Prepared for the worst
1,800 bills vs you ... Neighbors win this round ... And Rose from Titanic isn't your representative.
Arizona’s 90 lawmakers will officially start filing bills next week.
Are you ready?
Legislators introduced more than 1,800 bills at the state Capitol last year, any one of which has the potential to be disastrous to your life, your livelihood, your clients or your freedoms.
We’ve tracked the state Legislature as beat reporters for nearly two decades. Trust us when we say it’s darn hard to keep up with these lawmakers — even if it’s your full-time job.
So we built a tool to solve that pain.
We launched Skywolf legislation tracking software in 2024 with just a handful of clients.
We’ve grown a lot since then.
These days, some of the biggest and best lobbying organizations rely on Skywolf to stay ahead of the competition — not to mention state agencies, law firms, nonprofit advocacy organizations, the Arizona court system and more than a dozen cities and towns.
And we’ve spent the summer and fall adding new features our users wanted — and a few they didn’t know they needed.
The Agenda team thinks it’s awesome for staying ahead of the gaggle at the Capitol.
But what do our actual clients say?
“I keep track of hundreds of bills each session and have multiple users on my account. Skywolf makes it easy for everyone to see the latest updates in one place, and the live-updated reports are excellent for client communication.”
— Elise Kulik, Perennial Policy
“The number of hours Skywolf has saved us in compiling reports and bill summaries is substantial.”
— Marilyn Rodriguez, Creosote Partners
“The tracking lists and reports are a huge time-saver. I especially like the feature that shows upcoming committee hearings and calendars. The alerts you can set for specific bills are very helpful in staying on top of things as they move quickly.”
– Kathy Senseman, Policy Development Group
“The ability to provide feedback to improve the user experience instantly set [Skywolf] apart from our previous system we were using. It showed me that they truly care about the process and made the switch an easy decision for someone like myself who needs a reliable and robust tracking tool.”
– Damien Johnson, Az Hospital and Healthcare Association
So what does it do?
Skywolf helps policy professionals:
Stay ahead of the calendar. Track committee hearings, floor sessions and last-minute agenda changes in one place.
Follow every bill that matters. Build custom tracking lists, monitor amendments and generate customizable, on-demand reports.
Track each bill through every stage of its life cycle — with text, email, or push alerts any time something moves.
Cut through the legalese. Instantly see AI-produced, expert-vetted summaries of every piece of legislation.
Never miss a move. Get real-time text, email, or push alerts any time a tracked bill advances, a new organization weighs in, or your tracked keywords appear.
Keep tabs on the players. Browse lawmaker and staff directories, committee profiles, and bill sponsors with one click.
Track public input. Monitor Request to Speak signups and see who’s weighing in on the bills you care about.
Filter faster. Sort by ARS title, bill status, sponsor, or topic to find exactly what you need — instantly.
2026 is gonna be huge
And we're rolling out a host of new features ahead of the 2026 legislative session.
First up: We’re launching AI-generated legislative hearing transcripts, so you can search and skim what was actually said instead of replaying three hours of testimony.
Our bill comparison tool lets you see exactly what changed — between iterations of bills, amendments or even versions of the same idea introduced years apart.
For teams working the votes, our whip sheets add a place to track your internal counts and notes alongside the live bill data.
Then there’s news. Our reporters read hundreds of Arizona stories every day and store links to the ones that matter — then AI tags them to the bills and lawmakers involved.
And now, Skywolf draws on ten years of legislative data, so you can trace trends, sponsorships or issue histories over the past decade.
Finally, we launched our Skywolf Council. It’s our monthly feedback session with users — lobbyists, agency staffers, policy nerds — where we walk through prototypes and let them decide what we build next.
Skywolf is built specifically for Arizona, by Arizonans.
Unlike 50-state bill-trackers, we understand the nuances of Arizona’s legislative process, and we built Skywolf to work the way you do.
How to sign up
If you’d like to learn more, check out our on-demand webinar or sign up for a one-on-one tour of the system.
Define “broke”: The Republic keeps digging up dirt on Sunshine Residential Homes, most recently with Stacey Barchenger shining a light on the group home operator’s dealings with state officials. Sunshine Residential executives claimed they were in the red and needed more money from the state. Officials ended up raising payments to Sunshine Residential by $4 million a year, or 30% higher than what the state had been paying. But records obtained by the Republic cast doubt on whether the company was actually in the red, particularly in light of seven-figure payouts to shareholders. In response to the Republic’s reporting, House Speaker Steve Montenegro launched an advisory team on Thursday to investigate what he calls a “pay-to-play scandal at DCS.”
Time for those roof repairs: The startup firm Near Space Labs is using AI-powered robots to take photos of homes in Arizona from high altitudes, the Arizona Mirror’s Jerod MacDonald-Evoy reports. The photos could be used to set insurance rates for Arizona homeowners, but since it’s a private company, the obvious privacy concerns might be harder to resolve.
What’s your number?: The Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Kris Mayes over a lack of transparency in her case against nine residential landlords and software company RealPage. Mayes accused the landlords and RealPage of working together to artificially inflate rent prices. But when the Goldwater Institute asked how many Arizonans had been affected by the scheme, Mayes didn’t give a clear answer. Instead, she said the number of people was confidential, and the Goldwater Institute vehemently disagreed.
“If the attorney general had received any unsolicited complaints from the public, it should be easy for her to simply state the number,” the Goldwater Institute said in a news release.
Um, that’s not what transparency means: A Phoenix police officer was indicted for driving 50 mph over the speed limit and causing a wreck, but the police department won’t share the indicted officer’s name, the New Times’ TJ L’Heureux reports. Police officials made sure to declare they were “committed to accountability and transparency with our community.”
We practice transparency every day.
Neighbors 1, City 0: A decision by the Arizona Supreme Court doesn’t bode well for city officials throughout the state. The justices declined to reconsider an Arizona Court of Appeals ruling that said the City of Tucson was liable for the public nuisances caused by a homeless camp, the Arizona Daily Star’s Charles Borla reports. A group of neighbors sued the city and the appeals court judges agreed with the neighbors, saying drug paraphernalia, refuse, feces and campfires were causing a nuisance and the city should have taken care of it.
In other, other news
The Glendale Police Department is facing backlash after it used an anti-Romani slur while searching for automated license plate reader data last year (Jerod MacDonald-Evoy / AZMirror) … A petition has received over 400 signatures for Saguaro High School to dissolve its Turning Point USA chapter (Alexandra Hardle / Republic) … Scholars are warning that new federal government policies, which are quietly changing LGBTQ+ life on campus, could reverse decades of progress at universities like ASU (Daniel Mills / LOOKOUT) … And the security guard who punched a man, who later died, at a Phoenix nightclub has been identified as a far-right YouTuber with a history of violent confrontations at political rallies (Robert Anglen and Elena Santa Cruz / Republic).
Arizona’s U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari was not thrilled that Senate Democrats caved to a basically concession-free bill to reopen the government. Still, she had a warm greeting for North Carolina’s U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, chair of the House Rules Committee.
“Welcome back from your eight weeks of taxpayer-funded vacation,” she told Foxx.
The 82-year-old congresswoman immediately cut Ansari off, announcing she was “sick and tired” of the talking point — and that she actually worked every day.
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The TikTok comments under a video of the exchange did not disappoint. The highlights include:
“MAKE TERM LIMITS A THING!!! We don’t need rose from titanic to be a representative”
“She worked tirelessly for 8 weeks trying to figure out how to save a word doc as a PDF!!!”
“Virginia Fox once stood in front of people and said that whole milk was good enough for Santa, so it should be good enough to put in school lunches. She said that in front of cameras.”
We checked, and yes, the milk thing happened.
2 of your 3 "hilarious" quotes trolling Virginia Foxx were about her age, not her behavior or political positions. Do better!
Nobody's life, liberty or pursuit of happiness is safe when the legislature is in session.