He’s Not Wrong

She made history as the first out transgender woman on RuPaul's Drag Race and the first to originate a principal role on Broadway and she's never let success quiet her voice. This week, 2026 NYC Pride Grand Marshal Peppermint joins us for a candid conversation about what visibility really costs, why queer people must reclaim their own histories before they're erased, and why she believes joy itsel...

Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones joins us for a second time, but this time fresh off his decisive Democratic primary win to talk about where Alabama goes from here. We dig into the turnout surge that doubled Democratic votes, how he plans to unify the party and win statewide, and the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act in the wake of Callais and what a governor can actually do about it....

Happy Pride Month. We’re kicking off June with someone who has built a career that refuses to separate the stage from the fight. Drag artist, comedian, producer, Guinness World Record holder, two-time GLAAD nominee, Out 100 honoree, GLAM Entertainer of the Year, four-time City & State Pride Power 100 recipient, and 2025 NYC Pride Grand Marshal Marti Gould Cummings joins us to talk about the ci...

The Supreme Court is reshaping American life, one ruling at a time. In this episode, we're joined by Imani Gandy and Jessica Pieklo, Executive Producers at Rewire News Group and co-hosts of the legal podcast Boom! Lawyered, to break down the most consequential SCOTUS term in recent memory. We're covering the latest in the mifepristone battle, the growing legal threats to birthright citizenship, an...

What if going to Mars changes what it means to be human? We've spent decades asking whether we can get to Mars. But evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon wants to ask a different question: what happens to us once we stay? In this episode, I sit down with Scott, a faculty member at Rice University and author of Becoming Martian: Our Future Beyond Earth (MIT Press), to explore the science of what a p...

In this episode of He’s Not Wrong, we’re joined by Khiara M. Bridges, author of Expecting Inequity, to unpack why Black women are still dying at alarming rates during pregnancy and childbirth regardless of income, education, or insurance. We connect the national maternal health crisis to Alabama’s devastating outcomes, healthcare segregation, Medicaid policy, and the rollback of voting rights and...

Sami Sage has been telling women the truth, about politics, pop culture, and everything in between, since 2011, when she and two college friends started an anonymous blog in a Cornell apartment. That blog became Betches Media, one of the most influential women's media brands on the internet, and Sami became one of the most recognizable voices in news and political commentary for millennial and Gen...

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis spent five years at the highest levels of the CDC leading HIV prevention, running the White House mpox response, and eventually directing the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, the division responsible for the entire country's vaccine policy. He watched RFK Jr. take over the Department of Health and Human Services and begin dismantling the scientific...

Maggie Gelson Burnett's Instagram bio says pregnant in Trump's America, and this episode is about what that actually means. She is 26 weeks along, she is having a girl, and she has been watching this country come apart in real time while her body builds a human being inside of it.  We start in Alabama, where the fight over the Public Service Commission just took a serious hit. The people killed th...

What if everything you were taught about American history was edited, the same way the Slave Bible was edited? In 1807, enslavers produced a version of scripture with every passage about liberation, equality, and resistance removed. Of the original 1,189 chapters, only 232 remained. Today, books are being pulled from school libraries and state legislatures are passing laws to restrict what history...

In November 2025, Georgia did something it hadn't done in 25 years. Democrats flipped two seats on the Public Service Commission, ending a quarter-century Republican stranglehold on the body that sets your power bill. One of the people who made that happen is Peter Hubbard, a clean energy engineer who spent six years going before the Georgia PSC without pay, making the case that the math didn't ad...

This week we are keeping it in the friend family and I could not be more excited. My best friend Connor Sanburn is joining us for a conversation that felt long overdue. I needed a tiny mini break from political talk, so we are shifting gears to something I think is just as important, if not more: the power of building community. Real, local, show-up-for-your-neighbors kind of community. Connor has...

Fresh Epstein files naming Trump. A U.S. war with Iran that nobody voted for. TikTok blocking the word “Epstein.” Kristi Noem fired. A lot happened and a lot was buried. This week I'm joined by Michael "Koch Head" and we break down what the timing of the Iran war might tell us about the Epstein cover-up, and who’s really pulling the strings at a newly Trump-aligned TikTok. We also get into the imp...

This week on He’s Not Wrong, I sit down with Amanda Marie Green, a North Florida congressional candidate (district 2) whose life’s work at USAID was dismantled under the Trump administration. Before she ever decided to run for office, Amanda spent a decade working inside the system, negotiating government contracts, protecting taxpayer dollars, supporting HIV/AIDS and malaria programs, building fa...

This week on He’s Not Wrong, I’m joined by Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs, Army veteran, former Tank Commander, foster parent, and candidate for Congress in Virginia’s First District. We talk about why people-powered campaigns matter in a moment when so many Americans feel powerless, and why she is refusing corporate PAC money. Elizabeth shares what it meant to take an oath to the Constitution at 17 and...

In this episode, I’m joined by Mazin Sidahmed, co-executive director of Documented, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting with and for immigrant communities in New York City. Documented isn’t just covering immigration as a political issue. They’re producing original, responsive reporting and actionable resource guides in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Haitian Kreyòl to ensure critical infor...

On this episode, I sit down with Suzanne Lambert for a conversation about comedy, politics, pop culture, and where the lines actually fall between them. We unpack how political correctness shapes modern comedy, the pressure on public figures to speak out during this moment of unrest in America, how to find balance amid nonstop news cycles, beauty standards in MAGA world, and why certain political...

In this episode, we break down the FBI’s seizure of original 2020 ballots and records from Fulton County’s election center in Georgia, why local officials call it an alarming escalation, and how it connects to Donald Trump’s long-running effort to relitigate his 2020 loss, starting with the “find the votes” call to Brad Raffensperger. We also dig into what this spectacle could mean for voter trust...

This is our first-ever marathon episode, and it brings together three voices who are all grappling with the same core question: what does the Democratic Party need to do right now to actually win, govern, and deliver for working people? We sit down with Drake Rainwater, an emerging Substack writer who makes the case that Democratic candidates have to lean far more aggressively into progressive eco...

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In this episode, I’m joined by Daniel Tait, Executive Director of Energy Alabama, for a look at why power bills feel out of control, and why it is so hard for the public to get answers. We break down how Alabama Power’s rates are adjusted through behind-the-scenes formulas instead of regular, public rate cases, and what it means that there hasn’t been a full formal rate case since the early 1980s....

Former United States Senator and gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones joins me for a long-anticipated conversation about the future of Alabama politics. Last summer, Mallory Hagan and I talked about what it would take for Democrats to truly compete statewide, and a few months later, Doug Jones entered the governor’s race.  In our 30-minute conversation, we cover a lot of ground, from healthcare affo...

Corbin Trent joins the show to examine why millions of Americans feel abandoned by an economy leaders insist is working. Growing up in Northeast Tennessee and later working at the highest levels of progressive politics with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Corbin brings a rare inside-and-outside perspective on how communities were hollowed out and why political promises keep falling sh...

Dr. Benjamin Arnberg joins us once again for an extended conversation reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead to what 2026 may bring. In this wide-ranging episode, we dig into the evolving situation in Venezuela, revisit insights from past guests, and discuss where listeners can find reliable polling, data, and research as we head into a critical midterm election year (and more!). Got a hot take? Thi...

In this episode, I sit down with Insha Rahman, Vice President of Advocacy at the Vera Institute of Justice and Director of Vera Action, for a conversation about public safety, immigration, and the growing disconnect between political rhetoric and reality. We unpack how crime and immigration have been deliberately weaponized in national politics, despite data showing declining crime rates and the f...