Selling Out the Grassroots!
URGENT: Bipartisan leaders in Lansing — including Sam Singh (D), Ed McBroom (R), Matt Hall (R), and Joe Tate (D) — are blatantly staging a power grab that must be stopped immediately.
Protect the grassroots. Defend the Michigan Constitution. Stop the donor class takeover.
Action Items
- Call your Representative (find his/her number here: https://house.mi.gov) and your Senator (find his/her number here: https://senate.michigan.gov). You can use the language from this email to leave a message and hang up, or share it with a staffer that picks up. We need to melt the phone lines!
- Call House Speaker Matt Hall at (517) 373-1784 and Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (517) 373-1801 as well.
- Use our advocacy page to email legislators. We need to flood their inboxes with opposition.
- Spread the word, and ask others to do the same.
What’s happening?
Senate Majority Floor Leader Sam Singh (D) and Sen. Ed McBroom (R), along with Speaker Matt Hall (R) and former Speaker Joe Tate (D), are rushing to RAM through a dangerous scheme to amend the Michigan Constitution — stripping grassroots delegates of their power to nominate candidates for statewide office.
The Senate version, SJR I, was introduced only yesterday, June 2, 2026. A companion resolution is also moving in the House. They are pushing to pass this in both chambers as soon as today.
This is unprecedented. They are attempting to radically rewrite how Michigan elects its leaders — without a single public hearing or meaningful debate.
If passed quickly, this constitutional amendment could land on the August primary ballot — not even the November general election — meaning the vast majority of Michigan voters would never even get a real say.
This is a flagrant power grab designed to eviscerate the grassroots in both parties and hand control of our elections to the donor class.
The donor class already dominates politics in both parties — which is exactly why so many Michiganders see a corrupt Uniparty in Lansing.
- Under this plan, Attorney General and Secretary of State would be chosen exclusively by expensive primary elections, where money almost always wins.
- The bigger the office, the more money matters.
- Grassroots delegates would lose their ability to nominate principled candidates who refuse to bow to special interests.
Even worse: HJR U / SJR I would end voter election of the governing boards of Michigan’s major universities (University of Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State). Instead, they would be appointed by the governor — a massive political payoff to the donor class and whichever party holds power.
If this passes, it will make big money even more dominant in Michigan elections. It is also a direct insult to every hardworking precinct delegate across the state who has invested countless hours building support from the ground up, only to see their hard-earned role in the nominating process taken away.
Lawmakers are in a full sprint to pass this immediately to meet the August ballot deadline.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Call your state legislators RIGHT NOW and tell them to vote NO on HJR U and SJR I. Use the form to write them as well.