Garland Nixon

Garland Nixon is an American progressive radio and television host and political analyst in Washington, DC. He spent more than 20 years in law enforcement, retiring at the rank of major, then taught criminal justice for several years before moving into journalism full time. He hosts News Views with Garland Nixon on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington and a daily solo show on his own YouTube channel, where the guests include Laith Marouf, Andrei Martyanov and Joti Brar. From 2017 he co-hosted Fault Lines and later The Critical Hour, with Wilmer Leon, on Radio Sputnik, until the station's Washington programming was wound down in October 2024 under US sanctions. He was a regular Fox News panelist from 2010 to 2019, has appeared on NPR, and sat on the ACLU's national board of directors from 2014 to 2021.