President Trump is coming to Arizona as we fight for the very soul of our state and our nation. We have leadership in Washington who cares, but without a Congress willing to get to work and not obstruct we are going to lose the progress we’ve made these last two years.
My parents came to Tucson from Sonora, Mexico. I was born and raised there, a first-generation American.
At 17, I joined the Army to repay the country that welcomed my family. I deployed to Iraq as an infantryman and served more than a decade in uniform.
The Army taught me that a promise only counts if you keep it. Arizona is finally seeing promises kept.
When I ran for Congress in 2018, I talked about something every southern Arizona family knew. Our kids grew up here, then left for jobs in Phoenix. Today, more of them have a reason to stay.
TSMC is adding another $100 billion in Phoenix, for a $265 billion total across 12 facilities, and already employs more than 3,500 people. In March, the Oak Flat land exchange closed after decades of delay, clearing the way for a mine that could supply up to 25% of U.S. copper demand.
As a small business owner, I know what certainty means for a payroll. The average Arizona filer gets a $3,549 tax cut in 2026. Servers keep their tips, crews keep their overtime, and small businesses kept the pass-through deduction.
In 2016, I knocked doors in Nogales, in a county where only 16 percent of voters were Republicans. I told families that a secure border protects migrants too, from the cartels that exploit them.
Ten years later, that border is finally secure. Tucson and Yuma sector apprehensions fell 88% in fiscal 2025, and nationwide crossings ran 94% below the Biden-era monthly average in June.
Rep. Juan Ciscomani helped make that happen. He voted for the tax cuts and 3,000 new Border Patrol agents, and his bill letting working adults with disabilities keep Medicaid past 65 was signed into law in February.
His opponent, JoAnna Mendoza, has made attacking that tax bill the center of her campaign. Her policy group pushed to repeal Arizona’s flat tax for a structure that analysts say would raise the median AZ-06 household’s bill by more than 30 percent.
Deleted posts show Mendoza pushed for police “reallocation of funding” and called policing an “occupying army.” I’ve worn this country’s uniform overseas, and I know what an occupying army is. It isn’t the officers who patrol Tucson’s streets.
In the 1st District, Jay Feely is running on real wage growth and expanding the Trump tax cuts. Amish Shah wants a wholesale repeal of the tax law, which would wipe out no tax on tips, overtime relief and the senior deduction.
As a state lawmaker, Shah also voted against the Ashley Dunn Act, which toughened sentences for dealers whose fentanyl-laced pills kill people.
I spent the 2016 and 2020 campaigns as a Spanish-language spokesman for President Trump. This year, I became the first Latino to lead the Arizona Republican Party.
I’ve watched this state change for the better. I’m asking Arizonans to send Juan Ciscomani and Jay Feely to Washington to keep Arizona and America Great.
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