Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D) on Wednesday said Michigan “rejected a hateful, spiteful campaign” run by his opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R), in the state’s Senate race. “Michigan proved just how big we are,” El-Sayed told The Associated Press, after he was projected the winner. “Rejected a hateful, spiteful campaign that had nothing to say…

The 38-year-old Lincoln Park resident is a political newcomer and is the first openly transgender woman to be elected.

Sixty percent. That’s how many Michigan Jews early exit polling reveals voted for a candidate who not only couldn’t passively condemn Jew-hate from peers, but actively campaigned on sinister rhetoric himself. That’s how many Jews willingly, even enthusiastically, participated in sending the first explicitly anti-zionist Senate candidate to Washington. In a word: oy. This is […]

The 'Money out of Politics' ballot initiative won approval from voters easily, according to preliminary election results and was one of the first pieces of Michigan's ballot to be called. On Tuesday night, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy filed in the U.S. District Court in west Michigan.

Democrats have won enough races to take control of both chambers of Congress, marking a major shift in power in Washington.

A downriver state house candidate declared victory last night following a campaign that turned so vicious, she says her personal phone number, the landline belonging to her parents, was doxxed and posted on tons of campaign messaging against her.

On this episode of Detroit Talk City, Perry Johnson, who ran in the primary for Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial nomination, talks about “the blue wave” that came over Michigan last night in the 2026 midterm. And Wayne County Commissioner Alex Garza talks about the future of the Democratic Party in Wayne County.