Early this year, the Trump administration’s crackdowns across the country were getting so bad that Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, actually considered carrying around his passport, in case he was stopped by an armed ICE agent on the streets of Phoenix.
The fact that Fontes – a Latino man and one of his state’s most prominent and visible elected officials – even contemplated that is a sign of how far we’ve fallen in such a short period of time during the second Donald Trump presidency. And as Team Trump mounts its all-out, nationwide onslaught against free and fair elections, the crucial battleground state of Arizona quickly became one of the president’s central targets for attempted election rigging.
Fontes joined Zeteo’s senior political correspondent, Asawin Suebsaeng, for a Town Hall discussion with Zeteo subscribers, during which Arizona’s top election official discussed his state’s ongoing efforts to fight back against MAGA election meddling, the American “revolutionary spirit” that gives him hope in Trumpian times, and why he thinks it is “our duty” to call President Trump and Republicans’ anti-democratic policies “fascist.”
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