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		<title>Arizona Democrats Will Win by Making Republicans Own the Damage They’ve Done</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Bodine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Arizona Republicans promised voters lower costs, stability and competent government. Instead, they delivered higher household expenses, giveaways to the wealthy, attacks on public education and exhausting MAGA culture-war nonsense. Now Democrats will make them pay for it at the ballot box. Rodrigo Guerrero is the Campaigns Director for the Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (ADLCC). ... <a title="Arizona Democrats Will Win by Making Republicans Own the Damage They’ve Done" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/arizona-democrats-will-win-by-making-republicans-own-the-damage-theyve-done/" aria-label="Read more about Arizona Democrats Will Win by Making Republicans Own the Damage They’ve Done">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cartoons of the Week</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dee Maitland]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Arizona Reaction to the ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Gordon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trump&#8217;s ICE Gestapo is at it again, killing innocent people and saying that the victims tried to ram them with their vehicles. This excuse is almost as old as &#8220;Killed while trying to escape.&#8221; You see that excuse in movies like Casablanca, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. ICE has ... <a title="Arizona Reaction to the ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/arizona-reaction-to-the-ice-killing-of-lorenzo-salgado-araujo/" aria-label="Read more about Arizona Reaction to the ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ciscomani, Stop Misleading Us—Step Up and Protect our National Parks and Federal Lands from Trump’s Raids!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Overmyer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(Photo source: Parkflo.com) Sixth District Congressman Juan Ciscomani says he’s happy about a Democratic-led bill called the “Public Lands Integrity Act.” Spearheaded by Rep. Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico, it would make a minor adjustment to the federal law controlling what can go into a Congressional Reconciliation Bill. Juan signed onto the bill. A reconciliation ... <a title="Ciscomani, Stop Misleading Us—Step Up and Protect our National Parks and Federal Lands from Trump’s Raids!" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/ciscomani-stop-misleading-us-step-up-and-protect-our-national-parks-and-federal-lands-from-trumps-raids/" aria-label="Read more about Ciscomani, Stop Misleading Us—Step Up and Protect our National Parks and Federal Lands from Trump’s Raids!">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Latest Craig Harris Investigation Into the ESA Program Reveals Concerns About How Special Education Scholarships Are Determined</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Gordon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Arizona, the average scholarship award for children whose families apply for an Empowerment Scholarship Account-Private School Voucher is about $10,000. The average scholarship for a child with special education needs is about $30,000. In a program that has been branded as a welfare/scam program for the rich and the fraudster class, 12 News Craig ... <a title="The Latest Craig Harris Investigation Into the ESA Program Reveals Concerns About How Special Education Scholarships Are Determined" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/the-latest-craig-harris-investigation-into-the-esa-program-reveals-concerns-about-how-special-education-scholarships-are-determined/" aria-label="Read more about The Latest Craig Harris Investigation Into the ESA Program Reveals Concerns About How Special Education Scholarships Are Determined">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Representative Grijalva Calls Out Kevin McCarthy and MAGA Republicans Hyprocrisy on Graham Platner</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Gordon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some people really have no shame. Many of them can be found in the ranks of the Republican Party, who thought, for some inexplicable reason, they could pass judgment on the now-former candidacy of Maine Democratic Senate Candidate Graham Platner, whose campaign ended when more accusations of sexual misconduct/assault/rape surfaced earlier in the week. Probably ... <a title="Representative Grijalva Calls Out Kevin McCarthy and MAGA Republicans Hyprocrisy on Graham Platner" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/representative-grijalva-calls-out-kevin-mccarthy-and-maga-republicans-hyprocrisy-on-graham-platner/" aria-label="Read more about Representative Grijalva Calls Out Kevin McCarthy and MAGA Republicans Hyprocrisy on Graham Platner">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Thing That Would Enhance Andy Beshear’s Presidential Prospects: Visit Mitch McConnell in His Hospital Room</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Gordon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Where is Mitch McConnell? What is his physical condition? Why has he not been seen in public in three weeks? Since June 14, the former Republican Senate Leader and man most responsible for the current configuration of the Supreme Court, that judicial body&#8217;s rulings on Reproductive Freedom and Campaign Finance Reform, and the return of ... <a title="The Thing That Would Enhance Andy Beshear&#8217;s Presidential Prospects: Visit Mitch McConnell in His Hospital Room" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/the-thing-that-would-enhance-andy-beshears-presidential-prospects-visit-mitch-mcconnell-in-his-hospital-room/" aria-label="Read more about The Thing That Would Enhance Andy Beshear&#8217;s Presidential Prospects: Visit Mitch McConnell in His Hospital Room">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nick Mansour Warns Arizona: Don’t Hand the State Treasury to a MAGA Culture Warrior</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Bodine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Democrat Nick Mansour is making the Arizona treasurer&#8217;s race a referendum on trust, competence and whether the state&#8217;s billions should be hijacked for far-right politics. Speaking to Democrats of Greater Tucson on July 6, Mansour laid out a four-part case for turning the Treasurer&#8217;s Office into an engine for public good: His message was blunt: ... <a title="Nick Mansour Warns Arizona: Don’t Hand the State Treasury to a MAGA Culture Warrior" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/nick-mansour-warns-arizona-dont-hand-the-state-treasury-to-a-maga-culture-warrior/" aria-label="Read more about Nick Mansour Warns Arizona: Don’t Hand the State Treasury to a MAGA Culture Warrior">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>While Cashing In On the Presidency, the Aspiring Fascist American Duce Has Moved to Making America a Police State and the World Less Safe</title>
		<link>https://blogforarizona.net/while-cashing-in-on-the-presidency-the-aspiring-fascist-american-duce-has-moved-to-making-america-a-police-state-and-the-world-less-safe/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=while-cashing-in-on-the-presidency-the-aspiring-fascist-american-duce-has-moved-to-making-america-a-police-state-and-the-world-less-safe</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Gordon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Miss Joe Biden yet. Over the last two weeks, America&#8217;s Fascist American Duce has continued his Mad King or Calculated, depending on your point of view, mission to make the United States a police state, resulting in the American Ideal being compromised and the world becoming less safe. All while making money for himself instead ... <a title="While Cashing In On the Presidency, the Aspiring Fascist American Duce Has Moved to Making America a Police State and the World Less Safe" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/while-cashing-in-on-the-presidency-the-aspiring-fascist-american-duce-has-moved-to-making-america-a-police-state-and-the-world-less-safe/" aria-label="Read more about While Cashing In On the Presidency, the Aspiring Fascist American Duce Has Moved to Making America a Police State and the World Less Safe">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Demand Reparations!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arizona Sharpie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“This mean old world runs on sex and gasoline” &#8211; Rodney Crowell I, Sharpie, a white man of a certain age and an American citizen, do hereby and henceforth demand reparations! Jeffery Epstein’s BFF, Donald Trump, started a war with Iran to distract us from the Trump-Epstein Files, causing the price of gas to go ... <a title="I Demand Reparations!" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/i-demand-reparations/" aria-label="Read more about I Demand Reparations!">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Now His Ballot Box Crisis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Bodine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new Guardian/Harris Poll paints a brutal picture: 95% of Americans say the country is facing an affordability crisis, and 57% say the economy is getting worse, up from 46% in February. The new poll shows Americans are getting crushed by gas, groceries, debt, housing and health costs — and Trump’s GOP owns the pain. ... <a title="Trump’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Now His Ballot Box Crisis" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/trumps-cost-of-living-crisis-is-now-his-ballot-box-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Now His Ballot Box Crisis">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Grijlava, Gallego, and Stanton Condemn the Big Billionaires First Act on the First Anniversary of Its Passage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Gordon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Arizona&#8217;s other three members of its Democratic Congressional Coalition have issued statements condemning the Big Billionaires First Act one year after its passage. Representative Yassamin Ansari and Senator Mark Kelly had already commented on the first anniversary of the reverse Robin Hood legislation. In a video statement, Representative Grijalva said: &#8220;It&#8217;s been one year since ... <a title="Grijlava, Gallego, and Stanton Condemn the Big Billionaires First Act on the First Anniversary of Its Passage" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/grijlava-gallego-and-stanton-condemn-the-big-billionaires-first-act-on-the-first-anniversary-of-its-passage/" aria-label="Read more about Grijlava, Gallego, and Stanton Condemn the Big Billionaires First Act on the First Anniversary of Its Passage">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>With an International Coalition of Metropolitan Leaders, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego Unveils “The Global Urban Data Centres Pact”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Gordon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most perplexing questions facing urban and rural growth in the coming years is what to do about the seeming profileration of data centers and its consumption of vast quanties of electricity and water. In an op-ed written in Politico with Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego unveiled &#8220;The Global ... <a title="With an International Coalition of Metropolitan Leaders, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego Unveils &#8220;The Global Urban Data Centres Pact&#8221;" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/with-an-international-coalition-of-metropolitan-leaders-phoenix-mayor-kate-gallego-unveils-the-global-urban-data-centres-pact/" aria-label="Read more about With an International Coalition of Metropolitan Leaders, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego Unveils &#8220;The Global Urban Data Centres Pact&#8221;">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who’s running for TUSD Governing Board in 2026?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Classen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pima County School Superintendent&#8217;s office has just issued official list of who submitted nomination petitions to be on the Nov. 3rd General Election ballot for school district governing boards. Deadline was 5 p.m. on July 6, 2026. Tucson Unified candidates (2 seats) More info on TUSD Governing Board: https://govboard.tusd1.org/. These are nonpartisan, unpaid positions. For ... <a title="Who&#8217;s running for TUSD Governing Board in 2026?" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/whos-running-for-tusd-governing-board-in-2026/" aria-label="Read more about Who&#8217;s running for TUSD Governing Board in 2026?">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Democrats Do Not Need Their Own MAGA Movement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Gordon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the revelation that there is another credible sexual assault allegation against Maine Senate Democratic Nominee Graham Platner, Pragmatic Progressive Democrats, Progressive Democrats, and Democratic Socialists need to come together and declare: Democrats do not need their own left-wing version of a lunatic fringe MAGA movement, complete with candidates who have a similar sexual assault ... <a title="Democrats Do Not Need Their Own MAGA Movement" class="read-more" href="https://blogforarizona.net/democrats-do-not-need-their-own-maga-movement/" aria-label="Read more about Democrats Do Not Need Their Own MAGA Movement">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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