Over the weekend Arizona’s Democratic Party voted to censure U.S. Senator Krysten Sinema. The party claims “her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy” is justification for chastising and isolating her.

Sinema’s colleagues are furious she was vital in blocking Senate Democrats’ ability to pass Biden’s Build Back Better bill as well as the recent voting rights legislation. The Associated Press writes Democrats were namely upset with “her refusal to go along with fellow Democrats to alter a Senate rule so they could overcome Republican opposition to the bill.”

The AP points out that only three years ago, “Sinema was heralded for bringing the Senate seat back into the Democratic fold for the first time in a generation.” Now, however, donors are walking away and “groups are already collecting money for an eventual primary challenge, even though she’s not on the ballot until 2024.”

Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego said “any reservoir of goodwill that she had is gone.” While Sinema supported the Democrats’ voting rights legislation, she voted Wednesday with senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and all Republicans against a one-time rule changing or eliminating the Senate’s filibuster rule, which requires 60 of 100 votes to pass legislation, to just a simple majority.

Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey applauded Sinema and gave her “credit for standing up and protecting a Senate rule that she believes in.” He told reporters, “I’m glad that she’s trying to bring people together.”

Hannah Hurley, Sinema’s spokesperson, said before the censure vote, “during three terms in the U.S. House, and now in the Senate, Krysten has always promised Arizonans she would be an independent voice for the state – not for either political party.”

A few dozen “young people” are even holding hunger strikes to protest Sinema and Manchin. One of them, Shana Gallagher who co-founded Un-PAC last year to organize young people in favor of passing voting rights legislation said, “we are quite literally doing everything we physically, possibly can in terms of putting our bodies on the line and trying to plead for this action because the consequences (of inaction) are far worse than starving or going to jail or both.”