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Active Democratic party determined to recruit good candidates, run fun campaigns, and make good change in Leelanau County, Michigan. **Authorized by the Real Leelanau Democratic Party** #BlueCrew

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Leelanau Dems @leelanaudemocrats.bsky.social · Nov 27

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Louis D. Brandeis

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Leelanau Dems @leelanaudemocrats.bsky.social · 1d

Activists and Michigan lawmakers sound alarms on political overreach ahead of ‘No Kings’ protests. michiganadvance.com/briefs/activ...

Activists and Michigan lawmakers sound alarms on political overreach ahead of ‘No Kings’ protests • Michigan Advance

More than four months after protestors across Michigan and throughout the nation gathered in opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration for No Kings Day, communities across the state ...

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Leelanau Dems @leelanaudemocrats.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan’s Slotkin raises alarm in Senate over secret Trump-era terrorist group designation list. Slotkin called new policy enacted by Trump “unprecedented” & “straight out of an authoritarian playbook, where the President gets to play judge, jury and executioner” michiganadvance.com/2025/10/13/m...

Michigan’s Slotkin raises alarm in Senate over secret Trump-era terrorist group designation list • Michigan Advance

Updated at 6:03 p.m. U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) called a new policy enacted by President Donald Trump “unprecedented” and “straight out of an authoritarian playbook, where the President gets t...

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Leelanau Dems @leelanaudemocrats.bsky.social · 1d

Road funding 101: What to know about Michigan’s $2B deal.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and policymakers took a victory lap Monday as they celebrated the passage of a roughly $2 billion funding increase for state and local road repairs in Michigan. bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...

Road funding 101: What to know about Michigan’s $2B deal - Bridge Michigan

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday celebrated the state’s new bipartisan road funding deal, which is historic in scope but still short of earlier targets. See what roads will get fixed, and which taxes w...

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Leelanau Dems @leelanaudemocrats.bsky.social · 2d

Your Weekly Michigan Political Brief:
Campaign 2026 announcements and endorsements for the week of Oct. 6, 2025. michiganadvance.com/2025/10/10/y...

Your Weekly Michigan Political Brief • Michigan Advance

IBEW Local 58, representing 4,800 electricians and limited energy installer/technicians throughout Metro Detroit, endorsed Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan in his independent bid for Michigan governor. Michi...

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Leelanau Dems @leelanaudemocrats.bsky.social · 2d

While DePerno has filed campaign finance paperwork to run for Michigan attorney general in 2026, he would not confirm to reporters whether he was once again seeking the position.

“I’m not saying I am and I’m not saying I’m not,” he said. michiganadvance.com/2025/10/10/m...

Michigan election tampering case stalls as DePerno seeks to block texts linked to 2020 audit effort • Michigan Advance

After the preliminary examination of former attorney general candidate Matt DePerno and former state Rep. Daire Rendon (R-Lake City) kicked off on Thursday, the review of evidence has been put on paus...

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d

“I am counting on millions of Americans proving on Oct. 18—and beyond—that they will not let down all those who have sacrificed to sustain our system of self-governance and the ideals for which our republic stands.”

www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose

Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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Lilith Goddess of Rebellion @elo-cin.bsky.social · 2d

This is how it's done. 👏👏👏👏👏

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 4d

BREAKING: A federal appeals court lets Trump keep control of Illinois’ National Guard but bars him from deploying troops into Chicago streets — for now.

Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Big Beautiful Blue Wall @buildbluewall.bsky.social · 4d

When Trump's own judges say we're entering a collapse of judicial authority you know it's true.

The last guardrail is gone.

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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 4d

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Lilith Goddess of Rebellion @elo-cin.bsky.social · 5d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 6d

"Sir, YOU are the president of Puerto Rico."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 6d

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