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Green Party governor candidate her own party called a ‘sham’ survives two ballot challenges
The Arizona Green Party candidate for governor who used to sell MAGA merch and was a Republican Party official just days before she launched her campaign has defeated two challenges to keep her off the July primary ballot.
Last week, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled that, even though 40% of the voter signatures that Risa Lombardo gathered were invalid, she...
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Alma & Consuelo Hernandez beat legal efforts to boot them off legislative ballot
Sisters and state lawmakers Alma and Consuelo Hernandez can remain on the ballot for their races for the Arizona Legislature this year.
Pima County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Kuhn ruled Thursday that neither candidate should be booted from the ballot over unpaid fines...
Justin Heap at a Young Republicans event in 2024 in Scottsdale. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)
OPINION | Justin Heap is undermining, not restoring, voters’ trust. It’s time for him to go.
Justin Heap is exactly the kind of person you don’t want to oversee elections if you truly want “transparency and integrity” in a system that sustains our democracy.
In the 15 or so months since he became recorder in Arizona’s largest county, after ousting...
Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap testifies before the county board of supervisors on Feb. 18, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona. His office has feuded with the board for nearly a year over election control, producing misleading claims of voter disenfranchisement. (Photo by Sasha Hupka/Votebeat)
Amid a power struggle, Maricopa officials hurl unsubstantiated claims of voter disenfranchisement
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney appeared somewhat exasperated with the parties sitting before him in a drab courtroom in Phoenix on Feb. 11.
He was presiding over a civil case that centered on a messy battle between mostly-GOP county leaders over election control. Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap contended that...
Cans used for Lost Boy cider in Alexandria, Virginia, cost the small business more because of increased aluminum tariffs. Tristan Wright, founder and president of Lost Boy, stands near his production line on Feb. 6, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
Show me the money: Businesses line up for $166B in refunds from Trump’s illegal tariffs
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection tariff refund system went live Monday, marking what small business advocates call a “complex” first step for entrepreneurs to recoup $166 billion in import taxes accrued under President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in February.
Importers and brokers can now upload a detailed list of each tariff paid...
Kaitlyn Joshua, co-founder of Abortion in America and a resident of Baton Rouge, La., said she feared many patients would go without care after Planned Parenthood closed its only Louisiana health centers in response to a new federal rule included in the broad tax and spending measure President Donald Trump signed last summer. (Photo by Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator)
Medicaid rule targeting abortion providers set to expire
A controversial rule enacted last year that denies federal Medicaid funding to abortion providers is likely to expire this summer, despite anti-abortion pressure on Republicans to renew it.
Leaders in Congress in recent days have insisted that a new federal spending bill needs to be as stripped down as possible and focused on...
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