Jared Yates Sexton is the guest on this very special July 4 Independence Day episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report.

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 and Chauncey ponder why so many rank-and-file Americans as well as the country’s “elites” are in denial about the ongoing and worsening crises that may be the end of the country as they know it.

They also highlight how America is beset by a culture of death and destruction and apocalypse as shown by gangster capitalism, Christian fascism and End Times fantasies, and the Trump-led Republican Party and fascist movement which tried to nullify democracy on Jan 6 – and are continuing to do so.

Jared and Chauncey DeVega reflect on how they have navigated the emotionally challenging task(s) of documenting the ongoing and escalating disaster that is the Age of Trump and ascendant fascism and an American democracy that is on life support.

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There are two guests on this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.

Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi is the author (with Joshua Horwitz) of the new book A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars. He is also a professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, and a frequent contributor to the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Hakeem has given multiple TED talks and is regularly invited to speak at science forums all around the world. 

Hakeem reflects on how he managed to go from being an at-risk youth and self-described gangster nerd to one of the leading astrophysicists in the world. He shares the choices, luck, highs and lows, and random good fortune that pushed him along on that journey.

Hakeem also offers wisdom and advice about navigating the color line as a black scientist, the importance of mentors, and his relationship with the late Chadwick Bowsman. And of course, he does some teaching on the likelihood of UFOs visiting the planet Earth, dark matter, and the multiverse.

Jason Colavito is a professional skeptic and author. His investigations have appeared on the American Heroes Channel and the History Channel. Colavito’s essays and commentary have also been featured by The New Republic and other leading publications. His forthcoming book is The Legends of the Pyramids. 

Jason returns to the podcast to offer his thoughts on the Pentagon’s newly released UFO/UAP report and what it does and does not reveal about “extraterrestrials” and other “exotic” and “unknown” “aircraft” and their supposed encounters with the United States military.

Chauncey DeVega continues to warn that Donald Trump and his regime did in fact attempt a military coup.

And Chauncey also highlights one of the funniest and most dark and revealing new episodes in the white right’s anti-black and anti-brown “critical race theory” moral panic – Christian fascist Pat Robertson channeling his Django Unchained nightmare about black people taking up the “whip handle” against white people.

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW

• Pat Robertson calls critical race theory an ‘evil’ urging Black people to take ‘whip handle’ against whites
• Top US general rejected Trump suggestions military should 'crack skulls' during protests last year, new book claims
• Inside William Barr’s Breakup With Trump
• OAN host suggests ‘traitors’ who ‘stole’ election should be executed
• How close did Trump come to attempting a military coup? Much too close
• What would America be like if Trump's coup had succeeded? Suppressing SNL is only the start

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Jason Colavito is a professional skeptic and author. His investigations have appeared on the American Heroes Channel and the History Channel. Colavito’s essays and commentary have also been featured by The New Republic and other leading publications. His forthcoming book is The Legends of the Pyramids. 

Jason Colavito explains why today’s America is so sick with conspiracy theories and other anti-truth beliefs. He also outlines how right-wing extremists are using the public’s interest in ancient aliens, UFOs, and other conspiracy theories to recruit new members (especially insecure white men) online.

Colavito also details how the various elements of right-wing conspiracy culture such as QAnon, the UFO community, and other subcultures came together in the January 6 coup attempt and attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump’s followers.

And Colavito shares what he believes the much-anticipated report by the Pentagon on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” will actually reveal – hint: these “aircraft” are not “extraterrestrials”.  

Chauncey DeVega continues to ponder why so many people are “shocked” by the new “revelations” about the true scale of Trump’s coup attempt and how perilously close American democracy really was to being overthrown on January 6.

And Chauncey shares what will likely be some unpopular opinions about the new films “In the Heights” and “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard”.

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW

• "Stop the Steal" means "Start the Coup": Experts on Trump's Jan. 6 coup plot and the power of denial
• In the fight for democracy, Democrats are being outmaneuvered — and time is against them
• 'Pure insanity': How Trump and his allies pressured the Justice Department to help overturn the election
• 'Neoliberal proto-fascism': Noam Chomsky explains how Trumpism has made the GOP a 'white supremacist' cult
• Is Mass. Lobster Diver's Whale Story a Fish Tale? Some on Cape Are Skeptical

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Chris Matthews is the former host of "Hardball" on MSNBC.

His new book is This Country: My Life in Politics and History.

Chris Matthews shares his worries and concerns about American democracy under existential threat from Trumpism and the Jim Crow Republican Party.  

He also reflects on life lessons, opportunities, the kindness of mentors and strangers, and his long love affair with journalism and politics.

And Matthews explains what it means to be a real patriot during a time of great crisis in the United States – and why he is optimistic that the American people will ultimately defeat Trumpism and correct the perilous course the country is currently on.

Chauncey DeVega reflects on all these recent powerful coincidences of dates and anniversaries including Memorial Day, D-Day, Tulsa, the Trump coup attempt, and the murder of George Floyd. To that end, Chauncey complicates questions of memory, race, class, forgetting, and the Tulsa massacre.

And Chauncey returns to the movies and shares his reviews of New Order, Cruella, A Quiet Place 2, Dream Horse, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW

• Robin D.G. Kelley: The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”
• The Capitol Rioters Won
• Can Biden’s conciliatory side survive the GOP’s assault on democracy?
• Statement of Concern: The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards
• Guess what? The Trump coup against American democracy never stopped

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below:

https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-94-what-will-happen-when-the-united-states-and-china-finally-go-to-war

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 Ackerman explains how the United States and China could sleepwalk into a world war with one another and the disastrous outcomes of such a global battle.

He also reflects on the book’s relationship to Cold War techno thrillers such as Tom Clancy’s novels, the vulnerabilities of America’s high-tech superweapons such as the F-35 and F-22 fighter planes, and how the country’s 9/11 forever wars in the Middle East and elsewhere have left the U.S. military underprepared to fight a peer competitor such as China.

And Ackerman warns the American people that unlike the conflicts abroad in the aftermath of 9/11 that a war with China may change life as they know it forever.

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Nicole Perlroth is an award-winning cybersecurity journalist for The New York Times.

She is the author of the new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race.

Perlroth explains the existential threat that cyberwarfare and such digital weapons as computer viruses and “zero-day exploits” represent to an internet-connected society.

She also warns that individual hackers and organizations working for countries, corporations, terrorist groups, and other organizations can easily disrupt American and other societies by extorting and otherwise interfering with banks, hospitals, municipalities, and essential infrastructure such as telephones, gas, heat, electrical power plants, and the water supply.

And Perlroth shares her personal insights and experiences navigating the secretive world of hackers and cybersecurity.

Chauncey DeVega continues to warn that Rep. Liz Cheney is no ally or friend to the Democrats, liberals, progressives or other pro-democracy patriots. In reality, she represents the very right-wing forces that helped to birth American neofascism and Trumpism.

And Chauncey also reflects upon his experience of falling ill after the 2nd Covid vaccine shot and then suddenly feeling better and experiencing the joy of reliving his youth by watching Top Gun in the movie theater.

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW

• Liz Cheney is an enemy of democracy — just as much as the Trumpers
• Why the Republicans' Big Lie works so well: A sociopathic party, and a damaged country
• How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment
• The Democrats’ Majority Is Hanging By a Thread. They Don’t Seem to Care
• Editorial: Turns out condors are party animals (and poopers). That’s worth celebrating

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Kristin Du Mez is the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.

Du Mez explains how right-wing extremists took over the Republican Party and why they view the evildoer Donald Trump as a type of savior and weapon to advance their Christian fascist war on secular democracy.

Du Mez also highlights the role of white right-wing Christian extremists in Trump’s coup attack and lethal assault on the Capitol – and the importance of the movie Braveheart in their imaginary.

And she explains how and why the anti-Semitic Q-Anon conspiracy movement has been able to so easily take over many white right-wing evangelical churches.

Chauncey DeVega shares his thoughts on "Champion" Joe Biden’s speech to Congress, the professional best black friend for the Republican Party Tim Scott, and why Stephen Miller continues to be one of the most dangerous people in America and the world.

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW

• The Trump Administration Is Over, but the Trump Crisis Is Not
• Joe Biden's National Address Raises the Question: How Many Times Can a Nation be Saved
• The GOP’s Black Friend Says America Is Not a Racist Country
• Right Wing Watch: Trump’s Dominionist Prayer Warriors and the ‘Prophetic Order of the United States’
• Ex-Trump aide Stephen Miller's legal group sues Biden administration, alleging racism against white farmers

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

***Given the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict for murdering George Floyd, this week we are revisiting a conversation which took place with Lt. Colonel (ret.) Dave Grossman that originally aired here on The Chauncey DeVega Show on April 28, 2016.

Grossman has been prominently featured in these recent discussions of how America’s police are trained to use lethal and other force.***

Former United States Army Ranger and Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Dave Grossman is one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of killing and combat. He is the author of several books including On Killing and On Combat.

Grossman usually travels approximately 300 days a year, where in seminars and workshops he shares his insights on "killology" with military special forces and elite law enforcement personal from around the world.

Lt. Colonel Grossman discusses mass shootings, America's culture of violence, if armed teachers help to prevent school violence, and what he believes is the root cause of bad behavior by America’s police and other law enforcement.

Chauncey DeVega reflects on the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict and what real justice would look like for George Floyd and other black and brown victims of police thuggery and brutality.

Chauncey also highlights how the Jim Crow Republican Party’s neofascist assault on multiracial democracy and freedom continues to escalate – this time by making it “legal” for their followers to use vehicles as weapons against Black Lives Matter, anti-fascists, and other pro-democracy forces.

And Chauncey DeVega shares his reviews of Mortal Kombat, Godzilla vs. Kong, Nobody, and other movies at the local cineplex.

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW

• Opinion: The system that convicted Chauvin usually doesn’t work
• I’m Actually Glad Nancy Pelosi Thanked George Floyd for “Sacrificing” Himself
• Is the Derek Chauvin verdict the start of change? Not likely, experts say
• You Cannot Divorce Murder From Policing
• The historic Chauvin verdict isn't "justice" — it's a broken system trying to save itself
• How is Marjorie Taylor Greene's failed "America First" caucus any different from the GOP?
• State-level Republicans are making it easier to run over protesters
• 2 GOP-led states are attempting to bar protesters convicted of crimes from receiving student loans and jobless aid

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. His new book is Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions.

Moss explains how the processed food industry has weaponized our hunger. He also highlights how the processed food industry is constantly developing new ways to use excess amounts of salt, sugar, fat, protein -- and now genetic engineering – to create food products that human beings will find irresistible.

Moss also shares what the processed food industry learned from the tobacco companies about developing food products that will keep them from being sued for manipulating the public. And Moss highlights how the history and present of the processed food industry is a lens into race, class, gender, and social inequality.

Chauncey DeVega reflects on the trial of wannabe terminator super cop Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd and the many ways that the evils of Jim and Jane Crow still poison American law, politics, and society. And Chauncey shares a story of how the CHUDS have been enraged at his truth-telling about the evils of the Trump regime and its cult.

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW

• US Republicans: Putin’s Party?
• Leaked video reveals a GOP plan to intimidate Black and brown voters in Houston
• 'Our calls have probably doubled.' Therapists describe twin toll of Daunte Wright and George Floyd
• Why should a cop's blue fear matter more than my Black life?
• Opinion: Now is the time for a Third Reconstruction — abolishing Jim Crow once and for all
• Some Alaska Costco shoppers say ravens steal their groceries

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. He is also the executive producer of the Netflix documentary series based on those two books.

His newest book is This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers.

Sharlet is also a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine as well as Harper’s. His writing has also been featured at such leading publications as Vanity Fair, GQ, Esquire, Mother Jones, and The New York Times.

Sharlet reflects on writing about and living through the Age of Trump and its fascism, death, plague, isolation, and other miseries for the American people.

He also shares what it was like to personally encounter some of the most powerful and dangerous people in the United States – the Christian fascists and others who are tying to do undo secular multiracial democracy.

Sharlet also highlights how the recent mass shooting hate crime against the Asian-American community in Atlanta embodies so much that is wrong with America’s culture of guns, violence, nativism, racism, sex, and right-wing Christian theocracy.

Chauncey offers some thoughts on America’s gun culture and the narcissistic injury that telling the truth about guns, white identity politics, and Whiteness causes too many white conservatives and others.  

And Chauncey also explains how the new Jim Crow anti-democracy “voting” bills being imposed by Republicans in Georgia and soon elsewhere are an assault on the fundamental human dignity of black and brown Americans.

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW

• Top 1% of earners don’t pay taxes on one-fifth of income, study finds
• The IRS Is Letting the Rich Get Away With Tax Evasion
• It's now illegal in Georgia to give food and water to voters in line
• Philosopher Jason Stanley: Fascism's definitely not beaten — but there's reason for hope
• Conservatives are mad at Michael Moore again — because he's right about gun culture
• All That We've Lost

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.