Left of Lansing

Left of Lansing

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!

Episodes

August 22, 2025 5 mins
#podcast #politics #Michigan #Detroit #MikeDuggan #Democrats #Republicans #Progressives #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Crime #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Democracy #WorkingClass #Moderates #LeftofLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 22, 2025.

Today, The Trump Regime's FBI raided the home of The Regime's former national security advisor John Bolton over class...
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00:00-16:46: Detroit Politics/Gavin Newsom/MI MAGA Defunding Schools

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#podcast #politics #energy #CleanEnergy #Democracy #Democrats #Progressives #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #BillHuizenga #FossilFuel #Pollution #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #Michigan #LeftOfLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 18 2025.

The Trump Regime's energy department ordered the antiquated J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Ottawa County to remain op...
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 15, 2025.

MAGA Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall is proudly joining his Dear Leader Donald Trump in punching the state's working class in t...
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#podcast #politics #Michigan #news #WorkingClass #Economy #Tariffs #MAGAMurderBudget #Democracy #Fascism #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Epstein #Immigration #Progressives #Democrats #Republicans #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #LeftOfLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 11, 2025.

Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer made her third trip to visit the Trump Regime in Wash...
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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #MAGA #Trump #Republicans #Michigan #Economy #Tariffs #WorkingClass #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Epstein #Inflation #Jobs #LeftOfLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 8, 2025. 

A recent Morning Consult poll shows what most sane Americans already know: The Trump Regime's Oligarch Economy is getting a major thumbs-down from the Am...
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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #economy #workingclass #Populism #ClimateChange #EPA #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #GovernmentCorruption #Detroit #MikeDuggan #2026Election #Auto #Jobs #Democracy #CanadianWildfires #Democracy #Fascism #Authoritarianism #LeftOfLansing

Here's Episode #143 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-13:37: Canadian Wildfires/Betsy...
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#podcast #politics #Progressives #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #Economy #BLS #CorporateAuthoritarianism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #WorkingClass #GovernmentCorruption #MAGAMurderBudget #Michigan #CleanEnergy #Labor #LeftofLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 4, 2025.

Last week, Dear Leader Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief after the BLS reported-out poor economic...
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#podcast #politics #Michigan #News #Progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #Gaza #Israel #Palestinians #Genocide #GovernmentCorruption #ElissaSlotkin #BreakingPoints #Centrism #Democracy #WorkingClass #Epstein #LeftOfLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 1, 2025.

Michigan's Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin's push to show the coolness of centrism to younger and independent vo...
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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #WorkingClass #Jobs #Tariffs #CorporateGreed #GovernmentCorruption #MAGAMurderBudget #Medicaid #CleanEnergy #EnergyCosts #Fasicsm #LeftOfLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing for July 28, 2025.

Michigan Maga Republican and House Speaker Man-Baby Matt Hall last week touted the Trump Regime is supposedly making it "easier" and "mo...
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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CorporateMedia #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #PoliticalEstablishment #Theater #LeftofLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for July 25, 2025!

Pat Johnston explains how and why he quit subjecting himself to the sham that is the Sunday political talk show.

Please, subscribe to the podcast, do...
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#podcast #politics #Progressives #Democrats #Economy #WorkingClass #Tariffs #GovernmentCorruption #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Genesee #CorporateWelfare #LeftOfLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for July 21, 2025.

Sandisk Company's decision to reverse course on a planned semiconductor mega site in Genesee County's Mundy Twp. is another harsh example how Trump's tariff scheme hurts Michigan's eco...
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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Republicans #Michigan #MEDC #SOAR #MAGA #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #WorkingClass #CorporateWelfare #Whitmer #RickSnyder #Jobs #Inequality

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for July 18, 2025.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, opened a criminal investigation on the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's gr...
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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Michigan #MagaMurderBudget #Medicaid #RuralHospitals #Epstein #HaleyStevens #Republicans #ElissaSlotkin #JohnMoolenaar #CleanEnergy #TimWalberg #MAGA #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentGreed #Democracy #Fascism #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Gaza #LeftOfLansing

Here's Episode 142 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-17:17: Epstein/Haley Steve...
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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for July 14, 2025.

Over 130 have died from the flooding in central Texas with another 150 still missing. 

Homeland Security Se...
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#podcast #politics #Progressives #DemocraticSocialism #Michigan #Democrats #MAGA #Trump #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #WorkingClass #Medicaid #UBI #Republicans #MAGAMurderBudget #Oligarchy #Devos #Populism #Epstein #Elites #UniversalHealthCare #IvanDiaz #LeftOfLansing

Here's Episode 141 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-19:06: Epstein/Corporate Authoritarians/Nessel...
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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Democracy #Immigration #WhiteChristianNationalist #Immigration #Trump #MAGA #StevenMiller #Michigan #WorkingClass #Fascism #LeftOfLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for July 7, 2025.

A new MLIVE story over the weekend detailed how ICE arrests of Michigan immigrants has increased by 154% in the last few months. 

Make no mistake: This was nev...
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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Patriotism #Democracy #Fascism #WhiteChristianNationalism #WorkingClass #MAGAMurderBudget #Mamdani #LeftOfLansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for July 4, 2025.

A new Gallup Poll on this Independence Day holiday reveals that American Pride is at an all-time low. That's not surprising with everything that's happened in the firs...
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#podcast #progressives #Democrats #Michigan #MAGAMurderBudget #BigBeautifulBill #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Medicaid #WorkingClass #SNAP #CleanEnergy #Jobs #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Oligarchy #CorporateAuthoritariansim #JohnMoolenaar #RashidaTlaib #ElissaSlotkin #Populism #LeftOfLansing

Here's the Episode 140 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast for July 3, 2025!

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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #WorkingClass #Economy #WealthInequality #CorporateGreed #GovernmentCorruption #Mamdani #ElissaSlotkin #Medicaid #TaxCuts #leftoflansing

Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for June 30, 2025.

The Republican Congress is pushing ahead and trying to pass the MAGA Murder Budget this week. The MAGA Murder Budget attacks the working class ...
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