I’m seeing a lot of lefties talking about a failure to appeal to the working class but I think we should be more specific about some of the tensions embedded in this conversation, and I’m going to start with one of Biden’s signature policies - the expanded child tax credit /1

Why did Latinos shift toward the GOP? No one has covered the issue better since 2020, and is less surprised, than Jack Herrera. Read him on what happened in Texas and nationally: texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

If you don't remember, Tom Homan was the intellectual “father” of the idea to separate migrant families as a deterrent & served as acting ICE director through the end of Zero Tolerance. Time to revisit @itscaitlinhd's paramount investigation The Atlantic theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Free pizza, free convos with AZLuminaria staff. Come get to know your favorite local news crew at motosonora brewery in Tucson this Wednesday. eventbrite.com/e/pizza-commun…

Dems, Greens & Local News: An AZ race suggests thousands of voters couldn’t distinguish between the two parties, voted Green instead. It’s unclear if those voters knew Green candidate Athena Eastwood appears to be a MAGA conspiracist. Only one news outlet ever wrote about her.

AZLuminaria Athena Eastwood There should be more attention on this race. Thank goodness for AZLuminaria, which has a diverse staff and follows important local stories that have serious national significance, even for those of us who live elsewhere. I donated today. You should too: azluminaria.org/membership/

Sheriff-Elect Jerry Sheridan will conduct investigation into jail deaths following azcentral report finding "astronomical" mortality rate in Maricopa County Jails azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Haven’t seen a story about how mixed-status families are navigating this moment. None of the strategizing, the denial, or the joking. This limbo that always exists is now closing. There will be a before and an after to mass deportations. Reporters are missing half of it now.

Here are some readings that need to be at the top of your reading lists, in order to understand how the past--even though there's no straight line between then and now--helps us think about where we might be going:

I am humbled and grateful to be recognized by the Arizona Press Club for our azcentral reporting on the forced induction of pregnant prisoners in Arizona prisons. We believed incarcerated people, published their stories, and the state ended the practice. azpressclub.org/2024/11/19/202…

NEW: former Favorite Healthcare Staffing contractors in Chicago's migrant shelters allege that the company systematically mishandled sensitive data of shelter residents Read more from Katrina Pham and me: borderlessmag.org/2024/11/21/fav…

Demolitions are coming for these old motels after two quick votes by the Pima Community College board. They spared the neon signs. azluminaria.org/2024/11/22/the…

The NYC murder you're not talking about: "A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed & another male teenager was injured in Lower Manhattan on Thurs. night by 3 men who attacked them after asking the teens if they spoke English" He lived at the migrant shelter gothamist.com/news/teen-stab…

A very warm welcome to Maria Ines Zamudio Ashad Hajela Rafael Carranza 🌵!! ProPublica Newsroom Partners Select Journalists to Work on Investigative Reporting propublica.org/atpropublica/p…

Venezuelan mom pulled over for driving too slowly in Tucson. Two of her four kids were in the backseat. State troopers called Border Patrol. That's the last the family has heard from them. azluminaria.org/2025/02/14/tuc… w/ Yana Kunichoff & Carolina Cuellar Colmenares for AZLuminaria

"Family still hasn’t told Yesenia’s other two children — 8 and 14 years old — what happened to their mother and siblings. “We don’t want to scare them." “The outrage and inhumanity of it,” she said of the family separation. By John Washington Yana Kunichoff Carolina Cuellar Colmenares Rafael Carranza 🌵

Tucson residents living in mobile homes are dying of heat at disproportionate rates. Yana Kunichoff and I dug deep into the data and mapped mobile home heat deaths for AZLuminaria google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie… azluminaria.org/2025/02/17/suf…

Across the Navajo and Hopi reservations, a nonprofit has helped thousands of households become more energy efficient and upgrade their heating and cooling methods. But an EPA grant to help continue that work was cancelled. My latest on the impact: insideclimatenews.org/news/15062025/…

PSA: Tomorrow (Friday) is the last day to apply!

🚨Scoop🚨 The mysterious giant data center planned for Tucson was named in a 2023 doc obtained from Pima County: Amazon Web Services The data center—H20 and electricity intensive—has sparked fierce public pushback My latest w/ Yana Kunichoff AZLuminaria azluminaria.org/2025/07/21/ama…