Our people have been trafficked since contact,” said Ethel Branch, who believes this scam needs to be considered human trafficking. “I think enough is enough and we need to take a stand and ensure this country will respect our people as human beings.”
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US Coast Guard veteran who lost arm in World War II salutes President Lincoln:
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As I have been saying, repeatedly, Republicans still have not proposed specific cuts because they themselves *cannot agree on what to cut*
How do you negotiate with someone who doesn’t actually know what they want? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/
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Little-noted this wk: While McCarthy was all budget-cutting bravado in debt-limit talks with Biden, the House Appropriations panel canceled votes on 4 bills that must fill in gory details of the cuts the GOP is demanding. Divided Rs didn't have the votes.
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Mayor Kate Gallego voicing her support for Phoenix to bid on becoming home to future NBA/WNBA All-Star Games! 🏀💃
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BREAKING Allie Bones, ' chief of staff, "leaving to pursue new opportunities... Bones offered her resignation, effective immediately." Bones was also Hobbs CoS in Secretary of State's office.
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I looked at ~400 CBP press releases and Twitter posts announcing fentanyl seizures at the southern border from Jan 2021 to Jan 2023.
Just 7 involved people bringing it across on foot. Over that time Border Patrol recorded 4,417,202 migrant apprehensions. That's actually .00016%.
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86% of fentanyl trafficking convictions are U.S. citizens.
95% is seized at official ports of entry.
About .02 percent of arrested migrants were in possession of fentanyl
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UPDATE 'Accept that ESAs are here to stay': House Republicans object to comments about school vouchers on #SundaySquareOff. Mayes said she'd investigate potential waste, fraud & abuse.
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Legislative Leaders Demand AG Mayes Retract False Statements Regarding ESAs & to Use State Resources to Serve Interests of Arizonans, Not Politics!
“Parents have spoken and the Legislature has enacted ESAs into law. Your job, as an executive branch official, is to… Show more
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For more on Chansley's availability for consultations and clothing line...
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And Chansley is selling Q Shaman merchandise including this LOVELY dress of his screaming face, a "didn't do muffin," apron and a $99 "QultFellas" poster
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NEW Jacob Chansley was released from his Phoenix halfway house this morning. He's rebranded the 'QAnon Shaman.' Don't think we've seen the last of him.
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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes gets 18 years for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy - POLITICO
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Is the Arizona State Land Department taking steps to reverse a handful of unpopular leases? Or more widely rethinking water use on state trust land? A subscriber exclusive: azcentral.com/story/opinion/ via
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NEW announces she's running in Democratic primary for #AZ03 seat being vacated by . Former Osborn School Board member, elected to CAWCD Board last Nov. Aguilar is 4th Dem in race for safe D seat. Already in:
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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer tells the he has an invitation for anybody who harbors a distrust of the voting system that he helps run.
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READ Top aide to tells 's office to stop spending $50 million in ARPA $$ that awarded to school-voucher recipients in final days of admin for all-day kindergarten. Warns feds could claw back $50M.
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BREAKING: The Jan. 6 rioter who put his feet on a desk in then-Speaker Pelosi’s office has been sentenced to 4.5 years in prison.
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Dershowitz tells judge: “I do not like Miss Lake” and “I was rooting against her.”
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Dershowitz says he wishes there was a way to list himself in the role of a consultant on case. “I’m not familiar with Arizona,” he said, adding his name listing on lawsuit caused him “great damage.” twitter.com/yvonnewingett/…
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Dershowitz says he wishes there was a way to list himself in the role of a consultant on case. “I’m not familiar with Arizona,” he said, adding his name listing on lawsuit caused him “great damage.”
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ARIZONA--Alan Dershowitz, whose name appeared on Kari Lake and Mark Finchem's federal lawsuit to ban voting machines in the state, is set to appear today via video conference to ask Judge Tuchi to not consider sanctions against him. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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'Heinous and profoundly harmful': Maricopa County seeks sanctions against Lake's attorneys azcentral.com/story/news/pol via
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In the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6, President Donald Trump stayed mostly silent. When he finally delivered his farewell address to the nation, he disavowed the attack on the U.S. Capitol as something that “all Americans were horrified by” and “can never be tolerated.”
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🚨Here we go...Florida Governor has filed FEC paperwork to run for President of the United States.
docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/
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ARIZONA--Alan Dershowitz, whose name appeared on Kari Lake and Mark Finchem's federal lawsuit to ban voting machines in the state, is set to appear today via video conference to ask Judge Tuchi to not consider sanctions against him. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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Cochise County certifies after court order as attorneys for Lake and Finchem are sanctioned over lawsuit seeking to force hand count.
Among their lawyers: Alan Dershowitz. w/@yvonnewingett washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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Vacant Arizona big-box store will become nation's first "Picklemall"
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Heat wave and black out would hospitalize half of Phoenix residents
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These would be the 3rd set of sanctions against Lake lawyers in election-related lawsuits. First two: Misled court.
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Maricopa County Attorney @Rachel1Mitchell, R, seeks sanctions against Lake and her attorneys: Lake and her counsel engaged in a program of intentional and repeated fallacious misstatements of fact to mislead this Court. wapo.st/4304pqY
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MORE Lake says she will keep fighting court case. Her lawyers have lost 5 rulings w 4 judges in 2 court systems. Lawyers sanctioned twice in 2 different courts for misleading judges.
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NOW says she’s organizing ‘largest ballot-chasing operation’ in the country. Got $1 million committed. That’s the BIG announcement. (Mark Finchem also behind her at newser.)
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Arizona GOP presidential primary is March 19, 2024.
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Just in: Judge Juan Merchan has set a trial date of March 25th, 2024 for the criminal case against former President Donald Trump involving hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
via @KaraScannell @Lauren_delvalle
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So, I’ve been added to the list of people banned from Russia.
I will miss those cards and flowers from Putin.
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And in hand-count related news...
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New: Attorney General @AZAGMayes tells counties to "discard" former AG Brnovich's opinion related to hand counting ballots, says in opinion dated Thursday that Brnovich was wrong: Counties cannot hand count all ballots, under state law.
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JUST IN GOP Senate Majority Leader Sonny
Borrelli apparently thinks he can bluff Arizona counties & SoS into not using electronic voting machines, based on a legislative resolution that does not have the force of law. Or maybe it's just for show. Text: bit.ly/3Wpxqd4
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BREAKING will veto #HB2441, bill that would have required Scottsdale to restore water service to Rio Verde Foothills, per 2 people with direct knowledge. Scottsdale opposed the bill. City cut off RVF water service 5 months ago. Hobbs' veto msg is expected today.
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