An update on the voter integrity bills we tracked through the 2022 legislative session. The bill tracker and analysis on civic engagement and voter integrity is courtesy of Arizona Faith Network and their team of legislative analysts.

Join Arizona Faith Network and partners from their Voting Rights Coalition across Arizona for their Summer Signature Kickoff to save Democracy. We bring the petitions and train you!

The Arizona Fair Elections Act will take down barriers to voting for all Arizona citizens, make the vote-by-mail list permanent again, reduce the influence of money on our elections and bar legislators from overriding election results.

The bill tracker and analysis on civic engagement and voter integrity is courtesy of Arizona Faith Network and their team of legislative analysts. The bills included are deemed to be Priority Bills due to the speed in which they are moving through the Arizona legislature.

The bill tracker and analysis on civic engagement and voter integrity is courtesy of Arizona Faith Network and their team of legislative analysts. The bills included are deemed to be Priority Bills due to the speed in which they are moving through the Arizona legislature.

Arizona Food Bank Network (AzFBN) and its member food banks hosted Food Bank Day at the Capitol on Thursday, March 10. Two initiatives took center stage: HB2060, the bill AzFBN and supporters promoted to remove barriers to SNAP access for people re-entering society; and Friends of the Farm, Arizona's farm-to-food-bank program supporting local growers and food insecure Arizonans. 

Arizona lawmakers sent Gov. Doug Ducey an election bill on March 28 that “likely presents a preemption issue… as well as a conflict with fairly recent U.S. Supreme Court case law,” according to the Legislature’s own constitutional attorneys.

The bill tracker and analysis on civic engagement and voter integrity is courtesy of Arizona Faith Network and their team of legislative analysts. The bills included are deemed to be Priority Bills due to the speed in which they are moving through the Arizona legislature.

The bill tracker and analysis on civic engagement and voter integrity is courtesy of Arizona Faith Network and their team of legislative analysts. The bills included are deemed to be Priority Bills due to the speed in which they are moving through the Arizona legislature.

The bill tracker and analysis on civic engagement and voter integrity is courtesy of Arizona Faith Network and their team of legislative analysts. The bills included are deemed to be Priority Bills due to the speed in which they are moving through the Arizona legislature.

Great news! HB2060 passed the Arizona House of Representatives—unamended—on Thursday! The vote was 44-15. Now on to the Senate, where it faces a more challenging road.

Coordinated by Lutheran Advocacy Ministry Arizona (LAMA), 80+ Lutherans representing 23 of Arizona’s 30 legislative districts made contact with over 20 lawmakers at the bipartisan Lutheran Day at the Legislature on 2/1/2022. Exceptional images by David Hoye captured the big day.

Which legislators are confirmed so far? Lutheran Advocacy Day at the Legislature, aka Hunger Awareness Day, is Tuesday, February 1, 2022 from 8:30 am - 10:30 am.

Lutheran Advocacy Day at the Legislature, aka Hunger Awareness Day, is Tuesday, February 1, 2022 from 8:30 am - 10:30 am. Speakers and agenda are now confirmed. More details to follow.

New Year’s Resolution? Get to Know My Arizona State Legislators. 18 legislative seats changed hands midway through the 2021-2022 election cycle. The upcoming 2022 Arizona legislative session, which convenes Monday, January 10, will look quite different. Do you know who your legislators are now?

Lutherans and friends from across the state will gather at the Arizona Capitol Rose Garden for a day of advocacy on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 from 8:30 am - 10:30 am.

If you’re interested in what’s going on in the Arizona legislature and in Arizona politics in general, consider adding The Gaggle to your podcast feed.

“Criticism of this effort, for which the stakes are obviously enormous, is generally centered on the idea that it is about “transparency,” that only those who are worried about what might be uncovered are actually opposed to what's happening.”