Up North Progressive
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“We’re not gonna go along to get along anymore”: The Rest of the Hillsdale County GQP Video With Mike Shirkey
Wednesday , 10, February 2021 Election 2020, MAGA, Sad! Leave a commentBy now anyone in Michigan with an internet connection that can stream videos (not many of us up north has that luxury in 2021) watched Mike Shirkey tell three Hillsdale County GQP the “DC thing” was a prearranged staged hoax even Mitch McConnell was in on, and he fantasizes physically assaulting Governor Whitmer. Now that […]
How to Create a Constitutional Crisis While Drinking Dom Pérignon: MI GOP Grasps the Last Straw
Sunday , 22, November 2020 Election 2020, MAGA, Sad!, Trumpenreich Leave a commentUp North Progressive has been pretty quiet lately. That’s because the Up North Progressive volunteered on the campaign staff of a state house candidate. It was a great learning experience, but there was so much writing to do about one candidate, it made writing about anything else happening up north difficult. The best part of […]
@LeeChatfield and the rest of the @MIGOP Pretend to Backtrack their Support of Domestic Terrorism
Friday , 15, May 2020 Governor Gretchen Whitmer, MAGA, Sad! 2 CommentsLee Chatfield (R-TSA agents think I’m cute), Speaker of Michigan’s State House, and representing the 107th district has never once met a gun he didn’t like. Remember when he introduced a bill to eliminate handgun registration in Michigan? A year later he was handcuffed in a TSA agent’s office at Pellston Regional Airport after trying […]