Refuse Fascism

Sam Goldman interviews Matthew Hoh, former Marine and State Department official who served in and then was the first to resign over the unjust war in Afghanistan all the way back in 2009. Then, we're sharing an interview with educator Tamara Anderson about the upcoming Teach Truth Days of Action, a project of the Zinn Education Project happening August 27 - 29. Follow Matthew Hoh at matthewhoh.com...

Sam Goldman interviews writer Paul Mason about his new book: How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance . From the publisher:  The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's  India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a  horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that  is happening again - and we need to find a be...

Coco Das ( @Coco_Das ) guest hosts; Sam Goldman interviews Wajahat Ali, author of the new book Go Back to Where You Came From . Pre-order the book at wajali.com . Read his columns for the Daily Beast here and follow him on Twitter at @WajahatAli . Mentioned by Coco Das at the start of the episode: The Big Money Behind the Big Lie and Andy Zee on The RNL Show . Send  your comments to samanthag...

Trigger warning: this episode contains Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn’s testimony regarding what he encountered as a Black officer defending the Capitol during the January 6 failed fascist coup attempt. His testimony contains racial slurs which he was subjected to that are disturbing/triggering. Sam Goldman interviews Tim Wise, anti-racism educator and author of Dispatches from the Race War . F...

Sam interviews Teri Kanefield, lawyer and author of multiple books and articles which you can read about at terikanefield.com . Follow Teri on Twitter at @Teri_Kanefield . Then, Sunsara Taylor interviews Derenda Hancock, abortion rights activist and defender of the one abortion clinic in the entire state of Mississippi (this interview originally aired on The RNL Show ).  Send  your comme...

Sam Goldman talks with Dr. Mia Bloom, member of the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group, professor of communication and Middle East studies at Georgia State University and a fellow with New America’s International Security program. Her new book, co-authored with Sophia Moskalenko is Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of Qanon . Follow her on Twitter at @MiaMBloom . Send  your com...

David Atkins writes, "What will the institutions of liberal democracy do when Republican officials simply refuse to concede Democratic victories? The question isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem, and the reckoning may be coming far sooner than most expect." Sam Goldman interviews David about his recent article for Washington Monthly , talks about CPAC and Trump's inflammatory speech there, and int...

Sam Goldman interviews Jessica Mason Pieklo, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor at Rewire News and co-host of the podcast Boom! Lawyered . Follow her on Twitter at @Hegemommy . Then, The RNL Show’s Sunsara Taylor interviews long-time abortion provider Dr. Warren Hern. Follow Sunsara at @SunsaraTaylor and watch The RNL Show on YouTube .  Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refu...

Sam Goldman interviews Dahlia Lithwick, columnist for Slate.com and host of the podcast Amicus about the Supreme Court: https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus Read her recent piece The Price of No Consequences for Trump: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/no-consequences-for-trump-garland-biden.html Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Or leave a voice...

Sam Goldman interviews Chanelle Wilson, assistant professor of education and the director of the Africana Studies program at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Wilson has been vocally arguing for anti-racist approaches in education and uses critical race theory as a tool for identifying oppressive structures in the educational system and beyond. Read her profile in Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/chanelle-w...

Sam Goldman interviews Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, columnist for MSNBC  and author of a new book, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America . Order her book here and follow Dr. Butler via her website antheabutler.com or on Twitter at @AntheaButler . Send  your comments to samanthagoldm...

Sam Goldman talks to Caroline Duble, the Political Director of Avow Texas (https://avowtexas.org/) about the abortion ban set to go into effect September 1st and the larger fight for abortion rights. Avow Texas' slogan is "Unapologetic Abortion Advocacy" (cheers for that!). Then, we play the speech given by the valedictorian at Lake Highlands HS in Dallas. 18 yr. old Paxton Smith eloquently and co...

Sam Goldman interviews long-time activist and voice of conscience Dr. Walden Bello about Trumpism and the global spread of fascism. Dr. Bello is currently International Adjunct Professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel  Prize) in Stockholm in 2003 for his work showing the negative impac...

Sam Goldman interviews Brynn Tannehill ( @BrynnTannehill ) about her new book American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy . Then, Coco Das and Sam talk to a couple local organizers with Refuse Fascism chapters in Philadelphia and Texas, summing up their activism under Trump and going forward.  Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Or leave a...

Coco Das talks with historian Priya Satia about her recent article for the LA Review of Books: Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present . Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University, focusing on the history of Britain and its empire. She is the award-winning author of  Spies in Arabia  (2008) and  Empire of G...

Society wide repudiation of American fascism requires people from every corner of society speak up and take a stand. Coco Das (Contributing Editor of RefuseFascism.org) interviews Steve Hofstetter on getting loud in the face of fascist threats & noise. Hofstetter is an outspoken progressive comedian who unfortunately became the cover story of neo-Nazi publications and received hundreds of...

Sam Goldman interviews Brynn Tannehill ( @BrynnTannehill ) about the spate of anti-trans laws across the country and the larger fascist agenda it's a part of. Order her book American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy here. Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: Venmo: @Refuse-Fascism &nb...

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history at New York University and the author of Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present talks with Sam Goldman about the continuing effects of Trump's lies and how the entire GOP has changed in the aftermath of the Trump years and Jan 6th coup attempt. Sign up for her new newsletter "Lucid," follow her on Twitter at @RuthBenGhiat , and check out her website ruthbengh...

Sam Goldman interviews Matthew Rozsa ( @MatthewRozsa ) about his recent article for Salon.com: Trump's Big Lie and Hitler's: Is this how America's slide into totalitarianism begins? which reads in part:  "The Germans who 'believed' in Hitler's Big Lie did so not because he had  any proof that Germany had been stabbed in the back, but because they  hated Jews, hated leftists and want...

Sunsara Taylor interviews Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez ( @kkdumez ), author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation , about the rise of militant and militaristic patriarchy among Christian fascists as a major social force in this country (originally broadcast on The RNL Show ).  Then, Sam Goldman ( @SamBGoldman ) and Coco Das @coco_das talk about h...

Sam Goldman talks to Talbert Swan (Bishop with the Church Of God In Christ and longtime fighter for justice, author of No More Cursing: Destroying The Roots Of Religious Racism ) about the spate of voter suppression bills being enacted across the country. Follow Bishop Swan at @talbertswan .  Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman . Connect with the movement a...

Maria Sanchez, a mental health professional and supporter of RefuseFascism.org, talks to Sam Goldman about the trauma of the Trump presidency and the enduring fascist movement on society, plus clips from the conversation between Sam and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee (editor of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump”) from a few weeks ago. Since that interview was aired, Dr. Lee was targeted by...

Sam Goldman interviews Andy Zee, host of The RNL Show on YouTube and a co-founder of RefuseFascism.org, to talk about the statement released this January by revolutionary leader Bob Avakian: A New Year, The Urgent Need For A Radically New World—For The Emancipation Of All Humanity . Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFas...

It's the 50th episode!  We started the podcast this past summer; the week millions began to pour into the streets rebelling against white supremacy and demanding justice for George Floyd. When we began a fascist regime was tightening its grip on society; we called the podcast "Inside With #OutNow" as the movement to get these fascists out became all the more urgent.  Since then, we've co...

Sam Goldman interviews Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College and Director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies at NSSR. Dr. Finchelstein is the author of seven books on fascism,  populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America  and Europe. His latest book is A Brief H...