Day: January 6, 2026

Republicans Try to Bury the Truth on the Anniversary of January 6

We begin on this anniversary of the January 6 coup attempt by Donald Trump and look into how Trump has subjugated the legislative branch of craven Republican lawmakers, turning them into yapping lapdogs eager to please their master like Stalin’s lackeys spewed alternative realities while waging a war on truth. Joining us is Spencer Sunshine, who holds a PhD in Sociology and has written extensively on the U.S. Far Right exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy. He has also written for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Daily Beast and The Forward and is the author of Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. We discuss his article at The New Republic, “The Far Right Is Quietly Building Power Under Trump.”

Trump Has Already Made Life More Miserable For Venezuela and There in More Misery to Come

Then, with Venezuela’s brutal Interior Minister cracking down on dissent, arresting journalists and unleashing the armed vigilante “collectivos”, we assess how Trump’s removal of Maduro has already made life more miserable for Venezuelans who will soon feel the pain of increased poverty from the U.S. naval blockade of the country’s oil exports. Joining us is Miguel Tinker Salas, a Professor and Chair of Latin American History and Chicana-Latina Studies at Pomona College. An authority on political and social issues confronting Latin America, he is the author of Venezuela, What Everyone Needs to Know, The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela and co-editor with Steve Ellner of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy.

Trump and Miller Espouse Imperialism as American Fascism is on the March

Then finally we speak with Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy and we discuss his article at The Guardian, “Today, Trump’s target was Caracas. What tomorrow?”