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A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Michigan Citizens for a Better Tomorrow

Analysis and commentary on Michigan politics from former Democratic Party chair Mark Brewer and former Republican Party executive director Jeff Timmer.

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26:36

You Can’t Handle the Truth!

A Republic, If You Can Keep It ·

2025/11/26

VIDEO: Senator Elissa Slotkin responds to Donald Trump's outrageous threats against her, Senator Kelly and four House members.On our radar this week... Donald Trump says it’s criminal to post a video quoting federal law – with the Pentagon looking to court-martial Senator Mark Kelly, and the FBI investigating Elissa Slotkin and four House members. Trump’s healthcare plan … something promised for 9 years as coming "in 2 weeks" … turns out to be “dead even before arrival” in Congress. In

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38:48

Quiet, Piggy! (Guest: Mike Musheinesh, Detroit Axle Co.)

A Republic, If You Can Keep It ·

2025/11/21

On this week's show...Democrats: Our military's oath - defend the Constitution. Republicans: That's sedition! Donald Trump thinks Elissa Slotkin should be executed. Trump sees the Epstein documents parade going in the other direction and runs to lead it…but launches Phase Two for keeping the Epstein files secret. Trump accidentally admits he’s known about Epstein’s abuse of teenagers for more than a decade … now saying that Epstein was a sick pervert and he knew it 20-plus years ago. The

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49:30

The Cave-In Caucus (Guest: Ben Solis – Michigan Advance)

A Republic, If You Can Keep It ·

2025/11/14

John Darkow - PoliticalCartoons.comOn this week's show... The federal government shutdown is over for now, but the debate on healthcare rages on. Michigan Democrats, led by Senators Peters and Slotkin, have harsh words for the 7 Democrats who voted with Republicans to end the 41-day shutdown without any guaranteed continuation of healthcare insurance subsidies. The Republican bill includes a potential onetime $500,000 or more bonus for 8 Senators investigated as part of the January 6

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52:12:00

Half a Loaf (Guest: Jennifer Palmieri)

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2025/11/07

Nick Anderson/Raw Story On this week's show... The Donald Trump Hunger Games begin with the administration doing as little as possible to comply with a court-ordered continuation of SNAP Benefits. For millions of Americans, it means going hungry … just not quite as hungry as Trump had wanted. The Trump shutdown is officially the longest in U.S. history, surpassing the record of 35 days set during the first Trump term. With Trump’s administration failing on the economy, foreign policy, healthcare

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45:24

A Perfect MRI

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2025/10/31

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸drewsheneman.substack.com On this week's show... Donald Trump’s medical path seems to be tracking alongside his poll ratings: going down. Six months after his “annual” physical exam, doctors gave him a screening test for dementia, and ordered an MRI for undisclosed reasons. But when your doctor says you need an MRI (or a monthly dementia check-up), it’s not a clean bill of health. The

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1:03:29

Pooping Pedophile President Pulverizes People’s Place...

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2025/10/24

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸On this week's show... GOP efforts to discredit the No Kings protests across the nation flopped, with seven-million+ Americans registering their disgust with Trump in peaceful, often mocking demonstrations across America. Trump’s disdainful, self-revealing response: an AI-created video fantasy of Mad King Biff carpet-bombing crowds of American people with feces while flying an airborn

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49:13

The Resistance (Guest: Jennifer Taub)

A Republic, If You Can Keep It ·

2025/10/17

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸On this week's show... Donald Trump’s drive to autocracy is hitting some speed bumps and accelerating at the same time. Just this week: Kristi Noem’s partisan video diatribe over the government shutdown is being banned by airports across Michigan and the nation One more Trump opponent is indicted while a future target, former special counsel Jack Smith, ended his silence … and unloaded

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49:45

Illegally Blondie Bondi (Guest: Media Monitor...

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2025/10/10

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Clay Jones - claytoonz.com On this week's show... The Attorney General goes to the U.S. Senate to workshop her new stand-up/outraged authoritarian dystopian comedy routine … without any jokes. A Trump-appointed federal judge is getting increasingly pissed over Bondi’s defense of National Guard

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52:58

The Enemy Within (Guests: Gen. William Enyart, Lauren...

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2025/10/03

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 It's tale of two cities, told to us by two experts. In the nation's capitol, a would-be dictator takes time away from his golf game to launch a federal government shutdown, and lecture the nation's military leaders about transforming the military into a political tool. In the state's capitol, a more

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46:51

Trump’s Tylenol Headache

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2025/09/24

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 The man who recommended Ivermectin and bleach injections for treating covid joins with a recovering heroin addict and a former TV snake-oil salesman to warn us about the dangers of Tylenol. Trump? He probably needed to take a Tylenol after watching Tuesday night TV. But he’s moving forward with taking over

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44:01

Death of Free Speech (Guest: MIRS Editor Kyle Melinn)

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2025/09/18

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 One sure sign you’ve got a dictatorship in the making is when the would-be dictator does everything in his power to crush the ability of his opponents to be heard. In today’s Russia, those dissidents have a history of falling out of windows or suddenly becoming deathly ill. In North Korea, even the dictator’s

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49:13

Ignorance is Bliss

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2025/09/12

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Like most Americans, we are stunned and saddened by the murder of political activist Charlie Kirk. Listeners to this podcast know that we differed with Kirk on many, many issues. We were not fans. Kirk's politics dabbled in racism, homophobia, misogyny and outright deception. He frequently used provocative

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51:31

Donald’s Very Bad Week (Guest: Senator Debbie Stabenow)

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2025/09/05

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Clay Jones:claytoonz.com On our radar this week... Donald Trump had multiple court case losses this week. One court ruled his military invasion of Los Angeles was illegal; another struck down his tactic of punishing universities with the loss of research funding; his tariffs were rules illegal; and

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48:20

A Cracker Barrel Week (Guest: Representative Jason...

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2025/08/29

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Clay Bennett:Chattanooga Times Free Press On our radar this week... Wars in Ukraine and Gaza; Ground beef more than $6 a pound; A military invasion of Washington D.C.; Trump tries to strong-arm the Federal Reserve; Still no release of any new Epstein files; More DOJ investigations into Trump’s

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55:59

Trump’s Nobel Booby Prize (Guest: Detroit Free Press...

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2025/08/22

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Clay Bennett/Tribune Content Agency On the podcast this week... Turns out slavery wasn’t all that bad - at least, according to renowned civil rights advocate Donald Trump, who took a break from his continued cover-up of the Epstein Files and restoring Confederate traitor names to current U.S. military

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49:37

Up is Down, Down is Up (Guest: Former Michigan GOP...

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2025/08/14

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 This week marks the 90th anniversary of FDR signing the Social Security Act. In the background, #10 is Michigan Representative John Dingell Sr., a key force in enactment of Social Security. His legacy continued years later through his son, Representative John Dingell Jr., who worked tirelessly to enact

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36:26

Tariff Terror (Guest: Texas State Representative...

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2025/08/08

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 MAGA "Sheep" - The Lincoln Project On the podcast this week... Trump’s insane tariffs are now in effect … and the inflation surge is underway. Tomatoes, iPhones, Bananas, Automobiles, Coffee, Prescription drugs, Chocolate, Wine, virtually everything sold by Walmart and Amazon - prices are going up on just

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57:27

Another Day in Taco-land (Guest: Rick Wilson)

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2025/08/01

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Ann Telnaes/AnnTelnaes.com On the podcast this week... We’re recording on August 1, the day that was the unchangeable deadline for trade deals that changed. To no one's surprise, Taco Don has done it again - announcing a 90 day extension of the deadline with Mexico. The tariff-created damage has already

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47:42

Pedophilia and Distractions (Guest: Tim Greimel)

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2025/07/25

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 AnnTelnaes.com On the podcast this week... The Epstein saga continues to dominate Donald Trump’s admittedly minimal attention span as he throws out all sorts of invitations to talk about anything else. Just this week, that list of distractions included Reviving his attacks on President Obama for

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28:02

A Parting Gift from Jeffrey Epstein

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2025/07/18

This week's show is sponsored in part byEPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 On the podcast this week... Donald Trump says of MAGA supporters demanding release of the full Epstein files “I don’t want their support anymore” – and that group apparently includes his daughter-in-law Lara. Meanwhile, he’s going through a bad breakup with his BFF Vladimir Putin. The economic news

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