

Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman is running to fill a seat opened by the retirement of Republican Senator Pat Toomey. First elected Lt Governor in 2018 Fetterman has used his platform to advocate the legalization of marijuana. Fetterman also is a vocal supporter of the LGBT community clashing with the Republican state legislature repeatedly about the display of a pride flag off the balcony of his official office at the state capital. Fetterman is running a campaign that is strongly pro-choice, supportive of criminal justice reform, and calls healthcare a human right. Republicans have nominated Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz. As a reality TV star "physician" Oz was criticized repeatedly for advocating fake cures and dangerous weight loss pills. During the Covid-19 pandemic Oz pushed Trump's favorite fake cure, Hydroxychloroquine, which is not a treatment for Covid. While running for the senate Oz has endorsed banning trans people from sports by law, and that trans youth are based on "false science". Oz is also says he'd vote to repeal Obamacare and strongly supports fracking. Pennsylvania doesn't need a flip flopping TV huckster from New Jersey as its Senator, election Fetterman.

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Wisconsin

Mandela Barnes (flip)

Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes is running to unseat Republican Senator Ron Johnson. Barnes served in the state legislature from 2013 till 2017 before being elected Lt Governor in 2018, he is the first black person to win state wide office in Wisconsin. As Lt Governor Barnes served as the chair of the Climate Task Force putting forward a 55 point plan to combat climate change. Barnes has been a vocal supporter of policies like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and marijuana legalization. If elected Barnes would be the first black Senator from Wisconsin and one of only two Senators in their 30s. Incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson has been Wisconsin's Senator since 2010 and is running for his 3rd term in office. In the Senate Johnson was one of Trump's strongest allies. Johnson was one of the main congressional pushers of the 2020 election conspiracy theories to the point his home town paper the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called him a member of the "Sedition Caucus". Johnson also has pushed conspiracy theories that the January 6th riot was the fault of Nancy Pelosi or the FBI, and said he didn't think it was a big deal and felt safe during the attack because they were Trump supporters. Johnson has also pushed Covid misinformation, such as mouthwash as a treatment for Covid-19 or that "thousands" of deaths had been linked to the vaccine. Johnson has blamed mass shootings on a failure to teach "values" and is against gun control. in resent weeks Johnson has floated the idea of privatizing Social Security and Medicare. Protect Social Security, send Barnes to Congress.

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If you're one of the 85 million Americans who live in one of these States please PLEASE PLEASE remember to VOTE November 8th

Everyone remember to VOTE NOVEMBER 8th! vote in EVERY election from School Board on up to Governor and Senate, now more than ever all these elections matter and they matter a lot.

if you have $10, $5, even $1 to spare please please please think about giving it to one of these candidates, Democrats are passing big things and are running against the worst of the worst.

If you live in one of these states please please PLEASE think about giving just one weekend between now and Election Day to talk to voters and help turn out the vote. Even if you don't live in any of these states you can call or text voters in these states and help these campaigns

#Politics #US politics #Democrats #Senate #Florida #pennsylvania #Ohio #Georgia #Arizona #election #vote #voting #November 8th