Our guest today on Mea Culpa is the groundbreaking, congressional reporter for the Guardian, Hugo Lowell. Lowell has broken a number of high-profile stories about the January 6th committee’s investigation. Join Michael and Hugo for an in-depth conversation about the January 6th hearings.
 
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Breaking!!! How Trump’s Big Lie Became the Big Grift + A Conversation with Hugo Lowell

Are you sick and tired of the MAGA nonsense and the squawking of ignorant right wing trolls; spewing their lies and toxic venom? Does the voice of Donald Trump not to mention the sight of his saggy skin and piss colored hair send you in paroxysms of rage?  Are you worried that 2024 will be 2016 all over again and that we will be dragged backwards into a fascist state run by morons and fools who do nothing but hate? You've come to the right place. Don't get mad, get DEFIANT. Welcome to the official podcast of Brooklyn Dad Defiant. With an army of 1.3 million strong, we've decided ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Its time to stand atop the shoulders of history and shout "STOP!" So join us. Join the DEFIANT PODCAST twice weekly. We're giving a road map to victory, a blueprint for sanity and a way forward out of the madness. LFG!

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On the premiere episode of The Defiant Podcast, Majid spotlights the ongoing GOP meltdown precipitated by the Arizona abortion ruling. Continued overreach by GOP extremists has galvanized Democrats and promises to change the calculus for the 2024 election as voters wake up to what will happen if Trump is allowed to return to the White House. Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi joins Majid to discuss how Russian propaganda has infected the GOP via extremist Republicans like  MGT, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and Paul Gosar who have become the face of the GOP as they move the party deeper into the arms of Vladimir Putin and QANON. Now GOP strategists and Trump himself are fretting that now that the genie is out of the bottle, people are terrified that the GOP is run by a cabal of extremist lunatics.


Check out Frank Figliuzzi’s new book “Long Haul,” hailed as a true crime classic about the hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.


https://www.amazon.com/Long-Haul-Hunting-Highway-Killers/dp/006326515X

How GOP Extremists Will Cost Trump the 2024 Election + A Conversation with Frank Figliuzzi

Are you sick and tired of the MAGA nonsense and the squawking of ignorant right wing trolls; spewing their lies and toxic venom? Does the voice of Donald Trump not to mention the sight of his saggy skin and piss colored hair send you in paroxysms of rage?  Are you worried that 2024 will be 2016 all over again and that we will be dragged backwards into a fascist state run by morons and fools who do nothing but hate? You've come to the right place. Don't get mad, get DEFIANT. Welcome to the official podcast of Brooklyn Dad Defiant. With an army of 1.3 million strong, we've decided ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Its time to stand atop the shoulders of history and shout "STOP!" So join us. Join the DEFIANT PODCAST twice weekly. We're giving a road map to victory, a blueprint for sanity and a way forward out of the madness. LFG!

INTRODUCING THE DEFIANT PODCAST WITH  BROOKLYN DAD DEFIANT

Stormy discusses the hypocrisy of the American Justice system and how she can be the star witness for the prosecution of Donald J. Trump in NY DA Alvin Bragg’s “Hush Money Case,” but her own lawsuit against the former president can be thrown out of court. “They made a moral judgment,” she says. “Because I’m a porn star I don’t deserve the same protection under the law.” But Stormy refuses to give up. “I’m a pain in the ass,” she says. Later, Stormy welcomes Kris Goldsmith to the show. The founder of Task Force Butler, Goldsmith is an Iraq veteran who has dedicated his life to hunting NEO NAZIS and helping veterans escape the grasp of right-wing extremism.





Its end result, for Goldsmith, of a hard-lived life. Entering the Army as a teenager, he’d quickly risen to the rank of sergeant. But the horrors of the Iraq War left him with crippling, undiagnosed PTSD. A suicide attempt on the eve of being re-deployed in 2007 got Goldsmith booted from the service with a less-than-honorable discharge.





Stripped of his rank, community, and G.I. Bill benefits, Goldsmith entered a dark spiral, which included sinking down rabbit holes of online extremism. With his one remaining lifeline — healthcare through the V.A. — Goldsmith clawed his way back to the surface. He became a veterans advocate, earned a degree from Columbia, and (four appeals later) finally got an upgrade to an honorable discharge. Along the way, helped secure congressional reforms in 2017 that enabled thousands of other vets to get medical help and challenge their own “bad paper.”





During the Trump years, Goldsmith worked as chief investigator for Vietnam Veterans of America where he exposed a sophisticated Russian op that targeted U.S. veterans on Facebook to sow racial and political division. For Goldsmith, that open-source intelligence expertise soon gave him a leg up in exposing domestic threats, including fascist groups targeting American youth like Patriot Front.





In the aftermath of the insurrection of Jan. 6, Goldsmith saw a need to give patriotic veterans a positive mission — uncovering extremists and insurrectionists in our midst. Task Force Butler’s work centers on exposing the inner workings and public wrongdoing of neo-nazi groups through deep-dive intelligence reports that can give prosecutors the evidence they need to go after the hatemongers in court.  The work takes a toll. Goldsmith has been sued, and doxxed by white supremacists. But he refuses to give up.

Breaking!!! How Trump’s Big Lie Became the Big Grift + A Conversation with Hugo Lowell

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