August 28, 2025 Here’s Episode 145 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-17:23: MAGA MI Republican Budget Pat Johnston breaks down the MAGA Michigan Republican budget, which state House Speaker Matt Hall unveiled this week after delaying and delaying all summer long. Only one Democrat in the State House voted with Republicans, and it was none…
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Kelli van Ginhoven, Democratic State Senate Candidate on Rebuilding U.P’s Blue Wall
August 21, 2025 Here’s Episode 144 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:46: Detroit Politics/Gavin Newsom/MI MAGA Defunding Schools Pat Johnston opens the show discussing some Detroit politics, and he wonders if corporate “independent” gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan will back Democratic Socialist Denzel McCampbell’s campaign to win Detroit’s 7th District on the City Council. Don’t hold…
Michigan Advance’s MichEconomist Rick Haglund; Canadian Wildfires; and Mike Duggan as Nerd 2.0
August 7, 2025 Here’s Episode #143 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-13:37: Canadian Wildfires/Betsy Coffia ICE Mask Ban Pat Johnston begins the show pointing-out the sheer ignorance and hypocrisy by some Michigan MAGA Republicans who are really upset by these Canadian Wildfires polluting Michigan’s summer skies. If only they’d review their own anti-climate change voting…
Republican Cuts Michigan’s Clean Energy Jobs w/ Frank Houston of BlueGreen Alliance
July 16, 2025 Here’s Episode 142 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-17:17: Epstein/Haley Stevens/Schumer FailureDid you really believe MAGA Congressional Republicans would defy their Dear Leader Trump by releasing the Epstein investigation files? What is Haley Stevens’ campaign angle in her run to become Michigan’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate as she says Senate Minority…
A Transformative Working Class Agenda, w/ Michigan State Senate Candidate Ivan Diaz
July 10, 2025 Here’s Episode 141 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-19:06: Epstein/Corporate Authoritarians/Nessel Goes After MEDC Pat Johnston opens by illustrating how Dear Leader Trump’s decision to not release the Epstein Files shows how the elite, untouchable, oligarch class are always out to protect themselves. We saw that happen in real time when Dear…
MAGA Murder Budget Impacts On Michigan; Elissa Slotkin’s Economic War Plan Review
July 3, 2025 Here’s the Episode 140 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast for July 3, 2025! 00:00-17:23: MAGA Murder Budget Destroys Clean Energy Pat Johnston highlights how the MAGA Murder Budget will decimate investments into our growing clean energy industry in Michigan, and across the nation. At the same time, MAGA Republicans in Congress are…
Mamdani Victory; NRDC’s Derrell Slaughter On Trump Forcing Power Plants To Stay Open
June 26, 2025 Here’s Episode 139 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-20:28: Nugent In Lansing/Mamdani NYC Victory Pat Johnston opens the show highlighting how Michigan MAGA Republicans welcomed old age rocker, Ted Nugent, to the State House this week to complain about things. Pat explains how Nugent and Dear Leader Trump are very much alike,…
Fighting For The Working Class & Democracy w/ Michigan Democratic State Rep. Carrie Rheingans
June 19, 2025 Here’s Episode 138 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-15:11: No Kings Success/Where Were Dem Leaders? Pat Johnston applauds the No Kings rallies, but wonders if some Democratic Party “leaders” on both the state and national level are rising to the occasion of the moment. He also covers the hypocrisy of MAGA Michigan…
Upcoming “No Kings” Rallies To Oppose Trump Regime’s Authoritarianism
June 12, 2025 Here’s Episode 137 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-24:44: Trump Authoritarianism On Steroids/Centrism’s Failures Pat Johnston talks about how the Trump Regime’s White Nationalism is on overdrive as it sends ICE to terrorize and rip-apart families of undocumented citizens. While this is the kind of authoritarianism most Americans are rejecting, it’s also…
How Progressives Can Win Back The Working Class w/ Joan C. Williams
June 5, 12:28 PM 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 Republicans, especially MAGA Michigan Republicans, are working class frauds. Whether it’s the MAGA Murder Budget that rips away Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and food assistance spending for cutting Elon…
