This article originally appeared in the Daily Independent on March 13, 2026
Every election cycle, Arizonans brace for the same familiar headlines: long lines at polling places, tabulation delays stretching late into the night, emergency court filings and national media attention focused — once again — on Maricopa County.
These problems are no longer isolated incidents, they’ve become a pattern. And regardless of party affiliation, this recurring chaos undermines confidence in our elections and weakens trust in our democratic system.
Arizona voters deserve better. We believe the Arizona Secure Elections Act offers a serious, comprehensive path forward — and it deserves broad public support.
Read full op-ed in the Daily Independent
For too long, states have taken a passive approach to immigration enforcement – deferring almost entirely to the federal government even as the consequences of illegal immigration increasingly fall on state budgets, schools, hospitals and law enforcement agencies.
In February 2024, Google’s Gemini image generator depicted the Founding Fathers as black women and generated racially diverse Nazi soldiers, while refusing to create images of white individuals. Within three weeks, Google apologized and replaced the model. Google’s ideological modifications were exposed only because they were too clumsy with basic historical fact.
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has released the following joint statement from the Education Freedom and American Dream campaigns in response to new guidance issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) concerning the Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP).
Americans are exhausted by the rising cost of living. But nowhere is the crisis hitting harder than in California, a state once synonymous with opportunity and upward mobility. Today, it has become a cautionary tale: a place where working people with good jobs still can’t afford a modest home, where insurance rates rival car payments, and where government has turned the basic act of building shelter into a regulatory marathon.
In this latest episode of The Western Front, hosts Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford Maldonado expand the scope of the hemisphere’s most urgent debates by turning north to Canada and south to Mexico — arguing that both frontiers now demand far more serious American attention.
Section 303 of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was designed to ensure that voter registration records contain basic identifying information. When an applicant has neither a driver’s license nor a Social Security number, however, the statute permits the state to assign a unique identifying number for voter registration purposes. That administrative fallback was meant to keep the registration process moving, not to substitute for substantive eligibility verification. States should clarify in law that applicants assigned a HAVA unique identifying number shall not be placed on the active voter rolls unless and until they provide documentary proof of United States citizenship.