1425 Michigan State Senator Mallory Mcmorrow
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Today's guest is Michigan State Senator Mallory Mcmorrow.
Mallory has joined me a few times before and I really enjoyed this conversation
Check out her Campaign Website and tell your friends in Michigan
Meet Mallory McMorrow
Mallory was raised with the small-town values she lives by today. Her front door was never locked, and kids from the neighborhood were always welcome to grab a snack, stay for dinner, or spend the night. Her mother worked full time, raised four kids and cared for her grandmother, who moved in when she was stricken with multiple sclerosis. The definition of hard work and selfless service, Mallory’s mom still found time to bring the community together for an annual town-wide yard sale and take Mallory and her siblings to volunteer at the local soup kitchen.
Following in her mother’s footsteps, at 12 years old, Mallory got her first job serving coffee at BINGO night at the local volunteer firehouse. By 16, she was a manager at a local family-run grocery store. She worked as a bartender and in various jobs on campus as she earned her degree from the University of Notre Dame, where she was nicknamed “car girl” by her classmates and in her senior year won an international car design competition. But when she graduated in the middle of the Great Recession of 2008 with no healthcare, no job prospects, and student loans coming due, Mallory went from designing cars to spending a few nights sleeping in the backseat of one as she tried to land on her feet.
Refusing to give up, Mallory became an industrial designer, creative director, and small business owner, working on concepts for everything from cars to Hot Wheels to documentary films to commercials, live events, and branding for local businesses. She never planned to enter the political arena, but fed up after the 2016 election – and driven by a belief that politics should be about service, not self-interest – she googled, “how to run for office.” Through sheer determination, she inspired hundreds of local volunteers to help her swing a Republican-held state Senate seat by 20 points, flipping a district that included Mitt Romney’s home town.
When a right-wing state senator baselessly referred to Mallory as a “groomer” in a fundraising email, she took to the floor of the Michigan state Senate and, in a now-viral speech, she memorably declared that, “we will not let hate win.” The speech showcased her courage and moral clarity, leading James Carville to say “I’d show this tape as an instructional video,” and the New York Times to label her “one of the Democratic Party’s most promising young talents.”
She used her newfound platform to help flip control of the Michigan Senate for the first time in 40 years, then she got to work: strengthening unions and raising wages, getting rid of the retirement tax on seniors, expanding civil rights, repealing the state’s 1931 abortion ban, banning child marriage, tackling gun violence, expanding affordable housing, feeding kids in schools, and so much more.
Mallory will bring that same determination to deliver for Michigan families to the U.S. Senate.
She and her husband Ray were married in Detroit’s Eastern Market. Along with their young daughter and rescue dog, they’re proud to call Royal Oak home.
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| 0:00.0 | To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, |
| 0:07.0 | I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. |
| 0:11.7 | This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story. |
| 0:17.1 | This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored, in favor of some horse race peace on who will be helped politically by the president's actions. |
| 0:33.9 | Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. |
| 0:43.3 | If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is, a dangerous power grab. |
| 0:52.7 | Yeah, there you go. |
| 0:55.2 | That was the governor of Illinois. |
| 0:57.6 | J.B. Pritzker, who is a real force and very effective, I think, as a leader. |
| 1:05.1 | I really like him, even though he is a super wealthy guy. |
| 1:08.7 | I won't hold that against him in this case because he's on the right side of things. |
| 1:11.6 | That is for sure. |
| 1:13.0 | Hello and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up. |
| 1:15.9 | I'm very excited to bring you my conversation with State Senator from Michigan, Mallory McMorrow. |
| 1:23.1 | And she is now running for U.S. Senate. |
| 1:26.3 | And that is coming up in just a minute here. I wanted to thank everybody for joining me at last night's hangout. We do them on Monday and Thursday at 8 p.m. It was over two hours that we hung out, 60 people. And you can watch it. If you're a paid subscriber, we live it. It was wonderful. As always, we've created an amazing community and that is what my new |
| 1:45.9 | goal in life is to do is to try to do all I can to build community here, the standup community, |
| 1:52.0 | and anywhere else that I can. I've got some ideas and I'll continue to share them with you. |
| 1:57.6 | But today, I'm going to jump right to my conversation. I don't have your headlines and |
| 2:02.6 | your clip show because I am taking the day off to head up to Boston with Julia. |
| 2:09.2 | Haven't really gotten an opportunity to do much with her this summer. We're going to try to go |
| 2:12.9 | look at some colleges, just her and I together just for the day. And we're leaving really early. So unfortunately, I'm not going to get to the news today, but I do have a great conversation with Mallory and I have a great conversation with Wajad Ali up, which I will share tomorrow. But if you want to watch that right now, you can go to YouTube. Right now, YouTube.com slash stand up with Pete, get a lot of great feedback on that one as well. |
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