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“We’re Watching”: how advocates are holding detention centers accountable by ‘witnessing’

“We’re Watching”: how advocates are holding detention centers accountable by ‘witnessing’

by Isabella Jacob | Dec 17, 2025 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON, D.C. —  In May, Marjorie Ziefert and Chuck Kieffer realized that people in their community were disappearing, taken by immigration enforcement to the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Mich.   The retired Ann Arbor residents started participating in...
Michigan’s political landscape may help predict national trends, experts say

Michigan’s political landscape may help predict national trends, experts say

by Victoria Ryan | Feb 19, 2025 | Featured, Politics

Sen. Gary Peters’ (D-Mich.) recent decision to retire at the end of his term leaves a Senate seat in a battleground state up for grabs in 2026, and raises questions about whether the Midwestern state will provide a crystal ball into future national elections. “It’s...
A Dance Party at the Edge of Disaster

A Dance Party at the Edge of Disaster

by Eli Kronenberg | Nov 7, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – As a big screen at Vice President Kamala Harris’ election-night gathering at Howard University showed Jake Tapper announcing CNN’s call of North Carolina for former President Donald Trump, a smattering of boos rang out. Seconds later, Tapper and his CNN...
Supreme Court security scare: Michigan man arrested by Capitol Police raid team

Supreme Court security scare: Michigan man arrested by Capitol Police raid team

by Linus Hoeller and Dan Hu | Oct 5, 2021 | National Security

WASHINGTON – U.S. Capitol Police deployed their equivalent of a SWAT team on Tuesday because of a suspicious vehicle parked outside the front entrance of the Supreme Court, eventually removing a Michigan man and arresting him, the same man who had made “concerning...

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