This is special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report . Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and businesswoman. She is also Donald Trump’s niece. Mary Trump is the author of the books Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man and The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal . Mary Trump’s new book is Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir . Mary Trump is a friend of the podcast and is always so generous with he...
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “ Making sense of the post-Trump conviction polls”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow...
Jun 18, 2024•13 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She is the author of numerous books including her most recent, Democracy Awakening . Richardson’s Substack newsletter “Letters From an American” is essential reading and is subscribed to by 1,400,000 people. She explains how the study of American history and peoples’ movements to expand real democracy are critical for defeating Trumpism, American neofascism and global illiberalism today. Heather also reflects on how her background...
Jun 14, 2024•45 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “How Professional Wrestling Helps to Explain the Upcoming Debates Between President Biden and Aspiring Dictator Donald Trump”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthR...
Jun 12, 2024•9 min•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast Last Thursday, Donald Trump was found “guilty” in his New York hush-money and election interference trial. He is now the first former or sitting president to be convicted of a felony. Given these historic events, I am sharing my conversation with Glenn Kirschner here on The Truth Report about Trump’s trial(s) and the extreme danger(s) he continues to pose to the country and its democracy. My conversation with Glenn Kirschner was recorded several weeks ago. **** Glenn Kirschner is an NBC News/MSN...
Jun 01, 2024•34 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “Trump trial delays bring focus to crucial Supreme Court case” . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com...
May 28, 2024•9 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “When Trump gets dark, Biden goes light”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com...
May 24, 2024•9 min•Ep 135•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “Donald Trump is testing out a new campaign strategy: horror politics” . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com...
May 22, 2024•9 min•Ep 134•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Bandy Lee is a forensic psychiatrist and a leading expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring her activities to Columbia and Harvard. Dr. Lee is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President . She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, the largest professional organization to address the problem of dange...
Jan 12, 2024•35 min•Ep 133•Transcript available on Metacast Sgt. Aquilino Gonell is a Dominican immigrant, former U.S. Army Soldier, and Iraq War veteran. He’s been a Capitol Hill Police Officer for the past 17 years and was one of four police officers who testified before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Insurrection. He’s been recently featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS Mornings, NBC News, Fox-TV, MSNBC, The Daily Beast, The Hill, and Rolling Stone. He is the recipient of the Carnegie Immigran...
Dec 21, 2023•33 min•Ep 132•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President . He warns that Donald Trump appears to be a megalomaniac, who as demonstrated by his recent comments at a rally in Iowa, truly does believe that he is some type of Chosen One who has been selected by “god” and “Jesus” to be America’s first dictator. Dr. Frank also explains how Trump’s obviously diseased mind and s...
Dec 21, 2023•17 min•Ep 131•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his recent essay at Salon, “The secret to Trump's revenge plot: He's making his plans for vengeance public” . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com...
Nov 28, 2023•8 min•Ep 130•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his recent essay at Salon, “Donald Trump Dreams of an American Fourth Reich — and He's Not Kidding” . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com...
Nov 28, 2023•11 min•Ep 129•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President . Dr. Frank shares his expert insights about Donald Trump’s mind and how the ex-president’s mental pathologies and other unwell behavior are shaping his response to being criminally indicted for his many alleged crimes including Jan. 6 and his attempted coup attempt to end American democracy. In the end, Dr. Frank ...
Nov 18, 2023•39 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast Rich Logis is a former high ranking Trump MAGA World operative and propagandist who describes himself as "a remorseful ex-Trump, DeSantis and GOP voter." Logis is the founder of Perfect Our Union, an organization dedicated to healing political traumatization; building diverse, pro-democracy alliances; and perfecting our Union. He reflects on how he was radicalized by the Trump MAGA fascist movement, how it functions as an alternate reality that provides emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social...
Nov 18, 2023•52 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Jacob is a media critic and a former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. He reflects on his decades-long career in the news media and what he learned about that institution’s failings and how it helped to birth the Age of Trump and American neofascism. Mark Jacob warns that obsolete habits and cultural norms such as “fairness”, “objectivity”, “bothsidesism”, “access journalism”, and “horse race coverage” by the mainstream corporate news media are ...
May 25, 2023•34 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Van Tatenhove is the former national media director of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers. Mr. Tatenhove testified about the escalating dangers of right-wing radicalization and neofascism before the House Jan. 6 Committee. His new book is The Perils of Extremism: How I Left the Oath Keepers and Why We Should be Concerned about a Future Civil War. In this wide-ranging conversation Jason reflects on his life decisions and mistakes and how he found himself radicalized by the Oath K...
May 04, 2023•50 min•Ep 125•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His two most recent books are Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison and The Greatest Evil is War . Chris Hedges reflects on the lessons he learned during his long career as a journalist about the “business” that is the news business, how the “truth” is manufactured, why it pays very well to be a careerist who does not care about confronting Power, and the ways that the limits of the a...
Feb 20, 2023•45 min•Ep 124•Transcript available on Metacast ***This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show *** On this special Thanksgiving Day installment of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega reflects on the deeper meaning of gratitude and thankfulness during these challenging and troubling times. Chauncey also shares his recent essay on using gratitude and thankfulness as a type of energy and fuel in what will be a long struggle against neofascism and to create a true we the people democracy here in the United States....
Nov 24, 2022•37 min•Ep 123•Transcript available on Metacast *** This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show *** Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy . His forthcoming book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Sharlet reflects on the meaning of the 2022 midterms and how the American people voted to slow down the Republican fascist assault on their democracy an...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep 122•Transcript available on Metacast *** This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show *** David Neiwert is an investigative journalist. He is the author of numerous books including Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump , The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right , and Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us . His forthcoming book is The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democr...
Nov 07, 2022•48 min•Ep 121•Transcript available on Metacast Shawn Rosenberg is a professor of political science and psychology at UC Irvine and one of the world’s foremost experts in political psychology. He warns that the average American and other people who live in countries governed by Western-style democracies may be fundamentally unable to follow through on the basic responsibilities of being responsible citizens. Such a deficiency helps to explain why right-wing fake populism and other forms of authoritarianism and fascism are compelling to so man...
Sep 19, 2022•34 min•Ep 120•Transcript available on Metacast Sudhir Venkatesh is the William B Ransford Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University. His books include Floating City and Gang Leader for a Day . Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book is The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them . He reflects upon his 30-year relationship with the South Side of Chicago and how racism and classism distort the complex truth about that community and the people who live there. Sudhir Venkates...
Sep 01, 2022•48 min•Ep 119•Transcript available on Metacast *** This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show *** Brynn Tannehill is a leading trans activist and essayist. She has written for such leading publications as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The Advocate. Tannehill is a former United States Naval Aviator and officer who also served as a campaign analyst for the 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain. After leaving the military, she worked as a senior defense research scientist in private industry. ...
Aug 17, 2022•2 hr 35 min•Ep 118•Transcript available on Metacast Eddie Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. His publications include "Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul", "In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America", and his most recent, the New York Times bestseller, "Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own". Professor Glaude has also written for The New York Times...
Jul 18, 2022•41 min•Ep 117•Transcript available on Metacast On this special installment of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega reflects on the fascist tsunami and escalating disaster that is a rogue Supreme Court that has taken away women’s reproductive rights, the “revelations” that Trump’s coup plot was even more dangerous than most among the chattering class and centrist punditry hope-peddlers wanted to admit, and other happenings that have left so many Americans off balance and in a state of despair. As part of that reflection, Chauncey offers some ad...
Jul 02, 2022•30 min•Ep 116•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Wise is an author, activist and leading expert on white privilege and racism. His most recent book is "Dispatches From the Race War." Tim Wise explores the role of white privilege, white racial innocence, and white denial in the Buffalo white supremacist terrorist attack. He warns that the white supremacist terrorist attack in Buffalo is likely the first of what will be many other such events here in the United States. Tim Wise also counsels that we must remain persistent in the anti-racism ...
May 19, 2022•26 min•Ep 115•Transcript available on Metacast Don Winslow is a bestselling crime fiction author, political activist, a hope warrior, and one of our premiere truth-tellers. His videos about the dangers to democracy embodied by Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been viewed online more than 250 million times. Don Winslow is the author of many bestselling novels, including "Savages" (2010), "The Cartel" (2015), "The Force" (2017), and "The Border" (2019). His work has also been adapted for major Hollywood movies and TV series. His new ...
May 03, 2022•35 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. He reflects on the sudden deletion of his popular Emmy-award winning RT Network television show “On Contact” from YouTube in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Hedges also explains what that reveals about the new censorship in the 21st century, a time when social media and other corporate actors exercise an alm...
Apr 09, 2022•44 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast Cathy O’Neil is the author of the bestselling book Weapons of Math Destruction . Her new book is The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation . O’Neil explains the power of shame and how in today’s society it is amplified in potentially dangerous and life altering ways by algorithms, social media companies, and big data. She also details the often contradictory and nonsensical relationship between so-called “cancel culture” and shame. O’Neil also explores the complex dynamics at ...
Mar 27, 2022•47 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast 
