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.
WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME?
On Twitter:
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My email:
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HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW?
Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com
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Ep. 135: Scott Snyder Shares His Thoughts on Writing Batman, Politics, and "Diversity" in Comic Books
Ep. 134: Timothy Snyder Explains How to Fight Back Against Donald Trump
Ep. 133: Henry Giroux Explains How the Culture of Cruelty Helped to Elect Donald Trump
Ep. 132: Sheldon Solomon Explains How Death Anxieties and Existential Angst Helped to Elect Donald Trump
Ep. 131: Philip Zimbardo Explains What the Stanford Prison Experiment Can Tell Us About America and Donald Trump Today
Ep. 130: Peter Bebergal Explains How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll/Jared Yates Sexton Previews Wrestlemania 33
Ep. 129: Jane Elliott Explains the Blue-Eyed/Brown-Eyed Teaching Exercise, Racism, and the Rise of Donald Trump
Ep. 128: Andrew Gelman Clarifies Some Misconceptions About the 2016 Election, Mama DeVega Returns, and Jane Elliott Chimes In
Ep. 127: Malcolm Nance Explains How Russia Hacked the 2016 Election and Manipulated the Traitor Donald Trump
Ep. 126: Colin Dickey Discusses Ghosts, Trauma and American Cultural Memory
Ep. 125: Cornel Belcher Explains Trump's Victory and the Racist Backlash Against Barack Obama
Ep. 124: John Kinder on World War One, Disabled Veterans, and Technological Fetishism
Ep. 123: Monkey Madness with Anthropologist Agustin Fuentes
Ep. 122: William Smith Explains Racial Battle Fatigue
Ep. 121: A Special Donald Trump Inauguration Day Episode
Ep. 120: Kelly Baker on "The Good White People" Problem
Ep. 119: Lester Spence on Neoliberalism and Black Politics
Ep. 118: A Special New Year's Eve 2017 Episode
Ep. 117: Ben Winters talks "Underground Airlines"
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