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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270: Friday Short: Do Slotkin & McDonald-Rivet Understand The Fight We're In? 13.06.2025 5:31

#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #Michigan #Authoritarianism #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #Immigration #WorkingClass #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #ElissaSlotkin #KristenMcDonaldRivet #Centrism #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for June 13, 2025. Does Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin, and Congresswoman Kristen McDonald-Rivet understand the fight...

269: Upcoming "No Kings" Rallies To Oppose Trump Regime's Authoritarianism 12.06.2025 40:29

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #GovernmentCorruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteNationalism #Immigration #Racism #Authoritarianism #Masculinity #Education #PublicSchools #MattHall Here's Episode 137 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-24:44: Trump Authoritarianism On Steroids/Centrism's Failure...

268: Monday Musing: Michiganders Not Thrilled w/ Corporate-Funded Mackinac Policy Conference 09.06.2025 4:38

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #Democrats #Republicans #Trump #Tariffs #Lobbying #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #GovernmentCorruption #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for June 9, 2025. A recent Lake Effect Poll by our friends from Progress Michigan reveals something we've already known: Many working class Michiganders don't get all that excited about the...

267: Friday Short: Is It Real Surprising Why More Adults Are Choosing No Kids? 06.06.2025 3:56

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #Democrats #Women #Birth #Economy #Family #WorkingClass #ChildTaxCredit #PaidSickLeave #MAGA #MAGAMurderBudget #ChildCare #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for June 6, 2025. Bridge Michigan's Astrid Cole wrote an expose on the number of Michigan adults who are choosing to not have kids. These Michigan adults are trending with other...

266: How Progressives Can Win Back The Working Class w/ Joan C. Williams 05.06.2025 51:28

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #WorkingClass #ClassPolitics #Democrats #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #Trump #MAGA #Democracy #RuralAmericans #Farmers #Masculinity #Race #Economy #Republicans #MAGAMurderBudget #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 136 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-06:32: MAGA Working Class Frauds Pat opens the this week's show explaining how MAGA Repub...

265: Monday Musing: My Observations Traveling Through Western Pennsylvania, Or Trump Country 02.06.2025 4:50

#podcast #Michigan #Pennsylvania #WesternPA #Coal #Energy #CleanEnergy #WorkingClass #Unions #CorporateGreed #Medicaid #MAGAMurderBill #MAGA #Trump #Democrats #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for June 2, 2025. During my travels through Western Pennsylvania this weekend, I observed many Trump signs, flags, and banners. I wondered why there so much love for Trump in a countr...

264: Trump Blocks Closure Of Ottawa County Coal Plant w/ Sarah Leach of Ottawa News Network 29.05.2025 42:36

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #Democrats #WorkingClass #Economy #Environment #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #Musk #MAGAMurderBill #Medicaid #FossilFuels #CleanEnergy #SarahLeach #OttawaCounty #Libraries #Democracy #CorporateGreed #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateCorruption #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 135 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:00: Musk Gone/MI Dem Sen Polls Pa...

263: Friday Short: Another Edition Of Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin Goes Full MAGA 23.05.2025 4:46

#podcast #politics #ElissaSlotkin #Michigan #WorkingClass #FossilFuels #Environment #Economy #California #Emissions #Democrats #MAGA #Trump #GovernmentCorruption #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 23, 2025. It's another edition of, "Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin Goes Full MAGA!" This week, Slotkin was the ONLY Democrat in the U.S. Senate to vote in favor...

262: Republicans Pass MAGA Murder Bill; What Will Democrats Do Next? 22.05.2025 44:42

#podcast #politics #Progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA Trump #ElonMusk #Medicaid #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #WealthInequality #WorkingClass #Unions #TaxCuts #RashidaTlaib #Weather #ClimateChange #Michigan #SNAP #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 134 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-11:47: Why? Pat Johnston uses the opening segment examining the massive cuts The Trump R...

261: Monday Musing: Is This What Winning Feels Like In Michigan? 19.05.2025 3:55

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #Medicaid #WorkingClass #Farmers #Education #Tariffs #MAGA #Democrats #Republicans #Budget #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for May 19, 2025. Tariffs could lead to 13,000 less jobs in Michigan. Some 750,000 Michiganders could lose their Medicaid under a rushed-through MAGA Republican budget bill. State universities are getting gra...

260: Friday Short: Left of Lansing Mea Culpa On Joe Biden 16.05.2025 5:08

#podcast #politics #JoeBiden #Progressives #Democrats #Election2024 #Trump #leftoflansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 16, 2025. Pat Johnston offers-up a Mea culpa on not being honest with you, but worse with himself, on President Joe Biden's ability to run for reelection last year. Please, subscribe to the podcast, download each episode, and give it a good review if you can!...

259: How Trump & Musk Are Devastating Rural Michigan w/ Bob Thompson of Michigan Farmers Union 15.05.2025 46:40

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #Democrats #Farming #Rural #Medicaid #Environment #Economy #RenewableEnergy #WorkingClass #Tariffs #WorkFromHome #Oligarchy #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Musk #Trump #MAGA #LeftOfLansing 00:00-21:28: MAGA Attacks on Rural Michigan/Dems Attack David Hogg Pat Johnston talks about how MAGA Michigan Republicans are passing bills hurting farmers,...

258: Monday Musing: What Does Slotkin's "Moderation" Actually Stand For? 12.05.2025 4:56

#podcast #politics #Democrats #Michigan #Slotkin #Progressives #CorporateCorruption #Cryptocurrency #BigTech #Trump #Republicans #Economy #WorkingClass #GovernmentCorruption #BillMaher #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for May 12, 2025. Last week, Bill Maher lauded Michigan Democratic U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin on his HBO show because of her criticism of how her party appe...

257: Friday Short: Repeal Michigan's Regressive Flat Tax, And Invest In Working People Again 09.05.2025 4:07

#podcast #politics #economy #Progressives #FlatTax #CorporateGreed #Michigan #Minnesota #ProgressiveTax #PaidSickLeave #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 9, 2025. Michigan ranks 39th in per capita income, proving that a billion dollars in corporate subsidies, and the state's regressive flat tax, aren't working to help the working class. Pat Johnston explains why Michi...

256: Trump-Elon's Gutting of Lab Protecting The Great Lakes w/ ProPublica's Anna Clark 08.05.2025 45:49

#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Environment #ClimateChange #GreatLakes #Michigan #Jobs #WorkingClass #DOGE #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #MAGA #Republicans #AnnaClark #ProPublica #Budget #CorporateGreed #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Farmers Economics #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 132 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-20:01: UofM Ono Out/Nessel Mistake/Trump Tariffs Th...

255: Monday Musing: Trump Budget Shows Pain In-Store For Michigan 05.05.2025 4:22

#podcast #politics #Michigan #progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #Budget #Education #TaxCuts #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #WorkingClass #Economy #Environment #jobs #leftoflansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for May 5, 2025! The Trump Regime's proposed budget is setting-up to serve working class Michiganders with a lot of pain. Whether it'...

254: Friday Short: Matt Hall Has Middle School Insults, But No Adult Solutions For Working Class 02.05.2025 4:46

#podcast #politics #Michigan #RightWing #MattHall #MaiXiong #Democrats #Progressives #Trump #MAGA #ElonMusk #Whitmer #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 2, 2025! MAGA Michigan Republican House Speaker Matt Hall threw a temper-tantrum this week after Democratic State Rep. Mai Xiong criticized Hall for closing down the House so he could slobber and stargaze at his Dear L...

253: $1 Billion In Corporate Subsidies Fail Michigan w/ Bridge Michigan's Paula Gardner 01.05.2025 49:16

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Democrats #progressives #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateWelfare #WorkingClass #Lobbying #DonorBase #CorporateAuthoritarianism #Trump #ElonMusk #Whitmer #MattHall #Republicans #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 131 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-21:41: Trump's Low #'s/Slotkin & Oligarchy The first segment features Pat Johnston deta...

252: Monday Musing: Trump & RFK Jr. Make Measles Great Again In Michigan 28.04.2025 4:16

#podcast #health #Michigan #Vaccines #Politics #Democrats #MAGA #Extemism #PublicHealth #HealthCare #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 28, 2025! Michigan has nine measles cases so far in 2025. It's not too hard to figure-out why: major drops in childhood vaccination rates in the state combined with misinformation and mixed messages from the Trump Regime, and specif...

251: Friday Short: Matt Maddock Embodies Cruel, And Clownish, MAGA Republicans 25.04.2025 4:28

#podcast #Politics #GulfOfMexico #Michigan #MattMaddock #MAGA #Republicans #Weird #Trump #Progressives #Democrats #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left Of Lansing "Friday Short" for April 25, 2025. The weird Michigan MAGA Republican state House Rep. Matt Maddock of the 51st House District is making news again in his own warped and cruel way. Maddock announced this week that he wants to abolish the Michig...

250: Trump and Corporate & Government Corruption Surrounding Line 5 24.04.2025 52:13

#podcast #politics #Michigan #progressives #Democrats #Line5 #Trump #MAGA #Economy #CorporateGreed #Oligarchy #WorkingClass #Environment #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 130 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-20:03: MAGA MI Cowards/Stevens Runs For U.S. Senate LOL's Pat Johnston describes how the "empty chair" town halls for MAGA Michigan Repub...

249: Monday Musing: Americans Rejecting Trump's Immigration "Policies" 21.04.2025 4:52

#podcast #politics #immigration #Michigan #Education #InternationalStudents #Deportation #GovernmentCorruption #MAGA #Republicans #CorporateAuthoritariansm #Authoritarianism #LatinoVoters #Trump #Economy #Democrats #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 21, 2025. A new Gallop poll shows Americans are beginning to reject Dear Leader Trump on a host of issues, including...

248: Friday Short: MSU Calls On Big Ten Compact To Defend Against Trump Regime 18.04.2025 4:10

#podcast #politics #Michigan #DEI #MinorityRights #Immigration #HigherEducation #GovernmentCorruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristianNationalist #Law #MAGA #Oligarchy #Propaganda #Authoritarianism #Republicans #MichiganState Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for April 18 2025. Michigan State University's faculty passed a resolution calling for MSU to join a new "mutual defense...

247: Trump & MAGA's Targeting Of Universities & International Students 17.04.2025 42:36

#podcast #politics #Michigan #progressives #Democrats #GretchenWhitmer #DavidHogg #Trump #ElonMusk #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Corruption #Immigration #First Amendment #Education #Republicans #Economy #Authoritarianism #WhiteChristianNationalism #RightWing #Democracy #WorkingClass Here's Episode 129 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-21:46: What Happens When We Give-U...

246: Monday Musing: Trump Regime Forces Foreign Michigan Students To Leave 14.04.2025 4:24

#podcast #politics #Michigan #education #News #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #Immigration #HigherEducation #FirstAmendmentRights #Trump #CentralMichiganUniversity #UniversityOfMichigan #Authoritariansim #Progressives #Fascism Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 14, 2025. The Trump Regime has started to new line of attack against Michigan universities and...