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From today's press conference

Michigan congresswomen get no answers on Baldwin ICE facility death during visit and tour • Michigan Advance Circumstances around the death of Nenko Gantchev, who died in ICE custody in December, are still unclear after a visit to the detention facility where he died, according to U.S. Reps. Haley Stevens (D...

🚨 "Haley Stevens also seemed generally impressed with the (ICE) staff during the visit and their treatment of detainees"

Stevens: "Of note, there is female leadership here, and there are women who walked with us today and explained, on the intake process" michiganadvance.com/2026/02/17/m...

Stevens also seemed generally impressed with the staff during the visit and their treatment of detainees. “Of note, there is female leadership here, and there are women who walked with us today and explained, on the intake process, how important it is to treat people with humanity,” Stevens said. “And that obviously really stuck out to me, because some of the things that we are witnessing before our eyes, in our neighborhoods, in our streets, is really a lack of humanity.” Both congresswomen did note, however, that at least one individual who they spoke to expressed a fear of punishment or retribution for sharing his concerns about the facility — though they attempted to speak with him privately, they were denied that opportunity. Stevens noted that she plans to remain in touch with that person’s family in Macomb County to ensure he is not punished for speaking with the congresswomen. “He was kept for several weeks in what everyone there refers to as ‘the hole,’ which is similar to a solitary confinement,” Scholten said of the same detainee. “He spoke of being kept in a freezing room where he couldn’t feel his toes and having his food just thrown into his cell. So these are things that we really need to take seriously.”

How is this even possible? Rep. Haley Stevens, who is running for #MISen, "seemed generally impressed with the staff" at an ICE detention facility, per the @michiganadvance.com.

At the same event, Rep. Hillary Scholten spoke of a man "being kept in a freezing room where he couldn’t feel his toes."

Michigan deserves a Senator who shows up.

My message to @uaw.org today:

You deserve a Senator who fights as hard as you do and has the track record to back it up. And we don’t have to settle.

Analilia Mejia performance in Essex County towns in #NJ11

Glen Ridge 49%
Bloomfield 43%
Maplewood 41%
South Orange 38%
Nutley 38%
Belleville 35%
Montclair 28%
Fairfield 24%
Cedar Grove 22%
West Caldwell 22%
Roseland 18%
North Caldwell 17%
Livingston 15%
Millburn 12%

4 PM #NJ11
Morris and Essex County update

DEM primary votes
Essex: 22,758 votes
Morris: 19,759 votes
Passaic: ~3700 votes (Estimated)

Final in-person early voting numbers across #NJ11

8487 DEM voters districtwide

🥇 Montclair 793 voters
🥈 Bloomfield 729 voters
🥉 Morris Township 493 voters

Itemized donations in Ann Arbor area

McMorrow ~$75000
El-Sayed ~$50000
Stevens ~$5000

Day 2 of #NJ11 early voting numbers

1992 voters have cast an in-person ballot in the first two days of EV.
Morris (994) / Essex (796) / Passaic (202)

Montclair saw 102 voters alone on Friday for a total of 165 total (highest in the district)

Yesterday was the first day of in-person early voting in #NJ11. 941 DEM voters districtwide.

Highest = Bloomfield with 64 DEM voters

Let's check in on FOX News

$90k by Affordability and Progress PAC 🔴 Oppose Tom Malinowski
$32k by Affordability and Progress PAC 🟢 Support Brendan Gill
$15k by Rolling Sea Action Fund 🟢 Support Tahesha Way

#NJ11 outside groups spending summary

$1.76 million by AIPAC 🔴 Oppose Tom Malinowski
$1.62 million by Dem Lt Gov Association 🟢 Support Tahesha Way
$452k by 218 Project 🟢 Support Tom Malinowksi
$350k by Article One PAC 🟢 Support Tahesha Way
$189k by Working Families Party 🟢 Support Analilia Mejia

Among Independents- Emerson poll

🟣 Mallory McMorrow
20% favorable / 12% unfavorable

🟠 Haley Stevens
16% favorable / 21% unfavorable

🟢 Abdul El-Sayed
16% favorable / 25% unfavorable

NEW Emerson Michigan US senate Dem primary poll

🟣 Mallory McMorrow 22.4%
🟠 Haley Stevens 16.5%
🟢 Abdul El-Sayed 15.9%

Among Dem primary voters

🟣 McMorrow: 26% very fav / 16% somewhat favorable

🟠 Stevens: 15% very fav / 19% somewhat favorable

🟢El-Sayed: 17% very fav / 21% somewhat favorable

With 7 days to go, 14,453 DEM primary voters have voted by mail in the #NJ11 Special Primary election

Essex: 6968 ballots (48.2%)
Morris: 6569 ballots (45.5%)
Passaic: 916 ballots (6.3)

Darker shade of bluer = higher VBM return rate

Bernie, AOC, Ras Baraka behind one candidate for NJ-11 in WFP party director and Bernie 2020 national political director Analilia Mejia

If they can't compete for a low turnout special in field with the moderate vote split, suburban Jersey is never gonna be fertile territory

My quick dive into the NJ-11 primary field to replace Mikie Sherrill as we are only 3 weeks away

With 22 days to go, 8831 DEM primary voters have voted by VBM ballot in the NJ-11 primary to replace Mikie Sherrill

Morris 4176 voters (47.2%)
Essex 4100 voters (46.4%)
Passaic 555 voters (6.2%)

Darker shade of blue = higher VBM return rate

Fun fact: Elissa Slotkin and Mallory McMorrow were collecting signatures together as first time candidates in 2017 trying to flip Rochester Hills based districts

Now there's a chance this could be a US senate delegation just 9 years later

She's just good at this

At one of our brewery tour stops, a Mom and Dad brought their 8-year-old daughter out. She raised her hand high to ask a question, "How can kids make a difference in government?" I brought her up to the front to introduce herself.

You'll never guess what her name was.

Hes a former MSU football player!

Who has the best logo/branding for the Michigan senate race?

cash of hand is what you should use

but that implies fundraising of money explicitly during those 3 months, which isn't true

those are funds raised in 2024 and Q1 that were transferred