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OPINION: Make Arizona Sovereign Again

For too long, state sovereignty has been under direct attack from the federal government overstepping its Constitutional boundaries.

By Lisa Fink | Feb 20, 2025

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OPINION: Prop 312 victory! Relief is here for Arizonans paying the price for homeless crisis

Arizona voters have overwhelmingly approved Prop 312 at the ballot box, meaning relief is finally on the way for Arizonans hurt by government’s failure to address the state’s rampant homelessness crisis. Designed by the Goldwater Institute, this first-in-the-nation reform compensates Arizonans whose livelihoods are being destroyed as municipalities refuse to enforce the law.

By Goldwater Institute | Nov 7, 2024

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OPINION: Taxpayer-funded wine tastings? AZ school leaders splurge for DEI conference

By Fiona Baum, Goldwater Institute | Aug 6, 2024

Who wouldn’t want to spend a few days at a five-star resort and spa in California wine country leisurely enjoying wine-tasting parties at Napa Valley wineries and sampling five-star cuisine? Better yet, who wouldn’t want to take that trip without needing to pay for it or take time off work?

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OPINION: AZ Gov. Hobbs’ Bizarre Attack on ESA Families

By Matt Beienburg | Jan 3, 2024

Today, 70,000 Arizona children are finally getting the education they deserve through the state’s universal Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program, the most expansive program of its kind in the nation. But instead of celebrating those students’ success, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is launching a direct attack on their families and the beginning of a government takeover of private and home-based education.

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OPINION: Congresswoman Tlaib’s extremist, antisemitic views are not welcome in the State of Arizona

By Arizona State Representatives Michael Carbone (R-25), Alma Hernandez (D-20), Alexander Kolodin (R-3), and Consuelo Hernandez (D-21) | Nov 16, 2023

A bipartisan group of Arizona state lawmakers are responding to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a radical anti-Israel organization, for hosting Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus this Friday, November 17.

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OPINION: Arizona ranks 1st in education choice in back-to-back years

By Mark Habelt, Ronald Reagan Fellow, The Goldwater Institute | Nov 13, 2023

Arizona is leading the nation in freeing families from a failing public education system thanks to the Goldwater Institute’s work.

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OP-ED: Lawmakers Must Put a Stop to Any Bans on Gas Stoves

By Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Apr 4, 2023

We’re just over two years into President Biden’s presidency, and it appears the push for the Green New Deal is in full swing. They’re coming for your money. They’re coming for your cars. And now, yes, they are indeed coming for your gas stoves.

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Democrats cried wolf over Election Day violence

By Marc Ellinger | Jan 19, 2023

For months leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, Democrats sounded the alarm that there would be violence from Republicans on Election Day.

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VRF's Swoboda on Arizona voting initiative: The elections process 'will be changed in profound ways, none for the better'

By Andy Nghiem | Jul 27, 2022

An Arizona ballot initiative that Voter Reference Foundation claims is "misnamed" is set to greatly alter the election process for the worse.

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Inflation disproportionately affects 'Black Americans' in Arizona

By Andy Nghiem | Jul 23, 2022

Using data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, DaQuawn Bruce, an opinion contributor for USA Today, recently made the argument that high rates of inflation caused by President Joe Biden and the Democrats disproportionately affect people of color in Arizona and across the nation.

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The killer reform our elections need

By Doug Truax | Jan 31, 2022

What if you could go online, anytime, and find out exactly who is eligible to vote in the next election? A new person registers, the name appears. A person dies or moves, the name is removed. All in real time.

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OPINION: Latinos will play a key role in rebuilding the US economy after COVID-19 is defeated

By Tatiana Peña | Nov 1, 2020

The Latino community is not alone in its fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic — the White House is working hard to ensure that Hispanic workers and entrepreneurs get all the support they need to make it through this crisis.

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OPINION: Anonymous Shell Company Loophole Allows Criminals to Hide from the Law

By Eric O'Neill | Mar 19, 2020

When sophisticated criminal enterprises like drug cartels, human traffickers, and internationally sanctioned countries, such as Iran, want to hide their illicit activities from law enforcement behind anonymous shell companies, the law in the United States allows them to do so.

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Opinion: Arizona’s Modern Economy Needs USMCA

By Michael Beckerman, Internet Association President & CEO | Oct 23, 2019

Every business in Arizona is an internet business. Whether it’s a bioscience startup in Tempe or a brewery in Flagstaff, companies of all sizes now use the internet to grow, advertise, and reach new customers from Tucson to Nogales.