Every election is frequently touted as the “most important in history”….etc. etc. etc. It’s the standard overworked, uncreative piece of overpriced political consulting bull-roar. And you’re never ever given any valid reasons for the claim. Pure marketing drool.
I’m not going to [vapidly] contend that here with AZ’s 2026 statewide races, especially for Governor, Lt. Governor (we now have one running), the A.G. race, or the Legislative contests, where the AZ GOP is holding-on to razor-thin legislative majorities by the skin of their teeth.
But the numbers don’t lie; and neither does the AZ Hard-Left’s track record in places like Tucson, and its spectacularly dysfunctional & corrupt County & City governments. Let alone Katie Hobbs’ tenure of breathtaking incompetence, or Kris Mayes’ Office of the AZ Attorney General as this antigrowth, enviro-gynocrat-extraordinaire.
Nor do those other political numbers lie when one considers AZ has today the most shallow US Congressional seniority in Washington since its 1912 statehood. A vulnerable condition capped-off by 2 feckless US Senators, one of whom is being seriously considered for President, while the other tries to fade the heat of his thoroughly disreputable character.
If you believe all this going off the rails would only be temporary, your estimates would be off by 50-to-100 years into the future. It would be an absolutely profound disaster for modern Arizona and the “United” States of America. If like New Mexico and California already, our entire southern border falls under the grasping claw of what that original 1801 Democrat Party, the one of Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, JFK, Johnson and even Carter, has now pathologically morphed into.
That’s what is at stake here, folks…. The AZ Elections of 2026; a bitter finale or a re-energized comeback.
If the AZ GOP falls apart here, at this time, it would easily mark the beginning of America’s unraveling in the final half of the 21st Century. A strategy the new, openly Socialist & deviant DP is clearly aiming for; don’t doubt it for a second.
Arizona 2026 is truly an “Existential Election” for the Dems; they want to make it about Donald Trump, but Trumpism be damned. While Arizona may be remote from the American centers of power like colonial Philadelphia was from imperial London, it’s always those remote outposts where the real tides of history start changing first.
2026 is 1776 all over again, and it begins in Arizona.
Sellers is a Southpark, Roosevelt-Republican (Teddy) living in incorporated Oro Valley; his background is federal technology commercialization
As a candidate, I would love to have a substantive, solution oriented discussion on the many critical problems facing Arizona today. When both of our incumbent LD28 representatives (Livingston and Pingarelli) showed their colors by not attending our televised debate, it was the residents of our District who were once again cheated.
If, however, their participation had mirrored this ill-informed, sensationalist, and pathetically boring recitation of imaginary grievances and worn out cliches, perhaps it is better that they stayed home.
Serious solutions require serious people who show up. marcgrahamforaz.com
Marc, in all fairness, and after looking at your website, it’s the same old bilge from the National Party, nothing new…S.O.S. they’ve been pushing since Hillary & Bill. You guys give us another dementia candidate, a 50+ old pol, same old class warfare, race warfare, rejiggle SCOTUS, make Puerto Rico & DC states, etc. ad nausea. That’s a winning strategy? Does anyone else other than Bernie Sanders (#1 Mooch in all US Political History), AOC, Hasan Piker, Mamdani, et al write your playbooks? You guys badly need new material.
first is there REALLY a GOP party in AZ? Never hear anything much about what they are doing.
Then there are those who only vote PARTY because they are promised everything by the democraps who then are short on delivery as they forget what they said they wanted to do.
Where and what have the politicians at any level done. You hear the same ol BS about taxes, jobs, medical care EVERY ELECTION CYCLE. If the parties are doing what they said they want to do, WHY are the same issues ALIVE every cycle? The R’s are so quiet I dont know what they are promising/doing do you? The democraps are on the tv declaring that they care yet are pushing these same political ads from 2024 and before. The real problem is that the LIV are just voting for themselves and not the community, state or COUNTRY as they all want FREE stuff. the current governor has VETOED over 500 bills many of which could actually improve conditions while her cohorts are as crooked as can be and proud of it. Yes the grifthalva mafia is a prime example of what is wrong. Dont allow business expansion or even think about community jobs. Prevent the kids from getting an EDUCATION and rely on INDOCTRINATION to thrive. We need a higher level of people to to reintroduce the school boards as they used to be. Too many kids getting graduated while only getting an ATTENDANCE DIPLOMA and the still cannot read write do simple math and yes this applies to the ‘higher’ education facilities. No they need to require civics, history and then if all else fails service/vocational training in HS to allow these kids to have a future. But again that is against their beliefs, they push DEPENDENCY from cradle to the grave.
As a long time Arizonan I have watched this change here and I am afraid Arizona is lost. The influx of over 630,000 Californians the past 10 years would have been great except they brought their voting preferences with them. They drove their state into the ground and now will do it here. How long before Texas goes also ?
Am of the same persuasion, but it’s too out-of-touch to say this might actually cause a Civil War. IMHO, they’ve war-gamed that, ditto the Chi-coms & others, all wondering how they can speed up the process.