A look at the surprises from Michigan's election night results that helped deliver a decisive victory to Donald Trump as president-elect.

GUEST:

• Mara Cecilia Ostfeld, associate research scientist and research director at the Center for Racial Justice at the Ford School of Public Policy at University of Michigan 

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Researcher Eric Gonzales Juenke studies how non-white candidates are perceived by voters in majority-white districts. He joined Stateside to share his findings, and how they may play out in a presidential election. 

GUEST:

Eric Gonzales Juenke, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Chicano/Latino Studies Program in the College of Social Science. 

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Most of us don’t think about the voting process, or election administration, until it’s actually time for us to drop off our ballot. That season becomes prime time for folks circulating misinformation to do their worst. But one non-profit, non-partisan news source in Michigan spends all year reporting on the truth about democratic processes. We talk to a VoteBeat reporter about how to sort facts about voting from the disinformation swirling around social media.  

GUEST: 

Hayley Harding, Detroit-based reporter for VoteBeat

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Stateside checks in with two Michigan clerks as their offices run full steam ahead in administering November's election. 

GUESTS ON TODAY’S SHOW:

• Lawrence Kestenbaum, Washtenaw County Clerk

• Tony Forlini, Macomb County Clerk

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On this edition of the Stateside Podcast, we introduce you Trash the Clown. She's a Michigan clown whose mission is to keep Port Huron clean and improve the world with one small action at a time.

GUEST ON THIS EPISODE:

• Trash the Clown

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Communities from Southwest Detroit to Oakland County, Grand Rapids and Saginaw are full of Latino voters also making up their minds about voting. 

And it’s crazy because while one of the presidential candidates has been talking nonstop about one narrow slice of the Latino population… there’s a lot we’re not talking about with this community’s issues and interests. 

GUEST:

• Cindy Gamboa is the executive director of MI PODER…. a non-profit non-partisan social welfare and civic engagement organization serving Michigan’s Latinx population 

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The “Hey, We Need to Talk!” Common Sense Diner brings together a small group of people from diverse backgrounds for a free meal and guided conversation led by artist and social connector Philippa Pham Hughes. Folks from all walks of life and of all political backgrounds are invited to apply for the experience. Hughes joined Stateside to talk about the project, and about her experience dining with a divided America. 

GUEST ON THIS EPISODE:

• Philippa Pham Hughes, a social sculptor and connector, organizer of the Common Sense Diner

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This is a re-pod from one of our favorite Halloween convos: a visit to the spooktacular Thrift Witch of Old Town Lansing. This episode originally published 10/31/2022.

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Julianna Sanromán's paintings have an ethereal, otherworldly feel to it. But their subject matter is rooted in something deeply real and personal: the pain of family deportation. We talked to the Detroit artist about the hard realities of growing up divided between two worlds--and how her paintings are shaped by the longing to remember moments of family togetherness.

GUEST: 

Julianna Sanromán, Detroit artist 

Sanromán’s solo exhibition What Lived And Died Between Us Haunts Me is on view through November 9th at Playground Detroit. You can catch her artist’s talk there Saturday, October 26 at 2pm. 

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Author and illustrator Supriya Kelkar has two books that hit the shelves this year: Kamala Raised Her Hand, a picture book biography about the Vice President, as well as And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, and Resistance.

Today, Kelkar talks about her creative process, writing and illustrating for young readers, and celebrating South Asian culture through books. 

GUEST ON THIS EPISODE:

• Supriya Kelkar, author, illustrator, and screenwriter

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