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AZFEC: Maricopa County Primary Election Proves Prop 144 Will Speed Up Election Results

Aug 15, 2026

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | It’s pretty rare in politics to find a policy that is considered across the political spectrum as a true win, win. In the most recent primary election, Maricopa County implemented a new process that may actually be considered a...

BROOKE ROLLINS: USDA Is Reopening Our Southern Ports To Livestock

Aug 14, 2026

By U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins | Recently, I visited the port of entry in Douglas, Arizona, which has been traversed by cattle nearly 150 years. Last year alone, over 57,000 live cattle...

TIFFANY BENSON: Peoria Unified: This Is Why K-12 Communities Don’t Trust School Board Members

Aug 11, 2026

By Tiffany Benson | Anyone who can look you in the face and lie without batting an eye is a morally reckless person. I watched the KTAR interview featuring Peoria USD board members Jeff Tobey and Becky Proudfit. What should have only taken 13 minutes took me nearly...

ROB MANESS: Fauci’s Fifth Amendment Wall Cannot Shield Him From Accountability

Aug 7, 2026

By Rob Maness | On July 29, 2026, the American people watched Dr. Anthony Fauci sit before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, and refuse to answer more than 100 questions. He invoked the Fifth...

FRANK LASEE: The Democrats’ Climate Silence Is A Confession

Aug 4, 2026

By Frank Lasee | Something is missing from the Democratic Party’s 2026 message, and its absence speaks louder than any speech. Climate change, the issue party leaders once called an existential emergency, has gone quiet. Journalists even have a name for it: climate...

DAVID BLACKMON: Lawfare’s Fingerprints Are All Over National Academies’ Landmark Climate Report

Jul 31, 2026

By David Blackmon | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine just released a major report on extreme event attribution science, the increasingly trendy climate alarmism field that tries to pin specific hurricanes, heat waves, or floods...

DEBORAH WILSON: Can America Protect Itself While Drowning In Debt?

Jul 28, 2026

By Deborah Wilson | For decades, America’s national debt has been treated largely as an economic problem. Economists debate deficits, interest rates, inflation and tax policy while the problem continues to grow. Politicians argue over spending priorities while...

AZFEC: The Teachers’ Unions Hired The Worst Of The Worst To Kill School Choice In Arizona

Jul 24, 2026

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | The teachers’ unions and their allies at Save Our Schools (SOS) have proven time and time again that they will do anything to kill universal school choice in Arizona. They’ve fought expansion of the...

SERGIO ARELLANO: The Bullish Case For Biggs

Jul 22, 2026

By Sergio Arellano | The prediction markets say Katie Hobbs is a heavy favorite. The pundits agree. I've heard long odds before — I heard them in combat, and I heard them in January when I ran for Party Chair. Here's what the gamblers and pundits are missing....

DAVID BLACKMON: Socialist Candidates Want To Resurrect Green New Deal Corpse

Jul 17, 2026

By David Blackmon | Every time you think the energy policies pushed by the Democratic Party can’t possibly get any crazier, they go and fool you again. Politico’s E&E News published an article Friday with a headline that should scare the bejeebers out of anyone...

RHYEN STALEY: America’s Biggest Teachers Union Pours Even More Fuel Into Its Political Machine

Jul 14, 2026

By Rhyen Staley | The National Education Association’s (NEA) Representative Assembly (RA) just elected a Black Lives Matter Los Angeles activist and alleged member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to its executive committee. Cecily Myart-Cruz, the...

AZFEC: Another Month, Another Onslaught Of Municipal Tax And Fee Increases

Jul 9, 2026

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Arizona taxpayers can’t catch a break from their local governments. From water rates and utility bills to property taxes and sales taxes, city councils have spent the last several months approving one increase after...