Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto
Click Here To Listen On YouTube Click Here To Read The Transcript Sam talks with Merle Hoffman, a long-time activist who helped establish one of the first abortion clinics in the U.S., about her new book a memoir chronicling her decades of experience fighting for abortion rights. Get the book here: Choices: A Post […]
Fascism On Trial with Anthony DiMaggio and Henry Giroux
Click Here To Listen On YouTube Click Here To Read The Transcript Sam welcomes back onto the show Anthony DiMaggio and Henry Giroux to discuss their latest book Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy. Dr. Henry A. Giroux is a renowned educator and author of multiple books on fascism and pedagogy. He holds the Chair for Scholarship in […]
Fascism Isn’t Just a German Problem
Click Here To Listen On YouTube Click Here To Read The Transcript Sam speaks to the Supreme Court facilitating the further erosion of civil rights & foreboding upcoming elections outside of the U.S. Then, frequent guest and guest host of the show, Coco Das shares reflections on SB4 (Texas’ “Show Me Your Papers” […]
Genocide in Gaza, Repression in the US
Click Here To Listen On YouTube Click Here To Read The Transcript Sam comments on the downward spiral of the legal cases against Trump and the further consolidation of the RNC and “conservative movement” around MAGA fascism. Then, we share two interviews with people who have been actively resisting the escalating genocide in Gaza. […]
Ep 193: Rick Perlstein: The Infernal Triangle + Christian Nationalist Project 2025
Click Here To Listen On YouTube Click Here To Read The Transcript Sam talks with historian Rick Perlstein, author of multiple books about the US conservative movement including Nixonland, about his latest work on the contemporary era and the nexus between the fascists, the media, and the Democratic Party; what he calls “the infernal triangle.” […]
The Cataclysm of a Second Trump Term
Click Here To Listen On YouTube Click Here To Read The Transcript Sam comments on SCOTUS hearing Trump’s presidential immunity claim and Trump and Biden visits to the Texas-Mexico border. Then, she talks with Dr. Clarence Lusane to discuss the catastrophe for humanity of a second Trump presidency & lessons from the international rise […]
Combatting Disinformation
Click Here To Listen On YouTube. Click Here To Read The Transcript. Sam talks with Dr. Lee McIntyre, philosopher and author of numerous books including How to Talk to A Science Denier and his latest, On Disinformation: “Drawing on his twenty years of experience as a scholar of science denial, McIntyre explains how autocrats wield […]
The Fascist Fringe + Fascist Mainstream
Click Here To Listen On YouTube. Click Here To Read The Transcript. Sam speaks to developments in Trump’s trials, the “pendulum swing” of political power, Gaza and the 2024 election, and more. Then, she talks with Jared Holt, Senior Research Analyst with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. His writing can be found in various […]
The institutions Still Won’t Save Us
Click Here To Listen On YouTube. Click Here To Read The Transcript. Sam talks with historian, activist and RefuseFascism.org editorial board member Paul Street about the coming year and his take on all the wild things happening as well as to come. Follow Paul’s work on Substack at paulstreet.substack.com. Find out more about Refuse Fascism […]
Civil War Historians: Trump Is Disqualified + Report from Eagle Pass, TX
Click Here To Listen On YouTube. Click Here To Read The Transcript Sam talks with Dr. Manisha Sinha, historian of the US Civil War and Reconstruction and one of 25 historians who signed onto the amicus brief supporting Colorado’s decision to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot according to the 14th amendment (which […]