Left of Lansing

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An insight into Michigan's progressive political and pop cultural scene. Pat Johnston highlights how the progressive movement is helping shape Michigan's political landscape with opinion and interviews. It's time to make Michigan's political machine work for the people!

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345: Monday Musing: A Real America First Working Class Agenda In 2026 05.01.2026 8:11

#podcast #politics #progressive #Michigan #Democrats #Trump #Republicans #Election2026 #WorkingClass #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #HaleyStevens #Senate #CorporateDonors #Inequality #WealthInequality #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for January 5, 2026. In the first "Monday Musing" of 2026, Pat Johnston explains how...

344: Friday Short: DNC Leaves Head In The Sand By Blocking 2024 Autopsy Report 19.12.2025 5:50

#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #2024Election #Autopsy #MAGA #Trump #Republicans #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #WorkingClass #Authoritarianism #Democracy #Harris #DigitalMedia #YouthVote #GenZ #Mamdani #Gaza #LeftofLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for December 19, 2025. The Democratic National Committee will not release its 2024 election au...

343: Last 2025 Episode! Government & Corporate Corruption Leaves Working Class Behind 18.12.2025 37:05

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #Economy #DataCenters #WorkingClass #Jobs #Environment #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateCorruption #BigTech #ClimateChange #Decency #Empathy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 160 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:22: Corporate & Government Corrupt...

342: Monday Musing: MAGA Michigan's Bill To Ignore Implicit Bias & Reality 15.12.2025 6:11

#podcast #politics #progressive #Michigan #Democrats #MAGA #Trump #Republicans #race #minorities #healthcare #implicitbias #Lansing #WhiteChristianNationalism #MattMaddock #Authoritarianism #WorkingClass #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for December 15, 2025. The MAGA Michigan Republican House passed a bill banning implicit bias training for state health care pr...

341: Friday Short: Michigan MAGA Body Slams Working Class 12.12.2025 5:34

#podcast #politics #progressive #Michigan #Democrats #Republicans #Trump #MAGA #MattHall #AnnBolin #GretchenWhitmer #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #RxKids #Flint #WorkingClass #Oligarchy #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for December 12, 2025. MAGA Michigan Republicans, led by state House Speaker Matt Hall and House Appropriations Cha...

340: What's Happening with Gretchen Whitmer? Guest: Michigan Advance's Jon King 11.12.2025 48:23

#podcast #progressive #politics #Michigan #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #BigTech #DataCenters #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #CorporateWelfare #GovernmentCorruption #WorkingClass #Whitmer #GovernorWhitmer #MattHall #HaleyStevens #MalloryMcMorrow #AbdulElSayed #Populism #Election2026 #MichiganAdvance #Authoritarianism #Democracy #SherroneMoore #LeftOfLansing 00:00-15:05: UofM Football/...

339: Monday Musing: Whitmer's Friendship With Trump Speaks Volumes 08.12.2025 5:01

#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #Michigan #Republicans #MAGA #Whitmer #GretchenWhitmer #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #WorkingClass #Medicaid #ElonMusk #Vaccines #Data Centers #BigTech #Oligarchy #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftofLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for December 8, 2025. Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer remains e...

338: Friday Short: DTE's Political Power In Lansing Can Be Stopped w/ Mop Up Michigan 05.12.2025 4:58

#podcast #politics #Michigan #progressive #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Whitmer #DTE #MopUpMichigan #CorporateGreed #CorporateDonors #CorporateCorruption #DataCenters #BigTech #CorporateWelfare #GovernmentCorruption #workingclass #Oligarchy #Authoritarianism #Democracy #leftoflansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for December 5, 2025. Thanks to a bombshell report from Craig Mauger in...

337: Mop Up Michigan Proposal To End Money In Politics w/ Melinda Billingsley 04.12.2025 44:32

#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #Michigan #MopUpMichigan #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #DTE #ConsumersEnergy #CorporateDonors #Democracy #Trump #WorkingClass #Jobs #DataCenter #RxKids #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftofLansing Here's Episode 158 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-15:38: Trump Regime & Corporate Cronyism/...

336: Monday Musing: DTE & Consumers' Energy Lawyers Donate To Democratic AG Candidate Karen McDonald? 01.12.2025 5:28

#podcast #politics #Michigan #progressive #Democrats #Elction2025 #DataCenters #BigTech #DTE #ConsumersEnergy #CorporateDonations #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #WorkingClass #AttorneyGeneral KarenMcDonald #EliSavit #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftofLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for December 1, 2025. Thanks to great reporting from Tom Perkins in M...

335: Friday Short: Trump Regime's Corruption Gives Working Class The Thanksgiving Blues 28.11.2025 5:15

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressive #DemocraticSocialism #Capitalism #CronyCapitalism #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #WorkingClass #Mamdani #Economy #Populism #Authoritarianism #Democracy #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #LeftofLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for November 28, 2025. The working class is suffering this Thanksgiving holiday weekend while t...

334: Monday Musing: Trump Threatens Violence Against Slotkin and other Democrats 24.11.2025 4:06

#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #ViolentRhetoric #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #Military #ElissaSlotkin #MarjorieTaylorGreen #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for November 24, 2025. Dear Leader Donald Trump declared that Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin, and other Democrats, should be hung like George Washington would han...

333: Friday Short: Michigan's A.I. Data Center Happening No Matter What People Want 21.11.2025 5:11

#podcast #politics #progressive #Michigan #MAGA #Republicans #DataCenter #ArtificialIntelligence #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #Authoritarianism #Economy #BigTech #WorkingClass #Democracy Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for November 21, 2025. It appears the Big Tech push for A.I. data centers isn't what the working class wants in their neighborhoods and towns...

332: Data Center Rush in Michigan w/ Bridge Michigan's Kelly House 20.11.2025 46:17

#podcast #politics #progressives #Michigan #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #DataCenter #Environment #CorporateSubsidies #ArtificialIntelligence #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Economy #Jobs #WorkingClass #Tariffs #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftofLansing #BigTech Here's Episode #157 Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-17:00: Trump Affordability Fail/Div...

331: Monday Musing: Epstein Scandal Exposes Entire Oligarchy 17.11.2025 3:39

#podcast #politics #MondayMusing #Michigan #progressives #Democrats #MAGA #Trump #Republicans #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Oligarchy #workingclass #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for November 17, 2025. Left of Lansing's Pat Johnston explains why Dear Leader Donald Trump REALLY wanted...

330: Livingston County Progressive Kasey Helton On Data Centers, Rank MI Vote, and Caving Democrats 13.11.2025 46:17

#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #Michigan #DirtRoadDems #MAGA #Republican #Trump #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovermentCorruption #LivingtonCounty #DataCenters #BigTech #MikeRogers #GovernmentShutdown #WorkingClass #TrumpCorruption #KaseyHelton #Authoritarianism #Democracy #RCV #Democracy #LeftofLansing Here's Episode #156 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-15:07:...

329: Monday Musing: Tired Yet of Constant Democratic Party Capitulating? 10.11.2025 8:20

#podcast #politics #Progressives #populism #WorkingClass #GovernmentShutdown #ChuckSchumer #ElissaSlotkin #Democrats #CorporateDemocrats #ACA #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Authoritarianism #Michigan #Mamdani #Spanberger #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for November 10, 2025. Democrats in the U.S. Senate have decided to cave and capi...

328: Friday Short: Lisa McClain Violates Stock Law Twice 07.11.2025 5:34

#podcast #progressive #politics #Democrats #Michigan #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #LisaMcClain #PeterTheil #Oligarchy #SNAP #GovernmentShutdown #WorkingClass #Mamdani #Populism #Authoritarians #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for November 7, 2025. MAGA Michigan Republican Congresswoman Lisa McClain of the 9t...

327: Democrats Win Elections Using Populist & Anti-Authoritarian Messages 06.11.2025 46:48

#podcast #politics #Progressives #Michigan #Elections #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #WorkingClass #Mamdani #MarySheffield #NewYork #Populism #Immigration #DemocraticSocialism #Authoritarianism #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Oligarchy #GretchenWhitmer #Democracy #LeftOfLansing 00:00-18:17: Democrats Win/Detroit's New Mayor/DSA Member on City Council Pat Johnston...

326: Monday Musing: Michigan MAGA Tom Barrett Freaks-Out Over Chalk, Not Struggling Families 03.11.2025 4:23

#podcast #politics #Progressive #Democrats #MAGA #Trump #Republicans #TomBarrett #WilliamLawrence #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Michigan #SNAP #Food #GovernmentShutdown #Authoritarianism #Democracy #WorkingClass #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for November 3, 2025. Michigan Progressive House candidate for the state's 7th Congressional Distric...

325: Friday Short: Michigan MAGA Congressmen Earn Big Bucks From Tax Bill They Backed 31.10.2025 5:12

#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #BigBeautifulBill #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #TaxBreaks #WorkingClass #Medicaid #SNAP #GovernmentShutdown #BillHuizenga #JohnJames #Michigan #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 31, 2025. Thanks to an excellent write-up by the progressive...

324: Restoring The Working Class w/ Progressive Michigan Congressional Candidate William Lawrence 30.10.2025 50:54

#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #Michigan #WilliamLawrence #TomBarrett #Congress #Election2026 #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #GovernmentShutdown #WorkingClass #CleanEnergy #Jobs #Economy #HealthCare #Affordability #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #JohnJames #Gaza #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 154 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcas...

323: Monday Musing: Is Whitmer Emulating Trump's Corporate Pay For Play? 27.10.2025 4:19

#podcast #politics #Progressive #Democrats #Michigan #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Economy #WorkingClass #Gotion #Whitmer #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 27, 2025. The Detroit News released a story detailing how some of the corporations that fund Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's overseas tr...

322: Friday Short: MAGA Inflicts Pain On Working Class To Protect Trump-Epstein 24.10.2025 4:28

#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentShutdown #MikeJohnson #WorkingClass #Economy #Authoritarianism #Michigan #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 24, 2025. Millions of working class workers are receiving alerts that their SN...

321: No Kings, Political & Corporate Corruption, and Populism Is Popular 23.10.2025 41:59

#podcast #progressive #politics #Michigan #Democrats #NoKings #Republicans #MAGA #CorporateGreed #Corporate Corruption #GovernmentCorruption #Trump #MikeDuggan #Oligarchy #DonorClass #WorkingClass #WealthInequality #Farmers #Education #LisaMcClain #Tariffs #WorkRequirements #Economy #NoKings #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Democracy #DirtRoadDems #LeftOfLansing 00:00-33:00: MAGA Government Shutdown/No...