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…
Tag: Racism
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…
Monday Musing: Monday Musing: Weird MAGA Will Run Republicans Even After Trump
Here’s the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for September 16, 2024! There’s a belief that the weird, warped, right-wing MAGA will disappear after Dear Leader is defeated and gone. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just look at the absurd lengths many in MAGA World will go to protect Dear Leader Trump now. That…
Episode 95: Sarah May-Seward’s Run To Unseat MAGA Extremist Matt Maddock
Here’s Episode 95 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-14:21: Rally Against Project 2025/Biden Steps Down//Matt Maddock Extremism Pat opens the show this week by talking about the Rally Against Project 2025 event happening across the state of Michigan on Saturday, July 27th. It’s put-together by our good, progressive fans from Distill Social! Pat also talks…
Friday Short: Media Protects Trump For Profits!
Here’s the Left of Lansing “Friday Short” for July 12, 2024. Yes, I’ve said my piece when it comes to what I believe President Biden should do this election. I think he should step aside to help the Democrats win. If I’m wrong, and Biden and the Democrats win big this November, then I’ll be…
Friday Short: The Maddocks are an embarrassment to Michigan
Here’s this week’s LoL “Friday Short” on this March 29, 2024 Time for the LoL “Friday Short” on this March 29, 2024 Michigan Republican State Rep. Matt Maddock baselessly claimed on “X” that buses at Detroit Metro Airport were filled with “illegal invaders!” The only problem with such a claim? The people in those buses were…
Episode 79: Michigan Future, Inc. CEO Lou Glazer on why it’s time for transformational change in Michigan
Here’s Episode 79 of Michigan’s premier progressive podcast! Michigan has tried 40 years of right-wing Republican rule, filled with failed economic and social theories. That’s led to an exodus of people leaving the state through the years for states with better jobs, improved infrastructure, effective investments in education, and accessible transit. Like most states in…
Friday Short: MI GOP Members Cry About Being Called Racists For Being…Racists
Here’s this week’s LoL Friday Short! Members of the Michigan Republican “Freedom Caucus” in the State House introduced a resolution to censure House Speaker Joe Tate. Tate, who became the state’s first Black House Speaker last year, stripped state Rep. Josh Shriver of his committee assignments and staff after he re-posted tweets pushing the white…
The Friday Short: Nikki Haley’s Profiles In Courage Moment Failure
My first Left of Lansing “Friday Short” for 2024 deals with Nikki Haley’s failure to flat-out say the American Civil War was fought over the right for Southern states to continue the practice of slavery. But there’s a reason why Haley couldn’t give a straight answer to that simple question. She, like all of her…
Episode 47: Anna Gustafson from Michigan Advance on Gotion Controversy
Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast with Pat Johnston. Pat talks with Anna Gustafson from Michigan Advance on the Gotion electric vehicle battery plant controversy in Big Rapids, MI.
