And here we thought Republicans were the party of law and order.

Since the Kansas City native retired to Province five years ago, Lisa Brauch has felt like the produce sticker on a supermarket tomato, a fleck of blue in a sea of red.

The Democrat decided this year to put on a brave face and be vulnerable with her neighbors across the aisle by exercising her First Amendment right to expression with a political sign in her graveled front yard.

“It’s a really red culture up here,” Brauch told InMaricopa, speaking of Maricopa’s only 55-and-up community.

For her, planting the sign in her yard and distributing more signs to other like-minded seniors “felt like coming out of the closet,” she said. “We don’t feel like we have to whisper anymore.”

And how was she repaid for her civic action? She became the victim of a politically-motivated crime that, while very minor, is also very real. That someone would Walz, ahem, waltz into her yard and make off with her Harris-Walz campaign sign is something Brauch never expected.

Under Arizona law, it is a misdemeanor “for any person to knowingly remove, alter, deface or cover any political sign of any candidate for public office. Residents are encouraged to not attempt to remove political signs themselves.”

The foamboard rectangle stood less than a day in the front yard of Brauch’s Wishing Well Lane home on the far west side of Province before it disappeared early Wednesday morning. Her friend noticed the sign on her way to play pickleball at 6 a.m. that day, but when she returned, it had vanished.

Brauch’s pet sitter, Rancho El Dorado resident Kimberly Diedrich, later found the sign in the woman’s own garbage bin.

“It was garbage day,” Brauch said. “Thankfully, the trash truck had already come, so we were able to retrieve the sign and it’s back up again.”

Diedrich told InMaricopa it was “super sad that someone would have the nerve to do that.”

“I am not a Trump supporter but would never even dream of removing someone’s property because of my own political agenda,” she said.

According to Brauch, this isn’t the first time political signs have been stolen, vandalized or destroyed in Province.

“Our neighbor takes down Democratic signs to make sure you want them because he can’t believe anyone in Province would actually want a Democrat sign,” she said, recalling two such instances last election season.

Diedrich said the incident was reported to the police, although Maricopa Police Department spokesperson Monica Williams said Thursday she could not locate a record of the call.

Province Democrats recently started a Facebook group for Harris supporters in that neighborhood, attracting 90 members in just two days. “Truly, it has been crazy the number of people who have started literally crawling out of the woodwork as Democrats,” Brauch said.

Now, the group waits to see if their local bid to reclaim the White House pays off.

In the meantime, Brauch hasn’t given up her activism.

“This is the first year for us that Democrats have felt somewhat united and comfortable putting up signs. I was obviously quite irritated,” she said of this week’s unrest.

“Until this season, most people have been hesitant to speak up. It’s a difference of opinion but we never felt comfortable doing it before. This time, we’re done being quiet.”