Winn Tucson

Guest Hosts - Dave and Betsy Smith.  Guests - Eileen Wilson, Steve Selvy

Tuesday on Winn Tucson found the hosts in unfamiliar chairs — Dave and Betsy Brantner Smith filling in while Kathleen Winn attended the Presidential 1776 Award finals at the White House in Washington, D.C. The morning covered California's impossible election math, a Sparkle for Freedom Gala update, a Carmelo Anthony...

Guests - Josh Jacobsen, Matt Beienburg, Stephen Mundt

Monday on Winn Tucson came back from the White House with energy and kept it all the way through. Three guests, three completely different battlegrounds — all of them converging on the same diagnosis: institutions that are supposed to serve the public have been captured by people who are working against it, and the only path out is to vote...

Guests - Linley Wilson, Elizabeth Weiss

The last Friday of the election season's opening sprint on Winn Tucson covered three subjects that don't share a news cycle but share an underlying problem: institutions that are supposed to serve the public using their authority to serve something else instead. A county attorney who doesn't prosecute crimes suing the president. Three county governments clawi...

Guests - Dave Smith, Alex Kolodin, Tom Horne

Thursday on Winn Tucson opened with justice being served on a man who published his own evidence and closed with a Polish-Jewish father whose love of history saved his family from the Holocaust. In between: a detailed accounting of the internecine Republican fight that is consuming time and resources during a critical election cycle, a secretary of state...

Guests - Ava Chen, Jeff Rhodes

Wednesday on Winn Tucson opened on California primary night results that surprised everyone who has been writing the state off, moved through a China Watch Wednesday segment that broke down exactly why Western sanctions against the CCP are less effective than policymakers believe, and closed with a Tucson resident whose name is a punchline about Pima County's roads &m...

Guests - Richard Lyons, Jack Dona

Tuesday on Winn Tucson covered the full arc from ancient civilization to modern Arizona: a historian who traces the collapse of free societies to a hundred-year-old plan inaugurated under Woodrow Wilson, a disabled veteran who opened his mailbox to find his approved property tax exemption stamped CANCELED in red, and a retired Master Sergeant who spent the second h...

Guests - Lisa Von Geldern, Kristen Pruett, Rick Shafton

Monday, June 1st — five weeks to July 4th, three weeks until early ballots drop, and 51 days until the Arizona primary. Winn Tucson opened the week with three conversations that moved from the philosophical altitude of constitutional theory down to the ground-floor mechanics of how voters get lost in the system before they even cast a ba...

Guests - Betsy Smith, Jerry Sheridan, Micheal Letts, Charles Heller

The Friday before a full election season launched on Winn Tucson with a show that had a consistent theme running through every segment: what does it look like when people actually do the job they said they'd do? A sheriff who puts ICE agents in his intake. A nonprofit founder who puts vests on officers who can't afford them. An adv...

Guests - Joel Strabala, Eileen Wilson, Scott Schara

Thursday on Winn Tucson moved from ground-level election machinery to a surprising internal legal victory to the sixth installment of a series that keeps finding new and uncomfortable ground to excavate. Three segments, three different scales — the precinct, the party, and the philosophical. All of it pointed toward the same thing: what are ...

Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith, Alex Kolodin

Wednesday on Winn Tucson opened with a Texas Senate runoff result that landed like fresh oxygen and closed with the most direct case yet for why the Arizona secretary of state race is the single most consequential race in the state. In between: China Watch Wednesday delivered some of its most urgent intelligence yet — the Putin-Xi pact, Pakistan and Serbia as captured vessels, Cuba...

Guests - Arturo Del Cueto, Laurie Moore, Kelly Walker

Tuesday on Winn Tucson — the first show back after Memorial Day — opened with a Border Patrol veteran who knows every corridor the cartels use, moved through a patriot and a Pima County watchdog who between them covered the Texas runoff, sign theft, and the supervisors' latest agenda, and closed with a Tucson father who was handcuffe...

Guests - Jarred Weisfeld, Mark Mix, Cheryl Caswell

The last show before Memorial Day weekend on Winn Tucson covered two fights that most people never hear about until it's too late: the fight to put a security guard in every elementary school before another shooting, and the fight to protect workers who don't want their paychecks funding political agendas they never agreed to. Sandwiched between th...

Guests - Bruce Wolff, George Khalaf, Scott Schara

The Thursday before Memorial Day weekend on Winn Tucson brought three conversations that moved from the deeply personal to the deeply structural. A missionary pilot who found faith through chaos and chaos through faith. A pollster and educator fighting to protect 103,000 Arizona children from an out-of-state money grab. And the fifth installment of ...

Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith

Wednesday on Winn Tucson was two shows in one: China Watch Wednesday with Ava Chen unpacking the most consequential week in global geopolitics in years, followed by Smith and Winn with Betsy Brantner Smith on teen takeovers, a mosque shooting, an illegal alien on a shooting spree in Austin, and the ongoing decay that follows every city that decides law enforcement is ...

Guests - Ally Miller, Anthony Dunham, David Schweikert

Tuesday on Winn Tucson packed three consequential conversations into two hours: a former Pima County Supervisor with sharp opinions on the attorney general's race, an LD-17 candidate introducing himself before the primary, and a sitting U.S. Congressman running for governor who brought the kind of economic precision to the conversation that mos...

Guests - Alex Kolodin, Laurie Moore, Jared Knott

Friday on Winn Tucson closed the week the way it opened: with elections. Alex Kolodin came in fresh from a face-to-face debate with his primary opponent — the first statewide debate moment in the secretary of state race — and what he brought back from it was not just a contrast of positions but a contrast of worldviews. Laurie Moore calle...

Guests - Chad Heinrich, Betsy Smith, Scott Schara

Thursday on Winn Tucson covered the full spectrum — from the practical economics of small business owners watching gas prices tick up, to the candlelight vigil that lit up Washington the night before in honor of 363 officers whose names were just added to the wall, to a father's patient, meticulous excavation of how an entire medical culture w...

Guests - Ava Chen, Thomas Horne, Laurie Moore

Wednesday on Winn Tucson began with a red carpet in Beijing and ended with a referral to the Arizona attorney general. In between: a sitting elected American official pleading guilty to being a Chinese Communist Party agent, a CIA whistleblower hearing that confirmed what the public was never allowed to know in 2021, a superintendent with breaking news ...