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“Make Them Riot!”

Some of the stories on our radar this week:
- Jack Smith’s blockbuster court filing on Defendant Trump’s criminality leading up to the January 6th insurrection includes revelations about the election night chaos at Detroit’s counting center
 - The Trump campaign is all-in on lying in paid advertising as well as at his increasingly boring rallies
 - Republicans for Harris officially launches with Mark Cuban one of the national leaders, and former GOP Congressman David Trott co-chairing the Michigan chapter
 - JD Vance leaves open the possibility a Trump administration would pull the plug on federal support for a major GM plant in Lansing
 - The FBI reports crime rates continue to plunge, so the Trump campaign (of course) continues to claim crime is out of control
 - You can add The Boss – Bruce Springsteen – to the A-List of big name celebrities backing Harris-Walz. All of them are people so well known that they are identified with a single name: Taylor, Beyoncé, Magic, Barbra and Oprah.
 
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST TO THE POLITICAL WORLD…
Employers added 254,000 jobs in September, reflecting strong gains as election nears – The Washington Post- Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It. – The New York Times
 - Trump initially refused to give California wildfire aid because it’s a blue state, ex-aide says – E&E News by POLITICO
 - Trump and GOP Make BS Migrant Claim Amid FEMA Hurricane Shortfall – The Daily Beast
 - Slotkin reports $18M fundraising haul for U.S. Senate bid – Detroit News
 - Mike Rogers’ support for ‘fetal personhood’ could threaten access to IVF and contraception – The Michigan Independent
 
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