A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Sep 18, 2026 · 46 min · 10 segments
### On our radar this week… The battlelines are drawn in Michigan and across the nation over the tandem futures of data centers and artificial intelligence. Unlike the decades-long warnings over…
Jeff TimmerHost
Mark BrewerHost
Three quarters of those polled say they are certain the November election will be fair, secure and accurate because they will.
Other findings in the poll include that more than 85% of voters trust their local elections, believing that local elections are fair and accurate.
As Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution mandates, a majority of Michigan voters are not concerned about non-citizen voting, reflecting a 16-point swing from 2025 when more voters were worried about non-citizen voting.
Nearly 6 in 10 voters oppose the state's surrendering private voter data to the federal government, which has been suing Michigan for that personal information, even though federal judges in Michigan and Cincinnati have consistently blocked the administration from getting it.
And finally, more than 61% of voters support the U.S. Department of Justice sending monitors to Michigan to observe the November elections.
The bottom line in the fall campaign, though, is the cost of living, and that's getting even worse for Republicans.
The average price of gasoline in Michigan has soared to $4.75 a gallon, with many areas seeing $5 a gallon gas, and I saw it yesterday.
The increase of $1.56 from a year ago, it's astounding, and it's all self-inflicted.
Diesel fuel, which impacts the shipping of just about Everything we buy in our economy is now averaging a staggering 632 a gallon.
That works out to around a dollar a mile to fuel a typical freight hauling tractor trailer.
U.S. consumers have collectively spent more than $100 billion on gasoline and diesel during the Iran conflict than they would have spent had there been no wars, according to estimates by the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown University.
if the Fed doesn't reverse itself, even after declaring economic war on our neighbors in Canada.
He's also fuming over a court decision preventing his stooges on the Kennedy Center board from adding his name to the building.
Three quarters of those polled say they are certain the November election will be fair, secure and accurate because they will.
Other findings in the poll include that more than 85% of voters trust their local elections, believing that local elections are fair and accurate.
As Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution mandates, a majority of Michigan voters are not concerned about non-citizen voting, reflecting a 16-point swing from 2025 when more voters were worried about non-citizen voting.
Nearly 6 in 10 voters oppose the state's surrendering private voter data to the federal government, which has been suing Michigan for that personal information, even though federal judges in Michigan and Cincinnati have consistently blocked the administration from getting it.
And finally, more than 61% of voters support the U.S. Department of Justice sending monitors to Michigan to observe the November elections.
The bottom line in the fall campaign, though, is the cost of living, and that's getting even worse for Republicans.
The average price of gasoline in Michigan has soared to $4.75 a gallon, with many areas seeing $5 a gallon gas, and I saw it yesterday.
The increase of $1.56 from a year ago, it's astounding, and it's all self-inflicted.
Diesel fuel, which impacts the shipping of just about Everything we buy in our economy is now averaging a staggering 632 a gallon.
That works out to around a dollar a mile to fuel a typical freight hauling tractor trailer.
U.S. consumers have collectively spent more than $100 billion on gasoline and diesel during the Iran conflict than they would have spent had there been no wars, according to estimates by the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown University.
if the Fed doesn't reverse itself, even after declaring economic war on our neighbors in Canada.
He's also fuming over a court decision preventing his stooges on the Kennedy Center board from adding his name to the building.
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