August is Michigan's first Transgender and Non-Binary Pride and History Month. That didn't happen in a vacuum. In 2023, I signed a law that finally protects LGBTQ+ people from losing their job or home just for who they are. That's the Michigan we built.
I am proof government assistance works. A down payment program helped me buy a home on a $28K salary — and I paid it back.
Trump and Moody want to cut programs just like this that help everyday, hardworking Floridians. I will fight to protect them.
When it comes to the cost of war, previous administrations provided hundreds of pages of detailed accounting. This administration submitted seven pages to account for $67 billion.
They’re not showing their math. They’re not explaining the cost of this war.
This is not the 2010 @MikeRogersforMI or even the 2021. That guy is long gone. These days he peddles election conspiracies — the very ones he used to call Trump out for peddling.
Now he’s traveling around MI (and CA) claiming over and over that the election was stolen from him in 2024. He knows he lost, just as he did on election night in 2024 when he called me to politely concede. And he’s claiming Detroit is to blame — just like Trump — as he prepares to claim fraud again if he loses in November.
At this point, everything he does is to appease one man. Even if it hurts Michigan and our very democracy. The old Mike Rogers has officially left the building.
I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone. Every day, older patients call us confused.
They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link. Some of them do not know what a portal is.
Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.
He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.
He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.
But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.
Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.
Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.
We need to listen to what President Trump is saying about the elections. And we need to prepare and act accordingly.
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Yesterday, the Trump Administration moved to end protections for 44 million acres of national forests, opening up logging and road construction in some of our nation’s most pristine public lands.
This has been one of the most reckless administrations in American history.
California will do whatever it can to protect public lands for generations to come.
From illegally impounding money for Head Start to firing staff & closing offices overnight, Trump has made clear he is coming after America's kids.
No way. Time for all of us to SPEAK UP and SAVE Head Start.
Great to be in St. Louis this week for @StopBigMoney's Kick Out Corruption Tour. The reason health insurance is out of reach for so many Americans is that insurance companies spend millions making sure politicians don't change the system. Same story with gas prices, housing, you name it. It all traces back to how money rules Washington.
It's why I've never taken a dime of corporate PAC money, and I'm one of only 6 senators out of 100 that haven't. It's time we uniformly ban corporate PACs from entering politics, and ban members from trading stocks while in office.
The President has made it clear through speeches, statements, official guidance, and continued legal action that he is seeking to use all possible tools to interfere with the midterms – including publicly lamenting that he did not send Federal forces to the polls in 2020. The uniformed military should not be deployed to interfere in our elections by any President.
Military leaders should be able to state that easily on that – on the record. It’s critical for our democracy that they uphold the law.
You want to refocus politicians — both Democrats and Republicans — on middle class issues? Own up to the role that money plays in our politics, and gut it.
I’m one of six Senators who has never taken a corporate PAC check. And we need to ban corporate PACs entirely, and ban Members of Congress from trading stocks and cryptocurrencies.
My dad, Curt, passed away earlier this year. One of his great lessons to me was that his handshake was his bond. He lived and died by his word. And if you violate that handshake, nobody trusts you again. The spirit of that handshake is missing from both sides of the aisle today, and we need principled leaders to bring it back.
Last night, Florida voted for Medicare for all, for universal childcare, for homes we can actually afford, and above all, a future where working families go beyond barely making it by and truly thrive.
Thank you.
Ossoff: Speaking of crooks, not a lot of people know this, but Congressman Mike Collins is literally one of the most active crypto traders in the entire Congress, House or Senate.
Now remember, Mike's already under federal investigation for illegally funnelling tax dollars to his violent staffer’s girlfriend for a no-show job. Do you remember that?
But Mike Collins also repeatedly broke the law hiding his crypto trading. Because he's like a scandal piñata. Every time you shake him, more misdeeds fall out.