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What happens when speaking truth to power gets you cancelled?!? What happens when sharing your experience of oppression and white supremacy get you silenced?!? We are living at the breaking point of all we have believed to be true. On today's episode Wajahat shared an incredibly infuriating situation that happened to him while being invited as a guest speaker at a company during AAPI month and Dan...

This week the storied civil rights organization, The NAACP, issued a travel warning to Black Americans and LGBTQ+ folks for the state of Florida. With now, presidential candidate Ron DeSantis waging war on anyone not affiliated with white evangelicals, the NAACP says it's basically a terrorist state. On this episode of #democracyish, Danielle and Waj wonder if issuing travel advisory to hostile st...

Elon Musk to Kaitlan Collins the mainstreaming or white nationalist ideology has never been stronger. With so much at stake with our democracy real journalism is needed now more than ever--but will we ever get real pushback so we can get to the truth?!? Waj and Danielle discuss this and more on the next #democracyish   Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali   Executive Producer: Adell Coleman  ...

Well, well, well it seems that the Teflon on "Teflon Don" has begun to disintegrate. In a win for women and sexual assault survivors everywhere journalist E. Jean Carroll had her day in court AND WON against the twice impeached, once indicted (for now), now confirmed sexual abuser, Donald Trump. Danielle and Waj get into the verdict, the Republicans reactions and whether we think America as we kno...

We have been learning a lot about grifting in America--from Donald Trump and his flock to the Supreme Court, everyone seems to be on the get rich or die trying bandwagon--it's this American capitalist mentality that makes the cryptocurrency industry so enticing. But is it truly safe for the average Jose's and Joe's looking for a leg up? Danielle and Waj chat with actor and author of the new book "...

We haven't seen a news cycle like this week in a while. Mercury is in retrograde and shaking up cable news. What was once thought unthinkable has occurred--Tucker Carlson, white supremacist golden boy is out at Fox. Not to be outdone--for entirely different reasons Don Lemon is out at CNN! Waj and Danielle discuss the shakeup and where we think cable news and mainstream media is headed next.  Host...

Do you care about your ailing loved ones in nursing homes? How about your 401K? Private Equity firms have become modern day pirates preying on the most marginalized populations in order to make a buck--and if that isn't terrible enough they are now coming for what is left of the Middle Class. Waj and Danielle sit down with Brendan Ballou author of the new book, Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pi...

Political Historian, author and editor Eli Merritt joins #democracyish to provide some historical grounding for the place we find ourselves in America's story. America is at a tipping point, the question is what direction does it fall?!? Danielle and Waj discuss this and more on this episode of democracy-ish   Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali  Executive Producer: Adell Coleman  Senior Prod...

From Marjorie Taylor Greene appearing on 60 minutes to the coverage of Trump's plane on a tarmac to the racist freak out over NCAA champion Angel Reese white mainstream media really showed its true color (pun intended) this week. Waj and Danielle cover it all and connect every last dot on this week's #democracyish Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali   Executive Producer: Adell Coleman   Senio...

Mehdi Hasan, MSNBC Host and author of the NYT Bestselling book: Win Every Argument, joins Wajahat and Danielle to discuss how Democrats can win the gun debate, what Americans can learn from the massive protests happening around the globe and more. We packed a lot into this episode of #democracyish so buckle up friends!  Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali   Executive Producer: Adell Coleman  ...

Waj is back and pulling no punches! On today's episode the dynamic duo delve into #IndictmentWatch and discuss how the media plays the same games as the Republican Party. What has the media learned since 2016?!? Waj and Danielle dig into this and more on #democracyish  Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali  Executive Producer: Adell Coleman  Senior Producer: Quinton Hill  Distributor: DCP Enter...

Democratic strategist and founder of Omara Strategy Group, Atima Omara, joins #democracyish to chat with Danielle about what Dems need to do to beat Republicans at the culture war as well as give her thoughts on what 2024 is going to look like. Wajahat is out saving the world this week, but Danielle holds it down for the team! Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali   Executive Producer: Adell Co...

After taking in the venom spewed over the weekend at CPAC one thing is clear--Republicans aren't interested in governing, compromise, or democracy. Their America is one of punishment not freedom, eradicated your perceived enemies not debating them. When they continue to tell us who they are how long it be before Americans begin to believe them?!? Waj and Danielle take on this and much much more in...

We have known that Fox (not news) lies to its tens of millions of viewers each and every day, but now Rupert Murdoch admitted as much under oath in the Dominion lawsuit. Recently, discovery was released and in it Murdoch readily admits that his hosts knew the 2020Election wasn't stolen but kept going with the big lie anyway. This week Waj and Danielle go in on Fox and whether this case will finall...

We are often lamenting about all that is going wrong because frankly there is a lot--but for a change of pace we bring on historian, author and host of the podcast What Could Go Right, Zachary Karabell, to look for some possible rainbows in our unrelenting storm. Waj and Danielle may not always bring the sunshine but we always bring our mustard seed of hope--and on today's episode we brought back...

Esteemed Professor Carol Anderson, a Charles Howard Candler professor at Emory University and author of several books including White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, and her latest The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America joins #democracyish for a SUPERSIZED show. In this episode Professor Anderson unpacks the history of white supremacy and how the attacks on public ed...

While we recorded this episode before the President gave his speech to America, Waj and Danielle decided to provide their perspective on what the state of the union actually is according to the rest of us. Take a listen and then tweet at us using #democracyish and tell us what you think the SOTU is.  Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali   Executive Producer: Adell Coleman   Senior Producer: Qu...

Nothing says anti-Blackness like starting Black History month with the College Board bowing to the Governor of white supremacy Ron DeSantis and removing anything of merit including Black feminism, Black queer voices, Black Lives Matter etc from the curriculum. Adding insult to injury--while DeSantis's state recovers from yet another mass shooting the Florida GOP is offering up legislation that wou...

Professor Kevin Kruse, author of the new book Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past, joins #democracyish to discuss how Florida's quest to rewrite and re-white history is nothing new--white supremacists have been doing it longer than we think and before the advent of "The Southern Strategy". Danielle and Wajahat delve into a number of America's myths and more...

Taylor Lorenz, internet and technology reporter and author of the upcoming book,Extremely Online, had the audacity to investigate the right-wing's media terror machine and her life and livelihood have been threatened ever since. Mainstream media continues to cower to online white nationalist terrorism leaving those seeking to do real journalism left to fend for themselves or quit the profession al...

 What happens when you don't hold insurrectionists accountable for their crimes against democracy? They run for office and win. What happens when you don't convict white collar criminals that defraud millions? They head to their new grift which is always bigger and badder than the last one. There is a pattern in America of protecting the worst among us so long as they have the complexion for the p...

Happy New Year! It's 2023 and the MAGA monster has been unleashed and is now eating its own. What can you expect when you invite a monster to dinner? For 7+ years Republicans have entertained the far right fringe and now they have been mainstreamed and are running the show--into the ground. Danielle and Wajahat discuss what's in store for our democracy as Republicans run amok.  Hosts: Danielle Moo...

It's been a hell of a year--and it's hard to wrap our minds around all that's transpired but Danielle and Wajahat are giving it a try. From Covid to midterms to Harry and Meghan to Disney's Andor we unpack the roses and thorns of 2022! See y'all in 2023.  Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP Entertainment Support...

Whatever we don't understand we fear. That has been the norm in this country and around the globe. This idea that somehow people who don't look like us, love like us, or identify the way we do are to be feared or worse contained. The latest group to be targeted are transgender Americans. People who want nothing but the dignity, protection and respect that we all want--yet their desires are put up...

Negin Farsad, host of Fake the Nation and author of "How to Make White People Laugh" joins Danielle and Wajahat to discuss whether or not we can create the multiracial coalition to save democracy without winning over some white women. We also discuss what Negin thinks as an Iranian America and what we can learn from the current women led uprising in Iran for freedom. This and more on the next epis...