Because of Trump’s actions since the start of his second term, an estimated 200,000 Michiganders may lose their healthcare, four rural hospitals may be forced to close, and nearly 145,000 of the 1.4 million Michiganders who rely on food assistance could be dropped from the program, including 41,000 military veterans.
In 2026, the Senate majority has again passed a slew of policies aimed at lowering costs for Michiganders, including bills that could lower healthcare costs for public workers like teachers, police officers, and firefighters, and provide better retirement options for some public safety workers. But to be enacted, these bills have to pass the rightwing-controlled House, where Speaker Matt Hall has led the least productive sessions in decades, sending just seven policies to the Governor’s desk in the first three months of 2026. By contrast, after we helped flip both chambers in 2022, lawmakers in those majorities prioritized creating good jobs, building affordable housing, and lowering taxes for workers and retirees, enacting over 300 policies in just 2023.
Michiganders deserve an effective government that is responsive to their needs, not leaders who wield their power to block life-improving policies. That’s why this November, we’re working to rebuild a trifecta in Michigan, so lawmakers can get back to work improving lives for their constituents.
We see an opportunity to build a new trifecta in Michigan by defending the one-seat Senate majority and flipping four seats in the House this November. Achieving these goals will be challenging, but crucial to ensure lawmakers actually working to improve lives have the governing power they need to protect Michiganders from the worst impacts of Trump’s rightwing federal policies.
We know what it will take to achieve these goals because we’ve done it before. In 2022, we helped secure seven seats across both chambers to build a new trifecta in Michigan for the first time in nearly 40 years. While lawmakers went on to pass a record number of life-improving policies, that momentum was not enough to withstand a more than 4 percent statewide swing for Trump at the top of the ticket.
While lawmakers working to protect their constituents narrowly lost the House majority in 2024, our work helped keep the margins close. The three tightest races proved just how tough the national environment was — they were decided by less than 1.5%. Trump won the state by the same margin.
We invested double the next largest funder on the coordinated side of the campaign, and focused on potential tipping point seats. These included the closest wins and losses in the House. The rightwing successfully flipped four House seats — each was decided by fewer than 10 points.
New maps created clearer paths to ending unchecked rightwing control of the Michigan legislature. The States Project seized the opportunity to shift power in both chambers, helping our partners gain three seats in the House and four in the Senate for two outright majorities. This included early investments to secure HD-74 in a May special election. In the end, we powered a new trifecta in Michigan for the first time since 1983!
Candidates The States Project supported won eight seats in the Michigan House, including six incumbents and two new seats. Two incumbent losses in seats that Trump carried meant that there was no change in the balance of power in the House.
In our first election in Michigan, we helped flip six seats in the House of Representatives.
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