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Gary Swing

@kiwilimegreens.bsky.social
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He's just this guy, you know? Triple Crown backpacker (Appalachian, Pacific Crest & Continental Divide Trail completer), peak bagger (1200+ US summits). Perennial alternative party candidate. Kiwi-Lime Green - Green on the outside, Green on the inside.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He makes a good point.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 09/10/2026
The #NationalPark Service is considering two land exchanges within #CumberlandIsland National Seashore that would allow the development of eight mansions on the island. This island is one of the last wild places on the East Coast, and the Park Service has a legislative duty to protect it!
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Stop the Cumberland Island Land Swaps
The National Park Service is considering two land exchanges within Cumberland Island National Seashore that would allow the development of eight mansions on the island. Tell the agency these public la...
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is completely and utterly out of control. Agents wildly shot at Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin, Texas last month and just last night at Oscar Belgal in New York City — while a 5-year-old was sitting in the back seat of Oscar's car.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Five days after October 7, 2023, NVI published Mubarak Awad's seven steps to stop violence and injustice. Jonathan Kuttab proposes that Palestinians and Israelis must center equality, human rights, nonviolence, and interdependence. (Free download.) www.nonviolenceinternational.net/three_years_...
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Three Years After Oct 7: Choosing Nonviolence & Solidarity
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 05/10/2026
“A group of power-hungry politicians has voted to put a set of highly deceptive propositions on your ballot this November. They want to make voting more difficult, hollow out our schools with funding cuts, and institute blanket mandates in school sports.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Progressive PAC launches $1M campaign against ‘deceptive’ GOP-backed ballot propositions
Arizona ballot propositions: A progressive PAC is spending $1M to defeat four GOP-referred measures before Nov. 3.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I support this statement.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The membership resolution passed by the Green Party of England Wales is problematic. I support the leadership statement signed by the 5 British Green Party MPs. A two state solution is not an answer to apartheid.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gary Swing on Israel and Palestine. Green Party candidate for Arizona’s 6th Congressional District. www.localcandidates.org/politicians/...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
VIEWER FEEDBACK: Do we have to ruin you completely?
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cynthia McKinney has endorsed a slate of sham candidates seeking to disrupt, misrepresent, and destroy Arizona's Green Party. Shampaign 2026: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Shampaign 2026
Shampaign 2026: Arizona’s Fake “Green Party” Candidates By Gary Swing 10 September 2026 Arizona Sham Candidates Endorsed by Cynthia McKinney and William Pounds Ballot Access for Arizona Politi...
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lunacy
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Voters in Arizona CD6: Compare Green Party candidate Gary Swing's answers to the League of Women Voters candidate questionnaire to the non-responses from JoAnna Mendoza (Democrat), Juan Ciscomani (Republican), and Jereme Peters (Libertarian). onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail....
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U.S. House of Representatives District 6 — VOTE411 Voter Guide. Additional information available on VOTE411.org.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The League of Women Voters has published their voter guide for Arizona. Look up your address to find out what the candidates on your ballot for state and Congressional offices have to say. www.vote411.org
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VOTE411
Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The League of Women Voters has published their voter guide for Arizona. Look up your address to find out what the candidates on your ballot for state and Congressional offices have to say. www.vote411.org
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VOTE411
Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Arizona CD6. Compare the stances of Gary Swing (Green), Juan Ciscomani (Republican), and JoAnna Mendoza (Democrat). www.localcandidates.org/elections/20... @azmirror.com @azluminaria.org @azcapmedia.bsky.social @azgreenparty.bsky.social @azcentral.com @az
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The cure for "strategic voting" is sincere voting methods: proportional representation for legislators; instant runoff for executives. Voters in AZ CD6 have one sincere voting advocate on the ballot: Green candidate Gary Swing. www.theurbanist.org/u-s-voting-s... open.substack.com/pub/thetonym...
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U.S. Voting Systems Should — And Can — Better Reflect Diversity in Representation » The Urbanist
# In 1776, John Adams wrote that a "representative assembly... should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason and act like them." However, under winner ...
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Audacious Republican sham candidates Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier sue to retain public campaign financing they obtained through fraud.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sham "Green" candidate for Congress makes the news for allegedly threatening his own attorney, the judge hearing his case, and their kids. 🤪🤪🤪 Video is hilarious. Lunatic fringe... we all know you're out there. Arizona desperately needs ballot access reform. www.azfamily.com/2026/09/21/a...
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Arizona congressional candidate arrested for making threats, officials say
Prosecutors said David Redkey sent threatening messages involving guns targeting a judge and an attorney.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
David Redkey was expelled from Democrats of Arizona and the Phoenix DSA for his consistent pattern of harassment and abuse. www.azfamily.com/2026/09/21/a...
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Arizona congressional candidate arrested for making threats, officials say
Prosecutors said David Redkey sent threatening messages involving guns targeting a judge and an attorney.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This book challenges the claim that nonviolent resistance “can’t work” in the Middle East by chronicling some of the most significant nonviolent campaigns against colonialism, foreign occupation, authoritarianism, and structural injustice in the region. www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civ...
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Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East | CNCR
You may also be interested in: Arab Nonviolent Political Struggle in the Middle EastThis book represents a preliminary examination of nonviolent political struggle in the Arab world. Though the author...
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Arizona Mirror has published its voter guide. Compare where Green Party CD6 candidate Gary Swing stands in relation to Republican Juan Ciscomani, Democrat JoAnna Mendoza, and Libertarian Jereme Peters offering nothing of substance. azmirror.com/voter-guides... @azmirror.com
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Congressional District 6 | Voter Guide: 2026 General Election • Arizona
From Arizona Mirror | Insightful. Investigative. Independent.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gary Swing for Progress Green Party candidate for Arizona's 6th Congressional District Abolish ICE Pledge For Neighbors Not Numbers Coalition Video by Teri Thompson youtu.be/ADcHAo4DVcU?... #AbolishICEPledge
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Abolish Ice Pledge, Gary Swing for Congress AZ CD6
YouTube video by Gary Swing
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Arizona Mirror has published its voter guide. All the content, at least for CD6, is from Ballotpedia. I don't know if they tried to contact candidates. They never contacted me, but I did answer the Ballotpedia survey. azmirror.com/voter-guides... @azmirror.com
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Congressional District 6 | Voter Guide: 2026 General Election • Arizona
From Arizona Mirror | Insightful. Investigative. Independent.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gary Swing said alternative-party candidates face “rotten ballot access laws” and that winner-take-all districts entrench what he called the two major “cartel parties.” He advocated proportional representation, ranked-choice voting, and public campaign financing. www.newsweek.com/supreme-cour...
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Mail-in ballot ruling could impact these midterm races most
A Newsweek analysis finds four close House contests where a late postal overhaul would have touched much of the electorate.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Americans Fondly Recall 9/11 As Last Time Nation Could Unite In Bloodlust — theonion.com/americans-fo...
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Americans Fondly Recall 9/11 As Last Time Nation Could Unite In Bloodlust
WASHINGTON—As they reminisced 20 years later about a devastating and historic national tragedy, Americans reportedly took note Saturday of how the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were the last time the cou...
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fox 10 Phoenix reported on all candidates for AZ CD6, not just the two cartel party candidates who were invited to the Corrupt Elections Commission "debate." Green Party candidate Gary Swing proposes 90% military cut, abolition of nuclear weapons & US Senate. www.fox10phoenix.com/election/202...
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2026 Election debate: Arizona Congressional District 6 candidates
Two of the five candidates running to be the next Congressman representing Arizona's 6th Congressional District will take part in a Clean Elections debate on Sept. 10, and here's what to know.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Arizona's Corrupt Elections Commission is hosting a "debate" tonight between 2 of the 4 candidates for CD6. Here's my most recent email to them about inviting sham "Green" candidates to debates while excluding real Green Party candidates. @azgreenparty.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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AZ Corrupt Elections "Debates"
Gary Swing's letter to Arizona's Corrupt Elections Commission on being excluded from their sham September 10 CD6 “debate.” Greetings, I see that the Duopoly Dirty Elections Commission has invited al...
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Shampaign 2026: A Report on Sham Candidates Occupying the Arizona Green Party's Ballot Line By Gary Swing, 10 September 2026 docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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Shampaign 2026
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 06/09/2026
From defending individuals impacted by hate and extremism to uplifting communities that are trying to better their areas, the SPLC has stood firm in working to dismantle white supremacy across the U.S. That work continues today. Read up on some of our latest efforts: bit.ly/3XTZibA
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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250 is Enough - Green Mass Group
Gary Swing, 2026 Green Party candidate for Arizona’s 6th Congressional District drafted this statement on the foundational illegitimacy of the United States for a conversation he had with Cynthia Pool...
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Ed Kane 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @3dkan3.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Fraud is a crime
State prosecutors opened a criminal probe into Risa Lombardo, Duwyane Collier, Scott Neely and their campaigns
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A judge ordered Republican sham candidate Andrew Tupone off the PA Green Party's ballot line after the Green Party opposed his nomination. The AZ Green Party should sue to remove Risa Lombardo, Duwayne Collier, David Redkey, and Richard Grayson from its ballot line. www.mcall.com/2026/09/05/j...
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Judge orders Green Party candidate off PA-07 ballot after party disavowed his candidacy; Andrew Tupone says ‘fight isn’t over’
Andrew Tupone said he would appeal the judge’s ruling on the Green Party’s challenge to his candidacy.
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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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stovexklmnel.bsky.social @stovexklmnel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In a hearing yesterday (Thursday, 8/27) the lawyer representing the three could only claim "It's a conspiracy!!" Well, he's right in a way, but it's his clients engaged in the conspiracy. Fake candidates, Fake contributions, Collecting public $$ azmirror.com/2026/08/27/f...
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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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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 01/09/2026
The Arizona Green Party is calling on Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to remove two “sham” candidates from the November ballot — something Fontes’ office says he can’t do.
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Arizona Green Party asks Fontes to remove 'sham' candidates from November ballot
The Arizona Green Party is calling on Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to remove two “sham” candidates from the November ballot — something Fontes’ office says he can’t do.
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Baja Arizona. We fight on. @bajaarizona.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#Arizona Looks like these three GOP candidates (2 who are masquerading as Green Party) have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar. If you want some excellent reporting, follow Arizona Mirror and throw a few bucks their way if you can. It's what investigative journalism used to be.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 27/08/2026
BIG: Two Arizona Republicans running as Green Party candidates and the Republican candidate for governor Scott Neely stand accused of forging thousands of citizens names to qualify for free campaign finance funds
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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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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social received a shocking whistleblower report from a USPS federal official warning that Trump’s mail-in-vote tracking system is dangerous and capable of causing major disruptions to ballot delivery for millions of American citizens. Let’s break down how this happened.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 31/08/2026
The Center and our allies have sued the Trump administration over the registration of #trifludimoxazin, a potent #PFAS #pesticide that breaks down into long-lived, PFAS byproducts. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4gFTA5l
Photo of a field of soy plants with a heavily clouded sky above. Text over the image reads: "Cancer-Linked Pesticide Currently Allowed 
on Widely Eaten 
Fruits, Nuts, Grains"
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Proportional Representation is designed to represent everyone, disperse power, hold elected officials accountable, reflect voter intent, and elect more women and minorities. Proportional Representation neutralizes gerrymandering and the "spoiler effect." www.bestdemocracy.org
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stovexklmnel.bsky.social @stovexklmnel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you go to the TransparencyUSA web site for any of these candidates and look at the contribution tab, scroll down to the $5 contributions. Click on any of the contributors and you'll likely see the same person listed as contributing to all 3 of these people www.transparencyusa.org/az/candidate...
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Risa Lombardo - Arizona Candidate - Transparency USA
THE ANSWERS YOU NEED ABOUT THE MONEY IN STATE POLITICS
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 27/08/2026
The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission greenlit further investigation into three candidates based on evidence they didn’t actually qualify for millions in public funding awarded to their campaigns.
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AZ Clean Elections to continue probe into 3 candidates who received millions in public funding
The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission greenlit further investigation into three candidates based on evidence they didn’t actually qualify for millions in public funding awarded to their camp...
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Wayne Schutsky @wschutsky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission greenlit further investigation into three candidates based on evidence they didn’t actually qualify for millions in public funding awarded to their campaigns. www.kjzz.org/politics/202...
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AZ Clean Elections to continue probe into 3 candidates who received millions in public funding
The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission greenlit further investigation into three candidates based on evidence they didn’t actually qualify for millions in public funding awarded to their camp...
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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 · 27/08/2026
“Over my dead body is that rule going to go into effect,” AG Kris Mayes told reporters Wednesday. “We are going to fight this tooth and nail in the courts.”
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Arizona, other Dem-led states sue again over mail-voting rule after Supreme Court win for Trump | Arizona Mirror
Democratic states re-filed a mail-voting rule lawsuit as a judge lifted the pause on Trump’s USPS order
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Arizona Green Party candidates Risa Lombardo for Governor and Duwayne Collier for Secretary of State, campaigning for their first term. azmirror.com/2026/08/25/c...
Risa Lombardo in prison for felony election fraud. Duwayne Collier in prison for felony election fraud.
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James Belcher @jamesbelcher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
More on Lombardo
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Mysterious Green Party governor candidate has loads of GOP connections
Risa Lombardo is a Green Party candidate for governor. But the party disavows her saying, she's a spoiler planted by the GOP.
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Gary Swing @kiwilimegreens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
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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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