Winn Tucson

Guests - Ava Chen, Jeff Rhodes Wednesday on Winn Tucson opened on California primary night results that surprised everyone who has been writing the state off, moved through a China Watch Wednesday segment that broke down exactly why Western sanctions against the CCP are less effective than policymakers believe, and closed with a Tucson resident whose name is a punchline about Pima County's roads —...

Guests - Richard Lyons, Jack Dona Tuesday on Winn Tucson covered the full arc from ancient civilization to modern Arizona: a historian who traces the collapse of free societies to a hundred-year-old plan inaugurated under Woodrow Wilson, a disabled veteran who opened his mailbox to find his approved property tax exemption stamped CANCELED in red, and a retired Master Sergeant who spent the second...

Guests - Lisa Von Geldern, Kristen Pruett, Rick Shafton Monday, June 1st — five weeks to July 4th, three weeks until early ballots drop, and 51 days until the Arizona primary. Winn Tucson opened the week with three conversations that moved from the philosophical altitude of constitutional theory down to the ground-floor mechanics of how voters get lost in the system before they even cast a ballot....

Guests - Betsy Smith, Jerry Sheridan, Micheal Letts, Charles Heller The Friday before a full election season launched on Winn Tucson with a show that had a consistent theme running through every segment: what does it look like when people actually do the job they said they'd do? A sheriff who puts ICE agents in his intake. A nonprofit founder who puts vests on officers who can't afford them. An ad...

Guests - Joel Strabala, Eileen Wilson, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson moved from ground-level election machinery to a surprising internal legal victory to the sixth installment of a series that keeps finding new and uncomfortable ground to excavate. Three segments, three different scales — the precinct, the party, and the philosophical. All of it pointed toward the same thing: what are you d...

Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith, Alex Kolodin Wednesday on Winn Tucson opened with a Texas Senate runoff result that landed like fresh oxygen and closed with the most direct case yet for why the Arizona secretary of state race is the single most consequential race in the state. In between: China Watch Wednesday delivered some of its most urgent intelligence yet — the Putin-Xi pact, Pakistan and Ser...

Guests - Arturo Del Cueto, Laurie Moore, Kelly Walker Tuesday on Winn Tucson — the first show back after Memorial Day — opened with a Border Patrol veteran who knows every corridor the cartels use, moved through a patriot and a Pima County watchdog who between them covered the Texas runoff, sign theft, and the supervisors' latest agenda, and closed with a Tucson father who was handcuffed at a publ...

Guests - Jarred Weisfeld, Mark Mix, Cheryl Caswell The last show before Memorial Day weekend on Winn Tucson covered two fights that most people never hear about until it's too late: the fight to put a security guard in every elementary school before another shooting, and the fight to protect workers who don't want their paychecks funding political agendas they never agreed to. Sandwiched between t...

Guests - Bruce Wolff, George Khalaf, Scott Schara The Thursday before Memorial Day weekend on Winn Tucson brought three conversations that moved from the deeply personal to the deeply structural. A missionary pilot who found faith through chaos and chaos through faith. A pollster and educator fighting to protect 103,000 Arizona children from an out-of-state money grab. And the fifth installment of...

Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith Wednesday on Winn Tucson was two shows in one: China Watch Wednesday with Ava Chen unpacking the most consequential week in global geopolitics in years, followed by Smith and Winn with Betsy Brantner Smith on teen takeovers, a mosque shooting, an illegal alien on a shooting spree in Austin, and the ongoing decay that follows every city that decides law enforcement is...

Guests - Ally Miller, Anthony Dunham, David Schweikert Tuesday on Winn Tucson packed three consequential conversations into two hours: a former Pima County Supervisor with sharp opinions on the attorney general's race, an LD-17 candidate introducing himself before the primary, and a sitting U.S. Congressman running for governor who brought the kind of economic precision to the conversation that mo...

Guests - Neal Cornett, Alex Kolodin, David Cancio

Guests - Alex Kolodin, Laurie Moore, Jared Knott Friday on Winn Tucson closed the week the way it opened: with elections. Alex Kolodin came in fresh from a face-to-face debate with his primary opponent — the first statewide debate moment in the secretary of state race — and what he brought back from it was not just a contrast of positions but a contrast of worldviews. Laurie Moore called in from t...

Guests - Chad Heinrich, Betsy Smith, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson covered the full spectrum — from the practical economics of small business owners watching gas prices tick up, to the candlelight vigil that lit up Washington the night before in honor of 363 officers whose names were just added to the wall, to a father's patient, meticulous excavation of how an entire medical culture was bu...

Guests - Ava Chen, Thomas Horne, Laurie Moore Wednesday on Winn Tucson began with a red carpet in Beijing and ended with a referral to the Arizona attorney general. In between: a sitting elected American official pleading guilty to being a Chinese Communist Party agent, a CIA whistleblower hearing that confirmed what the public was never allowed to know in 2021, a superintendent with breaking news...

Guests - Marie Fordney, Crystal Narcho, Stephen Mundt Tuesday on Winn Tucson brought together two worlds that rarely share airtime — a conversation about the quiet, painstaking work of healing children who have been abused, and a frank geopolitical assessment of what happens when Iran demands what it cannot have and China sits down with a president who holds the stronger hand. The common thread, a...

Guests - Katie Asher, Joel Strabala, Laurie Moore, Eileen Wilson Monday on Winn Tucson opened on Mother's Day weekend and closed on the eve of a Board of Supervisors meeting that could — if the board has the courage — change the face of law enforcement in Pima County. In between: a mother's two-decade journey with a son whose motor was destroyed by vaccines but whose spirit witnesses the spiritual...

Guests - Betsy Smith, Dave Smith, Jeremy Duda, Elijah Norton

Guests - Katey McPherson, Heather Rooks, Sergio Arellano, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson was a morning that defied easy description. It was about sexual abuse in schools. It was about the institutional reflex to protect administrators over children. It was about a school board president removed for filing mandatory reports. And it was, by the end, a sustained conversation about the theologic...

Guests - Ava Chen, Pam Furie, Joel Strabala Wednesday on Winn Tucson moved from the highest-stakes geopolitical negotiation in decades to a Treasury Department roundtable in Washington about senior financial security to the ground level of Pima County elections and a bomb threat student allowed back on his school bus. Three guests, three distinct worlds — and throughout all of it, the same recurri...

Guests - Andy Ross, John Hayworth, Joanie Hammond, Rodney Glassman Tuesday on Winn Tucson was, as Kathleen Winn noted at the close, a drug show — though not in the way that phrase usually lands. The morning connected pharmaceutical pricing to abortion medication to fentanyl deaths to the statewide race for attorney general in a chain of arguments that shared one central diagnosis: institutions tha...

Guests - Betsy Smith, Alex Kolodin, Jan Edwards, Lori Schott

Guests - Drew Allen, Rick Shafton, Dave Smith, John Gordon, Cheryl Caswell Friday on Winn Tucson came loaded with irony — the show aired on May 1st, historically the day communist and socialist movements march through city squares around the world, while on the ground in Pima County, conservatives were organizing to recall a sheriff, push a voting integrity law through a resistant Senate, and prep...

Guests - Merissa Caldwell, Rep. Lupe Diaz, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson carried a weight that went from the practical — voter registration deadlines, budget votes, and out-of-state registration schemes — to the profound: a father who has now lost two children and believes both deaths trace to the same underlying system. Three guests. Three distinct battles. One shared conviction that thing...

Guests - Ava Chen, Joel Strabala, Mike Arnold Wednesday on Winn Tucson covered the arc from Washington to Nigeria — from the third assassination attempt on a sitting president, to a voter registration scheme mailed from Pennsylvania to Arizona addresses, to a Christian genocide that has killed more than six million people and that almost nobody in the American press has reported. Three guests. Thr...