Tag: MAGA Republicans

Fossil Fuel Pushed Big Lie About A Northern Michigan Solar Panel Farm

January 30, 2025 Here’s Episode 118 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-14:16: Peters Not Running/MAGA Misinformation Machine Pat starts out of the gate lamenting about Michigan Democrats joining MAGA Republicans on watering-down minimum wage and paid sick leave in the state. He next turns his attention to Michigan Democrats in Congress, like Congresswoman Kristin McDonald-Rivet…

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Michigan Democratic State Rep. Betsy Coffia Refuses To Capitulate

January 22, 2025 Here’s Episode 117 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-15:29: Pat’s Mom’s Passing & Influence In the first segment, Pat Johnston talks about his Mom passing away last week, and the major influence she played in his political and news upbringing. Like Pat, his Mom wore her politics and values on her sleeve,…

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Have Elon Musk & The Tech Bros Taken Over?

January 9, 2025 Here’s Episode 116 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-16:00: Dems Acting Like “Maga-Dems” The first segment features Pat Johnston sharing his thoughts on both Michigan and national Democrats running as “MAGA” Democrats, and how detrimental that will be to a Democratic Party struggling to attract new voters. It’ll be difficult for Democrats…

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Final 2024 Episode: Which Path Will Democrats Take In 2025?

Here’s Episode 115 of Michigan’s Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-26:52: Where Will Democrats Go In 2025? Pat begins his final monologue of 2024 wondering what, or if, the Democratic Party in Michigan, and across the country, has learned anything after its deflating defeat to MAGA Republicanism in the election. Judging from how the D.C. Democratic leadership…

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Episode 101: Michigan Sheriff Learns How Trump Is Nothing But Trouble!

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 least trying to curb…

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Friday Short: No Daylight Between “Old” Republicans & MAGA

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…

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Monday Musing: Protest Entire Israeli War Machine, Not Just Democrats!

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 says…

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Friday Short: Another Week of MAGA’s Fake Populism On Display!

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 proposals in 2018….

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Episode 96: Michigan in VP Buzz News, And Tech Oligarchs Line-Up w/ Trump-Vance

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 Whitmer would…

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