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Caitlin Sievers

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Deputy editor @azmirror.com. Animal lover, dancer, nosy. Send news tips to csievers@azmirror.com

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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 10h
The proposition was sent to the ballot by the state legislature, in the final vote of this year’s legislative session at nearly 4 a.m. on June 13, after lawmakers had worked through the night. Story by @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Prop. 320 asks voters if the state should dictate how much public schools spend in the classroom
Prop. 320 asks voters to change state law to override local control and force public schools to spend a bigger percentage of their funding on “direct instruction.”
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 29/09/2026
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 · 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
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
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
“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 · 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
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 · 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 · 16/09/2026
Teresa Leyba Ruiz said that "public dollars demand public accountability" while Kimberly Yee warned that new rules on vouchers would harm students story via @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Voucher oversight splits candidates for Arizona schools chief
The Arizona superintendent debate saw Yee and Ruiz clash over school voucher oversight, teacher pay and pronouns
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 16/09/2026
“The only way you get attention from these folks is to do something draconian, something magnificent, something big and large,” Andy Biggs said about his 2011 plan to end Medicaid in Arizona story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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‘You can’t even cover them’: Andy Biggs’ 2011 bid to end Medicaid in Arizona
Andy Biggs’ Medicaid record shows he once tried to abolish AHCCCS, even for disabled and mentally ill Arizonans
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 15/09/2026
Attorneys for the PAC defended the contributions as legal — but said if they were, in fact, illegal, the blame lies squarely on its former treasurer, who has since been fired story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Criminal probe targets PAC funded by charter school management company
An investigation into the Educational Freedom Fund is probing whether a charter school founder’s PAC funneled corporate money to the GOP
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 12/09/2026
Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier accused the commission of violating their First Amendment rights and trying to "bully and intimidate" them into dropping their campaigns story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Green Party candidates in fraud probe sue Clean Elections to block possible repayment
Two candidates under fraud investigation filed a Clean Elections lawsuit to block a demand to repay $4.7M
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The guy sprinkling salt meme that says “media executives talking about ‘serving communities better’ after laying off the people who were serving their communities”
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 11/09/2026
Ralph Heap has twice tried and failed to withdraw from the public funding program in a bid to avoid an investigation into his spending story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Regulators reject GOP candidate Ralph Heap’s bid to settle Clean Elections dispute
Arizona’s commission rejected a Ralph Heap settlement that would have ended the Clean Elections campaign finance probe
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 10/09/2026
GOP state Rep. Justin Wilmeth implied that his only income is his legislative pay and characterized the garnishment of that salary as part of his effort to repay the loan story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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GOP lawmaker touts economic record while his own wages are being garnished
A Justin Wilmeth wage garnishment over a defaulted student loan surfaces as the GOP lawmaker touts his economic record
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 09/09/2026
“Every time we do an oversight visit, we are informed of a new rule.”
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Ansari makes surprise visit to Phoenix ICE facility after Mirror report
Rep. Ansari made a surprise Phoenix ICE visit after a report on long holds and overcrowding at the facility
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 08/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: “We can’t just be anti-Trumpers,” Ruben Gallego told the Arizona Mirror. “We have to actually have a vision of where we want to go with education.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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‘We can’t just be anti-Trumpers’: Gallego pitches education vision for Democratic majority
Gallego’s education plan would reverse Trump’s Education Department cuts and target vouchers and the teacher shortage
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 04/09/2026
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 04/09/2026
Eli Crane is among Republicans nationwide reworking their message amid Trump's rising unpopularity story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Eli Crane scrubs ‘forever wars’ and spending pledges he voted against from campaign website
Changes Eli Crane made to his website include dropping anti-war and spending pledges he voted against as his re-election race tightens
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 04/09/2026
OPINION | If Arizona spends less because necessary care doesn’t reach the child, that is not efficiency, it is unmet need. We should stop calling that savings and start looking at its true cost.
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The parent caregiver ‘savings’ Arizona is chasing don’t exist — unless care disappears
Arizona parent caregiver ‘savings’ are really unmet need — the care costs the same no matter who provides it
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 03/09/2026
The confusing mailing appears to have stemmed from flaws in state and some county officials’ implementation of a new state law. Read our collaboration with @votebeat.org by @sashahupka.bsky.social and @jerodmacevoy.com
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Thousands of Arizona voters received letters asking if they’d moved. Here’s why.
About 150,000 Arizona voters, most in Maricopa County, recently received notices from their recorder’s office asking “HAVE YOU MOVED?”
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 03/09/2026
“He was given the instructions, and when he got caught violating them, now he wants to back out. It's simply not acceptable. We should hold people accountable.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Clean Elections rejects GOP candidate’s bid to exit the program amid disciplinary proceedings
The commission again rejected the attempt from Ralph Heap to quit Clean Elections amid a probe into unreported campaign signs
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 02/09/2026
Forged signatures and faked contributions could bring felony charges for the candidates, treasurers and others tied to their campaigns story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Three candidates now face a criminal probe over public campaign funding fraud allegations
Kris Mayes has opened a campaign finance fraud investigation into three candidates over $4.7M in public funds
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Ashley Murray @ashleymurray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Whistleblower: USPS rushed development of electronic tools, defied court order to comply with a Trump policy placing new restrictions on mail-in voting -- @fischler.bsky.social reports www.newsfromthestates.com/article/usps...
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USPS whistleblower predicts ‘catastrophic’ effect on elections under Trump vote-by-mail order
The U.S. Postal Service rushed the development of electronic tools to comply with a Trump administration policy placing new restrictions on mail-in voting, and defied a court order to stop work on the...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 01/09/2026
“He’s not answering your questions because his actual answers would turn off a lot of Arizona voters,” Democrat Adrian Fontes quipped during the candidate forum story via @jimsmall.bsky.social
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GOP secretary of state hopeful Alex Kolodin won’t say Arizona elections are secure
In the Kolodin-Fontes forum on PBS, the GOP candidate wouldn’t say Arizona elections are secure as the two clashed
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 27/08/2026
“It's clear he's gotten all hopped up on this conspiracy theory, and it's caused him to basically ignore reality and try to take everyday things and turn them into something nefarious, which they're not.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Fringe candidates’ lawyer cries ‘conspiracy’ as Clean Elections fraud probe barrels ahead
A Clean Elections fraud probe is digging into how three near-broke campaigns unlocked $4.7M in public funds
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 26/08/2026
“(T)he Arizona Mirror made blistering assertions that, frankly, corroborate my investigation thus far,” Clean Elections Executive Director Tom Collins wrote in letters to three fringe candidates story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Clean Elections set to demand $4.7M repayment from candidates amid fraud allegations
A Clean Elections repayment order could force three candidates to return $4.7M after a fraud investigation
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/08/2026
Three candidates shared nearly 4,000 donors to qualify for $4.7 million in public campaign cash. Six of those voters said they never gave them a dime and don't know how they were listed as backing their campaigns. story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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‘With 1,000% certainty’: Voters say candidates faked their donations to get public campaign cash
An Arizona campaign finance fraud investigation found forged $5 donations behind $4.7M in public campaign funds
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 22/08/2026
Attorney General Kris Mayes says there’s no evidence that Gov. Katie Hobbs broke the law when her administration awarded a pay increase to a foster care provider that donated more than $400,000 to her political campaign. Story by @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Mayes declines to prosecute Hobbs for Sunshine Residential bribery accusations
Attorney General Kris Mayes says there’s no evidence that Gov. Katie Hobbs broke the law when her administration awarded a pay increase to a foster care provider that donated more than $400,000 to her...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 21/08/2026
The federal government's plan lets the Lower Basin manage its own reductions as negotiations with the Upper Basin drag on story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Arizona to bear the brunt of Colorado River cuts for two years as long-term talks continue
A federal plan sets Colorado River cuts with Arizona bearing the most, sparing it the worst-case reductions for now
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 20/08/2026
Water experts say key reservoirs sit just above "deadpool" while the Upper and Lower Basin states remain deadlocked over cuts story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Officials warn of a bleak Colorado River future as deadline nears
Colorado River negotiations remain stalled as rules expire and Arizona braces for cuts of up to 77%
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 19/08/2026
The court found the measure’s citizenship provisions, already in state law, needn’t appear in the ballot summary story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Court won’t force Adrian Fontes to rewrite GOP election measure’s ballot summary
In a Prop. 144 ballot description ruling, Arizona’s high court declined to make Fontes rewrite the summary
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 19/08/2026
Justices ruled Prop. 144’s provisions all relate to election administration, rejecting a single-subject challenge story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Justices uphold sweeping GOP election measure for November ballot
In a Prop. 144 Supreme Court ruling, Arizona justices kept the GOP election measure on the November ballot
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 18/08/2026
Adrian Fontes says the citizenship language America First Legal wants added isn’t a key change, since Arizona already requires it -- and always has story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Fontes urges high court to reject Trump-linked firm’s ballot rewrite bid for election reform measure
Adrian Fontes urged Arizona’s high court to reject a Trump-linked firm’s bid to rewrite the Prop. 144 ballot description
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 17/08/2026
Trump-linked America First Legal says Adrian Fontes’ description of Prop. 144 leaves out key provisions and editorializes against it story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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GOP appeals election measure ballot description to Arizona Supreme Court
A Trump-linked firm asked Arizona’s Supreme Court to rewrite the Prop. 144 ballot description Fontes’ office wrote
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 14/08/2026
AHCCCS says it hasn’t implemented new cost cutting measures to avoid protracted litigation and rejects all of the audit’s findings story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Audit faults Arizona for unenforced limits on paying parent caregivers
A parent caregiver program audit found Arizona’s delay on cost controls may have cost up to $493 million
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 13/08/2026
Larry Bootsma might have qualified for secure mental health treatment the state promised but never built story via @azcir.org
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Arizona promised secure treatment for its sickest psychiatric patients in 2019. None exists.
Arizona secure mental health treatment promised in 2019 still doesn’t exist, leaving the sickest patients in a deadly gap
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 13/08/2026
“These rules are a baseless intrusion into the patient-physician relationship. Patients, their families, and their physicians — not politicians or government officials — should be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them.”
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Trans children in AHCCCS will lose access to gender-affirming care under new Trump admin rule | Arizona Mirror
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will prohibit state Medicaid plans from covering gender-affirming care for minors
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 13/08/2026
Two years ago, 61% of voters passed Proposition 314, known as the “Secure the Border Act.” The ballot measure made several changes to criminal law, but its most controversial provision gives state officials the power to enforce federal immigration law. By @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Legal challenge to Arizona’s ‘Secure the Border Act’ dropped, at least for now
An immigrant rights group scrapped its legal challenge that sought to block an Arizona law that lets local police officers arrest immigrants who cross the border anywhere except an official port of en...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 11/08/2026
The ex-Mesa mayor and vocal GOP critic is an overture to the moderate and independent voters Hobbs needs in November story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Katie Hobbs names John Giles as her running mate in a play for crossover voters
Hobbs running mate John Giles, a former Republican and Mesa mayor, aims to draw the crossover voters she needs
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 07/08/2026
“This instance of Election Fraud by the Arizona Republican Party as well as previous instances demonstrates the lack of integrity in which the ‘Election Integrity’ crowd claims to stand upon.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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‘Sham’ Green Party candidates win primary races over party-backed write-ins
The only Green Party candidates who made it onto Arizona’s primary ballot for governor and secretary of state, and who the party disavowed as frauds, won their races against Green Party-backed write-i...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 01/08/2026
Gov. Hobbs says the reductions threaten farms, chipmakers and national security as the state weighs its legal options story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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The Trump administration's ‘draconian’ water cuts could gut Arizona’s Colorado River supply
A federal plan could impose Arizona Colorado River cuts of up to 77%, which state leaders warn would devastate the economy
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 31/07/2026
For the second election cycle in a row, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is refusing to debate her Republican opponent story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Katie Hobbs says she won’t debate Andy Biggs, opting instead to tour the state
For the second election cycle in a row, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is refusing to debate her Republican opponent.
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 30/07/2026
Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier are the nominees for governor and secretary of state, but the Green Party itself is disavowing them. And reporting by Caitlin Sievers has uncovered ties between the candidates and the Republican Party. 🔍 www.kjzz.org/the-show/202... 📷 Jim Small / @azmirror.com
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Thanks to @kjzz.org for having me on and highlighting this story!
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Reporter links 'sham' Arizona Green Party candidates to Republican operatives
Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier are the nominees for governor and secretary of state, respectively, but the Green Party itself is disavowing them.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 29/07/2026
The ruling says the GOP tried an unprecedented move to bar voters and future legislatures from reforming school vouchers story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Judge tosses GOP voucher measure that would have blocked all future reforms
A judge tossed the Arizona voucher ballot measure Prop. 145, ruling it would have blocked all future reforms
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 29/07/2026
The Democratic Governors Association said the race between Katie Hobbs and Andy Biggs is “a true tossup,” so it's spending $10 million to boost Hobbs story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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National Dems pledge $10M for Hobbs as GOP group stays silent on Biggs
The DGA is putting $10 million toward Hobbs’ reelection, calling Arizona’s governor race the closest in the nation
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