September 25, 2025 Here’s Episode #149 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-20:55: Personal health/MAGA Cut Healthy Food After Pat starts-off lamenting about the Detroit Tigers’ late-season collapse, he shares some personal stories of close friends feeling despair during The Trump Regime. Pat gives advice on caring for yourself, and maybe finding ways to help make…
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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…
Will Michigan Democrats Only Deliver “Lame Duck Disappointment?”
Here’s Episode 114 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-13:16: Michiganders Want Populist Policies! After pointing-out more absurdity from Ohio Republicans, who’ve introduced a bill banning flag-planting on football fields, Pat Johnston turns his attention back to Michigan, and the many progressive bills that Democrats must pass while they still have the majority in Lame Duck. Pat…
Episode 92: Slate’s Nitish Pahwa On Lansing’s Political Power
Here’s Episode 92 of Michigan’s premier progressive podcast! Nitish Pahwa is Slate’s associate writer for business and tech, and he’s a native Michigander. In fact, he grew-up around Lansing, and remembered what the political scene was like just a decade ago when MAGA Republicans had complete control of state government. That’s why he’s surprised to…
