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We're joined by Yana Kunachov, who's a reporter for the Arizona Luminaria and is a core member for Report for America, the group that stays with reporters all across the country and is going to be a partner for us here on this show.

Thank you, Yana, for joining us.

I wanted to start from where your work focuses on community resilience, looking at how Arizonans are responding to kind of political impacts or policy impacts from the bottom up rather than the top down.

Can you give me a sense of how Trump's deportation tactics or his immigration crackdown has looked from your perspective in Arizona?

That sort of sounds like the tactics that we saw be really effective in Minnesota when it comes to public pushback.

Is what you're saying that like this has kind of forced a new level of organization or a kind of different evolved version of community organizing?

Yeah, you point out, obviously, an important difference is that Arizona is a border state.

And I remember that kind of clouding or, I guess, impacting the way people saw specifically the immigration issue when I was covering it in the 2024 election.

I mean, one of the things we've seen in public opinion data is a difference between people's feelings about border security, which they mostly support, and Donald Trump's deportation ramp up, which has been largely unpopular.

Have you seen that play out in terms of public opinion from your perspective?

Yeah, Trump has brought politics to them, and that may not have been exactly what they expected.

I mean, I wanted to ask kind of in the vein of your last answer, what's the biggest disconnect between the Arizona that you read in the national news, the Arizona that's kind of depicted as a battleground state, and the one that you experience as a resident or reporter?

Yeah, I mean, there are certainly places across the country that don't wear their political identity as strongly or as deeply.