The first mayor in the US to be elected using Ranked Choice Voting was Ann Arbor's Al Wheeler, the first Black tenured professor at University of Michigan. Dr. Wheeler formed the NAACP Ann Arbor Chapter and wrote the bill that became MI's Civil Rights Department. He helped create some of the first housing protection ordinances in the country. In a racist backlash against his victory, Ann Arbor repealed Ranked Choice Voting in a low turnout election that happened to have record Republican turnout. Now, election deniers in Michigan tied to Cleta Mitchell (a woman who once chased a garbage truck down the street to try to prove the 2020 election was stolen from Trump), are once again pushing to suppress Ranked Choice Voting, but that's not all. They are also trying to purge the voter rolls of any ethnic sounding names. We know this because "Pure Integrity Michigan Elections" outed themselves to oppose @RankMIVote's petition to bring Ranked Choice Voting to Michigan Elections. *All* of their plans for voter suppression in Michigan in 2026 are in their rumble videos. These moves are so transparently racist, MI Election Deniers like Patrice Johnson are openly *celebrating* what took place in Ann Arbor in the 1970s. Mayor Wheeler's story is just a moment in the history of Ranked Choice Voting and, unfortunately, racist voter suppression in this country, but it still a powerful reminder of what's at stake in our politics *today*. You can help get the word out about Dr. Al Wheeler and help Rank MI Vote bring Ranked Choice Voting back to not just Ann Arbor, but all of Michigan. You can find all original sources for this video at AnnArborRCV dot com.

When it comes to actual, real good for society, if you take Mark Zuckerberg's wife and MacKenzie Scott, you have 10x'ed the philanthropic contributions of every major tech bro CEO

This guy is on the house election "integrity" committee in Lansing, and you bet your ass his entire disposition is built around disenfranchising anyone who isn't a white, Christian, heterosexual, male, Protestant.

Low key, seniors in this country going from dying in the streets to being the only people allowed to own homes was a revolution no one has documented or taken seriously enough

Unc=statistically likely to be a homeowner

I turned 42 this month, Abdul is my age, and reading this made my knee hurt.

Abdul supporters aren't going to like this, but it's an unforced error that is going to be detrimental in November.

Some bold discussion about the idea of U.S. Sen. Gary Peters possibly leading MSU, the Gordie Howe bridge and a potential constitutional convention on Off the Record this week: wkar.org/shows/record/episod…

10,000 new apartments?

Hazel Park is the first city in Michigan and the Midwest - and just the ninth in the country! - to do so, and I’m proud to have led the effort after this first popped up on my radar when Olympia, WA passed something similar. Here’s a copy of the definition we added to our HRO:

You can be as confused as you want by this. It makes perfect sense to me. Democrats want progressive policy and they want to nominate candidates who can win elections and deliver that policy. "Move to center" should say, "have better messengers and messaging".

Every Mexican I know is better than at least one South African in particular

I trust AOC over Eric randomface on this, but more importantly, Eric is just flat ass wrong. Progressive growth is going to happen, that is already in the W column. The questions are, is it going to hobble the Dem counterweight to the GOP and will progressives learn to vet?

My fraternity used to rent a house on this block for tailgates. It was torn down for this. The apartments in this building are expected to be about the same price or cheaper per bed and there’s 1000 of them. That’s objectively good for the city. Anyone who says otherwise is lying

Talarico-Crockett was not based on ideology. Can you name one policy issue that either candidate attacked the other on? It was about personality and strategy — who's the right kind of person to run the race and how that race should be run.

How closely were they coordinating with Bill Huizenga?

It's unreasonable to ask me to understand the difference between different municipalities in Antrim County. The whole thing has like 26,000 people in it.

That tracks

hate your landlord? hug a developer

The apartments this replaced were some of the dingiest, eye-soreiest units in the whole city. Maybe like ten units total. Weird to watch your college town change but it’s badly needed, and will bring some vibrancy to a part of town that was otherwise weirdly empty

Progressive integrity is demonstrated to me by somebody who is unwilling to cave to landlord interests and anti-renewable energy NIMBYs. If they can make you fold like a $3 lawn chair, you have no ability to stand up to sustained special interest opps once in office. #a2council