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No endorsement

The district

Legislative District 26 covers West Phoenix. Its partisan baseline is strongly Democratic: the district voted Democratic by 28.8 points for president in 2024 (D+28.8).

Three seats are at stake: one in the Arizona Senate and two in the Arizona House, where voters vote for two. The Senate incumbent seeks a third term. Both House incumbents were renominated, Republicans fielded two House nominees, and a Green nominee reached the ballot from a primary decided by ten votes — a low-volume flag voters should see in print.

The Senate race

Flavio Bravo (D) is the incumbent, in his second term. In 2024 he won 66.3%–33.7% over Vic Harris. He won the 2026 Democratic primary with 7,994 votes.

Bravo's best honest case: he is a two-term incumbent who won his last general election by nearly two-to-one, in a district that keeps choosing Democrats by wide margins. Experience and a proven district-wide vote are what he offers.

Pros: Two terms of experience; a decisive 2024 general-election win; renominated without drama. Cons: He is a party-line Democrat. No documented break with his party toward our values — the Manchin test — was located in this record. That is enabler status. No personal extremist program was documented for him, and this publication does not use that word without one.

Jim Bishop (R) is the Republican nominee. He won his primary with 3,153 votes.

Bishop's best honest case: he gives voters in a D+28.8 district a contested Senate race, and a Senate organizing vote is the heaviest vote in state government — majorities control confirmations, and the judicial pipeline compounds for decades. Standing for that vote in hard territory is not nothing.

Pros: Provides a real general-election choice; contests the chamber where an organizing vote weighs most. Cons: The record located here is thin — a primary vote total, with no documented record in office and no verified signature claims to test. An insufficient record is stated plainly; it is not padded, and it does not meet endorsement diligence.

The flaw, plainly: For Bravo, party-line enabler status with no Manchin-test break located. For Bishop, no proven flaw was located — the obstacle is verification, not conduct.

The House race

Voters choose two. The Democratic incumbents, Cesar Aguilar (D) and Quantá Crews (D), were both renominated — Aguilar with 7,242 votes and Crews with 6,040. The Republican nominees are Frank Roberts (R), with 2,639 votes, and Jonathan McKenna (R), with 2,448.

The Green nominee is Hector Gomez. Print this with its flag attached: Gomez comes from a 10-vote Green primary. He was on the Green primary ballot — not a write-in — and his advance is compiled as a nomination, but a nomination produced by ten votes is a low-volume result, and voters deserve to see the number rather than a bare party label.

Aguilar's and Crews's best case is joint incumbency in a district their party carries comfortably. Roberts's and McKenna's best case is a complete Republican slate — two nominees for two seats, which several districts this cycle did not manage — in the chamber where a Democrat's organizing vote is lighter: a stalled House is not a lost House when the Senate holds. Gomez's best case is ballot access for voters who want a third-party option; the ten-vote primary is the honest limit on what his nomination demonstrates about district-wide support.

Pros / Cons, tightly: Aguilar — pro: incumbent, led the field; con: party-line Democrat, no break located. Crews — pro: incumbent, renominated; con: party-line Democrat, no break located. Roberts — pro: completes a full slate; con: thin verified record. McKenna — pro: completes a full slate; con: thin verified record. Gomez — pro: on the ballot; con: nomination rests on 10 primary votes, record unverified.

The flaw, plainly: No proven personal flaw was located for any House candidate in this record. The Democratic incumbents are priced as enablers, not extremists.

OUR CALL

Senate — NO endorsement. Bravo does not pass the Manchin test on this record, and in the Senate his organizing vote is heavy. Bishop's file is too thin to satisfy the diligence an endorsement requires — an endorsee's claims must be verified with the same rigor as an opponent's, and here there is not enough verified material to do it.

House — NO endorsement. Both Democratic incumbents carry enabler pricing with no break located; both Republican nominees present records too thin for endorsement diligence; and the Green nomination, resting on ten primary votes, does not carry a verifiable record either. Thin record means a shorter leash, not a borrowed one.

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Vote early. Research your candidates. Choose the best moderates, whatever their party — no extremism from either side. And encourage your friends and family to do the same.

Sources

Election result — November 4, 2026

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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