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Sociologist Karl Folk joins me to discuss the GOP's 2024 election strategy of “it doesn’t matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes.”, and what we can do about it.
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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:
The R.N.C. Asked a Conspiracy Theorist to Train Poll Watchers. Here’s What He Told Them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/republican-national-committee-2024-posobiec.html
The Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vance
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vance
FAR-RIGHT OANN ANCHOR JACK POSOBIEC’S RISE TIED TO WHITE SUPREMACIST MOVEMENT
https://www.splcenter.org/splc-investigation-far-right-oann-anchor-jack-posobiecs-rise-tied-white-supremacist-movement
Partisan Split on Election Integrity Gets Even Wider
https://news.gallup.com/poll/651185/partisan-split-election-integrity-gets-even-wider.aspx
Dave Roberts's Twitter Thread
https://x.com/drvolts/status/1839386902514049461?t=CPVSm7b4pV1DpGBpUHEsBw&s=19
Vigilantes, Inc. Zach D. Roberts and Greg Palast's documentary about voter suppression
https://www.gregpalast.com/vigilantes-inc-free-download/
In donations, Harris vs. Trump is no contest
https://rochesterbeacon.com/2024/09/26/in-donations-harris-vs-trump-is-no-contest/
Kamala Harris Hires Massive Legal Team To Fight Back Against Election Denials
https://meidasnews.com/news/kamala-harris-hires-massive-legal-team-to-fight-back-against-election-denials
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Mike Senters joins me to discuss the evolution of online information war tactics from Gamergate to the current battle in Springfield, Ohio, and how to counter them.
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Did Nothing Wrong Hot Take - Springfield Bombs
JD Vance defends baseless rumor about Haitian immigrants eating pets
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/vance-immigrants-pets-springfield-ohio-cnntv/index.html
What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate
https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws
Two distinct forms of isolation predict belief in conspiracy theories
https://www.psypost.org/two-distinct-forms-of-isolation-predict-belief-in-conspiracy-theories/
Robert Putnam Knows Why You’re Lonely
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/magazine/robert-putnam-interview.html
Elon Musk blinks first, bowing to pressure in Brazil to reopen X
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/22/musk-brazil-x/
JD Vance suggested the US's support for NATO could be pulled if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk's X
https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-nato-support-eu-regulation-x-musk-free-speech-2024-9
(Editor’s Note: This seems BAD.)
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Springfield, Ohio has become the newest battlefield in the information war, and now it's locked down over a series of bomb threats. In this Hot Take, I explain the issues with the word “Hoax” as it relates to this situation, and call out Donald Trump, JD Vance, Libs of TikTok, and the rest of the lying liars who used literal Neo-Nazi propaganda to put Springfield’s Haitian refugee community at risk.
Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:
How a fringe online claim about immigrants eating pets made its way to the debate stage
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-fringe-online-claim-immigrants-eating-pets-debate-trump-rcna170759
More Than Half of Trump Voters Believe Haitians Are Eating Pets: Poll
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-republicans-haitian-migrants-eating-pets-poll-1954875
JD Vance defends baseless rumor about Haitian immigrants eating pets
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/vance-immigrants-pets-springfield-ohio-cnntv/index.html
Fact check: Ohio woman accused of eating cat is from Canton, not from Springfield
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/10/canton-woman-accused-of-eating-cat-not-haitian-from-springfield-ohio/75157976007/?itm_medium=recirc&itm_source=taboola&itm_campaign=internal&itm_content=ExploreMore
More truth about Springfield, Ohio: What has happened since the pet-eating rumors started
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2024/09/17/springfield-ohio-truth-latest-since-trumps-haitian-pet-eating-claims-fact-check/75260318007/
Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/neo-nazis-springfield-ohio-haitian-immigrants
Springfield, Ohio, cancels town festival after violent threats over Haitian resident
www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/springfield-ohio-cancels-town-festival-after-violent-threats-over-haitian-residents
Neo-Nazi who left Maine claims credit for ‘eating dogs and cats’ lies
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/09/16/aroostook/aroostook-culture/neo-nazi-christopher-polhaus-left-maine-takes-credit-eating-dogs-cats-lies/
Vote.gov
https://vote.gov
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Journalist Robert Silverman and I discuss the recent Russian scheme to funnel large piles of cash to Right Wing influencers, and the massive amounts of domestic money they receive for their bad takes.
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Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands
Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool/
What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Said in Those Tenet Media Videos
https://www.wired.com/story/influencers-tenet-benny-johnson-tim-pool-russia-propaganda-videos/
How ‘Coward and Phony’ Tim Pool Became One of the Biggest Political YouTubers on the Planet
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet
Tim Pool Caught COVID—and Joe Rogan Offered to Pay His Medical Bills
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pool-caught-covid-and-joe-rogan-offered-to-pay-his-medical-bills
Tim Pool’s News Site Plagiarized the Mainstream Media He Claims to Hate
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-pools-news-site-timcastcom-plagiarized-from-the-mainstream-media-he-claims-to-hate
The Long, Lucrative Right-wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World's Face
https://www.splinter.com/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift-is-blowing-up-in-t-1793944216
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Reed Galen is a co-founder of the Lincoln Project and the founder of “The Union”, a single-issue, pro-democracy coalition dedicated to defeating Donald Trump and MAGA at the polls in November.
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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:
Lincoln Project Announcement Regarding Reed Galen
https://lincolnproject.us/lincoln-project-announcement-regarding-reed-galen/
Join The Union!
https://jointheunion.us
Reed's Substack - "The Home Front"
Reed's new podcast, The Home Front
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Episode 102(originally released 10/05/2023) -We take a look at Chaya Raichik/Libs of TikTok's Permanent Record of Stochastic Terrorism.
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Boston Children's Hospital warns employees over far-right online harassment campaign
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/boston-childrens-hospital-warns-employees-far-right-online-harassment-rcna43376
Twitter account Libs of TikTok blamed for harassment of children’s hospitals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/02/lgbtq-threats-hospitals-libs-of-tiktok/
Woman pleads guilty to making hoax bomb threat against Boston Children's
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/woman-pleads-guilty-to-making-hoax-bomb-threat-against-boston-childrens/3147446/
Libs of TikTok suspended from Twitter in wake of Children’s National Hospital audio recording
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/libs-of-tiktok-childrens-national-hospital/
Libs Of TikTok post instigates another round of bomb threats
https://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/09/25/libs-of-tiktok-post-instigates-another-round-of-bomb-threats/
How Libs of TikTok Became an Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Machine
https://www.them.us/story/libs-of-tik-tok-twitter-facebook-instagram-explained-childrens-hospitals-grooming
Libs of TikTok - Media Matters Archive
https://www.mediamatters.org/search?search=libs+of+tiktok
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Author Talia Lavin joins me to talk about her new book, “Wild Faith, how the Christian Right is taking over America”, about how this reactionary movement is a grave threat to democracy.
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The Sword and the Sandwich
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/
Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/culture-warlords/9781549127830/?lens=hachette-books
New York Times review of "Culture Warlords"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/books/review/culture-warlords-talia-lavin.html
Talia on Twitter
https://x.com/mobydickenergy
Moby Dick Energy - The Podcast
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Sociologist Karl Folk and I break down some of the inauthentic methods that the American right wing outrage machine uses, and suggest some solutions to prevent mainstream media complicity.
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Reflexive Control
https://militairespectator.nl/artikelen/reflexive-control
Handbook of Russian Information Warfare
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313423985_Handbook_of_Russian_Information_Warfare
What we still haven’t learned from Gamergate
https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws
Under Elon Musk, X is denying API access to academics who study misinformation
https://www.fastcompany.com/91040397/under-elon-musk-x-is-denying-api-access-to-academics-who-study-misinformation
The Case of Al Franken
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken
Tucker Carlson claims in book Fox News firing was part of $787.5m settlement
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/26/tucker-carlson-fox-news-firing-condition-dominion-settlement
Tommy Robinson moans luxury Cyprus holiday ruined after stoking riots from abroad
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tommy-robinson-cyprus-holiday-uk-riots-b2593729.html
This is the Twitter data that shows who's backing Tommy Robinson
https://www.wired.com/story/tommy-robinson-free-tommy-twitter-data
(And now this kind of data is unavailable. Funny, that.)
The Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vance
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vance
Process of Extermination - Review of "The Spanish Holocaust" by Paul Preston
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/books/review/the-spanish-holocaust-by-paul-preston.html
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The 2024 election has undergone a seismic shift in the last month. In this episode, I'm joined once again by Mike Senters to talk about the better world we can almost see over the horizon.
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TRUMP IS PLANNING FOR A LANDSLIDE WIN And his campaign is all but praying Joe Biden doesn’t drop out.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-campain-election-2024-susie-wiles-chris-lacivita/678806/
‘It’s over’: Democrats remain in panic over Biden’s reelection
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/12/biden-gop-election-wave-00167944
Trump survives assassination attempt at campaign rally, as it unfolded
https://apnews.com/live/election-biden-trump-campaign-updates-07-13-2024
Social media account with extremist comments could be tied to Trump gunman, FBI says
https://whyy.org/articles/fbi-trump-shooter-social-media-account-extremist/
DNW Podcast Episode 149 - Everybody Hates Vance
Biden drops out of 2024 race against Trump. Here's what we know about what happens now.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-happens-biden-steps-down-2024/
Biden explains why he dropped out of White House race
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l5n2gy74vo
Harris chooses Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as VP pick
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/harris-walz-vp/
Early Harris-Walz rallies feature big crowds, talk of ‘joy’ and unsolicited GOP counterprogramming
https://apnews.com/article/harris-walz-rallies-battleground-states-vance-trump-7da99aace01fec1c784fba27fdbce558
Democrats’ joy is unconfined as Harris and Walz take upbeat message on tour
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/11/kamala-harris-tim-walz-campaign-joy-election
Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders to federal prison to serve 4-month sentence on contempt charges
https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-contempt-sentence-federal-prison-trump-77353a10250c36f77b2c1b7d188c5250
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“I think I’ve got a feeling I lost inside”
There has never been a Vice Presidential nominee as universally disliked as 2024 Republican nominee J.D. Vance. In this episode, I lay out some of the reasons he's so unpopular with so many people,
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Everyone Hates J.D. Vance: Poll
https://newrepublic.com/post/184438/jd-vance-popularity-brutally-embarrassing-hit
J.D. Vance: Pregnancies from rape should go to term even if they're 'inconvenient'
https://www.rawstory.com/news/jd-vance-abortion-2668861499/
Vast majority of Republicans support abortion exceptions for rape, incest and mother's health
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/vast-majority-republicans-support-abortion-exceptions-rape-incest-moth-rcna52237
JD Vance Is An Investor In A Far Right Video Platform Filled With Neo-Nazi Content
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/jd-vance-is-an-investor-in-a-far-right-video-platform-filled-with-neo-nazi-content
Read J.D. Vance’s Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader’s New Book
https://newrepublic.com/article/184393/jd-vance-violent-foreword-kevin-roberts-project-2025-leader-book
Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/28/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donors-big-tech-trump-vp/
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
Peter Thiel’s midterm bet: the billionaire seeking to disrupt America’s democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/15/peter-thiel-who-is-he-republican-donor-tech-entrepreneur
The Education of a Libertarian
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-unhumans-book-jack-posobiec-alt-right-january-6/
Jack Posobiec's Extremist File - SPLC
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jack-posobiec
How the Mainstream Right Developed a Soft Spot for Francisco Franco
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/mainstream-right-soft-spot-francisco-francisco-franco-wwii-conspiracy-paranoia-antisemitism-anti-communism
Spain criminalises support for Franco in bid to heal divisions
https://theweek.com/news/world-news/europe/953559/spain-criminalises-suspport-franco-crackdown-dictators-legacy
JD Vance suggests VP picks don’t matter
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/02/jd-vance-vp-picks-00172526
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