Winn Tucson

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.

Guests - Dennis Kneale, John Strand, Tracy Murphy

Guests - Ava Chen, Charles Heller

Guests - Jay Foard, Elijah Norton, Lisa Von Geldern Jay Foard makes the case that the youth reading crisis is a culture war problem, not just an education one — and pitches his novel Rustling of the Sycamore as a deliberate antidote built around faith, family, and critical thinking. Elijah Norton fires back at attack ads from his treasurer primary opponent by leaning entirely on his own financial track record, including a $68 million accounting discrepancy he wants to dig into if elected. And Lisa Von Geldern connects a Brazilian homeschooling family's legal troubles to a much older fight over parental rights, closing the show with the genuinely moving story of Robert Taylor, a paralyzed rugby player turned motivational speaker whose mantra — "compared to what?" — gives the whole episode its emotional landing.

Guests - Art Del Cueto, Alex Kolodin, Warren Peterson Art Del Cueto makes the case for Andy Biggs ahead of the governor's primary while warning that intra-party grudges and "RINO"-shaming are the real threat to Republican unity. Alex Kolodin breaks down the Save Act, a competing Democrat-backed ballot measure designed to confuse voters, and his unbroken win streak against Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. And Warren Peterson spends most of his segment rebutting his primary opponent's attack ads point by point, while laying out his plan to overhaul the Attorney General's office on day one.

Guests - Seth Keshel, Joel Strabala, Jay Tolkoff Seth Keshel breaks down the midterm map with data instead of doom, arguing Arizona's two competitive congressional seats and LD17's legislative races are winnable if Republicans avoid the ballot-splitting mistakes of past cycles. Joel Strabala explains why poll observers and early ballot returns matter more than most voters realize. And Jay Tolkoff digs into Tucson's budget sleight-of-hand — a "balanced budget" that's actually draining $61 million from reserves — plus TUSD's staggering staff-to-student ratio and a critical write-in campaign for a Pima County supervisor seat that hinges on just 146 signatures.

Guests - Sheriff Richard Mack, Rachel Keshel, Jack Dona Sheriff Richard Mack returns with a provocative new book co-written to influence the midterms, Representative Rachel Keshel recaps a legislative session that ended in an all-night Democrat meltdown over election integrity wins, and retired Master Sergeant Jack Dona digs into the fight over disabled veterans' tax exemptions and a contentious Attorney General primary that's already turning into a legal brawl.

Guests - Betsy Smith, Steve Mundt The thwarted attack planned around last week's UFC fight at the White House held the day's first and most urgent thread. What was publicly described as a drone threat was, in Betsy Brantner Smith's telling, far more calculated and far more sinister than initial headlines suggested. Retired Brigadier General Steven D. Mundt joined the second hour to provide the military context the first hour had been building toward. He worked in Army aviation for decades, specifically on the Apache attack helicopter platform, alongside Winn's husband — which gave the conversation a particular texture of personal investment in the outcomes being discussed.

Guests - Ava Chen, Kenneth Abramowitz, Yvette Serino The week's conversation opened with a chilling near-miss: a plot involving drones and snipers, allegedly timed around a UFC fight and reportedly intended to target an area where members of Arizona's congressional delegation and their families were in attendance. Host Kathleen Winn described learning that people she knew personally were on-site when the scheme was uncovered. "It doesn't look like it was well conceived," she said, noting that investigators had not yet tied it to a sponsoring terrorist organization or foreign government. "We're still in the but those kinds of things," she added, crediting the FBI's vigilance for the fact that nothing happened. For Ava Chen, a commentator with the New Federal State of China who joins the show weekly for its China Watch Wednesday segment, the episode's significance ran deeper than the immediate danger. She pointed to the age of those involved — some as young as 19 — as the real warning sign.

Guest Host Lisa Von Geldern with Susan Ellsworth & Ron Desouza While Kathleen Winn was in federal court arguing that the Elections Procedures Manual violates the First Amendment, her guest host for the morning had her own court to hold. Lisa Von Geldern — Arizona state coordinator for the John Birch Society, organizer of the Salt Lake City conference that had just wrapped, and a woman who moved from California to Arizona to escape overreach only to find it arriving close behind — spent two hours making the case that constitutional self-education is not a hobby. It is the only mechanism that actually works. Two guests joined to reinforce it: Susan Ellsworth, the Arizona coordinator for the John Birch Society, who walked listeners live through the Freedom Index scorecards for every Arizona congressman; and Ron DeSouza, a young Tucson entrepreneur whose grandfather was a John Birch Society chapter chairman decades ago, who drove to Salt Lake City and came back convinced that the right is finally starting to organize like it means it.

Guests - Alex Kolodin, Rodney Glassman Monday on Winn Tucson opened on rain — unusual for Tucson in mid-June — and moved into the most consequential news in Arizona electoral politics in years. The legislative session ended at four in the morning. Arizona is now the first state in the country to fully conform to the Trump tax cuts. An Arizona version of the SAVE Act will go before voters in November. And for the state Senate president running for attorney general, a law that's been on the books for 40 years may have just become the most dangerous document in the Republican primary.

Guests - Peter Churchbourne, Joel Strabala Friday on Winn Tucson opened the last weekend before ballots start dropping with two conversations that could not be more different in scale — one national, one hyper-local — and both indispensable for the moment we're in. A brand-new organization that has actually been around for 36 years announced itself to the country this week. And the man who knows Pima County's election machinery more precisely than anyone else laid out the specific vote center schedule, the Green Valley problem, the federal court date on Tuesday, and the arithmetic that makes every Republican vote count.

Guests - Terry Gilbert, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson opened with breaking news from Washington and closed with something more quietly consequential: the final installment of an eight-week series by a father who turned the worst thing that ever happened to him into the most practical warning he could offer anyone who might one day need a hospital. Between those two bookends: a portrait of a changed city that neither guest could have imagined when they first came to know it, and the specific tactics of an advocacy model that might have saved one girl's life — and could save yours.

Hosts - Kathleen Winn & Dave Smith. Guests - Ava Chen, Anthony Dunham Wednesday on Winn Tucson was a show assembled in motion. Dave Smith was holding the studio alone when the show started, Anthony Dunham was in-studio ready to talk about the LD-17 State Senate race, and Kathleen Winn was still in the air somewhere between Washington, D.C. and Tucson — having started the day before 4 a.m. She made it. By midday she was on air, back from the Presidential 1776 Award finals at the White House and steering straight into China Watch Wednesday, which arrived with intelligence about a new nuclear pressure circle being assembled around Taiwan and Japan, Chinese police deployed in South Korea's elections, and the framework that explains every seemingly isolated political event happening around the world simultaneously.

Guest Hosts - Dave and Betsy Smith.  Guests - Eileen Wilson, Steve Selvy Tuesday on Winn Tucson found the hosts in unfamiliar chairs — Dave and Betsy Brantner Smith filling in while Kathleen Winn attended the Presidential 1776 Award finals at the White House in Washington, D.C. The morning covered California's impossible election math, a Sparkle for Freedom Gala update, a Carmelo Anthony trial preloading a summer of riots, and the most personal fight either Smith could name: the attempt by three far-left outsiders to take over the town of Marana. Kathleen called in from the Hotel Washington to break news of an Apache helicopter being shot down in Iran — and to confirm the pilots survived.

Guests - Josh Jacobsen, Matt Beienburg, Stephen Mundt Monday on Winn Tucson came back from the White House with energy and kept it all the way through. Three guests, three completely different battlegrounds — all of them converging on the same diagnosis: institutions that are supposed to serve the public have been captured by people who are working against it, and the only path out is to vote people out, sue them out, or constitutionally prohibit what they're doing.

Guests - Linley Wilson, Elizabeth Weiss The last Friday of the election season's opening sprint on Winn Tucson covered three subjects that don't share a news cycle but share an underlying problem: institutions that are supposed to serve the public using their authority to serve something else instead. A county attorney who doesn't prosecute crimes suing the president. Three county governments clawing back a benefit from 100% disabled veterans after the legislature already gave it to them. And a federal law that was supposed to protect Native American artifacts being weaponized to exclude women from science, bury irreplaceable history, and empty museum collections for reasons that have more to do with money and activism than cultural preservation.

Guests - Dave Smith, Alex Kolodin, Tom Horne Thursday on Winn Tucson opened with justice being served on a man who published his own evidence and closed with a Polish-Jewish father whose love of history saved his family from the Holocaust. In between: a detailed accounting of the internecine Republican fight that is consuming time and resources during a critical election cycle, a secretary of state candidate with fresh data on Fontes's latest lies and protected voter data breach, and a Superintendent of Public Instruction who has a personal reason to believe history education is not optional.

Guests - Ava Chen, Jeff Rhodes Wednesday on Winn Tucson opened on California primary night results that surprised everyone who has been writing the state off, moved through a China Watch Wednesday segment that broke down exactly why Western sanctions against the CCP are less effective than policymakers believe, and closed with a Tucson resident whose name is a punchline about Pima County's roads — but whose campaign is entirely serious.

Guests - Richard Lyons, Jack Dona Tuesday on Winn Tucson covered the full arc from ancient civilization to modern Arizona: a historian who traces the collapse of free societies to a hundred-year-old plan inaugurated under Woodrow Wilson, a disabled veteran who opened his mailbox to find his approved property tax exemption stamped CANCELED in red, and a retired Master Sergeant who spent the second half of the show reading Rodney Glassman's military record aloud because he believes the voters deserve to know what was actually said about the man by his superior officers — not what's being said about him by his opponent.

Guests - Lisa Von Geldern, Kristen Pruett, Rick Shafton Monday, June 1st — five weeks to July 4th, three weeks until early ballots drop, and 51 days until the Arizona primary. Winn Tucson opened the week with three conversations that moved from the philosophical altitude of constitutional theory down to the ground-floor mechanics of how voters get lost in the system before they even cast a ballot. Then it closed with a political analyst who came prepared with fresh polling, a 28-point Texas blowout explanation, and a blunt autopsy of what Republican consultants are actually in it for.

Guests - Betsy Smith, Jerry Sheridan, Micheal Letts, Charles Heller The Friday before a full election season launched on Winn Tucson with a show that had a consistent theme running through every segment: what does it look like when people actually do the job they said they'd do? A sheriff who puts ICE agents in his intake. A nonprofit founder who puts vests on officers who can't afford them. An advocate who is building comic books and charter schools to put more people in uniform. And a man who has spent years gathering his neighbors around a tree at Udall Park to read the Declaration of Independence out loud, because he believes the country's spirit is won and lost one recitation at a time.

Guests - Joel Strabala, Eileen Wilson, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson moved from ground-level election machinery to a surprising internal legal victory to the sixth installment of a series that keeps finding new and uncomfortable ground to excavate. Three segments, three different scales — the precinct, the party, and the philosophical. All of it pointed toward the same thing: what are you doing with what you know?

Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith, Alex Kolodin Wednesday on Winn Tucson opened with a Texas Senate runoff result that landed like fresh oxygen and closed with the most direct case yet for why the Arizona secretary of state race is the single most consequential race in the state. In between: China Watch Wednesday delivered some of its most urgent intelligence yet — the Putin-Xi pact, Pakistan and Serbia as captured vessels, Cuba as a CCP military base 90 miles from Key West, and the philosophical argument for why America is weakening from within. Then Betsy Brantner Smith weighed in from Iowa on teen takeovers, Maryland's Glock ban, Tim Walz honoring George Floyd on Memorial Day, and the anti-ICE theater at Delaney Hall.

Guests - Arturo Del Cueto, Laurie Moore, Kelly Walker Tuesday on Winn Tucson — the first show back after Memorial Day — opened with a Border Patrol veteran who knows every corridor the cartels use, moved through a patriot and a Pima County watchdog who between them covered the Texas runoff, sign theft, and the supervisors' latest agenda, and closed with a Tucson father who was handcuffed at a public meeting, convicted on charges that the very institution behind them immediately repudiated, and who has spent five years rebuilding his family while fighting for parents across the country who were targeted for speaking out. The day's through-line: the gap between what institutions claim to be doing and what they are actually doing — on the border, in school board meetings, in the Senate, and in the Pima County government building where four supervisors vote together on things that embarrass the county and harm its residents.

Guests - Jarred Weisfeld, Mark Mix, Cheryl Caswell The last show before Memorial Day weekend on Winn Tucson covered two fights that most people never hear about until it's too late: the fight to put a security guard in every elementary school before another shooting, and the fight to protect workers who don't want their paychecks funding political agendas they never agreed to. Sandwiched between those two battles was a conversation about election integrity, Rio Nuevo, Pima County's anti-business coordination between city and county, and the voters who will decide whether Arizona turns in November.

Guests - Bruce Wolff, George Khalaf, Scott Schara The Thursday before Memorial Day weekend on Winn Tucson brought three conversations that moved from the deeply personal to the deeply structural. A missionary pilot who found faith through chaos and chaos through faith. A pollster and educator fighting to protect 103,000 Arizona children from an out-of-state money grab. And the fifth installment of a series that may be the most systematically documented indictment of the American medical-legal complex assembled by a single grieving father.

Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith Wednesday on Winn Tucson was two shows in one: China Watch Wednesday with Ava Chen unpacking the most consequential week in global geopolitics in years, followed by Smith and Winn with Betsy Brantner Smith on teen takeovers, a mosque shooting, an illegal alien on a shooting spree in Austin, and the ongoing decay that follows every city that decides law enforcement is the problem. The common thread: decisions made at the top of power structures — whether in Beijing, Sacramento, or a Travis County courthouse — cascade downward until ordinary people pay for them with their safety, their freedom, and sometimes their lives.

Guests - Ally Miller, Anthony Dunham, David Schweikert Tuesday on Winn Tucson packed three consequential conversations into two hours: a former Pima County Supervisor with sharp opinions on the attorney general's race, an LD-17 candidate introducing himself before the primary, and a sitting U.S. Congressman running for governor who brought the kind of economic precision to the conversation that most politicians avoid. The day opened on a news alert — Trump endorsed Ken Paxton — and closed on a warning from a numbers man about what happens to Arizona if conservatives don't win this November.

Guests - Neal Cornett, Alex Kolodin, David Cancio

Guests - Alex Kolodin, Laurie Moore, Jared Knott Friday on Winn Tucson closed the week the way it opened: with elections. Alex Kolodin came in fresh from a face-to-face debate with his primary opponent — the first statewide debate moment in the secretary of state race — and what he brought back from it was not just a contrast of positions but a contrast of worldviews. Laurie Moore called in from the grassroots with ground-level intelligence that confirmed everything Kolodin had been arguing. And Jared Knott — decorated combat infantry officer, author, and one of the most grounded historical analysts on the Winn Tucson rotation — gave a sober assessment of what happened in Beijing, what's coming in Iran, and why the midterms are still very much winnable.

Guests - Chad Heinrich, Betsy Smith, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson covered the full spectrum — from the practical economics of small business owners watching gas prices tick up, to the candlelight vigil that lit up Washington the night before in honor of 363 officers whose names were just added to the wall, to a father's patient, meticulous excavation of how an entire medical culture was built, over a century, to do exactly what it did to his daughter.

Guests - Ava Chen, Thomas Horne, Laurie Moore Wednesday on Winn Tucson began with a red carpet in Beijing and ended with a referral to the Arizona attorney general. In between: a sitting elected American official pleading guilty to being a Chinese Communist Party agent, a CIA whistleblower hearing that confirmed what the public was never allowed to know in 2021, a superintendent with breaking news about charter schools, and a Board of Supervisors meeting that the conservatives attended in force — at dinner time, despite the board's transparent hope that they wouldn't.

Guests - Marie Fordney, Crystal Narcho, Stephen Mundt Tuesday on Winn Tucson brought together two worlds that rarely share airtime — a conversation about the quiet, painstaking work of healing children who have been abused, and a frank geopolitical assessment of what happens when Iran demands what it cannot have and China sits down with a president who holds the stronger hand. The common thread, as always, is whether the institutions around us are actually serving the people they claim to protect.

Guests - Katie Asher, Joel Strabala, Laurie Moore, Eileen Wilson Monday on Winn Tucson opened on Mother's Day weekend and closed on the eve of a Board of Supervisors meeting that could — if the board has the courage — change the face of law enforcement in Pima County. In between: a mother's two-decade journey with a son whose motor was destroyed by vaccines but whose spirit witnesses the spiritual realm; a tribute to a man whose rare gift was intelligence joined to kindness; an accountability session on election integrity and the LD-17 candidates; and an announcement of the party that will launch the campaign season in the most patriotic possible way.

Guests - Betsy Smith, Dave Smith, Jeremy Duda, Elijah Norton

Guests - Katey McPherson, Heather Rooks, Sergio Arellano, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson was a morning that defied easy description. It was about sexual abuse in schools. It was about the institutional reflex to protect administrators over children. It was about a school board president removed for filing mandatory reports. And it was, by the end, a sustained conversation about the theological and structural roots of a culture that Kathleen Winn and her final guest agree is designed to kill — not always with weapons, but always with systems. Four guests, one moral through-line: when institutions designed to protect people systematically protect themselves instead, the burden falls on individuals willing to stand up and take the consequence. Thursday's show was full of them.

Guests - Ava Chen, Pam Furie, Joel Strabala Wednesday on Winn Tucson moved from the highest-stakes geopolitical negotiation in decades to a Treasury Department roundtable in Washington about senior financial security to the ground level of Pima County elections and a bomb threat student allowed back on his school bus. Three guests, three distinct worlds — and throughout all of it, the same recurring pattern: institutions run by people who don't serve the people they claim to represent, and the relentless effort to expose that gap before it closes permanently.

Guests - Andy Ross, John Hayworth, Joanie Hammond, Rodney Glassman Tuesday on Winn Tucson was, as Kathleen Winn noted at the close, a drug show — though not in the way that phrase usually lands. The morning connected pharmaceutical pricing to abortion medication to fentanyl deaths to the statewide race for attorney general in a chain of arguments that shared one central diagnosis: institutions that should be protecting people are profiting from their harm instead, and the people doing the protecting are working on a shoestring in converted office space three doors down from an abortionist. Four guests. A patriot musician who turned a song into a company. A six-term congressman who turned pharmaceutical reform into his final mission. A pregnancy center founder holding the line in Tucson. And a lieutenant colonel JAG attorney who wants to be Arizona's next top prosecutor.