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Guests - Dennis Neill, Kim Adair, Jeff Rhodes, Jon Riches   Kathleen Winn is joined by Dennis Neill, Kim Adair, Jeff Rhodes and Jon Riches for a wide-ranging look at the stories shaping Southern Arizona and beyond. From Maria Bartiromo’s split with Fox and the growing battle over what the media will—or won’t—cover, to the Arizona Bowl’s expanding community mission, rising crime and spending concerns in Pima County, and a major Arizona Supreme Court fight over mandatory DEI training, this show asks a bigger question: who is accountable when powerful institutions stop listening to the people they’re supposed to serve?

Guests - Warren Petersen, Laurie Moore, Jack Dona Kathleen Winn is joined by Warren Petersen, Laurie Moore and Jack Dona for a wide-ranging look at the battles shaping Arizona’s future. From the attorney general’s race, allegations of government corruption and the rise of socialism to DEI, key ballot propositions, taxes and school spending, the conversation digs into what voters should be watching before Election Day. Then, a deeper warning: AI-powered license-plate cameras, fusion centers and surveillance technology may be making law enforcement more powerful—but at what cost to privacy and constitutional freedom?

Guests - Ava Chen, Scott Greer, Dave Smith Kathleen Winn talks with Ava Chen, Scott Greer and Dave Smith about Charlie Kirk’s legacy, the rise of democratic socialism, Chinese Communist Party influence, the future of the conservative movement, and the growing concerns over crime, public safety and accountability in America.

Guests - Dr. Andrew Fox, Jeff Utsch, Sheriff Richard Mack The American constitutional republic is locked in an escalating struggle between foundational liberty and administrative subversion. Sixty days out from a pivotal election, the challenges facing the nation are no longer mere policy disagreements; they represent a fundamental departure from moral reasoning, constitutional law, and civic sanity. From the ideological capture of corporate and religious institutions to the erasure of female athletics, and from federal weaponization down to municipal crime crises, restoring the country requires confronting uncomfortable truths with unyielding moral clarity.

Guests - Alex Kolodin, Warren Petersen, Joel Strabala, Betsy Smith Arizona is confronting an unprecedented convergence of executive lawfare, institutional corruption, and compounding crises in water governance and public safety. From undisclosed dark-money networks financing the state’s chief elections officer to the deliberate mishandling of Colorado River negotiations, the operational integrity of Arizona’s government is facing its most critical test ahead of the November election.

Guests - Dave Smith, Kelly Walker, Esteban Flores Arizona's history is defined by the struggle for water. We are a state with two vast deserts, sustained only by careful management of this critical resource. Today, that sustainability is threatened not just by nature, but by political failure at the highest levels of our state government. The upcoming 2026 ballot in Pima County is daunting, resembling a "calculus quiz" rather than a standard election document. It will feature eight statewide ballot propositions, city propositions for Tucson and Oro Valley, and multiple school board races.

Guests - Joel Strabala, Michael Pack, Alex Kolodin Arizona stands at the epicenter of the national battle for constitutional integrity, electoral confidence, and transparent governance. As the general election approaches, voters face an overwhelming slate of ballot initiatives, critical statewide and congressional races, and fundamental questions regarding the rule of law. From critical federal court decisions overhauling mail-in ballot verification to the profound moral reckonings of American foreign policy, the stakes confronting Arizona citizens reach from local county boardrooms all the way to the national stage.

Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith, Chris Burgard Across the globe and along the American border, the threats to Western constitutional sovereignty are accelerating. From Beijing’s strategic campaigns to subvert U.S. elections, to the systematic breakdown of local law enforcement and governance in Arizona, to the quiet expansion of civilization jihad in Texas, the battle for the preservation of the American republic is taking place on multiple fronts simultaneously.

Guests - Stephen Mundt, Mark Lewis, Secretary Doug Burgum Kathleen Winn's Tuesday reached the top of the federal government — a sitting cabinet secretary calling in from the road to the Grand Canyon — but it opened, as the week had, in fury over a local murder and the sheriff she blames for compounding it. Between the two came a retired general on Iran and the culture, and a water expert briefing her live before the secretary's call. The connective argument was one Winn stated plainly: that competence and the rule of law are on the ballot, and that Arizona cannot afford leaders who lack either.

Guests - Tracy Murphy, Matt Neely, Dave Smith Kathleen Winn opened the week off a birthday weekend and into a show bracketed by a single theme: accountability, and its collapse. A sheriff's candidate in Washington State described a fight to keep the office answerable to voters. Producer Matt Neely tracked the manhunt following the murder of a Tucson police recruit. And former Pima County Republican chair Dave Smith ranged from the WNBA to surveillance cameras to Minneapolis, returning each time to the argument that a society which stops enforcing consequences stops functioning. Tomorrow, Winn noted, would bring a cabinet-level guest — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum — in the show's second hour.

Guests - Julie Hartman, Spokesperson with the US Dept. of Education State Rep. Rachel Keshel Rachel Alexander, political reporter and recovering attorney   Kathleen Winn closed her week — and the eve of her birthday — with a show she framed as an education good-news week turned into an indictment of the governor. A federal Department of Education spokeswoman opened with the school-choice tools now flowing to states. An LD17 incumbent recounted being shut out of the signing of her own child-protection bill. And an Epoch Times journalist walked through the pay-to-play investigation shadowing Katie Hobbs's reelection. The connective argument, repeated to the point of a birthday wish, was that Arizona's roughly 400,000-vote Republican registration advantage means nothing without turnout.

Guests - Dave Smith, Betsy Smith The morning after a Tucson police recruit was shot to death in his own home, Kathleen Winn gave her Thursday show over to the Smiths — former Pima County Republican chair Dave Smith and, separately, National Police Association spokeswoman Betsy Brantner Smith — with producer Matt Neely filling in. What began as a tribute became a sustained argument about a county where, in the hosts' telling, crime persists because the people in charge have chosen to let it, and about a coming election they cast as the only remedy.

Guests - Ava Chen, George Khalaf, Jenny Clark Kathleen Winn's Wednesday paired the sweeping and the local: an hour on what her China Watch guest calls a decade-long foreign campaign against American elections, followed by a victory lap on a school-choice fight that ended the day before at the Arizona Supreme Court. The thread between them was the one Winn returns to every show — that the same vigilance is required whether the threat comes from Beijing or from a ballot measure, and that turnout is the answer to both. The morning also carried breaking news of a deadly shooting that underscored her closing argument about crime in Pima County.  

Guests - Scot Mussi, Juan Ciscomani, Dave Smith, Eli Crane Kathleen Winn opened Tuesday with a win: the union-backed effort to kill Arizona's school-choice program had, as of the latest count, fallen more than 10,000 valid signatures short of the ballot. From there the show built its case for the fall across four guests — the attorney who led the signature challenge, the congressman defending one of the country's most contested seats, a former county chair on a federal fight over trucking safety, and a congressman making the case for the man at the top of Arizona's ticket. The connective tissue, as always, was Winn's argument that Pima County's turnout will decide whether the state holds.

Guests - Matt Neely, Kevin Thomson Kathleen Winn opened the week with a promise she said she could keep for 25 straight days: a fresh example, each morning, of what she considers Governor Katie Hobbs's misuse of taxpayer money. From there the show turned to a colleague's forensic reading of the Pima County Attorney's own words, and closed with a sitting corporation commissioner making the case for keeping the panel in Republican hands. The thread running through all three was accountability — the argument that officials who hold powerful offices should be judged on whether they do the job, not on the ads they run.

Guests - Dave Smith, Jeff Rhodes, Laurie Moore, Alex Kolodin Kathleen Winn's Friday opened on breaking news out of a New York federal courtroom and closed on the Arizona ballot, but the week's closing argument was consistent throughout: that a culture willing to lionize a killer is the same culture producing the policies that landed Pima County near the bottom of a national campus-safety ranking — and that the only remedy left is the vote. Four guests carried it: former Pima County Republican chair Dave Smith, supervisor candidate Jeff Rhodes, returning friend of the show Laurie Moore, and Secretary of State nominee Alex Kolodin.

Guests - Nils Grevillius, Joel Strabala, Rick Shafton Fifty-some days out from Arizona's general election, Kathleen Winn framed her Thursday show around a single contention: that the Democratic Party is in the middle of a civil war with its own socialist wing, that the same fight is playing out from Wisconsin to Pima County, and that the opening it creates is Arizona Republicans' to seize — or squander. Three guests carried it: a crime expert and Army veteran on the ideology and the geopolitics behind it, the LD17 chair on the mechanics of turning out the vote, and a national political consultant on the races that will set the tone in November.

Guests - Ava Chen, Joel Strabala, Dave Smith Kathleen Winn's argument for the week was that the same force shows up in three places — the manipulation of American media, the mechanics of a Pima County ballot, and the intellectual history of a political movement — and that all three trace back to a hostility toward the American system itself. Her Wednesday show ran that thread through China Watch Wednesday with Ava Chen, the nuts and bolts of the general election with Joel Strabala, and a long conversation on socialism with former Pima County Republican chair Dave Smith.

Guests - Mark Mix, Tim Le Sota, Sine Kerr, Jay Tolkoff Kathleen Winn's Tuesday show made a habit of taking the national and running it local — Medicaid fraud in California to Arizona's own pay-to-play problems, a WNBA controversy to a ballot measure on girls' sports, a union-dues scheme to the stakes of a governor's race. Four guests carried it: the head of the nation's leading right-to-work organization, the attorney chairing the Yes on 318 campaign, Arizona's first Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, and the citizen watchdog who has become the show's recurring guide to the Pima County budget.

Guests - Grant Krueger, Betsy Smith, Elijah Norton, Joanie Hammond, Joel Strabala Kathleen Winn came into Monday's show off a weekend that captured the two halves of her season-long argument at once: a new downtown restaurant she treats as proof Tucson can be revived, and a packed Andy Biggs rally she treats as proof the state can be turned. The broadcast moved from a restaurateur to a police-association voice on women's sports, to the Republican nominee for state treasurer, to a pro-life advocate, to her elections chairman — five guests, one throughline. As Winn put it, the next few months would be spent "breaking down the real differences between the Republican Party and what is morphing into the socialism party."

Guests - Eddy Acevedo, James Rogers, Sergio Arellano, Rachel Alexander Friday's broadcast ranged from a Caribbean island a few miles off Florida to a courtroom in Maricopa County, but Kathleen Winn tied every segment to the same argument she has pressed all season: that freedom is fragile, that elections are where it is defended, and that Arizona's is now on the line. A Cuba policy expert opened with a portrait of what communism does to a country over decades. An election attorney explained the lawsuit he filed that week over Arizona's SAVE Act ballot language. The state party chairman went after the governor's running-mate rollout. And a journalist introduced voters to the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor.

Guests - Josh Jacobsen, Betsy Smith, Dr. Carol Lieberman Ninety days from Arizona's general election, Kathleen Winn devoted Thursday's show to a single argument built from three directions: that Tucson and Pima County are being run into the ground by the people in charge of them, and that the fix runs through the ballot. A crime-policy advocate laid out the local failures case by case. A national police spokesperson widened it to the state and to the federal help she says other cities have accepted. And a psychiatrist weighs in on New York's mayor.

Guests - Ava Chen, Robert Paylor Wednesday's broadcast split cleanly in two. The first hour was China Watch Wednesday, where co-host Ava Chen used a fresh New York Times report on Chinese surveillance to argue that what the mainstream press is discovering now, the whistleblower movement she belongs to documented a decade ago. The second hour set politics aside entirely for a former national-champion rugby player who broke his neck, was told he would never move his hands again, and walked out of the hospital a year later. The bridge between them was a theme Kathleen Winn returns to often: that character is revealed in the moments when everything is on the line.

Guests - Alex Kolodin, Dave Smith, Stephen Mundt A day after America First Legal sued Arizona's Secretary of State over ballot language, Kathleen Winn spent Tuesday's show connecting a single thread across three very different guests: the fight over how measures and candidates are described to voters, and what she argues is at stake if the descriptions win. The Republican nominee for Secretary of State explained the lawsuit. A former county chair turned to the sheriff, the courts, and Proposition 425. And a retired brigadier general widened the lens to Iran, the munitions supply, and the economics that, in his telling, socialism never accounts for.

Guests - Jay Tolkoff, Jack Dona  

Guests - Brenda Marts, J.L. Wittenbraker, Yvette Serino, Seth Keshel The Andy Biggs campaign opened Kathleen Winn's Friday with news: Biggs had named former state senator Sine Kerr as his running mate, making her Arizona's first Republican nominee for the newly created office of lieutenant governor. Winn described Kerr as the daughter of an Army combat veteran and a naturalized citizen from Mexico, a Buckeye dairy farmer of more than 40 years who represented Maricopa and Yuma counties in the state Senate, married 46 years to her husband Bill, with four children and 12 grandchildren in the West Valley. "Arizona is going to win big this November with Biggs and Kerr," she said, noting she had already put in an early request to get the ticket down to Pima County, and that the praise for Kerr was coming from both sides of the aisle — "already a good sign." With that, the show turned to its dominant subject: a county spending measure Winn wants voters to reject, and the ground game she says will decide whether Pima County matters in November.

Brad Thayer, Jeff Rhodes, Mark Lewis, Kelly Walker On the last Thursday of July, a day after Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before a Senate committee and repeatedly declined to answer, Kathleen Winn built her show around a single organizing idea: that the contest Arizona voters are about to enter is not ordinary politics but a fight over the country's identity. A political scientist opened the hour with a book-length argument that communism never went away. A county supervisor candidate, a 48-year party veteran, and a former Tucson coffee-shop owner turned activist filled the rest — each circling back, from a different direction, to the same claim that local elections carry national stakes.

Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith The morning Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right, Kathleen Winn built her Wednesday broadcast around a single claim she and her guests have pressed for years: that the origins of COVID-19, and the response to it, were neither accidental nor benign. The hearing supplied the hook. What followed was two hours of argument — first a sweeping account of the pandemic's origins from the movement that says it warned the world in 2017, then a blistering local turn on crime, prosecution, and the Tucson officials her second guest holds responsible. 

Guests - Daniel Butierez, Lisa Von Geldern A week past the primary, the general election came into focus around a single dynamic: two parties both trying to hold themselves together. Kathleen Winn spent Tuesday's broadcast on the Republican side of that problem and the Democratic side of it — first with a congressional challenger absorbing an early attack from his opponent without swinging back, then with a wide-ranging conversation about the COVID reckoning set to unfold the next day on Capitol Hill. Underneath both ran the argument Winn returns to every show: that turnout, not affection, decides everything, and that a party which purges its own hands seats to the other side.

Guests - Joel Strabala, Joe Finn, Jay Tolkoff The primary is certified in all but name, and Kathleen Winn spent the last Monday of July setting the table for the hundred days ahead. The message she kept circling was turnout — Pima County Republicans came in at nearly 42 percent, above the state average, while Democratic turnout collapsed to 28 — and the argument that the county long treated as a lost cause is now the state's swing. Around that spine, the show made room for a subject with no party attached: a former big-city fire commissioner making the case that the country can track an Amazon package but not a firefighter inside a burning building. And it closed on the ballot measure Winn intends to fight all fall, a Pima County spending cap she wants voters to reject.

Guests - Joel Strabala, Sergio Arellano, Steve Lance, Kelly Walker The week that Arizona held its primary ended with a number Kathleen Winn kept returning to: Pima County Republicans turned out at better than 40 percent, above the statewide average and well above the county's own history of lagging the rest of Arizona. "This is where Pima County will make the difference in these state elections," she said. The Friday broadcast moved between the granular — hand-count audits, provisional ballots, a voter turned away who shouldn't have been — and the sweeping, as a documentary filmmaker and two organizers made overlapping cases that the fight over how Americans vote is inseparable from a larger fight over what kind of country they'll live in.  

Guests - Jeff Rhodes, Dave Smith Two days after Arizona's primary, with roughly 20,000 Pima County ballots still uncounted, Kathleen Winn opened with a result nobody expected her to get: for the first time in years, Republicans have fielded a candidate in Supervisor District 5. Jeff Rhodes needed 143 write-in votes to make the November ballot. He appears to have cleared it comfortably. "The good news is in November, it'll be pre-printed on the ballot," Winn said — which means voters in a district that has effectively had no choice will have one. The rest of the morning worked outward from there: what a second conservative vote on a five-member board actually buys, why a felon with a prior aggravated assault conviction was out at two in the morning with a gun, and — with former county chair Dave Smith — the uglier question of how a party that just finished beating itself up intends to unify before October.

Guests - Ava Chen, Alex Kolodin, Jeff Rhodes, Joel Strabala, Yvette Serino The morning after Arizona's primary, Kathleen Winn opened with the scoreboard and moved quickly to the harder question: what the results mean, and what still has to be fixed before November. Andy Biggs took the Republican nomination for governor with something north of 70 percent, setting up a general election against Katie Hobbs, who had no primary opponent. "Two very different forms of leadership and government," Winn said. "Katie Hobbs is running as the candidate for all Arizonans. I would argue that Andy Biggs is that person — but they're going to have to make their case to the people of Arizona." Down the ballot, Alex Kolodin advanced to face Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a matchup Winn expects to be "one of the most contentious and interesting races that we have in the state," noting the two have met in court repeatedly with Kolodin coming out ahead. Elijah Norton won the Republican nod for state treasurer, the seat Kimberly Yee is vacating, and will face an unopposed Democratic nominee. Yee, meanwhile, appears to have defeated Tom Horne for superintendent of public instruction, setting up a race between two women — with the future of Arizona's ESA program riding on it. And Senate President Warren Petersen will take on Attorney General Kris Mayes, who Winn argued "has pretty much spent her whole four years suing Donald Trump. I don't think there's an appetite for just that." The Republican registration advantage is real, Winn said, but it doesn't help if those voters stay home — which made the rest of the morning a post-mortem on why some of them couldn't.

Guests - Lea Marquez Peterson, Cheryl Caswell, Derek Weech, Eileen Wilson It’s Election Day in Arizona! Kathleen Winn's phone started before dawn. By the time the microphones opened on primary morning in Pima County, the reports were already stacking up — the most urgent one out of Marana, where voters were being handed ballots printed on ordinary copy paper rather than the heavier stock the tabulators require. Sixty-odd calls would come in before the show ended. Against that backdrop, the morning ran on two tracks at once: the long-horizon questions of what Arizona's utilities, water, and legislature will look like for the next decade, and the immediate, unglamorous work of getting a legally cast ballot into a machine that will read it.

Guests - Betsy Smith, Greg Wrightstone, Rodney Glassman, Joel Strabala The day before Arizona's primary opened with news from 2,400 miles away: an explosion at the Manhattan federal building housing ICE, the FBI, and other federal offices. Kathleen Winn scrapped her planned opening and called the National Police Association's Betsy Brantner Smith, who traced a line from that attack to the rhetoric being used in Pima County's own races. From there, the morning ranged across a downtown Tucson mass shooting, the Canadian smoke drifting over half a continent, the science being invoked to explain it, an Air Force reflagging at Luke, the attorney general's race, and — running underneath all of it — the mechanics of getting a ballot counted before polls close Tuesday night.

Guests - Seth Keshel, Jack Dona Four days out from Arizona's primary, with the president's overnight address on election security still echoing, Kathleen Winn built her Friday broadcast around the one issue she and both of her guests treat as the foundation of everything else: whether the vote can be trusted. First a reminder for listeners caught off guard — last year's five mail-in elections left many assuming they were still on the early-ballot list when they were not. "You still can vote," Winn said. Go to a voting center today, or vote in person Tuesday. "We need your vote." From there she turned to two men who have spent years inside the mechanics of Arizona elections: a data analyst and Army veteran who forecasts vote trends, and a retired Master Sergeant who investigates election process.

Guests - Dennis Kneal, Steve Bonta, Alex Kolodin, Kristen Pruett A single number framed the entire Thursday broadcast: less than half of Americans now say they believe in capitalism. On a rainy morning in Tucson, days before Arizona's primary, host Kathleen Winn built her show around that statistic and its consequences — a country where a rising generation is drawn to socialism without understanding its costs, and a state where the mechanics of voting itself are on the ballot. Four guests worked the theme from different angles: a veteran financial journalist, an economic historian from the John Birch Society, a state legislator running for Secretary of State, and a Pima County Republican organizer. What follows is their case, in their words.

Guests - Ava Chen, Terri Jo Neff Ava Chen opens China Watch Wednesday with a four-pronged breakdown of how the CCP is targeting American elections — from ideological capture through private equity proxies, to voting machine supply chain contamination traced through Huawei-controlled Serbia, to a 2020 NFSC intelligence disclosure alleging a CCP plot to kill President Trump using COVID-19 — and closes with breaking intel on Xi Jinping's coming purge of 1,200 CCP financial system insiders who she says have been looting China with Wall Street's help. Terri Jo Neff drives up from Sierra Vista to tell the story of Aluminum Dynamics — a company that followed every rule, got every permit, had ADEQ, the EPA, and Kris Mayes's own office sign off on its project, then watched Mayes reverse course under political pressure, threaten a public nuisance lawsuit before any nuisance existed, and drive 90 jobs and a promised fire station out of Cochise County — triggering a county-level investigation into whether the Attorney General overstepped her authority that rural boards across Arizona are now watching closely.

Guests - Stephen Mundt, Joel Strabala, Rodney Glassman Retired Brigadier General Steve Mundt opens the week with a wide-ranging geopolitical briefing — honoring Lindsey Graham's legacy while assessing the diplomatic void his death leaves in Ukraine negotiations, breaking down Iran's last-stand calculus in the Strait of Hormuz, and raising an under-discussed Taiwan warning that has nothing to do with a military invasion. Joel Strabala calls in from the road on his way to observe the mobile voting center's first deployment with one urgent message: today is the last day to mail your ballot, 50,000 Republican ballots are still sitting on countertops across Pima County, and the deadline to sign up as an election day observer is tomorrow at five. And Rodney Glassman walks into the studio in person for his closing argument — 44 Kris Mayes lawsuits, nine prosecuted trials, a Trump repost from Sonny Borrelli on Flag Day, and one question he says every voter should be asking: who would you actually hire to protect your own family?

Guests - Chad Connelly, Rick Shafton, Tara Oster, Stephen Moore Chad Connelly opens the week with a firsthand portrait of Lindsey Graham — the kid who grew up above a pool hall, raised his orphaned sister while serving in the Air Force, built the relationships behind the Abraham Accords, and came home from his final meeting with Zelensky confident a path forward existed — before anyone knew it would be his last trip. Rick Shafton breaks down the South Carolina succession chess match, explains why Graham Plattner's exit torched the Democratic field on his way out, and makes the case that the era of personality politics is over — every Democrat is the same now and Republicans need to start acting like it. Stephen Moore delivers the Ukraine briefing the media isn't giving you: drone kill ratios, Russian recruitment math, the Shahed-versus-Patriot cost problem, and why Senator Graham's sudden death fits a documented pattern of Putin-linked eliminations that declassified Soviet records have confirmed go back to 1921. And Tara Oster closes with the number that should alarm every Pima County Republican — 16.6% ballot return with eleven days left and 100,000 ballots still sitting on kitchen counters across the county.    

Guest Host - Dave Smith; Guests - Kathleen Winn, Betsy Smith, Jeff Rhodes Kathleen Winn calls in from Al's birthday celebration to announce a federal court victory — Judge Liburdi has enjoined Fontes and Kris Mayes from enforcing the provision that let poll workers remove uniformed officers and military personnel from voting centers, capping a legal fight that included a Tucson cop literally turned away at the polls the day after testimony ended. Dave Smith fills the rest of the two hours with a wide-ranging indictment of learned helplessness in the Republican base, the psychology of entitlement that makes free bus rides and free housing counterproductive by design, and a closing argument that the FIFA World Cup just handed conservatives the most powerful pro-America advertisement money can't buy — if they're smart enough to use it. Betsy Brantner Smith drops in between Newsmax hits to reframe teen takeovers as what they actually are — riots — and connect a mother's stabbing death to a culture that has systematically removed consequences from young people's lives. And Jeff Rhodes makes his final write-in pitch for Pima County Supervisor District 5 with eleven days left on the clock.

Guests - Jon Riches, Joel Strabala, James Rogers, Michael Letts Graham Plattner's exit from the Maine Senate race opens the week — and Winn argues he didn't just drop out, he poisoned the well for whoever Democrats scramble to replace him with by July 27th. Jon Riches of the Goldwater Institute explains how Kris Mayes's two-year campaign to bury Arizona's ESA program in paperwork — requiring curriculum documentation for pencil purchases — finally collapsed when her legal justification turned out to be as thin as the paper she was demanding. Joel Strabala delivers the final ballot deadline alert with a paid ballot-chasing opportunity attached. James Rogers breaks down the Arizona Supreme Court's total victory for Justin Heap, reveals that Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell was filing amicus briefs against the recorder she was supposed to represent, and announces his own LD10 candidacy as the legislature's next election law expert. And Michael Letts closes the week with a sobering intelligence briefing on teen takeovers, coordinated criminal networks, a black market weapons pipeline traced back to Ukraine aid, and the endgame he says is already in motion.  

Guests - Andy Biggs, Ava Chen, Alex Kolodin, Laurie Moore Andy Biggs calls in with a strong poll and a simple message: don't celebrate before you cross the finish line — there are two weeks left and Katie Hobbs has nothing to run on except a record she's actively trying to hide. Ava Chen delivers a three-part China Watch update: why Miles Guo is refusing a pardon and fighting for full exoneration in the Second Circuit, how Hunter Biden's own social media post inadvertently confirmed the political persecution theory, and new NFSC intelligence warning of a 50% probability that Russia deploys biochemical weapons as part of CCP-backed hybrid warfare. Alex Kolodin breaks down the Arizona Supreme Court's total victory for Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap — and explains why the ruling changes the legal landscape for all 15 Arizona counties heading into November. And Laurie Moore calls in from Delaware, where she already voted and mailed her ballot back before some Sahuarita residents received theirs.

Guests - Anthony Dunham, Jeff Rhodes, Gilda Carle, Elijah Norton, Joel Strabala, Rick Shafton Anthony Dunham brings a retired judge on the record to call his opponent's child abuse mailers categorically false — and names the reporter who was told the same thing months before the hit piece went out. Jeff Rhodes breaks down the write-in mechanics for Supervisor District 5 and explains why getting one more Republican on the board matters even without flipping the majority. Dr. Gilda Carle makes the case that young women have been deliberately radicalized against family formation — and finds unlikely hope in Taylor Swift's decision to get married. Elijah Norton reports debate straw poll results of 68-to-4 and argues the treasurer's race never should have been a primary. Joel Strabala opens a listener hotline and collects a cascade of ballot irregularities in real time. And Rick Shafton closes the week with a tactical blueprint for how Arizona Republicans should handle every Democratic opponent in November — regardless of how moderate they claim to be.  

Guests - Joel Strabala, Betsy Smith, Charles Heller, Dave Smith. Gary Benoit Joel Strabala opens the week with a ballot emergency alert — thousands of voters purged from rolls, Green Valley stripped of 10 polling places while the mobile voting center skips right past it, and a July 10th deadline to fix registration problems before it's too late. Betsy Brantner Smith returns from vacation to cover the Charlie Kirk murder preliminary hearing, a violent teen takeover in Raleigh that left nine people shot, and a Tucson Police Department memo ordering officers to disarm before voting — a policy she says her law enforcement contacts across the country simply can't believe is real. Charles Heller recaps the 21st annual Declaration reading at Udall Park and makes the case for turning it into a replicable national tradition. Dave Smith connects socialism's rise to a culture of envy, a media blackout, and Republicans who don't read enough. And Gary Benoit closes with a Cato Institute poll that should alarm everyone: 46% of Americans — and 61% of Gen Z — don't know what the nation's 250th anniversary even commemorates.

Guests - Rodney Glassman, Joel Strabala, Edward Bartlett Rodney Glassman makes his closing argument for the AG primary — centering on prosecutorial experience, a day-one plan to withdraw Arizona from all 42 of Kris Mayes's lawsuits, and a warning that a sloppily written legislative resolution may accidentally kill the election-integrity measure Republicans worked years to get on the November ballot. Joel Strabala walks through every ballot deadline, drop box location, and observer slot still open heading into the final three weeks of the primary. And Edward Bartlett closes out the week with a data-driven challenge to feminist ideology — citing CDC domestic violence statistics, a stunning Pew mental health survey, and a fertility rate that's quietly closing schools across the country — while Winn connects it all to the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the fragile momentum of young men finding their way back to traditional values.

Guests - Ava Chen, Thomas Horne, Juan Ciscomani Ava Chen delivers a gripping firsthand account from inside the Southern District of New York courtroom where Miles Guo was sentenced to 30 years — describing a man who arrived bleeding, dehydrated, and barely standing after a morning medical crisis at MDC, then rose to correct the prosecution's record on the stand and walked out still encouraging his movement not to give up. Tom Horne breaks down his solo legal fight that led to the Supreme Court's transgender sports ruling, makes the case for ESA at 111,000 students and counting, and explains why he'd throw a party if the Department of Education is eliminated. And Congressman Juan Ciscomani lays out the reconciliation-or-bust path for the federal SAVE Act, while drawing a sharp contrast with a general election opponent whose own stated positions, he says, should disqualify her from representing southern Arizona in Congress.

Guests - Alex Kolodin, Dan Butierez, Eileen Wilson, Michael Letts, Jeff Rhodes Alex Kolodin delivers his closing argument to Arizona voters as ballots hit mailboxes — and breaks down exactly why Fontes's new directive barring armed officers from the polls is both legally baseless and deliberately targeted. Daniel Gutierrez explains why his name isn't on anyone's primary ballot yet, and why CD7 is nothing like New York City. Eileen Wilson reports from the Green Valley ground game and previews the Fourth of July Gala. Michael Letts lays out a five-step national strategy to disarm and defund law enforcement — and warns of credible foreign-linked terror chatter heading into the holiday weekend. And Jeff Rhodes makes the write-in case for Pima County Supervisor District 5, where spelling his name correctly on your ballot this November could change the direction of the entire county.

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Guests - Ava Chen, Charles Heller