There was a hint of urgency in the voice Alex Robinson, an 18-year-old canvasser, as she politely asked Phoenix voters who they plan to vote for and what their voting plan is. After all, the election is roughly two weeks away and the stakes couldn’t be higher. In addition to […]

It’s Tuesday, October 20. Over 231,000 Arizonans have contracted COVID-19 and 5,830 have died from it. Here’s what happened in the last week: COVID-19 cases are verging on an exponential increase, says Joshua LaBaer, executive director of Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute. “If you look at our numbers right now, […]

Revelations about right-wing disinformation boss Jake Hoffman’s election ratfuckery have spurred a last-ditch effort to stop him from ascending to the Arizona legislature. Hoffman, a Queen Creek council member and Republican House candidate for Legislative District 12, drew national attention last month when the Washington Post reported on a disinformation […]

Can the real “radical” in the race for Maricopa County Attorney’s Office please stand up? On September 30, the reelection campaign for Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel published new ads on the web and TV painting her Democratic challenger, Julie Gunnigle, as a “radical” from both liberal and conservative standpoints. […]

It may not be the worst week Baked Alaska, real name Tim Gionet, has had. That might have been when he was pepper-sprayed while marching with white supremacists at Charlottesville and begged the people around him to keep streaming while he kneeled on ground, milk dripping down his face. But this […]

Democrats are up in arms over new robocalls from Senator Martha McSally, arguing that she is using her office improperly to boost her political prospects weeks before the November election. But the robocalls are legal, per new Senate rules approved by former Democratic presidential candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar. Some Arizonans […]

Last month, local radio promoter Big Ben called up Phoenix New Times with a vague threat to stop buying ads from us if we didn’t do an interview with Joshua Carmona, a.k.a Crisco Kidd, the Phoenix mayoral candidate he was working with. To New Times he said this! It is, of course, normal […]

After much back and forth, a federal appeals court has handed down its decree: Voter registration in Arizona cuts off at 11:59 p.m. tomorrow. The ruling comes after two nonprofit organizations that do voter registration drives, Mi Familia Vota and Arizona Coalition for Change, sued the Arizona Secretary of State on […]

It’s Tuesday, October 13. Over 226,000 Arizonans have contracted COVID-19 and more than 5,750 have died from it. Here’s what’s happened in the last week: New cases have ticked back up slightly. Arizona’s big drop in case numbers from the July peak appears to finally be at an end. The […]