Arizona House Minority Leader Reginald Bolding wrote what turned out to be a prophetic guest column.
He was making the case for Washington, D.C., to receive statehood and full congressional representation, which has little to do with Arizona legislation right now.
But if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a defense of restrictive election laws being argued by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, state-level Democrats across the nation are going to have to look toward influencing the federal government in order to maintain political relevance beyond the 2022 midterms.