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Michigan Public is speaking to the state's youngest voters about the issues driving them to the polls. This week, we heard from Clarissa Mata, an engagement coordinator at a nonprofit in Grand Rapids.

Get all the information you need, including candidate interviews and where they stand on issues, for the midterm election happening Nov. 3, 2026.

With Election Day just a few weeks away — and millions of votes already cast — midterm polls are everywhere. While polling can be a helpful tool to understand the electorate, it's not a crystal ball.

Get all the information you need, including candidate interviews and where they stand on issues, for the primary election happening Aug. 4, 2026.

In Detroit, Grand Rapids and Lansing, religious leaders from many faiths gathered Tuesday to speak against what they described as efforts to intimidate and disenfranchise Michigan voters.

In this edition of Stateside, we discuss the newly elected leaders from both the Democratic and Republican state parties. We also feature an introduction to a storyteller from Detroit. Additionally, we explore how Michigan’s Arab and Muslim American communities are responding to the Trump Administration. Lastly, we highlight a sauna festival taking place in Traverse City.

A conversation about the conflicting emotions Michiganders are having about the revival of mining in the Upper Peninsula. Then, a Detroit based poet explores family and place in her latest collection. And we talked to a Republican strategist who doesn't feel like she has a place in either of the major political parties anymore.

We make sense of the numbers in Michigan’s voter turnout. Then, what the end of this election cycle has meant for many of Michigan’s Arab American and Muslim American voters. Plus, what we might expect of a new Trump administration's foreign policy, according to an expert that worked with him during his first term.

Today, a discussion with an associate professor at Michigan State University on how Michiganders are more likely to vote if they see candidates on the ballot who share their own voter experience and identity.

We talk to VoteBeat's Hayley Harding about Michigan’s voter records, and what she expects as votes are counted and certified.