By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director It’s that time of year to look back on 2025 and recap the good, the bad, and the ugly, the winners, and the losers of the past verrry long year, and then look ahead to 2026. But where to begin? At least until very recently, the winners clearly were the Trump crime family and its cabal of misfits and billioniares, and the losers were the rest of us. Every time we thought we were at the bottom, the floor opened beneath our fe

I AM SO MAD AT THE DEMOCRATS! My feed and inbox are just covered with that sentiment. And I get it. But I have some thoughts about how people are reacting. You no longer want to support the DNC? I understand that decision. Please consider instead donating to your local Legislative District Democrats! We are down here on the ground without DNC support, doing the work reaching out to voters, supporting local candidates, and trying to win elections. We'd love your support. If y

By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director “So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.” Zohran Mamdani said this in the closing remarks of his victory speech on Tuesday night. His win in the New York mayoral race was resounding, as were the Democrat results in virtually every race across the country. Regardless of what one’s personal thoughts and opinions of Mamdani may be, his ability to inspire, energ

What a week, huh?  First we heard about all the Democratic wins across the country, then learned that we were successful in our own local elections, passing a bond for Valleywise Health, a bond for West-MEC trades education, and finally passing the Deer Valley USD M&O override after years of trying. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this incredible win possible. Volunteers knocked doors, wrote postcards, made calls, sent texts, held house parties, blasted across social

By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the 25th Amendment and the mental fitness of our cosplay president. In the past few days, he and his minions have been dangling yet another shining bauble to divert the country’s attention from EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN. That is, TRUMP 2028. It will either make you chuckle, scream into the abyss, or just crawl under the covers until 2032. On Thursday, the hobo Steve Bannon said this, "Tr

By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director In light of the president’s recent display of an utter lack of mental capacity during...

On October 8, ballots were mailed to all registered voters.  Because this is an "off-cycle" election, turnout is expected to be low. But...

By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director An article this week reported that the Trump administration has destroyed $9.7 million...

By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director “I dissent.” Two words, likely most associated with the late and notoriously great...

At LD3 Democrats, our mission is simple: inform and turn out voters in Legislative District 3. While there are many national...

By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director glut·ton·y /ˈɡlət(ə)nē/ - habitual greed or excess in eating (though his appetite for...

Hello, friends. I think about you a lot. You might be one of the familiar faces, always showing up and looking for new ways to move us...

By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director One of the biggest complaints that I hear about the Democrats’ alleged failings is...

On Wednesday, Democratic State Committee Members voted 476 to 56 to remove Arizona Democratic Chair Robert Branscomb from his position....

By Patti O'Neill, Chair, Maricopa County Democratic Party "A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a...

By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director Remember when Virginia Slims told women we'd come a long way? She was wrong. This...

After a 165 day contentious legislative session Arizona still finds itself without sufficient revenue to adequately advance programs to...

How the budget process should work In January, after the beginning of a new legislative session,  the governor announces her budget...

By Marlene Reiss, Scottsdale North Field Director In case you haven’t heard of the famous Canvassing Confrontation of 2024, here’s the...

Of note this week is the governor's veto on the bill to ban the People's Republic of China (PRC) from having ownership interest in...