The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega

On this special installment of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega reflects on the fascist tsunami and escalating disaster that is a rogue Supreme Court that has taken away women's reproductive rights, the "revelations" that Trump's coup plot was even more dangerous than most among the chattering class and centrist punditry hope-peddlers wanted to admit, and other happenings that have left so many...

Tim Wise is an author, activist and leading expert on white privilege and racism. His most recent book is "Dispatches From the Race War." Tim Wise explores the role of white privilege, white racial innocence, and white denial in the Buffalo white supremacist terrorist attack. He warns that the white supremacist terrorist attack in Buffalo is likely the first of what will be many other such events...

Don Winslow is a bestselling crime fiction author, political activist, a hope warrior, and one of our premiere truth-tellers. His videos about the dangers to democracy embodied by Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been viewed online more than 250 million times. Don Winslow is the author of many bestselling novels, including "Savages" (2010), "The Cartel" (2015), "The Force" (2017), and "T...

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is  Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. He reflects on the sudden deletion of his popular Emmy-award winning RT Network television show "On Contact" from YouTube in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hedges also explains what that reveals about the ne...

Cathy O'Neil is the author of the bestselling book  Weapons of Math Destruction . Her new book is The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation . O'Neil explains the power of shame and how in today's society it is amplified in potentially dangerous and life altering ways by algorithms, social media companies, and big data. She also details the often contradictory and nonsensical rel...

On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "The Republican Party's violent rhetoric keeps getting worse — and almost nobody is paying attention". 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 http...

Leonce Gaiter's nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. His essay "The True Story of The Harder They Fall's Villain Is Even Weirder Than in the Movie" was recently featured at Slate. He is the author of several novels including his most recent, "In the Company of E...

Barbara Walter is a professor of international relations and political science at UC San Diego and one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism. She is also a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a frequent live guest on CNN, and an active consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Departments of Defense and State. Her new boo...

On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "It's a new year — but time is broken in America. Can we recover from this?" 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/TheTru...

This is a special New Year's Eve 2021 episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show  and  The Truth Report . Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine. He served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. Ackerman is also an ex–CIA paramilitary officer. His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridi...

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  Dispatches from the Race War . He explains how white rage and white privilege have combined in the Jim Crow Republican Party's very successful "critical race theory" bogeyman attacks as seen in Virginia (and soon around the country) against the D...

Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy . His most recent book is How Trump Stole 2020 . Greg Palast reflects on how he predicted almost precisely how Donald Trump's regime, the Republican fascists, and...

This is a special Indigenous Peoples' Day episode of The Truth Report in honor of sociologist and historian James Loewen who passed away on August 19, 2021. **** James Loewen  is the author of the bestselling book  Lies My Teacher Told Me . He has also written award-winning books such as  Sundown Towns ,  Teaching What Really Happened , and  The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader .   Professor...

Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and business woman. She is also Donald Trump's niece. She is the author of the bestselling book  Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man . Her new book is  The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal . Mary Trump explains why so many Americans are still in deep denial about Donald Trump's enduring po...

Eric Eyre is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the book "Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic". He explains how big pharma flooded vulnerable rural communities in Appalachia and elsewhere with tens of millions of opioid pain pills. Eyre also shares the human story behind his Pulitzer Prize-winning invest...

Norman Solomon is the author of several books including "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death". He is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Solomon explains how the United States is actually a global empire. He also details how propaganda is used to convince the American people to support war, the country's military industrial...

On this week's episode of  The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, " Donald Trump rallies the troops in Phoenix: Unfortunately, that's not a metaphor" . 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.p...

On this week's episode of  The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "Donald Trump's military coup didn't (quite) happen — but it was much closer than we knew". 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:/...

On this week's episode of  The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "Biden gave a rousing speech — but is he the wrong president at the wrong time?" 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.patreo...

Jared Yates Sexton is the guest on this very special July 4 Independence Day episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show. Jared Yates Sexton is the author of several books including "The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage" and "American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People". In this wide-ranging conversation Jared...

On this week's episode of  The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay "In the fight for democracy, Democrats are being outmaneuvered — and time is against them" . 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://ww...

On this week's episode of  The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay "Guess what? The Trump regime's coup against American democracy never stopped". 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...

Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. Ackerman is also as an ex–CIA paramilitary officer. His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)) is The New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War . Elliot Acke...

On this week's episode of  The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay "America urgently needs a real investigation of the Trump regime — or it will all happen again" . 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...

On this week's episode of  The Truth Report , Chauncey shares his new Salon essay "Liz Cheney is an enemy of democracy — just as much as the Trumpers" . 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/TheTruthReportP...