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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 27, 2025.

The Detroit News released a story detailing how some of the corporations that fund Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's overseas trade missions somehow end-up receiving billions in business incentives.

Michigan taxpayers have paid billions in so-called "business incentives," with very little to show for it in economic or job activity. 

Whitmer's emulating of Trump's corporate pay for play scheme is not a good way to win over t...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 24, 2025.

Millions of working class workers are receiving alerts that their SNAP benefits will be gone in November as the Trump Regime's government shutdown continues. 

Pat Johnston explains why the MAGA Congress is more than willing to help The Regime keep the government closed: To keep the Epstein Files from being released as long as possible. 

Even if that means 1.4 million working class Michigan fa...

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00:00-33:00: MAGA Government Shutdown/No Kings/War On Working Class

Pat Johnston begins the show talking about his "favorite" MAGA Republican Michigan Congresswoman, Lisa McClain, who's become the voice of the MAGA Government Shutdown. MAGA Republicans are hoping voters will blame Democrats for the shutdown even thought Democrats have no power in Washington, D.C. Pat shares a number of stories in how government and corporate...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 20, 2025.

Last weekend's "No Kings" protests were a ringing success as 5-8 million Americans marched nationwide.

Pat Johnston explains how the event didn't just help millions realize they weren't alone in their anger and fear with The Trump Regime, but it also helped give millions hope for a better future. 

But, Pat shares his views on how the protest wasn't just a demonstration against the c...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 17, 2025.

In order for authoritarianism to thrive, its supporters and benefactors must control the message. 

Pat Johnston explains how the MAGA Republican movement is attempting to do just that through a myriad of ways, including propaganda videos at airports across the country.

But even more, by granting MAGA billionaire families to gobble-up media companies so they can spread their "news," and a...

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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 insurance premium hikes, the Trump Regime is providing Argentina with a $40Billion...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 13, 2025.

Dear Leader Trump apparently received both the COVID and flu vaccines last week. 

While that's great, it's hypocritical and downright insane that his Heath and Human Secretary, Robert Kennedy, is making it more difficult for EVERY American to do the same. 

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Here's Episode 151 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-19:20: Centrism Fails Democrats/McMorrow on Gaza

Pat opens this week's episode by covering the myriad of ways centrism has shrunk what was once a big Democratic Party tent. He shares how centrism failed to keep the working class in the Democrats' hands, and thanks to the centrists strategies, the working class is getting squeezed by The Trump Regime. Pat also...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 6, 2025.

The Trump Regime is using the $140 Billion granted via the MAGA Congress to occupy American Cities. It's being used in the name of deporting criminals, or rooting-out criminal activity when in reality all it's accomplishing is making life in these cities more chaotic. 

It's not about fighting crime or deporting criminals.

It's about inflicting harm and trauma and brown and black America. It's unconstitutional, and f...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 3, 2025.

Michigan experienced another horrific mass shooting last weekend when a man rammed his pick-up truck into the Church of Jesus Christ-Latter Day Saints, shooting and killing two people and injuring others while starting a fire inside the church, killing two others.

The man, who was a military veteran, apparently supported Trump & MAGA, but also harbored disdain against the LDS church. 

Regardless of motive, this is another example of h...

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Here's the 150th episode of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-19:00: Gilchrist on Gaza/ Government Shutdown/Haley Stevens

Pat Johnston applauds Michigan Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist's announcement where he called Israel's actions in Gaza to be a genocide against the Palestinian people. The federal government is closed as MAGA Republicans, like Congresswoman Lisa McClain, are blocking Democrats from lowering health care costs. But Pat argues that shutting down...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 29, 2025.

Center-Left commentator and writer Ezra Klein believes Democrats can only win elections by churning-out more center-right candidates in red states. Yet, voters tend to support more progressive policies even in those red states. 

Yes, expanding the electoral map is crucial for Democrats, but progressives must not surrender their political, cultural, and economic values to expand that map. 

And if Ezra Klein hasn't noticed, hi...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 26, 2025!

Michigan farmers are feeling the brunt of the failed Trump Economy as The Regime's tariffs continue to hammer the working class. Meanwhile, The Trump Regime is bailing-out a failed MAGA leader in Argentina! 

How's that America First?

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Here's Episode #149 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-20:55: Personal health/MAGA Cut Healthy Food

After Pat starts-off lamenting about the Detroit Tigers' late-season collapse, he shares some personal stories of close friends feeling despair during The Trump Regime. Pat gives advice on caring for yourself, and maybe finding ways to help make your corner of the world a better place. But we can't give-up and allow authoritarianism to win.

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 22, 2025.

In a shock to NO ONE, The Trump Regime is backing Canadian Oil company Enbridge's fight to keep the 73-year old oil and natural gas Line 5 pipeline operating under the Straits of Mackinac. 

Pat Johnston explains how money talks when it comes to The Regime, as well as Government Corruption is a prime factor inside The Regime. 

How's backing a Canadian Oil co...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 19, 2025.

A United Nations commission released a report in which it concluded Israel is indeed committing a genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza where 65, 000 have been killed thus far. 

Yet, why aren't more Democrats across the nation, and here in Michigan, doing the same? 

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00:00-20:30: Tariffs Hurt Michigan; MAGA Political Violence

The first segment examines how Dear Leader Trump's insane MAGA Republican Tariff Scheme is plunging Michigan's economy, and especially for Michigan's farmers. Yet, Pat wonders why Gov. Gretchen Whitmer still can't call-out Trump by name while complaining how his policies are hurting Michigan. Capitulation is never the answer. Pat highlights how political violence, or the threat of political violence, is a favorite play...

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Here's the September 15, 2025 edition of the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing."

This week's "Monday Musing" examines how, despite all evidence to the contrary, MAGA Republicans are proclaiming right-wing propogandist Charlie Kirk's murder to be the work of left-wing violence. Yet, so far, it appears to be the opposite. In fact, the alleged murderer appears to have been even further right than Kirk, and other MAGA Republicans and influencers.

It's part of the authoritarian playbook of using tragedy...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 12, 2025.

Pat Johnston explains how, as predicted, MAGA Republicans are using the Charlie Kirk assassination to shut-down progressive speech.

So much for the Freedom Of Speech warriors. 

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Here's Episode 147 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-09:58: Charlie Kirk Murder

Pat Johnston shares his thoughts on the assassination of MAGA Republican influencer Charlie Kirk.

09:59-41:48: What Does Mallory McMorrow Stand For?

In this segment, Pat offers both praise and criticism for Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow, who's running in the Democratic Primary for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat in 2026. McMorrow's focusing on the working class issue of...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 8, 2025.

MAGA Michigan House Republicans passed a bill banning Transgender youths from using the bathrooms of their gender identity in schools. Instead, they're being forced to use the bathrooms of their assigned sex at birth. 

They passed the bill in efforts to hide how their own state budget proposal seeks to gut the working class in a myriad of ways, but also in hopes to d...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 5, 2025.

A story in Bridge Michigan today explained how The Trump Regime's policies in blocking international students from attending Michigan higher education institutions is having devastating economic effects on both our higher education system, but also Michigan's overall economy.

Combine that with the MAGA Murder Budget, Dear Leader's insane tariff scheme, and The Regime's overall attacks on higher education, Michigan is bearing the brutal brunt of the failed...

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Here's Episode 146 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-12:20: Haley Stevens Senate Campaign Fails

Pat Johnston opens the show by highlighting a very bad and embarrassing week for Establishment Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Haley Stevens. It shows again how corporate Democrats find progressive candidates more of a threat than the Trump Regime's authoritarianism. Pat talks about how MAGA "Democratic" State Rep. Karen Whitsett proudly voted for the MAGA Michigan House budget that'll...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 1, 2025.

On this Labor Day 2025, Pat Johnston reviews how the Trump Regime has enacted the most anti-worker, anti-union, pro-corporate greed and corruption agenda in recent memory. 

Whether it's the insane tariff scheme, the gutting of the National Labor Relations Board, or the MAGA Murder Budget, Dear Leader Trump's "economics" is hurting workers across the country, and especially in Michigan.

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 29, 2025.

MAGA Republicans are trying to blame the entire Transgender community for the school shooting at a Catholic Church in Minneapolis this week in which two children were killed while 17 others were injured. The shooter, if reports are accurate, was a transgender female. 

But as Pat Johnston explains, by directing their bigoted ire towards transgender Americans, MAGA Republicans and influencers are trying to get you to ignore the real culprit behind America's gun violence e...

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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 other than Detroit's Karen Whitsett. She's running for a Detroit City Council seat, but she's facing a young and energetic...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 25, 2025.

Dear Leader Trump forgot Governor Gretchen Whitmer's name today. And while it serves as a reminder of Trump's obvious mental decline, let it serve as a reminder to Governor Whitmer that for all of her graveling to Dear Leader this year, he's hurting Michigan's working class in both urban and rural areas... let alone forgetting who she is.

Whether it's health care, worker rights, environmental and...

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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 classified documents, or something like that. 

While no fan of Mr. Bolton's, Pat Johnston explains how this move is another authoritarian step by the Trump Regime, and it shows why we need strong political leaders to combat this kind of corporate authoritarianism combined with White Christian Nationalism from gaining m...

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00:00-16:46: Detroit Politics/Gavin Newsom/MI MAGA Defunding Schools

Pat Johnston opens the show discussing some Detroit politics, and he wonders if corporate "independent" gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan will back Democratic Socialist Denzel McCampbell's campaign to win Detroit's 7th District on the City Council. Don't hold your breath! Pat takes Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to task for refusing to call an election for a state senate opening. And Pat explains how...

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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 open despite the plant-owner Consumers' Energy's decision to shut it down for good last May. 

The Regime cited some unknown "energy emergency" for its decision.

But as Pat Johnston explains, there is no "free hand of the marketplace" with The Trump Regime. Our economy is directed b...

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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 the gut. 

Hall hailed the MAGA Murder Budget is a "win" for Michigan, even though hundreds of thousands will lose their Medicaid and food assistance. Even more, thousands of jobs are getting slashed due to The Regime's war on clean energy. 

Hall and his MA...

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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 Washington, D.C. last week. Apparently, Whitmer made the visit in an attempt to plead with Dear Leader how his tariffs were destroying Michigan's already struggling economy. 

But what is Michigan getting out of this capitulation?

And at a time when we need fighters for democracy in t...

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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 American People.

Considering how tariffs are already driving-up costs while driving down job production, it's no wonder Americans are regretting putting The Regime back in power.

In Michigan, we're feeling the pain of Trump's tariffs, and economic policies (so-called). Now, is the t...

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

00:00-13:37: Canadian Wildfires/Betsy Coffia ICE Mask Ban

Pat Johnston begins the show pointing-out the sheer ignorance and hypocrisy by some Michigan MAGA Republicans who are really upset by these Canadian Wildfires polluting Michigan's summer skies. If only they'd review their own anti-climate change voting records! Pat summarizes the Detroit Mayoral Primary results. And he highlights a bill introduced by Democratic...

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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 news on the jobs front. 

Rather than take responsibility for how his Regime's insane tariff scheme and several other insane corporate authoritarian policies are hurting the working class, Dear Leader decided to fire the messenger of his failures.

This is what authoritarianism looks like, and we're l...

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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 voters isn't going as smoothly as she and her people are pushing. 

LOL's Pat Johnston devotes a little more time than usual in this "Friday Short" to describe how Slotkin's failing in these chaotic and scary times which call for stark moral clarity. 

Slotkin is using cr...

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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 "more attractive" to create jobs in America.

Are you sure about that because Pat Johnston brings some receipts as to how The Regime is harming Michigan's economic present and future.

Whether it's his tariff scheme which is a regressive tax on the working class...

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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.

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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 economy. 

But it's not just Trump's tariff scheme that failed Michigan's working class. It's also Michigan's decades-long reliance on corporate welfare, and how it rarely results in a high number of good-paying jobs. 

This is what happens when two horrible economic theories co...

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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 grant to Fay Beydoun's nonprofit business.

Beydoun is a longtime Democratic Party donor, and an appointee to the MEDC by Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Beydoun allegedly used the grant money for her nonprofit, Global Link International, to pay for first class plane tickets, her $500k salary, and a $4,500 coffee maker!<...

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

00:00-17:17: Epstein/Haley Stevens/Schumer Failure
Did you really believe MAGA Congressional Republicans would defy their Dear Leader Trump by releasing the Epstein investigation files? What is Haley Stevens' campaign angle in her run to become Michigan's Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate as she says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's doing a great job? How the MAGA Murder Budget could possibly cut...

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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 Secretary Kristi Noem has repeatedly stated how she wants to end FEMA as we know it. And now, Texans are finding it difficult to get help. 

Even more, we've learned that Kerr County commissioners denied federal funds to upgrade their emergency systems for weather events because it was viewed as "Bi...

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

00:00-19:06: Epstein/Corporate Authoritarians/Nessel Goes After MEDC

Pat Johnston opens by illustrating how Dear Leader Trump's decision to not release the Epstein Files shows how the elite, untouchable, oligarch class are always out to protect themselves. We saw that happen in real time when Dear Leader signed the MAGA Murder Budget into law. It's a major giveaway to the corporate class, such...

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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 never about deporting criminals.

It was always about kidnapping and humiliating immigrants due to the White Christian Nationalists inside The Trump Regime.

It's not only a human rights crime, but it's also hurting the state's economy. 

It's 21st...

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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 first half of this year, and with the passage of the MAGA Murder Budget which steals from the working class safety net and further enriches Old Money.

Yet, despite feeling dispirited, millions of Americans oppose this fascist takeover, and are demanding for real...

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

00:00-17:23: MAGA Murder Budget Destroys Clean Energy

Pat Johnston highlights how the MAGA Murder Budget will decimate investments into our growing clean energy industry in Michigan, and across the nation. At the same time, MAGA Republicans in Congress are providing major subsidies for the coal & oil industry. This won't just harm Americans on a public health and environmental front, this...

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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 safety net while funneling billions up to their rich, elite corporate donor base.

This shows how far-right the political pendulum has switched, which has been a work in progress for the last 50 years. It's time for Democrats to switch the pendulum back towards the...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for June 27, 2025.

A progressive coalition known as Invest In MI Kids is pushing a proposal to appear on the 2026 Michigan ballot that would end the Michigan's regressive flat tax, and replace it with a 5% surcharge on couples earning $1 million. 

The money would be used to help replenish the state's dwindling education funding, which has been hurt significantly thanks to tax cuts for the rich and elite in the state. 

And at a ti...

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Here's Episode 139 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-20:28: Nugent In Lansing/Mamdani NYC Victory

Pat Johnston opens the show highlighting how Michigan MAGA Republicans welcomed old age rocker, Ted Nugent, to the State House this week to complain about things. Pat explains how Nugent and Dear Leader Trump are very much alike, and not in flattering ways. Pat then talks about how nearly half of Detroit's apartment complexes are without air conditioning, and...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for June 23, 2025.

Michigan's Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel is fighting-back on the Trump Regime's move to block the scheduled closing of a West Michigan Power Plant.

How is The Regime's action to stop a company from closing down its own fossil fuel plants an example of small government?

Answer: Look who runs The Regime's energy department.

To learn more about the struggle to...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for June 20, 2025.

Michigan Democratic State Rep. Donovan McKinney is challenging incumbent Democratic Congressman Shri Thanedar in Michigan's 13 Congressional District primary next year.

McKinney's challenge is part of the overall fight for the future of the Democratic Party. Some 62% of Democrats in a recent poll said the party needs new leaders.

Donovan McKinney is trying to do just that by pushing a true, populist, progressive, working class agenda against Thanedar's agenda...

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Here's Episode 138 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-15:11: No Kings Success/Where Were Dem Leaders?

Pat Johnston applauds the No Kings rallies, but wonders if some Democratic Party "leaders" on both the state and national level are rising to the occasion of the moment. He also covers the hypocrisy of MAGA Michigan Republicans who push for Medicaid & SNAP work requirements while they left Lansing for a field trip to visit the Trump Regime...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for June 16, 2025.

Pat Johnston explains how the highly successful, and peaceful, "No Kings" rallies in Michigan and across the nation illustrated a stark difference between the two sides of the political spectrum.

One side is standing up for freedom, and standing up for the entire working class.

What does the other side really stand for other than "owning the libs?"

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for June 13, 2025.

Does Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin, and Congresswoman Kristen McDonald-Rivet understand the fight we're in right now?

The Trump Regime's authoritarianism must be challenged on all fronts, particularly after California Senator Alex Padilla was thrown-down and arrested by federal officials after he tried asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question.

Yet, Slotkin and McDonald-Rivet repeatedly vote ALONG with Dear Leader on a range of issues...

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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 harming our nation's economy. Pat also explains how so-called "centrist" Democrats not only helped give us Donald Trump (twice!), but how they...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for June 9, 2025.

A recent Lake Effect Poll by our friends from Progress Michigan reveals something we've already known: Many working class Michiganders don't get all that excited about the Mackinac Policy Conference.

It's a corporate-backed conference featuring lobbyists and lawmakers, who get to spend three fun-filled days on Mackinac Island's luxurious Grand Hotel.

And it shouldn't be breaking news to these elitists since the revolving door between lawmaker and lobbyist in Lansing...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for June 6, 2025.

Bridge Michigan's Astrid Cole wrote an expose on the number of Michigan adults who are choosing to not have kids.

These Michigan adults are trending with other adults across the nation who are choosing NOT to start a family.

But the reasons shouldn't be that surprising since MAGA Republicans care more about investing in Elon Musk and Betsy Devos rather than the nation's children!

Please...

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Here's Episode 136 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-06:32: MAGA Working Class Frauds

Pat opens the this week's show explaining how MAGA Republicans, especially MAGA Michigan Republicans, are working class frauds. Whether it's the MAGA Murder Budget that rips away Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and food assistance spending for cutting Elon Musk's taxes, or if it's ripping away a farmer's property rights to save their land, MAGA Republicans work only for their corporate masters. 
Duration: 00:51:28

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for June 2, 2025.

During my travels through Western Pennsylvania this weekend, I observed many Trump signs, flags, and banners.

I wondered why there so much love for Trump in a country that's continued to suffer from his first term, and during his second term. I try to offer answers, but maybe some of you can provide answers.

Leave them on You Tube, or email me. 

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Here's Episode 135 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-16:00: Musk Gone/MI Dem Sen Polls

Pat talks about Elon Musk may be leaving, but he's left pain in his wake for millions of Americans. He also brings up new polls showing how Michiganders have a souring mood about the economy, and who's currently winning the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate race.

16:01-34:27: Trump Blocks Coal Plant Closure...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 23, 2025.

It's another edition of, "Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin Goes Full MAGA!"

This week, Slotkin was the ONLY Democrat in the U.S. Senate to vote in favor of ripping-away California's tailpipe emissions standards for cars and trucks--a standard that 17 other states adopted.

Slotkin claims to be protecting the interests of Michigan since we're the auto capital of the world. Yet, with climate change hurting her state in...

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Here's Episode 134 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-11:47: Why?

Pat Johnston uses the opening segment examining the massive cuts The Trump Regime's Elon Musk is leveling on the National Weather Service. It's happening as Michigan's already experienced 25 tornadoes this year, and when tornadoes are increasing across the country thanks to climate change. Why is Elon gutting an essential service that helps warn people of incoming threatening storms, and when climate change is hitting...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for May 19, 2025.

Tariffs could lead to 13,000 less jobs in Michigan.

Some 750,000 Michiganders could lose their Medicaid under a rushed-through MAGA Republican budget bill.

State universities are getting grant funding slashed, leading to further job loss and uncertainty and pain for farmers.

And the state's unemployment rate keeps rising.

Is this what winning feels like in Michigan under the Trump Regime?

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 16, 2025.

Pat Johnston offers-up a Mea culpa on not being honest with you, but worse with himself, on President Joe Biden's ability to run for reelection last year. 

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00:00-21:28: MAGA Attacks on Rural Michigan/Dems Attack David Hogg

Pat Johnston talks about how MAGA Michigan Republicans are passing bills hurting farmers, while also passing bills that have zero benefits to working class. The same goes for the MAGA Republicans in Congress, who are trying to pass $880 billion in Medicaid funding--funding that'll be devasting to rural Michigan residents with hospital closures. And why are Republicans gutting health care for the working class? So, they...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for May 12, 2025.

Last week, Bill Maher lauded Michigan Democratic U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin on his HBO show because of her criticism of how her party appears "weak and woke" by the electorate.

But other than the fact that Slotkin swears and cusses at times, what exactly is she pushing on a policy front that helps working class Michiganders and Americans? How will her "moderation" help bring people towards Democrats when...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 9, 2025.

Michigan ranks 39th in per capita income, proving that a billion dollars in corporate subsidies, and the state's regressive flat tax, aren't working to help the working class.

Pat Johnston explains why Michigan should be more like Minnesota, and reinvest in the people.

But that'll mean repealing the flat tax, and replacing it with a progressive tax to make the system more fair for the working class. 

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Here's Episode 132 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-20:01: UofM Ono Out/Nessel Mistake/Trump Tariffs

The opening segment concentrates on University of Michigan President Santa Ono's sudden exit, and why that's a good decision. Ono acted weak in the face of the Trump Regime's threats while also going after Pro-Palestinian student protesters. And sadly, Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel went along with it by charging seven of those students...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for May 5, 2025!

The Trump Regime's proposed budget is setting-up to serve working class Michiganders with a lot of pain.

Whether it's cuts to education, health care, Medicaid, clean water, or keeping homes cool and warm, The Regime is ready to perform one of the greatest disinvestments in Michigan's, and America's, working class.

Why?

To provide the elites and the corporate class with lavished tax...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for May 2, 2025!

MAGA Michigan Republican House Speaker Matt Hall threw a temper-tantrum this week after Democratic State Rep. Mai Xiong criticized Hall for closing down the House so he could slobber and stargaze at his Dear Leader Trump in Michigan.

Hall called Xiong "low IQ," since she had the temerity to call-out how he and his MAGA Republican collogues continue to ignore the working class in the state.

When MAGA policies predictably...

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Here's Episode 131 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-21:41: Trump's Low #'s/Slotkin & Oligarchy

The first segment features Pat Johnston detailing how Michiganders, and America, are giving Trump a failing grade after his first 100 days in office. Trump's tariffs are hurting the working class, but he and his regime are doubling-down. Then, Pat breaks-down Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin's new "war plans" for Democrats, and where she says Democrats should stop saying "oligarchy" when attacking Trump. Pat...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 28, 2025!

Michigan has nine measles cases so far in 2025. It's not too hard to figure-out why: major drops in childhood vaccination rates in the state combined with misinformation and mixed messages from the Trump Regime, and specifically from its Health & Human Services Director Robert Kennedy Jr.

Pat Johnston explains why he's not so sure making measles great again in the country is a winning strategy for the people. 

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Here's the Left Of Lansing "Friday Short" for April 25, 2025.

The weird Michigan MAGA Republican state House Rep. Matt Maddock of the 51st House District is making news again in his own warped and cruel way.

Maddock announced this week that he wants to abolish the Michigan Veteran's Affairs Agency, which coincides with Dear Leader Trump and Elon Musk cutting the U.S. Veterans' Affairs office.

Maddock also introduced a bill forcing Michigan's government to call The Gulf of Mexico the "...

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Here's Episode 130 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-20:03: MAGA MI Cowards/Stevens Runs For U.S. Senate

LOL's Pat Johnston describes how the "empty chair" town halls for MAGA Michigan Republican Congressmen John James and Tom Barrett shows the cowardice of these so-called tough MAGA men. How can John James run for governor if he's too afraid to face his own constituents who are angry with how Dear Leader Trump & Republicans are gutting Social Security and Medicaid while...

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

A new Gallop poll shows Americans are beginning to reject Dear Leader Trump on a host of issues, including his top issue of Immigration.

Ryan Cooper of The American Prospect gives reasonings as to why Americans are no longer supporting his anti-Constitutional immigration disappearance program, but also why Latino-American voters are rejecting him even though many voted for him just five months ago.

And this is w...

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

Michigan State University's faculty passed a resolution calling for MSU to join a new "mutual defense compact" with other Big Ten schools to help fight back against the Trump Regime's constant attacks on higher education in Michigan, and the country.

The Trump Regime is working to defund colleges and universities so it can force these higher education institutions to instill their warped and weird White Christian Nationalist propaganda.  Duration: 00:04:10

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Here's Episode 129 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-21:46: What Happens When We Give-Up To MAGA

Pat Johnston opens the show talking about the Republicans running to become Michigan's next governor. It'll be funny, but cringeworthy, to watch Congressman John James and former state Attorney General Mike Cox try to "out-Trump" each other. Pat then explains how years of Democrats giving-up against MAGA Republicans is a major reason why we're facing the...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 14, 2025.

The Trump Regime has started to new line of attack against Michigan universities and colleges: By forcing foreign students to leave via threats of deportation.

The Regime is also issuing similar threats to foreign students across the country in an effort, they say, to remove those who are a risk to America. 

But what this is really about is pleasing the anti-immigrant and anti-science MAGA R...

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00:00-17:45: Protests/Tariff Con/Whitmer WH Visit

Pat opens the show discussing Trump's Tariff Con, and how it's costing the working class. And while Democratic Party leaders still appear unable to fight back against MAGA Republicanism's embrace of corporate authoritarianism, Indivisible groups are leading the way with "Hands-Off" protests across Michigan and the country last weekend. Pat also has words for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's disastrous White House visit.

17:46-40:01...

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Here's the Left Of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 7, 2025.

In this week's "Monday Musing," Pat explores what this Dear Leader Trump tariff scheme is ultimately about: enriching himself and those willing to buy him off.

This tariff scheme is another in a lifelong scheme of cons by Donald Trump. When will MAGA Republicans stop his corruption?

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Here's Episode 127 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-23:52: Trump Low Econ Polling; Musk Attacks Soc.Sec & V.A.; Dems Must Counter
Pat shares the latest AP Poll showing poor numbers for Trump re: handling of economy, Social Security, and the federal government. Elon continues gutting Social Security, Medicaid, and the V.A., and the detriment to millions of Michiganders! And Pat highlights a national "Hands-Off" rally with many events...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for March 31, 2025.

As the economy falters and worsens during the Trump Regime, Elon & Trump's policies further abandon the working class in Michigan, and across the country.

And MAGA Republicans in Congress are going along with it to please their elite corporate tax donor base.

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Here's this week's Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for March 28, 2025.

The University of Michigan cowered to Dear Leader Trump Regime's demands to eliminate its DEI programs, or else it would lose millions in federal research grants, and more. 

Rather than universities sticking together and refusing to give-in to these White Christian Nationalist authoritarians, universities are doing what they're told.

It might be the first domino to drop in the MAGA Republican aim to control public education. 
Duration: 00:04:12

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Here's Episode 126 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast

00:00-22:56: Elon & Trump's War On Working Class Michiganders

Pat breaks-down the Signal-gate story, and why perhaps hiring unqualified Fox News weekend cohosts wasn't the greatest idea). He then discusses how Elon & Trump continue to attack the working class while empowering their own corporate donor class. But while MAGA Michigan Republicans in Congress continue to ignore their constituents due to Musk & Trump's unpopularity, Michiganders across the state are hosting their own "empty chair" town halls thanks to Indivisible groups. Pat provided...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for March 24, 2025.

Anti-Elon & Trump rallies and events are happening across Michigan and the country, thanks to some strong grassroots organizing. 

These events, including the AOC/Bernie Sanders "Fight Oligarchy" rallies, are showing how there's a boiling anger and frustration not just with Elon & Trump, but also with the lack of bold leadership within the Democratic Party.

Pat's wondering who'll pick-up the baton and fight f...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for March 21, 2025. 

Following orders from Elon Musk and Dear Leader Trump, federal agencies are scrubbing-away the stories and histories of marginalized Americans.

That includes the erasure of Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, Jackie Robinson, who also served in the Army during WWII. Articles containing Robinson's names were immediately removed from Defense Department records due to DEI initiatives. 

But the White Christian Nationalists inside the Musk-Trump Regime unwittingly illustrated how and why DEI not on...

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Here's Episode 125 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-21:30: Democrats Must Learn Offense

Pat Johnston opens this week's show opining how ineffective and weak Democrats appear to voters, especially after how U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer fell apart and gave into appeasement last week. Pat explains how Democrats must go on offense, and propose a strong, working class agenda to counter the Anti-Working agenda pushed by Elon Musk, Dear Leader Trump, and MAGA Republicans. Pat...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for March 17, 2025!

Senate Democrats, led by New York Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted with the entire Republican Senate majority to pass a six-months spending bill, essentially giving Dear Leader Trump and co-President Elon Musk the power to gut essential services for working class Americans while enriching the corporate donor class. 

This has led to a fight within the Democratic Party, and it's a fight for v...

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Here's Episode 124 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast!

00:00-24:54 Gilchrist In Primary/Indivisible Central MI Event

Pat begins the show talking about Michigan Lt. Gov Garlin Gilchrist entering the Democratic primary for the 2026 Governor's race. He'll go up against Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and Genesee Co. Sheriff Chris Swanson. Then, Pat shares audio from a recent rally held by Indivisible Central Michigan on why safety net programs, like Medicaid, Social Security, and SNAP are...

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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 registering to vote. 

While this does nothing to fix a non-existent "voter fraud" problem, it does do one thing Republicans across the country want: to chip away at the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. 

It's the White Christian Nationalist goal of ripping away th...

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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" student protests. 

Combine that order with the Musk-Trump Regime's attacks on DEI programs in higher education, and more, it's clear to everyone how this regime is trying to emulate other past authoritarians' attacks on higher education. 

This affects all Americans, but only the few at th...

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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 after "Red Flag Laws" that ensures dangerous people can't purchase firearms in the state. Pat highlights how MAGA Michigan Republicans in Congress are ignoring the groundswell of anger growing in the state, and the country, over President Elon Musk & Dear Leader Trump's attacks on our veterans...

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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 is needed for this speech, and Senator Slotkin isn't up to that task. 

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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 men back in colleges and universities where women outnumber men. 

But rather than accept blame for falling behind women on the job front, some Gen Z men are being taught to play victim by blaming feminism or woke-ism for their problems. 

It's a message that's hurting th...

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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 are going along with the Musk-Trump Regime's moves to gut Medicaid, Social Security, Food Stamps, and the entire working class so they can funnel money back-up to the rich donor base, otherwise known as the tech oligarchy. 

18:56-34:00: Whitmer's Missed Opportunity

A talk on how Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer wasted a c...

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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 and progressive base is in need of true leaders to defend against the autocratic takeover caused by co-Presidents Elon Musk and Donald Trump. 

In her first term, Whitmer touted being, "That woman from Michigan." Now, she's touting on finding common ground wi...

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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 Americans are quickly seeing what The Swamp really, and truly looks like. 

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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 Court as Democrats will soon increase their majority. Pat gives an update on how MAGA Michigan Republicans are close to gutting the wages of thousands of service workers in the state. But some Democrats in Lansing are helping MAGA get these bills across the finish line. Then, Pat has words for certain state Democrats who decided...

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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 imported into the U.S. would harm many of the Trump-voters living in rural Michigan. 

But to Pat Johnston's surprise, it seems many of those MAGA voters are not only backing this proposed tariff, but are also saying they can do without Canadian oil!

Which me...

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Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for February 14, 2025.

President Elon Musk and Dear Leader Trump are selling-out America's farmers, and all of rural America.

With Dear Leader's crippling tariffs, and President Musk's gutting of government agencies, such as USAID, America's farmers are feeling the pain caused by this unelected billionaire and the puppet President. 

They're doing all of this out in the open for everyone to see, but it's up to a...