Tag: Farmers

No Kings, Political & Corporate Corruption, and Populism Is Popular

October 23, 2025 Here’s Episode #153 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-33:00: MAGA Government Shutdown/No Kings/War On Working Class Pat Johnston begins the show talking about his “favorite” MAGA Republican Michigan Congresswoman, Lisa McClain, who’s become the voice of the MAGA Government Shutdown. MAGA Republicans are hoping voters will blame Democrats for the shutdown even…

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Michigan’s New Marijuana Tax For Roads: Another Working Class Gut-Punch

October 16, 2025 Here’s Episode #152 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-19:55: MAGA Shutdown/Rx Kids Success/Working Class Shakedown Pat Johnston begins talking about another week of the Trump Regime Health Care Shutdown. While Trump & The MAGA Majority in Congress are shutting the government down while millions of Americans are in danger of massive health…

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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…

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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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Why Trump Is Attacking DEI in Higher Education w/ Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

#podcast #politics #Michigan #Democrats #MAGA #progressives #Education #CorporateGreed #Trump #LeftOfLansing Here’s Episode 123 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast from March 6, 2025! 00:00-12:08: Public Backlash Against MAGA Starts Pat begins this week covering a few stories of extreme MAGA Michigan Republicans choosing to play culture wars rather than helping working families as they go after…

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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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ProPublica’s Andy Kroll On Michigan’s MAGA War on Democracy

Welcome to Episode 88 of Michigan’s premier progressive podcast! On this week’s show, Pat has some fun at the expense of the big oil and land developer-backed group calling itself “Citizens For Local Choice,” which announced its hopes of putting a repeal of a renewable energy siting law on this November’s ballot FAILED to garner…

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Building a Blue Foundation in the Upper Peninsula w/ Kelli van Ginhoven

Here’s Episode 84 of Michigan’s premier progressive podcast! One reason I started this venture is that I wanted to help show the importance of local and state politics. For sure, progressives have made some outstanding strides in terms of state politics with Democrats taking the state trifecta last year for the first time in four…

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