A mariachi bands plays at the Arizona Democratic Party's election night party on Nov. 3, 2026 in Phoenix. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)It’s indeed a beautiful, sunny Blue Day in [...]
Republican Rick Jackson rallies supporters in Roswell, Georgia, last week as he campaigned for Georgia governor. This year, voters in 36 states will elect governors with at least a dozen [...]
A campaign sign outside of a Phoenix-area early voting location urging voters to remove five family court judges from the bench. (Photo by Marjorie Perry/Arizona Mirror)Nestled on Arizona ballots below [...]
The new Artichoke Credit Union is designed to support the financial needs of people with disabilities and their families. The National Disability Institute reports nearly 30% of people with disabilities [...]
Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter speaks at a Justice Department press conference in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 22, 2026. McCotter signed letters dated Oct. 29 warning state election officials [...]
People vote in the Halifax Volunteer Fire Department in Allen County, Kentucky, on Election. Day, Nov. 5, 2024. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Austin Anthony)As the Trump administration waged a public [...]
The “ballot drop” box at the Polk County Election Office in Des Moines, Iowa, on the first day of early voting, Oct. 14, 2026. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)The [...]
Incarcerated people at the Cook County Jail in Chicago cast their votes in the 2020 Illinois primary election. This year, more than a handful of states across the country have [...]
Voters mark their ballots during the first day of early voting at the Bismarck Event Center in Bismarck, North Dakota, on Oct. 22, 2026. (Photo by Jack Dura/North Dakota Monitor)WASHINGTON [...]
Dr. Navdeep Lehga sets up equipment in the exam room of a mobile clinic in Mendota, California in 2025. The percentage of working-age adults without health insurance has grown in [...]
(Getty Images)All of the indicators suggest we are on the brink of a very large Democratic victory in the 2026 election. Not only is polling consistent and increasingly strong on [...]
Justin Heap at a Young Republicans event in 2024 in Scottsdale. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)Arizona’s top election official and attorney general have dropped their lawsuit asking a judge [...]
Vicki Wanamaker, left, and Cathy Mager, right, talked in Wanamaker's Springdale, Pennsylvania, home on Oct. 19, 2026, about their opposition to a proposed hyperscale data center roughly a quarter mile [...]
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner speaks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)As Election Day approaches, top Democrats on the intelligence [...]
News crews gather outside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center for the 2024 Election in Maricopa County on Nov. 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Ariz. A special prosecutor is looking [...]
The Arizona Green Party says that gubernatorial hopeful Risa Lombardo is a "sham candidate" who is being propped up by Republicans. So far, she's spent most of her public campaign [...]
The U.S. Capitol on the evening of Sept. 30, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the [...]
Participants in a No Kings day event march toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 17, 2026. The Umbrella Walk 4 Change was one of thousands of No [...]
(Photo via iStock / Getty Images Plus)A last-minute order from a federal appeals court on Friday delayed a takeover of the state prison healthcare system. The Arizona Department of Corrections, [...]
A 7-year-old boy picks up a handgun during the 2022 National Rifle Association annual convention in Houston. Photo by Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesGun safety advocates are investing millions of [...]
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)The state’s highest court is set to determine whether the Clean Elections Commission has the power to investigate whether two Green Party candidates fraudulently obtained millions [...]
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)Proponents of Proposition 144 say that it will make Arizona’s elections faster and more secure, but critics say it’s unlikely to significantly speed up results — [...]
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)The director of the Clean Elections Commission told the Arizona Supreme Court that two Green Party candidates being investigated for campaign finance fraud are working to [...]
President Donald Trump points into the crowd after headlining a midterms rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on Oct. 5, 2026, at the Nebraska State Fairgrounds, with thousands in attendance. (Photo [...]
Urban hospitals are closing at roughly the same rate as rural ones, and the shuttered hospitals are more likely to have served communities with high poverty rates and fewer transportation [...]
An Arizona voter carries her ballot to a polling place to vote in the 2018 primary election in Phoenix. Faith leaders are urging peace at the polls and respect for [...]
Photo via FacebookThe Arizona Corporation Commission voted unanimously this week to redact parts of a public meeting, including the transcript and the video recording, to remove references to a former [...]
Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier are asking the Arizona Supreme Court to halt a Clean Elections investigation into whether they received millions of dollars in public campaign funding because of [...]
Security stands outside ICE headquarters during a Congressional Hispanic Caucus rally on Feb. 3, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of [...]
Voters head into a polling site at Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana, on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (Photo by Tom Davies/Indiana Capital Chronicle)As President Donald Trump refuses to rule out [...]
President Donald Trump speaks at the Mitchell Center at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama on Oct. 2, 2026, as he campaigns in GOP-leaning states ahead of the [...]
(Photo by Getty Images)State auditors found multiple problems with the Arizona Department of Housing’s policies and training, and found that it took the department months in some cases to notify [...]
Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller speaks outside the Arizona Senate on Jan. 12, 2026, about upcoming legislation to criminalize interference with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protesters shouted him down, [...]
(Illustration by iStock / Getty Images Plus)Democrats and clean energy advocates are hoping rising electricity bills fuel voter turnout in November and drive voters to reject the two Republicans seeking [...]
Barbed wire lines a fence outside of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, where the Trump administration is housing detained immigrants, in August in Newark, N.J. The U.S. Supreme Court will [...]
A voter takes an "I Voted" sticker at the Brackett Recreation Center in Minneapolis on Nov. 2, 2021. (Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer)A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for [...]
The Arizona Green Party says that gubernatorial hopeful Risa Lombardo is a "sham candidate" who is being propped up by Republicans. So far, she's spent most of her public campaign [...]
Axon brought a mobile tactical simulator to the Arizona Capitol on March 4, 2025, as part of its effort to back legislation that would stop a ballot referendum in Scottsdale [...]
(Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)Attorney General Kris Mayes wants an appeals court to dissolve a trial court judge’s order that blocked her from prosecuting online prediction market company Kalshi [...]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined Democrats and abortion rights advocates for a press briefing at the Arizona Capitol on April 9, 2024, shortly after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled [...]
Photo by iStock / Getty Images PlusDuring my time in the Air Force, fighter pilots were the golden boys. In combat, they were the tip of the spear. But they [...]
Dr. Heidi Overton speaks at her Senate confirmation hearing on Sept. 24, 2026 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Overton, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Food and [...]
A sign directing voters to a polling location on the Navajo Nation on July 30, 2024. (Photo by Shondiin Silversmith/Arizona Mirror)Cierra Tsosie is preparing to vote for the first time [...]
Brenda Gilliam-Miller, Dawn Jackson and her daughter, Simona Jackson, light candles to remember loved ones lost to homicide during a press conference for Arizonans for Effective Public Safety at the [...]
(Photo via iStock/Getty Images Plus)WASHINGTON — Diesel prices hit a record average of $6.51 a gallon Monday, and some in President Donald Trump’s own party are breaking their support for [...]
Rep. Andy Biggs debates with his Republican opponents in the 2026 AZ Clean Elections governor primary debate at Sneaky Big Studios in Scottsdale on June 17, 2026. Pool photo by [...]
(Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)Destroying a public record after a member of the public requests it should land government agencies in legal trouble, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today. Matthew [...]
An airplane sits on the tarmac at Mesa Gateway Airport on the evening of April 9, 2026, outside of the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, an ICE facility where detainees [...]
Federal immigration officers were at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on March 23, 2026 to help with airport security as a partial governemnt shutdown continued. (Photo by Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder)WASHINGTON [...]
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a campaign rally in Laredo, Texas, on July 14, 2026. A major elections forecaster moved the Texas Senate race, in which Talarico [...]