Winn Tucson

Guests - Katie Asher, Joel Strabala, Laurie Moore, Eileen Wilson

Guests - Katie Asher, Joel Strabala, Laurie Moore, Eileen Wilson
Monday on Winn Tucson opened on Mother's Day weekend and closed on the eve of a Board of Supervisors meeting that could — if the board has the courage — change the face of law enforcement in Pima County. In between: a mother's two-decade journey with a son whose motor was destroyed by vaccines but whose spirit witnesses the spiritual realm; a tribute to a man whose rare gift was intelligence joined to kindness; an accountability session on election integrity and the LD-17 candidates; and an announcement of the party that will launch the campaign season in the most patriotic possible way.

Guests - Betsy Smith, Dave Smith, Jeremy Duda, Elijah Norton

Guests - Betsy Smith, Dave Smith, Jeremy Duda, Elijah Norton

Guests - Katey McPherson, Heather Rooks, Sergio Arellano, Scott Schara

Guests - Katey McPherson, Heather Rooks, Sergio Arellano, Scott Schara
Thursday on Winn Tucson was a morning that defied easy description. It was about sexual abuse in schools. It was about the institutional reflex to protect administrators over children. It was about a school board president removed for filing mandatory reports. And it was, by the end, a sustained conversation about the theological and structural roots of a culture that Kathleen Winn and her final guest agree is designed to kill — not always with weapons, but always with systems.
Four guests, one moral through-line: when institutions designed to protect people systematically protect themselves instead, the burden falls on individuals willing to stand up and take the consequence. Thursday's show was full of them.

Guests - Ava Chen, Pam Furie, Joel Strabala

Guests - Ava Chen, Pam Furie, Joel Strabala
Wednesday on Winn Tucson moved from the highest-stakes geopolitical negotiation in decades to a Treasury Department roundtable in Washington about senior financial security to the ground level of Pima County elections and a bomb threat student allowed back on his school bus. Three guests, three distinct worlds — and throughout all of it, the same recurring pattern: institutions run by people who don't serve the people they claim to represent, and the relentless effort to expose that gap before it closes permanently.

Guests - Andy Ross, John Hayworth, Joanie Hammond, Rodney Glassman

Guests - Andy Ross, John Hayworth, Joanie Hammond, Rodney Glassman
Tuesday on Winn Tucson was, as Kathleen Winn noted at the close, a drug show — though not in the way that phrase usually lands. The morning connected pharmaceutical pricing to abortion medication to fentanyl deaths to the statewide race for attorney general in a chain of arguments that shared one central diagnosis: institutions that should be protecting people are profiting from their harm instead, and the people doing the protecting are working on a shoestring in converted office space three doors down from an abortionist.
Four guests. A patriot musician who turned a song into a company. A six-term congressman who turned pharmaceutical reform into his final mission. A pregnancy center founder holding the line in Tucson. And a lieutenant colonel JAG attorney who wants to be Arizona's next top prosecutor.

Guests - Betsy Smith, Alex Kolodin, Jan Edwards, Lori Schott

Guests - Betsy Smith, Alex Kolodin, Jan Edwards, Lori Schott

Guests - Drew Allen, Rick Shafton, Dave Smith, John Gordon, Cheryl Caswell

Guests - Drew Allen, Rick Shafton, Dave Smith, John Gordon, Cheryl Caswell
Friday on Winn Tucson came loaded with irony — the show aired on May 1st, historically the day communist and socialist movements march through city squares around the world, while on the ground in Pima County, conservatives were organizing to recall a sheriff, push a voting integrity law through a resistant Senate, and prepare a lawsuit against Arizona's own secretary of state. Five guests, one full morning, and a recurring challenge to a single question: when do Republicans actually follow through?

Guests - Merissa Caldwell, Rep. Lupe Diaz, Scott Schara

Guests - Merissa Caldwell, Rep. Lupe Diaz, Scott Schara
Thursday on Winn Tucson carried a weight that went from the practical — voter registration deadlines, budget votes, and out-of-state registration schemes — to the profound: a father who has now lost two children and believes both deaths trace to the same underlying system. Three guests. Three distinct battles. One shared conviction that things hidden in plain sight are the most dangerous.

Guests - Ava Chen, Joel Strabala, Mike Arnold

Guests - Ava Chen, Joel Strabala, Mike Arnold
Wednesday on Winn Tucson covered the arc from Washington to Nigeria — from the third assassination attempt on a sitting president, to a voter registration scheme mailed from Pennsylvania to Arizona addresses, to a Christian genocide that has killed more than six million people and that almost nobody in the American press has reported.
Three guests. Three battlegrounds. And one question threaded through all of it: how much is being done to this country and to this world that we are simply not paying attention to?

Guests - John Riches, Walt Blackman, Jay Tolkoff, Cheryl Caswell, Lisa Von Geldern

Guests - John Riches, Walt Blackman, Jay Tolkoff, Cheryl Caswell, Lisa Von Geldern
Tuesday on Winn Tucson was a full accounting of where Arizona stands — in the courts, in the legislature, in the county supervisor's chamber, and in the voting booth. Five guests. Five different battlegrounds. One through-line: the people who are supposed to serve Arizonans keep trying to circumvent the rules that protect them, and there are people in courtrooms, legislative chambers, and living rooms who are determined to stop them.