Tag: Economy

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,…

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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,…

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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…

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Have Elon Musk & The Tech Bros Taken Over?

January 9, 2025 Here’s Episode 116 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:00: Dems Acting Like “Maga-Dems” The first segment features Pat Johnston sharing his thoughts on both Michigan and national Democrats running as “MAGA” Democrats, and how detrimental that will be to a Democratic Party struggling to attract new voters. It’ll be difficult for Democrats…

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Final 2024 Episode: Which Path Will Democrats Take In 2025?

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. Democratic leadership…

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This Election Is Freedom vs. Fascism, and Normalcy vs. More MAGA Insanity

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…

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How Climate Crisis Is Changing Michigan’s Culture w/ Peter Sinclair

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 board has spent over…

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Friday Short: Democrats AGAIN Clean-Up Republican Economic Mess

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…

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