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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas” ✹MDP Chair Lavora Barnes on the presidential debate: Joe Biden’s performance gets the headlines, totally obscuring the barrage of lies and outrageous statements from the increasingly unhinged Donald Trump ✹
This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas” ✹MDP Chair Lavora Barnes on the new GOP Campaign Tactic: “Cheap Fakes” that amount to video lies about Joe Biden. ✹This week’s Trump/GOP Outrage The U.S. Supreme Court’s six-month delay in deciding whether
From Chairperson Lavora Barnes To listen to Republicans, we’re in the middle of an apocalyptic crime wave. The reality: the crime rates have dropped dramatically since they peaked in 2020 during the Trump administration. In his “Popular Inform
From Chairperson Lavora Barnes Last Thursday, President Biden joined with French President Emanuel Macron to honor the Greatest Generation: the men and women who, 80 years earlier, began the liberation of Europe with the D-Day invasion. The two
From chairperson Lavora Barnes A jury: 12 ordinary citizens who take an oath to put aside their personal beliefs and opinions, listen to testimony presented by both sides in a trial, and render a verdict based solely on that testimony and the l
From Chairperson Lavora Barnes “Supremes”. No – not the legendary Motown trio. It’s the United States Supreme Court, and the importance of this year’s elections on the next 2 decades of the Court. There likely will be two or more vacancies on t
From chairperson Lavora Barnes Our courts are under attack led, of course, by four-time indicted, twice-impeached bankruptcy king Donald Trump. He’s still furious that more than 60 different courts dismissed his claims of election fraud in 2020
From chairperson Lavora Barnes In political debates, the rhetoric sometimes overshadows the impact of those policy decisions on actual people: what’s the impact on individual lives. That is one of the many reasons Joe Biden is such an amazing l
Contempt It’s more than the fines handed out to defendant Donald Trump in his election interference criminal case. It’s the contempt of many Republican leaders who show contempt for our justice system. They scream about a two-tiered justice sy
From chairperson Lavora Barnes – Arizona joined with Michigan, Georgia and Nevada this week by issuing indictments in the fake electors scheme. The defendants include several influential figures in Arizona politics, including former state GOP
From chairperson Lavora Barnes – It was a joy during the week for me to personally congratulate the two newest Democrats in the state House of Representatives: Mai Xiong in the Warren area’s 13th House District and Peter Herzberg in the Westlan
From Chairperson Lavora Barnes “Whatever”. That’s Donald Trump’s position on reproductive healthcare. He’s for whatever is convenient at the time he’s asked about it. In 1999, he said on Meet the Press that he was pro-choice, and opposed any fe
From chairperson Lavora Barnes That, in one sentence, defines Donald Trump and describes his grotesque speech in Grand Rapids. Donald Trump came here to politicize a tragic loss and lie to Michiganders’ faces about his record. When President B
From chairperson Lavora Barnes On Thursday, Democrats celebrated unity heading into the November election with an historic event: a massive fundraiser which brought together three great presidents: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Toge
From chairperson Lavora Barnes – Saturday marked the 14th anniversary of the signature achievement of the Obama administration: enactment of the Affordable Care Act, a. k. a. “Obamacare.” Republicans rampaged against the legislation, calling
From the chair RESULTS Government is supposed to work to improve our lives. We measure our public officials by results. Under Joe Biden and Gretchen Whitmer, we’re getting results. Three years ago this week, President Biden signed the American
From the chair “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” — Ronald Reagan (10-28-1980) One thing some politicians rely on during their campaigns: how time weakens our memory. It’s a tactic that Dona
From the chair “Chaos” It’s the ongoing story of Republicans running to succeed Debbie Stabenow in the United States Senate. Their story got even more muddled this week with the announcement by ultra-right-wing former Congressman Justin Amash t
From the chair It’s no secret that the Republican Party is in turmoil these days. The state party has a civil war underway with competing factions fighting for control. The national party is undergoing a leadership purge as Donald Trump transfo
From the Chair Early voting is underway in Michigan’s presidential primary. A vote for any other presidential candidate or a vote as “uncommitted” does not help our cause against Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans. Trump and MAGA Republicans are
From the Chair Congressional Republicans proved this week that they are bad … very bad … at governing. When it comes to passing bills, sometimes they can’t even take ‘yes’ an answer. Case in point: the border crisis. There’s no question that th
From the Chair President Biden was back in Michigan on Thursday, meeting with auto workers in Macomb County, emphasizing his economic philosophy: growing the economy from the middle out. It was another demonstration that President Biden, the mo
From the Chair This was a good week for Michigan and the nation. For President Biden, an excellent week on two fronts: First, a boisterous and enthusiastic endorsement from the United Auto Workers and its amazing president, Shawn Fain. And, m
From the Chair Truth is an endangered species as the 2024 presidential campaign unfolds thanks, in large part, to Donald Trump. His campaign to return to the White House is based on lies, beginning with The Big Lie: that the 2020 election was s
From the Chair Corruption. As we approach the 2024 election, it seems to be the one constant in far too many campaigns – with most of the scandals involving Republicans. All the news coverage over Donald Trump’s four criminal cases have virtual
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