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Nothing says anti-Blackness like starting Black History month with the College Board bowing to the Governor of white supremacy Ron DeSantis and removing anything of merit including Black feminism, Black queer voices, Black Lives Matter etc from the curriculum. Adding insult to injury--while DeSantis's state recovers from yet another mass shooting the Florida GOP is offering up legislation that would let everyone of legal age conceal and carry without any training all while taking the real threat off the streets--books. On this episode of #democracyish, Waj and Danielle go OFF on American fascism and ask an important question: what is the Biden administration going to do about it?!?Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Kevin Kruse, author of the new book Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past, joins #democracyish to discuss how Florida's quest to rewrite and re-white history is nothing new--white supremacists have been doing it longer than we think and before the advent of "The Southern Strategy". Danielle and Wajahat delve into a number of America's myths and more on this episode of democracyish Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Senior Producer: Quinton Hill Distributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Taylor Lorenz, internet and technology reporter and author of the upcoming book,Extremely Online, had the audacity to investigate the right-wing's media terror machine and her life and livelihood have been threatened ever since. Mainstream media continues to cower to online white nationalist terrorism leaving those seeking to do real journalism left to fend for themselves or quit the profession altogether. We dive deep on this episode about what each of us can do in our own corners of the universe to fight back. Waj and Danielle discuss this and so much more on this episode of #democracy-ish Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat AliExecutive Producer: Adell ColemanSenior Producer: Quinton HillDistributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 What happens when you don't hold insurrectionists accountable for their crimes against democracy? They run for office and win. What happens when you don't convict white collar criminals that defraud millions? They head to their new grift which is always bigger and badder than the last one. There is a pattern in America of protecting the worst among us so long as they have the complexion for the protection and the coins to match. On this episode of#democracyish Waj and Danielle have a lot to get off their chests. Buckle up friends we're in for a bumpy 2023! Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat AliExecutive Producer: Adell ColemanSenior Producer: Quinton HillDistributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy New Year! It's 2023 and the MAGA monster has been unleashed and is now eating its own. What can you expect when you invite a monster to dinner? For 7+ years Republicans have entertained the far right fringe and now they have been mainstreamed and are running the show--into the ground. Danielle and Wajahat discuss what's in store for our democracy as Republicans run amok. Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat AliExecutive Producer: Adell ColemanSenior Producer: Quinton HillDistributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a hell of a year--and it's hard to wrap our minds around all that's transpired but Danielle and Wajahat are giving it a try. From Covid to midterms to Harry and Meghan to Disney's Andor we unpack the roses and thorns of 2022! See y'all in 2023. Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat AliExecutive Producer: Adell ColemanSenior Producer: Quinton HillDistributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Whatever we don't understand we fear. That has been the norm in this country and around the globe. This idea that somehow people who don't look like us, love like us, or identify the way we do are to be feared or worse contained. The latest group to be targeted are transgender Americans. People who want nothing but the dignity, protection and respect that we all want--yet their desires are put up for debate and entire campaigns and policies are created to keep them othered. In this episode of #democracyish Danielle and Wajahat chat with writer and trans advocate Parker Molloy about we the media gets wrong about the trans communityHosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat AliExecutive Producer: Adell ColemanSenior Producer: Quinton HillDistributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Negin Farsad, host of Fake the Nation and author of "How to Make White People Laugh" joins Danielle and Wajahat to discuss whether or not we can create the multiracial coalition to save democracy without winning over some white women. We also discuss what Negin thinks as an Iranian America and what we can learn from the current women led uprising in Iran for freedom. This and more on the next episode of democracy-ishHosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat AliExecutive Producer: Adell ColemanSenior Producer: Quinton HillDistributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Rothkopf, author of the book: American Resistance: Inside the Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation, joins #democracy-ish to highlight who the real heroes of the Trump Administration were and why we should all be continuing to fight and hang on to hope as American democracy continues to be tested. Wajahat and Danielle dig into this and more on this episode of democracy-ishHosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat AliExecutive Producer: Adell ColemanSenior Producer: Quinton HillDistributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NYTimes Magazine and National Geographic writer, Robert Draper, pens an awesomely terrifying new book: Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind. Danielle and Waj chat with Robert about what key moments were missed that signaled the end of the Republican Party as we know it and the rise of MAGAdom. Draper's hard hitting analysis leaves us wondering what the future of politics looks like if the delusion isn't stopped and soon. There is so much much to unpack on this episode of #democracyishHosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat AliExecutive Producer: Adell ColemanSenior Producer: Quinton HillDistributor: DCP EntertainmentSupport the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/democracy-ishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.