Behind the Bastards

Robert sits down with Prop to discuss the early life of Heinrich Himmler, the man who built the SS into Hitler's engine of genocide.

(6 part series)

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We are doing a new Behind the Bastards Live show! In the Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, September 25th at 8pm! All performer proceeds go to support the Portland Defense Fund.

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Sources:

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

THE CAREER OF HEINRICH HIMMLER_0001.pdf

Longerich, Peter. Heinrich Himmler: A Life (p. 13). OUP Oxford. Kindle 

The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler on JSTOR

An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

"In Memory of the Girl in the Red Coat:" Heinrich Himmler’s Annotated Volumes of Mein Kampf

https://ia803406.us.archive.org/29/items/docuv3/Books/The%20Third%20Reich/The%20Celebrations%20in%20the%20Life%20of%20the%20SS%20Family%20by%20Fritz%20Weitzel%20%281939%29.pdf

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/himmlers-bridal-bootcamp-school-nazi-brides.html

https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/himmler-s-secret-directive-to-all-members-of-the-ss-and-the-police-on-the-care-of-all-legitimate-and-illegitimate-children-of-good-blood-october-28-1939

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Master-Dark-Arts-Yenne-ebook/dp/B004NNUY2Y

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/26/266698688/heinrich-himmlers-private-letters-published-in-german-newspaper

https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-private-heinrich-himmler/id6505124720

https://www.amazon.com/Himmler-Evil-Genius-Third-Reich-ebook/dp/B01M2A6B3G/ref=sr_1_17?crid=E50LI9MCINFL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.z6x_l5l35NMXS2OQuWFaVyTyeQToCbFtWufYLO0Ky4L51lUaUoGgVfmp9dpb0YgMMGMBzk6Ds5M4KY8XSGQdvzs_UWlPu3KkmHJV0_w1Lis71gwuHqxL4QpDLUxg_RgLfXjB7BuAQbn7kAstKkyA7w_NZpcXTr-nDXe0RoewTewNaEu0ci8AQ1anNJXxG-Dy.nKYUB17tVmFaGgeBMu1awu8zpzoH45_FAeO3Um6YpBs&dib_tag=se&keywords=himmler+biography&qid=1756935132&sprefix=himmler+biography%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-17&xpid=KnVwOODWUvtST

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

- Newsom’s Posting Through It

- Palestine and the American University feat. Dana El Kurd

- How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws, Part One

- How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws, Part Two

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #31

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Sources/Links:

Newsom’s Posting Through It

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/newsom-trump-social-media.html

https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/03/gavin-newsom-podcast-judgment-problem/ 

https://x.com/GovPressOffice 

https://bsky.app/profile/grahamformaine.bsky.social/post/3lwqwj3rdgk27

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNl79l0SdMb/?igsh=bXphd3E2N3Y2N20w

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2qJw7xQfqh0

https://www.kpbs.org/news/racial-justice-social-equity/2025/03/11/san-diego-sheriff-says-disputed-ice-transfer-was-legal

Palestine and the American University feat. Dana El Kurd

Clifford Ando – The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/

Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism - https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/

Ken Stern on IHRA definition - https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5326047/kenneth-stern-antimsietim-executive-order-free-speech

2023 Pew Research Center Poll on Black Lives Matter - https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/06/14/views-on-the-black-lives-matter-movement/

Marc Bousquet – How the University Works - https://nyupress.org/9780814799758/how-the-university-works/

PBS Reporting on Harvard University negotiations with Trump administration - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harvard-nearing-settlement-with-trump-to-pay-500-million-and-regain-federal-funding

The Intercept’s reporting on Columbia University settlement with the Trump administration - https://theintercept.com/2025/04/16/columbia-middle-eastern-studies-trump-attacks/

Middle East Studies Association statement on Columbia University settlement - https://mesana.org/advocacy/letters-from-the-board/2025/03/28/joint-statement-regarding-columbia-university-and-the-department-of-education

Results of the Middle East Scholar Barometer - https://criticalissues.umd.edu/sites/criticalissues.umd.edu/files/November%202023%20MESB%20Results.pdf

Human Rights Watch statement on the IHRA definition - https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/04/human-rights-and-other-civil-society-groups-urge-united-nations-respect-human

Axios reporting on The Nexus Project and Trump’s use of antisemitism investigations - https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/college-campus-antisemitism-trump-nexus-project

American Association of University Professors – Academic Freedom - https://www.aaup.org/issues-higher-education/academic-freedom/faqs-academic-freedom

2024 Announcement of 40 new AAUP chapters - https://www.aaup.org/academe/issues/winter-2025/warm-welcome-new-or-reestablished-aaup-chapters

Executive Order on Combatting Antisemitism - https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-anti-semitism/

How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws

https://transnews.network/p/nc-dems-anti-trans-betrayals

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #31

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/india-us-lose-trump-tariffs-russia-wins-2025-08-27/

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https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed.htm

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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRPONTSYD

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/rrp_faq.html

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPONTSYD

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2022/01/how-the-feds-overnight-reverse-repo-facility-works/

https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html

https://fortune.com/2025/08/09/trump-fed-pick-stephen-miran-existential-threat-central-bank-independence/

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-12-trillion-u-s-repo-market-evidence-from-a-novel-panel-of-intermediaries-20250711.html

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/prosecuting-burning-of-the-american-flag/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/measures-to-end-cashless-bail-and-enforce-the-law-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/taking-steps-to-end-cashless-bail-to-protect-americans/ 

https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-guard-mobilizing-19-states-immigration-crime-crackdown

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/additional-measures-to-address-the-crime-emergency-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/kennedy-announces-nih-study-into-psych-drugs-after-second-trans-school-shooter

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Robert concludes the story of Lee Atwater by discussing his greatest success and then his sickness and fall from power and influence. We also talk about the Grammy nominated album he made with Isaac Hayes.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater

https://archive.is/STJGq

https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus

https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539

https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html

https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173

https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html

https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206

https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/

https://archive.is/7CjqQ

https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/

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Lee Atwater graduates high school after a brief stint in an insane fraternity then becomes a college Republican leader and starts his career as a dirty tricks expert for political campaigns.

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Robert sits down with Garrison Davis to discuss the life and times of Lee Atwater, the arch inventor of Republican dirty tricks politics.

(3 Part Series, releasing all this week)

Sources:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater

https://archive.is/STJGq

https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus

https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539

https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html

https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173

https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html

https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206

https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/

https://archive.is/7CjqQ

https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/

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

- The Federalization of DC Police feat. Bridget Todd

- Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

- Alienation and AI feat. Andrew

- Objectivity in Journalism

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30

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Sources/Links:

Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns

Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State

Hardy Green, The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

Chad Pearson, Capitalism’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

Objectivity in Journalism

https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/a-widely-shared-video-shows-a-deputy-overdosing-on-fentanyl-experts-say-its-impossible/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30

https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/

https://x.com/IDF/status/1954652255199887516 

https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/idf-press-releases-israel-at-war/august-24-pr/eliminated-ismail-al-ghoul-a-hamas-military-wing-operative-and-nukhba-terrorist/ 

https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-calls-for-anas-al-sharifs-protection-in-face-of-israeli-smears/ 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16tQckcrui/ 

https://www.icrc.org/en/article/international-humanitarian-law-protect-journalists-armed-conflict 

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250819-DiscretionaryFactors.pdf

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1424&num=0&edition=prelim

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-alerts/08.15.2025-Restoring_a_Good_Moral_Character_Evaluation_Standard_for_Aliens_Applying_for_Naturalization-Policy_Memorandum_FINAL.pdf

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26054451-20-1/#document/p17/a2667744

https://www.wmtw.com/article/old-orchard-beach-maine-officer-voluntary-departure/65807962?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

https://edsource.org/updates/immigration-agents-alleged-to-have-boasted-of-1500-for-l-a-student-arrest 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html

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Robert explains how Alexandre Villaplane ruined his football career committing crimes, badly, and then started a new career as a mass murderer for the SS.

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Robert sits down with Dana Schwartz to tell the dark tale of Alexandre Villaplane, the French Football star and gangster who became a member of the SS.

(2 part series)

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

- Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew

- Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen

- How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center

- Tariffs and the Corruption State

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29

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Sources/Links:

Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen

https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1908354

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lead-investigator-james-comer-biden-autopen-digital-signature-rcna216719

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/autopen-trump-biden-analysis

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-clemency-interview.html

How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center

http://nodesertdatacenter.com

https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a

https://vermaland.com

Tariffs and the Corruption State

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nvidia-amd-chip-sales-china-15-percent-h20-mi308/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/tariffs-switzerland-trump.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-come-into-effect-hitting-dozens-of-us-trading-partners.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/12/trump-extends-china-tariff-deadline-for-the-second-time-what-does-it-mean

https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/08/12/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/business/trade-exemptions-tariffs-trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7jjkvzmkxo

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administration-tells-foreign-military-junta-wants-hear-raising-e-rcna221569

https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29

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https://www.lausd.org/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/577/Parent%20Resources/ComResourceGuideEng.pdf

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2024/11/21/with-trump-back-in-power-advocates-criticize-gloria-for-shuttering-immigrant-affairs-office

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html

https://x.com/AngulusTerrarum/status/1955320816855294169

https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955041060197114136

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/stephen-miran-federal-reserve-board-e7855877

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/bls-nominee-trump

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ej-antoni-trumps-pick-lead-bls/story?id=124579471

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8600x7dnn4o

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-democrats-return-after-governor-ends-special-session/story?id=124592449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loldo4Vmno

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-gunman-cdc-shooting-fired-500-rounds-officials/story?id=124577732

https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-jr-in-interview-with-scripps-news-trusting-the-experts-is-not-science 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

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In Part 2 Frank Fay finds love and creates the most toxic Hollywood romance of all time. Then he breaks Nazi and holds a fascist rally in New York City less than a year after the end of WW2.

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