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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Julia Pulver Refuses To Back Down To MAGA Fascism
#podcast #politics #Michigan #Democrats #progressives #MAGA #Republicans #Trump#Musk #ElonMusk #WorkingClass #Fasicsm #Autocracy #Democracy #TechBros #CorporateGreed #LBGTQ+ #Transgender #CorporateWelfare #Environment #News #LeftOfLansing Here’s Episode 120 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast from February 13, 2025! 00:00-12:42: Dems Acting MAGA-Lite Pat highlights Michigan and national Democrats acting MAGA-Lite, which only hurts the working class while enriching the corporate…
Episode 99: Dedicated to Fight For The Next Yooper Generation w/ Christiana Reynolds
Here’s Episode 99 of Michigan’s premier progressive podcast! 00:00-14:24: Trump Visits Howell Pat opens the show talking about the first couple of days of the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. He also shows how beloved Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is within the party. Then, he covers Dear Leader Trump’s sham of a “non-political event” this…
Friday Short: Popular Free School Lunches Hard For Republicans To Digest
Here’s this week’s LoL Friday Short. Michigan Democrats are hoping to make the new and popular free public school breakfast and lunch program a permanent fixture in the education budget. But that’s making the right wing furious, not because of their daily abject cruelty, but because they know the program is a big hit with…
Left of Lansing Friday Short: Democrats Reversing Draconian GOP Abortion Access Laws
The “Friday Short” highlights the Reproductive Freedom Act, which Democratic State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky formally introduced this week. The RFA would reverse many hurtful abortion access restrictions put in place by Republicans through the years as they tried to enact their view of Christian Nationalism on the rest of the state. Please, listen to this…
Episode 53: Reproductive Health Act w/ Ashlea Phenicie from Planned Parenthood of Michigan
It’s the 53rd installment of Michigan’s premier progressive podcast! I start out mocking the right wing Michigan Republican Party for claiming to care about working Michiganders on this past Labor Day. Then, I talk about the latest from the nutty right wing Ottawa Impact faction, which is working to defund the Ottawa County health department…
Left of Lansing Podcast–Episode 43: Derrell Slaughter with the NRDC on Historic Clean Energy & Climate Change Bills
Progressive changes continue in our state thanks to the Democratic majority in the state legislature as both the general and education budgets passed this week. These budgets provide significant funding boosts for K-12 spending, including more per-pupil funding and universal free breakfast and lunch. And the general budget provides more funding for roads, infrastructure, health…
Left of Lansing Podcast–Episode 42: Democratic State Senator Stephanie Chang
We’re officially in Summer, and I’m serving up the 42nd episode of the weekly podcast! My opening monologue deals with why I’m supporting the Michigan Multimedia Jobs proposal, which provides tax credits for companies wanting to make movies, shows, commercials, and other multimedia productions in the state. Michigan Democrats are busy helping people, including providing…
Left Of Lansing Episode 33: Bigotry Is Bad For Business
It’s another episode of the LOL Podcast! Michigan Democrats are banking on Gov. Whitmer’s slogan that “Bigotry Is Bad For Business.” I explain why being the anti-Indiana, the anti-Ohio, and the anti-Florida is the best strategic move for Michigan–both morally and economically. By becoming a more welcoming state for women who want to make their…
Left Of Lansing Podcast–Episode 30: Michigan Republicans Tried To Steal Our Election
Finally, a new Left of Lansing podcast! Sorry I was absent for the past year. I explain why that was case, and how I hope to provide content moving forward. Also in this podcast: -Michigan Republicans joined with the extreme right-wing in trying to thwart democracy -Why the 2018 election saved Michigan in 2020 -How…
