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There are two guests on this special post 2020 first presidential debate special. Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States' and the world's foremost experts on voter suppression, vote theft and vote fraud. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and...

Rev. Al Sharpton is the host of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation" and the founder and President of the civil rights organization National Action Network (NAN). Sharpton also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show, "Keepin' it Real". His new book is Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads". Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on the Age of Trump, the pandemic, and a season of protest and resistance. He a...

Tim Wise is one of the United States' and the world's leading antiracism activists and authors. His books include Dear White America , White Like Me , Speaking Treason Fluently , and Under the Affluence . His new book is Dispatches from the Race War . Tim Wise reflects on the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how her death has now made America's multiracial democracy...

There are two guests on this very special 300th episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . David Rothkopf is the CEO of The Rothkopf group. He was also a senior official in the Clinton Administration and CEO and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy Magazine. He is the author of many books and articles including the forthcoming Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump ....

Stuart Stevens has worked as a strategist and consultant for the Republican Party at the highest levels including with the Dole, George W. Bush, Romney, and McCain presidential campaigns. He now serves as a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, a political advocacy group founded by "Never-Trumpers" and former Republicans that is committed to defeating Donald Trump and his movement. His new book i...

This is a sneak preview of this week's episode of The Truth Report  which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-60-riots-and-lawyers-donald-trumps-scheme-to-steal-the-2020-presidential-election-is-much-bigger-than-just-the-us-mail Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rollin...

Simon Rosenberg is president of the New Democrats Network and the New Policy Institute, a liberal-think tank based in Washington, DC.  He has served as a senior advisor to the Democratic Party at the highest levels and has worked in two presidential campaigns, including a senior role in the 1992 Clinton "War Room". In 2018, Rosenberg was a senior advisor to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Co...

Glenn Kirschner is an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and teaches criminal law at George Washington University. He also worked in the  United States Attorney for the District of Columbia  office as a federal prosecutor/Assistant U.S. Attorney where he was supervised by Robert Mueller. Kirschner explains why Donald Trump and other members of his inner circle should be criminally prosecuted for man...

This is a sneak preview of this week's episode of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-57-donald-trump-is-bullying-the-american-people Dr. Justin Frank is the author of the book Donald Trump on the Couch . He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with m...

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her new book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present . Ruth Ben-Ghiat warns that Donald Trump's threats of violence against the American people are very real.   Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains that the American people (including the country's political elites) remain in deni...

Jennifer Mercieca is a historian of American political discourse at Texas A&M University. Her new book is Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. Mercieca explains how Donald Trump is intentionally using the rhetorical strategies of demagogues and other authoritarians. She also details how Trump's use of the demagogue's language playbook allows him to consistently evade res...

Marvin McAllister is Associate Professor of Theatre at Winthrop University. He is the author of Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance . McAllister explains the history and enduring power and damage of so-called "blackface" race minstrelsy. He also shares some hidden history about how black folks in America and across the Black Atlantic have performed "...

Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Democracy Matters , Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire . Dr. West explains how George Floyd is a martyr and that the American people must prepare for a long and brutal reaction from the country's right-wing elites to the ris...

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival. Rev. Dr. Barber is also the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement He is the author of several books including We Are Called to Be a Movement ; Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing ; The Third Reconstr...

Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States' and the world's foremost experts on voter suppression, vote theft and vote fraud. He is the author of the bestselling books  Billionaires & Ballot Bandits  and  The Best Democracy Money Can Buy . His new book is  How Trump Stole 2020 . Gre...

Jennifer Richeson is a social psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions. She is currently the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University where she heads the Social Perception and Communication Lab. Professor Richeson details the ways that racial inequality, psychology, and systems of privilege relate to one another. She also highlights how basic notions...

Fintan O'Toole is a historian, literary critic, author, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Irish Times, The Guardian, and other leading publications. O'Toole is the author of many books including his most recent  The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism . In a series of recent essays O'Toole has, with rapier sharp devastating prose, d...

Mike Davis is a historian, political activist, and writer. He is the author of many books including City of Quartz, Buda's Wagon,  and  Planet of Slums . Davis has also written for The Nation and The New Statesman among other magazines and publications. Davis is also an editor of the New Left Review. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. Davis is also a Disti...

David Neiwert is an investigative journalist based in Seattle and a contributing writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center. 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 ,  Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us , and  Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election D...

Ben Fountain is the author of the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk , winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Fountain traveled across the country during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to document that political and social disaster as it took place in real time. The result is his most recent book Beautiful Country Bu...

Daryl Davis is an American R&B and blues musician, activist, author, actor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the best -- if not the best -- boogie-woogie piano players in the world. Daryl Davis has played with such legendary musicians as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, B. B. King, and Bruce Hornsby. He is also the subject of the 2016 documentary Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & Americ...

Don Winslow is one of America and the world's most widely read and acclaimed crime fiction writers. His books include the New York Times bestsellers "The Cartel", "The Force", and "The Border". Winslow's work has been adapted for major Hollywood movies and TV series. Winslow's new book "Broken" is a collection of short novels focusing in on the tragedies and triumphs, and day-to-day lives of peopl...

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  Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America . Tim Wise explains how the coronavirus plague and the types of surveillance and changes in personal behavior and freedom it requires are a crisis for...

Robert Evans has been a conflict journalist in Iraq and Ukraine. He has also reported extensively on far-right extremist groups in the United States. His investigative reporting is featured at the website Bellingcat . He is the host of the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here . His new podcast -- which is available at iHeartRadio -- is The Women's War . Robert offers suggestions a...

Jared Yates Sexton is a writer whose political writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He is the author of three collections of fiction and a crime novel. Currently he serves as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University. His new book is American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People . Sexton reflects on his...