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Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith, Chris Burgard Across the globe and along the American border, the threats to Western constitutional sovereignty are accelerating. From Beijing’s strategic campaigns to subvert U.S. elections, to the systematic breakdown of local law enforcement and governance in Arizona, to the quiet expansion of civilization jihad in Texas, the battle for the preservation of the Am...

Guests - Stephen Mundt, Mark Lewis, Secretary Doug Burgum Kathleen Winn's Tuesday reached the top of the federal government — a sitting cabinet secretary calling in from the road to the Grand Canyon — but it opened, as the week had, in fury over a local murder and the sheriff she blames for compounding it. Between the two came a retired general on Iran and the culture, and a water expert briefing...

Guests - Tracy Murphy, Matt Neely, Dave Smith Kathleen Winn opened the week off a birthday weekend and into a show bracketed by a single theme: accountability, and its collapse. A sheriff's candidate in Washington State described a fight to keep the office answerable to voters. Producer Matt Neely tracked the manhunt following the murder of a Tucson police recruit. And former Pima County Republica...

Guests - Julie Hartman, Spokesperson with the US Dept. of Education State Rep. Rachel Keshel Rachel Alexander, political reporter and recovering attorney   Kathleen Winn closed her week — and the eve of her birthday — with a show she framed as an education good-news week turned into an indictment of the governor. A federal Department of Education spokeswoman opened with the school-choice tools now...

Guests - Dave Smith, Betsy Smith The morning after a Tucson police recruit was shot to death in his own home, Kathleen Winn gave her Thursday show over to the Smiths — former Pima County Republican chair Dave Smith and, separately, National Police Association spokeswoman Betsy Brantner Smith — with producer Matt Neely filling in. What began as a tribute became a sustained argument about a county w...

Guests - Ava Chen, George Khalaf, Jenny Clark Kathleen Winn's Wednesday paired the sweeping and the local: an hour on what her China Watch guest calls a decade-long foreign campaign against American elections, followed by a victory lap on a school-choice fight that ended the day before at the Arizona Supreme Court. The thread between them was the one Winn returns to every show — that the same vigi...

Guests - Scot Mussi, Juan Ciscomani, Dave Smith, Eli Crane Kathleen Winn opened Tuesday with a win: the union-backed effort to kill Arizona's school-choice program had, as of the latest count, fallen more than 10,000 valid signatures short of the ballot. From there the show built its case for the fall across four guests — the attorney who led the signature challenge, the congressman defending one...

Guests - Matt Neely, Kevin Thomson Kathleen Winn opened the week with a promise she said she could keep for 25 straight days: a fresh example, each morning, of what she considers Governor Katie Hobbs's misuse of taxpayer money. From there the show turned to a colleague's forensic reading of the Pima County Attorney's own words, and closed with a sitting corporation commissioner making the case for...

Guests - Dave Smith, Jeff Rhodes, Laurie Moore, Alex Kolodin Kathleen Winn's Friday opened on breaking news out of a New York federal courtroom and closed on the Arizona ballot, but the week's closing argument was consistent throughout: that a culture willing to lionize a killer is the same culture producing the policies that landed Pima County near the bottom of a national campus-safety ranking —...

Guests - Nils Grevillius, Joel Strabala, Rick Shafton Fifty-some days out from Arizona's general election, Kathleen Winn framed her Thursday show around a single contention: that the Democratic Party is in the middle of a civil war with its own socialist wing, that the same fight is playing out from Wisconsin to Pima County, and that the opening it creates is Arizona Republicans' to seize — or squ...

Guests - Ava Chen, Joel Strabala, Dave Smith Kathleen Winn's argument for the week was that the same force shows up in three places — the manipulation of American media, the mechanics of a Pima County ballot, and the intellectual history of a political movement — and that all three trace back to a hostility toward the American system itself. Her Wednesday show ran that thread through China Watch W...

Guests - Mark Mix, Tim Le Sota, Sine Kerr, Jay Tolkoff Kathleen Winn's Tuesday show made a habit of taking the national and running it local — Medicaid fraud in California to Arizona's own pay-to-play problems, a WNBA controversy to a ballot measure on girls' sports, a union-dues scheme to the stakes of a governor's race. Four guests carried it: the head of the nation's leading right-to-work organ...

Guests - Grant Krueger, Betsy Smith, Elijah Norton, Joanie Hammond, Joel Strabala Kathleen Winn came into Monday's show off a weekend that captured the two halves of her season-long argument at once: a new downtown restaurant she treats as proof Tucson can be revived, and a packed Andy Biggs rally she treats as proof the state can be turned. The broadcast moved from a restaurateur to a police-asso...

Guests - Eddy Acevedo, James Rogers, Sergio Arellano, Rachel Alexander Friday's broadcast ranged from a Caribbean island a few miles off Florida to a courtroom in Maricopa County, but Kathleen Winn tied every segment to the same argument she has pressed all season: that freedom is fragile, that elections are where it is defended, and that Arizona's is now on the line. A Cuba policy expert opened w...

Guests - Josh Jacobsen, Betsy Smith, Dr. Carol Lieberman Ninety days from Arizona's general election, Kathleen Winn devoted Thursday's show to a single argument built from three directions: that Tucson and Pima County are being run into the ground by the people in charge of them, and that the fix runs through the ballot. A crime-policy advocate laid out the local failures case by case. A national...

Guests - Ava Chen, Robert Paylor Wednesday's broadcast split cleanly in two. The first hour was China Watch Wednesday, where co-host Ava Chen used a fresh New York Times report on Chinese surveillance to argue that what the mainstream press is discovering now, the whistleblower movement she belongs to documented a decade ago. The second hour set politics aside entirely for a former national-champi...

Guests - Alex Kolodin, Dave Smith, Stephen Mundt A day after America First Legal sued Arizona's Secretary of State over ballot language, Kathleen Winn spent Tuesday's show connecting a single thread across three very different guests: the fight over how measures and candidates are described to voters, and what she argues is at stake if the descriptions win. The Republican nominee for Secretary of...

Guests - Jay Tolkoff, Jack Dona  

Guests - Brenda Marts, J.L. Wittenbraker, Yvette Serino, Seth Keshel The Andy Biggs campaign opened Kathleen Winn's Friday with news: Biggs had named former state senator Sine Kerr as his running mate, making her Arizona's first Republican nominee for the newly created office of lieutenant governor. Winn described Kerr as the daughter of an Army combat veteran and a naturalized citizen from Mexico...

Brad Thayer, Jeff Rhodes, Mark Lewis, Kelly Walker On the last Thursday of July, a day after Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before a Senate committee and repeatedly declined to answer, Kathleen Winn built her show around a single organizing idea: that the contest Arizona voters are about to enter is not ordinary politics but a fight over the country's identity. A political scientist opened the hour with a...

Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith The morning Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right, Kathleen Winn built her Wednesday broadcast around a single claim she and her guests have pressed for years: that the origins of COVID-19, and the response to it, were neither accidental nor benign. The hearing sup...

Guests - Daniel Butierez, Lisa Von Geldern A week past the primary, the general election came into focus around a single dynamic: two parties both trying to hold themselves together. Kathleen Winn spent Tuesday's broadcast on the Republican side of that problem and the Democratic side of it — first with a congressional challenger absorbing an early attack from his opponent without swinging back, t...

Guests - Joel Strabala, Joe Finn, Jay Tolkoff The primary is certified in all but name, and Kathleen Winn spent the last Monday of July setting the table for the hundred days ahead. The message she kept circling was turnout — Pima County Republicans came in at nearly 42 percent, above the state average, while Democratic turnout collapsed to 28 — and the argument that the county long treated as a l...

Guests - Joel Strabala, Sergio Arellano, Steve Lance, Kelly Walker The week that Arizona held its primary ended with a number Kathleen Winn kept returning to: Pima County Republicans turned out at better than 40 percent, above the statewide average and well above the county's own history of lagging the rest of Arizona. "This is where Pima County will make the difference in these state elections,"...

Guests - Jeff Rhodes, Dave Smith Two days after Arizona's primary, with roughly 20,000 Pima County ballots still uncounted, Kathleen Winn opened with a result nobody expected her to get: for the first time in years, Republicans have fielded a candidate in Supervisor District 5. Jeff Rhodes needed 143 write-in votes to make the November ballot. He appears to have cleared it comfortably. "The good n...