Behind the Bastards

In this week's harrowing episode, Robert and Soren Bowie explore the life and times of Don Simpson: the man who produced Top Gun and most of the other big hits of the 1980s while being a coked-up devil behind the scenes.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file:

• Hope & Dirty Tricks: How Lula Beat Flavio Bolsonaro
• Election Rumors and Conspiracism
• Catching up with the status of Kurdish groups in Iran 
• Executive Disorder: 2026 Midterms Edition 
• Executive Disorder: GOP Blame Game, Trump/Epstein Report, Paraguay Ousts President

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Sources/Links:

Election Rumors and Conspiracism

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/trump-reward-reporting-voter-fraud
• https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/harassment-public-records-requests-bombard-uw-truth-seeker-after-jan-6-hearings-cameo/
• https://uwcip.substack.com/p/election-rumor-rundown-october-24
• https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/minnesota-charges-conservative-activist-okeefe-influencer-higby-after-voting-2026-10-29/

Catching up with the Status of Kurdish Groups in Iran

• https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg

Executive Disorder: GOP Blame Game, Trump/Epstein Report, Paraguay Ousts President

• https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/10/how-mamdani-canceled-cop-city/416903/ 
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/nyregion/pied-a-terre-mamdani-appeal-win-home-tax.html?smid=url-share
• https://apnews.com/article/port-strikes-arms-shipments-france-greece-italy-4a8813406fd51b91b3b7d17826c1883d
• https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg/status/2117641211909730538?a=ri24O90ueHp7eYgCoDc&s=20
• https://x.com/war_noir/status/2117581845755773246?a=P0quWPGQ6wjaX70NPOQ&s=20
• https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26/26A624/431463/20261102111302952_California%20Application.pdf 
• https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/united-states-v-california-2/ 
• https://2026.electoral.dsausa.org/
• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/senate-results
• https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/how-trump-lost-midterms-33cf9fd4?st=EQm4gx
• https://x.com/justinbaragona/status/2117780696626257981?a=Q68Ma2bBhMU2LKxTVkk&s=20
• https://x.com/JDVance/status/2118004988433641835
• https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/2117614591060721973?a=A5arnEBUOHurQE3jSg8&s=20
• https://x.com/atrupar/status/2117612993139585093?a=dprbLi0Afsej7Jh14ko&s=20
• https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/04/desantis-calls-midterm-bloodbath-an-extinction-level-event-for-republicans-01148705
• https://x.com/politico/status/2117840712855113793?a=5vZ3flWUbvcJyTvleyU&s=2
• https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/11/05/congress/bernie-sanders-launches-medicare-for-all-push-01151604
• https://x.com/atrupar/status/2117887743443505646?a=tif1VPo4NuwejhijsNY&s=20
• https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6199505-house-investigations-trump-administration/
• https://x.com/atrupar/status/2118335426968616973?a=tRXmF86Rp3SEkpIuB_E&s=20
• https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/15/paolo-zampolli-fired-state-department-trump-01121739
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-call-for-special-counsel-to-investigate-trump-s-ties-to-epstein/ar-AA2g6UnX
• https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-report-details-mounting-evidence-linking-trump-to-epstein-s-criminal-activities-and-doj-s-cover-up-specific-accounts-involving-11-women-provide-more-evidence-of-potential-sex-crimes
• https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/318-garment-factories-closed-amid-labour-unrest-over-7-lakh-workers-leave-workplaces 
• https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/paraguay-president-santiago-pena-resigns-following-bank-collapse/4102079/

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In part 2, Dennis Hastert lucks his way into becoming Speaker of the House and helps Congress redefine corruption for the 21st century. And then, after his retirement, it all comes crashing down.

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Robert tells Miles Gray the tangled story of Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House, pioneer of congressional corruption, and pedophile.

Sources:

Prosecutors detail sex abuse allegations against Dennis Hastert | PBS News Weekend

Dennis Hastert Dies at 84: Timeline of Scandals, Controversies and Criminal Conviction - Newsweek

Uncovering the Dennis Hastert cover-up | Bloom Fudali

Former Speaker Dennis Hastert indicted - POLITICO

Hastert returns to his humble beginnings after historic career -- Daily Herald

Washingtonpost.com: Plain-Talking Hastert Poised to Be Speaker

House Speaker Dennis Hastert Can Win Friends, But Can He Influence People? - Page 9 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune

Biography of Speaker J. Dennis Hastert | Dickstein Shapiro

Ex-Yorkville school chief recalls no misconduct complaints against Hastert - Chicago Tribune

Payments by Hastert Linked to Report of Sexual Abuse - NYTimes.com

Dennis Hastert has a history of keeping secrets - Vox

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file:

• Israeli Elections and the Palestinians
• 2026 Elections (The Union Ones)
• ¡El Chupacabras!
• Kim Kelly's Morbid Labor Tales 
• Executive Disorder: Lula’s Victory, AI Election Ads, Voter Fraud, Revolt in Albania

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Sources/Links:

Israeli Elections and the Palestinians

• Israel's Elections: What's at Stake?, International Crisis Group (Max Rodenbeck, Mairav Zonszein, Amjad Iraqi), 15 October 2026
• A Jewish Currents Guide to the Israeli Elections, Josh Nathan-Kazis, Jewish Currents, 20 October 2026
• Occupied Thoughts interview with Sami Abu Shehadeh https://fmep.org/resource/barred-from-knesset-elections-sami-abu-shehadeh-on-the-state-of-israeli-democracy/
• Prospect magazine op-ed on the settlers and the state - https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle-east/75279/settler-rioters-are-israeli-state-policythrough-deniable-means

2026 Elections (The Union Ones)

• https://linktr.ee/PamelaSH

¡El Chupacabras!

• Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore by Benjamin
  Radford
• Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacle in Cuba and Puerto Rico,
  1898-1956 by Reinaldo L. Román
• En Qué Quedó Ep. 6 “El Chupacabras”
  https://open.spotify.com/episode/2r9ISXwgY7zTpWj2EJWcF1
• Radio Ambulante “El vampiro entre nosotros”
  https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hvdSD4aXHwoOWoMYAdN9x
• Sucking Vulnerability: Neoliberalism, the Chupacabras, and the Post-Cold War Years by
  William A Calvo-Quirós
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230814111741/http://www.barriology.com/uploads/2/3/2/7/
  23276452/calvo-quiros_sucking_vulnerability_rev.pdf
• El Chupacabra: Icon of Resistance to US Imperialism
• Species (1995) dir. Roger Donaldson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MGZnLsPSRc
• La Operación (1982) dir. Ana María García https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJoWMbRxvM&t=36s
• La Operación -Background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6XEuu_auR8&t=8s
• https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/se-registran-dos-ataques-del-chupac
  abras/
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/30/vieques-puerto-rico-us-navy-base-traini
  ng
• https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Portals/68/Documents/Business-Lines/Environmental/Enviro
  nmental-Restoration/NAVFAC-Atlantic/Vieques/Vieques_Fact_Sheet_03_Depleted_Uran
  ium_in_LIA_Eng.pdf
• https://www.fs.usda.gov/r08/elyunque/recreation/discover-history/us-military-and-el-yunq
  ue-national-forest
• https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24816374-the-history-of-the-us-department-
  of-defense-programs-for-the-testing-evaluation-and-storage-of-tactical-herbicides-agent-
  orange-in-pr/?q=puerto+rico&mode=document#document/p5
• https://www.elvocero.com/actualidad/otros/las-grandes-sequ-as-que-marcaron-a-puerto-
  rico-durante-el-siglo-xx/article_e6a37bce-5269-4040-836d-799a04358fc2.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/12/26/mystery-creature-ravages-p
  uerto-rican-livestock/b7704250-dae0-4fa3-a886-561db637b463/
• https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-03-mn-9730-story.html
• “Monsters and Messiahs by Mike Davis”
•  “Beast of Borikén" by Julio Anta, Daniel IriZarri, Patricio Delpeche, and Lucas Gattoni

Kim Kelly's Morbid Labor Tales 

• https://proteanmag.com/2021/10/31/picket-lines-in-the-graveyard-a-history-of-cemetery-workers-strikes/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67168074
• https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/dc33-strike-philadelphia-medical-examiners-injunction-20250703.html
• https://6abc.com/post/retrieval-dead-bodies-is-being-delayed-due-blue-collar-union-dc33-strike-philadelphia-officials-say/16936166/
• https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/sacrilegious-bodies-piling-up-at-cook-county-morgue/
• https://6abc.com/archive/8511845/
• https://abc7.com/archive/8719820/
• https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/02/archives/workers-strike-funeral-homes-100-establishments-hit-in-the.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/04/archives/state-fails-to-end-embalmers-strike.html
• https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2024/08/28/the-coffin-makers-strike-1872/
• https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=pilot18720622-01.2.22&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-----------------------

Executive Disorder: Lula’s Victory, AI Election Ads, Voter Fraud, Revolt in Albania

• https://x.com/aricnesbitt/status/2066923547964928106?a=kc7nT6MWbZZrCG5F3ho&s=20
• https://x.com/reaganreese_/status/2064370476449669139?a=o_23wNhd8KJXG1_3jd8&s=20
• https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2097325814689743049?a=-BXTLNGkR3wjP9lkgeE&s=20
• https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/2083629219980960030?a=U6bD8EFjG4McMm-xQCM&s=20
• https://x.com/NassauExec/status/2096705749774631131?a=9MzOBMvGxcqDqhpGhgA&s=20
• https://x.com/BlueprintFNDN/status/2078957886403670411?a=2Q_B5IADKyInPq5JQKE&s=20
• https://x.com/PollTracker2024/status/2076099238363005194?a=GAD-fsC8RATzjNcbr5s&s=20
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrw_hLs4O_0
• https://x.com/JacobRubashkin/status/2113454492872045007?a=jb16JdrbsG8yhaW1ljI&s=20
• https://x.com/NassauExec/status/2094800565452611646?a=wRx4Pm2YJdKDtLMz7Eo&s=20
• https://x.com/NassauExec/status/2091865610233786666?a=q7ts8IGOQNOt_zkiCGE&s=20
• https://x.com/AdImpact_Pol/status/2051314128468197851?lang=en
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0093650226142143
• https://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/releases-101526/
• https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/artificial-intelligence-ai-in-elections-and-campaigns 
• https://www.ncsl.org/state-legislatures-news/details/when-ai-campaign-ads-fake-reality 
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/politics/midterm-elections-ai-generated-ads.html
• https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/deciding-fake-images-candidates-are-using-ai-political-ads-get-vote-rcna605243 
• https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-10.hjc-dems-staff-report-epstein-and-trump.pdf
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly097zw1xwo
• https://www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-detainee-dies-at-otay-mesa-detention-center-in-san-diego/
• https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/10/27/iraqi-court-sentences-seven-french-isis-members-to-prison/
• https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/2113552255576092815
• https://sana.sy/en/syria/2353795/
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/10/27/flavio-bolsonaro-flees-brazil-us/92462116007/
• https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3moy4zcl3b52a
• https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2114740388514697527 
• https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/netherlands-citizen-arrested-illegally-voting-2024-election 
• https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2113703040444145701
• https://apnews.com/article/california-voter-data-justice-department-lawsuit-0305190ba958051bb86741ac00da36a7 
• https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-state-california-over-voter-list 
• https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1466286/ 
• https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/2113794933236871180
• https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026-10-26-Order-.pdf 
• https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-charges-28-foreign-nationals-california-election-crimes 
• https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-noncitizen-voting-court/
• https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2087950683831931327a=2VozR5e62ZW8NoNmfl8&s=20
• https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2087950683831931327
• https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2115228635326242842
• https://www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/2026/October/election-charges
• https://citizens.al/en/2026/09/07/100-days-of-the-flamingo-revolution-the-new-culture-of-civic-protest/ 
• https://www.balkanweb.com/en/On-the-14th-day-of-student-protests--citizens-and-young-people-gather-en-masse-in-front-of-the-Ministry-of-Education./#gsc.tab=0 
• https://www.tiranatimes.com/albanian-government-tightens-protest-laws-as-crisis-deepens/ 

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Robert concludes the thrilling tale of the life of Peter Rachman by explaining how his death was used by even worse Slumlords to evade any responsibility for their crimes.

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Peter Rachman was a London landlord so bad, his last name became an internationally recognized synonym for "shitty slumlord". In these episodes, Robert explains how he went from fleeing the Nazis, to fleecing the British.

https://archive.is/EXu9c#selection-1535.829-1539.80

https://www.unseenhistories.com/the-murky-world-of-peter-rachman-neil-root/

https://www.thejc.com/life/books/how-landlord-rachmans-name-became-a-household-word-for-the-worst-reasons-mrrpna3a

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/krays-christine-keeler-cheap-flats-36683606

https://www.londonhistorians.org/index.php?s=file_download&id=71

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-could-not-get-rid-of-notorious-rachman-178265.html

https://www.thesteepletimes.com/the-fog/redefining-rachman/

https://andyshistoricalmusings.wordpress.com/2024/08/05/who-was-peter-rachman-the-slum-landlord/

https://bnp.org.uk/rogue-landlords/

https://julesbirch.com/2012/10/24/revealing-the-real-rachman/

https://julesbirch.com/2014/05/14/rachman-rogues-and-renting/

https://time.com/archive/6807883/great-britain-the-saga-of-polish-peter/

https://www.independent.co.uk/hei-fi/entertainment/jon-snow-the-slum-landlord-is-alive-and-doing-well-2306457.html

https://flashbak.com/even-the-bathwater-is-dirty-grim-and-grimy-tales-of-an-old-notting-hill-433573/

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file:

• Anti-Palestinian Racism
• How Trump Will Try To Make Voting Restrictions Even Worse
• The Save Europe Act and the Bad Faith Nazis Who Created It P1
• The Save Europe Act and the Bad Faith Nazis Who Created It P2
• Executive Disorder: Alberta Separatism, Ukraine's Starlink Predicament, Global Protests Continue

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Sources/Links:

Anti-Palestinian Racism

• https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61db30d12e169a5c45950345/t/627dcf83fa17ad41ff217964/1652412292220/Anti-Palestinian+Racism-+Naming%2C+Framing+and+Manifestations.pdf
• https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/resources/human-rights/2024-november/recognizing-islamophobia-anti-palestinian-racism-and-antisemitsm/
• https://pomeps.org/anti-palestinian-racism-analyzing-the-unnamed-and-suppressed-reality
• https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/resources/dismantling-anti-palestinian-racism
• https://afi.mesana.org/

How Trump Will Try To Make Voting Restrictions Even Worse

• https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7296/text
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/saveamerica/
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/ensuring-citizenship-verification-and-integrity-in-federal-elections/
• https://michigandems.com/michigan-leaders-slam-mike-rogers-for-trying-to-intimidate-and-disenfranchise-detroit-voters/
• https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a124_hgci.pdf
• https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.291053/gov.uscourts.dcd.291053.192.0.pdf
• https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17238.pdf
• https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a124_hgci.pdf
• https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a305_4g15.pdf
• https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a308_pok0.pdf
• https://www.uscis.gov/save/current-user-agencies/guidance/voter-registration-and-voter-list-maintenance-fact-sheet
• https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/supreme-court-revives-dhs-use-of-flawed-immigration-database-for-voter-purges/
• https://www.sos.state.tx.us/about/newsreleases/2026/091526.shtml
• https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/09/supreme-court-clears-way-for-trump-administration-to-use-modified-voter-verification-database/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/nevada-voters-homeland-security-trump.html
• https://www.propublica.org/article/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistake
• https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-officers-ice-voting-e43c1758ccd446eb441957b36f9e281f

 The Save Europe Act and the Bad Faith Nazis Who Created It P1 + P2

• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R0788
• https://www.save-europe-act.com/#section-form
• https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1658
• https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/07/23/far-right-activists-to-sue-european-commission-over-remigration-rejection
• https://www.europesays.com/3147332/
• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R0788
• https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-far-right-extremist-denied-us-travel-permit-after-christchurch-link/a-48107733
• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/211/2019-05-30?locale=en
• https://archive.is/V3Qye
• https://orf.at/stories/3122404/
• https://archive.ph/LClfA
• https://archive.ph/NL4NF
• https://register.eci.ec.europa.eu/core/api/register/document/5652679877066501

Executive Disorder: Alberta Separatism, Ukraine's Starlink Predicament, Global Protests Continue

• https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/politics/katie-zacharia-press-secretary 
• https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/katie-zacharia-out-as-press-secretary-after-five-days-01123470
• https://scholten.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-scholten-statement-threatening-letter-she-received-grand-rapids
• https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/hillary-scholten-threatening-letter-grand-rapids-office/ 
• https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/21/politics/heat-ray-weapon-dhs-pentagon 
• https://x.com/PatrickWeaverPA/status/2112880738425065674?s=20
• https://youtu.be/yy_QibrY_QQ?si=f7yzrPIN1SGbAqIe&t=380
• https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regimes-sittwe-counteroffensive-hits-the-rocks-on-nga-pyi-island.html
• https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/53d80bf144804de8a5e5138dd62cf873/view
• https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/20/texas-transgender-pamphlets-tent-student-union/
• https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/2112343101708611879?s=20
• https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/2112340434551013382?s=20
• https://a856-cityrecord.nyc.gov/RequestDetail/20260929027 
• https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-moves-to-spend-nearly-9m-of-gender-affirming-care-fund-for-minors
• https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/102126zr_5i36.pdf
• https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/10/justices-leave-in-place-lower-court-order-preventing-trump-administration-from-implementing-new-/
• https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/bugs/2026/10/php2shell-why-websites-are-going-offline-for-emergency-security-updates
• https://boereport.com/2025/03/24/albertas-massive-oil-and-gas-reserves-keep-growing-heres-why/
• https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-10-20/canada-awaits-alberta-referendum-results-after-carney-urges-voters-to-reject-separation
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