Democrats will have a great story to tell voters as they go to the ballot box in 2022. Since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office, they and the Democrats in Congress have largely been the ones, starting with the American Rescue Plan, that supported en masse: COVID vaccinations.Sending checks to the American People.A Child Tax Credit.Aid to schools.Aid to local governments.A bipartisan infrastructure deal that Donald Trump could not get through.The first gun control legislation in 30 years.Protecting Democracy, access to the ballot, and the integrity of elections.Codifying Roe v Wade, same-sex marriage, and the right [...]

Video production by Mallory Reigger. Charlie Verdin is a Tucson businessperson running for Arizona state House in LD18. He spoke at the May 16, 2020 meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson. He wants to secure a bright future for his children with strong public schools and a healthy, sustainable economy while preserving our state’s natural beauty. Click here to see if you live in LD18. Charlie is a Native American born in Louisiana who moved in 2007 to Tucson after starting Fangamer, which is now a successful, multinational operation. He is the former Secretary of Democrats of Greater Tucson. Charlie is [...]

By Mathew Grodsky Nearly 30 years ago Arizona began offering the ability for citizens to vote via an absentee ballot. In the decades since, the state has refined election laws to make voting easier for Arizonans. The majority of the state votes by mail. In the 2012 general election, 61% of Arizona voters cast an early ballot. By 2018, that number jumped to 79%. By 2020 that number was 88%. This means Arizonans by and large leverage the Permanent Early Voting List (PEVL). The program will now be dubbed the Active Early Voting List (AEVL)  since Governor Ducey’s signing of SB1485, [...]

UA’s University-wide General Education Committee voted not to approve the course PPEL 101 for general education status after presentations on Sept. 16 by David Schmidtz, Director of UA’s Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, and David Gibbs, UA Professor of History. UA Professor David Gibbs PPEL101 is the same course as the high school course “Ethics, Economy, and Entrepreneurship,” which Kochs Off Campus successfully got removed from Tucson’s public high schools in 2018 and 2019. "The Freedom Center receives a dedicated line item grant of $2.5 million or more each year from the Arizona State Legislature.  Republican legislators [...]