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Vice President JD Vance is coming to Sterling Heights on Monday to campaign alongside three Michigan Republican candidates as the party looks to keep President Donald Trump's coalition together going into the midterms.

Holding the speaker's gavel may look powerful from the outside, but four state House leaders said the job often means exhaustion, imperfect choices and a degree of isolation that rank-and-file lawmakers and the public don't always see.

House Republicans voted 57-41 today to create a select committee investigating how the state reviewed petitions for the Americans for Citizen Voting ballot proposal.

Opposition to automated license plate-reading cameras is swiftly becoming an unusual bipartisan issue, drawing criticism from Republican activists, progressive candidates, civil libertarians and local officials concerned about how much information the systems collect and who can access it.

With minutes left in today's House Oversight Committee hearing over disputed gaming machines, Minority Vice Chair Reggie Miller (D-Belleville) asked Chair Jay DeBoyer (R-Clay) why lawmakers were still debating what is legal when bills intended to settle the question remain stalled.

The House passed the Michiganders for Money Out of Politics (MMOP) initiative to prevent utilities and high-dollar state contractors from contributing to campaigns with a 77-26 vote, though it likely will remain stalled in the Legislature as Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) said she wouldn't take it up for a vote.

Brandon Strong keeps his office desk neat and organized, but only because the different parts of his life each have their own pile.

Democratic nominee for the 7th congressional district, Will Lawrence, called flock cameras "the most un-American thing I can imagine" today, arguing the public safety benefits of the surveillance technology don't outweigh privacy concerns.

A larger-than-normal number of Green Party and Working Class Party candidates are running in November, including in several competitive congressional and legislative races where even 1% or 2% of the vote could prove consequential.

The Michigan Libertarian Party this year nominated at least two candidates with criminal records – one convicted of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct and another who served a year in federal prison for firearms offenses.

Abdul El-Sayed has an old problem.

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers hosted a “Democrats for Rogers” press conference at the house of Rep. Karen Whitsett (D-Detroit)'s mother-in-law. Whitsett won four terms in the Legislature as a Democratic candidate, but says she now doesn't identify with either party.

Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, who maintains there was voter fraud in the 2020 election, has new allegations, claiming in a video that a confidential informant provided him with “evidence” of non-citizens voting.

A disruptor briefly attempted to interfere with an event where Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed was trying to engage with voters Downtown, shouting, "He's an Arab, he don't care about Black folks."

Former House Speaker Pro Tem Pamela Hornberger said Tuesday she wants to replace Rep. Jay DeBoyer (R-Clay) as the Republican nominee in the 63rd House District after he was tapped as gubernatorial nominee John James’ running mate. At least one GOP source told MIRS she may have already locked it up.

Nearly 2,000 demonstrators, counter-protesters and spectators descended on a Dearborn City Council meeting Tuesday as an anti-Islamic march organized by far-right activists drew white supremacists and Christian nationalists — and condemnation from Michigan political leaders.

Rep. Penelope Tsernoglou (D-East Lansing) wasted little time turning Jay DeBoyer (R-Clay)'s selection as the Republican lieutenant governor nominee into another front in their months-long fight over allegations of sexual abuse at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

A proposed constitutional amendment requiring Michigan voters to prove their U.S. citizenship before voting appears headed for rejection after Bureau of Elections staff Monday concluded the petition drive fell an estimated 11,775 valid signatures short of qualifying for the November ballot.

Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, nearly three months after ending his independent run for governor, has joined the Honigman law firm as a partner in the law firm’s Government Relations and Public Policy practice group, the Detroit-based firm announced.

The Attorney General’s office confirmed Friday that charges will not be issued against former state Rep. Neil Friske, who was arrested but released in 2024 after an alleged sexual assault.