We don't get to 2028 without getting through 2026. Arizona will be one of the most contested Presidential battlegrounds in the country in two years — and the infrastructure of that election, who administers it, who certifies it, who enforces its results, is determined entirely by what Democrats do this November.
Re-electing Hobbs, Mayes, and Fontes isn't just about 2026. It's about ensuring that when the most consequential election of the decade arrives, Arizona is governed by people who will protect its outcome.Frontera is the program that makes all of it possible. A 15-county statewide voter registration drive. A county leader training system that scales through every precinct in Arizona. A coordinated electoral strategy that ties voter reg to the legislative trifecta, the Congressional flip targets, and the messaging architecture that wins in a purple state under an anti-Trump wave. This program is the base. Everything else builds on it.
| Category | Q1–Q2 | Q3–Q4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| I. VOTER REGISTRATION PROGRAM — $500,000 | |||
| Field Organizers (8 FTE × 9 months @ $4,500/mo) | $162,000 | $162,000 | $324,000 |
| Materials — t-shirts, clipboards, pens, forms (15 counties) | $20,000 | $10,000 | $30,000 |
| VAN + Mobilize technology licenses | $10,000 | $5,000 | $15,000 |
| Training events + venue / food | $20,000 | $10,000 | $30,000 |
| Data quality control + support staff | $12,000 | $8,000 | $20,000 |
| Contingency | $50,000 | $31,000 | $81,000 |
| Subtotal — Voter Registration | $274,000 | $226,000 | $500,000 |
| II. STAFF + OVERHEAD — $500,000 | |||
| Frontera Program Director (1 FTE) | $55,000 | $55,000 | $110,000 |
| Regional Coordinators — N/S AZ (2 FTE) | $85,000 | $85,000 | $170,000 |
| Operations Manager (1 FTE) | $45,500 | $45,500 | $91,000 |
| Communications Staff (1 FTE) | $42,500 | $42,500 | $85,000 |
| Office / administrative overhead | $22,000 | $22,000 | $44,000 |
| Subtotal — Staff + Overhead | $250,000 | $250,000 | $500,000 |
| III. TRAININGS + CANDIDATE SUPPORT — $250,000 | |||
| Frontera 15-County Tour — travel, venues, food | $30,000 | — | $30,000 |
| County Leader Conference — end of May | $25,000 | — | $25,000 |
| Training curriculum development + materials | $20,000 | — | $20,000 |
| Regional training events — May–Oct | $25,000 | $25,000 | $50,000 |
| Candidate support + coordination | $25,000 | $25,000 | $50,000 |
| Speaker fees + reimbursements + contingency | $37,500 | $37,500 | $75,000 |
| Subtotal — Trainings + Candidate Support | $162,500 | $87,500 | $250,000 |
| IV. RESERVE FOR 2027 — $750,000 | |||
| 6-Month Operating Reserve (Jan–Jun 2027 overhead bank) | — | $750,000 | $750,000 |
| Total 2026 Program Budget | $686,500 | $1,313,500 | $2,000,000 |
| Source | Q1 | Q2 | Q3–Q4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADP Cash on Hand (committed from existing reserves) | $250,000 | — | — | $250,000 |
| AFL-CIO / AZ State Labor Council | $50,000 | $50,000 | — | $100,000 |
| SEIU (State + Local Chapters) | — | $50,000 | — | $50,000 |
| Small Dollar / Email + SMS Fundraising | $25,000 | $50,000 | $75,000 | $150,000 |
| Local Events + Individual Donors (ADP existing list) | $50,000 | $50,000 | $50,000 | $150,000 |
| Tier 1 Subtotal | $375,000 | $200,000 | $125,000 | $700,000 |
| Source | Q1 | Q2 | Q3–Q4 | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNC State Party Cycle Grant (est. $200–500K range for AZ) | — | $200,000 | — | $200,000 |
| Democracy Alliance Network — state party infrastructure | — | $150,000 | — | $150,000 |
| Wellspring Philanthropic / allied voter reg foundations | — | $75,000 | — | $75,000 |
| EMILY's List, LCV, additional foundation grants | — | $75,000 | — | $75,000 |
| Tier 2 Subtotal | — | $500,000 | — | $500,000 |
The DNC announced Arizona as a national voter registration priority in January 2026. It has not been formally committed to ADP as a specific dollar amount. Locking this down early converts $250K–$500K of pipeline to committed revenue and de-risks the entire budget. If secured, it funds the voter registration program on its own.
| Source | Q1 | Q2 | Q3–Q4 | Potential |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNC "When We Count" — AZ State Party Share (if formally secured) | — | $250,000 | — | $250,000 |
| DCCC Coordinated Investment (CD-1, CD-6) | — | $150,000 | $150,000 | $300,000 |
| Major Donor Cultivation (Democracy Alliance + new ADP relationships) | $100,000 | $100,000 | $50,000 | $250,000 |
| Tier 3 Subtotal | $100,000 | $500,000 | $200,000 | $800,000 |
| Total Revenue Target — All Tiers | $475,000 | $1,200,000 | $325,000 | $2,000,000 |
| Category | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $250K | $150K | $300K | $125K | $125K | $125K | $250K | $100K | $575K |
| Spend | $130K | $180K | $170K | $160K | $140K | $140K | $130K | $100K | $100K |
| Net | +$120K | −$30K | +$130K | −$35K | −$15K | −$15K | +$120K | $0 | +$475K |
| Cumulative Balance | $370K | $340K | $470K | $435K | $420K | $405K | $525K | $525K | $1.0M |
| Year | Goal | Voter Reg Target | Primary Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $2M | 50K new registrants | Frontera launch. Tour. Training. Voter reg dry run. Defend incumbents. Trifecta push. CD flips. |
| 2027 | $5M | Year-round | Scale county infrastructure. Candidate support program. Precinct captain deployment. Presidential backbone. |
| 2028 | $10M | Presidential scale | Full Presidential coordinated campaign. Maximum voter contact. Arizona as a genuine Democratic win. |
| Cumulative | $17M | A fully built Arizona Democratic Party machine. | |
The AZ Dems Command Center tracks every county, every organizer, every registration in real time. Budget targets map directly to program performance tracked live.
10K by June 22. 35K by October. All 15 counties. The electoral math behind every number.
If Frontera adds 35K new registrants in 2026 and retains 80% through 2028, and adds another 35K in 2027, Democrats arrive at the 2028 Presidential cycle with roughly 75,000 more registered voters than they would have had otherwise. Biden won Arizona in 2020 by 10,457 votes. That math is why this program exists.
How the 15-county tour launches the program and the training system sustains it through November.
If the Protect Education Act qualifies for the November ballot (needs 256K signatures by July 2), the Frontera Tour doubles as an ESA signature drive. Every county event is already organized, already has volunteers, and already has earned media attention. The ESA story and the voter registration story become one story — and each amplifies the other.
The full 2026 electoral map. Statewide races. Congressional targets. The legislative trifecta. Messaging architecture.
A Republican Secretary of State controls voter roll maintenance, ballot design, and county canvassing oversight heading into 2028. A Republican Attorney General controls how election law gets enforced. A Republican Governor controls the certification process. This isn't an abstraction — it's what almost happened in 2022 when Mark Finchem nearly became SOS and Abe Hamadeh nearly became AG. Fontes won by 52%. Mayes won by 280 votes. Defending these offices in 2026 is about protecting the 2028 Presidential election in Arizona.
Cost of living. Education accountability. Protecting our elections. Rights and freedoms. These are Arizona stakes — not national politics. Every door knock, phone bank, and registration event starts here.
The adult in the room. 390 vetoes protecting Arizona from MAGA extremism. She can't deliver what Arizona needs with a Republican legislature. Give her a government she can actually work with.
Fighting Trump in court every day while Arizona's other Republican AG candidates were helping plan January 6. She's the one standing between Arizona and federal overreach. 280 votes away from losing that.
He protected your vote in 2022. His opponent denied the 2020 results and wants to make it harder to vote. This isn't complicated.
Hobbs has been alone. She's vetoed nearly 400 bills in three years. The only way she delivers on affordability, education, and water security is with a legislature that will actually work with her.
$1 billion in taxpayer money. Diamond rings and gaming laptops. Three years of zero guardrails. Lawmakers won't fix it. Voters will.
"Your vote is already their target. Make sure they can't touch it." — The registration ask is also the persuasion message for voters who feel like the system is rigged against them.
Every county, every organizer, every registration, every race — tracked in real time on the AZ Dems Command Center. The four deliverables are the strategy. The platform is the execution layer.
Frontera Arizona 2026–2028 · Arizona Democratic Party · March 2026