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This Week…
How Trump Doomed the American Auto Industry
The American Prospect
Ex-Ally Warns Trump’s Decline Is “Significant”
After Disastrous Speech | The New Republic
Spring Endorsement Convention – 4/19/2026
Michigan Democratic Party
In the News
Murder in Minneapolis
- Senators Highlight Efforts to Improve Public Safety, Increase Transparency in Immigration Enforcement | Senator Stephanie Chang
- Michigan’s U.S. Senate candidates have disparate perspectives on dealing with ICE overreach | Michigan Advance
- ICE Barbie Kristi Noem Spews Vile Accusations Against Slain VA Nurse Alex Pretti | Daily Beast
- The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex Pretti | WIRED
- Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony | The Guardian
- Man Killed by Federal Agents in Minneapolis Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun – The New York Times
- The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal responses | LawDork.com
- Federal immigration agents keep shooting at drivers. We tracked 15 cases since July. | MS NOW
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Group touting ‘progressive champ’ in key Michigan race might be GOP | Detroit News
- Mike Rogers made almost $100K advising a company that helped Maduro regime spy on its citizens • Michigan Advance
- Mike Rogers Doubles Down, Dismissing Stellantis’ 48,000 Michigan Workers – WLNS TV
- VIDEO – Gretchen Whitmer on midterms, Trump administration and Democrats | NPR
- Slotkin accuses EPA of denial, deflection and delay in Flint water crisis cases – mlive.com
- Michigan tribes warn members about ICE stops: ‘Irony maybe is the word’ | Bridge Michigan
The GOP Economy
- Trump threatens 100 percent tariffs on Canadian imports in response to new trade deal with China – POLITICO
- How Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US | The Guardian
- Trump brags about his ‘promises kept’ — but there’s a whole lot he didn’t deliver | MS NOW
- 6,000 Truth Social Posts Later, Here Are the Promises Trump Kept—and Broke | Wall Street Journal
- Fact-Checking Trump’s Misleading Claims After One Year Back in Office – The New York Times
- Farmers Now Owe a Lot More for Health Insurance – KFF Health News
King Donald
- Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion – The New York Times
- Pulling out of 66 international organizations, Trump turns his back on science, facts, reason | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Donald Trump Squeezes Key Allies In Brazen $1 Billion ‘Peace’ Grift | Daily Beast
- Goodbye Cronkite, Hello Trump | Jennifer Schulze/Indistinct Chatter
- White House Warns CBS: Air Trump Interview in Full, or ‘We’ll Sue’ | The New York Times
- The MAGA Plan to Take Over TV Is Just Beginning | The New York Times
Trump’s “Gestapo”
- ICE Drags Half-Naked Citizen Out of His Home Into Freezing Cold | The New Republic
- Under Patel, F.B.I. Scours Its Records to Discredit Trump Opponents | The New York Times
- ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment – Judd Legum/Popular Information substack
- New Depths of Corruption in Minnesota | Harry Litman/Talking Feds Substack
- Justice Department subpoenas Walz and others in immigration enforcement obstruction probe | AP News
GOP Incompetence
- Trump’s long-awaited healthcare “plan” is a joke – Public Notice
- Pam Bondi Desperately Tries to Keep Damning Trump Files Hidden Forever | Daily Beast
- Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science – The New York Times
- As US Is Poised To Lose Measles-Free Status, RFK Jr.’s New CDC Deputy Downplays Its Significance – KFF Health News
- White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying – The New York Times
- Turns Out FBI Director Kash Patel Hates Reading | The New Republic