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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) was the top pick of attendees at a progressive convention in Washington, D.C., to be Democrats’ standard-bearer in the 2028 presidential election. Of the 990 poll respondents at Crooked Con, hosted by Crooked Media, 38.4% of attendees selected Ossoff as their first choice for the 2028 Democratic nominee. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) came in second with 16.6% of the vote, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came in third with almost 14%. The conference brought together elected officials, journalists, and political strategists for panels, strategy sessions, media appearances. Several floated 2028 contenders appeared at Saturday’s event...

Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding and mandatory evacuations in a wide swath of the Southwest on Sunday as weary residents in the normally arid region dealt with another massive drenching. Residents of Pagosa Springs, a southwestern Colorado town of more than 2,000 in the Rockies located near ski resorts and known for its hot springs, were bracing for its main river to rise to historic levels. Town officials warned in a Facebook post of potentially 'catastrophic flooding' as the San Juan River was forecast to crest at more than 20 feet late on Sunday night. 'To put the forecast into...

Most sapient Americans—those who are skeptical of the mainstream media—know the outrageous but largely unreported story that Bill and Hillary Clinton, with the help of Obama officials and over congressional experts’ objections, allowed Russia to gain control of 20 percent of America’s uranium supplies. What is unknown is whether the Clintons sweetened the deal for their Russian friends by engineering closure of a million federal acres of the nation’s best source of uranium. The “evidence” of such mischief is purely circumstantial, but it is disconcerting. Here is what we know, thanks to the reporting of the estimable Andrew C. McCarthy,...

Charlie Kirk lit the torch - And Andrew Kolvet and Andrew Kolvet and the gang at Turning Point USA continue to carry that torch! On Wednesday, Andrew Kolvet joined Steve Bannon on The War Room. Andrew explained how Turning Point continues to knock on doors in several states including Arizona. Charlie knew what works and Turning Point knows what works! Andrew Kolvet broke the news on The War Room that numbers for Republicans are higher today than in 2022 at this time! That is incredible news! They are making the vote too big for Katie Hobbs and Democrats to rig!...

Driving the backroads of southeastern Arizona, where scrubland stretches in every direction, Chiricahua juts out of the landscape like a geological plot twist. Part of the Sky Islands, mountain ranges spanning from southeastern Arizona to southwestern New Mexico and into northern Mexico, the Chiricahuas are home to dramatic elevation changes and rich biodiversity. “Coatimundi crossing” signs dot the roadsides, warning drivers to watch for this ring-tailed, long-snouted raccoon cousin, and even the occasional jaguar is known to prowl the region. The Chiricahua Mountains also hold cultural and historical significance as part of the ancestral homeland of the Apache. As an...

Undercover video captured canvassers aligned with Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) saying they don’t believe in asking about immigration status or actively encouraging self-identified noncitizens and felons to register and vote. All of that, of course, is completely illegal. Everyone knows that Arizona elections are incredibly corrupt. There is still a very significant Republican population in the state, and it voted for Donald Trump both in 2016 and 2024, and yet for some reason Democrats keep winning state and local offices. At a certain point we have to ask: is Democrat control of Arizona dependent entirely upon fraud? Would Katie Hobbs...

No criminal charges for Dr. Aryan Toosi, who ignored a patient's pulse and breathing, falsely declared him dead, and placed him in a freezing morgue, where he suffered severe, permanent brain damage. https://www.kbtx.com/2026/07/09/family-plans-legal-fight-after-toddler-declared-dead-later-found-alive-hospital-morgue/

WASHINGTON – Businesses that rely on the Grand Canyon and 10 of the other most popular national parks say a new $100 fee imposed this year on foreign visitors has driven down tourism. “We’re not seeing the international travelers anymore in the amount that we used to see,” said Chris Kelly, who co-owns Grand Canyon Journeys with his wife. They typically book about 10 tours per year for German-speaking visitors, he said. But through October, they had only one such group, with none scheduled for the rest of 2026. Kelly sees a correlation between the sharp decline and the spike...

Katie Hobbs volunteer steals package off someone’s porch while knocking.... 0:30 VIDEO AT LINK................. They just can't help themselves.............

An Arizona street evangelist is suing the city of Tucson and challenging an event policy barring religious speech after police officers threatened to arrest him for discussing Jesus at an annual holiday festival. David Hoffman has been evangelizing at public events for over a decade and views large public gatherings as crucial to his Christian ministry. “What we do is we share the gospel with people that are most likely never going to go into a church, and we go to events and places where there’s not already a Christian witness, and we have conversations,” he told Fox News Digital....

I recently found some interesting articles about anthrax, the domestic theory, and Hatfill that gave me some new ideas to consider. Foremostly, I found that the first comments espousing the domestic theory often arose in the context of a war on Iraq, or finishing the war, depending on how you look at it. For years the government tried to build the consensus to getting rid of Saddam. Before and immediately after 9/11 Bush made it clear he wanted to complete the job. Interestingly the first voice after 9/11 against finishing off Iraq and dissuading consideration that the anthrax was Iraqi...

(The Center Square) - Arizonans will have a chance to put a stop to their taxpayer money being spent on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On Nov. 3, Arizona residents will vote on Proposition 142, which would stop state money from funding DEI-related offices and programs. The proposition would prevent taxpayers from being forced to support race-based policies as a condition for college admission or graduation, hiring or contracting.

It’s been 17 years since the federal minimum wage was raised, though that could soon change if U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, has his way. The junior senator from the Grand Canyon State rolled out his plan to bankroll the first wage increase since 2009, with his 32-page “Saving the Middle Class and Restoring the American Dream” middle-class jobs plan coming out this week. Gallego is proposing to raise the minimum wage gradually in phases starting in 2027. By 2030, the wage would be $20 an hour. The current rate is $7.25 under the Fair Labor Standards Act. But critics...

An Arizona man's 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was imposed. In a decision released Wednesday, the Arizona Court of Appeals concluded Gabriel Paul Horcasitas must be resentenced in the 2021 shooting death of Christopher Pelkey because the AI video wasn't reliable. The court found the video crossed the line, saying it didn't reflect actual events and presented statements made in the footage as coming directly from the victim. "Indeed, rather than document an event or recording a particular moment,...

A congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped this past summer by two men while she was fixing a campaign sign. Democratic candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia says the incident occurred Aug. 14 in Sun City, a Phoenix suburb, when she was fixing the sign in the predawn hours. Greene-Placentia said she was knocked unconscious by two men, then sexually assaulted, according to a report to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office obtained by local media. Greene-Placentia is making a long-shot bid in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District to unseat GOP Rep. Abraham Hamadeh who won by 13 percentage points in 2024. The...

Hurricane Rachel took a sharp turn in the Pacific Ocean and is moving toward Southern California, with forecasters predicting it could arrive early Sunday. It is projected to weaken into a tropical storm before making landfall. “The current forecast shows it coming ashore about 100 miles south of San Diego, but the path could shift as far north as Orange County,” the New York Post reports. More from the New York Post: The National Weather Service says a large weather system moving in from the northwest will push Rachel off course. “This will cause Rachel to slow down and then...

Democrat congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia, who is running in Arizona's 8th Congressional District, says she was out fixing a campaign sign at 2 AM when she was hit in the back of the head and fell unconscious. Greene-Placentia said she awoke with her pants down and one of her attackers still assaulting her, according to an interview with the Phoenix New Times. Then, according to Greene-Placentia, her assaulter called her a "democratic b*tch, not a very good f*ck." According to USA Today, Greene-Placentia reported the assault on Aug. 31, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed, and went public with what...

It was just after 2 a.m. on a pitch-black Friday morning when Bernadette Greene-Placentia’s life changed. The Democratic candidate for Congressional District 8 strolled across a parking lot to repair a damaged campaign sign. It was a routine she’d followed all summer. This time, she only made it a few yards. An attacker smashed her over the head. She blacked out. She woke up to find a strange man on top of her. Greene-Placentia struggled to open her eyes. She felt a sharp pain below her waist. The attacker was pulling his penis out of her. She heard him mumble...

A viral video captured an Arizona college cheerleader being violently slammed to the ground and pummeled on top of a bicycle by cops after she allegedly interfered with an arrest. Arizona State University senior Eryn Bonner was hit with two misdemeanor charges last week in Tempe after a harrowing video captured cops allegedly leaving her covered in bruises during an arrest in July, according to the Tempe Police Department and ABC15. Bonner, a member of the ASU Stunt team, was seen in the early morning of July 19, reapproaching officers who were arresting another individual after being told to get...

I am a registered Republican voter, and somehow the Democrat Party and Katie Hobbs thought this would be an effective hit piece. At least they admit in the small print that this flyer telling me to "Remember my conservative values" is a product of the Democrats. It says to "Do your own research", but only sites lefty newspapers and two legislative entries... NO websites. It also describes him as an "Ultra MAGA Washington politician". It is pretty hard to paint "Ultra MAGA" and "Washington" in the same sentence. He is not loved by Thune, or the McCain wing, or by...