Hosts - Kathleen Winn & Dave Smith. Guests - Ava Chen, Anthony Dunham

Hosts - Kathleen Winn & Dave Smith. Guests - Ava Chen, Anthony Dunham

Hosts - Kathleen Winn & Dave Smith. Guests - Ava Chen, Anthony Dunham Wednesday on Winn Tucson was a show assembled in motion. Dave Smith was holding the studio alone when the show started, Anthony Dunham was in-studio ready to talk about the LD-17 State Senate race, and Kathleen Winn was still in the air somewhere between Washington, D.C. and Tucson — having started the day before 4 a.m. She made it. By midday she was on air, back from the Presidential 1776 Award finals at the White House and steering straight into China Watch Wednesday, which arrived with intelligence about a new nuclear pressure circle being assembled around Taiwan and Japan, Chinese police deployed in South Korea's elections, and the framework that explains every seemingly isolated political event happening around the world simultaneously.

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

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 trial preloading a summer of riots, and the most personal fight either Smith could name: the attempt by three far-left outsiders to take over the town of Marana. Kathleen called in from the Hotel Washington to break news of an Apache helicopter being shot down in Iran — and to confirm the pilots survived.

Guests - Josh Jacobsen, Matt Beienburg, Stephen Mundt

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 people out, sue them out, or constitutionally prohibit what they're doing.

Guests - Linley Wilson, Elizabeth Weiss

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 clawing back a benefit from 100% disabled veterans after the legislature already gave it to them. And a federal law that was supposed to protect Native American artifacts being weaponized to exclude women from science, bury irreplaceable history, and empty museum collections for reasons that have more to do with money and activism than cultural preservation.

Guests - Dave Smith, Alex Kolodin, Tom Horne

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 candidate with fresh data on Fontes's latest lies and protected voter data breach, and a Superintendent of Public Instruction who has a personal reason to believe history education is not optional.