Politics & Government

One new sign of Arizona’s importance to the “new right” of the GOP: Florida governor Ron DeSantis is rallying with Kari Lake and Blake Masters this weekend.

Former TV news anchor Kari Lake has promised “gun freedom,” wants to finish the “big, beautiful wall” at Arizona’s southern border, eradicate homelessness, and end a “culture of abortion” in the state.

We hung out with Kari Lake and her supporters at her election night party so you didn’t have to. Here are a few highlights and what it says about the political state of affairs in Arizona.

Tuesday’s primary elections were poised to be a test for the Arizona Republican Party. Former President Donald Trump won.

Mark Finchem is so committed to the Big Lie, he called election fraud on a race he won. He hopes voters reward him in the GOP primary for secretary of state.

Arizona Republicans are offering up to $100,000 for evidence of “vote buying” in the August 2 primary, the GOP’s latest effort to undermine vote-by-mail and cast doubt on elections in the state.

The GOP candidate is locked in a bitter primary battle with Karrin Taylor Robson, with both accusing the other of being a fake conservative.

Trump has backed candidates up and down the ballot in Arizona. Days before the August primary, he’s rallying to support them. Pence has endorsed an opposing candidate for governor and will also rally in Arizona on the same day.

The Arizona Legislature’s own attorneys called this new law unconstitutional. Arizona Republicans passed it anyway.

It’s becoming clearer that lawmakers from close to home played a significant role in Trump’s futile ploy to overturn the election.

Despite billions of dollars in federal help throughout his career, Jim Lamon insists government should “get the hell out of the way” of American businesses.

“Arizona has passed a law that turns the clock back on progress,” said one DOJ prosecutor.

Here’s a crazy one: He’s a former NFL running back managed by a QAnon influencer, and guns down Klansmen in a new campaign ad.

Blake Masters is the favorite candidate of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, one Republican analyst said.

Arizona’s sweltering summer primaries are primarily forgotten, and that’s by design.

A California investment firm bought Nancy Lake’s apartment complex. Then, her monthly rent went up nearly $500.

“When we take back the Federal Government we need to abolish 70% of the agencies and employees,” state senator Wendy Rogers tweeted Monday. That would put nearly 1.3 million gainfully employed Americans out of a job.

Senate hopefuls played to a base riled up about the border and harped endlessly on the 2020 election.

Big dollar backers didn’t flinch when Arizona Republican Paul Gosar took credit for inciting the January 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol.

Kari Lake thought that putting up smiling “Trump-endorsed” signs in central Phoenix was a good idea.

Grand Canyon University plans to evict dozens of residents at a mobile home park. This week, they took to the streets.

U.S. Senate hopeful Jim Lamon, who’s using his own fortune to fund his campaign, is accused of bashing Beijing and its cronies with money he earned from lucrative dealings with the Chinese Communist Party.