The Empire Never Ended

Fritz invites Boris and Rey down the twisted path of 'America First'. TENE examines two early organized incarnations of this sentiment and gives a broad view of this Americanist incubator that twice encouraged Nazi supporters, capitalists, and politicians to join together under a common banner of isolationism, free markets, and anti-Semitism. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/ten...

TENE gets their grubby mitts on a rambling racist pamphlet written by Klansman John Kasper and his mentor, fascist propagandist and celebrated poet, Ezra Pound. Something between a cryptic ransom note and an exhausting policy document, "Virginians on Guard!" is a uniquely batshit screed about the dangers of miscegenation and its trojan horse, school integration. And rock-n'-roll... and boxing... y...

Rey returns to Ezra's fashy career as a struggling propagandist for Mussolini's regime in Rome. TENE examines Pound's preferred fascism, the so-called "left wing", his support for the bloodthirsty Republic of Salo, and how Ezra got away with it. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

TENE peeks in on Ezra Pound's radio propaganda during WWII and marvels at the frothy mix of anti-semitic conspiracies and impenetrable incoherence.   Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .  

The Empire Never Ended discusses the moment that poet Ezra Pound abandoned the idea of the artist as an aloof, socially disinterested individual, adopts one of an artist (himself) as a 'great man' who solves THE problem of society. Pound's solution? The "social credit" movement of Major Douglas, the "Free Money" ideas Silvio Gesell, and a lot of love for a certain Il Duce. Subscribe to  patreon.or...

Things are not looking bright for the Order of Nine Angles. The Order loses their former 'Outer Representative' to love while Fed snitches and Sith Lords take the reigns. Nikola, the Orthodox Priest / Astral Bone Gnawer gets trolled on a live stream, and some of the most tedious fash fic yet from the mysterious Russian 'Temple of the Black Sun'. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/...

TENE offers their initial thoughts on the invasion of Ukraine, the effects it's had on Russian and Ukrainian fascist groups, a Balkan perspective on hot takes from 'smarties', and some ways to offer solidarity to those trying to keep each other alive. Jail support for arrested anti-war protesters: https://wiki.avtonom.org/en/index.php/Donate Anarchists organizing transportation, necessary goods, a...

Boris completes TENE's soul-crushing look at the so-called "Creativity Movement" and its post-Klassen period of career whiner, Matt Hale. Bad literature, worse RPGs, and deadly violence characterize Hale's World Church of the Creator, which feels less like a church and more like a toilet wine hangover. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

Boris, Fritz, and Rey watch the long-running public access cable show, Race & Reason, and despair.  TENE looks at the show's history and the fellas introduce its infamous host, White Aryan Resistance's Tom Metzger, as well as get into the nitty-gritty of a handful of his strangest interviews with a Fascist Wobbly, a Nazi Trot, and an NAACP Bircher. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/...

TENE takes a look at Ben Klassen, a boring businessman who became the founder of the Church of the Creator and its poorly-named 'Creativity Movement'. Boris explains the racist core of this parody of a church and pushes through some of the worst writing in the history of The Empire Never Ended. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

Boris finds some Bob Matthews Fash Fic on the Stormfront message board, which somehow still exists. After realizing it's all written in the second-person, Fritz decides it was meant to be an RPG. Fritz has Rey and Boris guide Bob and his Zombie companion in their holy war against... FEMA, maybe? Stand up like paladins! Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

Boris finishes off TENE's study of The Order with Bob Matthews and company and their most infamous crimes. Their moment in the sun was a short one, however, as typical betrayal and incompetence led to Bob's fiery death and spelled the end to the Silent Brotherhood.  Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod .

TENE watches two pretty weird films about or inspired by the Order, Bob Matthews' white nationalist group of the early '80s: Brotherhood of Murder (1998) and Costa-Gavras' lesser-known film, Betrayed (1988). Each film royally fucks up in its own special way, creating some very strange representations of the 'Silent Brotherhood'. Subscribe at patreon.com/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod!

TENE finally dives headfirst into the Order, the most successful white nationalist terrorist group of the 1980s lionized by neo-Nazis today. Boris looks at founder Robert Matthews' early life and the development of his "Silent Brotherhood", with all the weirdness and stupidity one might expect from people who use the Turner Diaries as a life plan. Subscribe at patreon.com/tenepod  and  twitter.com...

TENE dusts off the Fash-Files and looks into two mysterious close encounters of the third kind. Fritz offers a fresh look at the famous stories of the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter of 1955 and the Lovette-Cunningham Incident at White Sands, New Mexico in '56. He examines the social and political environment in which these stories were popularized and argues that understanding Christian Identity sug...

TENE watches the "White Supremacy" episode of the NatGeo docu-series, Trafficked , and discovers that it's basically a Neo-Nazi promotional film. When the documentary is not presenting Neo-Nazis in their own idealized self-image, it's promoting private intelligence agencies and hinting at Russian meddling. This is how NOT to cover neo-Nazis. Subscribe at  patreon.com/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tene...

TENE concludes Francis Parker Yockey's weird life and work with Fritz's final book report on Imperium. Featuring Francis' hot bad takes on American, Russian, and Japanese culture and history, his insane fantasies about America's activity in post-war Germany, and some unsurprisingly wrong predictions about our geopolitical present. Subscribe at patreon.com/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod

TENE finishes the ridiculous life of Francis Parker Yockey with his equally ridiculous demise in San Francisco County Jail. Rey continues his look at Yockey's vast connections in the Nazi network of post-war Europe and America. More interesting, however, is Yockey's developing adoration of Stalin and the Soviet Union, which made him some very strange bedfellows. Subscribe at patreon.com/tenepod an...

Fritz introduces Francis Parker Yockey's magnum opus, Imperium, to the TENE library, which turns out to be way worse than any of the guys imagined. Get to know Yockey's theory of history and society and stand in awe at his terrible handle on modernism, ancient history, and European culture. Despite being among the most important fascist books of the post-war period, Imperium, as it turns out, is d...

In this second installment of Francis Parker Yockey's life and career, Rey narrates Francis' adventures in Europe as well as his powerful connections in the United States. Yockey's quest for recognition in the fascist scene nets him a few unusual roommates as well as a long list of lovers as he bounces from rejection to rejection. Between his pouting and self-pity, Francis somehow manages to make...

Boris, Fritz, and Rey get word of a bizarre series of podcasts featuring a debate between Balkan Muslims and TENE's favorite Montenegrin Orthodox Priest, Nikola Poleksić. Nikola's interlopers seem unaware that Nikola is also an External Adept of the O9A 'nexion' the Astral Bone Gnawer's Lodge, with predictably absurd results. Subscribe to our Patreon  for weekly premium episodes and our Twitter !

The TENE fellas get good and smashed at the Death Valley compound to celebrate the new year, and basically, this is what happened. That's probably about as good a description as can be made about this one... Also, some clips from David Myatt and Richard Butler's lost podcast, The Dick and Davie Jape Town, and a sneak peek of the next arc of episodes. Subscribe to our Patreon  for weekly premium ep...

In episode 78, TENE goes through the early days of Francis Parker Yockey, an unusual American fascist. In the late 1930s, Yockey was a young (and very pretentious) intellectual deeply involved in the Fascist movement in the US and connected to every significant group of the time: German-American Bund, Silver Shirts, Father Coughlin's NUSJ, America First Committee, etc. What made him different from...

The Empire Never Ended takes an awful detour through the history and catalog of Resistance Records, North America's version of Rock Against Communism that made most of National Alliance's income. The guys talk RaHoWa, Bound For Glory, New Minority, and other progressively worse bands. Also, a bunch of awful clips and Fritz attempts to write a Resistance Records song and somehow overshoots... This...

Unlocked! Movie night at the TENE compound! In this spiritual sequel to their episode on Yugoslav partisan films, the Empire Never Ended visits Hollywood depictions of Yugoslavia in World War II. The crew watches wartime propaganda flick Chetniks! The Fighting Guerillas (1943), genre-setting Corman B-film The Secret Invasion (1963), boomer dad favorite Force 10 from Navarone (1978), and made for T...