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Campaigns, election administration, polling, and the road to November.
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Per the Arizona Mirror, Arizona's November ballot will test whether current sports restrictions extend to locker rooms and private leagues, a scope change with unanswered enforcement and cost questions.
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Arizona law already forbids trans girls from joining school sports teams that align with their gender identity, but Republican lawmakers want voters to ban them from school locker rooms and private sports leagues, too. In November, voters will decide the fate of the “Protect Girls Sports in Arizona Act”, also known...
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At a Thursday commemoration, speakers celebrated the Voting Rights Act's legacy and warned of efforts to roll it back following recent Supreme Court rulings, Arizona Mirror reported.
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Junelle Cavero's House campaign made Brianna Westbrook its top payee. In July, Phoenix police charged Westbrook after an alleged knife-and-duct-tape break-in. Cavero still has not explained the money or the judgment.
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No Labels' Teri Ann Hourihan tapped Angela Harrolle Mohan ahead of Friday's deadline, using the moment to fault Gov. Katie Hobbs for APS-friendly "securitization" that critics say could extend coal plants. Here's the fiscal angle for ratepayers.
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Rep. Junelle Cavero's 2024 House committee paid Brianna Westbrook $14,000, its largest check. In July 2026, Phoenix police charged Westbrook with felony burglary and aggravated assault after an alleged knife-and-duct-tape break-in. Westbrook called it a planned BDSM scene. The alleged victim told police she never agreed.
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Democrats hold advantages across the ballot, but older and more motivated voters favor Republicans
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No public evidence links Hobbs to rate hikes as a pre-election decision looms
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The only Green Party candidates who made it onto Arizona’s primary ballot for governor and secretary of state, and who the party disavowed as frauds, won their races against Green Party-backed write-in candidates. In the July 21 Primary Election, Risa Lombardo took the governor’s race with 430 votes to Green...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center Thursday commemorated the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act amid ongoing attacks on the landmark legislation. Speakers at the event celebrated the impact of the law, which reversed decades of disenfranchisement across the South, but warned of recent attempts to roll back...
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Hobbs' reported pick of John Giles as running mate sells bipartisanship, but voter records show he left the GOP in May. With a powerful new office on the line, Hobbs owes voters specifics on the lieutenant governor's actual job.
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Bob Littlefield quits the Scottsdale council race after the canvass, narrowing November to three candidates for two seats and throwing 22,091 votes into play.
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Hobbs preemptively rejects Clean Elections debates while organizers are still finalizing invitations, setting up an official forum that may proceed without the incumbent as Andy Biggs says he'll show up.
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Axios-sourced voter records, reported by Arizona Globe, show John Giles left the GOP in May and later pulled a Democratic primary ballot. Hobbs' bipartisan branding looks more like theater than persuasion.
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Nine GOP-led states will vote on changing initiative rules this fall. Missouri voters already rejected a district-by-district veto by 80 percent.
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There may be no more boring and arcane argument in American politics than the debate over process. But this year’s midterm elections feature a host of initiatives seeking to tweak the obscure rules by which those measures qualify for state ballots. The post In GOP-controlled states, the midterms are battlegrounds...
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Hobbs’ reported running mate left the GOP in May after years of endorsing and campaigning for Democrats
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Gov. Katie Hobbs said Tuesday she's looking forward to the end of Attorney General Kris Mayes’ two-year-long investigation into t whether she was involved in a "pay-to-play'' scheme. The post Mayes expects ‘pay-to-play’ investigation to wrap before election first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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John Giles dropped his Republican registration in May. Calling him a bipartisan bridge asks voters to ignore the paperwork.
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Gov. Katie Hobbs says she will not debate, even as Arizona's official debate organizers are still finalizing invitations and format. That choice could leave voters without a shared-stage test while campaigns trade claims and op-eds fill the gap.
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Junelle Cavero was appointed to the Arizona House in April 2024 and sworn in the next morning. Secretary of State records at the time showed she owed $11,750 in late fees from a state Senate campaign she had lost two years earlier. The arithmetic points to roughly sixteen months of unfiled reports.
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Hobbs is reportedly tapping former Mesa mayor John Giles for a cross-party ticket in Arizona's first election for lieutenant governor. The new office comes with real responsibilities, and voters are choosing not just politics but who will run the machinery of state.
