What you Need to Know Before the Election For Whatever Comes Next
Listen On YouTube Read The Transcript Episode 224 With the election in just two days, Sam recaps essential points on refusing fascism in the event of various scenarios that may arise over the next few days and weeks. While there is much that we do not know about what will happen on Tuesday and after, we […]
The 2024 Election: The Future Hangs In The Balance
Listen on Youtube. Read the Transcript. Episode 223 Paul Street and Andy Zee joined Refuse Fascism host Sam Goldman for an online forum informed by listener questions on October 25, 2024 sponsored by Refuse Fascism and The RNL – Revolution Nothing Less – Show. We’re sharing excerpts from the forum which can be watched in its […]
A Word From The Folks Calling Trump Fascist Since 2016
Listen on Youtube. Read the Transcript. Episode 222 This episode is in response to the (very belated) warnings coming from Democratic Party and military leaders that Trump is (in the words of Trump’s former top general Mark Milley) “a fascist to the core.” By popular demand! Get your Refuse Fascism T-Shirt here: bonfire.com/refuse-fascism-pod-shirt Find out […]
Preparing for a Coup: What’s changed, What Hasn’t
Listen on Youtube. Read the Transcript. Episode 221 One month to go before the election, what’s happening? Elon + X going all out to get Trump back in power, mass deportation plans, nakedly Nazi justifications for those horrific plans, voter rolls being purged, multiple climate-change fueled storms pummeling the southeast with storms of […]
Lessons of Kristallnacht, “Civil War,” and Mass Deportation
Listen on Youtube. Episode 220 As we enter the final month before the November 2024 presidential election, Sam recaps recent developments including Jack Smith’s recent court filing detailing the 2020 Trump coup attempt, the fascist disinformation campaign that is actively harming people in need of help and accurate information in the wake of Hurricane […]
Late Fascism with Alberto Toscano
Listen on Youtube. Read the Transcript. Episode 219 Sam discusses the cruel and nakedly fascist “mass deportation” plank of both Project 2025 and the official GOP platform. Then, she talks with Dr. Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Robin D. G. Kelley writes: “Late Fascism is brilliant, incisive, […]
How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
Listen on Youtube. Read the Transcript. Episode 218 Sam recaps recent developments including the escalating impact on the community of Springfield, Ohio from JD Vance’s Hitlerian lies about immigrants there, the Republican Party that is made up of “Black Nazis” like Mark Robinson, the fascist organizing at the level of the Georgia state election […]
Chaos Comes Calling with Sasha Abramsky
Listen on Youtube. Read the Transcript. Episode 217 Sam recaps recent events including the lynch mob atmosphere being whipped up against immigrants in general and Black Haitian immigrants in particular after white supremacists in Ohio started vicious lies against Haitians. These lies have been further amplified by J.D. Vance and Donald Trump including from […]
Dispatch on American Political Dystopia
Listen on Youtube. Read the Transcript. Episode 216 Sam recaps recent events and then talks with Paul Street about the GOP’s unfolding plans to suppress the vote, intimidate their opposition (including by raiding extremely mainstream activists in Texas with LULAC [The League of Latin American Citizens] and sending police to the homes of […]
Who’s Afraid Of (Talking About) The Christian Right?
Listen on Youtube. Read the Transcript. Episode 215 Sam talks with returning guest Annika Brockschmidt about the ideology that binds Trump’s GOP. Brockschmidt is a trained historian, author and journalist. She wrote two bestselling books on the history of the US religious right and the Republican Party. Follow Annika on BlueSky. German-speaking audiences […]