Last evening there was a shooting outside the house of Congressional candidate Daniel Hernandez. Hernandez is a gun violence survivor and is credited for helping save the life of former Rep Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head during a mass shooting in 2011.

Yesterday, the House voted to defund public media. If the Senate approves the plan, it will be catastrophic for rural and tribal radio and TV stations — many rely on federal funds for more than half their budgets. With Chad Bradley for High Country News: hcn.org/articles/what-…

Proud to be working on The Press Room recently. If you only have a half an hour to keep up to date with S. AZ news each week, this is the best way to spend it. Check out our recap of the CD 7 debates this week. Paola Rodríguez (she/her/ella) John Washington AZPM youtube.com/watch?v=IfWCKZ…

Read the second issue of Central America Monthly, our digital magazine dedicated to political prisoners in El Salvador and the repressive parallels between the Salvadoran and Nicaraguan dictatorships👇

Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border. By 2024, two years after the city joined Texas’ border mission, the El Paso sector had become the deadliest place for migrants to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. 🧵

I spoke to Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari for AZLuminaria about her first months in office as the first Dem Iranian-American member of Congress. Ansari has been a vocal critic of deportations to El Salvador, current conditions in US detention centers, and the travel ban azluminaria.org/2025/06/16/qa-…

Afraid of ICE raids, 100% of all workers are totally gone on this farm in the Rio Grande Valley — even those working legally. Working on a similar story now and what we're seeing out in the community is devastating. Full story from Border Report for KVEO: borderreport.com/news/100-perce…

Half of the 12 candidates vying to fill former Democratic Progressive Chair Raúl Grijalva’s seat do not live in the district they want to represent. azluminaria.org/2025/06/16/hal… Latest with Becky Pallack for AZLuminaria

Very troubling news -- ICE moves to deport journalist in Georgia.

I wrote about the standoff in LA, what's pushed people into the streets, and how law enforcement is illegally shooting at protesters. My latest newsletter:

I spoke to 11 of 12 candidates vying to fill the seat of the late progressive champion Raúl Grijalva and represent CD7 in Arizona, which includes almost all of Arizona's borderlands. Where does each of them stand on border/immigration politics? azluminaria.org/2025/06/18/bef…

After more than three months unjustly detained by the Trump administration, Mahmoud Khalil is finally free. He can go home, hug his wife, and hold his baby. He never should’ve been detained. As we celebrate his release, we will never stop working to defend human rights --

NEWS: ICE is detaining 59,000 detainees in facilities across the US, likely a record high, internal figures obtained by CBS News show. ICE is at over 140% of its congressionally funded detention capacity. Nearly half of detainees lack criminal records. cbsnews.com/news/ice-recor…

Tues.: Mikaela Loach - It’s Not That Radical 📖🇵🇸 on, "It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World" (Haymarket Books). Weds.: AZLuminaria's John Washington on his The New York Review of Books article, "The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag." We stream live at 10AM CDT and podcast shortly after at thisishell.com

What a steal! haymarketbooks.org/books/2199-the…

Rest in power Fanny Howe -- one of the greats. I had the pleasure and honor of knowing the master poet, essayist, novelist. She was kind, challenging, brilliant. Do yourself and the world a favor and pick up one of her books.

NEW EP! Journalist John Washington on his writing at The New York Review of Books, “The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag.” PLUS this week's hangover cure, 'Rotten History,' the 'Question from Hell!' and Jeff Dorchen with the Moment of Truth. Support our work at patreon.com/thisishell thisishell.com/episodes/1846