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This Week…
New Report: President Trump’s SOTU ‘Slam Dunk’ Is Anything But as Millions Lose Health Care
Protect Our Care Michigan
In depth: How the Affordable Care Act changed America
The Obama Foundation
Millions of Americans Are Going Uninsured Following Expiration of ACA Subsidies
Wall Street Journal
Child vaccination rate drops sharply in Michigan
under RFK Jr’s influence
Reuters
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In the News
Michigan Politics and Policy
- 115 ‘No Kings’ events planned in Michigan. See current locations | | Lansing State Journal
- Peters, Slotkin question Mullin in heated DHS nomination hearing | Detroit Free Press
- Peters & Slotkin Press National Weather Service for Answers on Lack of Tornado Watch Alert for Southwest Michigan Tornadoes (News Release)
- JD Vance Michigan visit: voting claims, dissing John James | Detroit Free Press
- Fact check: JD Vance touts jobs in Michigan, says gas prices will drop – Bridge Michigan
- Nessel seeks major cut to DTE gas rate hike request | Detroit News
- In Michigan, lawmakers call for artificial intelligence regulations | Detroit Free Press
- Mike Cox: John James Misleads Voters with False Trump Endorsement Ad
- Conservative PAC to spend $15 million to elect Mike Rogers | Detroit Free Press
- Ex-wife’s claims rattle Michigan attorney general race | Detroit News
- Jocelyn Benson targets ‘dark money’ in Michigan transparency plan – Bridge Michigan
- Pete Buttigieg’s 2026 project – POLITICO
- Business, labor, democracy groups: Vote NO on Con- Con to protect Michigan’s constitution – Protect MI Constitution from Special Interests
- 6 major issues in Michigan’s US Senate race – Bridge Michigan
- Senate Says Yes To Making Anti-Terrorist Penalties 1st-Amendment-Proof | MIRS News
- As signature deadline looms, petition fraudster gets prison time in 2022 scandal – Bridge Michigan
- Who Gave You That Award Again? | MIRS News
The GOP Economy
- How Trump’s tariffs have hurt manufacturers instead of helping them | AP News
- Iran war jolts oil markets, sending US gas prices to a 2.5-year high | AP News
- US wholesale prices surged last month, before Iran war sent oil and gasoline prices soaring | AP News
- Democrats Hammer Trump on ‘Energy Affordability’ – The New York Times
- Trump’s Attack on Renewables Means High Utility Prices for Everyone | The New York Times
- Administration to Convene ‘God Squad’ With Power to Override Environmental Law – The New York Times
The Bungled Trump-Created War
- Trump Wants $200 Billion for Bombs. Here’s What That Could Buy Instead. – Mother Jones
- Republicans Start to Rebel as Trump Asks for $200 Billion for Iran War | The New Republic
- For the Same Cost as Another Mideast War, We Could Make Oil Irrelevant | The New Republic
- Top counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Trump’s Iran war | AP News
- Team Trump gives away the game with its crusade against media coverage of the Iran war mblog
Grifter in Chief
Like Julius Caesar before him, Trump gets his image on a coin – The Washington Post- See the U.S. anniversary coins that made the cut and who was left out – Washington Post
- Trump Organization Eyes Transylvania Golf Course Deal – The New York Times
- Jared Kushner’s conflicts of interest become even more controversial | Maddow Blog
- Democrats Press GOP Oversight Chair To Probe Interlochen’s Epstein Links | MIRS News
Attacking the Bill of Rights
- Judge rules Pentagon press policy unconstitutional in case brought by NYT – The Washington Post
- Hegseth’s Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny during Iran war | AP News
- Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’ | The Guardian
- Jim Crow Redux: The “SAVE America” Act Is a Poll Tax, Plain and Simple | The New Republic
- John Roberts Sends Trump a Message After His Tirade on Supreme Court | The New Republic
- Trump team pushes media to tell Iran war story the White House’s way | AP News
Across the Nation
- Senate Republicans worry they’re losing ground in the midterms – POLITICO
- No H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia – The New York Times
- Prosecutors seek to dismiss charges against two Louisville officers in the Breonna Taylor case | AP News
- Trump Officials Weigh New Plan to Stop Offshore Wind Farms – The New York Times
- The GOP’s Character Cancer | Stuart Stevens/Lincoln Square
