Jason Van Tatenhove is former national media director of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers. Mr. Tatenhove testified about the escalating dangers of right-wing radicalization and neofascism before the House Jan. 6 Committee.
His new book is The Perils of Extremism: How I Left the Oath Keepers and Why We Should be Concerned about a Future Civil War.
In this wide-ranging conversation Jason reflects on his life decisions and mistakes and how he found himself radicalized by the Oath Keepers. He also explains why the Republican-fascists and the larger right-wing media propaganda machine is so effective, and how economic precarity and loneliness are powerful forces that suck too many white people into right-wing paramilitary and other fascist organizations.
Chauncey DeVega continues to tell some helpful stories about how you and we can all be heroes in our own neighborhoods and larger communities.
Chauncey also explains how America is sick with negrophobia as seen, again, by how another innocent young Black person was almost killed by an older white man (this time in Kansas City) who was high on Fox News and other right-wing hate poison.
And in a special bonus segment of the show, Chauncey DeVega updates all the good members of the podcast family as to his whereabouts these last few weeks and how he had an Iron Chef inspired accident in the kitchen that sent him to the hospital emergency room.
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Ep. 293: The Rhetorical Genius of the Demagogue Donald Trump
Ep. 292: Is It Ever Appropriate For White People to Wear "Blackface?"
Ep. 291: Cornel West Explains How George Floyd is a Martyr and The Struggle Ahead Will be Long and Perilous
Ep. 290: Rev. William Barber II Reflects on the Police Murder of George Floyd and America's Moral Reckoning in the Age of Trump
Ep 289: The Truth Report -- Greg Palast Warns That The Georgia Democratic Primary Was a Preview of How Donald Trump Will Steal The 2020 Presidential Election
Ep. 288: "Implicit Bias" Didn't Murder George Floyd, "Old Fashioned Racism" Did
Ep. 287: The Truth Report -- Fintan O'Toole Explains How the United States in the Age of Trump's Pandemic is a Pathetic and Pitiable Nation
Ep. 286: The Pandemic is the First of Many Disasters That Will Change the World As We Know It
Ep. 285: From Donald Trump's Fake Pandemic "Protests" to a Second American Civil War
Ep. 284: Ben Fountain Reflects on the Surreal Reality That is Life in the Age of Trump's Pandemic
Ep. 283: Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan Members Have Surrendered Their Robes and Hoods to Daryl Davis
Ep. 282: Don Winslow Explains How Donald Trump is Everything Wrong with American Masculinity
Ep. 281: Tim Wise Explains How White Privilege is Making the Coronavirus Plague Much Worse
Ep. 280: The Truth Report -- Navigating the Coronavirus Pandemic and Then Making a Better America and World
Ep. 279: How Donald Trump and the Other Plutocrats Will Use the Coronavirus to Make Life Even Worse for Working Class and Poor Americans
Ep. 278: The Coronavirus and Social Inequality in America
Ep. 277: Rachel Bitecofer Explains Why Bernie Sanders Has a Better Chance Than Joe Biden of Beating Donald Trump
Ep. 276: Greg Palast Explains How Donald Trump and His Republican Party Will Steal the 2020 Presidential Election at the Ballot Box
Ep. 275: The Truth Report -- "Star Trek's" Walter Koenig Reflects on Humanity's Future, Hope, and Despair in the Age of Trump
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