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…

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 eco…

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 poin…

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 …

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, downl…

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 Bold…

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 co…

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…

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 th…

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 Aft…

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 wr…

Here's Episode 102 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-23:27: Harris-Trump Debate Reaction In the first segment, Pat begs the Elissa Slotkin campaign to help push her candidacy for the U.S. Senate by sending-out yard signs to rural Democrats across the state. It's a crucial race, and we progressives want to help her defeat "Florida" Mi…

Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for September 9th, 2024! The much-anticipated Kamala Harris debate against Dear Leader Trump happens this week. But the corporate media are busy helping set the terms of who'll win, and who'll lose this debate. And as usual, the media are placing heavy expectations for Harris to meet while giving Trump virtu…

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 6, 2024. This week, New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to the woodshed for Stein's predatory political maneuvering every four years. AOC rightly notes how Stein is only out there for her own brand and exposure, while ne…

Here's Episode 101 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! 00:00-14:15: Another School Shooting/More Media Election Failures Pat Johnston begins this week's show by talking about another school shooting in the United States in America. This time, four students were killed in a Georgia high school. Pat illustrates how Michigan Democrats are at le…

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 30, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has done a stellar job at keeping Dear Leader Trump and the Republicans on the defensive since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. One area where Harris and her campaign could improve, and really put Dear Leader on the defensive, is on t…

Here's Episode 100 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! And what a show we have in-store for your on this monumental episode! 00:00-9:35: Michigan Reading Scores/Corp. Price-Gouging The episode opens-up by sharing the news that third-grade reading efficiency is at a 10-year low in Michigan. That's not good news at all, and of course, MAGA Mic…

Here's this week's Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 26, 2024. "Florida" Mike Rogers is hoping to become Michigan's next U.S. Senator after leaving our state for years to rake-in loads of cash in defense contractor lobbying. Meanwhile, Democratic candidate, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin who worked in military intelligence and then joined Co…

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 23, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris gave her acceptance speech as the Democratic Party's nominee for President last night at her party's convention in Chicago, Illinois. On the whole, Harris delivered and memorable and effective speech. Most importantly, Harris has Trump and MAGA on the run be…

Here's Episode 99 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! 00:00-14:24: Trump Visits Howell Pat opens the show talking about the first couple of days of the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. He also shows how beloved Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is within the party. Then, he covers Dear Leader Trump's sham of a "non-political event" t…

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Short" for August 19, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris introduced a rather solid populist, progressive, common sense, and popular economic agenda last week. Tax breaks to build three-million homes, $25k to help first-time homeowners with a down payment, $6k if a low-income and middle class family has a baby, an …