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Jessica Corbett While the White House and Democratic congressional leadership are publicly hoping U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s departure from the party won’t change much in Washington, D.C., progressives in her home state of Arizona and across the nation are already pushing to replace the newly declared Independent if she runs …

Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced Friday morning that she was leaving the Democratic Party, a move that was not surprising to political observers and longtime former allies and foes of the senior senator who are now looking ahead to 2024. “Clearly, it gets her out of …

Ariana Figueroa, Arizona Mirror Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona’s senior U.S. senator, has left the Democratic Party and re-registered as an independent. “Nothing will change about my values or my behavior,” she told Politico, which broke the news Friday morning. The first-term senator wrote in an opinion piece for the Arizona Republic that she …

Former Presidential and New York City Mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang, has announced that he left the Democratic Party and registered as an Independent. “I changed my voting registration from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Independent’ today.  It was a strangely emotional experience,” he wrote. Yang announced the news on his blog Monday in …