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LIVE: Ex-DHS Official URGENT INTERVIEW on Trump Threat | The Weekend Show

2025-09-15 News & Politics
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Propaganda Warfare, Political Violence, and the Erosion of US Democracy

Learn how rising political violence and unchecked disinformation campaigns signal America's drift toward authoritarianism, according to disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz. Understand the alarming global parallels being drawn with Soviet and autocratic regimes.

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  • Analyze how the assassination of a political influencer accelerates disinformation cycles and dangerously raises the temperature of public rhetoric.
  • Recognize the systematic autocratic tactics currently deployed in the US, including censorship, media control, and demonization of civil society.
  • Identify key failures in civic literacy and institutional trust that allow Americans to ignore or downplay the erosion of democratic norms.

This discussion with Nina Jankowicz frames the current moment as a potential watershed against democratic collapse. The conversation moves from the immediate shock of political violence to the systemic issues surrounding information control, historical ignorance, and the global alignment of autocrats. Readers gain a framework for recognizing autocratic creep within domestic policy and foreign relations.

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Former DHS Disinformation head, Nina Jankowicz, joins Anthony Davis to discuss the propaganda warfare being used to undermine civil society as America falls deeper into authoritarian rule. The raised threat since Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the realignment of the U.S. towards our former adversaries - only on The Weekend Show. Support Our Sponsors: Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar per month trial at https://shopify.com/weekend SUPPORT THE SHOW! Subscribe to Five Minute News on Patreon for exclusive members only videos, live Q&A and more: http://www.patreon.com/fiveminutenews Visit Five Minute News online and subscribe at http://www.fiveminute.news Follow Five Minute News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/fiveminnews Follow Five Minute News on Instagram: http://instagram.com/fiveminnews Subscribe to Five Minute News on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/fiveminutenews Five Minute News with Anthony Davis is an Evergreen Podcast, covering politics, inequality, health and climate - delivering independent, unbiased and essential world news, daily. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane

Top Comments (10)

@kkwit4934 2025-09-15

We need a class action lawsuit against Fox News for hate speech. Shut them down

452 36 replies
@gwendolynhills5748 2025-09-15

Anthony why are they calling his murder a political assassination. He is not a politician.

240 18 replies
@pamelacostello8585 2025-09-15

RIP Melissa Hortman, husband and family dog❤

201 14 replies
@judytemplar6839 2025-09-15

Trump always speculates, lies, incites violence

184 6 replies
@karamsingh1236 2025-09-15

Oh please, we are in fascism. It´s not a both side problem

150 3 replies
@clownshavemorefun 2025-09-15

Didn't a guy say on fox today that homeless people should be euthanized? Proverbs 30:14. Fox does not line up with Christianity.

124 16 replies
@edwardmorris6511 2025-09-15

The supreme court is not for the united states of America

67 5 replies
@TonyStárks01 2025-09-15

It turns out he is a Groyper alt-right group run by Nick Fuentes. His family is conservative republicans who voted 3 times for Trump. He's definitely not a leftist.

61 3 replies
@joko09010 2025-09-15

Laura Ingraham’s brother once said that his sister doesn’t listen to understand, she listens to attack. I always thought that was a great observation.

45 1 replies
@TerryKoressel 2025-09-15

I am just an old woman in a sea of Americans trying to survive this avalanche of hate, stupidity, nonsense etc. I told my son a decade ago when Trump was elected that the American people will come to regret what they have done. Sadly, I have never wished to have been wrong about something more in my life. I now spend my time making sure that my grandchildren stay on the path to knowing truth and reality and that they use it as their code to live by.

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