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It's Just Politics — 113 episodes

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U.S. Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed

2

U.S. Senate Candidate Haley Stevens

3

2026. So far.

4

Stevens vs. El-Sayed

5

Budget deadline, budget frustration

6

Data center regulations

7

Budget deadline, budget doubts

8

Where the U.S. Senate race stands

9

Crafting a governor’s voice

10

The Michigan mood

11

Inside the Michigan governor’s race

12

Charges in grant scandal

13

Dems keep majority

14

A campaign roundup

15

Is Lansing functional?

16

35th Senate District race

17

Duggan disruption

18

A Lansing roundup

19

High stakes for MI’s marijuana tax

20

Michigan’s perception gap

21

State of the state’s budget

22

Michigan’s ballot proposals

23

Classroom cellphone ban

24

Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat

25

A Michigan media shakeup and a swing Senate seat

26

Inside the House: Matt Hall on a high-stakes year

27

Inside the senate: Winnie Brinks on a high-stakes year

28

Why 2026 will rewrite Michigan politics

29

Whitmer, Duggan, Nessel, and Hall… oh my!

30

Whitmer’s political future: TBD

31

The Data Center deep dive

32

From budget secrets to scrutiny

33

Do Democrats always cave?

34

The Detroit-Lansing Playbook

35

Incentives gone wrong

36

Curbing petition fraud

37

Behind the budget: K-12

38

Marijuana Tax

39

Shutdown Averted

40

They’ll blame everyone

41

MI economy

42

Fake electors

43

Four weeks

44

Con-Con

45

Buttigieg

46

Lansing inertia

47

Primary results

48

Money race

49

Stalled

50

2025. So far.

51

Road funding. Again.

52

No deal

53

Deadline? What deadline?

54

Gov race grows… again

55

Budget woes

56

DeVos dollars

57

Mackinac Polling

58

Benson's bad week

59

Pork transparency

60

100 Michiganders

61

It’s complicated

62

Proof to vote

63

Subpoena power

64

Quality v. Quantity

65

The Nine Bills

66

Duggan’s dozen

67

Nessel fights back

68

Lt Gov → Gov?

69

A national address

70

Part-time Legislature

71

New Chairs

72

Fixing the Damn Roads

73

Transparency shramparency

74

The Democratic Resistance

75

Benson in.

76

Nesbitt in. Tipped wage out?

77

The 103rd Opens

78

Kildee says goodbye

79

Lansing in turmoil

80

Detroit's decade

81

The real Lansing

82

Lame lame-duck

83

Lose by less

84

Incoming and outgoing

85

The day after

86

Pete and Pete

87

Two weeks to go

88

October 16th, 2024

89

October 9th, 2024

90

October 2nd, 2024

91

September 25th, 2024

92

September 18th, 2024

93

September 11th, 2024

94

September 4th, 2024

95

August 28th, 2024

96

August 21st, 2024

97

August 14th, 2024

98

August 7th, 2024

99

Friday Rundown: May 12th, 2023

100

Friday Rundown: April 28, 2023

101

Friday Rundown: April 21, 2023

102

Friday Rundown: April 14, 2023

103

Friday Rundown: April 7, 2024

104

Friday Rundown: March 31, 2023

105

Friday Rundown: March 24, 2023

106

Friday Rundown: March 17, 2023

107

Friday Rundown: March 10, 2023

108

Friday Rundown: March 3, 2023

109

Friday Rundown: February 24, 2023

110

A New Leader of the MI GOP

111

Friday Rundown: February 17, 2023

112

Friday Rundown: February 10, 2023

113

Friday Rundown: February 3, 2023