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SICK: Michigan Muslim Dem Senate Candidate Cracks a Disgusting Joke About President Trump Dying 

A man who could be Michigan’s next Senator is under fire for making an absolutely sick joke about President Trump’s death during a podcast this week.

Failed far-left House candidate Kat Abughazaleh hosted Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on a live-stream on Tuesday to discuss his campaign. As TGP readers know, El-Sayed is a socialist Muslim with extreme views on issues ranging from health care to foreign policy.

El-Sayed, a Muslim, is currently the frontrunner for the Senate nomination according to some polls, which has prompted fears that he will prove a weak candidate against the presumptive GOP nominee Mike Rogers.

When the topic inevitably turned to Trump during Abughazaleh’s podcast, El-Sayed could not help but crack a nasty joke about the President’s death.

“If going swimming in coins wouldn’t actually kill you, he would do it,” El Sayed said while Abughazaleh laughed. “I’m like, bro, you’re going to break your neck if you do that.”

“Maybe he should try it,” Abughazaleh replied, which prompted chuckling from El-Sayed.

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Under Pressure, Michigan Makes It Easier to Opt Out of Vaccine Tracking

Michigan health freedom and privacy advocates scored a win this month when the state’s health department stopped using a vaccine information handout that failed to explain to parents how they can opt out of the state’s vaccine tracking program, and didn’t include an opt-out form.

It’s the latest development in health freedom and privacy advocates’ efforts to get the state health department to stop adding a thick layer of bureaucratic red tape — which isn’t even required under state law — that makes it difficult for families to opt out of vaccines and vaccination tracking.

“While this is definitely a win, there is still a long way to go,” said journalist and Michigan resident Jeremy R. Hammond, who has a 13-year-old unvaccinated son.

Until now, the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS) largely avoided telling parents what the tracking system is and how they can opt out of it, Hammond said.

This matters because the state’s vaccination tracking system, Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR), causes “pressure and coercion” for families who prefer not to vaccinate, according to Dr. Remington Nevin, medical director for the St. Clair County Health Department in rural eastern Michigan.

Dubbed “Michigan’s ‘RFK Jr.’” by Bridge Michigan, Nevin is an epidemiologist with multiple degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He is also a former U.S. Army major and preventive medicine officer.

Nevin spoke with The Defender about why it’s crucial for parents to be able to opt out of MCIR — and how he submitted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that likely led the state health department to stop using the old form and start making it easier for parents to opt out.

State health department violated Michigan law

The MCIR system sends reminders to medical staff to encourage them to keep their pediatric patients up to date with the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians childhood vaccine schedule.

When a child visits a clinic, front desk staff and nurses may tell parents their child is due for a particular vaccine, even though “the parent and the child’s physician may have decided together through shared clinical decision-making to not give that shot until later on in the child’s life,” Nevin said.

Michigan law requires the state health department to give parents a form — before vaccinating a child — notifying parents that they can object to having their child automatically enrolled in MCIR.

But for years, MDHHS failed to give parents any such form.

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HOT MIC: Gretchen Whitmer Caught Saying “We’re Used to People Saying No… And Doing It Anyway!” While Pushing Massive Data Center Tied to Dirty MI SOS Jocelyn Benson’s Husband

On June 1, 2026, Governor Gretchen Whitmer attended a ceremonial groundbreaking and site announcement event in Saline, Michigan, for the massive $16+ billion Oracle/OpenAI “Stargate” data center campus.

The event was held to celebrate and officially announce the project, which is being developed by Oracle and Related Companies with involvement from OpenAI. It’s one of the largest data center developments in the United States.

While rural Michigan residents are fighting back against data centers in their rural communities and desperately trying to protect their farmland and way of life, Governor Gretchen Whitmer was caught on a hot mic arrogantly admitting exactly how she and her cronies operate.

In a newly released video from the groundbreaking ceremony for the controversial $16+ billion Oracle/OpenAI “Stargate” data center project in Saline Township, Gretchen Whitmer was overheard in an arrogant exchange with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk that reveals how little she cares about the people who “elected” her as their governor.

During a conversation with the Oracle CEO, which appeared to be about the controversy the state is facing with the slew of data centers Whitmer is attempting to create in rural communities across the state, the far-left governor could be heard saying, “We’re used to people saying no… and doing it anyway!”

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Conviction of Jackson Co. man tied to Whitmer kidnap plot gets vacated

The Michigan Court of Appeals on Tuesday vacated the conviction of a Jackson County man alleged to have provided aid to a 2020 plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Joseph Morrison was convicted in 2022 of gang membership felonies, felony firearm and providing material support for terrorist acts in relation to his alleged role in support of a kidnapping plot of the Democratic governor that prosecutors said was led by Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. during the COVID-19 pandemic. Morrison was sentenced to four to 20 years in prison on the gang and terrorism support convictions and two years on felony firearm.

But the three-judge appellate panel on Tuesday ruled that kidnapping, under the letter of Michigan law, is not considered a “violent felony” and therefore cannot be presented to a jury to establish a terrorism-related charge.

The panel ― made up of Judges Thomas Cameron, Mark Boonstra and Brock Swartzle ― vacated Morrison’s conviction and remanded the case back to Jackson County Circuit Court for a new trial. All three judges are appointees of Republican former Gov. Rick Snyder.

“Given that the trial court specifically instructed the jury to consider kidnapping as a violent felony and that the jury heard considerable testimony about the plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, the likelihood that defendant was actually convicted, at least in part, on an invalid basis tainted the jury’s verdict,” according to the unanimous decision.

Michael Faraone, an appellate attorney for Morrison, said he was happy with the decisions and added, “It’s always a great day when a court delivers justice.”

“In over 30 years of practicing law, I have never reviewed a trial more violative of due process than this one,” Faraone said.

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Former Medical Resident Pleads Guilty to Receiving Child Porn After Bragging ‘Love Being a Pedo’

A former medical resident in Detroit has pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge following a series of disturbing messages to other abusers – in one of which he bragged, “Love being a pedo.”

Equally shocking, the plea follows an investigation that revealed a Detroit area pedophile ring that included two other professionals — a psychotherapist and an attorney.

Lincoln Erickson, 32, of the upscale Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, entered the guilty plea earlier this week to receiving child pornography after an investigation uncovered a string of disturbing messages. The investigation involved the arrest of three other men, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Michigan.

Erickson, a former medical resident at what was only identified as a “public university” hospital was arrested in December.

According a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office:

According to court records, agents discovered on Erickson’s phone videos of minors engaged in sex acts and AI-generated pornography depicting nude children touching adult men. Erickson also attempted to convince another man to allow Erickson to bathe the other man’s children and admitted to making plans to travel to the man’s house for that purpose.

“This pervert was lurking among our trusted medical professionals. At the same time, he was feeding his disgusting appetites and plotting to abuse little children. Thankfully, the FBI caught him when they did,” U.S. Attorney Gorgon said.

The doctor was detained after the arrest in March 2025 of an Ohio resident named Brett Tooman which unveiled a network of child pornography. The investigation was engineered by an undercover officer posing as a pedophile parent, according to several news outlets.

Tooman was nabbed after he allegedly traveled to Toledo to sexually abuse a seven-year-old girl and a six-month-old infant he believed existed as part of a law enforcement sting, according to Channel 4’s Click on Detroit.

Two other men, Jeremy Brian Tacon, a Huntington Woods psychotherapist, and Detroit attorney Joshua Ronnebaum, were also arrested besides the doctor, their connections discovered during the course of the undercover investigation.

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McMorrow Pushed Water Affordability While Racking Up $3,000 Unpaid Utility Tab at Million-Dollar Home

A candidate for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat apparently doesn’t like paying her utility bills. 

Fox News reported that Mallory McMorrow went nearly a year without paying water or sewer bills on their million-dollar home in Royal Oak until Friday, when contacted by Fox News.

The bill grew to over $3,000 since June 2025 when accounting for late fees and unpaid bills, Fox reported. 

In 2025, McMorrow sponsored Senate Bill 250, which aimed to create a water affordability program. The bill aimed to create the low-income water affordability program within the state health department to ensure an eligible customer didn’t pay over three percent of the household income on a water bill. 

That bill aimed to “identify alternative funding” for the program, which means raising taxes to fund “free” water for others. 

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FEDS FOIL CHILLING ISIS PLOT on Michigan U.S. Army Base Just Hours Before Mass Shooting—Planned by 19-Year-Old Somali-American Ex-National Guard Soldier

A 19-year-old former member of the Michigan Army National Guard has been charged with planning a horrific mass shooting attack on a major U.S. military facility right here in Michigan, all in the name of ISIS.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said of Melvindale, Michigan was arrested on May 13, 2025 — the very day he planned to carry out the attack — after launching a drone near the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM) facility at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan.

Said faces federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization (ISIS) and distributing information related to a destructive device. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison on each count.

Court documents reveal the chilling details of the plot.

Said allegedly provided undercover agents, whom he believed were fellow ISIS supporters, with armor-piercing ammunition and high-capacity magazines. He conducted drone reconnaissance flights over the TACOM base, trained the undercover officers on firearms and how to construct Molotov cocktails, and mapped out entry points while identifying specific buildings to target for maximum casualties. Videos included in the complaint allegedly show Said pledging loyalty to ISIS leadership while standing in front of an ISIS flag.

Said first began communicating with the undercover officers in June 2024, openly expressing his desire to carry out “violent jihad” either overseas or here in the United States. The plot against the Warren military base ramped up in November 2024. On the morning of the planned attack, Said traveled to the area near TACOM, launched his drone in support of the operation, and was taken into custody by federal agents.

“This defendant is charged with planning a deadly attack on a U.S. military base here at home for ISIS,” said Sue J. Bai, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Thanks to the tireless efforts of law enforcement, we foiled the attack before lives were lost.”

U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. for the Eastern District of Michigan added, “Helping ISIS or any other terrorist organization prepare or carry out acts of violence is not only a reprehensible crime — it is a threat to our entire nation and way of life.”

Said enlisted in the Michigan Army National Guard in September 2022, completed basic training, and was discharged in December 2024 for failing to meet initial entry requirements.

This is yet another terrifying example of the deadly consequences of Joe Biden’s wide-open southern border and his administration’s catastrophic failure to vet the hundreds of thousands of military-age men from terror-prone regions who poured into America over the last four years.

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“I Am a C*nt!” – Michigan Democrat Congressional Candidate Shelby Campbell Lashes Out at Critics – Flashes Grotesque Crotch Shot

Michigan Democrat Congressional candidate Shelby Campbell, the young Millennial with a nose ring who is running for the state’s 13th district, called herself a ‘c*nt’ and flashed a crotch shot in her latest stunt.

Recall that Shelby Campbell created a firestorm after she posted a grotesque video mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“Hey MAGA, how bad does it hurt that Jimmy Kimmel is back, but you can’t get our person back?” a smirking Campbell said, referring to Charlie Kirk.

“Hi Michiganders, specifically Detrioters…..Do you guys care that Charlie Kirk passed away?” the 32-year old said.

“Yeah. I didn’t think so,” she said.

“Because my district is primarily Black people, and Charlie Kirk said awful things about Black people,” she said.

Campbell flipped off the camera as she ended her video.

In another video, which has since been deleted, Campbell disparaged our troops.

“Quit thanking the troops for sacrificing their lives,” she said.

Now she’s posting crotch shots and calling herself a “c*nt.”

“I am a c*nt. Great!” Campbell said in a since-deleted TikTok video.

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MI County Clerk Anthony Forlini Finds 198 MORE Non-US Citizens Summoned For Jury Duty From SOS Benson’s Driver’s License Database—11 Were Registered to Vote

Macomb County Clerk Anthony G. Forlini is exposing what Michigan Secretary of State and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson desperately wants to hide…

Non-citizens on her corrupt voter rolls.

While Michigan’s Secretary of State continues gaslighting the public with claims of “no evidence” of non-citizen voting, Forlini’s office just dropped more damning numbers proving the system is wide open to abuse.

According to Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini’s May 13th press release, in the first quarter of 2026 alone, 198 non-U.S. citizens were summoned for jury duty and forced to self-report with green cards and other proof that they are not American citizens and ineligible to serve. Of those 198, 11 had been registered to vote in Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF) at some point — and a shocking seven remain listed as ACTIVE right now.

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Michigan Democrats Introduce Bills to Legalize Assisted Suicide

A group of Michigan House Democrats has introduced a package of four bills aimed at legalizing physician-assisted suicide, rebranded as “medical aid in dying,” for terminally ill adults in the state.

The legislation would create a new “Death with Dignity Act” and establish a regulated process allowing certain patients to request and receive life-ending medication from a doctor.

The bills were referred to the House Committee on Government Operations, where they currently sit with no hearing scheduled yet.

Given the Republican majority in the Michigan House, the measures face long odds of advancing, but their introduction alone has reignited the long-running debate over assisted suicide in a state with a notorious history on the issue.

House Bill 5825 would allow “mentally competent” Michigan residents who are 18 years or older, diagnosed with a terminal illness expected to result in death within six months, and acting voluntarily to request a prescription for lethal medication from a licensed physician.

The bill requires two oral requests at least 15 days apart, one written request witnessed by two people, one of whom cannot be a relative or someone who stands to benefit financially, and confirmation of the diagnosis and mental capacity by two physicians.

The act states that death under the law “does not constitute suicide” for purposes of insurance or other legal matters.

The three companion bills provide additional legal protections and framework:

  • HB 5826 prohibits state licensing boards from imposing sanctions on health care professionals who participate in good faith under the Death with Dignity Act.
  • HB 5827 establishes sentencing guidelines for any crimes related to violations of the new act.
  • HB 5828 prevents health insurers from invoking suicide-exclusion clauses in life insurance policies when a death occurs under the provisions of the act.

All four bills were introduced by Democratic representatives and are tie-barred, meaning none can take effect unless the full package passes.

Lead sponsor Rep. Kimberly Edwards described the legislation as compassionate.

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