LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – If anyone was wondering whether the Michigan Democratic Party plans to moderate its image heading into the midterms, the answer arrived in a 27- resolution packet marked approved at the party’s Dec. 7, 2025 State Central Committee meeting.

And no, moderation did not make the cut. Instead, the party served up the usual progressive platter of policy support for: birthright citizenship, repealing Michigan’s marriage amendment language, “living wage” mandates, more labor activism, Medicare for All, gun bans, and a resolution declaring Democrats the real “party of freedom.” However, that freedom seems to mean more government interference at all levels including from state government.

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Maybe the party is counting on voters never actually reading what the Democrats have put in writing – both in its newly passed resolutions and in its still-unchanged 2020 platform. Like the party’s politicians on the national stage, Michigan Democratic candidates may be banking less on defending their policy choices and more on riding a wave of anti-Trump sentiment.

Schools, secrecy, and the gender agenda.

Among the most revealing items was the Democrats’ resolutions on transgender rights. The party didn’t just voice general support. It condemned President Donald Trump and Republicans, pledged to pursue legislation protecting the transgender and LGBTQIA+ community, and called for guidance to schools on how federal executive orders can be “resisted” to protect transgender students. For Michigan parents already worried about schools keeping secrets from families, girls’ sports, and the steady push of gender ideology into classrooms, the resolution reads like a promise to cement the Democratic Party’s transgender agenda into policy.

Michigan Democrats dive into the Gaza fight.

Then came the Gaza resolution, which may be the clearest sign that the party’s activist wing is no longer content staying in the background. Although the resolution expresses solidarity with both the Palestinians and Israelis, it also backs an arms embargo against countries convicted of “war crimes” or genocide, calls for Michigan institutions and pension funds to divest from entities tied to genocide, and urges elected Democrats to oppose what it describes as forced displacement in Gaza and Palestine.

However they dress it up, it’s a major statement on one of the world’s most divisive conflicts – and not exactly kitchen-table material for families who are more worried about inflation, schools, public safety and local issues affecting them.

Same agenda, different election cycle.

Here’s the part that shouldn’t surprise anyone: the resolutions adopted are not some dramatic new turn. The Democratic Party’s 2020 platform already laid out much of the same worldview with support for LGBTQ inclusion (“We will vigorously promote measures that ensure the full civil rights of Michigan’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) people,” welcoming immigration policies, universal single-payer healthcare, and public funding expansions.