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Experience

• Arizona Watchdog Project, Senior Reporter, June 2025 to present: A yearlong reporting effort led by New Times and supported by the Trace Foundation, in partnership with Deep South Today.
• ​​Independent Reporter/Writer
  Phoenix, Arizona – May 2017 to Present
  Research, report and write news items and investigative pieces on crime, extremism, politics, immigration and other subjects for various outlets
• Writer/editor of FrontPageConfidential.com, a website that reports on matters involving the First Amendment, including the Backpage case. 
• Former political columnist for the Phoenix New Times. Bylines in Phoenix Magazine, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly,  New Times L.A., L.A. Downtown News, Salon.com, Hustler, Splice Today, Soma Magazine, Jacobin, Sierra ​Magazine, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report, and many others.

​Featured Stories​

• "Pinal County Attorney’s top investigator body-slammed Black teen," Phoenix New Times
• "How Scottsdale cops botched a probe into a strip club drugging scheme," Phoenix New Times
• "Ghosts of Seligman: ​A septic tank in this tiny Arizona town could crack a 2006 cold case," Phoenix New Times
• "Tom Homan once spared Phoenix migrants. Now he’s Trump’s Darth Vader," Phoenix New Times
• "Miscarriage of justice: Donald Trump’s war on pregnant migrants," Phoenix New Times
• "Police identified, never charged suspect in 2022 teacher killing," Phoenix New Times
• "State Bar knew Allister Adel may have been a domestic violence victim," Phoenix New Times
• "The War on Woke," Phoenix Magazine
• "Tax Break Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Goldwater Institute’s hypocrisy​," Phoenix New Times
• "Bruises, fights, a fall: Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel’s rumored domestic violence ordeal," Phoenix New Times
• "Joe Arpaio's goons busted her jaw. Now U.S. Army mom faces deportation," Phoenix New Times
• ​"2 men took Angel Reyes for a ride. He ended up in the morgue," Phoenix New Times
• "She was a Republican activist. I was not. What I learned from our unlikely friendship," Arizona Republic
• "Neo-Nazi, Two Others Arrested in Killing of Gay Phoenix Man," Phoenix New Times
• "Demon in the Dark: The Perplexing Unsolved Murder of David Denogean," Phoenix Magazine
• "Doomsday Duo charged for taking teen out of Arizona ahead of apocalypse," Phoenix New Times
• "Death in the Desert: Who Killed Sex Worker Brenda Broyles?" Phoenix Magazine​
• "Paging Senator Sinema," Sierra magazine
• "Cowboy Down: The Tangled Arizona Legacy of Lawrence Tenney Stevens," Phoenix Magazine
• "When Kyrsten Sinema Tried to Stop the Recall of an Anti-Immigrant Zealot," Jacobin​
• "Show Low Musician Punks Arizona Legislature," Phoenix Magazine
• "Martyred at the Mic? ASU Removed a Student radio Station Manager Due to an Unwoke Tweet. Does the Cronkite School Have a Free Speech Problem?" Phoenix Magazine 
• ​"Once Upon a Time . . . in Tempe: The Early Days of Phoenix New Times," Phoenix New Times​
• "Cast Away: Jeff Flake Sacrificed His Political Career to Defy the GOP and President Trump," Phoenix Magazine
• "The Avengers: The Elite Phoenix PD Squad That Smashed Violent Valley Fascists," Phoenix Magazine
• "Neo-Nazi Travis Ricci Dodges the Needle for Murder; Jury Saw No Hate Crime," Phoenix New Times
• "Blood Cult: Utah’s Polygamous Kingston Clan Mixes Incest and White Supremacy with Old-Fashioned Capitalism," Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report
• ​"21st-Century Viking: The Life and Death of Ex-Con, Tattoo Artist, and Heathen Warrior Jubel Dean Perkins," Phoenix New Times​​