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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes:
President-elect Trump backs away from Candidate Trump’s promises
✹ Speaker Joe Tate:
A final burst of legislative action as Republicans walk out
✹ Democratic State Convention February 22 to elect new party leaders
In the News
Michigan Politics and Policy
- 2025 State Convention – Michigan Democratic Party
- Opinion: Trump’s tariff threats against Canada will whomp Michigan -John Lindstrom/Detroit Free Press
- Michigan House GOP storms off floor in protest during lame duck – Detroit Free Press
- Michigan Senate bans sales, possession of ‘ghost guns’ – Lansing State Journal
- Michigan Senate OKs unemployment boost with expanded, extended benefits – Bridge Michigan
- Michigan Dems, business groups at odds as family leave plan advances – Detroit News
- Senate OKs plan to bar income-based housing discrimination in Michigan – Detroit Free Press
- Gun reforms among measures approved in marathon Michigan lame-duck meetings – Bridge Michigan
- Four years after George Floyd, Michigan lawmakers push police reforms in lame-duck – Bridge Michigan
- Recount confirms Steve Frisbie’s GOP win in Battle Creek House race – Detroit Free Press
- This Ohio-Hating Michigan Democrat Has Thoughts on Why Her Party Lost – The New York Times
- ‘Momentous occasion’: FOIA for Michigan governor, lawmakers clears hurdle – mlive.com
Trump Grifting
- Trump’s $50 Billion Tax Giveaway to the 100 Largest Corporations – Center for American Progress Action
- Trump set for $1 million ‘candlelight’ donor meetings after last campaign – The Washington Post
- When it comes to grocery prices, Trump suddenly changes his tune – MSNBC
- Trump’s Corruption Business Officially Expands in Saudi Arabia – The New Republic
- Trump Organization leases brand to 2 new projects in Saudi Arabia – AP News
- Trump’s Perfume Line Hits the Market With Jill Biden Photo – The New York Times
- Dr. Jill Biden Should Sue Trump for $100 Million…Here’s How – Meidas+
- Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators – Wall Street Journal
- Trump’s Perfume Line Hits the Market With Jill Biden Photo – The New York Times
- Michigan Republicans to push constitutional amendment requiring ID to vote – Bridge Michigan
- Trump promises to end birthright citizenship: What is it and could he do it? – AP News
- Trump Names Top Targets in Chilling Revenge Threat – The New Republic
- Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against Linda McMahon, Trump’s Education Secretary Pick, Is Paused – The New York Times
- Trump’s Desperate Fight to Erase His Convictions / Harry Litman
- Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine – AP News
Trump’s Band of Billionaires, Felons, Cronies and Buffoons
- Want a Job in the Trump Administration? Be Prepared for the Loyalty Test. – The New York Times
- Trump’s billionaires set to take government by storm – Axios
- Trump’s Plan to Turn the IRS Into a Grifter’s Paradise – The New Republic
- Trump taps family ties to key administration roles. Who are they? – USA Today
- A comprehensive review of the revolving door between Fox and the second Trump administration – Media Matters for America
- Fox Stars Are Personally Contacting Senators to Push for Pete Hegseth – Daily Beast
- What Americans think about Hegseth and key Trump picks: AP-NORC poll – AP News
- Threatened With Jail, Liz Cheney Condemns Trump’s ‘Assault on the Rule of Law’ – The New York Times
- Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick Preaches the Benefits of Climate Change – Wall Street Journal
- Trump says he wants Kari Lake to helm Voice of America – NBC News
- RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval – The New York Times
- Polio survivor Mitch McConnell criticizes efforts to undermine vaccine – The Washington Post
- RFK Jr. pushes his daughter-in-law for CIA deputy director – Axios
- Musk escalates SEC feud as Wall Street regulator pushes for settlement – Politico $$
Across the Nation
- Interactive Daylight Saving Time County Map – Washington Post
- Voters Want Biden to Adopt the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution – Data for Progress
- President Biden Announces Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Americans – White House
- Majority of Voters Approve of Pardons for Victims of Drug War and Abuse – Data for Progress
- New Florida sex education curriculum excludes almost all information about sex – Judd Legum/Popular Information
- Montana Supreme Court upholds ruling allowing gender-affirming care for minors – AP NewsNorth Carolina GOP lawmakers enact a law eroding the incoming Democratic governor’s powers – AP News
- Florida lawmakers propose rolling back gun control laws passed after Parkland shooting – AP News
- New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books in school, public libraries – AP News
- Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors – AP News
- Bank Overdraft Fees Overhauled by Biden Administration – Wall Street Journal
- Trump Prepares for Legal Fight Over His ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Curbs – Wall Street Journal
- Interstate abortion fights will take off in 2025 – Slate
- Texas sues New York abortion provider – The Texas Tribune
- Trump calls for ending daylight saving time. It’s ‘inconvenient,’ he says. – The Washington Post
- Mitt Romney’s Senate exit might create vacuum of vocal, conservative Trump critics – AP News
- The Oil Industry Is Helping to Spread Misinfo About Whale Deaths – The New Republic