Clockwise from left: Gov. Katie Hobbs, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, U.S. Rep. David Schweikert. (Photos by Gage Skidmore and Cronkite News Service)
Hobbs raised $2.6M in Q2, more than the GOP field, fueling her early ad blitz in reelection bid
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs raked in campaign donations during the second quarter of 2026, collecting about $2.6 million — but she also spent big as she launched a high-dollar advertising campaign boasting about her record as governor...
A mobile home in Tucson. (Photo by Michael McKisson/Arizona Luminaria)
Trailer park firm sued by Kris Mayes is the biggest donor to a PAC backing Warren Petersen
A trailer park management company being sued by Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes is spending big to back one of Mayes’ GOP opponents in a bid to defeat her in November.
Mayes filed a lawsuit against the BoaVida Group last year after electricity outages during a deadly summer heat wave left residents at Tucson’s Redwood Mobile Home Park in danger. BoaVida owns five other trailer parks in Arizona.
Now, BoaVida is the largest backer of...
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AZ Court of Appeals: Citing fake AI-generated cases can get you sanctioned, no matter your intent
The Arizona Court of Appeals put lawyers and self-represented litigants alike on notice: If you let artificial intelligence write your legal brief and don’t check whether the cases it cites are real, you can be sanctioned for it — even if you never meant to mislead anyone.
“Submission of hallucinated case citations — intentional or unintentional — is unjustifiable. To accept a defense of lack of ill intent would legitimize reckless indifference to the truth and...
President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Saul Loeb/Getty Images)
Trump, offering no proof, claims foreign meddling threatens US elections in speech slammed for stoking voter fears
The nation’s election infrastructure is vulnerable to cyberattacks by foreign actors, President Donald Trump said during a primetime address Thursday night, citing a batch of documents he declassified — but providing no proof broad interference actually occurred or affected an election outcome.
Democrats and advocates quickly criticized the remarks as another attempt by Trump to give Republicans an advantage in crucial midterm elections and sow distrust of results, following his firing of...
Iowa Democrats flipped two state Senate seats in special elections last year to break the GOP supermajority there. With momentum growing nationally, Democrats are looking to expand seats in Iowa’s upper chamber and break the House supermajority in November. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
Democrats see path to flip Arizona Legislature as national statehouse map tilts toward them
Following a string of special election victories, Democrats have a path to flip several Republican-held legislative chambers and break GOP supermajorities in states across the country this November.
High prices and overall voter dissatisfaction with Washington have put control of the U.S. House and Senate in play this year — a dynamic that has trickled down...
U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks at the American Federation of Teachers national convention in Washington, D.C., on July 16, 2026. (Photo by Amelia Twyman/States Newsroom)
House Dem Leader Jeffries hammers Trump, asks for teachers union help in midterms
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries rallied a key group for his party Thursday, telling the American Federation of Teachers’ national convention that, if successful in November’s midterm elections, a Democratic majority in the House would pursue several progressive policies...
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