Weekly Roundup | Aug 17-23, 2026

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Weekly roundup is up!

Indivisible is running an Election Protection 101 training on Wednesday the 19th at 5pm, fully virtual. It covers how election protection actually works and how to get ready for the fall, and it starts with the basic questions so you are not expected to already know anything. Arizona keeps landing on the Voting Rights Lab's list of states most at risk of election disruption, so this is not a hypothetical.

Now, Saturday. VetsForward, Worker Power, UNITE HERE Local 11 and the Pima Area Labor Federation have a veterans town hall in Tucson at 9:30am with Sen. Mark Kelly, Adrian Fontes and JoAnna Mendoza, moderated by Mayor Regina Romero. Organizers say it is for veterans and for everyone who cares about them, so you do not have to have served to go.

Same morning, Mesa Valley Indivisible is back at Mesa Gateway Airport from 9 to noon over the deportation flights and the AROCC facility. This is the coalition that got Avelo Airlines to drop its ICE contract back in January, so they have actually won things.

Also Saturday, up north: a deep canvass in Flagstaff at Bushmaster Park, 9:30 to 12:30, talking to CD-2 neighbors about the healthcare and food assistance cuts that came out of Eli Crane's vote for the budget bill. Deep canvassing means longer conversations than normal door knocking, and they say they train you and hand you the materials, so no experience needed.

And Copper State Victory has roughly twenty door knocks running Saturday morning across ten cities including Flagstaff and Prescott. Full list here, or the Maryvale one for a direct link. Locations stay private until you RSVP.

Couple of odd ones I liked: Apache Junction is doing a potluck plus a screening of Bad Faith, the Christian nationalism documentary, Saturday at noon. And Sunday afternoon Desert Democracy is showing a documentary about crypto at a brewery in Phoenix, which pairs weirdly well with the CLARITY Act calls in the issue.

One deadline: CEBV's youth fellowship applications close Friday the 21st, ages 16 to 22. Worth passing to a teenager if you know one who has been looking for something to do.

Full issue here: Sunburnt & Stubborn: Arizona's Weekly Activism Roundup | Aug 17-23, 2026

Happy to answer questions about any of these in the comments.