Slotkin calls Chinese-made vehicles ‘TikTok on wheels’ as she rolls out new legislation to ban them michiganadvance.com/2026/05/07/s... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Democratic U.S. Senate candidates escalate attacks as Michigan primary intensifies  michiganadvance.com/2026/05/12/d... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Rogers’ campaign faith coalition has two ties to a church upended by child sex crimes michiganadvance.com/2026/05/13/r... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Haley Stevens continues to net U.S. Senate endorsements, this time from Delaware’s Chris Coons michiganadvance.com/briefs/haley... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Haley Stevens’ U.S. Senate bid gets endorsement nod from former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm michiganadvance.com/briefs/haley... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Benson, Duggan target each other in UAW-hosted debate michiganadvance.com/2026/05/19/b... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

With the federal Voting Rights Act ‘gutted’, Michigan Democrats have crafted their own version michiganadvance.com/2026/05/19/w... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Michigan Supreme Court hears arguments on whether nine approved bills must be sent to governor michiganadvance.com/2026/05/06/m... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

In all my time covering the Michigan Supreme Court, I've neglected to bring my camera. Not today. Important coverage of the legislative "9 bills" case coming soon. Pictures in the meantime. @michiganadvance.com

Mike Esseily will be breaking new ground when he assumes the role as Dearborn Public Schools’ new superintendent, becoming the first Arab American and Muslim educator to serve in that position. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Debbie Stabenow endorses Haley Stevens in U.S. Senate bid  michiganadvance.com/briefs/debbi... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Tidied things up a bit.

Michigan Democrats question party’s convention results after finding ‘material errors’ michiganadvance.com/2026/05/04/m... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

She had a good run. When's the service?

Momentous wins from progressive candidates like New York’s Zohran Mamdani show U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the movement’s leading voice, that a progressive candidate like Abdul El-Sayed can win the August primary and the Michigan general election come November. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Three-way dynamic among Johnson, James, Cox plays out at Michigan Up North GOP dinner michiganadvance.com/2026/05/04/t... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Scenes from the front. Mission: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social X @sanders.senate.gov @michiganadvance.com

Greetings from Detroit. Here at Mumford High School to chronicle the @sanders.senate.gov 2026 Fighting Oligarchy Tour stop, featuring @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and @donavanmckinney.bsky.social @michiganadvance.com

Per @bensolis1.bsky.social at the Friends Up North GOP Lincoln Day Dinner event: Perry Johnson won the straw poll, while John James wins 2nd (in absentia) and Mike Cox came in 3rd. Aric Nesbitt and Ralph Rebandt bring up the rear. (Ralph got 0 votes)

I'm trying to get in touch with my Latin roots while in Lansing. It's hard. I don't speak Spanish well and I'm white passing despite being native Taino, Puerto Rican and Mexican. Grateful to @mipoderlansing.bsky.social for giving me an opportunity to dig in yesterday. 🇲🇽✊🏽🇵🇷

Cesar Chavez state holiday nears repeal after nearly unanimous, bipartisan Michigan House vote michiganadvance.com/2026/04/29/c... By @bensolis1.bsky.social

The full Michigan House of Representatives will now consider two bills rolling back the state’s recently imposed clean energy mandate laws, which included a goal of a 100% clean energy standard. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Byrum calls for paper ballots, primary after Michigan Dems acknowledge a delegate voted at home michiganadvance.com/2026/04/29/b... By @bensolis1.bsky.social

Michigan U.S. Senate primary tightens as McMorrow, El-Sayed outpace Stevens in Q1 fundraising michiganadvance.com/2026/04/28/m... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Michigan lawmakers burn midnight oil to pass House budgets for government spending, education michiganadvance.com/2026/04/23/m... By @bensolis1.bsky.social

EAST LANSING — The Michigan gubernatorial candidates who are not John James, Jocelyn Benson or Mike Duggan picked up the slack for the supposed frontrunners at a forum hosted Thursday by the Michigan Press Association during its annual conference. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Michigan House appropriators advance school aid, state government budget to the chamber’s floor michiganadvance.com/2026/04/22/m... By @bensolis1.bsky.social

The Advance’s @bensolis1.bsky.social reports that Michigan’s Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate have put new fiscal year K-12 funding bills in play michiganadvance.com/2026/04/21/m...

Democratic delegates this past weekend opted against re-nominating U-M regent Jordan Acker after the revelation of sexually-charged messages shared between members of a Detroit-based sports blog. Now, those messages are the subject of an investigation by the university. By @bensolis1.bsky.social

Competing visions for Michigan’s 2026-27 K-12 school aid budget were officially in the mix on Tuesday following appropriations panel hearings before the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-led Senate. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson each called foul on the U.S. Department of Justice’s demand for 2024 voter data from Wayne County. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Lewd messages linked to University of Michigan regent who led campaign against pro-Palestinian students

Michigan Sen. @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social was the second among three Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate to deliver her nominating signatures on Monday, April 13, capitalizing on the momentum she's gained since entering the race this time last year. Photos & video by @bensolis1.bsky.social

Washtenaw County is being sued by Trump’s Department of Justice over immigrant protection policies michiganadvance.com/2026/04/10/w...

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens was the first among her Democratic primary opponents to deliver 30,000 nominating signatures to the Michigan Department of State on Friday in her bid for the U.S. Senate this year. Photos and video by @bensolis1.bsky.social .

Greetings from the Richard Austin building in downtown Lansing. Haley Stevens is here delivering her signatures to make the August primary ballot. Story later in @michiganadvance.com

U-M regent hopeful Makled scrutinized over antisemitic content in now-deleted social media posts michiganadvance.com/2026/04/10/u... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

My dad just did a DNA ancestry test and the results are in. Turns out, in addition to the Puerto Rican, Mexican and Spanish heritage we knew, he's a wee bit Gaelic, British, Cameroonian and *checks notes* of North African Shepardic Jewish descent. Shabbat shalom, my brothers.

Students and others disregarded forces in the Democratic Party establishment and the Republicans who oppose them who tried to derail U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s planned events at MSU and U-M with controversial influencer Hasan Piker, each packed to capacity . From @bensolis1.bsky.social

In an interview with the Des Moines Register on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) said she “wouldn’t say no forever” if party fixtures encouraged her to run for the presidency in the 2028 cycle or beyond. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Greetings from the campus of Michigan State University. There is a line wrapping around two buildings to see @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and Hasan Piker, so this room is about to be FULL. There is an overflow room, but that might also fill up, and they might turn some away. Wild times.

A U.S. Army staff sergeant is trying to halt his wife's deportation after she was detained inside a Louisiana military base where the couple was planning to live together just days after their wedding.

Hours ahead of a Monday night meeting where the Lansing City Council was expected to vote on rezoning land for a data center, one council member says the project will not be moving forward. From @kdavidsonjrn.bsky.social

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) walked through a maze of heavy machinery, factory fixtures and with welding sparks flying in the background on Monday at a campaign stop focused on Michigan manufacturing. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Rogers campaign gets a boost from national coffers, McMorrow reports $3M in first quarter of ’26 michiganadvance.com/2026/04/06/r... From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Greetings from Lansing. @rephaleystevens.bsky.social is touring a UA facility in our more industrial areas of town, talking with pipefitters and welders as she continues to court unions in her campaign for the U.S. Senate

The United Auto Workers will now count workers at Webasto Detroit, a German-based supplier that builds hard top roofs primarily for Ford Broncos, among their ranks after employees voted 276-133 in a National Labor Relations Board election. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Chris Becker, the Kent County prosecutor, said in a news conference on Thursday that he found no evidence that the force used by a Grand Rapid Police officer against Da’Quain Johnson was unreasonable when the officer fatally shot him during a traffic stop in February. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

Huizenga’s office confirms Scotland delegation visit during partial shutdown michiganadvance.com/briefs/huize... From @kdailey.bsky.social

The ballot committee behind a stalled effort to bring ranked choice voting to Michigan said Tuesday that it was escorted out of GOP endorsement convention for its own safety after state Rep. Matt Maddock of Milford harassed and threatened the committee’s staffers. From @bensolis1.bsky.social