DeRay Mckesson
Progressive left · civil-rights and police-reform activist· 821K followers · tracked by RisingPolitics
28.5Credibility Score (0–100) · ranked #148 of the creators we track
DeRay Mckesson ranks #148 by credibility versus #151 by raw follower count — they reach a more credible audience than their follower total alone would suggest.
Audience authenticity is still warming up — we’re accumulating samples, so this score may shift.
DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights organizer and activist who rose to prominence during the Black Lives Matter movement and through his work using data to track police violence. He is the creator and host of Pod Save the People, an American political podcast produced and distributed by Crooked Media, on which he explores culture, social justice, and politics.
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Is DeRay Mckesson left or right?
Mckesson sits on the progressive left as a civil-rights organizer who came to prominence in the Black Lives Matter protests of 2014-2016 and co-founded Campaign Zero, which uses data on police violence to push policy reform. He hosts Pod Save the People at Crooked Media, the liberal podcast network founded by former Obama aides, where the show centers news affecting people of color and social-justice organizing; it remains in active production as of 2025-2026. He is not a partisan operative so much as a movement activist: his focus is policing, protest rights, and racial justice rather than electoral punditry. He has also been the defendant in the long-running Doe v. Mckesson protest-liability case stemming from a 2016 Baton Rouge protest, which a federal district court resolved in his favor on First Amendment grounds after the Supreme Court declined the case in April 2024, though an appeals court revived aspects of the litigation in March 2026.
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DeRay Mckesson scores 28.5 out of 100 on the RisingPolitics Credibility Score, ranking #148 among the political creators we track. The score starts with audience size, subtracts accounts that look fake, and weighs how strongly the audience actually engages.
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DeRay Mckesson has about 821K followers combined across X.
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