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Endorses Farnsworth
The district
Legislative District 10 covers East Mesa and Apache Junction. Its partisan baseline is Republican +20.9 in the 2024 presidential vote. Three seats are at stake: one state Senate seat and two state House seats on a vote-for-two ballot.
The Senate incumbent is Dave Farnsworth, a Republican with six terms served non-consecutively, who won in 2024 by 61.5% to 38.5% over Robert Doyle. In the House, Justin Olson is the incumbent seeking re-election; Ralph Heap is retiring to run for the Corporation Commission, opening the second seat.
The Senate race
Dave Farnsworth (R), incumbent. Farnsworth has served six terms in the Legislature, non-consecutively — one of the most experienced legislators on any ballot in this series. He won the Republican primary with 24,189 votes and took 61.5% in the 2024 general election.
Pros: Six terms of legislative service and a 23-point general-election margin in his last race; the incumbent in an R+20.9 district, holding a Senate seat where caucus math is priced heaviest. Cons: No proven in-service flaw was located in the compiled record at this sourcing depth. The flaw, plainly: None proven was located in the compiled record.
Blair Moses (D). Moses is a lawyer. He won the Democratic primary with 14,577 votes. His best honest case: a legal professional offering East Mesa and Apache Junction voters a Democratic alternative with a credible primary vote behind him.
Pros: A lawyer with a solid primary showing, giving the district a contested Senate race. Cons: A party-line Democrat with no Manchin-test break located, in the chamber where the organizing vote carries the heaviest price. The flaw, plainly: Enabler class, not extremist.
Nick Fierro (I). Fierro is a doctor who declared as an independent; he had raised $2,162 as of March 2026. His best honest case: a physician running outside both parties for voters who want neither.
Pros: An independent option with a medical background on a three-way ballot. Cons: His file is thin at this sourcing depth — $2,162 raised and no located public-service record against which to verify claims under endorsement diligence. The flaw, plainly: Insufficient record. A verification statement, not a demerit.
The House race
Justin Olson (R), incumbent, was renominated with 19,183 votes (44.03%). With Heap retiring to run for the Corporation Commission, the second Republican nominee is James Rogers, with 15,086 votes (34.62%). The Democratic nominees are Helen Hunter (12,862 primary votes) and Brian Calaway (10,428). A No Labels candidate, David Scott, appears with 516 votes.
Rogers is a newcomer at this level in the compiled record — no legislative service was located for him — which makes him unproven under our criteria: a watch-closely posture, never a demerit. The Democratic nominees' best honest case is the standard challenger's case in a Republican district; neither has a located Manchin-test break.
Pros: Olson — the renominated incumbent. Rogers — a nominated Republican for the open seat, unproven rather than flawed. Hunter and Calaway — a full Democratic slate for both seats. Cons: Hunter and Calaway — party-line Democrats, no Manchin-test break located; House caucus math is lighter than Senate math but does not carry the call against this Republican pairing. The flaw, plainly: None proven was located for Olson or Rogers; for the Democratic nominees, enabler class, not extremist.
OUR CALL
Senate — We endorse Dave Farnsworth. Six terms of service, a 61.5% win in 2024, and a Senate seat priced at the heaviest caucus math — against a party-line Democrat with no located break and an independent whose file is too thin to verify.
House — We endorse Justin Olson and James Rogers — Rogers as unproven at this level, and on watch. Olson is the incumbent. Rogers carries the unproven form expressly: no record to price is never, under our criteria, the stated reason to withhold an endorsement.
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Sources
- Wikipedia, "2026 Arizona Senate election" and "2026 Arizona House of Representatives election" (compiling Arizona Secretary of State primary results, July 21, 2026, and SeeTheMoney campaign-finance reports as of March 2026) — rosters, primary vote totals and percentages, Farnsworth's terms and 2024 margin, the occupations of Moses and Fierro as compiled, Fierro's fundraising, Heap's retirement to run for the Corporation Commission, and the 2024 presidential baseline (Dave's Redistricting via Wikipedia)
- Record gaps: no detailed legislative voting records or campaign-finance figures for most nominees in this district were verified at this sourcing depth; no verified public-service record was located for Rogers, Fierro, Hunter, or Calaway
- Standing check: no pedophile-association material meeting the proven standard was located for any candidate on this ballot
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.
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