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@azmirror.com"We reject every attempt to use religion to justify political violence, confer divine authority upon a candidate or party, or portray political opponents as enemies whose dignity no longer matters.”
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@azmirror.comThe panel scrubbed a fired aide’s name from the transcript and video, a move a First Amendment attorney says violates open meeting law
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@azmirror.comThe fight over who has power over prediction markets — and therefore, potentially, election contracts — is unlikely to be settled until the U.S. Supreme Court takes action
@azmirror.comChrista Pike’s survival in Tennessee has renewed scrutiny of pentobarbital as Arizona prepares to execute Ernesto Martinez
@azmirror.comTwo Green Party candidates accused of fraud argue that Clean Elections can’t claw back public funds even if fraud is found — a claim two lower courts declined to take up
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@azmirror.com“You hear that alarm?” the detainee asked the Mirror as an alarm started blaring during a phone interview. “Thats a fire alarm that goes off, I’m telling you, every day.”
ICE and CoreCivic say no alarms are going off.
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@azmirror.com“For normal people, that's just crazy behavior, you know what I mean?” Democrat Aaron Lieberman said about his opponent, GOP state Sen. Carine Werner
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@azmirror.com“The real top line is that for maybe the first time ever, tariffs are a salient issue at the ballot box. You know, normally trade is a boring issue that nobody really thinks about or cares about.”
@azmirror.comThe candidates split on Medicaid cuts, the Iran war and immigration in a race Democrats see as a path to flipping the House
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@azmirror.comDemocrats Lorena Austin and Jacob Martinez clashed with Republican Brad Bettencourt over corporate landlords and the state's $1 billion voucher program
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@azmirror.comInternal reports reveal the agency reviewed voter-registration nonprofits and weighed deploying undercover agents against them
@azmirror.comOPINION | Warren Petersen is courting Spanish-speaking voters while backing Trump's deportation agenda — a contradiction that may be hard to sell
@azmirror.comThe Green Party candidates had told a judge they'd cooperate with the Clean Elections investigation, then moved the same day to block subpoenas for records
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@azmirror.comThe Vote Safe initiative will deploy volunteers in several swing states as Trump declines to rule out extreme election-related action
@azmirror.com“Young people have made up their minds and almost nobody has contacted them with a plan to make sure they’re going out and voting. While polls measure opinions, an election measures turnout.”
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@azmirror.com“You see those high gas prices throughout the state and this district,” Nez said. “And people are feeling the negative impact on our economy. And it goes back to people that are in office.”
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@azmirror.comTrump's comments — along with the red-state rallies — underscore the political peril that analysts see facing Republicans in the midterm elections
@azmirror.com“Republicans may have more money, but they have zero substance. We know we don’t need to spend more, but we do need to spend enough.”
@azmirror.com“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.”
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@azmirror.comThe board voted 5-0 to report Brad Miller to the State Bar, but didn't say which of their many clashes prompted the complaint
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