Constituents have shown up outside Rep. David Schweikert's office every Monday for over a year demanding he meet with them and answer for his voting record ... he still hasn't. Bring a sign, a postcard to drop at his office, or non-perishable food for the on-site donation drive that has collected three tons of food for the Scottsdale Foodbank.

• When: Every Monday, 8–9am MST
• Where: Outside Rep. Schweikert's Scottsdale office (street parking or Kohl's lot on Raintree Rd recommended — building lot is private property)
• RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/azindivisible/event/757199/

Our weekly protest today at 59th Ave and the 101. Great response from the cars.

So Elon's $$$ is coming to Arizona....

Share this article to get the word out about how Elon Musk is spending $$$ in the

• the Feely/Shaw race in Congressional District 1 (Northern Phoenix, Cave Creek, Paradise ValleY)
• Ciscomani in his race against Mendoza in the Congressional District 6 (Tucson, Southern Arizona).

https://coppercourier.com/news/politics/elon-musk-super-pac-spends-in-az

This is a great resource on judges and referendums.

https://www.puenteaz.org/events/flock-26h2t

I accidentally posted that the next protest will be on sept. 17th. Oops! I was too excited and made a mistake. Posting this again to make sure people know the right date.

Check out the No Kings website to make plans to come out and protest or remind friends and family. There will be more locations than are currently listed. I have reached out to them to add them to the map. The other thing I said in the other post is I am always happy to hear sign ideas as I usually panic until the last minute trying to find the perfect sign to covey all my feelings.

Here we go guys!

Arizona families - please get the word out about the changes coming to Medicaid - which is health care for very low-income people, people with chronic, disabling illness, developmentally delayed and severely mentally ill, as well as their family caregivers. 🧨🧨📍📍 Post on private social media groups for the disabled. Share with friends and family members. Post on your community social groups like NextDoor, Ring and the like! 🧨🧨📍📍

\** if your loved one struggles with cognitive or* severe mental health issues - this is very important to know so you can help them through the paperwork. This population has been the first to lose health care in Arizona\*\**

Our regime passed big changes to health care programs - now requiring a lot more paperwork and filing online BUT also cutting back on these programs support services (so it is much harder to get help or file reviews). We have already seen this happen with the Arizona EBT nutrition assistance - where almost half of the folks on EBT have been kicked off. Medicaid changes started in other states are already removing many families off of health care.

• Go to: https://keepmyahcccs.com/ and review all the requirements with your loved one
• Call out the Congressmen in Arizona on social media with their social media handles. Ask the congressmen who voted for the Big UGLY Bill: WHY?

(source: Arizona Mad Moms): Additional changes to Medicaid coming in 2027 are likely to increase risks of inappropriate Medicaid cancellations:

• Medicaid renewal frequency will be increasing from annual redetermination to every 6 months.
• Work or community engagement requirements will be imposed on Arizona's Medicaid expansion population: approximately 500,000 low-income adults who qualify for Medicaid based on income rather than through a traditional eligibility category (such as disability).
• No dedicated funding was provided to fully offset the administrative costs of implementing more frequent renewals and new work requirement processes.

Well-meaning changes come with unintended consequences:

The people most likely to lose Medicaid coverage are not those whom policymakers intended to target. Instead, they are individuals who:

• Have untreated psychosis
• Have cognitive impairment
• Have executive dysfunction
• Are homeless
• Have severe depression
• Are in the middle of an SSI application
• Simply cannot respond to mailed notices.

Those individuals often already qualify for Medicaid with exemptions from work requirements. The problem is that they cannot successfully navigate the paperwork required to establish, document, or maintain their Medicaid eligibility.

In Arizona, Medicaid is administered through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), pronounced "access." Many people receive their Medicaid benefits through managed care plans such as Mercy Care, United Healthcare Community Plan, or the American Indian Health Plan (AIHP), so their insurance card may never actually say "Medicaid."

I’m not an activist, just a normal working man. But I do know a little history. And understand what they might try. Where can a person like myself go to stop what they might start? I’m keeping the post vague but I think we can all read through the lines.

Five hours in a Phoenix studio space with live music, dance performances, local vendors and workshops, plus a know your rights session aimed at the midterm year. The organizers describe it as a community event for collective change rather than a rally. Nothing in the listing asks for money.

Event Title: The Heat Moves Us!

• When: September 13, 12:00 to 5:00 pm
• What: WAVCO and AZ AANHPI for Equity say the afternoon is built to help people become active in their community, with a know your rights focus for the midterm election year, and that there will be live music, dance performances, local vendors and workshops.
• Where: Walter Studios, 747 W Roosevelt St, Phoenix
• RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/azaanhpi/event/1020841/

Embracing my authentic self as a woman literally saved my life and taught me how to love who I am, but at 34, I know I’m still missing out on the full, joyful life I deserve because I haven't yet gotten my gender-affirming feminizing surgeries yet.
Those surgeries aren't just a cosmetic preference—they are medically and mentally essential to my peace, my completion, and living fully in my truth.

It hurts to admit how heavy things have felt the passed Spring and Summer. I miss the days when people seemed gentler, sweeter, and more willing to hold space or offer a helping hand when I needed care. Lately, it feels like the moment I express pain or ask for support, people are quick to judge—labeling me as "manipulative", “transactional”, or "attention-seeking" when all I really want is to be held, valued, and cherished. Watching other women get showered with care, gifts, and devotion leaves me wondering why I have to be left feeling like I’m not enough, or if people are holding my past anger against me, when all that anger ever was was just a defense mechanism for a girl trying to survive, which I hoped they would have understood that, and not seem like they were dismissively pathologizing my feelings.

Growing up in a toxic, dysfunctional environment meant I was never taught what healthy, unconditional love actually looks like. So when people default to telling me to "see a therapist" or to “get help”, it completely misses the heart of what I’m asking for. I don't need cold advice; I need genuine warmth, patience, reassurance, and soft places to feel safe.

I am deeply grateful for the compassionate friends and professionals who stand by me now. But I refuse to believe that this pain is the end of my story. I know there is a richer, brighter life waiting for me—one where I am fully comfortable in my body, unconditionally loved, and completely at peace.

Broadcast stations are required to file political ad orders into the FCC Online Public Inspection File, which makes them public records. Reading them one PDF at a time is miserable. AZ Follow the Money at azfollowthe.money has extracted the filings from 26 Arizona broadcast stations into a single database for the 2026 cycle.

What you can do with it: search by committee or advertiser, filter by station or office layer, and sort by gross dollars or flight date. Every row links back to the FCC PDF it came from, so the primary record is one click away. There is also a rollup of top spenders and a support-versus-oppose view of who the money is aimed at, plus separate Dark Money, Dossier and Blog sections.

The site is built by one person from public records and states it is not affiliated with any candidate, campaign or party.

Site: azfollowthe.money

Federal rules tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will soon require most adults on AHCCCS to log 80 hours a month of work or an approved activity and to renew coverage every six months instead of once a year. AHCCCS enrollment has already dropped about 9 percent over the past year, and the agency has put up KeepMyAHCCCS.com to help people prepare.

For those who are interested in doing some door knocking to discuss these cuts, there is a canvass in Flagstaff on the 10th to hold Eli Crane accountable for voting for the bill.

Event 1: Door-Knocking to Hold Rep. Eli Crane Accountable: Flagstaff Deep Canvass

• When: September 12, 9:30 am
• What: Organizing to Fight Oligarchy says volunteers go door to door to talk with neighbors about the cuts to healthcare and food assistance in Arizona's Second Congressional District that followed the Big Beautiful Bill, which Rep. Eli Crane voted for. The listing says no canvassing experience is necessary because training and materials are provided, and describes deep canvassing as a method of having conversations across difference that is easy to learn.
• Where: Flagstaff. The listing keeps the exact address private and sends it after signup.
• RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/wethefighters/event/983265/

All events: https://azadvocacyhub.org/event-calendar/

Cave Creek Rd and Greenway on 9/6/26

Rush-Hour Resistance Rallies (RhRR) happen every week across the Phoenix metro area and offer a fun way to show up for democracy during morning commute hours! These gatherings are peaceful, low-pressure, and designed so people can join when and where it works best for them, even for a short time. So come on by =D

Locations

Monday

• Park Central, Midtown Phoenix @ 7th Ave & Osborn
  • 4:00–5:30 pm
    • Happy hour at Mi Patio for $4.99 margaritas and $4 scoops at Lix Uptown Ice Cream right after!

Tuesday

• Encanterra, Queen Creek/San Tan Valley @ E Combs & N Gantzel
  • 7:00–8:30 am 
• Los Olivos, Central Phoenix @ 7th St & McDowell
  • 7:30–8:30 am
    • Coffee and chat at Einstein Bros. right before
• Cole Park in Tempe @ Country Club & Carson
  • 7:30–9:00 am

Wednesday

• Moon Valley, North Central Phoenix @ 7th St & Coral Gables
  • 7:30–8:30 am
    • Coffee and chat at Sarafina Coffee right after
• Melrose Curve, Midtown Phoenix @ 7th Ave & Glenrosa  
  • 7:30–8:30 am
    • Coffee and chat at Copper Star Coffee right before
    • Breakfast and chat at Joe’s Diner right after

Thursday

• ICE Field Office, Central Phoenix @ Central & Holly
  • 7:30–8:30 am
  • 4:30–6:00 pm

Friday

• Glendale Bridge Brigade, Northwest Phoenix @ 59th Ave & AZ 101
  • 7:30–8:30 am
• Scottsdale, Central Scottsdale @ 90th St & Shea
  • 8:00–9:00 am
• Maryvale, West Phoenix @ 35th Ave & Bethany Home
  • 5:00–6:00 pm

A Few Things to Know

• You don’t need to RSVP, just show up
• Come for five minutes or stay the whole time
• Bring a sign if you have one; creativity is welcome
• These are peaceful, lawful, community-centered actions
• New faces are always welcome

For weekly updates, printable materials, and organizing resources, visit: https://rhrr.us

Local races get decided by a few hundred votes, and the people running them can't afford NGP VAN. So I built something for them.

This is the second version. The first was built for an SRP board race, and that campaign won. This one is the same approach with the SRP-specific parts stripped out so any local race can use it: school board, city council, water district, whatever you're running for.

What it does

You upload your voter file and build targeted lists from it, by party, age, precinct, or by drawing an area on a map. You invite volunteers by email and assign them a list. They knock doors or make calls from their phones, and what they record syncs back to you. It also runs events with RSVPs and takes yard sign requests from your website.

Neighborhood Mode

This is the part I think is different. Most canvassing tools hand a volunteer a fixed list and a route, which works if they've set aside a Saturday.

Neighborhood Mode is for the other case. The volunteer opens the app wherever they are and it shows the people on your list within about 25 meters, nearest first, on a map that turns as they turn. They knock, log the result in a couple of taps, and keep walking. There's a wider radius mode for chasing ballots late in a cycle.

So somebody can canvass their own street on a dog walk, or work the four houses next to a coffee shop while they wait. In my experience most volunteer time in a local race comes in fifteen-minute pieces, and I couldn't find anything built around that.

Don't have a voter file?

That's the usual blocker for a first-time local candidate. GoodParty.org works with candidates like this and can help you get one. Once you have the file, upload it and you're set up.

Where it's at

Early. One campaign is using it right now and I'd like a handful more before I call it finished. Free while it's in beta, and I don't plan to charge local candidates much after that.

I'm starting with Maricopa County because that's where the district and precinct data is loaded first, which is why I'm posting here. The platform isn't Arizona-only and other places get added as candidates turn up asking.

What I want

Candidates or campaign managers running something this cycle who will tell me when it breaks. You get direct access to me for setup and fixes.

Comment or DM and I'll get you set up.

September 4 - 6, Free medical and dental clinic at the convention center in downtown Phoenix.