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Ep. 457: The Age of Trump Is a Massive Mental Health Crisis -- The Danger to America Goes Far Beyond the Midterms

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Ep. 456: The Nerd Reich. Confronting Technofascism and Defending Democracy and Humanity's Future

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Ep. 455: The People's Historian Howard Zinn and the Importance of Radical Optimism in Dark Times

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Ep. 454: As President Trump Feels Increasingly Imperiled, His Authoritarian Grip Will Only Tighten

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Ep. 453: Investigative Journalist Greg Palast Explains Trump's Plot Against Democracy Through the Midterms and 2028 Presidential Election

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Ep. 452: Reflecting on This Very Mournful July 4 and America's 250th Anniversary in the Age of Trump

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Ep. 451: Nell Irvin Painter Reflects on Her Landmark Book "The History of White People" and the Color Line in the Age of Trump and Beyond

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Ep. 450: The Age of Trump Has Inflicted a Great Moral Injury on the American People

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Ep. 449: The Battle for Minneapolis and the Fight for America's Soul

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Ep. 448: The World Is Broken and on Fire. Use Your Anger to Remake It for the Better

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Ep. 447: Trump's War of Choice Against Iran is Not a Video Game or Action Movie

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Ep. 446: Taking a Holy Ghost Walk -- Honoring the Life and Legacy of Robert Duvall and His Iconic Film "The Apostle"

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Ep. 445: The Data Is Clear — A National Security Expert Assesses America's Slide into Authoritarian Rule

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Ep. 444: Heather McGhee on Racism, Zero-Sum Politics, and Why America Can't Have Nice Things

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Ep. 443: Despair Is Not an Option in 2026 -- Thom Hartmann on the Next Year of Trump 2.0

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Ep. 442: Christmas Holiday Weekend Special -- Our Hope Tanks and Hard Times

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Ep. 441: From The Boondocks to Crownsville: Rodney Barnes Reflects on a Life in Storytelling

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Ep. 440: The American Middle Class is Hanging On By a Thread in the Age of Trump

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Ep. 439: The Human Tragedy and Exploitation of the "True Crime" Genre

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Ep. 438: America's Addiction to Gun Violence, Racism, and White Rage Will Be Its Downfall

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Ep. 437: "Our Enemies Will Vanish" -- Everyday People and Ukraine's War for Independence

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Ep. 436: The Great and Complicated Legacy of Hulk Hogan aka Terry Bollea

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Ep. 435: Welcome to Prison, USA

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Ep. 434: Navigating Trumpistan and the MAGAverse One Day at a Time

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Ep. 433: How White Fear Fuels The Age of Trump

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Ep. 432: Screenwriter Rob Edwards Reflects on His Life Journey From "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" to "Captain America: Brave New World"

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Ep. 431: How "Iron Mountain" and Other Conspiracy Theories Birthed the Age of Trump

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Ep. 430: Trump's 100 Days, America's Empire is Rotting From Within

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Ep. 429: Honoring the Titan Nikki Giovanni

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Ep. 428: The Age of Trump is an Extreme Moral, Ethical, and Spiritual Crisis

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Ep. 427: The Democrats Are Now Willingly Surrendering to Trump's MAGA Shock and Awe Campaign

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Ep. 426: President Trump's Shock and Awe Campaign and the American People's Mental and Emotional Health

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Ep. 425: The Truth Report -- The American People Are Being Targeted and Manipulated By a Disinformation and Propaganda War

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Ep. 424: Author Dayton Ward is a Caretaker of the Star Trek Universe

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Ep. 423: The Truth Report -- Decoding Donald Trump's Great Power and Control Over the News Media

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Ep. 422: The Black Working Class are the Beating Heart of American Democracy

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Ep. 421: Author Willy Vlautin Reflects on Being a Voice for the Working Class

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Ep. 420: The Corporate Democrats and the Mainstream News Media were the Midwives For Donald Trump's MAGA Victory in the 2024 Election

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Ep. 419: Election Day 2024 is Finally Here. Harris or Trump? What Comes Next?

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Ep. 419: The Truth Report -- The Lincoln Project's Stuart Stevens Predicts That Kamala Harris Will Win the 2024 Presidential Election

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Ep. 418: AEW Professional Wrestler Eddie Kingston Reflects on His Emotional and Mental Health Wellness Journey

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Ep. 417: The Polls Show That Kamala Harris Will Likely Lose the 2024 Election to Donald Trump – Here is What She Must Do To Win

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Ep. 416: "Trump Fatigue Syndrome" and the 2024 Election

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Ep. 415: Ukraine, the Middle East, and How the Future of Warfare is Here Right Now

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Ep. 414: Kamala Harris Destroyed Donald Trump During Their First and Now Only Debate -- What Happens Next?

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Ep. 413: Dr. Mary Trump on Escaping the Nightmare Black Hole That is the Age of Trump and the MAGAverse

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Ep. 412: Kamala Harris Needs to Use a High Dominance Leadership Style To Defeat and Vanquish Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement

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Ep. 411: American Madness -- An Attempt on Donald Trump's Life and President Biden and the Democrats are in Disarray

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Ep. 410: The Force is Not Very Strong with Star Wars: The Acolyte

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Ep. 409: The Truth Report -- Felon Donald Trump and The Mainstream News Media's Dangerous Obsession With "The Vibes"

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Ep. 408: Introducing Convicted Criminal Felon Donald Trump/Deborah "Big Red" Cotton and the American Tragedy of Race, Guns, and Violence

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Ep. 407: The Truth Report -- Donald Trump's Hush-Money and Other Criminal Trials Are Like a Blackhole or Bottomless Maw

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Ep. 406: The Truth Report -- President Biden and the Democrats Need to Learn That Being Boring and Nice Will Not Defeat Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement

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Ep. 405: The Truth Report -- From The Walking Dead to Hannibal Lecter: You Have Been Warned About Donald Trump's Neofascist Horror Politics

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Ep. 404: From O.J. Simpson to George Floyd -- Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Baden Reflects on his Decades-Long Fight for Justice in a Broken Legal System

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Ep. 403: Glenn Kirschner Warns That Donald Trump and the Republican Party MAGA Fascists Are Trying to Murder American Democracy

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Ep. 402: Heather Cox Richardson Warns That We Can Still Stop Dictator Trump and the American Fascist Movement – If We Have the Will and Fortitude to Do That Hard Work

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Ep. 401: The Vince McMahon Sex Scandal Allegations Are About So Much More Than Professional Wrestling

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Ep. 400: What Would America Be Like If Donald Trump's Jan. 6 Coup Had Succeeded?

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Ep. 399: The Truth Report -- Dr. Bandy Lee Warns That Trumpism Is a Public Health Emergency Which is Reaching Terminal Levels For American Democracy and Society

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Ep. 398: The Fog Monster -- A Very Special Christmas Story Episode

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Ep. 397: On Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Police Officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell Went to Work and Did His Job By Defending American Democracy

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Ep. 396: A Reflective, Somewhat Serious, Funny, Titillating and Advice-Filled Special Thanksgiving Weekend Episode

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Ep. 395: Life Lessons, Reflections on Coming of Age in the 1980s, and "When the Game Was War"

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Ep. 394: 35 Years Later John Carpenter's Film "They Live" Came True -- And We Are The Ghouls

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Ep. 393: The Strange, Bizarre, and Curious Ways of Whiteness and Black "Conservatives" in the Age of Trump

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Ep. 392: Rich Logis Escaped the Trump - MAGA Cult -- Heed His Warnings About Its Power and Extreme Danger to America

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Ep. 391: What do Donald Trump's Reactions to Being Indicted for the Crimes of Jan. 6 and Beyond Reveal About His Mental and Emotional Health?

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Ep. 390: Tim Wise on Ron DeSantis' War on African-American History and the Enduring Power of Donald Trump over White America

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Ep. 389: This is Not a Tragic Mulatto Story: CNN's John Blake on His New Book "More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew"

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Ep. 388: What to the American Slave is the Fourth of July? Historian David Blight on the American Prophet Frederick Douglass

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Ep. 387: Prison Journalist John J. Lennon on Life Lessons and How Writing Made Him a Better Person

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Ep. 386: Jonathan Eig Takes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Down Off The Monument and Makes Him Real

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Ep. 385: The Truth Report -- Mark Jacob Explains How America's Mainstream News Media Surrendered to Donald Trump and The Republican Fascist Movement

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Ep. 384: The Eclectic Star Wars Jerry Springer Animal Friends Episode

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Ep. 383: Jason Van Tatenhove Reflects on the Perils of Right-Wing Radicalization and How He Found Himself a Leading Member of the Oath Keepers

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Ep. 382: Donald Trump is Not Going Away Because He is the Worst of American Culture Vomited Out

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Ep. 381: America is Sick With Diabolical Amnesia and Evil Forgetting

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Ep. 380: "The Other Side of Prospect" and Gun Violence in the Shadow of Yale University

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Ep. 379: Chris Hedges Warns That "The News" and "The Truth" are Not The Same Thing

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Ep. 378: Ruha Benjamin on the Digital Divide and the "New Jim Code"/Did You Know That People are "Racist" Against Black Robots?

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Ep. 377: Brian K. Vaughan Reflects on the Return of His Beloved Graphic Novel Series "Saga"/Paul Breines on Life Lessons Learned From His Time as a Freedom Rider in the Civil Rights Movement

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Ep. 376: The Black American Civil Rights Movement Was One of The Greatest "Military" Campaigns and Insurgencies in History

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Ep. 375: Separating Fact From Fiction and Myth About Vladimir Putin and the War in Ukraine

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Ep. 374: Reflecting on Gratitude and Thankfulness on This Thanksgiving Day 2022

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Ep. 373: The Republican Party's "Red Tide" of Fascist Sewage Didn't Fully Drown the American People

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Ep. 372: American Democracy and Freedom are on the Ballot in the 2022 Midterm Elections

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Ep. 371: Baynard Woods Reflects on What Happens When You Confront and Try to Disown Whiteness

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Ep. 370: From Pat Buchanan and the Culture Wars of the 1990s to the Age of Trump and American Neofascism and Beyond

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Ep. 369: "5 Days at Memorial" and How Doctors Decided Who Lived and Died During Hurricane Katrina

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Ep. 368: It is Almost Impossible to Escape America's Poverty Trap

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Ep. 367: The Truth Report -- The South Side of Chicago is Not a Problem to be Solved, It is a Home for the American Spirit

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Ep. 366: Nuclear Espionage? More Proof That Donald Trump is The Worst President in American History and a Traitor

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Ep. 365: Marvel Comics Writer Jason Aaron Shares His Love of Great Storytelling in Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Professional Wrestling

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Ep. 364: The Truth Report -- Eddie Glaude Explains That America is in Great Pain and on a Horrible Journey and White Racial Innocence Will Not Save It

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Ep. 363: Baz Luhrmann's Great New Movie "Elvis" is Much More Than The Sum of Its Parts

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Ep. 362: Jeff Sharlet's Journey into the Dark Heart of the American Fascist Nightmare Fever Dream

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Ep. 361: Your "Hashtag Activism", "Likes", "Shares", and "Tweets" Will Not Save You From the Fascist Nightmare or Other Political and Societal Disasters

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Ep. 360: Confronting The Raw Truth About The White Supremacist Terrorist Attack on The Black Community in Buffalo

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Ep. 359: The Battle to Save American Democracy From the Republican-Fascists Will Be Long and Difficult -- And Quitting Is Not an Option