Anne Nelson: Media, Money & the Secret Hub of the Radical Right

Click here to listen on Youtube Click here to read the Transcript Sam Goldman interviews Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right (get your paperback copy, updated after January 6th) and Research Scholar at Columbia University. Find more of her work at anne-nelson.com and follow her on Twitter at @anelsona. Her […]

Tony Wolf: Art and Pushing Back Against Fascism

Click here to listen on Youtube Click here to read the Transcript Sam Goldman interviews Tony Wolf, actor and artist (view his diverse resume at tonywolfactor.com) about fascism, culture, and cultivating a variety of forms of pushback against the fascists. His comic essay “Where is Evil?” can be seen at brokenfrontier.com where he writes, “I sought to […]

The Evidence of Rising Neo-Fascism

 Click here to listen on Youtube Click here to read the Transcript Coco Das interviews Dr. Anthony DiMaggio, author of the new book, Rising Fascism in America (order from Routledge here). Dr. DiMaggio is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University. His research emphasizes the interactions between politics, social movements, the news media, […]

Kathryn Joyce: The Ideology Behind a “Benevolent” US Theocracy

 Click here to listen on Youtube Click here to read the Transcript Refuse Fascism helped kick off Rise Up For Abortion Rights (riseup4abortionrights.org) yesterday in Washington, D.C. (Common Dreams coverage). Get involved in this initiative and help plan protests around the country starting immediately and growing into this spring – register for the Zoom […]

Kathryn Joyce: The Ideology Behind a “Benevolent” US Theocracy

 Click here to listen on Youtube Click here to read the Transcript Refuse Fascism helped kick off Rise Up For Abortion Rights (riseup4abortionrights.org) yesterday in Washington, D.C. (Common Dreams coverage). Get involved in this initiative and help plan protests around the country starting immediately and growing into this spring – register for the Zoom […]

Rise Up for Abortion Rights!

 Click here to listen on Youtube Click here to read the Transcript Mark interviews Sam Goldman about the new project aiming to mobilize and actually defeat the assault on abortion rights, riseup4abortionrights.org. Read and sign the new statement to Rise Up for Abortion Rights here. Share it on social media. Join us at noon […]

Samuel Perry: Christian Nationalist Violence Post January 6

Click here to listen on Youtube Click here to read the Transcript Sam Goldman talks to Samuel Perry, associate professor of sociology at the University of Oklahoma, about his research into the American Christian Nationalist movement. Follow him on Twitter at @socofthesacred. Read his two recent articles in Time magazine: January 6th May Have Been Only the […]

The GOP: Entrenching White Christian Domination

Click here to read the Transcript Coco Das (@Coco_Das) interviews historian Thomas Zimmer (@tzimmer_history) about “polarization” in American politics and the shared agenda of white Christian domination across a spectrum of right-wing political forces.At this time last year, January 6th was on the horizon. Trump’s big lie was already taking hold among millions of people. […]

2021: The Refuse Fascism Year in Review

 Click here to read the Transcript Refuse Fascism exposes, analyzes, and stands against the very real danger and threat of fascism coming to power in this country. Through this show Refuse Fascism has engaged, dialogued, and debated with a broad array of writers, scholars, legal experts, and people from different walks of life on […]

Male Supremacy: Common Ground for the Fascists

 Click here to listen on YouTube Click here to read the Transcript Two interviews this week about the fascist assault on the right to abortion and the re-assertion of violent misogyny that it is a part of: Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her (@schemaly, sorayachemaly.com) and Chelsea Ebin, co-founder and fellow at the Institute […]