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Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 JUST IN: MAGA is on track to FLIP the Michigan US Senate seat RED, according to a new polling average 🔴 Trump-endorsed Mike Rogers: 43.9% (+3.2) 🔵 Abdul El-Sayed: 40.6% Good, KEEP PUSHING! Winning Michigan would be HUGE. Democrats are about to nominate "Abdul" and Rogers must defeat him! @Pollsmax average 0:00 / 0:39

A Detroit federal judge on Thursday ordered Comerica Bank to turn over $13,167 to the federal government to help pay down the $823,649 he still owes in restitution from his 2013 public corruption case. U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III rejected Kilpatrick's argument that the money was in his wife's business account, Pathfinder Consulting Firm, LLC, and therefore did not belong to him. Prosecutors argued they were entitled to garnish the funds to help pay Kilpatrick's restitution. In issuing his written ruling, the judge wrote that Kilpatrick failed to properly request a hearing, as required by law, and failed...

‘Revolutionary America’ Coming to Theaters from Fathom Entertainment May 31 – June 2 HILLSDALE, Mich. and DENVER, Colo. — April 17, 2026 — “Revolutionary America,” produced by Hillsdale Studios and distributed by Fathom Entertainment, the leading specialty distributor of content to theatrical partners worldwide, is Hillsdale College’s first feature-length documentary. Narrated by Tom Selleck, the film explores the Revolution through the experience of Americans between 1763-1791, bringing into focus the political principles that animated their fight for independence and self-government, as the Founding Fathers risked their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” in a fight for liberty that would shape a...

A former Detroit doctor pleaded guilty this week to receipt of child pornography after an FBI investigation revealed a string of sicko phone messages. Lincoln Erickson, 32, was arrested Dec. 10 after the feds discovered he was part of a larger child pornography and sexual abuse ring, US Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. announced. “I love being a pedo,” Erickson wrote in one vile message, according to Click on Detroit. “Bro, I love other pedophiles. So hot,” the former medical resident, who worked at Detroit Medical Center’s Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, wrote in Telegram messages, according to the outlet. Erickson’s...

The night after The Late Show’s final episode, Stephen Colbert was back on late-night television… in Monroe, Michigan. During his final monologue on Thursday, Colbert told the audience, “Tonight is our final broadcast from the Ed Sullivan Theater. We were lucky enough to be here for the last 11 years, all right? Can’t take this for granted, though technically our first show in July of 2015 was from a public access station in Monroe, Michigan for an audience of 12 people.” Colbert was referring to his July 2015 appearance on the public access show Only in Monroe, which he used...

Whitmer won't give them money to keep operating, which suggests that abortion doesn't really matter anymore Livonia — Gov. Whitmer refused an emergency request by Planned Parenthood of Michigan for $5 million last week, telling them to go find the money elsewhere. The retaliation by Lansing Democrats was swift, led by State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky. Pohutsky, a strong advocate for Planned Parenthood, exploded in anger. “You can’t say you’re going to fight like hell and then not do the bare minimum when they’re in need,” she told The Detroit News. Two prominent Democrats fighting? Heavens to Murgatroyd, this must be...

Every now and then, a story I’d heard before comes roaring back into the headlines. Most of the time, there’s a reason I ignored it initially. I hear plenty of dumb rumors and dubious stories, and the overwhelming majority aren’t worth remembering. Well, this time I was told correctly, and I can’t actually believe it. Damn. Just last week, the Detroit Regional Chamber released a poll about the gubernatorial race here in Michigan, and this is what they found...In response to one potential three-way matchup, about 34% of voters surveyed said they supported Benson, the current secretary of state from...

Take a walk down memory lane with me. It’s a midterm election, and things are not looking good for the president’s party. A grassroots revolt has erupted among the opposition party, which has infused it with much-needed energy and citizen activism, but has also produced some questionable, untested candidates running for federal office. I’m speaking about 2010, of course. Barack Obama, elected overwhelmingly in 2008, ran into a near immediate backlash to some of his policy initiatives – particularly a federal takeover of the healthcare system – reinvigorating the Tea Party movement among conservatives. The GOP, whose obituary was repeatedly...

Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it, Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens introduced the Hold ICE Accountable Act, legislation to establish an independent Special Prosecutor to investigate unlawful conduct by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This bill is her latest in a series of efforts to stand up to ICE, demand transparency, and fight for accountability after a pattern of violence, misconduct, and lack of oversight. Here’s what Michiganders are seeing and reading about Rep. Haley Stevens fighting to ensure accountability at every level of ICE, from the bottom to the top, so...

A Democratic congressional candidate in Michigan is being roasted online over a series of unhinged TikTok campaign videos that show her twerking, lip-syncing and posing in front of banners that scream “P—y Power.” Shelby Campbell, a 32-year-old single mom, has flooded her social media with clips of herself dancing, responding to haters and spouting her political views as part of her campaign for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, which includes parts of Detroit and several suburbs. Some of Campbell’s more outrageous clips have exploded online in recent days, racking up millions of views as critics claimed that she’s proof that “Democrats...

Michigan man Stephen Huesgen got a set of lucky numbers from a Zoltar machine 30 years ago and immediately started buying lottery tickets using them. And in traditional midwestern fashion, he didn't let decades of failure persuade him to stop using his mystical digits. If Zoltar could fulfill Tom Hanks's wish to be big, surely it could fulfill Stephen Huesgen's wish to be rich. And then, just like the in the movie, he woke up, and Zoltar had made him a wealthy man. The man used a set of three-decade-old lucky numbers from an animatronic fortune-teller machine to score a...

A court granted qualified immunity to all 11 deputies accused of violating John Griswold’s 14th Amendment rights.Imagine you're a sheriff's deputy and a detainee arrives, unresponsive and moving slowly after ingesting a large quantity of unknown pills. After a doctor clears him for jail, with a warning that any "deterioration" will require immediate medical care, the detainee is sent into a cell where he vomits profusely and remains unresponsive in the same position all night. Should you, as the deputy, call for help? And should you be legally held responsible if your inaction leads to the detainee's death? Earlier this...

Bordeaux-no! A Michigan woman was arrested and then rushed to the hospital after she stole a bottle of wine and hid it inside a “body cavity,” cops said. The 48-year-old was allegedly caught by shopkeepers drinking a bottle of alcohol in a Traverse City liquor store without paying for it, and returned the next day to nab a bottle of Chardonnay. Employees attempted to stop her, but were unable to find the pilfered tipple. That is, until police arrested her and found it stashed inside an unnamed bodily orifice at the jail, at which point she was brought to Munson...

A very interesting video about the Carney Doctrine: Behind the Scenes in Toronto and President Trump's Doctrine.

Michigan Democrats quietly introduced legislation last month that would legalize assisted suicide in the state. While the country was distracted by other issues, Democrats in Lansing rolled out a package of bills designed to create what they call a “Death with Dignity Act.” The name sounds so gentle and compassionate, yet it is anything but. According to the Midland Daily News, House Bills 5825 through 5828 seek to create a legal process to allow terminally ill patients to obtain medication from doctors that would kill them. The text of House Bill 5825 says it would “regulate physician assistance for patient-requested...

Days before Donald Trump is scheduled to visit mainland China, a group of mostly Democrat senators reportedly is urging the president to move ahead with a long-delayed $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan.The bipartisan group pressed Trump in a Friday letter to formally notify Congress of the major arms sale ahead of his summit this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, warning that U.S. support for Taiwan "is not up for negotiation," The New York Times reported. The senators argued Taiwan has already demonstrated its commitment to self-defense after lawmakers in Taipei approved a massive $25 billion special defense budget...

Summary of the video: The YouTube video (from commentator Nellie Miranda) reports on the criminal charges against Fay Beydoun (also referred to as Febe Dun or similar phonetic spellings), a Michigan businesswoman with close political ties to Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Key Details Charges: Beydoun faces 16 felony counts, including: One count of conducting a criminal enterprise (up to 20 years). Multiple counts of uttering and publishing, forgery, and related fraud offenses. Allegations: She allegedly misused a $20 million state grant (an earmark from the 2022 budget) awarded to her organization, Global Link International, which was intended for a business accelerator/economic...

🚨BREAKING: Republicans are on track to flip Michigan's US Senate seat, with Mike Rogers leading by nearly 4%. Michigan - 2026 US Senate 🟥Mike Rogers 44.3% (+3.7) 🟦Abdul El-Sayed 40.6% El-Sayed is the frontrunner to be the Democratic nominee and has not led in any of the 5 polls conducted between him and Rogers. Polling average via pollsmax.com.

LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) — Fay Beydoun, a businesswoman and longtime donor to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, has been charged with 16 felonies after allegedly misusing $20 million of the state budget, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced on Wednesday. For years, Beydoun was a fixture in Democratic politics, donating tens of thousands of dollars to Democrats across the state and more than $20,000 to Whitmer’s campaigns. She even hosted a fundraiser for the governor at her home, raising $13,500. [snip] The AG alleges that Beydoun forged an invoice from a law firm and used it for grant administration through the MEDC, presented...

New Jersey resident Yehuda Miller, Check My Vote founder Phani Mantravadi, and Patty McMurray of The Gateway Pundit have joined forces with over 100 incredibly dedicated volunteers in one of the largest citizen-led election integrity investigations in American history. Our incredible team of volunteers and election experts is currently reviewing nearly one million documents from Detroit and Wayne County’s November 2020 election — the same records a judge finally forced the City of Detroit to turn over after they repeatedly denied Yehuda Miller’s FOIA requests. This is long, grueling, and often tedious work. Many of the documents arrived in completely...