The Empire Never Ended

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...

Following last week's Tempel ov Blood update, Boris recounts some of the latest news on the Order of Nine Angles. He examines the O9A and ToB connection with multiple murders in the UK and Russia before checking in with the ongoing 'insight role' in the Montenegrian Orthodox Church by the Astral bone Gnawers Lodge. The crew discusses the latest riots in Montenegro and speculates about the lack of...

Tying off the gushing wound that is interwar American fascism, 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 Americanist incubator that twice encouraged Nazis, capitalists, and politicians to join together under a common banner of isolationism, free markets, and anti-Semitism. Fritz exp...

TENE analyzes the recent exposure of the FBI's role in bankrolling the 'Tempel ov Blood', Joshua Caleb Sutter's American nexion of the Order of Nine Angles. Rey briefly reviews Sutter's history as a 'Phineas Priest' of the Aryan Nations, his insight roles in the DPRK-obsessed Songun Study Group and his ersatz Kali-worshipping sect, and the founding of the ToB, his Nazi vampire order. They discuss...

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 and noblest tribe of Israel. And where does that leave the Jews? Well, that depends on who you ask, but it a...

This is a story about interwar America and a mass Nazi movement called the Silver Shirts centered around a man who claimed to speak to long-dead celebrities, including the surprisingly anti-Semitic ghosts of Ben Franklin and Jesus Christ. Follow William Dudley Pelley, toilet paper heir, Hollywood screenwriter, award-winning author, dedicated hustler, and American Nazi militia leader as "mentors" f...

Boris introduces The Empire Never Ended to a very special Bavarian boy named Fritz Kuhn who, through summer camps, mass rallies, and marching (so much marching) throughout the '30s, tried to reconcile racial Americanism and German Nazism through his German-American Bund. Though his career was brief, Kuhn amassed tens of thousands of followers and inspired much of the symbolism and look of future g...

Remember that time when a third of the U.S. listened to the weekly podcasts of a fascist radio priest? No? Well, neither did Fritz, who guides Boris and Rey through the tangled tale of Father Charles Coughlin, the confusingly named 'National Union for Social Justice', and his would-be terrorist militia, the Christian Front. Despite leading one of the largest American fascist movements in America,...

Trailer for their second episode of Arc 3, where Boris takes TENE on a tour of an underappreciated part of American history - the Italian-American Fascists of the interwar period. They look at the largely forgotten story of Mussolini's supporters in the US as well as the brutal uphill struggle against them. Boris describes spectacular street battles and assassinations that seem more cinematic than...

In their first episode of this third arc, Fritz introduces daddy of America and total Nazi prick, Henry Ford, to TENE's rogues' gallery. They take a look at Fordism as basically Taylorism on amphetamines plus with a private army of spies and thugs to keep labor in line. Fritz describes Henry Ford's bizarre schemes to Americanize his immigrant labor force as well as a little colony in Brazil called...

Jumping forward a bit in time to the post-war Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), Boris takes The Empire Never Ended on a quick tour of Partisan Cinema and its historical context. Boris, Fritz, and Rey discuss some of the genre's most iconic films: Slavica (1947), Kozara (1962), Battle of Neretva (1969), Battle of Sutjeska (1973), and the epic Nazi-slaughter romp, Walter Defends Saraj...

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 TV movie D...

TENE interviews the 'Antifa Guy' himself, Mark Bray, to ruminate on the phenomenon of anti-fascism in America and Europe since the timely publication of his book Antifa: and Anti Fascist Handbook following Charlottesville in 2017. He elaborates on the history and limitations of the term 'antifa' itself and comments on ludicrous attempts to connect it to everything from the Capitol Riots to Califor...