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…
How Trump & Musk Are Devastating Rural Michigan w/ Bob Thompson of Michigan Farmers Union
#podcast #politics #Michigan #Progressives #Democrats #Farming #Rural #Medicaid #Environment #Economy #RenewableEnergy #WorkingClass #Tariffs #WorkFromHome #Oligarchy #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Musk #Trump #MAGA #LeftOfLansing Here’s Episode 133 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast from May 15, 2025! 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,…
Trump-Elon’s Gutting of Lab Protecting The Great Lakes w/ ProPublica’s Anna Clark
#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 from May 8, 2025! 00:00-20:01: UofM Ono Out/Nessel Mistake/Trump Tariffs The opening segment concentrates on University of Michigan President Santa Ono’s sudden exit,…
Trump and Corporate & Government Corruption Surrounding Line 5
#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 from April 24, 2025! 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 Republican Congressmen John James and Tom…
Trump & MAGA’s Targeting Of Universities & International Students
#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 from April 17, 2025! 00:00-21:46: What Happens When We Give-Up To MAGA Pat Johnston opens the show talking about the Republicans running to become…
Hamilton Nolan–Republicans Will Take Everything If We Don’t Fight Back
#podcast #politics #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #Economy #Tariffs #CorporateCorruption #Corruption #Government #GovernmentCorruption #GenX #Progressives #MinimumWage #Democrats #unions #WorkingClass #HamiltonNolan #LaborRights #Trump #ElonMusk #Republicans #Democrats #MAGA #LeftOfLansing Here’s Episode 128 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast from April 10, 2025! 00:00-17:45: Protests/Tariff Con/Whitmer WH Visit Pat opens the show discussing Trump’s Tariff Con, and how it’s costing the working…
New Episode: MAGA Billionaire Authoritarians Raid America’s Workers, But Who’ll Stop Them?
#podcast #politics #Michigan #news #Democrats #progressives #union #labor #workingclass #socialsecurity #Veterans #Medicaid #Rural #Education #PublicEducation #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #Tariffs #ElonMusk #TechBros #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Oligarchy #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here’s Episode 127 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast from April 3, 2025! 00:00-23:52: Trump Low Econ Polling; Musk Attacks Soc.Sec & V.A.; Dems Must CounterPat shares the latest AP Poll…
Republican “Proof Of Citizenship” Voting Rights Rollback w/ VoteBeat Michigan’s Hayley Harden
#podcast #politics #Michigan #VotingRights #Progressives #democracy #Democrats Here’s Episode 126 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast from March 27, 2025! 00:00-22:56: Elon & Trump’s War On Working Class Michiganders Pat breaks-down the Signal-gate story, and why perhaps hiring unqualified Fox News weekend cohosts wasn’t the greatest idea). He then discusses how Elon & Trump continue to…
