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Refuse Fascism — 292 episodes

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Will The People Accept The Jim Crow 2.0?

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Shadows of the Republic: The Rebirth of Fascism in America with Omer Aziz

3

“Conversion Therapy,” Free Speech, & Rising Aggression

4

All Out for May Day: Trump Must Go Now!

5

The Dangerous Precedent of the Prairieland “Antifa” Trial

6

A Short History of American Fascism: From the KKK to the Trump Era

7

Get Ready for No Kings: What Will It Take to Stop Trump?

8

From Minab to Armageddon

9

Christian Nationalism, War on Iran, and Trump’s Concentration Camps

10

The State of Fascism and The New War of Aggression Against Iran

11

Trump’s New International Law: Might Makes Right

12

Dispatch From Minnesota: Power in Defiance

13

ICE Out of Everywhere, Trump Must Go Now

14

Murder is the Message: Trump’s Gestapo in Minnesota

15

One Year of Trump 2.0 — A Year of Lawless Murder and Boundless Terror

16

Emergency! Trump’s ICE Gestapo Commits Cold Blooded Murder

17

Stop the Illegal Invasion of Venezuela — Trump Must Go NOW!

18

2025: Live With Fascism — or Stop It

19

Trump’s Fascism and the Drive Toward War in Venezuela

20

What Does a Fascist Military Look Like?

21

United for the Removal of the Regime

22

Sounds from Surrounding The White House

23

How We Build Momentum to Drive Out The Trump Fascist Regime

24

The Countdown to Nov 5 and Unrelenting Nonviolent Protest

25

What's Next After No Kings?

26

The Freedom to Silence You — Dr. Mary Anne Franks on Trump’s War on Dissent

27

Defeating Trump/MAGA Fascism CAN Be Done… But We Have to Do It

28

Kimmel Stays — Trump Must Go Now!

29

The Danger Grows — So Must the Movement to Drive Trump Out

30

Against the Mass Deportation Machine in the Sky

31

Nov 5: Drive the Trump Regime from Power

32

Trump’s DC Takeover - Straight Out of the Fascist Playbook

33

Time For the Fall of the Trump Regime

34

Shut Down ICE, Shut Down the Trump Regime

35

No More Business As Usual

36

A Breathtaking Disregard for Human Rights With Michele Goodwin

37

Gerrymandering the Law for the GOP + Declaring Independence from Trump’s Fascist America

38

All Out for July 4 to Declare Independence from Trump Fascism

39

From War on Iran to Trans Bans: Trump's Escalating War on Us All

40

The Fascist Military Spectacle, Genocidal Ideology + The Movement We Need

41

Raids, resistance, and believing what’s in front of our eyes

42

June 14: Trump’s Military Parade Must Be Opposed

43

“We Are Responsible for Each Other” — Building Solidarity to Defeat Fascism Together

44

Intent and Atrocity: Dr. Raz Segal on Gaza, Genocide and the Machinery of Fascism

45

The Danger Is Real. So Is Our Power to Stop It.

46

Academics Speak out Against Fascism

47

We’re In It Now: Trump Defies the Courts, Targets Us All

48

Artists Refusing Fascism

49

All Out For April 5: Silence = Collaboration

50

How Young Men are Recruited into Fascism - And How to Stop It With Craig Johnson

51

Mahmoud Khalil Must Be Freed - Trump Must Go

52

Decorum Vs. Determined Resistance with A.R. Moxon

53

Stop the War on Women and LGBTQ People

54

Purges in the Military and Growing Resistance in the Streets

55

Unprecedented: Sasha Abramsky & Thomas Zimmer on the Crisis We Face

56

Watering The Seeds of Resistance

57

The First Two Weeks: Fascism is a Package Deal

58

Week One of Trump Regime 2.0 with Chrissy Stroop

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Sheriffs As Trump’s Shock Troops w/ Jessica Pishko

60

The Most Dangerous Anti-Immigrant Bill Yet + An Announcement

61

Resistance on Hold: The Crisis of Inaction in Perilous Times

62

2024: Year in Review

63

How Trump’s Leveraging “Unitary Executive” Theory to Harness Supreme Power

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Gender Liberation, Radical Defiance & The Power of Street Art

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Refusing Trump’s Orders: Military Resistance to Mass Deportation

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"Day One" Dictator & Trump's Monstrous Mass Deportation Plans

67

Trump’s Opening Salvo, Dems Roll Out The Welcome Mat + Christians Against Christian Nationalism

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No Election Can Legitimize Fascism! We REFUSE to Accept a MAGA Fascist USA

69

What you Need to Know Before the Election For Whatever Comes Next

70

The 2024 Election: The Future Hangs In The Balance

71

A Word From The Folks Calling Trump Fascist Since 2016

72

Preparing for a Coup: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t

73

Lessons of Kristallnacht, “Civil War,” and Mass Deportation

74

Late Fascism with Alberto Toscano

75

How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers

76

Chaos Comes Calling with Sasha Abramsky

77

Dispatch on American Political Dystopia

78

Who’s Afraid Of (Talking About) The Christian Right?

79

The Young Person's Illustrated Guide to American Fascism + DNC Vibes

80

Fascist Riots in the UK, Fascist Plots in the US

81

The GOP, Netanyahu & Jewish Safety

82

The Fascist Spectacle at the RNC + Resistance We Need

83

The War on Women & the Genocide in Gaza

84

The Fascist Führer Decision + Schedule F

85

The “Debate,” SCOTUS & the Constitutional Bind

86

The Originalism Trap With Madiba K. Dennie

87

Constructing MAGA Lore: Trump's Convictions, January 6 and American Political Violence

88

Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy

89

The Convicted Felon & “Day One” Dictator

90

The Freedom to Dominate with Jefferson Cowie

91

Perspectives on Stopping Fascism in the US in 2024

92

The Wannabe Fascist

93

This American Fascism: A Retrospective

94

"White Rural Rage" with Tom Schaller

95

Constitutional Sheriffs, Militias, and Other Local Fascist Initiatives

96

Choices: A Post Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto

97

Fascism On Trial with Anthony DiMaggio and Henry Giroux

98

Fascism Isn't Just a German Problem

99

Genocide in Gaza, Repression in the US

100

Rick Perlstein: The Infernal Triangle + Christian Nationalist Project 2025

101

The Cataclysm of a Second Trump Term

102

Combatting Disinformation

103

The Fascist Fringe + Fascist Mainstream

104

The Institutions Still Won't Save Us

105

Civil War Historians: Trump Is Disqualified + Report from Eagle Pass, Texas

106

The White Power Movement in 2024

107

The Year Ahead and the New Fascism Syllabus

108

The Nightmare Immigrants Face At the Texas Border

109

Ian Millhiser on Trump’s Trials + Paul Street on Jan 6 Anniversary

110

2023: The Year In Review

111

Q&A With The Refuse Fascism Editorial Board

112

The Evangelical Prophets Anointing Trump

113

Susan Neiman on Universalism Against Nationalism

114

Project 2025: Roadmap for Fascist Consolidation

115

Censored Classrooms & The Freedom to Read

116

The Nightmare That Is House Speaker Mike Johnson

117

Stop the Genocide in Gaza

118

Ruling Through The Courts When They Don’t Have The Votes With Dahlia Lithwick

119

The Bloody Promises of the Orange-Hued Malignancy

120

Abortion, Birth Control and What’s Next with Roxy Szal + Commentary From Coco Das

121

Fascism in America: Past and Present

122

Stop Cop City

123

Fascists In the U.S. Military with Will Carless

124

Teach Truth Not Lies with Dr. Marvin Dunn

125

Centuries-Old Conspiracy Theories That Fuel Fascism Today

126

The Court is Wrong; Color-Blindness Serving White Supremacy

127

Fascist "Operation Lone Star" + Trump Indictment

128

We Must Name It, In Order to Deal with It

129

Voices from Abortion Rights Frontlines in Iowa

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The GOP Embrace of Fascist "Moms for Liberty"

131

SCOTUS Openly Advances Fascism

132

Moms for "Liberty" aka Moms for Fascism

133

SCOTUS, The Shadow Docket, & The Fascist Assault on the Environment

134

Trump Indicted + Media Complicity in the Rise of Fascism

135

Teaching Anti-Fascism

136

Tucker Carlson and Stochastic Terrorism

137

Beyond Fake Opposition And Honeyed Words

138

The Sweeping and Intensifying Fascist Attack on Trans People

139

The Fantasy of the Reasonable Republican with Fred Wellman

140

Speed Bumps on the Highway to Christian Fascism and the Resistance Still Needed

141

The Fascist Attack On Medication Abortion

142

The Post-Dobbs Human Rights Emergency

143

Jeff Sharlet - The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

144

Your Questions Answered

145

Katelyn Burns: The True Aims of the Anti-Trans Movement

146

The Fascist State of Florida & Student Resistance

147

Carrie Baker: Looming Decision That Could Ban Abortion Medication

148

Foundation 451: Defying DeSantis' Book Bans

149

The Fascist "Freedom" Caucus

150

The Insurrectionist House of Representatives

151

On the 50th Anniversary of Roe

152

The Continuing January 6 Coup

153

2022: The Year in Review

154

Drag Vs. Fascism

155

Proud Boys and a New Era of American Fascism

156

The Flag and the Cross and the Little Blue Bird

157

Christian Dominionism and Fascist Momentum

158

The Aftermath of the Midterms

159

Bradley Onishi: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes Next

160

Sarah Posner: The GOP's Christian Supremacy Problem

161

Teddy Wilson: Fascist Violence Accelerated

162

Andrew Seidel: American Crusades & the Supreme Court

163

Women, Life, Freedom

164

"Trump of the Tropics" + 100 Days Post-Roe

165

It Can, It Has, It Is Happening Here

166

If One Of Us Is Not Free, None Of Us Are

167

Teddy Wilson on the Metastasizing Fascist Base

168

The GOP: Fascist, Nothing Semi- About It

169

Talking Forced-Birth in Victorian Times and Now With Kate Manning

170

Leah Litman: SCOTUS Recap and Forecast

171

The Nazification of American Education

172

Danielle Moodie: How to Stand Up to Fascist Bullies

173

Highland Park Mass Shooter Crimo Wasn’t A Lone Wolf

174

Post-Roe Reality Check & January 6 Hearing Update

175

Christian Theocracy, the Crusades, & Modern-Day America

176

Overturning Roe: A Watershed Moment for U.S. Fascism

177

SCOTUS, The Big Lie, Fascism: All Illegitimate

178

The Looming Abortion Rights Disaster & Even Worse To Come From The Supreme Court

179

Federico Finchelstein: "White Replacement Theory" & Fascism

180

Confronting & Rejecting a Culture of Fascist Violence

181

Acting Now to Defend Roe + Abortion Rights

182

Thousands Rise Up to Say: Overturn Roe? Hell No!

183

Susana Chiarotti: Overturning Roe, A Brutal Lesson for Feminists on Resistance

184

Marcela García: Lessons from the Green Wave Abortion Rights Victories in Latin America

185

January 6th Was a Dress Rehearsal

186

Fearless Activists Mobilize on the Precipice of Fascist Anti-Abortion Victory

187

Trans Resistance in Texas + Righteous Outrage in the Streets to Keep Abortion Legal

188

Black Women in the Crosshairs of Christian Fascist Assault on Abortion

189

Paul Street: False Narratives on the War in Ukraine

190

Annika Brockschmidt: America's Holy Warriors + What a "No Fly Zone" Really Means

191

Student Walkouts Against "Don't Say Gay" Law + Stopping Business as Usual

192

War in Ukraine + Defending the Right to Abortion

193

Sunsara Taylor: Forced Motherhood = Female Enslavement

194

The #FluTruxKlan + Voices from Ottawa

195

Anne Nelson: Media, Money & the Secret Hub of the Radical Right

196

Tony Wolf: Art and Pushing Back Against Fascism

197

The Evidence of Rising Neo-Fascism

198

Kathryn Joyce: The Ideology Behind a "Benevolent" US Theocracy

199

Rise Up for Abortion Rights!

200

Samuel Perry: Christian Nationalist Violence Post January 6

201

The GOP: Entrenching White Christian Domination

202

2021: The Refuse Fascism Year in Review

203

Male Supremacy: Common Ground for the Fascists

204

No Capitulation on Abortion Rights!

205

The State of Fascism Denial + The Fight for Abortion Rights

206

Carol Anderson: White Supremacy & the Second Amendment

207

Educational Gag Orders + Fascist Verdict in Kenosha

208

A Beautiful Rising Or Rising Fascism? The Rittenhouse Trial

209

Elie Honig: The January 6th Insurrection Isn’t Over

210

Gregg Gonsalves: COVID, Public Health & U.S. Mythology

211

When Is It Time To Break The Law?

212

Classroom Censorship in Texas

213

No Laughing Matter with Walter Masterson and Andy Zee

214

Rafia Zakaria: Against White Feminism

215

Town Hall on Abortion Rights Emergency

216

Fascist Mobs: 1850 to Today

217

Nazia Kazi: What We Forget (On 9/11 & Year-Round)

218

Time To Mess With Texas: Abortion On Demand & Without Apology

219

Khaled Beydoun: Islamophobia As Ideological Virus

220

Matthew Hoh: Afghanistan and the End of an Unjust War + Teach Truth Days of Action

221

Paul Mason: History, Ideology & Resistance to Fascism

222

Wajahat Ali: The Death March of White Supremacy

223

Tim Wise: White Supremacy, the Right and their War on Pluralism

224

Teri Kanefield: Democracy & Oligarchy + Derenda Hancock: Roe v. Wade on the Line

225

Mia Bloom: Inside the Mind of Qanon

226

David Atkins: What Happens When Republicans Simply Refuse to Certify Democratic Wins?

227

The Abortion Rights Emergency

228

Dahlia Lithwick: The Price of No Consequences for Trump

229

Chanelle Wilson: Critical Race Theory and Anti-Racist Education

230

Anthea Butler: White Evangelical Racism

231

Caroline Duble: Texas's War on Abortion

232

Walden Bello: The Global Spread of Fascism

233

American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy, with Brynn Tannehill

234

Priya Satia: Fascism, Imperialism & the Value of Historical Analogies

235

Steve Hofstetter: Comedy and Standing Up Against Fascism

236

Brynn Tannehill: The Republi-fascist Tsunami of Anti-Trans Laws

237

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: The GOP is Now the Party of Autocracy

238

Matthew Rozsa: The Parallels Between Trump's "Big Lie" and Hitler's

239

The Fascist Triad of White Supremacy, Misogyny, and Xenophobia

240

Bishop Talbert Swan: White Supremacists Lash Out with Voter Suppression Laws

241

The Trauma of Trumpism

242

Andy Zee: The Relationship between Fascism and Capitalism-Imperialism

243

Susan Neiman & Daryle Lamont Jenkins: Learning from the Past to Chart the Future

244

Fascist Lies with Federico Finchelstein

245

Umair Haque: "If you don't call it fascism..."

246

Dr. Bandy Lee: "The Removal of Trump Wasn't Enough"

247

Sarah Posner on Trump's Acquittal; An Unpunished Coup Attempt Becomes a Training Exercise

248

The Senate Impeachment Trial & the Need to Refuse Fascism

249

Sian Norris: The Anti-Abortion Movement Internationally

250

Paul Street: The Anatomy of Fascism Denial

251

Henry Giroux: Trump is not Trumpism and Trumpism is not Dead

252

Jo-Marie Burt: Why is Accountability Important?

253

What is the Lasting Danger of Trump's Attempt to Overturn the Election?

254

Sunsara Taylor Hosts Roundtable with Rosie O'Donnell, Jason Stanley and Andy Zee: "Trump & the Whole Fascist Cabal Must Go"

255

Holocaust Survivor: "It Could Happen Here"

256

Now Is the Time to Act: No to a Fascist Coup!

257

Eric Boehlert: Trump plots martial law from White House — the press shrugs

258

If it could happen there, it could happen here

259

COVID: A Case Study with Life & Death Stakes: Science, Epistemology, Conspiracy & Fascism

260

"Fight for Trump" = Fight for Fascism

261

Why did 74 million people vote for Trump?

262

What Just Happened?

263

Andrew Mitrovica: "Trump Will Not Concede - Americans Need to Be Vigilant"

264

Sunsara Taylor: Trump is Still Lying and Working to Sabotage and Overturn the Election

265

Fascist Trump Loses the Election And Refuses to Concede

266

Anthony DiMaggio: Our System is Not Equipped to Deal With a Bad Actor Like Trump

267

Andrea Chalupa: Taking to the Streets Challenges the Dictator's Legitimacy

268

Rose Marie Berger: The First Few Days After a Coup are Critical

269

Ashley Dawson: We need to start preparing to resist Trump's fascist coup now.

270

Paul Street: A Clear Assault on The Electoral Process

271

Sunsara Taylor & Mark Joseph Stern: Amy Coney Barrett As A Key Part of Trump's Coup

272

Ejeris Dixon: Fascists Don't Pretend to Play By the Rules

273

How Fascism Works and How to Stop It

274

Protests Begin October 3 Demanding Trump/Pence Out Now

275

This Is Not A Normal Election

276

Joshua Shanes: "We Are Crossing New Thresholds"

277

25 Cities Hold Demonstrations Launching 60 Days of Struggle Before the November Elections

278

Nationwide Protests Sept 5: Trump/Pence Must Go Now!

279

Jodie Sweetin: "We're screaming fascism because that's what's happening"

280

How to Organize to Drive Out The Trump/Pence Regime

281

Michael Coard: “Fascism Doesn’t Just Show Up Out of Nowhere” | September 5: DEMAND TRUMP PENCE OUT NOW!

282

Andy Zee: Fascism Is Aggressively Advancing | Sarah Posner: White Evangelicals Worshipping Trump

283

Voices from the Portland Protests

284

Chantelle Herschberger & Michael Plaut: How to Defeat Police State Repression

285

Rev. Michael Woolf, Coco Das & Sarah Roark: Morality in the Time of Pandemic and Fascism

286

Jeff Sharlet: Trump's Rallies Are Church & He Is The Gospel

287

Jared Yates Sexton: Trump's Death Cult, American Mythology, White Supremacy and Deadly Denialism

288

Carl Dix & Coco Das: Into the Streets for Juneteenth

289

Jason Stanley: How Fascism Works

290

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: "When They Don't Hide It"

291

Lucian Truscott IV: "For Trump, there is only one victim: himself"

292

Amanda Marcotte: Trump’s Refusal to Wear A Mask As A Signal of Fascism