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The Arizona Agenda reports that Sen. Brian Fernandez proposed state money for a program tied to his employer, Onvida Health, and says he had no legal conflict.

Rep. Matt Gress was among four House members absent for a stopgap budget vote, the Arizona Agenda reported, leaving Republicans at the 31-member minimum.

The Arizona House passed a stopgap budget along party lines that the governor had promised to veto, and the report notes Rep. Matt Gress, an architect of the earlier House budget, flew to Italy that weekend for his wedding.

The Arizona Mirror previews the 2024 Legislative District 2 Senate race between Shawnna Bolick and Judy Schwiebert, covering education, elections, abortion and Proposition 137.

Progress Arizona filed suit calling the title of SCR1044, a 2024 referral that would end judicial terms, deceptive, and the report notes Sen. Shawnna Bolick voted for it despite colleagues raising a conflict of interest.

Shawnna Bolick told Maricopa County supervisors she had moved on from the 2020 and 2022 elections, but an Arizona Mirror review of her Twitter posts reported she called the 2020 election "rigged" as recently as May 2023.

In this February 2021 opinion column, Arizona Mirror editor Jim Small takes aim at HB 2720, Rep. Shawnna Bolick's bill on certifying presidential electors and other election rules.

Former state Rep. Aaron Lieberman is running against Sen. Carine Werner in Legislative District 4, pitching pragmatism in a competitive district that leans Republican.

Arizona lawmakers formally convened the 2026 legislative session this week, returning to the Capitol with nearly 400 bills already introduced and hundreds more expected in the coming weeks. Against that backdrop of early activity and rising partisan tension, Governor Katie Hobbs used her State of the State address to outline an agenda centered on affordability, efficiency in government, and renewed fights over taxes, education policy, and water management. The Governor framed

As the Arizona Legislature prepares to convene for its annual session, a familiar ritual has unfolded around the State Capitol that highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of campaign finance law in the state. Members of the lobbying community and lawmakers themselves have entered what insiders call “Hell Week,” a compressed period when lobbyists race to contribute to campaigns and forge alliances before a statutory prohibition takes effect. During the first week in Janu

A contractor who participated in the controversial Arizona Senate-led review of the 2020 presidential election is claiming that he continues to possess photos of approximately 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots more than four years after the ballots were originally counted , a practice that appears to run counter to state retention laws and raises serious questions about legal custody and accountability. The contractor, widely identified in reporting as Jovan Pulitzer, has s

Former state Representative Austin Smith has entered a guilty plea in connection with forged signatures on his 2024 nominating petition. The case exposes a failure in the very processes conservatives often champion: transparency, accountability, and the rule of law. Smith, 30, served one term representing Legislative District 29 in the Phoenix suburbs. He withdrew his bid for reelection in April 2024, after questions emerged about the integrity of his nomination petition shee

Let’s put something back on the table, because the passage of time does not erase what happened. Anthony Kern, then a Republican member of the Arizona House, had a professional history that should have raised serious red flags for anyone who cares about law-and-order principles. Instead of being sidelined, he stayed in elected office and pushed legislation that would have weakened transparency. Here are the facts that too many people have forgotten. In 2014, Kern was fired fr

If you’ve been around Arizona politics long enough, you know that scandals come and go faster than a monsoon storm. But some are worth remembering, especially when the same people try to resurface as if nothing ever happened. Case in point: Steve Montenegro. Back in 2018, Montenegro, then the golden boy of Arizona conservatives, was gunning for Congress in the special election to replace disgraced Rep. Trent Franks. The pitch was simple: a devout Christian, family man, and re

Former Prescott lawmaker David Stringer resigned from the Arizona House in 2019, and many voters assumed that was the end of the story. It was not. He kept his law license for several years, built a local media platform, hosted candidates and forums, and is still drawing respectable guests from around the state. That is a problem Republicans should stop pretending not to see. The core facts are not in dispute. In 1983, Stringer was arrested in Baltimore on suspicion of paying

Arizona politics has a short memory, but the public should not. The sexual harassment allegations involving Senator Michelle Ugenti Rita resurfaced this week as Democrats renewed calls to revisit the case. The controversy first erupted several years ago, yet the details remain relevant because the questions about accountability were never fully resolved. The allegations stem from a deposition by a former lobbyist who accused Ugenti Rita and her then fiancé, now husband, of in

You may have skimmed the news and moved on. You shouldn’t. Anyone who values integrity, accountability, and the rule of law in Arizona politics should still be paying attention to what is happening with State Senator Wendy Rogers. Her situation shines a very bright light on how easily our system tolerates avoidance instead of answers. The controversy resurfaced in July 2024 when campaign and financial filings raised fresh questions about whether Rogers actually lives in the r

Meet John Gillette, R-Kingman. On September 25, 2025, he took to social media and posted that Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic congresswoman, should be tried, convicted and hanged. Why? Because she dared to speak about protest rights and harsh-government policy under the Trump banner. This isn’t hyperbole—the comment is literal. “Until people like this, that advocate for the overthrow of the American government are tried convicted and hanged.. it will continue,” Gillette wrote.