DeWit accuses Ducey of pushing him out of convention
The tit-for-tat feud between state Treasurer Jeff DeWit and Gov. Doug Ducey intensified on Thursday as the treasurer accused Ducey of pressuring him to leave a GOP event.
View ArticleCampaign finance reform kills dark money bot – for now
Arizona’s dark money bot, the Twitter account set up by the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting to blast out notices when dark money groups spend in political campaigns, has sent out its last...
View ArticleYear in Review: 2016’s best tweets
Capitol Twitter outdid itself this year, from snarky comments from former elected officials to witty insight into national and local politics. Here are our favorite tweets from 2016, in alphabetical...
View ArticleTorunn Sinclair: #GOPvalues #baseball #wunderkind
At the old age of 24, Torunn Sinclair has carved out a place for herself in state politics as something of a social media wunderkind.
View ArticleScottsdale lawmaker recounts years of sexual harassment in state House
Arizona Rep. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, said she’s been sexually harassed at the state Capitol since her first year in office.
View ArticleGeneration Opportunity’s Chalon Hutson: Policy over party
Chalon Hutson found his passion in freedom a la libertarian principles. Now, he’s focusing on the issues that affect young Americans most as the field director for Generation Opportunity.
View ArticlePoliticians block constituents’ speech on social media
Some politicians block spam accounts on social media. Some block corporations or trolls. But some Arizona lawmakers block their constituents, something First Amendment experts say may be unconstitutional.
View ArticleFree-speech ruling in Trump Twitter case echoes in Arizona debate
The opinion is narrowly written and legal experts are split on whether it applies to other public figures operating social media sites. But a lawsuit against an Arizona lawmaker aims to find out.
View ArticleDucey avoids deposition in lawsuit alleging false arrest
Gov. Doug Ducey has succeeded in avoiding a deposition in a false-arrest lawsuit filed by a man once charged in some of metro Phoenix's freeway shootings during the summer of 2015.
View ArticlePatriot Movement members sue Katie Hobbs over Ducey tweet
Members of the Patriot Movement AZ are suing Secretary of State candidate Katie Hobbs over a six-month-old tweet in which she criticized Gov. Doug Ducey for posing with the controversial activist group.
View ArticleReport: Arizona teens paid to file social media posts for campaigns
Facebook and Twitter opened investigations this week into several Arizona teenagers’ social media accounts for allegedly operating fraudulent profiles and spreading misinformation in support of the...
View ArticleHalf of this year’s bills died unceremoniously
By the February 19 deadline to hear bills in committees in their chambers of origin, more than 950 measures were left to die
View ArticleArizona Birthday Moments: Supercentenarian edition
In the 110 years since it became the country’s 48th state, Arizona has been the site of countless historic moments – from the discovery of Pluto at Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory to the completion of...
View ArticleDemocrats must protect ability for online platforms to remove misinformation
In the wake of the devastating murder of 19 children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ-4) took to Twitter—not to offer comfort to grieving families, but to peddle misinformation...
View ArticleAdvocates push media literacy training in schools
Local advocates are pushing for lawmakers to implement media literacy training in schools around Arizona, something states across the country are already doing.
View ArticleFighting bogus claims a growing priority in election offices
Election officials preparing for the rapidly approaching midterm elections have one more headache: trying to combat misinformation that sows distrust about voting and results while fueling vitriol...
View ArticleDo past social media posts sway voters?
Unsavory comments from the pasts of political candidates are often dredged up during the campaign season, but Republican consultants say voters don’t necessarily care.
View ArticleVoters should know why U.S. Army Reserve is investigating Hamadeh
Republican candidate Abraham Hamadeh should tell voters why the United States Army Reserve is investigating him.
View ArticlePro-life Dems throw wrench in party plans and contradict campaign messaging
Two pro-life Democrats are contradicting the party’s message that voting for the Democratic ticket means protecting abortion from statewide bans.
View ArticlePolice arrest suspect in campaign office burglary
Phoenix Police made an arrest in the case of a burglary at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs’ campaign office, the department said in a statement on Thursday morning.
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