Stories by LOOKOUT on what's happening at the legislature
Eligibility for the upcoming election is tied to historic farmland ownership, and excludes large portions of the Valley. Far-right political groups are seizing on that.
As immigration took center stage, a Phoenix woman’s trip to the nation’s capital spotlighted her detained partner’s declining health and broader criticisms about LGBTQ+ safety in custody.
A leaked email reveals efforts to criminalize drag performances for minors as a way to provoke Democrats.
The proposal would station ICE at early voting sites, Election Day polls and ballot drop boxes, even though Arizona and federal law strictly limits law enforcement activity at voting locations.
If you want to stop giving out your tax money, there’s a better (and legal) way to funnel dollars into programs you care about.
Republicans in a House Committee said a drag ban was to protect children. Democrats called them on their bluff.
The speaker’s removal came as genocide scholars warn that anti-trans laws mirror early warning signs — a framework GOP leaders refused to let be discussed.
Arizona lawmakers are advancing bills that regulate how trans people live, and even exist. A Tucson Holocaust museum director explains why genocide scholars find them worrying.
A marriage equality strategy Equality Arizona and ONE Community developed behind the scenes has exposed fractures within the state’s movement toward LGBTQ+ inclusion.
A long-tolerated gray-market drug popular among the youth and LGBTQ+ people could soon carry prison time in Arizona.
With vetoes from Gov. Katie Hobbs looming, some legislators are reviving old proposals that have once failed, and turning to ballot measures to push them through.
Demonstrators opposing a proposed partnership between the Pinal County Attorney’s Office and federal immigration officials drowned out a Republican press conference Monday, forcing lawmakers inside and signaling a contentious start to the legislative session.
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