Arizona 
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SOURCE: NBC News
11/1/2022
Arizona Court: Armed Poll Watchers are Engaged in Free Speech, Not Voter Intimidation
by Rick Hasen
Standing around a ballot drop box wearing tactical gear and carrying a semiautomatic weapon is clearly an act of voter intimidation, says a leading scholar of voting rights.
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SOURCE: Dame
3/14/2022
How Disinformation Powers Vigilantism
Right wing misinformation has linked the nation's borders with race war discourse that encourages vigilantism, according to historian Carly Goodman.
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SOURCE: KJZZ
10/26/2020
Arizona Education Board Votes To Require Students Learn About The Holocaust, Other Genocides
Esther Basch, a Holocaust survivor, and her daughter Rachel Basch Turet told the board that many of the people they speak with know about World War II, but have no idea of "the extent of horrors that happened to the Jews in Europe.”
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SOURCE: AzCentral
9/13/2020
Arizona has Suppressed Black, Latino and Native American Voters for More than a Century
From its territorial days to the present, Arizona has a history of suppressing votes which came back with a vengeance after the 2013 Supreme Court decision crippled the Voting Rights Act.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/16/2020
When Arizona Elected a Mexican Immigrant Governor
Border Patrol agents once ordered an elderly Hispanic man out of his vehicle and requested his identity papers, which showed that he was a Mexican-born immigrant named Raúl H. Castro. Turns out he was Arizona’s former governor.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
12/4/19
Trump’s border wall threatens an Arizona oasis with a long, diverse history
by Jared Orsi
Heavy machinery grinds up the earth and removes vegetation as construction of President Trump’s vaunted border wall advances toward the oasis.
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SOURCE: AZcentral
4-22-14
Arizona Historical Society soon could be history
"I'm on their side," Griffin, R-Hereford, told me. "The issues that were brought up were serious concerns. I just want to make sure those concerns are taken care of."
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3-3-14
Even If Arizona Made Its Anti-Gay Bill Law, It Wouldn't Have Mattered -- It Would Have Been Unconstitutional
by John A. Kirk
It's *so* unconstitutional it's laughable -- these issues were supposed to be settled fifty years ago.
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SOURCE: Arizona Republic
2-14-13
Change Blossoming in the "Age of Obama"
by Matthew C. Whitaker
Blackness, as personified by the Obama family, embodies the type of hybridity that defines all Americans.
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SOURCE: KTAR (AZ)
2-19-13
Frank Lloyd Wright homes saved
PHOENIX -- The buildings stretch from 11th Avenue to 52nd Street and include five homes and one church all designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and all are part of a new plan by the Phoenix Historic Preservation Commission.The proposed plan, which would cost $1.2 million, was created after a home Wright designed for his son in the Arcadia area narrowly escaped demolition. A developer bought the land and planned to tear down the 2,500 square foot concrete house and build two new houses in its place....
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