It Could Happen Here
by Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.
Episodes
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¡El Chupacabras!
Carlos hunts down the origin of the chupacabra, then explains how U.S. imperialism and Puerto Rico’s many crises gave rise to the bloodsucker. Follow Carlos @vaquero2XL Sources: Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore by Benjamin Radford Governing Spirits…
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2026 Elections (The Union Ones)
Mia talks with IWW members Pam Suitland-Halas, Andrew D. Ferguson, and Elizabeth Copis-Dukelow about the upcoming elections in the IWW. Links: https://linktr.ee/PamelaSH
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Lochiel Part 2: The End of the Tree Sit
In the second of a two part series James looks at the federal government's response to the Lochiel land defence and where people who care about the land can go from here. https://www.fs.usda.gov/r03/coronado/alerts/border-barrier-construction-closure...
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Israeli Elections and the Palestinians
In this episode Dana El Kurd talks through what the Israeli elections mean for Palestinians across the territories and within Israel. She goes over the latest reports on how the election might play out, and recent events that have affected campaigning in Israel. Sources: Israel's Elections…
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CZM Book Club: "The Simulacrum," by Max Turner
Margaret and Hazel read you a found documents story about a government experiment gone wrong
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It Could Happen Here Weekly 255
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file: Anti-Palestinian Racism How Trump Will Try To Make Voting Restrictions Even Worse The Save Europe Act and the Bad Faith Nazis Who Created It P1 The Save Europe Act and the Bad Faith Nazis Who Created It P2…
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Executive Disorder: Alberta Separatism, Ukraine's Starlink Predicament, Global Protests Continue
The gang discuss the short lived career of Press Sec Katie Zacharia, an anti-trans op in Texas, Trump’s new “Women’s Health Task Force,” the Alberta secession referendum, Elon Musk cutting Starlink speed in Ukraine, and protests in France, Albania, Indonesia, and Italy. Sources:...
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The Save Europe Act and the Bad Faith Nazis Who Created It Part 2
In the second of two episodes Mick, James, and Molly discuss the Save Europe Act and its attempts to mainstream great replacement theory. Sources: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R0788 https://www.save-europe-act.com/#section-form...
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The Save Europe Act and the Bad Faith Nazis Who Created It
Mick, James, and Molly discuss the Save Europe Act and its attempts to mainstream great replacement theory. Sources: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R0788 https://www.save-europe-act.com/#section-form https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1658...
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How Trump Will Try To Make Voting Restrictions Even Worse
Ahead of the midterms, Garrison explains the current status of Trump’s executive orders to to restrict mail in voting and purge voter rolls, and how the worst effects may not come until 2028. Sources: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7296/text...
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Introducing: Knowledge Fight Country
Knowledge Fight Country is a platform where Dan Friesen and his guests can chew over the biggest and best ideas being disseminated in right wing media. Through a focus on Alex Jones and figures similar to him, this show will provide a humorous and fun layer on top of discussing the context on why...
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Lochiel: Speaking for the Trees
In the first of a two part series, James travels to Lochiel, Arizona, to interview land defenders occupying a historic cottonwood known as grandmother tree in order to prevent the tree being destroyed as part of a two layer border wall being built through the region.
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Anti-Palestinian Racism
In this episode Dana El Kurd outlines what anti-Palestinian racism is and the common tropes used to attack Palestinians and their allies. Sources:...
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CZM Book Club: "Ark of Bones," by Henry Dumas with Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond (Part 2)
We continue our conversation with Dr. Treasure about Herny Dumas and touch on all sorts of topics from Hoodoo to Fannie Lou Hamer to being mentored by one's father.
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It Could Happen Here Weekly 254
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file: 2026 Midterms Polling Update The French Student Uprising Breadfruit! Fear of a Nuclear January 6th Executive Disorder: ICE Shooting in NYC, Russian Diesel and Ukraine, Protests Around the World You can now listen…
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Executive Disorder: ICE Shooting in NYC, Russian Diesel and Ukraine, Protests Around the World
We discuss ICE agents shooting Oscar Belgal in the Bronx and the ensuing protests, live-streamed military execution, the raid on Ilhan Omar’s home, Trump taking Russian diesel, the situation in Ukraine, and the current wave of protests in India, Spain, and France. Links: NYC Immigration…
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Fear of a Nuclear January 6th
Robert lays out his theory for how a "nuclear January 6" - the accidental or intentional limited deployment of a nuclear weapon for incredibly stupid reasons, is more likely than you might think.
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Breadfruit!
Carlos talks about how breadfruit is being used as a tool of emergency preparedness and to fight hunger crises around the world. Sources: https://es.mongabay.com/2023/08/arbol-del-pan-conservacion-crisis-climatica/…
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The French Student Uprising
Mia talks with Faiza, a political analyst and feminist theorist in France about the French high school student protests and breaking out of our complacency.
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Nomadcast takeover for Indigenous Peoples' Day
For Indigenous People's Day James intorduces an episode of the Nomadcast interviewing Mato Wayuhi. NomadCast is hosted by Caleb “Moose” (White Mountain Apache Descendant) and Cheyanne (White Mountain Apache Enrolled) Endfield from the White Mountain Apache Reservation where the couple went to...
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2026 Midterms Polling Update
Garrison and Robert chat about what it will take for Democrats to win back Congress, Iran’s letter to the American people, and midterm election polls in Texas, Maine, Florida, North Carolina, Alaska, and Michigan. Sources:...
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CZM Book Club: "Ark of Bones," by Henry Dumas with Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond (Part 1)
Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond reads Margaret and Hazel a ghost story about transcendance, legacy and an unearthly river boat, by exalted ancestor Henry Dumas who was murdered by a white cop in 1968.
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It Could Happen Here Weekly 253
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file: The Decline and Fall of the International Workers Movement How To Print Your Own Money: The Case for Local Currencies How the ‘Delivery Protection Act’ Takes on Amazon Attacking Palestinian Health Executive...
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Executive Disorder: French Student Protests, Flavio Bolsonaro, ‘Third Country’ Deportations
The gang discuss a tree-sit on the border, massive student protests in France, a Supreme Court ruling on rendition, the Brazilian election, a Russian researcher who was accidentally exposed to the pneumonic plague, and the death of former House Speaker and pedophile Dennis Hastert. Sources:...
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Attacking Palestinian Health
In this episode Dana El Kurd talks with Yara Asi, Palestinian scholar, author, and public health researcher studying how conflict, structural violence, and political systems shape health and human security. Yara describes the attacks on Palestinian health in Gaza and the West Bank, and the…
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How the ‘Delivery Protection Act’ Takes on Amazon
Garrison talks with Matt and Olivia from the NYC-DSA Labor Working Group about how Amazon uses subcontractors to exploit “last mile” delivery drivers and how a new bill could hold Amazon accountable and strengthen workers' ability to organize. Sources: https://act.socialists.nyc/dpa-letter...
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How To Print Your Own Money: The Case for Local Currencies
Guest host Zaron Burnett investigates the curious question: Can we print our own money? The short answer is: yes, yes we can. To consider the more nuanced aspects of that question, Burnett spoke with Peter LaRochelle from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. LaRochelle administers a local...
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Cracking the Case on Egg Corruption
James looks into the DOJ investigation into egg price fixing and what it can tell us about the way our food system treats animals and people. Sources: https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1450281/dl?inline https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-unscrambling-the-egg-ma/204490574/...
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The Decline and Fall of the International Workers Movement
From the battle for democracy in the workplace to the division of the class itself, Mia examines how workers lost the world Sources: https://www.endnotes.org.uk/issues/issue-4/endnotes-a-history-of-separation-preface...
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CZM Book Club: "The Devil Lives Here," by Margaret Killjoy
Margaret kicks off spooky month by sharing a spooky story of her own about a haunted cave and the 90s teens who get lost in it
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It Could Happen Here Weekly 252
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file: US Military Boat Strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific After Ceuta Were Macklemore’s First Amendment Rights Violated? What Happened in the Labor Movement Last Month? Executive Disorder: DHS Voter Roll Purge…
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Executive Disorder: DHS Voter Roll Purge, Cornell and Title IX, Hungary’s Anti-Corruption Crusade
We discuss taxpayer funded pro-Trump ads, the Supreme Court approving a widely inaccurate verification system to purge voter registration, the Chi Phi Snapchat gang assault at Cornell, Trump reinstating the 2020 version of Title IX, how Prime Minister Peter Magyar is cracking down on Orban’s...
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What Happened in the Labor Movement Last Month?
In this episode, labor reporter Kim Kelly breaks down September's biggest and baddest labor stories, from an historic union election for caregivers to union-busting at AutoZone. Sources: https://labornotes.org/2026/09/video-game-workers-win-first-contract-microsoft-owned-blizzard...
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Were Macklemore’s First Amendment Rights Violated?
Kevin Foster speaks with Mo Meltzer-Cohen, a law professor at CUNY School of Law, about Macklemore being booted from the Ed Sheeran tour and the First Amendment implications. Sources: https://www.instagram.com/reels/Dc_bH4_N1FN/...
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After Ceuta
In this episode Dana El Kurd talks with Harsha Walia about the anti immigrant backlash that has emerged in the aftermath of the migrant crossing incident in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Harsha breaks down what happened, how parts of the right and left have responded, and why we need to center...
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The Coming Flood
In Part Two of our series on The Wall and the Wilderness, James talks about the cultural and ecological damage done by the border wall and continues his interview with Dr. Christina Aiello about the Peninsular Bighorn ram that was killed by razor wire in the Jacumba mountains. Sources:...
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US Military Boat Strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific
Carlos Berríos Polanco discusses the United States’ yearlong campaign of extrajudicial killing through boat strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific, how the Trump Administration set the foundation for the campaign since its first day in office, and the victims of these strikes. Sources:...
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CZM Book Club Presents: Stories from "Black Box," by Mata Kastrisiou and translated by Kostas Kaltsas
Margaret reads you 4 very short, dream like stories from a collection by a Greek author
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It Could Happen Here Weekly 251
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file: West Bank Takeover The AI Regulation Debate Diversity With Andrew Gas Prices and Oil Wars Executive Disorder: Trump Bans the “Free Press,” Palestinian National Council Elections, ICE Shooting, Canadian…
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Executive Disorder: Trump Bans the “Free Press,” Palestinian National Council Elections, ICE Shooting, Canadian Neoliberalism
The gang discuss Trump’s speech at the UN, the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger, another ICE shooting in Texas, how Mark Carney’s Bill C-39 threatens Indigenous rights and labor, a new election plan in Palestine, UK lifeboat protests, and Trump banning news outlets from the White House. Sources:...
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Gas Prices and Oil Wars
Mia looks at how recent shifts in gas prices tell the story of a series of global wars and American empire. Sources: https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5973810/houthi-attacks-saudi-oil-world-markets…
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Diversity With Andrew
James is joined by Andrew to discuss diversity and its value as a concept, not a corporate buzzword. Sources: In Light of Our Differences by David Harmon The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page
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The AI Regulation Debate
Garrison outlines various proposals for a regulatory “slowdown” of frontier AI models, Trump’s push against regulation, the risk of regulatory capture, legislation for public ownership of AI companies and control of this technology, and the organizing limits of AI-denialism. Sources:...
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The Wall and the Wilderness
James talks about the ecological disaster that is the border wall and interviews Dr. Christina Aiello about the Peninsular Bighorn ram that was killed by razor wire in the Jacumba mountains. Sources: https://www.usaspending.gov/search?hash=29de9d51905bd175a701b04c24176b46...
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West Bank Takeover
In this episode Dana El Kurd talks about how the settlers and the Israeli state are working hand in hand to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank, and how we should understand the relationship between the two actors. Sources: https://jewishcurrents.org/it-feels-like-a-death-sentence...
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CZM Book Club: Ocotillo, by Madeline ffitch
Margaret reads you a surreal story about the surreal Southwest, written by one of her favorite authors
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It Could Happen Here Weekly 250
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file: Sanctions, Terror, and the Internet Should AOC talk to MAHA? Debating the American Role in the Middle East A History Built of Uprising Executive Disorder: Oil Crisis, New Mail-In-Voting Rules Blocked, Macklemore...
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Executive Disorder: Oil Crisis, New Mail-In-Voting Rules Blocked, Macklemore Based??
The gang discuss Ed Sheeran dropping Macklemore from his tour over pro Palestine comments, courts blocking new mail-in-ballot requirements, Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure, a report detailing tiny metal cages at Alligator Alcatraz, a general strike in Eastern Kurdistan, debate on AI...
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A History Built of Uprising
Mia begins a series on the history of the most recent series of uprisings by examining how history moves. Sources: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm https://www.endnotes.org.uk/issues/issue-4/endnotes-a-history-of-separation-preface...
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Debating the American Role in the Middle East
In this episode Dana El Kurd talks about the debate in DC on what the role of the US has been in the Middle East, and what it should be. She also talks about what’s missing from these discussions. Sources:...
About this show
It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.
Hosted by
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts