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Susan J. Demas

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Lansing, Michigan
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Editor-in-chief & columnist at @MichiganAdvance, views are my own. Fmr. Inside Michigan Politics publisher. Mom, spouse, hiker, wanderer, feminist. HCIC.

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Susan J. Demas’s Biography

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Susan J. Demas, 37, is Editor and Publisher of Inside Michigan Politics, a nationally acclaimed newsletter founded in 1987.

In 2014, the Washington Post named Demas one of its top state Capitol reporters. She also has been named one of the best political bloggers by both the Washington Post and Huffington Post.

Demas' work has run in or on more than 70 national, international and regional media outlets including The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, Newsweek, Forbes, National Public Radi…

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The best state capitol reporters in America

The best state capitol reporters in America

Michigan: Michigan Public Radio’s Rick Pluta, Inside Michigan Politics editor Susan Demas, Detroit Free Press…

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Susan J. Demas taking over Inside Michigan Politics newsletter; Bill Ballenger staying on in new ...

Susan J. Demas taking over Inside Michigan Politics newsletter; Bill Ballenger staying on in new ...

LANSING, MI -- Long-time Michigan political reporter and columnist Susan J. Demas is adding another title to …

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Let It Rip Weekend: Vaccine Fears & Orr's Bankruptcy Plan

Let It Rip Weekend: Vaccine Fears & Orr's Bankruptcy Plan

Michigan is the 4th highest state for parents not getting their kids vaccinated. Writer Susan J. Demas says …

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The best AZ and MI political tweeters

The best AZ and MI political tweeters

With nail-biter Arizona and Michigan primaries Feb. 28, it's time for us to tell you the best Tweeps to follo…

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Columnist Susan Demas takes over Capitol newsletter

Columnist Susan Demas takes over Capitol newsletter

There’s been a change at the top of an established Michigan political publication. Since he founded it in 198…

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Susan J. Demas: Time to close loophole allowing Michigan parents not to vaccinate their kids

Susan J. Demas: Time to close loophole allowing Michigan parents not to vaccinate their kids

What's the matter with Michigan? We're the fourth-highest state for kids skipping out on vaccinations because…

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Trump Makes Lindsay Graham's Death about Himself | The Weekly Assignment

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By Susan J. Demas Verified, Sam Osterhout
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Republican Senator Lindsay Graham’s passing raises renewed questions about how dramatically his views of Donald Trump changed over the past decade. Surprising no one, Donald Trump takes this moment to celebrate his powers of persuasion in making Graham his strongest defender. And you know what would honor Graham best? Passing the SAVE America Act of course, which just happens to be Trump’s No. 1 priority and would break the filibuster.
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The Jan. 6 Insurrection Succeeded

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By Susan J. Demas Verified
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There is something I haven’t wanted to say out loud for a long time. The Jan. 6 insurrection succeeded. Not immediately. Not completely. Not in the way its architects hoped on the afternoon they watched a mob tear through the Capitol looking for members of Congress to kill. But in every way that ultimately matters — politically, legally, historically — the people who plotted to destroy American democracy on January 6, 2021, got what they desired. Donald Trump is back in the White House.
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The Democratic Party Elizabeth Warren Wanted Doesn’t Exist

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By Susan J. Demas Verified
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I want to say something I know many people who agree with me about almost everything else are going to hate. But first, let me tell you about June 2019, when I watched Elizabeth Warren work a crowd at Lansing Community College after she was introduced by a charismatic, first-term state senator, Mallory McMorrow. Warren spent hours taking selfies and actually talking to people — which is, if you’ve covered presidential campaigns, not how candidates at this level usually spend their time.
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