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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes: A Week to Celebrate
✹ Democratic Voices: Mike Rogers has sold out Michiganders to get rich
✹ This week’s Trump/GOP Outrage:
Overt Racism and Sexism
This Week in the News
Harris for President
- Harris has secured enough Democratic delegate votes to become their party’s nominee, chair says – AP News
- UAW endorses Harris, giving her blue-collar firepower in industrial states |- AP News
- Election 2024: Harris dares Trump to ‘say it to my face’ and debate her – AP News
- Kamala Harris Erases Trump’s Swing-State Lead in 2024 Election: Poll – Bloomberg
- Opinion | Hillary Clinton: How Kamala Harris Can Win and Make History – The New York Times
Michigan
- VIDEO – Paul Whelan Thanks Government, Supporters – Wall Street Journal
- Michigan Supreme Court rules against Legislature in adopt, amend case – Detroit Free Press
- What to know about Michigan’s pending minimum wage changes – Bridge Michigan
- Michigan bills would expand insurance contraception coverage – Detroit Free Press
- Deep in conspiracy country, a Michigan election clerk reconsiders retirement – Bridge Michigan
- Detroit lawyer: My friend, JD Vance, ditched beliefs for ‘money and power’ – Bridge Michigan
- Chair Lavora Barnes MSNBC Interview with Ali Velshi – YouTube
National Politics and Policy
- Opinion | Joe Biden: My plan to reform the Supreme Court and ensure no president is above the law – The Washington Post
- In an attempt to reverse the Supreme Court’s immunity decision, Schumer introduces the No Kings Act – AP News
- What the U.S.-Russia Prisoner Swap Means For President Biden – Wall Street Journal
- Bill to expand child tax credit and restore business tax breaks rejected in the Senate – AP News
- Employers added 114,000 jobs in July – The Washington Post
- Proposed US rule would ban airlines from charging parents additional fees to sit with their children – AP News
Trump/GOP Outrages
- Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 Case Could Still Blow Up Before the Election – Daily Beast
- White Man Tells Black Journalists His Black Opponent Is Not Black – Mother Jones
- Live fact check: Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists conference – PBS News/Politifact
- Trump and allies unleash attacks on Harris’s gender and racial identity – The Washington Post
- The Real Reason Trump Attacks Harris’ Racial Identity: It’s a Distraction – Daily Beast
- Childless Adults and Stepparents Have Some Thoughts on JD Vance – Mother Jones
- $10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt – The Washington Post
- Trump’s Conflicts of Interests — ProPublica
- Meyerson on TAP: The Republican War on Voter Initiatives Rolls On – The American Prospect
- The truth about “migrant crime” during the Trump administration – Judd Legum/Popular Information
- Rick Wilson on the weirdness of JD Vance – Aaron Rupar/Public Notice
- J.D. Vance’s Disregard for the Rule of Law – Wall Street Journal
- Trump Proposes Fox News Debate with Kamala Harris on Sept. 4 – The New York Times