Tuesday night was a good night for Michigan, and a good night for Freedom.

For the last several months, we have been engaged in the fight to support conservative individuals who stand up for you, the taxpayer, by advocating for policies that reduce the size, scope, and cost of government. We have knocked on doors, sent mail, launched digital ads and microsites, and left it all on the field of battle.

Last night, the Michigan Supreme Court shamefully bowed in the face of extremist bullying and intimidation from Michigan Democrats. Four Justices ruled against voters and the state Constitution, choosing instead to back the Michigan Democrat Party and its front group, Voters Not Politicians, which seeks to politicize the state’s redistricting process.

Another year, another brazen campaign finance violation from the Left.

Gretchen Whitmer, her campaign team, and her former chief of staff have engaged in a deliberate scheme to flout Michigan’s campaign finance laws.

Taxpayers beware.

This article originally appeared in The Detroit News.

Voters beware.

Recent violent behavior and rhetoric from the unhinged political left demonstrates what’s at stake this November. Across the state and the nation, Democrat candidates for governor, state legislature, Congress, and U.S. Senate have abandoned decorum and declared war on their political opponents, as well as on the constitutional rights of everyday Michiganians.

One week after we celebrated the American Revolution, the Left seems to be celebrating the French Revolution, guillotines and all.

A little over two hundred and forty-two years ago, our Forefathers put pen to paper to declare our nation’s Independence from an oppressive and tyrannical government.

To lay the groundwork for that Declaration, Thomas Jefferson defined some “self-evident” truths: 

“...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

They’ve become unhinged.  Earlier this week, Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters let loose a hateful diatribe, urging liberals and progressives to assail Republicans in restaurants, gas stations, and wherever else they are found.

“Create a crowd,” she told them.  "Push back on them," she coached.  “You tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

We’ve all heard about “fake news.” Donald Trump, Barack Obama… everyone agrees it’s a problem. But there’s something more dangerous and pervasive than the occasional partisan hatchet job in the press.

We call them “big lies.”

This article originally appeared in The Detroit News.

Both Donald Trump and Barack Obama have spoken out against “fake news,” a term used to describe media coverage that lacks fairness, balance, or basic facts. The problem, though, isn’t simply fake news. The problem is that we are living in the political era of the “big lie,” and we are worse off for it.

So what’s a “big lie?”  While politicians and journalists may make up salacious stories or launch partisan attacks, sometimes out of whole cloth, these stories tend to focus on individual circumstances or personalities.