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Embezzlement Kickbacks and Overcharging Mileage: Lee Chatfield is Back in the News

It seems only a year ago that a former Republican Speaker of the State House was found guilty of taking bribes for medical marijuana dispensary licenses. That’s because it is! Today, Attorney General Dana Nessel read the charges against Lee Chatfield and his wife in Lansing. Both are charged with misusing social welfare account contributions and stealing from taxpayers. Happy crooked Republican…

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The X Space Where It Happened: @MIGOP Endgame Agenda For Trans Michiganders

lickWhile most Michiganders were looking forward to the Detroit Lions playing in the NFC championship game last weekend, some of our elected representatives spent their time on Twitter Spaces discussing how to deny life-saving medical care to trans youth (and adults) in Michigan. A state representative from Ohio and a de-transitioning person named Prisha talked about the dangers of youth…

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A Children’s Treasury of WTF is Going On With the @MIGOP: Great Schism Unlocked

In case you pay no attention to local politics (and you really should), the Michigan Republican Party seems to be in disarray. Since Kristine “f*** it! I’ll kill us all!” Karamo came under fire for allegedly mishandling funds and the abysmal Mackinac Island hoedown, the MIGOP, who can’t gather anywhere without a fight breaking out, have now decided it’s time for a change in leadership. Or at…

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Sharing Some Thoughts With Congressman John Moolenaar

United States Congressman John Moolenaar (R-January 6 Seditious Prick) loves to misinform his constituents. His emails, media ad buys, and social media are rife with outright lies. His devotion to lying makes it curious that in his email dated December 18, 2023, he explains he voted ‘Yea’ to open an impeachment investigation for President Biden on December 13, 2023, because he wants to “uncover…

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January 1, 2024

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The Beginner’s Primer to Running For Public Office: Online Platform

So, you’ve decided to run for public office. Wonderful. You’ve committed the next 12 to 24 months to campaign staff strategy meetings, public appearances, media interviews, and meeting your future constituents face-to-face. It would help if you listened to what they had to say. That means time spent knocking on doors, holding coffee cloches, meet and greets, attending events, etc. You will have…

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Labor Day 2023

Writers and actors are still on strike. The <A HREF=”https://www.upnorthprogressive.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Detroit-News-As-anticipation-builds-over-a-potential-auto-strike.pdf”>UAW</A&gt; may be on strike in 11 days. Workers in many jobs and professions are organizing. Please do whatever you can to support them. May you have a restful Labor Day. Tomorrow, let’s get back to work.

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16 Fake Electors Receive Felony Charges in Michigan: 2020 election hindsight

When the news broke yesterday afternoon that Attorney General Dana Nessel filed criminal charges against 16 fake electors who tried to overturn the 2020 election in Michigan illegally, the first name that popped into the Up North Progressive’s head was Gary Eisen. Gary Eisen was the old 81st State House district rep in 2020. He signed the amicus brief for the dead-in-the-water Texas lawsuit that…

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4th of July, 2023

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It’s MAGAPalooza Season In Michigan

On May 22, 2023, Governor Whitmer signed the long-awaited package of bills that included the Extreme Risk Protection Order, better known as the red flag law. This new legislation will allow law enforcement to temporarily confiscate firearms from individuals who show they may want to harm themselves or others. The Governor signed another package of common sense gun laws a month that require safe…

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Up North Progressive at the Michigan Rural Democratic Summit

  The first Michigan Rural Democratic Summit is taking place April 13 through 15, 2023, at the Kewadin Hotel in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, and Up North Progressive will be there!The Summit is the first of its kind. The Purpose of the Summit is to bring together all stakeholders working to turn rural Michigan blue/bluer to coordinate and collaborate on their work for the 2023-2024 cycle and…

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Michigan's Constitutional Sheriffs Problem

As of this writing, our new ungerrymandered democratically elected state legislature is working hard to pass common-sense firearm legislation that will help keep people safe. The final bill package still needing the Governor’s signature is the extreme risk protection order or “red flag” law. This law would allow local law enforcement to remove firearms from a person’s home and express a desire to…

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Ron DeSantis is Coming to Michigan on April 6: Help Women of Michigan Action Network Welcome Him.

Suppose you find your calendar accessible on the morning of April 6, 2023, or you can clear your calendar. In that case, you might consider heading to Midland and helping the Women of Michigan Action Network welcome Governor Ron DeSantis (R – Hates books, kids, women, drag queens, Disney, etc.) to the state or, as the excellent Distill Social calls Michigan, AntiFla. Meatball Ron (of all the…

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Mason County's CSPOA Member Kim Cole Will Attend the State Of the Union Address

Tonight the world will watch as President Biden gives his State of the Union Address. This requirement is stated in Article II of the United States Constitution. It is customary for members of Congress to invite a guest to sit in the mezzanine gallery and watch the event. Tonight, John Moolenaar (R – Wants to reopen GEO’s Punk Prison) will have “constitutional” Sheriff Kim Cole from Mason County…

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Rick Johnson and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Michigan Marijuana Licensing Board

Former State House Rep and one of Osceola County’s finest Rick Johnson (R – Lobbyists giving me money to get a spot on the next MMLB’s agenda isn’t a bribe, it’s a place-holder) has found himself in a spot of bother over his tenure as president of the disbanded Michigan Marijuana Licensing Board. In 2008 the people of Michigan voted to legalize marijuana for medical use. Dispensaries popped up…

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Veterans Day 2022

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Over 50 Organizations Say No in Reopening Michigan For-Profit GEO Group Prison as an ICE Detention Center

Over 50 Organizations Say No in Reopening Michigan For-Profit GEO Group Prison as an ICE Detention Center

In four days, GEO Group’s North Lake Correctional Facility once again will close. The for-profit prison in search of a prison population lost its contract through President Biden’s January 2021 executive order to not use private prisons for federal detainees. US Congressmen John Moolenar and Bill Huizenga, in June of 2022, proposed to convert the prison into an ICE detention center. In response…