The White Power Movement in 2024
Click Here To Listen On YouTube. Click Here To Read The Transcript It’s been quite the week! Sam recaps some of the stories we’re watching most closely: the Texas + other fascist controlled states v. federal government confrontation in the wake of a SCOTUS decision the fascists actually don’t like (shockingly, Roberts and Coney Barrett […]
The Year Ahead and the New Fascism Syllabus
Click Here To Listen On YouTube. We want to hear from listeners! What are some of your most urgent questions keeping you up at night as 2024 begins? Let us know via this survey: https://bit.ly/rf-pod-survey On this episode, we share Jessica Valenti’s testimony before Senate Democrats on the state of abortion rights ahead of the Roe […]
The Nightmare Immigrants Face At The Texas Border
Click Here To Listen On YouTube. Click Here To Read The Transcript Sam talks with Faisal Al-Juburi from RAICES Texas to get an update on what has changed (and what hasn’t) for our siblings seeking refuge as of January 2024 at the deadly US border. Follow their work and get involved at https://www.raicestexas.org/. We want […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]