The Tennessee Holler Podcast

Holler co-founder Justin Kanew talks with former Middle East policy advisor & foreign policy speechwriter at the White House, State Dept. & Senate Daniel Benaim, a frequent MSNBC guest who worked under Joe Biden in the Barack Obama administration. "These guys came in and treated the State Department almost like an enemy."  SUBSCRIBE/SUPPORT: www. TNHoller.com

Yesterday Pastors Williamson & Riggs delivered our petition of 50,000 signatures asking to have the KKK GRAND WIZARD BUST removed from our Capitol.    After hearing about NBF’s horrific slave torture, chairman Mcwhorter committed to a meeting by February. A good next step. WATCH the video HERE. Sign the petition HERE.

Former Border Border Patrol agent Jenn Budd tells of rampant corruption and abuse at the department, and bravely tells the story of being raped and almost killed for speaking out. A horrific situation, in our names. Follow Jenn HERE Subscribe & Support The Holler: www. TNHoller.com

State Senator RAUMESH AKBARI hollers at us to talk about why Governor Bill Lee's public school-harming vouchers should be put on pause so families who use them can be properly informed about what the ramifications are. She also talks about why Medicaid Expansion in Tennessee needs to happen, and why not doing it has been such a tragic mistake. "Faith without works is dead." Subscribe to the Holler...

Steven Hassan is a cult expert who was once in one. His new book THE CULT OF TRUMP explains why blind allegiance to Trump is cult-like behavior, and how we can go about attempting to talk to the people in our lives who have joined it.  Check out his book HERE. The Tennessee Holler is an independent journalism site that survives on reader support, so if you like what we do please go to www. TN...

Journalist Holly Korbey joins Holly McCall to talk about her book "Building Better Citizens", and how a more educated populace is a more engaged populace when it comes to civics and saving our democracy. Find her book HERE: www. HollyKorbey.com Subscribe & Chip in Monthly Support our Independent Tennessee Journalism: www. TNHoller.com

Cal Professor Ian Haney Lopez tells us how America's rich use RACISM to break apart the coalition of black, brown, and white working families to make us easier to control and impose their agenda, and what we can do to combat that message.  More on Ian HERE: www. IanHaneyLopez.com Subscribe to the Holler & Chip In Here: www. TNHoller.com

Get to know Kiran Sreepada, challenging Mark Green for congress in TN-7 in 2020.  #GrandstandingGreen #ShowUsYourDD214 www. KiranForCongress.com  Subscribe/Support: www. TNHoller.com FOLLER THE HOLLER: @TheTnHoller

Highly decorated Tennis great Martina Navratilova talks to Holler co-founder Justin Kanew about her childhood in communist Czechoslovakia, defecting to America, coming out as gay In the early 1980's, and finding her voice on twitter. Follow Her: @Martina Follow Us: @TheTnHoller @Kanew Subscribe & Support: www. TNHoller.com

Sara Thompson is the ONLY person who walked out Monday when Sevier County Commissioner Warren Hurst went on his homophobic, bigoted rant about a "queer" running for president and white men losing their rights. Listen to her her tell us why. "I just did what I felt I had to do as a human being." If you're in Sevier County, join Sara HERE. And join us at the next County Commission meeting November 1...

Around 60 Trump supporters gathered in Nashville to march to the capitol, where they were met by counter-protesters. We spoke with them before they walked, trying to find some common ground on things like Trump's taxes, the Ukraine scandal, health care... it wasn't easy. Here's some of what they had to say. Our VIDEO from the march can be found HERE. Support monthly/Subscribe: www. TNHoller.com

Comedian JOHN HENSON - former host of TALK SOUP and WIPEOUT! and current host of THE HALLOWEEN BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP on the Food Network - is also a politically savvy tweeter who regularly engages with those who disagree with him. He sat down with us to diagnose the political infection our country is currently suffering from. "Everybody becomes a firefighter when your house is burning down." - John...

Kurds lost 11,000 lives in the fight against ISIS. Over 1500 people turned out to protest Trump's betrayal of them in downtown Nashville on Friday.  Listen to what they had to say: "They're killing all of my people right now." Watch our VIDEO here. Subscribe/Support: www. TNHoller.com

After the Tennesseee Black Voter Project Registered over 90,000 in 2018, Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett pushed a Voter Registration Criminalization Bill through the legislature... but it was just BLOCKED By Federal Court, a big win for democracy. Tequila Johnson of the Equity Alliance and the TN Black Voter Project talks about the ugly roots of the bill, and how obviously retaliatory it...

Listen to Cherisse Scott read the FULL testimony she planned to read at the #TNAbortionBan Senate hearings before she was cut off by Senator Mike Bell - who let many people go longer, including a man who "remembers being born". Cherisse also talks about triggering Senator Kerry Roberts , who says he thinks we should do away with higher education - presumably because that's where Cherisse and other...

Listen to Cherisse Scott of Sister Reach drop a truth bomb 💣 at the #TNAbortionBan hearings last week. Senator Mike Bell cut her off after 5 minutes, but let a guy who “remembers being born” go twice as long. 🤔

Listen to Rep. David Byrd apologize to 1 of 3 women who say he sexually abused them when they played basketball for him in high school... Rep. Gloria Johnson has a motion to expel him during the special session Friday. Ask your reps do support it.

TN Republicans are trying to ignore Rep. Gloria Johnson's motion to expel Rep. David Byrd at the special session Friday - Byrd has apologized on tape to 1 of 3 women who say he sexually abused them in high school. CALL YOUR REPS and tell them to support Gloria's motion to expel Byrd, and SHARE THIS VIDEO with them to make sure they've heard his unmistakeable apology. Child sex abuse should't be a...

Our live interview with Francie Hunt of Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood and Anna Carella of Healthy and Free Tennessee! "If it was men that got pregnant, abortions would be taxpayer funded." Subscribe/Donate: www. TNHoller.com 

Glen Casada has stepped down in disgrace, but he still holds his seat in the legislature. Williamson County school board member/youth pastor Brad Fiscus is jumping in to challenge him as an independent in 2020.  “I want the people my kids are voting for to be someone they can be proud of... let’s bring integrity back to District 63 in Williamson County.”  Support Brad: www.fiscusfortn.co...

What's really going on with Tennessee's rural health care crisis? Why haven't we expanded Medicaid? Why are we leading the nation in kicking kids off Medicaid, rural hospital closures, medical bankruptcies, and so many more tragic categories? Michele Johnson from the Tennessee Justice Center explains. Follow us: @TheTNHoller Donate/Subscribe: www. TNHoller.com

Andy Spears of the TN Education report talks about the #VoucherVultures descending on Nashville thanks to Governor Bill Lee’s new voucher legislation, and what we can do to push back against Lee’s all-out assault on public schools. Follow Andy: @TNEdReport Follow us: @TheTNHoller Subscribe/Contribute: www. TNHoller.com

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga just narrowly voted not to unionize. Chris Brooks of Labor Notes explains it was because of a campaign of fear in which Governor Bill Lee played a part. Subscribe/Support: www. TNHoller.com

Williamson County residents gathered on the Public Square in Franklin to Holler for Speaker Glen Casada to resign from the legislature completely, immediately. Here's some of what they had to say. Watch the VIDEO Subscribe/Support: www. TNHoller.com

Our #ByeByeCasada episode from just minutes after Speaker Casada resigned - with Sumner County Dems chair Hana Ali , Houston County Dems Communications Director Charles Uffelman , and Holler Co-Founders Holly McCall and Justin Kanew . Subscribe HERE & Chip in Monthly to keep us hollerin' HERE