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Mark Finchem, the Republican nominee for secretary of state, has been a minor player in Arizona politics since becoming a state legislator in 2015. But in the past two years, he’s built a national profile as one of the most ardent backers of baseless claims that the 2020 election was marred by widespread fraud — and that nationwide following is evident in his campaign finance reports.

It’s why Finchem is the only candidate for statewide office who has received the majority of his campaign cash from outside the Grand Canyon State. An Arizona Mirror analysis of campaign finance reports show that about 55% of the nearly $1.8 million that individuals have given to Finchem’s campaign have come from outside Arizona.

Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, who now teaches at the University of Michigan Law School, said that Attorney General Merrick Garland won't have a choice but to prosecute Donald Trump.

Over the weekend Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said that Trump must testify because there are far too many questions that have been unanswered. At the same time, Trump maintains his innocence and argues that he hasn't had an opportunity to defend himself publicly. Cheney said that if he truly believes that then he should come to the committee to testify.

Arizona’s political landscape has changed dramatically from what it was during the 1980s and 1990s. In those days, Arizona was a deep red state that was synonymous with the conservative politics of Sen. Barry Goldwater and his protege in the U.S. Senate, John McCain.

Goldwater, thanks in part to the infamous “daisy ad” aired by Democratic supporters of President Lyndon B. Johnson, suffered a landslide defeat in 1964’s presidential election. But in Arizona, Goldwater remained an icon of the conservative movement — and McCain was proud to call himself a “Goldwater conservative” or “Goldwater Republican.”

Fox News continues to face billion-dollar lawsuits from two companies that specialize in voting equipment, Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, for promoting the false claim that their equipment was used to help now-President Joe Biden steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump — a claim that has been repeatedly and thoroughly debunked. On Sunday, October 23, according to Vanity Fair, Fox Corp’s “legal woes” may have “become even more complicated by the fact, first reported by Semafor, that Fox Corp.'s top lawyer Viet Dinh only became licensed to practice law in California in June — despite becoming the company’s chief legal officer in September 2018.”

Vanity Fair’s Charlotte Klein, reporting on October 24, explains, “Dinh, Fox Corp.’s chief legal and policy officer, is licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C., but when the issue of his law license in California — where he is based — first came to Fox’s attention internally, in 2018, the lawyer dismissed the concern, according to Semafor…. An anonymous Fox News spokesperson claimed that Dinh’s application had been delayed first by the State Bar of California losing Dinh’s application and then by COVID-19; however, the State Bar of California’s executive director rejected both of those claims.”

A clash erupted on "The View" when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made excuses for the Jan. 6 rioters he helped encourage by objecting to the certification of Joe Biden's election win.

The Texas Republican appeared Monday on the ABC News program to promote his new book, "Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System," and co-host Alyssa Farah grilled him on his role in the insurrection.

Pennsylvania's Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman on Monday implored his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, to condemn former President Donald Trump's threat to challenge midterm election results in the Keystone State and beyond.

"It's clear that Donald Trump, Dr. Oz, and the GOP will do whatever it takes to try and steal this race on election night," Fetterman campaign spokesperson Joe Calvello said in a statement.

Saudi Arabia's day-to-day leader reportedly pushed to cut oil production before the 2022 midterms after deciding that he "much preferred" former President Donald Trump over current President Joe Biden.

The Wall Street Journal reported that relations between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the American government soured after Trump left office.

In the race for New Jersey’s 7th congressional district, incumbent Democrat Tom Malinowski and his Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr. are on the ballot.

Malinowski is a moderate Democrat who has spoken out against the far-left elements of the Democratic Party and he's even disagreed with President Joe Biden. Kean, however, is MAGA through and through, declaring that he “supports the Trump agenda” and “no matter what Trump does, Kean has his back.”

Former President Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork to challenge the results of the Pennsylvania Senate race, viewing the election as a "dress rehearsal for Trump 2024," according to Rolling Stone.

Trump last month met with Republican allies at Trump Tower to demand they "do something" about the Senate race between Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Republican challenger Mehmet Oz, claiming that there was a "scam" happening in Philadelphia and elsewhere around the state.

United States Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other Republican lawmakers holed up in a janitorial closet during the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection, according to excerpts from Cruz's new book that were obtained by Newsweek.

"Toward the end of our two-hour session, as Senator James Lankford from Oklahoma was speaking, there was a commotion from outside the [Senate] chamber," Cruz recalled in Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System. "Suddenly, Capitol Police officers rushed in and hastily escorted the vice president off the dais. Shortly thereafter, we paused the proceedings. In the fog of the confusion, it was difficult to tell what exactly was happening. We were informed that a riot had broken out and that rioters were attempting to violently breach the Capitol building. At first, Capitol Police instructed us to remain on the Senate floor. And so we did. Then, a few minutes later, they instructed us to evacuate rapidly."

The trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has been thrown into disarray after Rhodes tested positive for COVID-19.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, the trial is in "temporary limbo" now that Rhodes will be quarantining in prison for at least the next week.

A week before Israel's fifth general election in less than four years, one question dominates: will the hawkish ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu return to power?

Polls show he would likely need heavy backing from the country's rising extreme-right to form a government -- a scenario which, one expert warned, would spell "disaster" for Israel's democracy.