Arizona Watchdog Project

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Yuma sheriff denies endorsing AG candidate Glassman

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Meet the county sheriff’s sketchy Arpaio retreads

Tom Homan once spared Phoenix migrants. Now he’s Trump’s Darth Vader

By Stephen Lemons
Jul 28, 2025

Pre-Trump, colleagues of border czar Tom Homan described him as reasonable. Now, they see a cruel man they don’t recognize.
Miscarriage of justice: Donald Trump’s war on pregnant migrants

By Stephen Lemons
Jul 2, 2025

Kept in awful conditions by ICE, Rubia Morales-Alfaro lost a pregnancy. In Trump’s America, there's no mercy for migrant moms.
How Clinton and Obama helped build Trump’s mass deportation machine

By Stephen Lemons
Jun 18, 2025

Donald Trump didn’t invent racist immigration policy. For decades, both major parties built the system he’s now weaponizing.
The Big Takeover: The secret plans to give Trump command of America’s police

By Beau Hodai
May 15, 2025

For months, a Project 2025 subgroup drafted plans to place domestic law enforcement under Trump's thumb. We have their files.
We got a $123K investigative reporting grant. Here’s how we’ll use it

By Sam Eifling
May 15, 2025

We’re kicking off a year of news investigations, funded by the Trace Foundation. Introducing the Arizona Watchdog Project.