Photo credit: Parker J. Pfister 2024. Share For several years, author and journalist Jessica Pishko has investigated the power of right-wing sheriffs and their impact on democracy, elections, and border and immigration…
Category: Blogs
The latest from the border blogosphere.
The Border Chronicle – Climate Change and the Reality behind False Claims about ‘Criminal Migrants’
Subscribe now This interview originally appeared at Yale Climate Connections. Destruction after 2013 Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines. Photo by Todd Miller Share For nearly three decades, Arizona-based writer and journalist Todd…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CLAUDIA LIZETTE RODRIGUEZ, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY PRECINCT 1, MISSPELLS “COMMISSIONER”
[[{“value”:” Claudia Lizette Rodriguez is as sloppy with her spelling as she is on her campaign finance reports, which she has repeatedly botched. Does she really expect us to vote for her…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – MR. JOHNSON, PLEASE TELL US HOW YOU WOULD PAY FOR YOUR SPENDING INITIATIVES?
[[{“value”:” Dear Mr. Johnson, In your mayoral campaign, you routinely promote new spending initiatives while claiming you will lower our property tax, without providing specifics. Former Interim City Manager Cary Westin and…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – WESLEY LAWRENCE: MAGA REPUBLICAN TURNED PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT
[[{“value”:” Wesley Lawrence is running against incumbent Joe Molinar for City District 4 and is a rising star in the progressive Democratic establishment, promoting his leftist agenda on social media. But check…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – RENARD JOHNSON WANTS US TO BELIEVE HE IS FOR LOWER PROPERTY TAXES
[[{“value”:” So let’s get this straight. Renard Johnson wants the City to invest more and develop a new vision by building more amenities like an arena and a deck plaza, costing hundreds of millions of dollars,…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – JACKIE BUTLER’S TAX-AND-SPEND “VISION” FOR EL PASO COUNTY
[[{“value”:” Jackie Michelle Butler (whose middle name miraculously changed to “Arroyo” for this election) is the Democratic candidate for El Paso County Precinct 1. Our County is authorizing $894.4M in new debt…
The Border Chronicle – Militarizing the Sky: A Q&A with Laiken Jordahl
Subscribe now Outside the Barry M Goldwater Bombing Range in the west Arizona borderlands. (Photo by Caitlin O’Hara for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Share When thinking of the U.S. borderlands,…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – BILL HICKS FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
[[{“value”:” We initially had no intention of making an endorsement for District Attorney. We interviewed all three candidates, current District Attorney Bill D. Hicks, Deputy Public Defender James Montoya, and retired district judge Alma Trejo….