They Resisted ICE. Now They Face Years in Prison.
Listen on YouTube In the early months of 2026, thousands of people around Minnesota gathered together to protect their neighbors from ICE’s campaign of terror. Months later, the Trump administration indicted 15 of those people on federal charges for their involvement in rapid response, mutual aid, and protest. Sam talks to Isaac Sant, one of […]
Theocrats, Tech Lords, and the Quest for Absolute Power
Watch on YouTube Sam talks to Dr. Bradley Onishi about his new book, American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy. “Bradley Onishi has issued an alarming and urgent warning for the future of democracy. American Caesar reveals how a movement of white Christian nationalists, Silicon Valley plutocrats, postliberal philosophers, and reactionary monarchist […]
The Rolling Coup to Lock Fascism Into Place: How Do We Stop It?
Relying on the midterms to stop fascism? They’re already moving to steal them. Watch on YouTube Leaders of Refuse Fascism break down the many-sided rolling coup already underway—from voter suppression and election subversion to the weaponization of federal power—and confront the urgent question: What will it take to stop it? The Trump fascist regime is moving […]
Two Views of Trump/MAGA Fascism. Two Very Different Paths Forward.
Listen on YouTube Sam and Mark discuss the Trump regime’s escalating fascist project—from moves to subvert the elections and ICE withholding detainees’ locations to the normalization of Trump on the world stage. Mark provides commentary on two drastically different ways of understanding Trump and MAGA, why telling the truth about the fascist nature of what […]
Fascism, Faith and the Cost of Silence with Father David Gierlach
Listen on YouTube Sam talks with Father David Gierlach about white Christian nationalism, Trump MAGA fascism and what it means to recognize fascism as a moral reality demanding action. How can moral outrage become organized resistance? What does this moment demand of people of conscience—religious or not? And what would it mean to act on […]
From Alarm to Action: Confronting Fascist Consolidation
Listen on YouTube Episode 304 The warnings are becoming more extraordinary, while the response remains remarkably ordinary. As the Trump Regime makes increasingly overt moves around the midterms, Sam talks with historian, author and Refuse Fascism leader Paul Street about where we are now: how far fascist consolidation has advanced, how extraordinary acts become normalized […]
Stealing Elections, American Style
Listen on YouTube Episode 301 Sam talks with David F. Walbert, renowned constitutional lawyer and author of the book, Stealing Elections, American Style, coming out this September. Walbert writes, “Applying Trump’s playbook from 2020 leads to a grim path in November. ” Pre-order the book here. Follow his work at davidfwalbert.com. Mentioned in this episode: I’ve spent decades fighting […]
American Peril with Scott Kurashige
Listen on YouTube Episode 300 Sam talks to scholar and activist Dr. Scott Kurashige, author of the new book American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism. “This is a must-read book to understand the multifaceted history of anti-Asian violence not only as individual attacks but through the context of war, militarism, imperialism, capitalist exploitation, and […]
From Prairieland to All of Us
Listen on YouTube Episode 299 Sam talks to investigative journalist Will Potter about the Prairieland case and the alarming new repressive turn this represents for everyone. Follow his work at willpotter.com and on Instagram, and read his latest book Little Red Barns: Hiding the truth, from farm to fable. Recommended Reading: Statement from RefuseFascism.org From Prairieland to All of Us: […]
What Time Is It? Fascism and the 2026 Elections
Listen on YouTube Episode 298 Those who insist that lobbying and the midterms will stop Trump fascism are asking people to place their hopes in a future the regime is actively working to foreclose. They are not preparing people to stop fascism—they are preparing them to live with it. Sam and Mark break down why […]