By Ben Solis | Senior Reporter
Quoted and Noted
“We’ve convinced the country that there is an urgent danger to our democracy, and it’s time to move beyond standing with a sign and using our power as voters to try and protect our freedom.”
- Ryan Bates, executive director of End Gun Violence Michigan, on the latest “No Kings” mobilization planned for Oct. 17, 2026.
Detroit City Councilmember Denzel McCampbell speaks during a news conference calling out former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers’ record on education during his time in the state Legislature — where Rogers was the state Senate majority floor leader between 1999-2000 — on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. (Screenshot)
By Ben Solis
A handful of Black civic leaders, Detroit elected officials and union heads said Tuesday that Republican U.S. Senate nominee and former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers has a record of suppressing Black voting power in the city and across Michigan — an attempt to push back against Rogers’ claims that his Black voter outreach program is producing real results for his campaign against Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
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Thousand of protesters demonstrated against the administration of President Donald Trump on Saturday at the “No Kings” rallies in Detroit on Oct. 18, 2025. (Photo By Erick Diaz Veliz/Michigan Advance)
By Jon King
Organizers of the No Kings movement in Michigan are shifting their focus from street demonstrations to the ballot box, planning dozens of local rallies, marches and community gatherings Saturday, to encourage residents to vote early in the November election.
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By Kyle Davidson
At the beginning of the summer, the Michigan Libertarian Party and the Michigan Common Sense Party, co-founded by Jeff Timmer, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party and a senior adviser to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, took legal action aiming to invalidate the state’s ban on fusion voting.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
What Detroit-born actor, whose movie debut was in 1987’s “Hamburger Hill”, was student council president at Detroit Country Day school, where he played football, basketball and ran track?
Let us know @michiganadvance on Bluesky and check back in later today for the answer.
Tuesday's answer: On Oct. 13, 1921, Detroit’s WBL, later changed to WWJ, became Michigan’s first licensed broadcaster.
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