Left of Lansing

Mar 10 2025 233 ep. 24 mins 28
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An insight into Michigan's progressive political and pop cultural scene. Pat Johnston highlights how the progressive movement is helping shape Michigan's political landscape with opinion and interviews. It's time to make Michigan's political machine work for the people!

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234: Monday Musing: MAGA Chipping Away 19th Amendment

Mar 10 2025 3 mins  
#podcast #politics #19thAmendment #Michigan #Voting #VotingRights #Constitution #WomensRights #Marriage #MAGA #Republicans #Democrats #progressives #leftoflansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for March 10, 2025. The MAGA Michigan Republican Party is trying to pass a resolution to reach the state ballot in 2026 that would require proof of citizenship while registerin

233: Friday Short: Authoritarians Always Attack Higher Education First

Mar 07 2025 3 mins  
#podcast #politics #culturewars #Michigan #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #HigherEducation #Education #Race #Progressives #Authoritarians #Musk #Trump #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left Of Lansing "Friday Short" for March 7, 2025! Dear Leader Donald Trump issued an executive order this week threatening colleges and universities how they'd lose federal funding if they allowed "illegal"

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

Mar 06 2025 51 mins  
#podcast #politics #Michigan #Democrats #MAGA #progressives #Education #CorporateGreed #Trump #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 123 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 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 aft

231: Monday Musing: Democrats Go Safe With Slotkin When Alarm Bells Are Needed

Mar 03 2025 4 mins  
#podcast #politics #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #ElissaSlotkin #Progressives #CorporateCorruption #Trump #Congress #Oligarchy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for March 3, 2025. Democrats have picked Michigan Democratic U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin to speak for the Party after Trump's Joint Address to Congress this week. Pat explains why a firebreather i

230: Friday Short: MAGA Teaches Gen Z Men To Play Victim Than Playing Real Heroes

Feb 28 2025 4 mins  
#podcast #politics #GenZ #Michigan #Whitmer #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #Republicans #Democrats #progressives #womensissues #toxicmasculinity #economy #education #leftoflansing Here's the Left Of Lansing "Friday Short" for February 28, 2025. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer carved-out a section of this week's State of the State address to highlight the need to get young me

229: Michigan MAGA Republicans AWOL As Musk-Trump Attack Working Class

Feb 27 2025 42 mins  
#podcast #politics #democrats #republicans #progressives #MAGA #Trump #ElonMusk #Oligarchy #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #Michigan #MichiganNews #news #Whitmer #WorkingClass #Medicaid #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 122 of Michigan's Progressive Podcast! 00:00-18:56: Musk-Trump-MAGA Attacking Medicaid Pat Johnston begins this week's show highlighting how MAGA Republicans ar

228: Monday Musing: What Happened To Big Gretch?

Feb 24 2025 4 mins  
#podcast #progressive #politics #GretchenWhitmer #Whitmer #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #MAGA #Trump #Musk #leftoflansing Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for February 24, 2025. This week, Pat Johnston wonders what happened to the Big Gretch of old? Governor Gretchen Whitmer appears to be journeying towards the nebulous political "center" at a time when the Democratic an

227: Americans Are Seeing "The Real Swamp" In Action

Feb 21 2025 4 mins  
#podcast #politics #news #progressives #Democrats #Musk #DOGE #Trump #MAGA #CorporateGreed #Farmers #SocialSecurity #Corruption #Project2025 #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for Feb. 21, 2025! Poll numbers are already crashing for Dear Leader Trump just one month back in office, but the numbers are even worse for President Elon Musk! It turns-out American

226: Why Are Some Michigan Democrats Voting MAGA on Minimum Wage?

Feb 20 2025 49 mins  
#podcast #politics #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #Trump #ElonMusk #MinimumWage #PatrioticMillionaires #WorkingClass #CorporateCorruption #PaidSickLeave #Lobbying #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 121 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-15:15: Democrats Attacking Their Side Pat Johnston shares big news regarding the Michigan State Supreme Cour

225: Monday Musing: Does MAGA Now Want Line 5 Shutdown?

Feb 17 2025 4 mins  
#podcast #Politics #Michigan #Line5 #ShutdownLine5 #MAGA #Trump #ElonMusk #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #OilandGas #Environment #RuralMichigan #CorporateGreed #Tariff #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for February 17, 2025. Chad Livingood of The Detroit News published a piece detailing how Dear Leader Trump's plan to place a 10% tariff on Canadian oil import