Ian Millhiser on Trump’s Trials + Paul Street on Jan 6 Anniversary
Click Here To Listen On YouTube. Paul Street, member of the RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board shares reflections on January 6, three years later. Read his reflections: On January 6 Three Years Later: The Trump Republi-Fascist Menace is Alive and Well. Subscribe to the Paul Street Report to read and hear more from Paul. Then, Sam talks with Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent […]
2023: The Year In Review
Click Here To Listen On YouTube. Click Here To Read The Transcript As we close out 2023 and head into 2024 many of us are feeling a sense of deja vu – but with higher stakes. Take a trip through the events of 2023 with an eye to the future with some guests from […]
Now is the time to sound the alarm & prepare for struggle.
Donate today to make that possible. Now is the time to sound the alarm & prepare for struggle. We are less than a year away from an election where a thoroughly fascist GOP is facing off against their biggest enablers, a Democratic party that fearmongers for votes but refuses to actually fight against fascism. We ask […]
Q&A With The Refuse Fascism Editorial Board
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. As we close out the year and look towards 2024, members of the RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board answer questions submitted by supporters of the pod. You can become one of those supporters at patreon.com/refusefascism. Follow Coco Das at @Coco_Das, Paul Street at paulstreet.substack.com and Sam at @SamBGoldman on Twitter or @samgoldmanrf on […]
The Evangelical Prophets Anointing Trump
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with scholar Matthew D. Taylor about House Speaker Mike Johnson and the significance and danger exemplified in Johnson’s ascent to power. Taylor documents Johnson’s links to leading voices in the Christian Charismatic movement (which were early adopters of the Trump cult, […]
Susan Neiman on Universalism Against Nationalism
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with Dr. Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum in Germany. Her latest book is Left Is Not Woke. Her first work of fiction, Nine Stories: A Berlin Novel, will be published in 2024. She has written two recent thought provoking essays for the The […]
Project 2025: Roadmap for Fascist Consolidation
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with Wendy Via, Co-Founder and President at The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, about their analysis of the publicly announced plan for “day one” of the next presidential administration (presumably headed by leading Republifascist candidate Donald Trump). Their report The Far-Right […]
Censored Classrooms & The Freedom to Read
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with Kasey Meehan, Freedom to Read Program Director at PEN America. Their new report America’s Censored Classrooms 2023 states, “Over the past three years, state legislators have launched an onslaught of educational gag orders—state legislative and policy efforts to restrict teaching about topics […]
The Nightmare That Is House Speaker Mike Johnson
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with writer Sarah Posner about Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House, third in line to the presidency and Christian Nationalist who spent around a decade as a lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom (sic), the organization behind the recent […]
Stop The Genocide in Gaza
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the transcript. Sam talks with Mark Tinkleman, co-producer of the podcast, about the genocide in Gaza and the dangerous unity between imperialist “democracy” and fascism, plus what’s happening in the House of Representatives and more. Views expressed in this episode are the opinions of Sam […]