NBC News obtained video of a training session in Michigan for poll watchers showing the RNC giving volunteers who echo Trump's fraud lies the tools to challenge votes — and few guardrails on what makes a challenge real. The message: "Detroit is always going to be our tier one."

A Michigan county Republican Party considered a plan to submit mismatching signatures with absentee ballots in order to "test" if there was any verification, according to the party's newsletter. Then, the county chairman's own ballot got flagged. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

May 5, 2005 Detroit Free Press Reader comments about Kwame Kilpatrick’s excess spending using a city-issued credit card

You don’t want newspapers that only tell you what you want to hear.

No one outside politics knows what you mean by GOTV, you should probably just spell it out for accessibility

Spoke to the people who run our elections about how they're feeling ahead of Nov. 5 - and why they trust a process under more scrutiny than ever before: fox2detroit.com/news/michigan-…

From the SOS's office: This was a data processing error. No one voted twice, much less 20-something times. Loudly saying things that aren't true don't make them true.

Election workers at Huntington Place have been processing absentee ballots for a week now. Tabulation begins at 8pm tomorrow. No work is going to happen there Wednesday, I’m told. This is a change from years past, when rules around processing ballots were more limited.

Harris Detroit donor list is a who's who of city employees, institutional leaders, funders and influencers. Kresge, WSU, GM, Ford, BCBS, law firms, DPSCD, DWIHN, HFH, local political officials, etc.

Consumers Energy is preparing for a storm overnight & into Election Day, when wind gusts may reach 50 mph & cause outages. High winds may develop Tues afternoon in West & Northern Michigan. The utility will take 'additional steps to ensure the voting process is not interrupted'

Good catch from Beth

BREAKING: Rep. Karen Whitsett is on her way to Lansing, the lawmaker said Thursday morning. She is about 10 minutes away from the Capitol. bit.ly/3KrDrBz

Still can’t believe I got to do this story. By far my favorite thing I wrote this year: was stoked to spotlight Brandon Sausele, a truly remarkable—and slightly insane—fisherman, and grateful for the photography of Peter Fisher, who spent two dark nights bobbing with the sharks.

Wayne County had a statistically significant decrease in median household income from 2007-23, according to the U.S. Census. Median income for Detroit = $38K Roughly 44% of children age 5-17 in Detroit Public Schools Community District live in poverty. census.gov/data-tools/dem…

Do we have a good term for folks (or their ideology) who are useful and good at identifying and popularizing examples of institutional failures — but that skill comes with an over-broad skepticism and even conspiratorial attitude toward institutions of power that makes it hard

Rogelio Landin is the 8th candidate to jump into the mayoral race. He wants Detroit to annex neighboring suburbs to create a city of 1 million people. That would unlock more state revenue sharing and more tax revenue for Detroit, he said.

Attempts to disparage and discredit The Atlantic, our editor, and our reporting follow an obvious playbook by elected officials and others in power who are hostile to journalists and the First Amendment rights of all Americans.

I know everyone is distracted by national news but…… the city of Ecorse has less than 20 days cash on hand to keep the city running with 3 months left in the fiscal year.

Was FEMA involved in the flood response in SW Detroit in February?