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Justine Wadsack trails Vince Leach in a too-close-to-call Southern Arizona Senate race
In the Republican primary race for the Arizona Senate’s Legislative District 17, Vince Leach was nursing a slim lead over incumbent Sen. Justine Wadsack on election night, with 51% of the vote to her 49%, according to initial unofficial vote counts. A final tally will be completed in the coming days, as elections officials tabulate […]
Amish Shah leads crowded Dem field in CD1 contest to take on David Schweikert
A packed Democratic primary race for Arizona’s First Congressional District was too close to call late on election night, with former state Rep. Amish Shah taking a narrow lead. Shah, a medical doctor, took around 24% of the votes as of Tuesday night, only about three percentage points ahead of Andrei Cherny and four points […]
Disgraced former Dem lawmaker Leezah Sun trounced in bid to return to the Capitol
Disgraced former lawmaker Leezah Sun’s hopes of returning to the state Capitol were dashed Tuesday, as she was trounced by fellow Democrat Eva Diaz in a West Valley legislative race. Diaz, the incumbent in the race, handily defeated Sun in Tuesday’s primary, sweeping up nearly three times the number of votes as her opponent in […]
GOP state Sen. Shawnna Bolick fending off challenge from Josh Barnett in north Phoenix district
Republican state Sen. Shawnna Bolick appears to have fended off a far-right contender who is seeking his third different elected office since 2020. Bolick holds a nearly 10-point lead over her opponent, local businessman Josh Barnett, according to preliminary results. Bolick was appointed to the Arizona Senate in July 2023 to serve out the remainder […]
Wendy Rogers holding off challenge from David Cook in LD7 GOP Senate primary contest
Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers appears to have fended off a primary challenge from David Cook, a fellow GOP legislator, with early results showing her with a solid lead. Rogers and Cook, who serves in the state House of Representatives, are two of the most dissimilar Republican lawmakers working in the legislature at the moment. […]
Mark Finchem poised to oust Ken Bennett and return to the AZ Senate
Former lawmaker and failed secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem may be heading back to the Arizona Capitol, as early election night results show him leading in his bid to knock off state Sen. Ken Bennett in a northern Arizona legislative district. Initial election tallies show Finchem with a margin of more than seven percentage […]
Abe Hamadeh nabs early lead in race to represent West Valley congressional district
Trump-endorsed Abe Hamadeh is narrowly edging out his opponents in the race for the Republican nomination to represent Arizona’s Congressional District 8 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Initial reporting shows Hamadeh leading the pack by more than four percentage points, with an edge over venture capitalist Blake Masters of about 4,700 votes. The race […]
GOP Rep. Eli Crane easily defeats challenger Jack Smith in reelection bid
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Eli Crane has easily defeated challenger Jack Smith in the Republican primary for Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, according to unofficial election results. With almost 65,000 votes counted in the contest, Crane leads Smith 78% to 21%, a gap of more than 37,000 votes. The winner of the primary election will face Democratic […]
In west Phoenix Dem congressional race, Yassamin Ansari takes early lead over Raquel Terán
Former Phoenix Vice Mayor Yassamin Ansari has seized an early lead over Raquel Terán, who is a former leader of the Arizona Democratic Party and state legislator, in the battle to represent a west Phoenix congressional district. The Democratic primary race for Congressional District 3, which also features Duane Wooten, a doctor, was expected to […]
Kari Lake defeats Mark Lamb for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination
Kari Lake has defeated Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, according to the Associated Press, which called the race for Lake shortly after initial vote totals were released by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office on election night. With more than 958,000 ballots tallied statewide, Lake led Lamb by […]
Anti-abortion group drops challenge to abortion rights ballot measure signatures
An anti-abortion group is backtracking on a lawsuit it launched against the Arizona Abortion Access Act, withdrawing allegations that signature collectors for the campaign turned in legally insufficient forms or fraudulently misrepresented the ballot initiative. Last week, Arizona Right to Life filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court calling for the abortion rights initiative […]
Restaurants sue to keep $18 AZ minimum wage measure off the November ballot
The Arizona Restaurant Association is suing to block a ballot initiative that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $18, claiming the union-backed group behind it failed to gather enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. The political committee Raise the Wage AZ has been gathering signatures for a ballot measure called the “One […]
The primary election is today. Here’s what you need to know about how to vote.
The Arizona primary election is today, and voters across the state have different options on how they can cast their ballots. All registered voters in the state, even those not registered with a political party, are eligible to vote in the primary election. Voters affiliated with a political party will receive a ballot for their […]
The future of abortion access in Arizona is in jeopardy — and I’m on the front lines
Arizona is facing a critical juncture in its fight for abortion rights. And as a local physician who’s dedicated nearly 30 years to providing reproductive and family planning care, I’m standing right on the front lines. Arizonans may soon have a chance to use their vote to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution. If […]
Data privacy after Dobbs: Is period tracking safe?
After the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022 and abortion was banned in the state of Tennessee, Dr. Danielle Kelvas quit using an app that tracked her menstrual cycle. “It frightened me … I actually got frightened because it tracked me for like, a week,” Kelvas said of the Oura Ring […]
Arizonans left off voter rolls just before primary because of problems with their forms
Many Arizona residents seeking to register to vote ahead of Tuesday’s primary were blocked from the voter rolls because of problems with the paper registration forms they used, according to a Votebeat analysis of longstanding issues with the forms. The paper forms are the type commonly distributed and collected by civic groups and political parties […]
GOP lawmakers spread debunked ‘body double’ conspiracies
Two Arizona Republican state lawmakers have shared a debunked conspiracy theory that alleges, in part, that President Joe Biden is using body doubles. Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, shared a now deleted post on X, formerly Twitter, falsely claiming that Jill Biden was in Paris and Washington, D.C., at the same time. The first lady left […]
Alabama man pleads guilty to threatening to ‘execute’ Maricopa County election workers
An Alabama man pleaded guilty on Friday to sending threatening messages to Arizona election workers in Maricopa County during the 2022 Arizona primary elections. Brian Jerry Ogstad, 60, admitted to sending multiple threatening messages over social media, including explicit threats of violence and execution against election workers. He faces a maximum sentence of five years […]
Judge: GOP use of ‘unborn human being’ is a biased way to describe abortion rights ballot measure
Republican lawmakers violated state law when they used the phrase “unborn human being” to describe the Arizona Abortion Access Act in a voter information pamphlet, a Maricopa County judge ruled on Friday. “The only issue before the Court is whether the phrase ‘unborn human being’ as approved by the Legislative Council is ‘an impartial analysis […]
Rhetoric versus reality: Addressing common misconceptions about abortion
Reproductive rights has taken center stage in the first post-Roe presidential election that presently features a longtime advocate for reproductive rights in possible Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, opposite former Republican President Donald Trump, whose three appointed U.S. Supreme Court justices helped overturn federal abortion rights. Although Trump’s former health staffers have co-authored the […]
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