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It's Just Politics — 120 episodes

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1

Party Chairs in chairs

2

Con-Con

3

Lt. Gov. ambitions

4

A capital career

5

Primary turnout

6

Where do Dems go from here?

7

Primary Election Preview

8

U.S. Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed

9

U.S. Senate Candidate Haley Stevens

10

2026. So far.

11

Stevens vs. El-Sayed

12

Budget deadline, budget frustration

13

Data center regulations

14

Budget deadline, budget doubts

15

Where the U.S. Senate race stands

16

Crafting a governor’s voice

17

The Michigan mood

18

Inside the Michigan governor’s race

19

Charges in grant scandal

20

Dems keep majority

21

A campaign roundup

22

Is Lansing functional?

23

35th Senate District race

24

Duggan disruption

25

A Lansing roundup

26

High stakes for MI’s marijuana tax

27

Michigan’s perception gap

28

State of the state’s budget

29

Michigan’s ballot proposals

30

Classroom cellphone ban

31

Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat

32

A Michigan media shakeup and a swing Senate seat

33

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

34

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

35

Why 2026 will rewrite Michigan politics

36

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

37

Whitmer’s political future: TBD

38

The Data Center deep dive

39

From budget secrets to scrutiny

40

Do Democrats always cave?

41

The Detroit-Lansing Playbook

42

Incentives gone wrong

43

Curbing petition fraud

44

Behind the budget: K-12

45

Marijuana Tax

46

Shutdown Averted

47

They’ll blame everyone

48

MI economy

49

Fake electors

50

Four weeks

51

Con-Con

52

Buttigieg

53

Lansing inertia

54

Primary results

55

Money race

56

Stalled

57

2025. So far.

58

Road funding. Again.

59

No deal

60

Deadline? What deadline?

61

Gov race grows… again

62

Budget woes

63

DeVos dollars

64

Mackinac Polling

65

Benson's bad week

66

Pork transparency

67

100 Michiganders

68

It’s complicated

69

Proof to vote

70

Subpoena power

71

Quality v. Quantity

72

The Nine Bills

73

Duggan’s dozen

74

Nessel fights back

75

Lt Gov → Gov?

76

A national address

77

Part-time Legislature

78

New Chairs

79

Fixing the Damn Roads

80

Transparency shramparency

81

The Democratic Resistance

82

Benson in.

83

Nesbitt in. Tipped wage out?

84

The 103rd Opens

85

Kildee says goodbye

86

Lansing in turmoil

87

Detroit's decade

88

The real Lansing

89

Lame lame-duck

90

Lose by less

91

Incoming and outgoing

92

The day after

93

Pete and Pete

94

Two weeks to go

95

October 16th, 2024

96

October 9th, 2024

97

October 2nd, 2024

98

September 25th, 2024

99

September 18th, 2024

100

September 11th, 2024

101

September 4th, 2024

102

August 28th, 2024

103

August 21st, 2024

104

August 14th, 2024

105

August 7th, 2024

106

Friday Rundown: May 12th, 2023

107

Friday Rundown: April 28, 2023

108

Friday Rundown: April 21, 2023

109

Friday Rundown: April 14, 2023

110

Friday Rundown: April 7, 2024

111

Friday Rundown: March 31, 2023

112

Friday Rundown: March 24, 2023

113

Friday Rundown: March 17, 2023

114

Friday Rundown: March 10, 2023

115

Friday Rundown: March 3, 2023

116

Friday Rundown: February 24, 2023

117

A New Leader of the MI GOP

118

Friday Rundown: February 17, 2023

119

Friday Rundown: February 10, 2023

120

Friday Rundown: February 3, 2023