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Eminem To Appear With Obama At Detroit Kamala Harris GOTV Rally
Eminem is going to make a rare appearance by introducing Barack Obama at a get out the vote rally in Detroit.
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Kamala Harris Fires Up Detroit And Aims For Early Voting Record
Vice President Harris is doing a series of early voting events in Michigan. In Detroit she fired up the crowd and said the goal was an early voting record.
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Caught on Video: RNC Trains Thugs to Challenge Voters in Detroit
The Republican National Committee, co-led by Trump’s daughter-in-law, is training their thugs to challenge voters in Detroit.
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Kamala Harris Blasts Trump For Trashing Detroit
The Harris campaign blasted Trump in a new ad after the ex-president trashed the city of Detroit.
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Trump Campaign Plants Fake Auto Workers At JD Vance Michigan Event
JD Vance held an event in Detroit that included people wearing Autoworkers For Trump t-shirts who were not autoworkers.
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Joe Biden Might Have Just Saved America
In a week that has been an epic political comeback Joe Biden got even stronger while chopping down Donald Trump and laying out his second term agenda in Detroit.
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Trump Allegedly Bussed In White Crowd For Detroit Black Church Speech
Trump spoke to an almost white crowd in at a black church in Detroit, and some are alleging that his crowd was brought in from outside the city.
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UAW Rips Trump Ahead Of Speech To Fake Autoworkers
Trump’s planned publicity stunt where he is going to speak to autoworkers, non-autoworkers, and former union members has been denounced by the UAW.
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Racist Poll Watcher In Horror Film Mask Removed in Detroit
Trump’s Michigan lawsuit about poll watchers not being given access has already disintegrated as the Detroit Free Press published video of a racist poll challenger who was removed by police for disruptive behavior.
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Trump Shows Up At Ford Factory And Insults Auto Workers
Trump showed up at a Ford factory in Michigan and told the workers in attendance that he doesn’t use their vehicles and wouldn’t buy one because they’re too expensive.
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Koch-Republican Austerity Is Killing Michigan Democracy And Poisoning Residents
Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life many Michigan citizens have learned the hard way; by being poisoned.
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If Detroit Blows, Will Water Shutoffs Feed The Fire?
Ever since the civil unrest occurred in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked by the murder of Michael Brown by a police officer who got away with it, there have been anxious questioners wondering where else this type of unrest might catch fire.
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Governor Snyder’s Plan To Erase Public Education In Detroit
Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder’s intentions toward our city and our schools may really be happening, because Snyder doesn’t even need to hide those intentions anymore.
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First Detroit, Now Baltimore Is Shutting Off Water To The Poor
I’m having a rather hard time understanding why it is that the City of Baltimore has apparently made the decision to follow in the footsteps of my adopted hometown Detroit and is shutting off the water in poor peoples’ homes for falling behind on their bills while allowing the larger – and significantly wealthier – corporations and businesses to slide on by.
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Detroit Flop City: Jeb Bush Pretends To Care About Poor People In First Speech
Jeb Bush is marketing himself as a different kind of conservative, but his ideas support the same GOP policies that have failed before.
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Why Detroit Needs Obama’s Affordable Community College Plan To Work
As Detroit continues its comeback struggle, perpetually seeking to redefine and recreate itself as a more updated community, one of the largest potential barriers to the realization of that goal is a sufficiently educated workforce.
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To Pillage and Plunder: Republican Leadership to Make 150,000 Homeless in Detroit
In the next year and a half, as many as 150,000 people are expected to lose their homes due to foreclosures, representing nearly 1/5 of the entire population of the city of Detroit.
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Democracy Returns To Detroit…Or Does It?
On Thursday evening, September 25, democracy was permitted to return to Detroit when City Council members voted unanimously to restore full power to the city’s elected leaders.
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Netroots Progessives Work Into The Weekend
This will be my last report from the fascinating progressive recharge called Netroots. It has been a memorable journey especially in light of the fact it was hosted by Detroit, rebounding slowly from its economic Tsunami.
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Biden Gets Heckled and Other Highlights From Netroots
When Netroots finally got down to the business of pumping up progressive causes, there was no shortage of expert advice to give the crowd the impetus to take their new knowledge back home and start applying it.
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Gov. Rick Snyder’s Emergency Manager Is Denying Poor People Running Water In Detroit
A coalition working with organizations and activists the world over to promote water as a basic human right filed a report with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights on behalf of tens-of-thousands of poor Detroit residents who are being denied access to running water.
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Republican Rick Snyder’s Scythe Cuts Through Michigan’s Surplus and Kills Job Growth
Under Republican Governor Rick Snyder, Michigan shows how starving the beast and corporate giveaways plays out on a micro level, in case anyone missed it during the Bush years.
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Winners and Losers From Last Night’s Off-Off Year Elections
- Commentary, Democratic Party, Featured News, Issues, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
There were many winners and losers (and one who won and lost) in last night’s elections, but the biggest winner was liberalism.
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White Guy Wins Campaign for Mayor in Detroit. But That’s Not Really the Story
Judging by some of the recent headlines it appears that the big election day story coming out of Detroit is that Detroiters elected a white guy for mayor for the first time in more than 40 years.
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Detroit’s Kwame Kilpatrick Ruined Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years for essentially running the city as his own personal piggy bank and playpen.
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Where Were You When They Stole Detroit’s Democracy?
If it happens here, it certainly won’t end here. The threat to Detroit’s democracy is a threat to everyone who values their right to vote.
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Republicans Are Gearing Up To Continue Their Senseless War on America
The Republican goal is clear; either Washington concedes to divest its power and transfer it to the wealthy and their corporations, or they will, one way or the other, destroy the government.
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Rick Snyder Gives Congressional Republicans A Road Map To Killing Your Retirement
Take a long, hard look at what Rick Snyder and turnaround specialist Kevyn Orr intend doing to pensioners in Detroit because it foreshadows Republicans in Congress intent for Social Security.
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Alabama Commission Prays Away Gay Marriage – at Meeting About Power Rates
The Alabama Public Service Commission started a meeting about power rate structures with a prayer against Marriage Equality.
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Detroit is the New Conservative Wet Dream
With entire swaths of Detroit uninhabited, some white knights are swooping in and buying up empty lots, parking lots and buildings both big and small.
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Detroit Sinks Deeper Into Hell As It Faces Right Wing Utopian Fantasies
Detroit faces austerity, vulture capitalists, and privatization as right wing ideologues pounce. Of course, no good will come of it.
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Detroit Is Beta-Test of the GOP Plan To Sell The Federal Government to Corporations
The first beta-test of selling off a city to corporations began when an emergency manager in Detroit filed for bankruptcy, and it is a harbinger of the Republicans’ plan for the federal government.
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Gov Rick Snyder Continues to Dismantle Detroit’s Democracy Brick by Brick
Detroit’s democracy is being dismantled brick by brick and the people are being muzzled, perhaps in order to force them out of their neighborhoods so the elite can take over.
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Arne Duncan, Secretary of Misinformation and Miseducation
Who should we see sitting next to Secretary Duncan, joyfully reading stories to suitably enraptured Detroit school children but Gov. Rick Snyder.
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Gov. Snyder’s Emergency Manager Law May Violate Equal Protection Rights
The clock is ticking, and Detroit’s new Emergency Manager is listening. June 23 is the 50th anniversary of the date when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in Detroit.
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Democracy Thief Rick Snyder is Struggling to Find an Emergency Manager for Detroit
It seems Gov. Rick Snyder is having a bit of difficulty finding anyone who wants the job of becoming the emergency manager for Detroit.
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A Hilarious Fox Fail Ensues When They Try to Blame Democrats for Detroit’s Problems
Steve Doocy desperately tried to get reporter/author Charlie LeDuff to blame Democrats for Detroit’s problems only to watch LeDuff list the corrupt Republicans in the city’s history.
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The fight to prevent hostile takeovers of public education goes national
The fight to save public education and retain local control of those schools against hostile takeover attempts has now attracted nationwide attention.
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Guns don’t kill people. People with guns kill people. A whole lot of people.
Guns do not kill people. People armed with guns kill people. And people armed with assault rifles have the capability of killing a whole bunch of people in a matter of minutes.
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The Real Motive of Michigan Republicans’ Right-to-Work Push is ‘Pure Greed’
Rep. Gov. Rick Snyder is pushing ‘right to work’ legislation through the lameduck session in order to defund the Democratic Party.
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You live in Michigan? Your rights are optional
If you want to get an idea of what Republican revenge for President Obama’s victory in 2012 looks like, look no further than Michigan.
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Michigan Demands Democracy by Rejecting Emergency Manager Legislation
It was a great day for the nation when President Barack Obama was re-elected to a second term in office, and it was also a good day in Michigan when voters cast their ballots to reject Proposal 1.
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Rattner: Under Romney’s Plan, US Auto Makers Would Have Died
Steve Rattner, former US Treasury Auto Adviser, said that if Mitt Romney had his way General Motors and Chrysler would have died.
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The Obama Auto Rescue Saved 154,843 Jobs and Added 17,000 in Ohio
Obama for America’s new ad, ‘Made in Ohio,’ features Ohioans who know just how important President Obama’s rescue of the auto industry was for them.
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Mitt, Who Wanted Detroit to go Bankrupt, Blames Obama for not ALL Auto Dealers Surviving
Romney, who wanted Detroit to go bankrupt, is angry that some auto dealers went bankrupt even though a bankrupt Detroit would have meant bankruptcy for all auto dealers
Michigan Defunding Presidential Election in Predominantly Democratic Detroit
Detroit is facing a crisis. It may not be able to conduct a Presidential election due to lack of funding in the budget.