Eric Chalmers 🇺🇸🇺🇦

"Definitely solid". Political strategist. Tempe raised and PHX resident. Opinions my own.

[Eric Chalmers 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @EricChalms]

THEY STOLE BALLOTS.

[Thomas Galvin: Maricopa County Brd of Supervisors @ThomasGalvin]

HR investigation concluded an employee for Recorder @AZJustinHeap took ballot envelopes while the Tempe election was underway. FOLKS…

[Nick Mansour for Arizona @MansourforAZ]

Spent a great evening with community members in Rimrock, Arizona, hearing directly from voters and discussing the importance of protecting Arizona taxpayers hard-earned money. Arizona deserves a State Treasurer with decades of real world experience they can trust.

[Kris Mayes @krismayes]

Being Arizona's AG means one thing to me: fighting for you. Every single day.

We've locked up drug smugglers, held corporations accountable, and taken on anyone who hurts Arizonans. And as the world's biggest tournament begins, I'm proud to be playing for the home team.

[Eric Chalmers 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @EricChalms]

This is a really important interview and I’m glad @RepODLS did it. The far right attempts to own the lane of faith but so many great people I know are motivated and inspired by their faith to do the work we do. More of us need to talk about it openly.

[Rep. Oscar De Los Santos @RepODLS]

I rarely talk about the impact my faith has on my public service. But I sat down with @kjzzphoenix to talk about how my religious convictions shape the work I do at the Capitol. Read more ⬇️

https://t.co/LmRp5vWUNu

[Sen. Analise Ortiz (@senanaliseortiz.bsky.social) @SenAnaliseOrtiz]

Since he deleted the tweet like a coward, here’s Rep. Nick Kupper, who likes to front like he’s a kind person who cares about bipartisanship, being an absolute asshole to his colleague, a mother of a newborn who’s bravely shared her abortion story in the past.

[Eric Chalmers 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @EricChalms]

Shameful decision.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

US Supreme Court allows Alabama to adopt new 6R-1D congressional map

[JOE DANA @JoeDanaReports]

1/3 In his own words: Longtime Superintendent Curtis Finch has become a loud critic of AZ legislative leadership. Finch told our @CraigHarrisNews tax $$ is wasted as ESA parents write ChatGPT curriculums, spend unused ESA money on college, and buy pricey instruments for just one

[Kris Mayes @krismayes]

Actually— President Trump named my team the #1 health care fraud prosecutors in the country last year for our sober living fraud crackdown: https://t.co/udYFzOzFEx

[Eric Chalmers 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @EricChalms]

This is a man who definitely still has his fastball.

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV quotes J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

(Photo: Vatican Media)

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

NYT out with a jaw dropping investigative report on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on some of this, too. The NYT report is a must-read, the 60 Minutes report should then be watched. 1/3

[AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @AZAGMayes]

Justin Heap is wrong about drop boxes. He should immediately work with the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in good faith to ensure a well run election.

Full letter:

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

[Laura Gersony @lauragersony]

INVESTIGATION. Women say Mark Lamb used threats to suppress sexting, nude pics. With @robertanglen for @azcentral. Part 1 out this morning:

https://t.co/epj0pLaWiK

[Eric Chalmers 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @EricChalms]

At this rate the U.S. isn’t going to have a first round pick until 3000

[John Bresnahan @bresreports]

3,700 trades by a sitting president

[Eric Chalmers 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @EricChalms]

Ummm what? This is theft.

[Katherine Faulders @KFaulders]

NEWS -- President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources tell me @PCCharalambous @alex_mallin https://t.co/tuEUDtJvks

[Habib Obi @ObiSun]

@AZAGMayes Mayes doesn't hold back on @CarineWerner 's claims last night

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Reporter: “To what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal? [with Iran]”

Trump: “Not even a little bit…. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation”

[Charlie Martin @MartinCharlieAZ]

Rep. Willoughby is blocking millions of dollars in funding for Chandler district and charter schools, as well as funding increases for special education ESA students, to protect private school subsidies for families that make over $250,000 per year.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New newsletter: MODERN FATHERHOOD WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE TO A 1950'S DAD

Compared to their Boomer parents, childcare time among Millennial dads has more than doubled.

Compared to their Silent Generation grandparents, it’s nearly quadrupled.

You will be hard-pressed to find any part of day-to-day modern life that has changed more in the last half-century than the way today’s parents—and fathers, in particular—spend their time.

The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life. What's behind this half-century transformation? Today's piece combines history, economic analysis, and gorgeous charts galore from @AzizSunderji