In the long-ago of 2005, just days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, a young Kanye West blurted out on live television during a fundraising drive with comedian Mike Meyers that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

It was perhaps an early sign of West’s mental instability, but at the time it ended up defining the media narrative about Katrina and Bush, who was lambasted by the media for being indifferent to the fate of New Orleans because it was mostly poor black people who had been killed or displaced by the storm. 

It didn’t matter that the main cause of the problems in New Orleans during and immediately after Katrina — lack of evacuation, widespread looting, poor emergency response and coordination — was corruption at the local and state level, not incompetence at FEMA. (New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin would later be indicted and convicted in federal court on multiple corruption charges.)

But in the moment that didn’t matter. The national news media unfairly blamed President Bush. Every major media outlet ran a now-infamous photo of him looking down on hurricane-ravaged New Orleans from the window of Air Force One, cementing the narrative that the president was detached and indifferent to events on the ground. 

It would come to be known as Bush’s “Katrina moment,” and it heralded the effective end of his administration. Democrats sailed to a massive victory in the 2006 midterms, campaigning on Bush’s allegedly flat-footed Katrina response and the unpopular war in Iraq, rendering the president impotent

Arizona election officials privately worried that having nearly 100,000 voters on the wrong voter list would “validate” concerns about the integrity of the state’s elections.

Arizona requires voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship in order to vote in statewide elections. Voters who do not provide such proof are registered as “federal-only” voters, meaning they can only cast a ballot in federal races. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer recently discovered what Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs described as an “erroneous voter registration record.”

The record was that of a noncitizen who was on the voter roll as a full-ballot voter, according to VoteBeat. While this noncitizen had a green card, all noncitizens are legally prohibited from voting in federal elections. Upon further inquiry, the state claims to have found approximately 97,000 voters who are listed as full-ballot voters despite having never provided the documentary proof of citizenship required to vote in statewide elections.

The Washington Post obtained audio from a 40-minute Sept. 10 phone call between Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, and Attorney General Kris Mayes. During the call, Hobbs reportedly warned that the situation was “dire” and “urgent” while Fontes worried they would be “beat” up “no matter what the hell we do.”

“When this goes public, it is going to have all of the conspiracy theorists in the globe — in the world — coming back to re-litigate the past three elections, at least in Arizona,” Hobbs reportedly said. “And it’s going to validate all of

Two Democrat congressmen running for U.S. Senate seats in Arizona and Texas endorsed keeping LGBT radicalism in the U.S. military on Friday.

In a letter sent to leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, more than 160 House Democrats voiced opposition to provisions in the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025 that prohibit the Pentagon from adopting several extreme LGBT policies. Among the letter’s signatories are Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., and Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, both of whom are running for Senate seats in their respective states.

“The federal government should be working to ensure all service members and their families can thrive,” the document reads. “This includes working to ensure that LGBTQ+ service members and family members feel welcome in the military and that symbols and art forms related to the LGBTQ+ community are not singled out for censorship.”

Approved by House lawmakers in June, the lower chamber’s NDAA includes various amendments nixing neo-Marxist policies plaguing America’s armed forces. Among those specifically opposed by House Democrats are provisions prohibiting the Defense Department from using taxpayer money to subsidize so-called “gender transition surgeries” through the military’s TRICARE program and purchase materials containing “pornographic” and “radical gender ideology” for military schools.

The Democrats also voiced opposition in the letter to sections in the NDAA barring the Pentagon from funding “drag show[s], drag queen story hour, or similar event[s]” on military bases and stripping the “discretion of military chain of command and senior civilian leadership with