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9 days before early voting begins for Arizona's primary, fighting continues in Maricopa County
12News journalist Brahm Resnik tells us the judge at today's two court hearings is looking for a last-minute solution to settle this dispute.
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9 days before early voting begins for Arizona's primary, fighting continues in Maricopa County
12News journalist Brahm Resnik tells us the judge at today's two court hearings is looking for a last-minute solution to settle this dispute.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved a key permit for Project Baccara, a controversial data center project near Surprise and Gl
By: Manuelita Beck
Posted 8:41 PM, May 06, 2026
and last updated 9:54 AM, May 07, 2026
PHOENIX — The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved a key permit Wednesday for a controversial data center project in the West Valley.
Project Baccara would put two data centers and a gas power plant on a 160-acre site in unincorporated Maricopa County off Olive Avenue and Litchfield Road near Luke Air Force Base.
What got to Bongino that he quit the FBI?
We knew 2020 was stolen
We have and had proof, then and now
And now, the ones who stole it see consequences coming, and are afraid
AAG Harmeet Dhillon claimed [gasp] that dozens! and dozens! of fraudulent votes were found. Like…1 per state.
But trump has a grudge, so Fulton and Maricopa get pounded again.
Jay Kuo with details on how they came in sideways to grab records, where it leads later.
This time, the DOJ went with some lower-hanging fruit
First came the February raid on Fulton County, Georgia, where the FBI seized millions of paper ballots and voter roll data from county election offices, with Tulsi Gabbard mysteriously lurking nearby. At the time, election experts and county election officials issued a stark warning: This was a bald attempt to subvert the democratic process and relitigate long-debunked election conspiracy claims.
Now it’s another major jurisdiction in another swing state—Maricopa County in Arizona. Yesterday, the GOP leader of the Arizona Senate, Warren Petersen, announced that on Saturday he had turned over records to the FBI relating to the 2020 presidential election. He gave no prior notice to the public of the official demand for records, which he received on Friday. Instead, he claimed, after the fact, that he was simply complying with a federal grand jury subpoena relating to a Republican-ordered audit of the vote count.
No one doubts that these events in Fulton and Maricopa counties are connected. But what do they indicate about what’s really going on, beyond the general storyline that “they’re messing with the midterms”?
The real reason, once you unpack what’s happened, is quite concerning. A code red, I’d argue. Before we get to that, let’s talk about what just occurred in Arizona.
'Not a smart man': Marc Elias slams Trump as FBI seizes Arizona 2020 election records
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Pierpont Constable Bicknell (c. 1836 – March 31, 1904) was a notable figure in Arizona’s frontier history as a prospector, mining enthusiast, newspaperman, and writer known for his colorful storytelling and pursuit of legendary lost mines. Born around 1836 in Syracuse, New York, Bicknell received a solid education in Eastern schools. He arrived in Arizona Territory around 1870, during a time of…
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Should the guy in charge of voter registration get this many things so obviously wrong?
Should the guy in charge of voter registration get this many things so obviously wrong?
Before you send something out into the wide world for all of God’s creation to read, it’s important to check it for accuracy. Justin Heap, the Republican election skeptic who keeps bumbling around as Maricopa County Recorder, has now forgotten that at least twice.
Last year, his office mistakenly sent notices to 83,000 voters, erroneously informing them that their voter registrations would be canceled. Though the screw-up started with a third-party printer, emails show that a Recorder’s Office staffer approved the mailers before they were sent. The day the mistake was revealed, Phoenix New Times previously reported, Heap was not in the office at all.
Thursday, Heap did it again. This time, he publicized a sassy letter that he’d sent to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, the Republican-led body with whom Heap has been sparring over election duties for the past year. In the letter, Heap lambasted the board’s suggestion of early voting sites for the 2026 primary elections, criticizing those sites as inequitably placed around the Valley and rejecting them in favor of his own (as yet unannounced) picks. In the process, Heap again managed to be publicly and quite embarrassingly wrong.
Attached to the letter, which Heap blasted out to the media in a press release, were a list and a map of 25 proposed early voting sites suggested by the Maricopa County Elections Department, which the supervisors oversee. The list of sites gave Heap “serious concerns,” he wrote in his letter, claiming they would make voting “inconvenient and inaccessible for a large number of Maricopa County voters.” He critiqued the sites’ “highly uneven distribution,” noting that Tempe had three proposed early voting sites while much more populous Mesa had only one.
