How Young Men are Recruited into Fascism – And How to Stop It With Craig Johnson

Sam discusses how the Trump regime is taking the attacks on the rule of a law to a whole new level and the alarming leaps towards fascist consolidation from this past week, emphasizing the urgent need for mass resistance to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism. Then she interviews Craig Johnson, author of How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism and host of the 15 Minutes of Fascism Podcast. Follow Craig @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social.

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Mahmoud Khalil Must Be Freed – Trump Must Go

Sam and Coco talk about the ominous significance of the kidnapping, ICE detention and plans for deportation of Columbia graduate and activist Mahmoud Khalil (not to mention, green card holder married to a US citizen) and the need to quickly and dramatically step up resistance to the whole Trump MAGA fascist program.

“NOW IS THE TIME WHEN WE MUST RISE UP AND ACT TO STOP THE CONSOLIDATION OF TRUMP MAGA FASCISM. For the lives of people here and around the world we must refuse unlawful and inhumane orders… we must fill the streets and town squares in rising numbers — not stopping until we become millions — not relenting until this regime is no longer able to implement its program.”

– from A Call to Conscience… A Call to Act from Refuse Fascism

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Decorum Vs. Determined Resistance with A.R. Moxon

Sam recaps this past week including Trump’s fascist address to Congress, the regime’s progress towards their goals and the protests demanding Trump, Musk and the fascist regime’s removal around the country.

Then, she talks to author and essayist A.R. Moxon (author of Very Fine People and The Revisionaries). Follow his work at www.armoxon.com and subscribe to his newsletter at the-reframe.com.

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Stop The War On Women and LGBTQ People

Episode 239
Mark recaps the latest from the fascist shitstorm… then we share highlights from the live forum this week featuring Sunsara Taylor, Debra Sweet and your questions leading into this week of protests. Watch Sunsara Taylor on The RNL – Revolution Nothing Less – Show every week on Youtube.

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To All who care about
justice, humanity, and the future:
As Many and As One, We Demand:
Mahmoud Khalil Must Be FREED NOW!

The arrest, jailing, and threatened deportation of Columbia University graduate, Mahmoud Khalil, for lawful speech and lawful action in support of his beliefs, Must Not Stand. Ordered and celebrated by TRUMP and his Secretary of State, this was nothing less than a Gestapo coming in the dark of night to steal away a political opponent. More arrests have followed.

Khalil’s arrest is a turning point. It is a leap towards the consolidation of a different kind of country – a fascist America. When the rule of law becomes moot – when what is permissible to speak or do is at the say so of Trump and his minions – that must be the wake-up call for us act as one. When the business of the government is bulldozing the rule of law and cementing a fascist order, there must be no business as usual.

When tens of millions of immigrants and refugees face demonization, arrest in the dark of night, detention in horrid conditions, deportation with families torn apart – that is a moment when the humanity, the morality, of everyone is put the test. To stand aside because you are not immediately affected is to lose your humanity and to pave the way for greater horrors. That is the lesson of Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.

When universities collaborate with fascist dictates – wiping programs, teaching, debate, and — yes protests — that go against the Trump MAGA fascist program of white supremacy, patriarchy, and xenophobia, then critical thought dies not just at colleges, but soon, all of society. That too is a lesson of Nazi Germany.
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This statement needs to be spread
to every corner of society

The Refuse Fascism statement, “A Call to Conscience…A Call to Act” is a powerful tool to get millions of people in this country urgently oriented and acting to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism before it can consolidate its rule. This statement needs to be spread to every corner of society starting now.

Every week, the fascist Trump regime is making huge leaps in tearing up the rule of law and civil and democratic rights. With the criminally ominous arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, fascism has advanced to the stage of Gestapo-like kidnappings of activists. Now is the time to take very seriously the lessons of the poem from Martin Niemöller:

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for meREAD MORE