The Empire Never Ended

In another theological episode, Fritz gives his first and last Cosmotheistic sermon, explaining the surprisingly vacant texts of William Luther Pierce's half-assed 'religion' for his National Alliance. TENE's exhaustive concordance on the three original holy texts of Cosmotheism, The Path, On Living Things, and On Society as well as Pierce's most important recorded sermon, Cosmotheism: The Wave of...

The Empire Never Ended concludes their biographical study of William Luther Pierce and goes deep into the multi-decade development and collapse of his National Alliance. Fritz talks about the impact of the Turner Diaries, introduces Pierce's pet religion "Cosmotheism", and gives some idea of the National Alliance's international reach. The guys also discuss Resistance Records, the absurd Vanguard...

In the second meeting of TENE's Fash Fic Book Club, Fritz reads William Luther Pierce, III's infamous book, the Turner Diaries. The story, which originally began to appear as installments in National Alliance's nazi rag, Attack! in 1975, is framed as a serious of unbelievably dry diary entires by "known racist" named Earl Turner, as he battles The System in the early 90s. It's a shitty bad book, b...

TENE finally meets William Luther Pierce, III, founder of the National Alliance (NA), author of the Turner Diaries, and basically Neo-Nazi Dr. Evil. Fritz narrates Bill's life from his childhood as a little white supremacist, through his illustrious physics career, to his somewhat less-impressive beginnings as one of America's worst Nazis. The boys hear how Pierce climbed the ladder from the ANP/N...

Rey concludes his tour of duty with the American Nazi Party by telling the story of its final Fuhrer, Matthias Koehl, and his take on Esoteric Hitlerism in New Order. The crew briefly examines the life and thought of Koehl's greatest influences, Savitri Devi, who said that Hitler was an avatar of Vishnu, and Miguel Serrano, who mixed and matched esoteric 'traditions' until landing on a Hitler-Jesu...

Rey wraps up the darkly funny life of George Lincoln Rockwell and examines his lasting influence on neo-Naziism in the U.S. and abroad. The boys learn about Rockwell's surprisingly international World Union of National Socialists (WUNS) and the political intrigue they wrought on themselves, the controversy surrounding the creation of the well-known slogan, "White Power", and the American Nazi Part...

Rey gets Boris and Fritz to watch four... documentaries?... about the American Nazi Party approved by none other than the National Socialist Order, three of which are directed and narrated by somehow-still-living joke, James Mason. Jimbo's fawning take on George Lincoln Rockwell's disastrous gubernatorial campaign and his unintentionally hilarious supercut of "lost footage" are bad enough, yet pal...

Rey finally introduces the infamous and pathetic George Lincoln Rockwell and his American Nazi Party to the TENE pod roster of tragicomic fascist freaks. Son of a sociopathic Vaudevillian and clearly nostalgic for some 1930s-style LARPing, "Commander" Rockwell founds one of the most important and comically underappreciated neo-Nazi groups of the '60s that gave us such figures at Matt Koehl, Daniel...

Boris updates The Empire Never Ended on our pals in Montenegro followed by a dive into the strange world of uncanonical, unrecognized Orthodox churches. The TENE squad tries to make sense of vast array of strange acronyms and an icon gallery of weirdos ranging from Russian Nazi collaborationists in New York to apocalyptic anti-communist religious fanatics.   This is The Empire Never Ended, the Ant...

[UNLOCKED - Part one of the British Israelism / Christian Identity (ep 55) / Aryan Nations (ep 57) trilogy] Despite what its name might suggest, Rey introduces the British Israelite movement to TENE's arc on Americanist fascism and adds a whole new roster of fashy freaks to their collection. 'British Israelism' is the claim that the British - and eventually Europeans and 'Whites' - are the truest...

After failing to accept TENE's challenge to a rap battle, Fritz decides to be neighborly and meet David Myatt, founder of the Order of Nine Angles, on his own turf: faux-academic nonsense otherwise known as the 'Hebdomian Way'. Myatt is claiming that this 'philosophy' has replaced the O9A and represents a departure from his "extremist past"... Fritz disagrees. In fact, his Hebdomian Way is merely...

TENE interviews Bill Campbell, author of The Day the Klan Came to Town , a graphic novel fictionalizing an actual historical battle that took place between the Ku Klux Klan and a multi-ethnic neighborhood of Carnegie, Pennsylvania in 1923 through the eyes of an Italian immigrant mine worker. Bill discusses the creation of his characters, the historicity of the battle, and the research that went in...

Fritz tells the tragicomic tale of Daniel Burros, the Jewish neo-nazi who was the inspiration for the 2001 film, The Believer. Dan's story is a bizarre cross-section of neo-nazi life in the first half of the 1960s. Follow Dan's stranger-than-fiction path from ludicrous street demos with the American Nazi Party, to armed plots with the National Renaissance Party, on to his final gig as Grand Dragon...

Boris finishes his two-part study of the John Birch Society. He looks at their organizational structures, "reading rooms", and media game as well as their ludicrous ideology. Reaching 100,000 members in the mid-'60s, the JBS survives well into the common day despite the disappearance of the Soviet Union. Boris also brings Revilo P. Oliver back into the mix, as well as the JBS' current cast of char...

The TENE crüe watches Birth of a Nation, the incredibly racist propaganda film of 1915 that created the Prohibition-Era Ku Klux Klan that we all know and hate. Boris gives some background on its sometimes overstated place in film history while Fritz and Rey recount the plot as they all attempt to interpret the film's bizarre political and philosophical intentions behind its disgusting ahistorical...

Take a walk down Repressed Memory Lane with Boris as he introduces Americanism's own sugar daddy, Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society which brought us classic hits like the "War on Christmas", "America is a Republic, not a Democracy", "The Hawaiian Comintern", and of course, "Everyone is a Communist". What happens when a bunch of rich paranoid racists, Fred Koch included, get together...

Game night at The Empire Never Ended! Founder of the Order of Nine Angles, David Myatt, takes on the TENE team in their own Twitter DMs with absurd results. Boris, Fritz, and Rey deconstruct the flurry of nonsense that Myatt's communiques have become since the revelation that the Tempel ov Blood was subsidized by the FBI. They also check in with Chloe Ortega, the straight talking lunatic of the Wh...

TENE finds yet another thing Nazis are terrible at, parody swing music. 'Enjoy' the musical stylings of Goebbels-approved Charlie and his Orchestra, a wartime Nazi propaganda effort to trade the so-called 'degenerate' hits of Jewish and Black jazz artists with cringe-inducing parody versions towing the party line. With deepest apologies to the Andrews Sisters, TENE presents Nazi swing! Closing (an...

The Empire Never Ended gathers in their Death Valley compound to re-cap the first half of Arc 3 and break down the concept of "Americanism" as a distinct species of fascism. Boris, Fritz, and Rey attempt to outline the key elements of American fascism and find the common thread through its century-long evolution. This is The Empire Never Ended, the Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan podcast about (neo...

Rey goes all 'Oliver Stone' on the TENE crew with the Minutemen, America's own little 'Stay-Behind Unit' of feds and fash. Beginning in 1960, millionaire Robert DePugh - fashy loner pedo - founds the loose conglomeration of anti-communist militias called "The Minutemen", beholden only to an imaginary inner council. With an absurd level of state-sponsored impunity, DePugh commits crime after insane...

Game night at the Empire Never Ended! Boris, Fritz, and Rey are joined by some friends as they dive deep into the bewildering mess that is Nazi-made video games. In this experimental episode, Fritz hobbles through the barely-playable Zog's Nightmare 2 made by Aryan Nations-based company Resistance Records for the National Socialist Movement in 2007. He caps this off with a short tour of its fan-ma...

TENE goes on a field trip to Idaho where they visit the Church of Christ Christian and their militant political wing, the Aryan Nations lead by Richard Girnt Butler, a man who slurs his slurs. Carrying the Christian Identity tradition from the 1970s to the 2000s, Butler created an armed compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho where he developed a complex heraldry and continued the racist theology of his du...

TENE finds yet another thing Nazis are terrible at, parody swing music. 'Enjoy' the musical stylings of Goebbels-approved Charlie and his Orchestra, a wartime Nazi propaganda effort to trade the so-called 'degenerate' hits of Jewish and Black jazz artists with cringe-inducing parody versions towing the party line. With deepest apologies to the Andrews Sisters, TENE presents Nazi swing! Closing (an...

Ever wish the Bible had more space aliens and insane racism in it? Well, Fritz has the religion for you! TENE takes Christian Identity head-on from their split with the British Israelite movement through super racist ancient aliens to some of the earliest participants in the American militia movement. Christian Identity fuses apocalyptic militarism with the belief that Jewish people are literal ge...

The TENE film club meets again to take on the dreaded Black Legion! The boys watch two films, Legion of Terror (1936) and Black Legion (1937) starring Humphrey Bogart, as well as two radio plays, an episode of True Detective Mysteries (1937) and another entitled "The White Legion" (1938) on the original superhero serial, The Shadow. They compare these representations to the actual white supremacis...