By Any Means

Veterans have participated directly in American empire. So why should the left trust them—let alone organize with them? Army veteran, anti-imperialist organizer, and congressional candidate Greg Stoker joins By Any Means to talk about why people actually join the military, what accountability should look like afterward, and whether the left's tendency to write people off is costing us potential comrades. We get into the poverty draft, propaganda and personal responsibility, grifters versus genuine political transformation, the history of veterans in liberation movements, and what veterans can actually contribute to building power today. Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.

Alana Hadid is a Palestinian-Irish activist, producer, and proud class traitor. We talk about what celebrity is actually good for, whether cultural influence can be turned into political power, and why simply being loud about Palestine in spaces that would rather forget it exists can itself be a form of struggle. Alana gets into the limits of celebrity activism, the work happening behind the scenes, becoming disillusioned with American politics, anti-capitalism, and why every person who takes a risk makes it a little easier for the next one. And eventually we arrive at the most important political theory of all: get the fuck off your couch and do something. Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.

Colten Barnaby is a socialist, former church staffer, fourth-generation Pentecostal pastor's kid, and self-described Christian atheist. Rather than abandoning Christianity to the right, he's trying to use the gospel against them—and convince Christians that capitalism, empire, white supremacy, and the American state have a lot more in common with Babylon than the Kingdom of God. We talk about Christianity as a loaded gun, America as a demonic nation, whether Jesus was actually much of a revolutionary, and why the left is leaving millions of religious people on the table. Then we get into the real question: how do you actually convert them? Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.

In this episode of By Any Means, James talks with Atlanta organizer, student, and propagandist Chainslayer about what it actually takes to build political power where you live. Chainslayer traces his path from growing up around journalism and liberal politics, through poverty, violence, jail, Bernie Sanders, the Black Panthers, Fanon, Marxism, and eventually organized socialist politics. They get into the difference between being smart and becoming knowledgeable, why theory matters, and what happens when revolutionary ideas finally leave the book and run into real organizations full of actual people. The conversation moves through the DSA, PSL, electoral politics, mutual aid, tenant organizing, direct action, and the campaign to free Rodney Taylor from ICE detention. Chainslayer breaks down how organizing really works: sitting in churches, knocking on doors, building relationships, connecting struggles, identifying where power comes from, and applying pressure until the people in charge can no longer ignore you. This is a conversation about how you turn scattered anger into organization, organization into power, and a handful of people into an army. Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.

In this episode of By Any Means, James talks with Yeezy Prints — amateur gunsmith, 3D-printing advocate, and DIY gun designer — about 3D-printed guns, open-source technology, and what it means to become ungovernable. The conversation starts with guns but quickly becomes about much more: the means of production, the state's monopoly on violence, and why capitalism depends on keeping tools, knowledge, and power locked away from ordinary people. James and Yeezy get into Appalachia, poverty, Bernie, COVID, the Gatalog, DIY firearms, printer regulation, surveillance, cyberdecks, open-source software, and why "public safety" so often becomes the excuse for new forms of control. This is a conversation about what happens when people stop waiting for institutions to save them and start building the capacity to save themselves. Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.

In this episode of By Any Means, James talks with organizer James Ray about Chris Rabb's Philadelphia state house campaign, the internal dynamics of DSA, and what it means to actually fight for the direction of a left organization instead of just critiquing it from the outside. They get into Philly electoral politics, Palestine solidarity work, local chapter organizing, and the messy but necessary reality of building power inside organizations full of contradictions. James Ray makes the case that DSA's decentralized structure is not just a weakness, but an opening — one where committed organizers can intervene, shift priorities, and make real political wins possible. This is a conversation about elections, organizing, coalition-building, and why the answer to a flawed organization might not be to abandon it, but to occupy it. Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.

Investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein has spent years exposing the hidden architecture of surveillance, national security, and state power. In this episode of By Any Means, James Harr sits down with Klippenstein to talk about the expanding definitions of threat, extremism, and political danger in America—and whether those expansions are becoming a permanent feature of maintaining American capitalism in a period of growing instability. From leaks and information control to protest, media, and the logic of permanent security, this conversation follows a larger question: if empire requires techniques of surveillance, containment, and counterinsurgency abroad, what happens when those same logics begin returning home? If the boundaries of acceptable politics continue to narrow, and left-wing dissent increasingly becomes something to manage rather than respond to, what does that say about the relationship between security, capitalism, and democracy? Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.

California's governor race has dozens of candidates. Only two advance. So what does it actually mean to run a socialist campaign inside a political system where the economy is largely controlled privately, major institutions are shaped by wealth, and elections rarely produce change on their own? In this episode of By Any Means, James Harr talks with Peace and Freedom Party gubernatorial candidate Ramsey Robinson about what his campaign is trying to build—and what elections can and can't actually do under those conditions. Not whether socialism sounds good, but how movements use campaigns to organize people, expand political horizons, and create forms of power that survive after election day. Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the worlds only worker-owned streaming service.