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Rachel Mitchell just undercut the election fraud narrative and nobody is going after her (opens the original)
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Can Rachel Mitchell put an end to false claims of rigged elections and noncitizens voting? I doubt it.But she’s made an important headway in sorting out the 60 voters Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap flagged as potential noncitizens casting ballots.Mitchell, the Republican Maricopa County Attorney, concluded that 52 of those 60 were, in fact, U.S. citizens. The other eight were legal residents who had voted in some Maricopa County pas
Kari Lake and Kyrsten Sinema can’t stop embarrassing Arizona (opens the original)
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Kyrsten Sinema, the once-powerful Arizona politician turned “homewrecker” headline-grabber, is embroiled in a nasty — and dangerous — domestic mess.And Kari Lake, the longtime Arizona news anchor, has become such a lightning rod in Trump’s orbit that the U.S. Senate can’t even exile her to Jamaica fast enough as ambassador.No joke.Retiring Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is holding up Lake’s nomination, and his reason for doing so says plenty about how he views her.“
Warren Petersen said he’d deport people who entered illegally. Now he says he never meant Dreamers? (opens the original)
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Political lies aren’t always easy to spot. But Warren Petersen’s left a digital trail about deporting Dreamers, something he’s now saying he never said.Petersen, the Arizona Senate president and Republican challenging Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, spent an hour on Wednesday facing her in a debate in which they each characterized the other as a… Read more
Republican Sen. Jake Hoffman’s probe into Katie Hobbs is a pay-to-play mess of its own (opens the original)
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Republican state Sen. Jake Hoffman set out to expose Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ alleged pay-to-play mess and instead stepped into a money-making scheme of his own.Hoffman is now backpedaling subpoenas he issued last week against Hobbs, Attorney General Kris Mayes and others to appear before his legislative committee. He’s blaming the “crooked media” <a href="https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2026-09-21/arizona-senate-delaying-and-re
DHS said Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez is an “illegal alien.” His lawyer says that’s false (opens the original)
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As is often the case with Trump’s immigration crackdown, Homeland Security lied about the immigration status of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, the 28-year-old DoorDash driver that ICE agents shot in Austin, Texas.Turns out, Wilbert isn’t an “illegal alien” from Venezuela who “illegally entered country under the Biden administration and had a final order of removal” as DHS quickly pointed out on a social media post.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href=
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