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Follow Michigan Election Night 2026 with live reporting from Michigan Public journalists at polling places, campaign headquarters, and vote-counting centers across the state.
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Voters approved Proposal 2 in Michigan in the 2026 midterm election. Proposal 2 would regulate political spending by utilities and large government contractors. -
Voters rejected Proposal 1 in Michigan in the 2026 midterm election. Proposal 1 would have OK'd a rewrite of Michigan's constitution. -
The New Zealand mudsnail has expanded its range into southern Michigan. The mudsnail is tiny, invasive, and causes environmental harm. -
Election Day is Nov. 3, and with that comes an opportunity to display your civic participation via one of several “I Voted” stickers. Here are the options. -
People working the phone banks focused on making sure people in Wayne and Macomb counties had a plan to get to the polls and helping them create one if they didn’t already. -
Polls are open until 8 p.m. across Michigan for Election Day. Here's how to find your polling place, register to vote today and make sure your ballot counts. -
Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers are competing for Michigan’s open Senate seat in a race that could help determine control of the chamber. -
Get all the information you need, including candidate interviews and where they stand on issues, for the midterm election happening Nov. 3, 2026. -
Race calls are a critical part of election night and NPR partners with the Associated Press to make those calls. Here's how we do it. -
MSU's policy was updated last spring and now includes a clause requiring trustees to support board decisions, which some view as a loyalty clause. -
Today on the show, a review of the Democratic Party kerfuffle caused by Congresswoman Haley Stevens. And, we celebrate the life of techno pioneer Juan Atkins who died over the weekend. -
Juan Atkins, who died at 64, is widely credited with creating and popularizing the genre of music out of Detroit known around the world as techno.
The Dish, hosted by Mercedes Mejia, brings you behind the scenes with Michigan’s most inspiring chefs and culinary talents. Learn how food connects these chefs to their cultures, and strengthens our communities, one dish at a time.
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Michigan began early tabulation for absentee ballots in 2024. But there are still times when election results are delayed in the hours, or even days, after polls have closed. -
Michigan Democrats are scrambling to refocus voters' attention and move past a stunning defection in one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate races. -
Efforts to control the invasive "coiled menace" appear to be working, according to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. To keep the momentum going amid climate impacts, experts said continued research and investment is needed. -
The districts that will decide control of the House and Senate next year are spread across the country. Voting officials in those places may face scrutiny and pressure they've never experienced. -
Michigan lawmakers introduced legislation, Senate Bill 1035 and House Bill 6092, that would modernize the state’s 2001 post-conviction DNA testing law, which advocates say creates barriers for wrongfully convicted people seeking to prove their innocence.
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What's happening behind the scenes with absentee ballot tabulation? Also: a new music venue in west Michigan catches fire for noise complaints. And we met the creators of a film chronicling an open-water swim in memory of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Cookies or bread made from scratch sound great, and raise the question of what the scratch is. -
Where Latino voters are poised to influence Michigan elections, Red Wings poised to trade star center Dylan Larkin, one visually-impaired voter shares his experience with the ballot, and we share some love for Nobel Prize-winning poet Anne Carson.
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Four more people have been charged with participating in a criminal intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials to try to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel. -
A panel of experts from Michigan Public, Bridge Detroit, and Planet Detroit discuss what they're watching in the 2026 midterm election and the possible ramifications. -
The 2026 midterm elections have been marked by increasingly heated rhetoric and partisanship. -
Now that the blow-up between the Detroit Red Wings and star center Dylan Larkin has gone nuclear, how can the team try to salvage the trade nobody wanted? -
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign in Detroit alongside former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens. This marks their first public appearance together in months. -
Michigan voters are deciding a long list of contests that could swing the balance of power in Washington as well as in the state capitol in Lansing. Michigan is a competitive electoral battleground with fiercely contested Senate and House seats at stake as well as the governor's office and the state Legislature.
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Better to encourage you to vote and let you decide what to do. (Still, to be clear, you should vote no on Proposal 1.)
