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It's (Almost) Always the Feds: How the FBI Fabricates Schemes To Entrap Would-Be Radicals

The FBI's long history of using informants and manufactured plots to prosecute extremists

Reason

Gretchen Whitmer spent more than any other Democratic statewide candidate or officeholder in Michigan

Michigan Democratic statewide candidates and officeholders have spent $15.4 million during the 2022 election cycle. Among statewide officials and candidates, Gretchen Whitmer has spent more than any other Democrat.

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has 26 times the campaign cash Tudor Dixon does

LANSING, Mich. — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reported Thursday having $14 million available in her campaign fundraising account, 26 times the total disclosed by her Republican opponent Tudor Dixon, $523,930.

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EXPLAINER: Abortion returns spotlight to obscure Mich. board

A once obscure Michigan elections panel is back in the spotlight after rejecting a ballot initiative seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution and another to expand voting

The Independent UK

Whitmer to tech giants: Don't 'harm' women seeking abortions

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer encouraged the leaders of the nation's top tech companies to take "immediate measures" Wednesday to protect users' data, suggesting the information could be used to prosecute women or medical professionals involved in abortions.

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Michigan mulls putting abortion rights initiative before voters

Emotions run high in the US state as election board considers putting abortion rights to a vote in November.

Al Jazeera

Kidnapping conspiracy hearing focuses on reconnaissance trip to Gov. Whitmer's cottage

DETROIT — The second day of testimony in a key hearing for five people charged with materially aiding the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer focused largely on a two-day field training exercise and a nighttime surveillance trip to Whitmer's summer home in Antrim County.

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Whitmer, Dixon, and five others running in Michigan’s gubernatorial contest

Incumbent Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), Tudor Dixon (R), and five other candidates are running in the general election on November 8, 2022, for governor of Michigan.

Ballotpedia

Whitmer kidnapping conspiracy suspects' lawyers, prosecutors spar over hearing testimony

DETROIT — The Michigan attorney general's office on Monday began making its case against five individuals accused of materially aiding a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and storm the state Capitol.

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5 tied to Michigan Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot face key hearing

A judge has begun hearing evidence to determine if five men will face trial for their alleged roles in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

The Independent UK

'It's not like I have that on tape,' judge says of juror bias claim in Whitmer kidnapping trial

DETROIT — A juror seated on the recent trial of two men convicted of attempting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer denied having said the men would "hang," according to a transcript of a meeting the juror had with U.S. District Court Judge Robert Jonker, who likened the encounter with the…

Tribune News Service

‘American rebellion’: the lockdown protests that paved the way for the Capitol riots

In this extract, New Yorker writer Luke Mogelson follows rightwing militias in Michigan protesting lockdown restrictions in 2020. It was a lesson in the attitudes that led to the US Capitol attack the following January

The Guardian - UK

Whitmer order lifts some fuel rules to address potential impact of Indiana refinery fire

DETROIT — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Saturday issued an executive order lifting some rules on fuel supply transportation and moving forward the timeline for the state to access its fall gasoline supply in light of a fire at an Indiana refinery that may affect Michigan's supply and prices.

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Conviction of two Michigan kidnap plotters highlights danger of violent conspiracies to US democracy

Two of the six men facing federal charges in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 were found guilty by a federal jury on Aug. 23, 2022.

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Justice Department releases memo justifying no obstruction of justice charges in Trump Russia investigation

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Gretchen Whitmer raised more than any other Democratic statewide candidate or officeholder in Michigan

Michigan Democratic statewide candidates and officeholders have raised $27.1 million during the 2022 election cycle. Among statewide officials and candidates, Gretchen Whitmer has raised more than any other Democrat.

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Whitmer kidnap plotter deserves prison break for helping government, feds say

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors said Wednesday they want to shave three years off the prison sentence of a man convicted of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer because he helped secure the convictions of co-conspirators.

The Independent UK

Whitmer kidnap plot convictions unlikely to curb extremism

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is calling for a political cooling-off after two men were convicted of plotting to kidnap her

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Appeals court rejects Michigan House, Senate bid to overturn injunction on abortion ban

DETROIT — The Michigan Court of Appeal on Wednesday declined to take up an appeal from the Michigan House and Senate requesting a three-judge panel overturn a lower court preliminary injunction that's stopping the enforcement of the state's abortion ban.

Reason

2 Defendants in Whitmer Kidnapping Case Found Guilty in Retrial

After an embarrassing failure for the FBI counterterrorism program, federal prosecutors won convictions against two of the men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

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Whitmer kidnap trial judge reveals secret juror misconduct claim

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A juror accused of harboring a bias against two men convicted Tuesday of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was allowed to stay on the case because the juror did not appear to be manipulative and denied having a predetermined desire to convict the men, according…

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2 ringleaders convicted on Whitmer kidnapping conspiracy charges

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A federal jury Tuesday convicted two men accused of orchestrating a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as prosecutors salvaged the largest domestic terrorism case in a generation that has shed light on political extremism in Michigan.

The Independent UK

Donald Trump and GOP continue to deny Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot – even after two more found guilty

Former president and GOP members say conspiracy somehow shows FBI bias

Salon

Two convicted in Whitmer kidnapping plot

A jury failed to reach a verdict in the last trial

Al Jazeera

US jury convicts two of conspiring to kidnap Michigan governor

In second trial, defence argued unsuccessfully that the two men were entrapped by the FBI in Whitmer kidnapping plot.

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