The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega

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 Co...

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:...

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 Tr...

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...

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 conve...

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/T...

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 V...

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.patr...

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 t...

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-T...

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 "Jes...

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.c...

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/TheT...

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 cri...

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 movemen...

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", "boths...

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...

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...

***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 lo...

*** 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...

*** 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 Ki...

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 w...

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...

*** 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....

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 A...