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Experience

• Arizona Watchdog Project, Senior Reporter, June 2025 to present: Part of a team of investigative reporters and editors producing long-form, investigative pieces on immigration, corruption and other issues. 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, Salon, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Splice Today, Jacobin, Sierra ​Magazine, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report, and many others.​
  

Barrel Proof Stories 

Multiple Pieces

• ​Phoenix Magazine
• Phoenix New Times​
• Salon
• ​Front Page Confidential
• LA Weekly

​Featured Stories​

• "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​​