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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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for November 4, 2024. The final "Monday Musing" before Election Day 2024. Pat explains why he's voting for Harris. Not only is Harris pushing a progressive domestic agenda (which includes abortion rights, manufacturing here at home, in-home care for seniors), but she's fighting to preserve democracy and de…
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#Election2024 Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for November 1, 2024. The final EPIC-MRA-Detroit Free Press poll shows Kamala Harris leading Trump by three-percentage points. Harris has seen improved numbers within the African American community, and with women voters, in general. Meanwhile, Democrat Elissa Slotkin has opened-up a 5% lead o…
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191: This Election Is Freedom vs. Fascism, and Normalcy vs. More MAGA Insanity
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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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Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 28, 2024! Nearly 2-million Michiganders have already voted. As predicted, making it easier for people to vote is not only getting more people involved in our democracy or making it easier for county clerks across the state, but it's extremely popular! Thanks to progressive activism in the last …
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 25, 2024. As some polls suggest that Trump and MAGA Republicans are making some inroads with Generation Z men, Pat wonders what can be done to dissuade these young men from going down the White Christian Nationalist Dude-bro MAGA Republican path. Maybe it's what Paul Waldman writes this week whe…
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188: Voting To Save Michigan's and America's Future w/ Sam Inglot of Progress Michigan
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Here's Episode 108 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! Visit MichiganVoting.org for voting information. 00:00-19:07: Trump's Fascism/Rick Snyder's Sad Pat Johnston begins the episode talking about how Dear Leader Trump's former Chief Of Staff, John Kelly, called his former boss a fascist. And even though Trump has praised Hitler, the MAGA Re…
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Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 21, 2024! Michigan MAGA Republican candidates are real quiet this year when it comes to abortion rights, or in their case, banning abortion rights. Despite spending years fighting to ban abortion care altogether, these same people are suddenly telling voters that abortion bans are not on their …
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 18, 2024! Dear Leader Trump doubled-down on trashing the City of Detroit this week, saying if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election, the entire country will look like Detroit. And then there's former New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie attacking our beloved Detroit Lions, especial…
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185: How Climate Crisis Is Changing Michigan's Culture w/ Peter Sinclair
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Here's Episode 107 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:00: Ottawa Impact/Close Election Expected Ottawa County, Michigan, provides the perfect and poignant case study on how the MAGA ideology is not only destructive, but it's expensive! Thanks to the outstanding reporting by Sarah Leach, the MAGA Ottawa Impact majority on the county…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" on October 14, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a new plan where Medicare would cover the costs for in-home elder care, and also for people with disabilities. Nine in 10 Americans say they're unable to cover the costs to care for a senior family member, which is why Harris introduced her proposal…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 11, 2024. The "Abandon Harris" campaign this week officially endorsed Green Party presidential nominee, Jill Stein, in Dearborn, MI. But one of the co-founder's of the campaign clearly explained the point of the movement: to hand the state of Michigan to Dear Leader Trump this November. This is …
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182: Harris Leads Trump In Michigan; EV Cars; Slotkin-Rogers Debate; And Why Dirt Road Dems Are Vital
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Here's Episode 106 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast. 00:00-30:45: Harris Leads Trump in MI/Slotkin-Rogers Senate Debate Pat's got lots to say this week about the presidential race in Michigan, and why Harris is now leading Trump in the Michigan polls. He talks about Trump-Vance's anti-EV Car stance, which is also another anti-union stance.…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 7, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has been playing a bit prevent defense for my taste of late, but she seems to be getting back on the offense in a smart and calculated way. Along with making appearances on CBS's "60 Minutes" this week, Harris is also appearing on Alexandra Coope…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 4, 2024. Yet another solid jobs report for the American people, and it's due in-part to smart economic policies put in motion by a Democratic administration in The White House. After Dear Leader left the country in economic ruin, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris passed strong and sensible job and eco…
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179: VEEP Debate Recap; Abortion Rights w/ Amanda Mazur; Mike Rogers Opposes Lower Drug Prices
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Here's Episode 105 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast. 00:00-18:17: VEEP Recap/MAGA Attacks Immigrants & Abortion Rights The first segment features Pat Johnston giving his review of the Vice Presidential Debate between Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and MAGA Republican Dude-Bro J.D. Vance. Pat highlights where Walz scored some major poin…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 30, 2024. MAGA Michigan GOP Chair Pete Hoekstra is telling Republican voters that Democrats "will steal some votes" this election. Of course, like Dear Leader Trump, and several other of his failed cult member, there's absolutely ZERO evidence that Democrats are stealing votes. It's just the …
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 27, 2024. A new NBC Poll shows Vice President Kamala Harris enjoying a whopping 21% lead over Dear Leader Trump with women. Why? Because women aren't backing the weird and warped Christian Nationalist philosophy that believes men are the bosses of women. Please, subscribe to the podcast, downl…
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176: Episode 104: MAGA "Policies" Will Hurt Michigan's Economy, and The Smearing Of Rashida Tlaib
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Here's Episode 104 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-19:15: MAGA Plans To Destroy Economy & Women's Freedoms The award-winning Pat Johnston highlights Project 2025's goals to destroy unions if Dear Leader Trump gets back into office. He also stresses the importance of the Michigan Supreme Court races, and to vote for Kyra Harris Bold…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 23, 2024. Former New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie levied some harsh words for his former boss, and the extreme MAGA Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson. Christie blasted Dear Leader Trump for supporting and endorsing Robinson, who's own extreme past co…
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Here's the Left of Lansing Friday Short for September 20, 2024. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is in danger of damaging itself into perpetuity because of its fear of the possibility of either another Dear Leader Trump administration, or that the next President of the United States will be a black woman. Or both. The Teamsters leadership…
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173: Episode 103: The Billionaire School Voucher Scheme w/ Dr. Josh Cowen
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Here's Episode 103 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-14:28: Huckabee-Sanders Weirdness/Abortion & IVF/Yard Signs We begin this week criticizing Arkansas MAGA Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee-Sanders's attack on Vice President Kamala Harris for not having biological kids while attending a Dear Leader Trump rally in Flint, MI. Pat th…
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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 kind of absurdity will not end Aft…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 13, 2024! There's an important U.S. Senate race in Lansing between Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin and MAGA Republican "Florida" Mike Rogers. The winner of the race takes the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. There's a slew of reasons as to why Florida Mike is the wr…
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170: Episode 102: Harris Destroys and Embarrasses Dear Leader In Debate
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Here's Episode 102 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-23:27: Harris-Trump Debate Reaction In the first segment, Pat begs the Elissa Slotkin campaign to help push her candidacy for the U.S. Senate by sending-out yard signs to rural Democrats across the state. It's a crucial race, and we progressives want to help her defeat "Florida" Mi…
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Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for September 9th, 2024! The much-anticipated Kamala Harris debate against Dear Leader Trump happens this week. But the corporate media are busy helping set the terms of who'll win, and who'll lose this debate. And as usual, the media are placing heavy expectations for Harris to meet while giving Trump virtu…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 6, 2024. This week, New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to the woodshed for Stein's predatory political maneuvering every four years. AOC rightly notes how Stein is only out there for her own brand and exposure, while ne…
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167: Episode 101: Michigan Sheriff Learns How Trump Is Nothing But Trouble!
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Here's Episode 101 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! 00:00-14:15: Another School Shooting/More Media Election Failures Pat Johnston begins this week's show by talking about another school shooting in the United States in America. This time, four students were killed in a Georgia high school. Pat illustrates how Michigan Democrats are at le…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 30, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has done a stellar job at keeping Dear Leader Trump and the Republicans on the defensive since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. One area where Harris and her campaign could improve, and really put Dear Leader on the defensive, is on t…
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165: Episode 100: Building A Better Way w/ Democrat Clint St. Mosley for Michigan's 9th!
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Here's Episode 100 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! And what a show we have in-store for your on this monumental episode! 00:00-9:35: Michigan Reading Scores/Corp. Price-Gouging The episode opens-up by sharing the news that third-grade reading efficiency is at a 10-year low in Michigan. That's not good news at all, and of course, MAGA Mic…
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Here's this week's Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 26, 2024. "Florida" Mike Rogers is hoping to become Michigan's next U.S. Senator after leaving our state for years to rake-in loads of cash in defense contractor lobbying. Meanwhile, Democratic candidate, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin who worked in military intelligence and then joined Co…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 23, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris gave her acceptance speech as the Democratic Party's nominee for President last night at her party's convention in Chicago, Illinois. On the whole, Harris delivered and memorable and effective speech. Most importantly, Harris has Trump and MAGA on the run be…
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162: Episode 99: Dedicated to Fight For The Next Yooper Generation w/ Christiana Reynolds
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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" t…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Short" for August 19, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris introduced a rather solid populist, progressive, common sense, and popular economic agenda last week. Tax breaks to build three-million homes, $25k to help first-time homeowners with a down payment, $6k if a low-income and middle class family has a baby, an …
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Here's the Friday Short for August 16, 2024. Left of Lansing is tired of hearing "old" Republicans complain about MAGA since their actions of the last 50 years led to the MAGA takeover of their political party. However, it's not because they despise the MAGA's policies since there's no daylight between either faction's policies. They despise how up…
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159: Episode 98: MAGA Promises Gutting of Min Wage; Austin Marsman On Bringing Gen Z Change To Lansing
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Here's Episode 98 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast with Pat Johnston! 00:00-7:38: Weird MAGAS JV Vance/Matt Hall Pat talks about J.D. Vance (or J.V., as Pat calls him) visited Michigan again to unload another uninspired, dark, and untrue version of America that he and Dear Leader Trump envision. Pat then highlights weird MAGA Michigan Repu…
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 12, 2024. Gaza Protesters have been appearing at Harris/Walz rallies, just as they protested President Biden many times during his term. While Left of Lansing agrees with the protesters, and has called for a ceasefire while also voting "uncommitted" in Michigan's presidential primary, LOL also s…
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157: Episode 97: Distill Social's Gina Keller On Building A Progressive Coalition in Michigan
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Here's episode 97 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! 00:00-14:36: Harris Picks Tim Walz/MI Primary Results Pat discusses why VP Kamala Harris made a brilliant pick to make Minnesota Governor Tim Walz her running mate atop the Democratic presidential ticket. Populism is taking over the country. Rather than shunning that move, Harris embraced…
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Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for August 5, 2024. CNBC is reporting how Tesla and "X" owner Elon Musk's Pro-Trump Super Pac, called America PAC, is deceiving potential voters by claiming to help them to register to vote, only to keep their personal information while never helping them register. This not only doesn't help register voters,…
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Here's the Left of Lansing Friday Short for August 2, 2024. It's another week where MAGA Republicans' fake populism stance stood exposed once again. Michigan MAGA Republicans are outraged over a State Supreme Court ruling that Republicans acted unconstitutionally in blocking and watering-down minimum wage increase and earned paid sick leave ballot …
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154: Episode 96: Michigan in VP Buzz News, And Tech Oligarchs Line-Up w/ Trump-Vance
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Here's Episode 96 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-20:56: Why Not Whitmer for Vice President? While she has steadfastly refused to be Vice President Kamala Harris' own pick for VP, some of us wonder, "Why Not Whitmer?" Michigan Advance's Editor-in-Chief, Susan Demas, joins the first segment to discuss how and why Michigan Governor W…
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Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for July 29th, 2024. A recent WDIV-TV/Detroit News poll reveals that Michigan voters are split on Dear Leader Trump's plans to deport 11-million immigrants. However, when asked if voters support a secure border AND a pathway to citizenship for those who've committed no crimes in the country, over 70% of Mich…
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152: Episode 95: Sarah May-Seward's Run To Unseat MAGA Extremist Matt Maddock
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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 S…
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Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for July 22, 2024. President Joe Biden made his decision to drop-out of the race, and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee. And as I suspected, with Biden doing the honorable thing, a new jolt of energy is reverberating across the Democratic Party voting base. It also allows us t…
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Here's the Friday Short for July 19, 2024! Many Biden supporters argue that Democrats can't ask him to step aside, and they risk replaying the 1968 Democratic Convention, in which the eventual nominee, Hubert Humphrey, lost to Republican Richard Nixon. But I feel like we're forgetting the events leading to the '68 convention, and other reasons why …
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149: Episode 94: Never Backing Down w/ Democratic State House Candidate Jodi Decker
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Here's Episode 94 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-14:36: Trump Shooting/MAGA Violence/Neil Friske Pat opens the show talking about the assassination attempt on former President Trump, and how MAGA Republicans (with the help from corporate media) are trying to blame the Left for the shooting. It's an absurd attack considering how MA…
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Here's the Monday Musing for July 15, 2024. In the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the MAGA movement is hoping it can be used to squash any kinds of dissent against the MAGA movement. And it's hoping the corporate media will play a key role in making sure Democrats stay in line, and shut-up. Please, subscribe to …
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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 the first one to admit I was wrong. And, I'll celebrate be…
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146: Episode 93: Democratic Rep. Carrie Rheingans On Keeping Michigan Trifecta Blue
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Here's Episode 93 of Michigan's premier progressive podcast! 00:00-17:10: Pat's talks about the debate within Michigan's Democratic Party on whether or not President Joe Biden should step aside in the 2024 campaign. He repeats his take that Biden should step aside for the good of democracy. If he doesn't, he hopes Joe proves him wrong! But what Pat…
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Here's the Monday Musing for July 8, 2024 During the July 4th holiday weekend, right-wing MAGA Michigan Republican Congresswoman Lisa McClain tweeted a horrible video where she blasted local Democrats for driving a Subaru during a parade in Clarkston. She exclaimed how this proves that unlike Dear Leader Trump, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don't sup…
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Here's the Left of Lansing Monday Musing for July 1, 2024. Just days before we celebrate our independence from monarchy, the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court ruled that presidents are kings! In a 6-3 ruling, the MAGA majority wrote that presidents are immune from laws if they are "official" acts, whereas they are not immune from "unofficial" acts…
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