Politics
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All the racist, hateful things said at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden
The rally bore glaring similarities to a Nazi rally held at an earlier iteration of Madison Square Garden in 1939. “My reaction is that it was a combination of 1933 Germany, 1939 Madison Square Garden last night,” former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci said on Monday.
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Biden visits Indian Country and apologizes for the ‘sin’ of a 150-year boarding school policy
President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents.
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Opinion: How Trump exploited a willing media to convince Americans that nothing matters
More than nine years after he launched his first campaign for president, much of the media continues to struggle with how to cover Donald Trump. In a new op-ed, Jordan Zakarin describes the failures to hold Trump to account.
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Arizona Palestine supporters urge vote for Harris as best option, if imperfect, to keep up fight for ceasefire
A group of more than 100 Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders in Arizona are making the case that Kamala Harris is the best candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
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Opinion: Project 2025 Is an Attack on Arizonans, Americans, and the Sanctity of our Democracy
As the 2024 election draws closer, Arizonans, and Americans nationwide, continue to express concern over the dangers of Project 2025. It is deeply unpopular, yet Arizona representatives Rep. Juan Ciscomani and Rep. David Schweikert continue to support Project 2025’s policies, regardless of the harm it would inflict on their own constituents. In fact, Rep. Schweikert,…
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OPINION: From Extreme Heat to Solar Power: Why Arizona’s Clean Energy Future Matters in This Election
Earlier this year, I became a citizen. Now that early voting has begun, I’ll soon cast my vote in a US presidential election for the first time. As a Phoenix resident who’s worked in environmental justice and clean energy for more than five years, I’m thrilled to vote in an election in which these issues…
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Cochise County supervisor agrees to plea deal after failing to certify 2022 Arizona election
Peggy Judd avoided felony charges in the plea agreement—allowing her to remain on the Cochise County Board of Supervisors. She’ll also have 90 days unsupervised probation and pay a $500 fine.
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Trump’s former chief of staff says the former president praised Hitler and would rule like a ‘fascist’
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump reportedly said in a private conversation in the White House. And in an interview with The Atlantic, Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly recalled that Trump once raised the idea of needing “German generals” to him directly.
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Opinion: Be a child care voter this year
Moms know that child care is a life-shaping issue for their own families. Many are at risk of being forced onto public assistance if they can’t find the affordable care that makes it possible for them to stay in the workforce. But too many moms don’t know which candidates support the solutions they need.
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OPINION: I had to cross state lines and recover from my abortion in a hotel room at Harrah’s casino
As an Arizona resident, I should have been able to receive the abortion care I needed there—but instead, I was forced to cross state lines.
