With less than four weeks to go until Michigan’s Primary Election Day, more than 1.5 million of the state’s voters have requested an absentee ballot and nearly 179,000 voters have already submitted a completed ballot -- breaking the previous records set in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is great news for […]
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson recently hosted a Michigan youth voting roundtable in Detroit where she released a new report identifying two significant voter turnout gaps among young voters in the last two elections -- a gap between the number of young people who were active registered voters and those who cast a ballot; and a […]
On Monday, July 1, the Supreme Court made the prospect of a second Trump presidency far more frightening. By granting presidents broad immunity for the acts they take in office, the MAGA majority on the Court isn't just helping Trump escape accountability for the crimes he's already committed. They're giving him free rein to rule […]
Hannah Pewinski, a senior at Johannesburg-Lewiston High School, is this year’s recipient of a $1,000 college scholarship from the Otsego County Democratic Party. Each student who wrote an essay was asked to complete “The world would be a better place if ….” Hannah began her essay: “The world would be a better place if everyone […]
