The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega

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Ep. 111: The Republican Fascist Threats of Violence Are Very Real Mar 16, 2022

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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "The Republican Party's violent rhetoric keeps getting worse — and almost nobody is paying attention".

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Ep. 110: Racism Will Bring America's Ultimate Destruction Mar 13, 2022

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Leonce Gaiter's nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Newsweek, and The Washington Post.

His essay "The True Story of The Harder They Fall's Villain Is Even Weirder Than in the Movie" was recently featured at Slate. He is the author of several novels including his most recent, "In the Company of Educated Men".

Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, "I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang".

He explains how an allegiance to Whiteness and the many big and little lies of white supremacy and racism will bring the ultimate destruction of the United States. Gaiter also warns that American fascism and the attempt by the Jim Crow Republicans and Donald Trump to overthrow America's multiracial democracy on Jan. 6 (and beyond) highlights a profound cultural and political sickness across the color line here in America.

He also reflects on how White America is fundamentally in denial and possessed by a willful naivete and gross childish thinking about its capacity for and attraction to violence, death, and destruction.

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Ep. 109: Donald Trump and the Republican Neofascists Have Pushed America to the Brink of a Second Civil War Feb 06, 2022

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Barbara Walter is a professor of international relations and political science at UC San Diego and one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism.

She is also a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a frequent live guest on CNN, and an active consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Departments of Defense and State.

Her new book is How Civil Wars Start.

Barbara Walter explains how Donald Trump, the Republican fascists, and other right-wing ethnic violence entrepreneurs have pushed the United States to the brink of a second civil war.

She warns that after Trump's coup attempt and lethal attack on the Capitol by his followers that the United States ceased to be a democracy and is now what experts describe as an anocracy – a failing if not failed democracy exists somewhere between autocracy and authoritarianism.

And Barbara Walter details what a second American civil war would look like and why it would be a very long and bloody struggle.

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Ep. 108: Fascism is Breaking Time and Reality in America Jan 03, 2022

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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "It's a new year — but time is broken in America. Can we recover from this?"

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HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT?

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Ep. 107: New Year's Eve 2021 Potpourri -- 1980s Cold War Action Movies, the Meaning of a Good Death, and What Troubles Await America and the World in 2022 and Beyond Jan 01, 2022

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This is a special New Year's Eve 2021 episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report.

Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine. He served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart.

Ackerman is also an ex–CIA paramilitary officer.

His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)) is The New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War.

Elliott and Chauncey reflect on coming of age during the Reagan years and the meaning of such 1980s film classics as Red Dawn and Top Gun.

Elliot also shares his concerns about America's new "cold war" rivalry with China, Russia's aggression towards Ukraine, America's democracy crisis and the frightening possibility of a second civil war or some other calamity.

In the aftermath of Chauncey DeVega's health emergency, Elliot shares his thoughts on mortality, living a good life, and what it means to die a good death.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Ep. 106: The Jim Crow Republican "Critical Race Theory" Bogeyman is Powered by White Rage Nov 09, 2021

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Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Dispatches from the Race War.

He explains how white rage and white privilege have combined in the Jim Crow Republican Party's very successful "critical race theory" bogeyman attacks as seen in Virginia (and soon around the country) against the Democrats, the very idea of public education, and the teaching of America's real history of racial inequality and injustice.

Wise also highlights how these "critical race theory" attacks are a manifestation of a desire by white parents and others invested in the many big and small lies of Whiteness to create their own white "safe space" where black and brown people's humanity and pain are marginalized and ultimately ignored.

And Tim Wise explains exactly how the Democrats and others can successfully fight back against the Jim Crow Republicans' white supremacist "critical race theory" bogeyman attacks.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?

On Twitter:

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My email:

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HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT?

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Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com

Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Ep. 105: How the Jim Crow Republicans are Going to Steal the 2022 Midterm and 2024 Presidential Elections Oct 22, 2021

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Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone.

He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

His most recent book is How Trump Stole 2020.

Greg Palast reflects on how he predicted almost precisely how Donald Trump's regime, the Republican fascists, and their agents would try to steal the 2020 presidential election.

Greg Palast is now warning that Trump and his Republican fascists are continuing their coup against American democracy, where these fake audits such as in Arizona and the anti-women's freedom laws in Texas will be used as a blueprint across the country to steal the 2022 midterm and 2024 presidential elections.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?

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My email:

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HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT?

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Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com

Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Ep. 104: Remembering Sociologist James Loewen Oct 11, 2021

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This is a special Indigenous Peoples' Day episode of The Truth Report in honor of sociologist and historian James Loewen who passed away on August 19, 2021.

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James Loewen is the author of the bestselling book Lies My Teacher Told Me. He has also written award-winning books such as Sundown Towns, Teaching What Really Happened, and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader.

Professor Loewen shares his thoughts on the resurrection of the Confederacy in the South and the Republican Party, the Charlottesville white supremacist riot, history memory, "sundown towns" and racial segregation, and resurgent anti-Semitism in the Age of Trump.

In addition, Professor Loewen also reflects on the need to tell the truth about American history in the classroom.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?

On Twitter:

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My email:

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HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT?

Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast

Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com

Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Ep. 103: Donald Trump is Not Going Away -- No Matter How Much You Wish He Would Sep 26, 2021

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Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and business woman. She is also Donald Trump's niece.

She is the author of the bestselling book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. Her new book is The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal.

Mary Trump explains why so many Americans are still in deep denial about Donald Trump's enduring power and his ability to cause destruction and other harm to American society and the world.

She also explains that such denials and related fantasies about Donald Trump and his fascist movement somehow just "disappearing" or "going away" are a function of naivete and childish thinking rooted in fear, immaturity, and not reality.

And Mary Trump warns that yes, Donald Trump and his followers do indeed want to physically hurt (and worse) those Americans and others they identify as the enemy.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?

On Twitter:

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My email:

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HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT?

Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast

Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com

Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Ep. 102: Eric Eyre Explains How the Drug Companies Created the Opioid Crisis in Appalachia and Beyond Sep 09, 2021

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Eric Eyre is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the book "Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic".

He explains how big pharma flooded vulnerable rural communities in Appalachia and elsewhere with tens of millions of opioid pain pills.

Eyre also shares the human story behind his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting on the opioid crisis and what is a true David and Goliath story of resistance against corporate malfeasance and the exploitation of literal human pain and suffering.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?

On Twitter:

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My email:

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HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT?

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Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com

Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

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