#podcast #politics #GenZ #Michigan #Whitmer #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #Republicans #Democrats #progressives #womensissues #toxicmasculinity #economy #education #leftoflansing Here's the Left Of Lansing "Friday Short" for February 28, 2025. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer carved-out a section of this week's State of the State address to hi…

#podcast #politics #democrats #republicans #progressives #MAGA #Trump #ElonMusk #Oligarchy #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #Michigan #MichiganNews #news #Whitmer #WorkingClass #Medicaid #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 122 of Michigan's Progressive Podcast! 00:00-18:56: Musk-Trump-MAGA Attacking Medicaid Pat Johnston begins this week's show highl…

#podcast #progressive #politics #GretchenWhitmer #Whitmer #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #MAGA #Trump #Musk #leftoflansing Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for February 24, 2025. This week, Pat Johnston wonders what happened to the Big Gretch of old? Governor Gretchen Whitmer appears to be journeying towards the nebulous political "center" a…

#podcast #politics #news #progressives #Democrats #Musk #DOGE #Trump #MAGA #CorporateGreed #Farmers #SocialSecurity #Corruption #Project2025 #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for Feb. 21, 2025! Poll numbers are already crashing for Dear Leader Trump just one month back in office, but the numbers are even worse for President E…

#podcast #politics #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #Trump #ElonMusk #MinimumWage #PatrioticMillionaires #WorkingClass #CorporateCorruption #PaidSickLeave #Lobbying #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 121 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-15:15: Democrats Attacking Their Side Pat Johnston shares big news regarding …

#podcast #Politics #Michigan #Line5 #ShutdownLine5 #MAGA #Trump #ElonMusk #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #OilandGas #Environment #RuralMichigan #CorporateGreed #Tariff #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for February 17, 2025. Chad Livingood of The Detroit News published a piece detailing how Dear Leader Trump's plan to place a 1…

#podcast #Michigan #Politics #news #DanaNessel #ProgressivePolitics #Progressives #Democrats #Agriculture #Farming #Economics #WorkingClass #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #ElonMusk #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #USAID #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for February 14, 2025. President Elon Musk and Dear Leader Trump are sell…

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Democrats #progressives #MAGA #Republicans #Trump#Musk #ElonMusk #WorkingClass #Fasicsm #Autocracy #Democracy #TechBros #CorporateGreed #LBGTQ+ #Transgender #CorporateWelfare #Environment #News #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 120 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-12:42: Dems Acting MAGA-Lite Pat highlights…

#podcast #politics #Michigan #CFPB #ElonMusk #Trump #MAGA #CorporateGreed #WorkingClass #Democrats #Progressives #Economy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for February 10, 2025. The Musk-Trump Regime have put the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the chopping block, as they continue to dismantle and destroy the instit…

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #Democrats #Republicans #Detroit #MichelleAdams #RacialJustice #SocialJustice #Race #Education #SupremeCourt #History #Voting #WorkingClass #ElonMusk #Democracy #Fascism #News #MAGA #Gaza #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 119 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast 00:00-12:12: Elon Taking Over USA Pat opens…

#podcast #Tariff #WorkingClass #Trump #Musk #Progressive #Michigan #MichiganDemocrats #Republicans #Taxes #Politics #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for February 3, 2025 It's absolutely hilarious to watch MAGA Michigan Republicans celebrate and high-five one another after Dear Leader Trump announced across the board tariffs…

#podcast #politics #religion #Michigan #GrandRapids #MichiganPolitics #Diversity #Hate #Race #MAGA #ElonMusk #Trump #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for January 31, 2025. A Grand Rapids priest was removed from his position with the Anglican Catholic Church for appearing to mimic Elon Musk's recent "salute," which appeared to…

#podcast #politics #News #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #Environment #SolarFarm #BigOil #FossilFuels #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #ClimateChange #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Progressives #PeterSinclair #FarmingRights #Trump #Immigration #Economy #WorkingClass #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 118 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-…

#Podcast #Politics #WorkingClass #Workers CorporateGreed #CorprorateCorruption #CorporateLobby #TippedWorkers #Michigan #Democrats #Republicans #Economy #RestaurantLobby #RestaurantWorkers #Progressive #MichiganPolitics #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for January 27, 2025. The Michigan MAGA Republicans majority in the stat…

#podcast #Politics #news #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #Democrats #Progressives #Democrats #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #CorporateCorruption #DonorBase #Oligarchs #RuralDemocrats #WorkingClass #Election #Fascism #Transparency Here's Episode 117 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-15:29: Pat's Mom's Passing & Influence In the first segment, …

#Podcast #Politics #Progressives #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #MichiganNews #Democrats #MAGA #Trump #CorporateCorruption #MichiganDemocrats #Republicans #Immigration #Oligarchs #TechBros #Democracy #WorkingClass #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for January 20, 2025. On this second Inauguration Day for Donald Trump, Pat Johns…

#Podcast #Politics #Economics #Progressives #Democrats #WorkingClass #CorporateGreed #Donors #Republican #RepublicanCorruption #MAGA #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #MinimumWage #PaidSickLeave #News #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for January 13, 2024. The new MAGA Michigan Republican majority in the state House is supporting …

#Podcast #Politics #Progressive #Democrats #ProgressivePodcast #News #Michigan #MichiganNews #MichiganPolitics #MAGA #Eggs #Economy #Republicans #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for January 10, 2025. The Michigan MAGA Propaganda Machine was in full anger overdrive over a new law requiring eggs sold in Michigan to come from h…

#Podcast #Politics #Media #LegacyMedia #News #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #MAGA #Oligarchs #ElonMusk #Zuckerberg #FreeSpeech #WorkingClass #Economy #Immigration #Extremism #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 116 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:00: Dems Acting Like "Maga-Dems" The first segment features Pat Johnston sharing his thoughts…

#Podcast #News #Politics #Progressives #Democrats #Trump #Michigan #January6th #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for January 6, 2025. As Vice President Kamala Harris certified her election loss to Donald Trump in Congress today, many who voted for her (or against Trump) are wondering how we're at this place just four years a…

Here's Episode 115 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-26:52: Where Will Democrats Go In 2025? Pat begins his final monologue of 2024 wondering what, or if, the Democratic Party in Michigan, and across the country, has learned anything after its deflating defeat to MAGA Republicanism in the election. Judging from how the D.C. Democrati…

#podcast #Politics #ProgressivePolitics #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #Trump #CorporateMedia #Media #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for December 16, 2024! With ABC announcing its settlement with Donald Trump over George Stephanopoulos' statement that Trump was found liable for rape in the E. Jean Carrol civil trial case , AB…

#Podcast #Progressives #ProgressivePodcast #Politics #news #Michigan #Democrats #Republicans #Trump #Whitmer #CorporateDonors #Populism #CorporateGreed #WorkingClass #BigTech Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for December 13, 2024. Michigan Democrats are about to give Big Tech billionaires are huge victory this Lame-Duck session as a bill g…

#podcast #politics #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #ProgressivePolitics #Democrats #Republicans #WorkingClass #Populism #Populist #Economy #Election2024 #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #Lobbying #Republicans #MAGA #TheAmericanProspect #DavidDayen Here's Episode 114 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-13:16: Michiganders Want Populist …

#politics #podcast #HealthCare #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #ProgressivePodcast #Progressives #Trump Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for December 9, 2024. The reaction to the murder of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson exposed the collective anger shared by millions of Americans when it comes to the health care industry. And …

#podcast #politics #News #Michigan #Progressives #ProgressivePolitics #ProgressivePodcast #Democrats #Republicans #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for December 6, 2024. Pat piggybacks on some thoughts shared by Michigan Democratic Party Rural Caucus Chair (and candidate to become the next MDP Chair) Mark Ludwig on this week'…

#podcast #politicalpodcast #politics #news #michigan #michiganpolitics #progressivepolitics #Election2024 #MichiganDemocrats #Democrats #Whitmer #CorporateGreed #Progressives #LeftOfLansing 00:00-20:49: MI Dem Leaders Push Corporate Subsidies Pat reviews a fantastic piece by The American Prospect's David Dayen on how the Michigan Democratic leaders…

#Podcast #Politics #Michigan #Abortion #AbortionRights #AbortionCare #WomensRights #HealthCare #Economy Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for December 2, 2024. A new state report shows abortions in Michigan neared a 30-year high in 2023. However, the report shows non-residents accounted for more of the state's abortions than they did in th…

#Podcast #PoliticalPodcast #ProgressivePodcast #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #News #MichiganNews #CorporateMedia #MSNBC #Democrats Here's the "Monday Musing" for November 25, 2024. MSNBC's ratings are cratering, and perhaps that's due to its longtime viewers not buying what they were selling for the last few years. I am one of those viewers who has l…

#Podcast #Politics #news #Michigan #Progressives #Populism #Trump #KamalaHarris Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for November 22, 2024. Recent surveys are showing Republican voters suddenly thinking the economy is better now than it was two weeks ago, which many of us predicted would happen. But remarkably, some 60% of Americans believe Tr…

#Podcast #PoliticalPodcast #ProgressivePodcast #Politics #Michigan #News #Progressives #EmilyDievendorf #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #CorporateMoney #MoneyInPolitics #Rural #Agriculture #FamilyFarms #Farming #Election2024 #WorkingClass #LGBTQ+ #TransRights #NancyMace #Housing #Homelessness Here's Episode 112 of…

#podcast #politicalpodcast #politics #CorporateMedia #CorporateCorruption #Progressives #ProgressivePolitics #Michigan #News #MSNBC #JoeScarborough #Trump #Democracy Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for November 18, 2024. Many are stunned by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough & Mike Brzezinski decision to visit Dear Leader Trump at his Palm Beach, F…

#Podcast #Michigan #Politics #MichiganPolitics #Progressives #News #Democrats #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #WorkingClass #Teachers #CorporateWelfare #Whitmer Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for November 15, 2024! The Michigan Democratic House majority only has a little time left to pass some good legislation in the lame duck sessi…

#Podcast #Politics #PoliticalNews #Michigan #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #LeftOfLansing #Election2024 #WorkingClass #Economy #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #DirtroadDems Here's Episode 111 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-15:36: Democrats Losing Working Class In the opening segment, Pat Johnston talks about how Democrats are …

#Politics #News #Election2024 #Democrats #Michigan #Progressives #Media #CorporateMedia #Podcast Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for November 11, 2024. There are many reasons as to what led to the Democratic Party's demise in the election. Many of which are being discussed everywhere with many people pointing the fingers at each other. B…

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for November 8, 2024 Democrats are busy picking-up the pieces after getting trounced in this presidential election year, and that includes Michigan Democrats losing their majority in the state House. While there's much to be said about how and why we got here, the Democratic majority in Lansing still has si…

#Election2024 #Politcs #Progressives #Michigan #Republicans #Democrats Here's Episode 110 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast. Pat gives his insights into America choosing four more years of Donald Trump and MAGA politics, and Michiganders giving the state House majority to MAGA Republicans as well. Where do progressives and the Democratic Pa…

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for November 4, 2024. The final "Monday Musing" before Election Day 2024. Pat explains why he's voting for Harris. Not only is Harris pushing a progressive domestic agenda (which includes abortion rights, manufacturing here at home, in-home care for seniors), but she's fighting to preserve democracy and de…

#Election2024 Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for November 1, 2024. The final EPIC-MRA-Detroit Free Press poll shows Kamala Harris leading Trump by three-percentage points. Harris has seen improved numbers within the African American community, and with women voters, in general. Meanwhile, Democrat Elissa Slotkin has opened-up a 5% lead o…

Here's Episode 109 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-21:06: Democracy vs. Fascism We're just a few days away from the biggest and most consequential election since Abraham Lincoln's victory in 1860. It's amazing how the United States is close to installing a true fascist movement into the White House. But Pat gives some optimism and …

Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 28, 2024! Nearly 2-million Michiganders have already voted. As predicted, making it easier for people to vote is not only getting more people involved in our democracy or making it easier for county clerks across the state, but it's extremely popular! Thanks to progressive activism in the last …

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 25, 2024. As some polls suggest that Trump and MAGA Republicans are making some inroads with Generation Z men, Pat wonders what can be done to dissuade these young men from going down the White Christian Nationalist Dude-bro MAGA Republican path. Maybe it's what Paul Waldman writes this week whe…

Here's Episode 108 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! Visit MichiganVoting.org for voting information. 00:00-19:07: Trump's Fascism/Rick Snyder's Sad Pat Johnston begins the episode talking about how Dear Leader Trump's former Chief Of Staff, John Kelly, called his former boss a fascist. And even though Trump has praised Hitler, the MAGA Re…

Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 21, 2024! Michigan MAGA Republican candidates are real quiet this year when it comes to abortion rights, or in their case, banning abortion rights. Despite spending years fighting to ban abortion care altogether, these same people are suddenly telling voters that abortion bans are not on their …

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 18, 2024! Dear Leader Trump doubled-down on trashing the City of Detroit this week, saying if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election, the entire country will look like Detroit. And then there's former New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie attacking our beloved Detroit Lions, especial…

Here's Episode 107 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:00: Ottawa Impact/Close Election Expected Ottawa County, Michigan, provides the perfect and poignant case study on how the MAGA ideology is not only destructive, but it's expensive! Thanks to the outstanding reporting by Sarah Leach, the MAGA Ottawa Impact majority on the county…

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" on October 14, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a new plan where Medicare would cover the costs for in-home elder care, and also for people with disabilities. Nine in 10 Americans say they're unable to cover the costs to care for a senior family member, which is why Harris introduced her proposal…

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 11, 2024. The "Abandon Harris" campaign this week officially endorsed Green Party presidential nominee, Jill Stein, in Dearborn, MI. But one of the co-founder's of the campaign clearly explained the point of the movement: to hand the state of Michigan to Dear Leader Trump this November. This is …

Here's Episode 106 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast. 00:00-30:45: Harris Leads Trump in MI/Slotkin-Rogers Senate Debate Pat's got lots to say this week about the presidential race in Michigan, and why Harris is now leading Trump in the Michigan polls. He talks about Trump-Vance's anti-EV Car stance, which is also another anti-union stance.…

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 7, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has been playing a bit prevent defense for my taste of late, but she seems to be getting back on the offense in a smart and calculated way. Along with making appearances on CBS's "60 Minutes" this week, Harris is also appearing on Alexandra Coope…