Episode 274
Fascism is no longer aspirational — it’s operational. What 2025 revealed, and what 2026 demands. Featuring voices from the past year:
Thomas Zimmer (237)Thomas Zimmer, historian and writer: “Democracy Americana” (ep 237)
Sunsara Taylor, co-initiator of Refuse Fascism, writer at Revcom.us (ep 269)
David Smith, Washington DC Bureau Chief for The Guardian (ep 243)
Judith Levine, of Today In Fascism (ep 252)
Mary Anne Franks, George Washington University Professor of Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law (ep 266)
Moustafa Bayoumi, author, journalist and educator, author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America (ep 260)
Nicholas Grossman, Senior Editor of Arc Digital. Poli sci prof at U. Illinois. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” (ep 272)
Michele Goodwin, Georgetown Law professor and host of “On The Issues” (ep 256)
John Donoghue, Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago (ep 271)
A.R. Moxon, The Reframe newsletter, author of The Revisionaries and Very Fine People (ep 240)
Sasha Abramsky, freelance journalist, author of Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America (ep 259)
Channyn Lynne Parker, CEO of Brave Space Alliance, the pioneering Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ center on Chicago’s South Side (ep 253)
Emily Van Duyne, associate professor at Stockton University, a 2022 Fulbright Scholar, Loving Sylvia Plath on Substack (ep 246)
Baltazar Enriquez, President of the Little Village Community Council (ep 269)
Michael Fanone, former MPD officer, Host of The Michael Fanone Show / Author of NYT Bestseller “Hold The Line – The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul” (ep 269)
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Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown