It Can't Happen Here

We will attempt to understand how the supposed safeguards in our country, our opposition parties, laws, and liberal democratic system as a whole, could be so easily corrupted, and how ignoring its cracks, such as the suppression of social democratic parties and policies, constitutes a form of capitulation to oligarchs and fascists. Through this, it has played a role in bringing us to where we are...

In today's episode, we’re exploring how political leaders exploit moments of uncertainty, unrest, and violence to invoke emergency powers, often as a means to strip away civil liberties or to justify the persecution of groups they claim are responsible for the chaos. We’ll examine historical examples and research, focusing on Bulgaria and Vladimir Putin’s rise to power amid the turmoil of the Chec...

In today’s episode, we’re exploring Trump’s use of the United States military in eroding our democracy, and how the use of a state’s military domestically is a hallmark of authoritarian rule and democratic backsliding.

In today’s episode, we’re exploring media capitulation and control in fascist and authoritarian states around the world, as well as here in the United States under the second Trump administration. We will begin by discussing the different forms of media capture and then examine various examples before turning to the United States.

In today's episode, we’re exploring the United States’ and other authoritarian states’ use of artificial intelligence, internet corruption, and other digital means used to corrode democracy around the world. We will look at some contemporary examples before examining the techniques of the United States under the current Trump administration.

We explore Trump’s attacks on an independent Judiciary, and how important the corruption of the judiciary is when it comes to dictators and fascists seeking to gain power. We will look at several different examples, both historical and contemporary, of governments and regimes attacks on their respective judicial branches around the world.

In this weeks episode we tackle the far-right policy of remigration, a form of ethnic-cleansing with origins in Western Europe, and how it's influenced the direction Donald Trump is taking when it comes to immigration policy.

Overview of the surveillance state throughout history and under Palantir and the Trump administration.

In our very first episode, we take a look at the GOP's attempt to portray the Biden administration as working to corrupt the Justice Department, then pivot to the current Trump administration's attempt to weaponize the DOJ.