McMorrow and El-Sayed raised effectively the same amount to close out 2025 and also have effectively the same cash on hand. Stevens (reportedly) and Rogers each have $1M+ more in the bank than those two.

Brink has twice the cash on hand of MI-7 primary opponent Matt Maasdam ($516k) and well ahead of progressive William Lawrence ($227k). Maasdam and Brink weren’t too far apart on fundraising for the quarter, though. Still waiting on GOP incumbent Rep. Tom Barrett’s filing.

💰New 2025 Year-End Senate Filing💰 Mike Rogers (R) Received: $1,969,027 Spent: $1,216,616 Debt: $0 Cash on Hand: $3,454,035 URL: docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form... Itemized donations by state: www.datawrapper.de/_/VvF74/ Itemized MI donations by ZIP: www.datawrapper.de/_/UlLjG/

Bringing in some federal filings manually as I work to further automate these congressional alerts. The posts write themselves, but I still have to hit compose myself

This person tried to primary Rep. Rashida Tlaib in 2024. Didn't make the ballot. Ran against state Sen. Jeremy Moss in 2022 as a Dem, too. His ballotpedia page has the briefest (and funniest) responses I've seen on that site

🏛️ New Candidate Committee 🏛️ 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗶𝗹𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 has filed to run for 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 as a Democrat. Committee ID: 0612275

Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70

Another Michigan state rep. apparently leaving the House to pursue a Senate run.

Honestly I thought this might've been a typo, but Mr. Bearss is indeed real

One week later

The bot is breaking news here: Jessica Swartz is currently running for the US House in MI-4, held by incumbent Bill Huizenga. Swartz was D nominee against Huizenga in 2024 and lost 43-55. This change should help clear the way for state Sen. Sean McCann in the D primary.

NEW: the group seeking to bring ranked choice voting to Michigan, Rank MI Vote, is ending their 2026 ballot drive. Falling short on signature collection, organizers have told volunteers they’ll try again for 2028. bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...

Michigan’s House budget committee is about to consider disapproving funding continuations for more than $351 million in ongoing state work projects.

Interesting candidate here: www.npr.org/2025/04/09/n...

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

The person who registered this PAC appears to be a strip club DJ

The aurora just north of Lansing last night

Former state Rep. running for the upper chamber here.

I’m going to keep these kind of alerts on for a while, but we’ll see how much utility they really have… it’s mostly for situations like when a leadership PAC has changed hands, and thus changed names.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

After trying it a few times, filling out my absentee ballot at home then taking it to my polling place to feed into the tabulator is definitely my preferred way to vote.

I'd rather commute like Fred Flintstone than own a car that requires a perpetual subscription to operate.

Bad news: My new committee alerts were down for several days due to refactoring. Sorry about that! Good news: I now also post when a PAC changes its name.

Ah yes, we should abandon a longstanding nonprofit experiment in collaborative human knowledge in favor of automated posts from an AI controlled by a single person. The advantages are obvious

PSA: The amount of shit in Michigan politics/government cheekily named with "MI" in place of "my" is nearing epidemic levels. The pun is so worn. It's time for a moratorium.

💰 New Attorney General Filing 💰 Name: 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴 𝗟𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗱 (R) Status: Candidate Receipts: $61,525 Total Spent: $14,968 Debt: $30,320 Cash On Hand: $46,556 All Filings

$244k from his congressional campaign

Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist nearing a 100% burn rate here.

💰 New Governor Filing 💰 Name: 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗗𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗮𝗻 (I) Status: Candidate Receipts: $1,176,470 Total Spent: $1,030,960 Debt: $0 Cash On Hand: $2,464,778 All Filings

💰 New Governor Filing 💰 Name: 𝗧𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗱 (R) Status: Candidate Receipts: $290,705 Total Spent: $190,560 Debt: $105,610 Cash On Hand: $709,293 All Filings

💰 New Governor Filing 💰 Name: 𝗝𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 (D) Status: Candidate Receipts: $1,211,748 Total Spent: $649,541 Debt: $0 Cash On Hand: $2,982,217 All Filings

💰 New Governor Filing 💰 Name: 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 (D) Status: Candidate Receipts: $296,878 Total Spent: $380,017 Debt: $0 Cash On Hand: $385,189 All Filings

Appreciate Mike Cox's campaign for flagging this: Michigan's campaign finance system is seemingly double-counting original and amended transactions, falsely inflating the cumulative totals the system generates for some summary reports.

💰 New Attorney General Filing 💰 Name: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗧𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 (D) Status: Candidate Receipts: $148,568 Total Spent: $30,138 Debt: $89,469 Cash On Hand: $200,211 All Filings

Significant cash-to-debt ratio here from GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox, who's largely self-funded at this stage.

Very happy to announce the Michigan campaign finance bot is once again automatically posting key committee filings! The state's new campaign finance portal makes it harder to view reports, so the folks at @bridgemi.com and I were compelled to bring it back.

The campaign finance bot now posts when committees go away.

Story, with more to come: bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...

Anné Minard, the Lee Chatfield associate facing corruption-related charges with her husband Robert, is expected to enter a guilty plea in Ingham County circuit court today. Robert Minard is still headed for trial.

Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!

The size of the No Kings Day rally crowd in front of the Michigan Capitol this afternoon.

Around the state I’m hearing No Kings Day rallies today are as well or better-attended than in June. I was in Mt. Pleasant around 12:30 and there were between (an estimated) 1,500 and 2,000 protestors lining the streets on one of the main thoroughfares into town.

About 150 protestors in Gladwin (population 3,000) this morning for a No Kings Day rally. There’s handful of counter-protestors from the Gladwin GOP across the street, and the Trump Unity Bridge guy (sans bridge) is doing drive-bys with his loudspeaker.

Campaign finance filings from Michigan's US Senate candidates are in — they're all close. So here's who got the most (itemized) $$$ from Michiganders: Abdul El-Sayed (D): $488,365 Haley Stevens (D): $405,775 Mallory McMorrow (D): $353,880 Mike Rogers (R): $212,314 Filings ⬇️

Lawmakers are considering capping competition in Michigan's strained marijuana market by halting new licenses for all but the smallest growers and with population-based limits on new dispensaries. bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...

It's wild to me how twitter bots, which used to be simple accounts offering informative content, are now mostly LLMs that pollute replies with ideological babble and served up exclusively by wealthy nerds willing to fork over ~$2k/year for API access