On Tuesday, Phoenix New Times conducted some pre-election housekeeping. Major statewide races — for Arizona governor, attorney general , secretary of state and more — are looming in 2026, and many candidates for those offices are already blasting out press releases. Like any news outlet would, New Times went about getting onto those distribution lists.

We won't have a spot on one of those lists, however. Tom Horne, the Republican superintendent of public instruction who is running for reelection next year, has personally barred us from his campaign email list because he dislikes our coverage.

"You’re the only news source in the state that I will not waste time on," Horne wrote New Times in an email.

Horne's reelection race will be one of the more interesting in the state. Four years

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