In the early 1930s a consortium of America's wealthiest men conspires to overthrow President Roosevelt and institute a fascist state. This is the story of how they almost succeeded.

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The most direct precursor to January 6th, 2021 was a fascist assault on the French Capitol on February 6th 1934. Today we talk about that and, as a bonus, French Jeffrey Epstein.

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Inspired by past resistance movements, Portland has at different points adopted a variety of tactics used to achieve protest objectives. Broken windows, graffiti, and nearly nightly dumpster fires has lead the perception that Portland is in ruin. But if you dig deeper than the snappy headlines you’ll find the real destruction that’s facing the city and local ecosystem is due to the unprecedented amount of poison gas munitions used in an American city. 

Host: Robert Evans

Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman

Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans

Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans

Editor: Chris Szczech

Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda

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The incredible, heartbreaking story of the antifascist struggle in Spain.

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In this episode, we discuss the birth of Fascism in Spain and how it led to the first great armed conflict between Fascism and Democracy: the Spanish Civil War. 

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Spain-1923-1977-Stanley-Payne/dp/0299165647/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=fascism+in+spain&qid=1611636892&sr=8-1
2. https://libcom.org/history/spanish-civil-war-osprey-book-collection
3. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bookchin/1985/12/spanish-civil-war.htm
4. https://www.historynet.com/persistent-myths-guernica.htm
5. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/06/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia-account-spanish-civil-war-wrong
6. https://www.rs21.org.uk/2018/11/22/petain-franco-and-chemical-warfare-in-the-rif/
7. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/spanish-legion-viral-tweet-twitter-history
8. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/22/the-contested-legacy-of-the-anti-fascist-international-brigades
9. https://www.tutor2u.net/history/reference/why-did-the-nationalists-win-the-spanish-civil-war
10. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii67/articles/ronald-fraser-how-the-republic-was-lost
11. https://limun.org.uk/FCKfiles/File/Spanish_Civil_War_Source_2.pdf

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For decades, Portland has been one of the USA's most violent battlegrounds between the white supremacist right and the anti racist left. In 2020, after months of anti police demonstrations, American fascists again took to the streets of Portland for what would be one of the bloodiest brawls in its history.

Host: Robert Evans

Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman

Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans

Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans

Editor: Chris Szczech

Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda

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In Part Two, we continue to discuss Hitler's disastrous beer hall putsch.

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We continue our study of fascist insurrections with the most famous of them all: Hitler's disastrous beer hall putsch.

Footnotes: 

1. https://famous-trials.com/hitler/2524-the-hitler-beer-hall-putsch-trial-an-account 
2. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/adolf-hitler-s-time-in-jail-flowers-for-the-fuehrer-in-landsberg-prison-a-702159.html
3. https://www.thoughtco.com/hitlers-beer-hall-putsch-1778295
4. https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00003880/00001/pdf
5. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XHJ8685/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 
6. https://www.amazon.com/1924-Year-That-Made-Hitler-ebook/dp/B011J4H47W

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Thousands of Portlanders decided their city had failed them. So they decided to take care of each other.

Host: Robert Evans

Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman

Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans

Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans

Editor: Chris Szczech

Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda

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In 2017 and 2018 Robert wrote a science fiction novel, set twenty years after a Civil War destroyed the United States. As an insurrection month present, you can listen to chapter 1 now.

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