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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes: Economics fact and (Trump) fiction
✹ Representative John Fitzgerald on battling sextortion
✹ This week’s Trump/GOP Outrage: Republicans refusing to condemn North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson
In the News
Michigan Politics
- VIDEO – Chair Lavora Barnes on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” – MSNBC
- Whitmer to Andy Cohen: ‘I was your most fun friend from high school’ – Freep
- Top Michigan Republican already warns of a stolen election – Detroit News
- Democrats won complete power in Michigan. Republicans are trying to take it away. – POLITICO
- ‘A false sense of comfort’: Michigan Dems fight to keep voters’ attention on abortion – POLITICO
- Detroit chamber won’t endorse Rogers or Slotkin in U.S. Senate contest – Detroit News
- Ben Carson says ‘we may have to’ die to protect right-wing America at MSU visit – The State News
- Michigan GOP walks fine line on absentee voting, as Trump sends mixed messages – Bridge Michigan
Michigan Policy
- Biden urges ban on Chinese cars from US roads – Detroit Free Press
- Lawmakers OK bills making Michigan caregivers public employees to ease unionization – Detroit News
- Deep in Michigan’s car country, switch to EVs fuels anxieties before election – Bridge Michigan
- Michigan election challengers face new rules to deter delays, disruptions – Bridge Michigan
- Lombardini to Stand Trial for Uttering and Publishing Following ‘Unlock Michigan’ Campaign Finance Investigation – Attorney General
Trump/GOP Outrages
- Trump’s Pitch to Working-Class Voters Is a Scam – The New Republic
- Opinion | Republicans come up with new ways to insult women – Karen Tumulty/The Washington Post
- Trump’s pitch to women is getting weirder and weirder – Public Notice
- Trump Appears to Have Lost a Total Grasp on Things – The New Republic
- Opinion | Donald Trump According to Those Who Know Him – The New York Times
- Trump campaign ad is stuck in an economic time warp – The Washington Post
- JD Vance messages in 2020 show him criticizing Trump’s record as president – The Washington Post
- Kushner’s Fund Has Reaped Millions in Fees, but So Far Returned No Profits – The New York Times
- Jared Kushner’s private equity firm raises even more red flags than before – MSNBC
- Obama and Biden achievements that Trump claims for himself – Washington Post Fact Check
- Trump Plans Massive Shake-Up of Justice Department – Wall Street Journal
- How Trump’s Tariffs Would Radically Redistribute Wealth Upward – The New Republic
- Trump Watches Hit the Market for Astronomical Price
- Mark Robinson vows to stay in race despite CNN report
- Newly unearthed data shows closer links to Robinson and porn, dating sites – POLITICO
- Criminalizing Pregnancy: A Record Number of Women Were Prosecuted the Year After Dobbs – Mother Jones
- Florida bans instruction on contraception and consent in sex ed classes – Popular Information
National Politics and Policy
- Biden’s U.N. speech was one of the most moving speeches of his long political career. – Slate
- Harris pledges ‘pragmatic’ approach to the economy in Pittsburgh speech – POLITICO
- Harris voices support for eliminating filibuster to secure abortion rights – The Washington Post
- ‘Athletes for Harris’: VP rakes in endorsements from hall of famers – USA Today
- FBI Releases 2023 Crime in the Nation Statistics — FBI
- Senate Democrats say they’ll expand the battlefield to Texas and Florida – The Down Ballot
- Ohio residents flock to Springfield’s Haitian restaurants: – The Guardian
- Haitian group in Springfield, Ohio, files charges against Trump, Vance – AP News
- Common myths about the new FBI crime statistics, debunked – Judd Legum/Popular Information
- Caught in Texas’ Medicaid and Food Stamp Application Backlog? Know Someone Who Is? Help Us Report. — ProPublica
- GOP leaders rely on Dems (again) to prevent a government shutdown – Maddow Blog
- GOP effort to change how Nebraska allocates electoral votes hits roadblock – The Washington Post
- Swing state Republicans say they see few signs of Trump door-knocking – AP News
