{"podcast":{"title":"The Middle Ground Mic","slug":"the-middle-ground-mic-7275421","podcast_index_feed_id":7275421,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2465711.rss","website_url":"https://www.themiddlegroundmic.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/v0gdqdpcxh9tn3cl6vi57t68ixkq?.jpg","author":"Joe","episode_count":210,"summary":"Tired of partisan bullshit tearing America apart while politicians hide behind excuses and sacred cows get endless protection? Step into The MiddleGround Mic, the no-compromise centrist politics podcast that refuses to play nice with extremes. No Left. No Right. Forward. Hosted by Joseph Steagall, we deliver militant centrism at full throttle — ripping apart hypocrisy from every angle, calling out the nonsense on both sides, and hammering pragmatic, zero-BS fixes for the real fights: elections, foreign policy disasters, border security failures, economic meltdown, and community breakdowns in this fractured mess of a country. Regularly hitting the top 30 in U.S. News Commentary with over 750,000 downloads and rising fast, we bring raw, bipartisan truth from thought leaders, journalists, policymakers, and actual people — not scripted talking heads. This is the honesty, clarity, and politics without tribal loyalty that the mainstream media won’t touch. Being MiddleGround or centrist isn’t weakness or fence-sitting — it’s being a straight-up warrior against the insanity of echo chambers, armed with facts and the spine to say what everyone else is too scared to. If you’re independent,…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421"},"episode":{"title":"Who Funds Protests? The Business Behind Political Demonstrations","slug":"who-funds-protests-the-business-behind-political-demonstrations","published_at":"2026-03-18T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/who-funds-protests-the-business-behind-political-demonstrations","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421","url":"https://buymeacoffee.com/Tmgm/are-protests-still-grassroots","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/2465711/episodes/18865979-who-funds-protests-the-business-behind-political-demonstrations.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail Are protests always grassroots… or is there an industry behind them? In this episode of The MiddleGround Mic, Joseph Steagall sits down with Crowds on Demand CEO Adam Swart to explore the controversial world of organized demonstrations. How are protests funded? Where is the line between activism and political influence? And why are more Americans questioning the authenticity of modern protest movements? This conversation explores the gray area between activism, advocacy, a...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail Are protests always grassroots… or is there an industry behind them? In this episode of The MiddleGround Mic, Joseph Steagall sits down w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2641,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/episodes/who-funds-protests-the-business-behind-political-demonstrations/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/who-funds-protests-the-business-behind-political-demonstrations.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}