Left of Lansing

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 six weeks to pass important laws in the lame duck s...

#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 Party go from here? Pat shares thoughts. Please, sub...

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 decency.  It's really a slam-dunk kind of a case tha...

#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 over MAGA Republican "Florida" Mike Rogers for...

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 puts his faith in the American people to do the...

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 decade, and a Democratic Party majority in Lansin...

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 when he says they will suffer from the same grift as...

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 Republican Party continue to rush to his defense. Th...

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 radar this year.  Of course, the Michigan Right T...

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 , especially Head Coach Dan Campbell, for beating-up on his...

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 board has spent over $3 million in lawsuits, and...

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.  Yet, for all of the pearl-clutching by the co...

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 despite the fact that Trump throws all of his su...

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. But it's also an anti-Michigan stance . Pat als...

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 Cooper's "Call Her Daddy" podcast, as well as on Howard...

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 4, 2024. Yet another solid jobs report for the American people, and it's due in-part to smart economic policies put in motion by a Democratic administration in The White House. After Dear Leader left the country in economic ruin, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris passed strong and sensible job and economic growth bills, such as The Chips Act, the inf...

Here's Episode 105 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast. 00:00-18:17: VEEP Recap/MAGA Attacks Immigrants & Abortion Rights The first segment features Pat Johnston giving his review of the Vice Presidential Debate between Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and MAGA Republican Dude-Bro J.D. Vance. Pat highlights where Walz scored some major points, and where he fell short, in his debate aga...

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 30, 2024. MAGA Michigan GOP Chair Pete Hoekstra is telling Republican voters that Democrats "will steal some votes" this election. Of course, like Dear Leader Trump, and several other of his failed cult member, there's absolutely ZERO evidence that Democrats are stealing votes.  It's just the MAGA way of letting their people know that voters...

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 27, 2024. A new NBC Poll shows Vice President Kamala Harris enjoying a whopping 21% lead over Dear Leader Trump with women. Why? Because women aren't backing the weird and warped Christian Nationalist philosophy that believes men are the bosses of women. Please, subscribe to the podcast, download each episode, and give it a good review if you...

Here's Episode 104 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-19:15: MAGA Plans To Destroy Economy & Women's Freedoms The award-winning Pat Johnston highlights Project 2025's goals to destroy unions if Dear Leader Trump gets back into office. He also stresses the importance of the Michigan Supreme Court races, and to vote for Kyra Harris Bolden and Kimberly Thomas. Pat shows how MAGA Mic...

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 23, 2024. Former New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie levied some harsh words for his former boss, and the extreme MAGA Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson.  Christie blasted Dear Leader Trump for supporting and endorsing Robinson, who's own extreme past comments, including how he's a "Black Nazi," might...

Here's the Left of Lansing Friday Short for September 20, 2024. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is in danger of damaging itself into perpetuity because of its fear of the possibility of either another Dear Leader Trump administration, or that the next President of the United States will be a black woman. Or both. The Teamsters leadership is hurting its cause. --Pat Please, subscribe to...

Here's Episode 103 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-14:28: Huckabee-Sanders Weirdness/Abortion & IVF/Yard Signs We begin this week criticizing Arkansas MAGA Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee-Sanders's attack on Vice President Kamala Harris for not having biological kids while attending a Dear Leader Trump rally in Flint, MI. Pat then exposes the hypocrisy of the White Christia...

Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for September 16, 2024! There's a belief that the weird, warped, right-wing MAGA will disappear after Dear Leader is defeated and gone.  Nothing could be further from the truth. Just look at the absurd lengths many in MAGA World will go to protect Dear Leader Trump now. That kind of absurdity will not end After Trump for them. Why? Because MAGA has always b...

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 13, 2024! There's an important U.S. Senate race in Lansing between Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin and MAGA Republican "Florida" Mike Rogers.  The winner of the race takes the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. There's a slew of reasons as to why Florida Mike is the wrong choice for Michigan, and the rest of the coun...