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It's Just Politics, 100 episodes.

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What would Prop 2 do?

2

Do voters want a Con-Con

3

Party Chairs in chairs

4

Con-Con

5

Lt. Gov. ambitions

6

A capital career

7

Primary turnout

8

Where do Dems go from here?

9

Primary Election Preview

10

U.S. Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed

11

U.S. Senate Candidate Haley Stevens

12

2026. So far.

13

Stevens vs. El-Sayed

14

Budget deadline, budget frustration

15

Data center regulations

16

Budget deadline, budget doubts

17

Where the U.S. Senate race stands

18

Crafting a governor’s voice

19

The Michigan mood

20

Inside the Michigan governor’s race

21

Charges in grant scandal

22

Dems keep majority

23

A campaign roundup

24

Is Lansing functional?

25

35th Senate District race

26

Duggan disruption

27

A Lansing roundup

28

High stakes for MI’s marijuana tax

29

Michigan’s perception gap

30

State of the state’s budget

31

Michigan’s ballot proposals

32

Classroom cellphone ban

33

Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat

34

A Michigan media shakeup and a swing Senate seat

35

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

36

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

37

Why 2026 will rewrite Michigan politics

38

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

39

Whitmer’s political future: TBD

40

The Data Center deep dive

41

From budget secrets to scrutiny

42

Do Democrats always cave?

43

The Detroit-Lansing Playbook

44

Incentives gone wrong

45

Curbing petition fraud

46

Behind the budget: K-12

47

Marijuana Tax

48

Shutdown Averted

49

They’ll blame everyone

50

MI economy

51

Fake electors

52

Four weeks

53

Con-Con

54

Buttigieg

55

Lansing inertia

56

Primary results

57

Money race

58

Stalled

59

2025. So far.

60

Road funding. Again.

61

No deal

62

Deadline? What deadline?

63

Gov race grows… again

64

Budget woes

65

DeVos dollars

66

Mackinac Polling

67

Benson's bad week

68

Pork transparency

69

100 Michiganders

70

It’s complicated

71

Proof to vote

72

Subpoena power

73

Quality v. Quantity

74

The Nine Bills

75

Duggan’s dozen

76

Nessel fights back

77

Lt Gov → Gov?

78

A national address

79

Part-time Legislature

80

New Chairs

81

Fixing the Damn Roads

82

Transparency shramparency

83

The Democratic Resistance

84

Benson in.

85

Nesbitt in. Tipped wage out?

86

The 103rd Opens

87

Kildee says goodbye

88

Lansing in turmoil

89

Detroit's decade

90

The real Lansing

91

Lame lame-duck

92

Lose by less

93

Incoming and outgoing

94

The day after

95

Pete and Pete

96

Two weeks to go

97

October 16th, 2024

98

October 9th, 2024

99

October 2nd, 2024

100

September 25th, 2024