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Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 8, 2026. The recent Supreme Court decision to gut the Voting Rights Act, and the subsequent moves in southern states, like Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas, proves how dismantling any efforts at racial equality in this country has been the main motivating fa...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's Episode #177 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-21:52: Trump Ballroom/AIPAC Backs Haley Stevens Pat Johnston's sinus infection may have knocked him down, but he's not out this week! It turns out the working class will indeed pay for The Trump Regime's $1billion ballroom at the White Ho...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 1, 2026! Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Kristen McDonald-Rivet from the 8th District in Bay, Midland, Saginaw, and Genesee Counties won her election despite Trump winning her district in 2024. But despite Trump's falling poll numbers, and a majority of w...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's Episode #176 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast 00:00-17:05: MI Senate Race/Gas Prices & Ballrooms Pat Johnston opens the show talking about The Trump Regime's push to make taxpayers fund Dear Leader's precious little ballroom. The economy is cratering for the working class, gas prices ar...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 27, 2026. LOL's Pat Johnston shares why he, and so many millions of Americans, couldn't react normally to the alleged assassination attempt on Dear Leader Trump during the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C. The Regime makes it impossib...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's Episode #175 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-18:03: MSU & RxKids/Tone Deaf Dems Pat Johnston covers how MAGA Michigan Republican House Speaker Matt Hall, along with MAGA House Republicans, are proposing a 62% cut to MSU & UofM in their 2027 budget. One reason Hall is attacki...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 20, 2026. Progressives scored some major victories at the Michigan Democratic Party's nominating convention over the weekend, including the upset of the weekend where progressive Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit defeated the establishment's choice o...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for April 17, 2026. We've got some big Democratic Party Primary races coming up in August that'll give America a good idea of where Michigan wants to go. We've got the crucial Democratic U.S. Senate primary where the progressive Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is leading the tw...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's Episode #174 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-19:17: Joke John James/Trump Tax Cuts/Bridget Brink MAGA Republican Michigan Congressman John James not only refuses to campaign in his run for Governor, or show-up to do his job in Congress, but he couldn't even be bothered to co-sponsor...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 13, 2026. The Centers For Disease Control reports that birth rates in the United States continued to drop for another year. There's a few reasons why this is the case, including women wanting to focus on careers and have kids later on, and that less teen...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for April 10, 2026. The Consumer Price Index rose by almost a full percentage point, making the annual inflation rise to 3.3%, the largest in a few years.  Most of it is due to surging gas prices, thanks to The Trump Regime's and the Israeli right wing government's...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's Episode #173 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast. 00:00-16:45: Trump-Israel Iran War Disaster/Where's John James? LOL's Pat Johnston shares his theory as to why The Trump Regime created its dangerous Iran War "deadline" on Tuesday night instead of Monday Night. Pat shares how Israel's right-wi...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 6, 2026. Dear Leader Trump's heartwarming "Easter Message," in which he promised bloodshed if Iran didn't open the "F-n Strait," reveals MAGA's true values, and how that family values B.S. was always just for show.  But what are those true MAGA values? P...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for April 3, 2026! While establishment-corporate Democrats capitulated to MAGA Republicans in election-after-election, they can't be surprised why the nation kept creeping further and further to the right. By refusing to take bold stances for the working class, and...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's Episode #172 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-19:15: John James, Elissa Slotkin, & No Kings Recap Pat Johnston opens this week talking about Trump's and the right-wing Israeli government's War on Iran, and how it's costing working class Americans while thousands of Michiganders a...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for March 30, 2026. LOL's Pat Johnston reviews his stops at a couple of mid-Michigan "No Kings" rallies on March 28, 2026. Not only was attendance impressive, not to mention the numerous car-honking from supporters who drove-by the protests, but Pat noticed how pr...

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Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's Episode #171 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-19:52 The current state of the Democratic Primary for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat will show the country where Democratic voters want to go in 2026. Pat Johnston talks about how progressive Dr. Abdul El-Sayed not only refused to accep...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing for March 23, 2026. Last week, we talked about how the Trump Regime's anti-clean energy agenda will lead to more deadly storms that Michigan's experienced in recent history. This week, Pat Johnston explains how that anti-clean energy agenda is hurting working class...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for March 20, 2026. Thanks to excellent reporting by The Detroit News ' Beth LeBlanc & Craig Mauger, MAGA Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall received a government transparency award from a group... that doesn't exist!!! It's part of an effort of Matt Hall's to bl...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's Episode #170of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-20:54: Pat Ran Into Who? Noah Arbit Attacks Dr. Abdul Pat Johnston shared a plane ride back to Detroit with whom? The Iran War is already hurting the working class while making The Epstein Class very pleased. Democrats must stand against t...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for March 16, 2026. Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer is demanding an investigation into whether or not the Trump Regime's budget cuts to the National Weather Service played a role in the lack of warning from the recent tornadoes which killed four peop...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for March 13, 2026. Pat Johnston uses a column by Nolan Finley of The Detroit News to highlight how Pro-Iran War and Pro-Extremist Israeli government types are using the recent synagogue attack in West Bloomfield, MI to try to shut-down dissenting voices.  Those su...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for March 9, 2026. The Trump Regime's Department of Justice is investigating three different Michigan public school districts over whether or not the districts "sexual orientation and gender ideology (SOGI) content" in their sexual education classes. Parents are a...

Click here to donate $5 on Left of Lansing on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/15494297/join Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for March 6, 2026. MAGA Michigan Republican U.S. Senate Candidate "Florida" Mike Rogers says the Trump Regime has brought "The Golden Age" to Michigan. Not sure if working class Michiganders will buy it, but it'll be fun to watch him try to sell this lemon to the v...