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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 11h
A survey found 82% of Arizonans oppose selling trust land to housing developers, even as GOP lawmakers press the idea story via @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Selling Arizona trust land won't guarantee more housing, land chief tells lawmakers
The state land chief says selling Arizona trust land won't guarantee more housing gets built, as Republican rage about leases for solar farms
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 12h
“But if something like this had crossed my desk, I would have said, ‘You can’t pay for this ad. It is clearly illegal.’ It’s that clear a violation of law and it’s really corrosive to democracy.”
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Trump uses $20M in Homeland Security funds for 'clearly illegal' ads featuring himself | Arizona Mirror
Democrats say $20M in DHS money is paying for 'clearly illegal' ads featuring President Trump before the midterms
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 13h
Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier can refile if the Clean Elections Commission ultimately orders them to return the money they're accused of obtaining by fraud story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Judge dismisses 'sham' Green Party candidates’ lawsuit against agency investigating them
Clean Elections lawsuit dismissed: A judge won't block the fraud probe of two Green Party candidates until it's finished
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 15h
“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation,” Jack Smith told senators
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GOP senator bungles 'dirtbag' attack on Jack Smith unravels over a basketball mix-up | Arizona Mirror
Jack Smith Senate hearing: The former special counsel defended his Trump investigations as Republicans attacked his work
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 17h
The outlets argue Trump's ban is intended to "cow" journalists and that he's signaled other "fake news" outlets could be next
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News orgs banned from White House accuse Trump of First Amendment violation | Arizona Mirror
Trump White House press ban: CNN, MS Now and Politico ask a judge for a longer order protecting access before the TRO expires Oct. 8
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 18h
Both sides see the coming Congress as a turning point, though filibuster rules make any change a steep climb
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Anti-abortion groups worry Hyde Amendment’s 50-year run could end with new congressional majority | Arizona Mirror
50 years after it barred federal funding for abortion, advocates debate whether the Hyde Amendment can survive a new Congress
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 29/09/2026
Timothy Courchaine said there is "no reason for concern," but Adrian Fontes vowed not to hand over the voter rolls story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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U.S. attorney tells AZ officials feds won't back down on scouring voter data for noncitizens
Arizona voter rolls dispute: U.S. attorney says feds won't back down; Fontes refuses to hand over the data without a court order
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 28/09/2026
The voters were flagged earlier this year by a federal voter verification tool that is known to produce false positives, and Recorder Justin Heap referred them to county prosecutors for review story via @sashahupka.bsky.social & @votebeat.org
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Maricopa County investigated 60 suspected noncitizen voters. 52 are citizens, 8 are not.
Most Maricopa County voters flagged as potential noncitizen by an error-prone federal system are actually citizens, according to prosecutors
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 28/09/2026
“Almost the entire state was surgically removed from the Axon Bill’s reach, with no conceivably reasonable or legitimate justification for the omission.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Opponents of Axon's Scottsdale project take fight over voter rights to appeals court
Axon Scottsdale law: Residents appeal to overturn a statute they say unconstitutionally blocked a vote on Axon's HQ project
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 28/09/2026
71% of Americans worry AI will cost jobs, but political polarization and Trump's opposition to regulation has Washington polarized
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‘Dumbfounds us all’: Congress struggles with policies rippling from AI development | Arizona Mirror
AI regulation Congress: Lawmakers warn about AI's risks but are unlikely to act before the midterms
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 28/09/2026
$8 a month: one dollar for every year we've covered Arizona. That $96 a year keeps accountability journalism free for everyone who needs it. azmirror.com/donate
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 26/09/2026
Mayes and Fontes said they'll consider legal action, even criminal charges, if voters' personal data is being misused story via @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Mayes, Fontes say the Trump administration may be breaking the law to scour Arizona voter data
Arizona voter privacy: Mayes warns a federal noncitizen-voter search may break the law as the Supreme Court weighs in
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
OPINION | We should not be debating how to divide the shortage. We should be asking how to end it — and build the fully staffed, fully supported public schools our children deserve.
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Commentary: You can't strengthen Arizona schools by dismantling the team behind our teachers
Prop. 320 Arizona schools: Why a 60% classroom-spending mandate is the wrong fix for the state's teacher shortage
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
A building at Mesa Gateway Airport was designed to hold 157 ICE detainees. At one point this year, it held 777. We were the first to report the facility existed and that it was horribly overcrowded. That kind of reporting is why we're asking for 80 new donors to celbrate our 8th anniversary.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
A separate Nevada ruling settled the same legal question, Mayes argues, so the outcome in Arizona 'must be the same' story via @jimsmall.bsky.social
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After 9th Circuit ruling, Mayes pushes to revive her gambling case against Kalshi
AG Kris Mayes wants the 9th Circuit to lift the injunction blocking Arizona's gambling case against Kalshi
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 25/09/2026
Today is the 8th anniversary of the @azmirror.com and to celebrate I'm going to share one of my favorite stories from each of those 8 years!
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
Eight years ago today, the Arizona Mirror launched with four journalists and no paywall. It's still free to read, and any newsroom can still republish it for free. For our birthday, we're looking for 80 new donors by Monday night. Will you be one?
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
Houston PD accounted for nearly a third of searches of one Arizona agency's Flock system, alarming privacy advocates story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Who's tracking Arizona drivers through Flock cameras? Often, it's police from other states.
Arizona license plate data: Out-of-state police are among the heaviest users of Flock cameras surveillance data, records show
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
A judge said she'll rule early next week on whether the Clean Elections Commission can move to recover public money the candidates allegedly obtained by fraud story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Clean Elections fraud fight goes to court as Green Party candidates seek to block repayment
Clean Elections court hearing: A judge weighs whether Arizona can claw back $4.7M from two Green Party candidates
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
Dr. Heidi Overton sidestepped questions on mifepristone as senators from both parties questioned whether she has the votes to be confirmed
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Trump's FDA nominee draws bipartisan skepticism over abortion pill and vaccines | Arizona Mirror
FDA nominee confirmation hearing: Dr. Heidi Overton draws bipartisan skepticism over the abortion pill and vaccine policy
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
The GAO tallied more than $20 million in waste as the agency raced to reach a goal of holding up to 100,000 immigrants at once
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ICE wasted millions expanding detention without a plan in Trump push for mass deportation | Arizona Mirror
ICE detention waste: A GAO report finds DHS squandered more than $20 million rushing to expand immigration detention
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
The same aircraft used in Iran and other foreign wars is now surveilling U.S. communities, with no answers on what data it collects story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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War-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border towns
Arizona border drone: An Army Predator built for warzones is flying over border towns, alarming privacy advocates
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
Kris Mayes derided Warren Petersen's two years as a lawyer and his backing from a firm she sued while he called her a partisan who weaponized the office story via @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Arizona AG rivals Mayes and Petersen trade attacks over experience, donors and deportation
Arizona attorney general debate: Mayes and Petersen clash over immigration, experience and the 2020 election
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
Republican Elijah Norton and Democrat Nick Mansour each cast the other as too partisan to be trusted with the state's money story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Norton, Mansour trade attacks over risk and partisanship in treasurer debate
Arizona treasurer debate: Norton and Mansour clash over a $10 billion trust fund and who's too partisan for the job
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
“It is not optional for the Commission and its representatives to enforce the provisions of the (Citizens Clean Election Act) at issue here,” the commissioners said in their response to the candidates' lawsuit. Story by @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Clean Elections tells court it must investigate Green Party fraud claims
The Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission says that its investigation into whether two Green Party candidates fraudulently qualified for campaign funding is squarely within the scope of its legal...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 23/09/2026
Young Diné voters are preparing to cast their first ballots as the Nation weighs marriage equality, economic opportunity, basic services and whether their government can deliver via @lookoutnews.bsky.social
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'What’s the point?': Inside a Navajo Nation election marked by distrust
Young Diné voters are preparing to cast their first ballots as the Nation weighs marriage equality, economic opportunity, basic services and whether their government can deliver
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 23/09/2026
Republicans changed SNAP eligibility to fund Trump's tax cuts in last year's One Big Beautiful Bill, leaving 5 million low-income Americans without food aid
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Arizona SNAP enrollment fell by half as 5 million Americans so far have lost food aid | Arizona Mirror
Tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps. New data from the U.S. Department of Agri...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 22/09/2026
“People don’t have to be against the death penalty to recognize a dollar is poorly invested. Things that keep our community safer cost a lot less, and it might mean that we don’t have to deal with this issue.”
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Arizona spends millions on the death penalty. Victims' families want it on cold cases.
Arizona cold cases: Homicide victims' families urge the state to fund unsolved murders over the death penalty
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 22/09/2026
“Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly … Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?”
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‘Drive them into hell’: Trump tells UN he'll make a deal with Iran or 'annihilate' it | Arizona Mirror
Trump UN Iran speech: President threatens to 'annihilate' Iran or reach a deal as war costs mount and approval sinks
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 22/09/2026
OPINION | Jake Hoffman discredited himself by trying to use his government post to target Katie Hobbs, whom he’s getting paid handsomely to defeat in November via @elviadiaz.bsky.social
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Republican Sen. Jake Hoffman’s probe into Katie Hobbs is a pay-to-play mess of its own
Jake Hoffman discredited himself by trying to use his government post to target the governor whom he’s getting paid handsomely to defeat
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 21/09/2026
If you missed me on KJZZ this morning. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
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The company behind a major Arizona charter school chain is under criminal investigation
The CEO of American Leadership Academy is under scrutiny, as his political action committee is being investigated for allegedly funneling corporate money to Republican legislative candidates
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 21/09/2026
“Unless you’re wearing a T-shirt that says, ‘I’m here to draw the blood of endangered species,’ you’re basically off the hook. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, go crazy, we’re not gonna prosecute you.”
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Trump wildlife official quietly clears the way for developers and loggers to kill endangered species | Arizona Mirror
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 21/09/2026
Diesel gas is averaging a record $6.44 in Arizona, about 23 cents more than it was last week. Drivers in the Lake Havasu-Kingman area are paying the most for diesel gas, at $6.87 a gallon.
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Diesel hits record $6.51 as some Republicans break with Trump over Iran war | Arizona Mirror
Diesel prices Iran war: Record $6.51 diesel is splintering GOP support for Trump's conflict as midterms near
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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 21/09/2026
One of the indivdiduals is alleged to have sent two threatening emails to Michigan Advance, part of the States Newsroom network. The emails allegedly contained threats to kill members of the Michigan Supreme Court, Whitmer and Benson, Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office said.
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Two Michigan residents charged with making terrorist threats against state officials • Michigan Advance
Attorney General Dana Nessel on Monday announced charges against two Michigan residents accused of making terrorist threats against public officials in unrelated incidents, including the mayor of Dear...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 21/09/2026
The lawsuit argues narrow "medical frailty" exemptions leave chronically ill adults likely to lose their health coverage
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Doctors and enrollees sue over Medicaid work requirements from Trump's spending law | Arizona Mirror
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 21/09/2026
The misleading campaign raises a basic question about political advertising: What can a political group legally put on a sign? #AZGOV via @lookoutnews.bsky.social
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No, there isn't a 'Democrats for Biggs' movement, despite what new signs claim
Who, exactly, are the “Democrats for Biggs”? That’s the question behind a wave of blue campaign signs popping up around Greater Phoenix.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 21/09/2026
“Do we not buy a new firetruck? Do we go out and cut our personnel? We don’t fill as many potholes, we don’t keep the swimming pool open as long, we don’t buy new books in the library.” story via @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Prop. 316 would cap Arizona grocery taxes. Rural cities say it will cost them, and their residents.
Arizona grocery tax: Prop. 316 would cap rates at 2% and require voter approval to raise them this November
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 21/09/2026
“I’ve never seen people come together across the political spectrum like I have the last few months on concerns about big tech, concerns around AI, concerns around data center development.”
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Trump likes AI data centers. Congress seems stuck. The midterms could deliver a verdict. | Arizona Mirror
Data center legislation has become a rare bipartisan flashpoint in 2026 races, but the next step remains unclear
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 19/09/2026
The unanimous decision says agencies can't dodge disclosure by destroying records, and that courts, not the government, decide what stays hidden
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Arizona Supreme Court strengthens public records law in ruling against U of A
Arizona public records ruling: Supreme Court says destroying a requested record is an illegal denial of access
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 19/09/2026
"You wouldn’t need to do it if you didn’t have what we’re seeing with some of these woke teachers and these woke lessons that are going on, and the indoctrination that’s taking place here,” Biggs said during a 2025 radio interview. Story by @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Andy Biggs revives Kari Lake's push for cameras in Arizona classrooms to spot ‘woke’ teachers
Andy Biggs, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, said last year that he would support putting cameras in public school classrooms so that parents can keep an eye on “woke” teachers.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 18/09/2026
The ruling requires DHS to give immigrants proper notice and time to raise safety concerns before removal to a third nation
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Appeals court strikes down Trump policy of fast deportations to third countries | Arizona Mirror
Third-country deportations ruling: 1st Circuit blocks Trump's fast-track removals, requiring notice and safety review
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 18/09/2026
DOJ says the taxpayer-funded settlement is dead, but wouldn’t say so under oath
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Judge says case challenging Trump’s anti-weaponization fund ‘still alive and kicking’ | Arizona Mirror
A judge kept alive the case over Trump’s anti-weaponization fund, ordering the DOJ to reveal who structured the deal
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 18/09/2026
Two lower courts already refused to pause the receivership over Arizona’s prison medical care. Now the state hopes the conservative Supreme Court steps in.
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Arizona asks US Supreme Court to halt prison healthcare takeover in 'Hail Mary' filing
Arizona asked the Supreme Court to halt its prison healthcare receivership after two lower courts refused
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 18/09/2026
LUCHA aims to reach 400,000 Arizonans as control of state government hangs in the balance story via @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Immigrant rights group launches $10M plan to mobilize Latino and independent voters
LUCHA is spending up to $9.9M on Latino voter outreach to elect progressives who will push back against Trump
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 17/09/2026
OPINION | What if the millions Arizona spends on capital punishment went to solving cold cases instead?
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Nearly 6,700 Arizona homicides remain unsolved. The victims' families deserve better.
One in three Arizona homicides goes unsolved. After 38 years waiting, I’m calling for more investment in solving cold cases.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 17/09/2026
Democratic challenger JoAnna Mendoza says GOP Rep. Juan Ciscomani's votes will put hospitals on life support story via @tucsonsentinel.com
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In Arizona's most competitive district, Ciscomani and Mendoza spar over healthcare policies
The future of insurance, hospitals and healthcare is a major issues in the race between Juan Ciscomani and JoAnna Mendoza
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 17/09/2026
Washington, Colorado and other states say private operators can’t hide behind federal preemption, and they're fighting for access in court
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‘You can’t contract around the law’: states fight to inspect federal immigrant detention facilities | Arizona Mirror
Blue states are fighting for federal immigrant detention facility oversight as private ICE operators deny inspectors access
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 17/09/2026
The ad brands Trump-endorsed Republican Jay Feely a "rubber stamp" for the president's unpopular agenda story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Democratic group launches $1M ad blitz highlighting Jay Feely’s allegiance to Donald Trump
314 Action is spending nearly $1M on ads branding Arizona’s Jay Feely a ‘rubber stamp’ for Trump in a key race
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Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey PNW journalists (or folks who want to move to the best part of the country): Our sister outlet, the @washingtonstatestandard.com, is hiring a new editor to oversee coverage from Olympia. It's a great job with a talented crew in a capital second only to Salem. statesnewsroom.com/staff-openin...
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Editor, Washington State Standard • States Newsroom
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 16/09/2026
The House has logged just 72 days in session this year, with Democrats accusing Republicans of running ‘out of town’
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US House takes off for seven weeks to hit the campaign trail as AI, prices go unaddressed | Arizona Mirror
The House heads into a seven-week campaign recess before the midterms with major issues left unaddressed
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