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BBC Journalist and author Mike Wendling joins the podcast to talk about the rise and fall of the "Alt-Right", Art Bell, and how not to amplify bad information.

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Alt-Right From 4chan to the White House by Mike Wendling

https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786802378/alt-right/

Day of Reckoning - How ...

Lauren Manning is a former white nationalist skinhead who now works with a group called Life After Hate to help and support people who are ready to leave extremism behind.

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WALKING AWAY FROM HATE Our Journey Through Extremism

https://www.tidewaterpress.ca/walking-away-from-hate/

AFTER MY DAD...

Evan McLaren was the executive director of the NPI, Richard Spencer's white nationalist "think tank", until he resigned in 2018. We talk about what he saw there, and his journey out of hate.

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How the Alt-Right Grew From an Obscure Racist Cabal

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/alt-right-grew-obs...

Robert Downen from the Texas Tribune joins me once again to discuss the massive rightward political shift in Texas, white nationalists, the secessionist movement, and the billionaires who pay for it.

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Amid white supremacist scandal, far-right billionaire powerbrokers see historic election gains in Texas

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/08/tim-dunn-farris-wilks-defend-te...

In this episode, Jay McKenzie rejoins the pod to talk about the man who is probably the biggest stumbling block to a resolution to the horrible situation in Gaza.

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For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-...

Karl Folk from the Institute of Unreality joins the pod to discuss what a sociologist sees when looking at political signs in the Midwestern USA.

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Right-wing conspiracy theory politics grip Sequim, a small Washington coastal town

https://www.kuow.org/stories/right-wing-conspiracy-theories-gr...

On this episode, I'm joined by Mike Senters and Andy Vitek to talk about this latest controversy about "Wokeness" in the gaming world that some are calling "Gamergate 2".

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Andrew Vitek: Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science and Director, Counterterrorism Option

https://polisci.la...

Friends of the Pod Amanda Moore and Samantha Kutner return to discuss some of the challenges and obstacles that they and other women in the Journalism and CVE space are grappling with.

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Amanda's Substack

Amanda Moore's links

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Amanda Moore at The Nation

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Jacob Ware is a Research Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a professor at Georgetown University. He and I discuss his book, "God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America".

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Jacob Ware - Council on Foreign Relations

https://www.cfr.org/expert/jacob-ware

God, Guns, and ...

Dakota Adams is the son of the founder of Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, who was recently convicted of Seditious Conspiracy. He and I discuss growing up in the militia world, and much more.

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Deprogram An inside perspective on militias, extremism, and domestic terrorism.

EXCLUSIVE: OATH KEEPER...

Journalist Daniel Walters joins the pod to talk about the recent Patriot Front trial in Idaho, as well as schisms in the far right, and the idea of redemption and paths forward after leaving hate.

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Daniel Walters at InvestigateWest

https://www.invw.org/author/danielw/

Daniel Walters at The I...

The Republican Party has some serious issues going into the 2024 elections. Ross wrote a really brilliant essay about it, and we discuss it in this episode.

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The Republican Party is Falling Apart, and Nobody’s Noticing

https://themedianvoterderogatory.wordpress.com

Ross on Twitter

https://x.co...

Journalist Claire Goforth joins the pod to discuss her new four part series "Naziland", about how white nationalists are attempting to infiltrate communities, and how the residents are fighting back.

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Naziland - A four-part series examining right-wing radicals’ impact on communities nationw...

The dumbest people keep saying that the White Supremacist group "Patriot Front" are "Feds" and a "Psyop" In this episode, I talk to David Neiwert, to try and get to the bottom of this.

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Patriot Front’s neofascist spread a product of Rousseau’s ‘white nationalist pyramid scheme’

https://www.d...

* Charlie Kirk and TPUSA have decided that Martin Luther King is canceled. Karl Folk from the Institute of Unreality and I discuss what could possibly have motivated this.

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How Charlie Kirk Plans to Discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act

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Accused pedophile Ali Alexander is back on the political scene, proving once again that the GOP has no floor. This is his Permanent Record.

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“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander brags that “our perspective” and “fact set” on January 6 is “now being shared, is being taken in consideratio...

Mike Senters joins the Pod to discuss the firing of Harvard President Claudine Gay, as well as Chris Rufo's and the Right's potential next targets.

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Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Shortest Tenure in University History

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/3/claudine-gay-resign-h...

Haley from Arizona Right Wing Watch joins the pod to talk about attending Turning Point USA’s “America Fest”, which is the Parasocial Right's big yearly rinse of their gullible fanbase.

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Arizona Right Wing Watch - Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/AZRWW

Turning Point USA holds AmericaFest 2023 ...