The Red Nation Podcast

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes hosts a solo episode on the US imperialist doctrine of "Manifest Destiny." Check out Moussa al-Sadah's article "Palestinian Peoples: on Disintegration and the Conditions for Intifada Palestinian Peoples: on Disintegration and the Conditions for Intifada" Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel  Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.c...

A special screening event hosted by the DSA in Santa Fe, NM for local charitable causes included a panel of special guests on the film How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) in which a group of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline. Hosted by actor Jasper Keen, with special guest panelists including Alma Castro, Santa Fe City Councilor; Elena Ortiz, Co-Host o...

***TRN Podcast host Nick Estes did an episode with producer Sina Rahmani for an episode on his new SubStack project, Red Scare. This is a preview. To listen/watch the entire episode, subscribe to Red Scare *** Nick Estes in conversation with TRN Podcast producer and host of The East is a Podcast  Sina Rahmani  (@UrOrientalist) explore what John Carpenter's They Live  (1988) can teach us how the ru...

The third and final livestream of the book tour celebrating the publication of Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s Hosted by Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie at the Inspired Moments Event Center Farmington, New Mexico. Watch the  video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Press Release: "From the late summer of 1972 to...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes welcomes back comrade, colleague, and oft-returning guest of the show Alex Aviña to discuss the Trump regime's widening attack on higher education and  how it is being waged through a class of neoliberal administrators largely identifying as Democrats. Alex is the author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside Check out Anti-Imp...

The John Redhouse book tour makes its way to Albuquerque where comrades from Red Nation, Dr. Jennifer Denetdale and Red Power Hour co-host Melanie Yazzie join author John Redhouse to discuss his new book,  Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s Watch the  video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Press Release: "From the late...

Red Media Press and Common Notions are proud to announce our second co-publication! Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by legendary warrior John Redhouse is a one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest in the 1970s.  This episode is a recording of th...

***Producer's note: This is a preview of the latest episode of Kuskalla, a trilingual (Quechua-Spanish-English) podcast produced by Red Media and hosted by our comrades Yojana Miraya Oscco and Renzo Aroni. Listen to the full episode on the Kuskalla podcast feed*** In this episode, I talked with  Jonathan Ritter , who is the Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Chair of the Department of Musi...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes interviews Allen Brown (@AlleenBrown ) from Drilled and Tristan Ahtone (@Tahtone ) from Grist about their investigation into the legal war waged on the Standing Rock Water Protectors and their allies years after the end of the encampments.  Check out Tristan's article  "A court ordered Greenpeace to pay a pipeline company $660M. What happens next?" Check out the video e...

**Note: This episode was recorded before the American aggression on Iranian nuclear facilities** TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by guests Nina Farnia ( @ninafarnia ) and Ali Alizadeh ( @ali7adeh ) to discuss the Zionist aggression on Iran and the looming specter of the US joining the war. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Check out Nina's recent article, "The...

Red Power Hour is back! RPH co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena discuss Ryan Coogler's new horror film, Sinners (2025) Watch the video edition on The Red Nation YouTube channel ! Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr Join us for ou...

Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena survey the burning tirefire of US imperial decline and ask the perennial question, what is even left to say? Video edition coming soon! Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/redmediapr

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya, two researchers from the Sakha Republic and hosts of Red Media's newest media project, TYMSYY . Make sure to check out Sardana's earlier episodes of the show! Watch the video edition  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-cont...

Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series. This tracklist features some of the best of the show from the year 2022. Part two will be available on our Patreon as patron-exclusive content! Much gratitude to our patrons who have kept the show alive these past five years! Please support the show and gain access to bonus content on the Red Me...

RPH is back! Cohosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie do a very deep dive reading of  Thunderheart (1992).  Watch the video edition  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr

**Producer's note: This episode went for an astonishing 2.5 hours -- our longest episode ever! We have released the first hour of the conversation on the free feed, and if you want to listen to the entire episode , become a patron for as little as $2 a month** Nick Estes was joined by Jared Ware (@jaybeware) , host of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism , for a livestream conversation and analysis...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by legal scholar Nina Farnia (@NinaFarnia) to discuss America's supposed slide into oligarchic fascism, what remains of the Western "rules-based order," and how the war in Ukraine and the Gaza holocaust have enriched the US ruling class. Check out her article,  "Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law"  Watch the video edition  on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube...

Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series and features some of the best of the show from 2021. Part two will be available on our Patreon as patron-exclusive content! Much gratitude to our patrons who have kept the show alive these past five years! Empower the show and gain access to bonus content on the Red Media Patreon!   Every episode...

Red Power is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz dissect the fascist assault on institutions of higher learning. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/redmediapr

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Diné and Hopi artist and musician JJ Otero about using music to wage resistance. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content   Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ Patreon www.patreon.com/redmediapr  

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by journalist Camila Escalante on the rift within Bolivia's socialist movement and the potential return of Evo Morales. Camila Escalante is the Editor at Kawsachun News and Latin American correspondent for Press TV. Keep up with their reporting at https://kawsachun.com/ and empower their work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KawsachunNews Watch the video ed...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with attorney Natali Segovia, Executive Director of the Water Protector Legal Collective. Follow WPLC on Instagram   Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel The Red Nation Podcast is a collaboration between  The Red Nation  and  Red Media . Empower our work: GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ empower-red-medias-indigenous- content  Su...

*Producer's note: This is only the first half of the conversation, which in total stretched almost 2.5 hours!  To listen to the second half, please sign up at Patreon.com/redmediapr or you can watch the full episode on our YouTube channel soon! RPH is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz are joined by TRN comrade Levi Harter to discuss James Cameron's mega-blockbuster (and also mega racis...

Celebrate five years of The Red Nation Podcast with us! This mixtape is a part of our "best of" series. This tracklist features some of the best of the show from the year 2020. 2020 was a jammed-packed year of events and content, so we have decided to break up this episode into two parts. Part two will be available on our Patreon later this week! Please support the show and gain access to bonus co...

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes speaks with Mohammed el-Kurd  (@m7mdkurd)  about his new book, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (2025) Watch the  video edition  or the  livestream on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Empower our media work:  GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empower-red-medias-indigenous-content  Subscribe to The Red Nation Newsletter: https://www.therednation.org/ P...