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The 2020 legislative session is finally here.

A railroad safety bill that earned one Democratic lawmaker an ominous threat three years ago will be back next year, and the stakes are higher than ever.

Has your inbox been flooded with pleas from Dem PACs and fundraising groups?

It’s junket season in Arizona, and lawmakers spent their week talking policy in Scottsdale and Puerto Rico.

The Arizona Secretary of State’s campaign finance websites are broken.

Republican leaders in the House and Senate are forging ahead with plans to draft a budget by the end of the year, reasserting authority they say their predecessors ceded to the governor’s office years ago.

Invest In Ed was thrown off the ballot in 2018, but now it’s coming back and educating groups want to increase the sales tax to help pay for schools — even though the group previously opposed a regressive tax.

A new ballot measure aims to make voting easier and take big money out of politics, but its backers, who have been against dark money in the past, won’t commit to turning down dark money for their own campaign.

On this edition of The Breakdown, our reporters discuss Mark Brnovich, Criminal Justice Reform, and Gov. Doug Ducey's latest court appointment.

Maricopa County “top cop” Bill Montgomery’s got a new job, and while he’s trying on black robes half the lawyers in Phoenix are gunning for his old one.