He’s Not Wrong

Chad DuBois

Hosted by Chad DuBois, He’s Not Wrong is about power, accountability, and the systems shaping everyday life. Each week we break down what happened, who made it happen, and what it means for you, alongside candidates, organizers, and experts who help make sense of the moment. Just remember rule number one: he’s not wrong.

  1. 1H AGO

    Maggie Gehlsen-Burnett: What It's Actually Like to Be Pregnant in Trump's America

    Maggie Gelson Burnett's Instagram bio says pregnant in Trump's America, and this episode is about what that actually means. She is 26 weeks along, she is having a girl, and she has been watching this country come apart in real time while her body builds a human being inside of it.  We start in Alabama, where the fight over the Public Service Commission just took a serious hit. The people killed the first bill, Alabama Power came back with a different one, passed it through both chambers, and handed agenda-setting power to an unelected energy secretary appointed by the governor. Four of the seven commission seats will be appointed, not elected, through 2031, which means the three people Alabamians elect in November will be outvoted by people the governor put there. The lesson Alabama Power keeps teaching is that they do not stop — they just get more creative. From there the conversation moves to what is happening at the federal level, because the same logic is running through all of it. Trump uses primetime addresses not to inform the public but to tell his base how to feel, the women in his administration are being pushed out first, and the federal government is spending eleven thousand dollars a second on an illegal war while standing at a podium saying it cannot afford daycare. Delivery drivers are cutting time with their kids because gas is four dollars a gallon, Uber drivers have no idea what their passengers paid, and the student loan emails that went out sent people into full-blown panic attacks. The SAVE Act, the voter roll purges in Georgia, TSA showing up at airports, and the executive order on mail-in ballots can each be explained away individually, but together they are a strategy, and it is not subtle once you see it. Maggie brings all of it back to what it actually feels like to be pregnant right now, to be carrying a daughter inside a country that is actively debating whether women should be allowed to vote, and to have made the deliberate choice to bring a child into this moment anyway. This episode covers: Why Trump's primetime speeches are about feeling, not information The Alabama Public Service Commission and Alabama Power  The Illegal war in Iran and how much it is costing the American tax-payer The SAVE Act, voter roll purges, and ICE in airports What it actually means to be pregnant and progressive in Trump's America Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Maggie on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/itsmaggieburnett/ Maggie on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itsmaggieburnett Maggie on Substack: https://substack.com/@itsmaggieburnett Pretty Furious: https://prettyfuriouspod.substack.com/ Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

    1h 15m

  2. 6D AGO

    Gloria J. Browne-Marshall: The Slave Bible, Book Bans, and the Long History of Controlling What Americans Know

    What if everything you were taught about American history was edited, the same way the Slave Bible was edited? In 1807, enslavers produced a version of scripture with every passage about liberation, equality, and resistance removed. Of the original 1,189 chapters, only 232 remained. Today, books are being pulled from school libraries and state legislatures are passing laws to restrict what history students are allowed to learn. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall wants you to understand that these are not separate phenomena. Browne-Marshall is a constitutional law professor at John Jay College and the author of A Protest History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2025), a sweeping 500-year account of American resistance, from Chief Powhatan's warnings to the English at Jamestown in 1607, to Standing Rock in 2016, to the Amazon Labor Union in 2022. She is also the great-great-granddaughter of Eliza Broadnax Bradshaw, an enslaved woman in Kentucky who threw a pot of boiling water at the man who beat her. They never touched her again. That story opens the book. This conversation builds on it. In this episode, we get into the distinction Browne-Marshall draws between America and the United States, the idealistic promise versus the coercive machinery that has always worked to suppress anyone who tries to collect on it. We talk about Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, when poor White farmers and enslaved Black people fought together against the colonial elite, and what the wealthy did immediately afterward to make sure that alliance never formed again. We talk about the legal architecture of land theft, the agency of enslaved people that mainstream history has systematically erased, and the trifecta - litigation, legislation, and protest, that Browne-Marshall argues is the only combination that has ever produced durable change. Gloria states that this is not a history book orlesson. It is a toolkit. A Protest History of the United States by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is available now from Beacon Press. As Audre Lorde said: your silence will not protect you. This book is the evidence. This episode covers: Why protest is not anti-American, it is America fighting its other half The 1676 moment that invented divide-and-conquer politics in America What Standing Rock actually accomplished, even though the pipeline was built How the Slave Bible connects directly to book bans happening right now The strategic framework Browne-Marshall calls the trifecta, and where it's working today Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

    1h 5m

  3. MAR 22

    Commissioner Peter Hubbard: How the Georgia Democrats Flipped Two Public Service Commission Seats

    In November 2025, Georgia did something it hadn't done in 25 years. Democrats flipped two seats on the Public Service Commission, ending a quarter-century Republican stranglehold on the body that sets your power bill. One of the people who made that happen is Peter Hubbard, a clean energy engineer who spent six years going before the Georgia PSC without pay, making the case that the math didn't add up and consumers were getting squeezed. And eventually he decided that wasn't enough, so he ran for the seat himself and beat a sitting Republican incumbent by 20 points. That matters to Alabama for one very specific reason. Georgia Power and Alabama Power are both subsidiaries of Southern Company. That means they share the same parent company, answer to the same shareholders, and when it comes to fighting off accountability, they run the same playbook. The same tactics you've seen used here, the same arguments about reliability, the same instinct to restructure the game when the pressure gets too hot. Georgia just lived through all of it. And despite it all, the people of Georgia STILL won. Meanwhile, Alabama Power hasn't had to justify its rates in a public hearing since 1982. Our customers pay the some of the highest electric bills in the entire country. And when advocates started making enough noise that real reform looked possible, the response wasn't transparency. It was two consecutive bills designed to give the governor more control over the commission and keep Alabama Power's books firmly closed. In this episode, Commissioner Hubbard breaks down exactly how Georgia flipped those seats, what Southern Company did to fight back, and what a real blueprint for change looks like in a state where the utility has been running the show for decades. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

    53 min

  4. MAR 15

    Connor Sanburn: How to Show Up Intentionally and Build Community That Matters

    This week we are keeping it in the friend family and I could not be more excited. My best friend Connor Sanburn is joining us for a conversation that felt long overdue. I needed a tiny mini break from political talk, so we are shifting gears to something I think is just as important, if not more: the power of building community. Real, local, show-up-for-your-neighbors kind of community. Connor has been doing exactly that in Birmingham for years. He's one of those people who actually walks the walk, and that's exactly why I couldn't think of a better person to sit down with and dig into this topic. We get into why community matters so much right now, what gets in the way of it, and most importantly, practical ways you can start building it right where you live. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Follow Connor:  https://www.tiktok.com/@connorsanburn https://www.instagram.com/connorsanburn/ Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

    1h 1m

  5. MAR 10

    Koch Head: Truth Under Siege

    Fresh Epstein files naming Trump. A U.S. war with Iran that nobody voted for. TikTok blocking the word “Epstein.” Kristi Noem fired. A lot happened and a lot was buried. This week I'm joined by Michael "Koch Head" and we break down what the timing of the Iran war might tell us about the Epstein cover-up, and who’s really pulling the strings at a newly Trump-aligned TikTok. We also get into the implosion of Kristi Noem’s DHS tenure, and what it means that her replacement is a former MMA fighter who calls war a “misspoke.” The key takeaway from this episode is that the information is out there. You just have to know where they don’t want you to look. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Follow Koch Head:  https://www.tiktok.com/@kochead https://www.instagram.com/kocheadig/ Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

    1h 5m

  6. MAR 1

    Amanda Green: Government Moves Fast When It Feels Threatened

    This week on He’s Not Wrong, I sit down with Amanda Marie Green, a North Florida congressional candidate (district 2) whose life’s work at USAID was dismantled under the Trump administration. Before she ever decided to run for office, Amanda spent a decade working inside the system, negotiating government contracts, protecting taxpayer dollars, supporting HIV/AIDS and malaria programs, building famine monitoring systems, and helping deliver cybersecurity support to Ukraine after the Russian invasion. She saw firsthand how the government is supposed to function and what happens when it’s intentionally torn apart. We talk about what USAID actually does, the misconceptions MAGA has weaponized, and what it was like to watch her work, and critical global programs, cut in the name of “efficiency.” We also dig into what those cuts mean here at home, especially in a district where nearly a quarter of residents rely on SNAP benefits, and how national security, public health, and economic stability are all connected. Amanda lays out a solution-driven vision for North Florida and she is focused on protecting reproductive freedom, safeguarding democracy, investing responsibly, and delivering real results for working families in a young, fast-growing district. After talking to so many candidates this year, one thing is clear: people don’t want chaos, they want solutions. And Amanda is running to provide just that. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Support Amanda's Congressional Campaign: https://www.amgforcongress.com/ Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

    55 min

  7. FEB 28

    Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs: Rebuilding a Government That Forgot Its People

    This week on He’s Not Wrong, I’m joined by Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs, Army veteran, former Tank Commander, foster parent, and candidate for Congress in Virginia’s First District. We talk about why people-powered campaigns matter in a moment when so many Americans feel powerless, and why she is refusing corporate PAC money. Elizabeth shares what it meant to take an oath to the Constitution at 17 and why that oath isn’t partisan or situational. We discuss rebuilding trust in government, investing in childcare as economic policy, and what progressive leadership looks like in practice. We also get into the broader question of accountability in a system that often protects itself. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Support Elizabeth's Congressional Campaign: https://www.elizabethforvirginia.com/ Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

    1h 9m

  8. FEB 11

    Mazin Sidahmed: Building the Future of News From the Community Up

    In this episode, I’m joined by Mazin Sidahmed, co-executive director of Documented, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting with and for immigrant communities in New York City. Documented isn’t just covering immigration as a political issue. They’re producing original, responsive reporting and actionable resource guides in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Haitian Kreyòl to ensure critical information reaches people in the languages they actually speak. Their community-driven model means they don’t simply report on immigrant communities — they report with them. Whether it’s WeChat, Signal, Nextdoor, or Facebook, Documented meets people where they are, delivering news and resources that help immigrants not just stay informed, but thrive. Mazin brings a global and deeply experienced perspective to this work. He previously worked at The Guardian US during the 2016 election, covering surveillance, criminal justice, and the rise in hate crimes. He later joined the award-winning Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab, helping develop mobile-first storytelling formats. He began his career at The Daily Star in Beirut, reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis, weapons transfers to Lebanon, and migrant domestic workers. After moving to the U.S., he also contributed to Politico New York, covering real estate, public housing, and city politics. This conversation explores immigration, media trust, and the future of journalism and what it looks like when news is built to serve the people most impacted by the story. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and join me every Sunday morning - grab your coffee, and let’s talk. Support Documented NYC: https://documentedny.com/ Follow on YouTube, Instagram, & TikTok: @HesNotWrongPodcast Subscribe on Subtack: https://substack.com/@hesnotwrong Contact: chad@hesnotwrongpodcast.com www.HesNotWrongPodcast.Com

    51 min
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Hosted by Chad DuBois, He’s Not Wrong is about power, accountability, and the systems shaping everyday life. Each week we break down what happened, who made it happen, and what it means for you, alongside candidates, organizers, and experts who help make sense of the moment. Just remember rule number one: he’s not wrong.

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  • Creator
    Chad DuBois
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    59
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    Explicit
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