Did Nothing Wrong podcast

Political scientist Andy Vitek joins me to discuss just how realistic those worst case scenarios for the 2024 US presidential election we keep hearing about and seeing on social media really are.

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Andrew Vitek - Political Science - Penn State

https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/auv434/

Andy Vitek - PhD - Home

https://vitekpolisci.com

Andy on Twitter

https://x.com/Vitek2288

Update on the FBI Investigation of the Attempted Assassination of Former President Donald Trump

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/update-on-the-fbi-investigation-of-the-attempted-assassination-of-former-president-donald-trump

Leaked memo shows J.D. Vance’s anti-woke ideology on foreign affairs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/07/19/jd-vance-leaked-memo-state-department/

J.D. Vance Endorsed a National Abortion Ban in the Grossest Way Possible

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jd-vance-national-abortion-ban-soros-1235062748/

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In this episode, I take a look at the terrible people who are responsible for this abomination of a plan, and expose how they use "Discernment" to hide their true intentions.

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Former Trump Advisor Stephen Miller Denies Involvement With Project 2025, Ad Says Otherwise

https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-trump-advisor-stephen-miller-squirms-to-deny-involvement-with-project-2025-ad-says-otherwise

Project 2025: A wish list for a Trump presidency, explained

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do

Trump is trying to distance himself from Project 2025 -- but its architects helped shape his RNC party platform

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-distance-project-2025-architects-helped-shape-rnc/story?id=111759747

Tony Perkins - SPLC

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/tony-perkins

The grift behind Project 2025: Leader John McEntee made an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/10/the-grift-behind-project-2025-leader-john-mcentee-made-an-app-to-hustle-cash-from-lonely-maga-men/

What Americans think about Project 2025

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50035-what-americans-think-about-project-2025

Rep. Jamie Raskin Sounds the Alarm on Trump’s Self-Declared ‘Secretary of Retribution’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-jamie-raskin-sounds-the-alarm-on-trumps-self-declared-secretary-of-retribution

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I sit down with Photo/Videojournalist Zach D. Roberts for an extensive discussion about voter suppression, Occupy Wall Street's legacy, documenting the information war, and much more.

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Visu News

Zach D. Roberts - Zenfolio

https://www.zdroberts.com

"Badlands", the source of the lyrics in Zach's tattoo

Vigilantes Inc.: Trump Plan for 2024 Taken from KKK Plan of 1946

https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-plan-for-2024-taken-from-kkk-plan-of-1946/

Trump's Deportation Army

The Largest Mass Deportation in American History

https://www.history.com/news/operation-wetback-eisenhower-1954-deportation

"Ramon Casiano", a song by Drive-By Truckers about Harlon Carter, the man who ran "Operation Wetback", and later went on to lead the National Rifle Association in a very right wing radical direction

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/03/625752977/watch-drive-by-truckers-perform-ramon-casiano-at-the-pickathon-music-festival

The right hand of Occupy Wall Street: from libertarians to nazis, the fact and fiction of right-wing involvement

https://libcom.org/article/right-hand-occupy-wall-street-libertarians-nazis-fact-and-fiction-right-wing-involvement

20 on the Right in Occupy

https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/spencer-sunshine-20-on-the-right-in-occupy

Spencer Sunshine on the Did Nothing Wrong Pod

“Are You Prepared to Kill Somebody?” A Day With One of America’s Most Popular Police Trainers

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/dave-grossman-training-police-militarization/

"Behind the Bastards" episode on Dave Grossman " The Man Who Teaches Our Cops To Kill"

https://x.com/bastardspod/status/1267498066090680320

Gracie Survival Tactics

Gracie Survival Tactics (GST) is a revolutionary defensive tactics system based on Gracie Jiu-Jitsu that incorporates time-tested techniques into an easy-to-learn system designed to help officers verbally and physically de-escalate while humanely prevailing resistant and/or aggressive subjects. In other words, it’s the exact opposite of what Dave Grossman is selling.

https://www.gracieuniversity.com/Pages/Public/Informationpages/graciesurvivaltactics2

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I talk with Dr. Lucas Kwong about Religious Xenophobia, Victorian fiction influence on white nationalist narrative, and how the right-wing conspiratorial mindset can be SO close to getting it right.

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Lucas's Ko-Fi page

https://ko-fi.com/lucaskwong

Lucas's Substack

An Open Letter on Anti-Asian Racism & Christian Nationalism

https://www.againstchristianxenophobia.com

Letter ties rise in anti-Asian hate to politicians’ Christian nationalist rhetoric

https://religionnews.com/2021/07/01/an-open-letter-protests-christian-politicians-anti-asian-rhetoric/

REACTIONS TO BIDEN’S KOREAN-AMERICAN SECRET SERVICE AGENT EXPOSE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM’S ANTI-ASIAN SIDE

https://religiondispatches.org/reactions-to-bidens-korean-american-secret-service-agent-expose-christian-nationalisms-anti-asian-side/

Security law: US to halt training for Hong Kong police; Fulbright scholarships axed

https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/17/security-law-us-to-halt-training-for-hong-kong-police-fulbright-scholarships-axed/

J6 Two Years Later – Expert Panel

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/j6-two-years-later-expert-panel/

Dracula, QAnon, and Crumbling Christian Empires

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/dracula-qanon-and-crumbling-christian-empires/

Monster in the Mirror: Ep. 1 – Christian Nationalism’s Gothic Genesis

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/monster-in-the-mirror-ep-1-christian-nationalisms-gothic-genesis/

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Recovering Conspiracy Theorist Stephanie Kemmerer joins me to discuss rabbit holes, the harmful nature of "Red Pills", and what kind of help is available for those who want to move past them.

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These conspiracy theory believers went deep down the rabbit hole — then found a way out

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-12/conspiracy-theory-believers-on-how-they-got-out-of-rabbit-hole/103907258

A Light at the End of the Rabbit Hole

https://secularhumanism.org/2022/12/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-rabbit-hole/

Click Here for Conspiracy

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/08/loosechange200608

(Editor’s Note: Funny how Tom Fitton sounds pretty sane here, and later went on to become a conspiracy theorist himself, right?)

This Sandy Hook Father Lives In Hiding Because of Conspiracy Theories Fueled By Alex Jones

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/this-sandy-hook-father-lives-in-hiding-because-of-conspiracy-theories-fueled-by-alex-jones/

The Father taking on the Sandy Hook Trolls

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04kfy5f

What we know about the fight between conspiracist Alex Jones and Sandy Hook families over his assets

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-0c3576e3c4bd853ac2cc5342118fca8c

The Organization Trying to Save QAnon Believers Is Falling Apart

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mwya/the-organization-trying-to-save-qanon-believers-is-falling-apart

Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/04/escape-from-the-rabbit-hole-the-conspiracy-theorist-who-abandoned-his-dangerous-beliefs

Pale Horse Rider: WILLIAM COOPER, THE RISE OF CONSPIRACY, AND THE FALL OF TRUST IN AMERICA

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316378/pale-horse-rider-by-mark-jacobson/

The Conspiracist Manual That Influenced a Generation of Rappers

https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/how-behold-a-pale-horse-influenced-hip-hop.html

Art Bell - Radio Hall Of Fame

https://www.radiohalloffame.com/art-bell

Art Bell, Radio Host Who Tuned In to the Dark Side, Dies at 72

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/obituaries/art-bell-radio-host-who-tuned-in-to-the-dark-side-dies-at-72.html

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Karl Folk from the Institute of Unreality joins me to talk about Samuel Alito's latest attempt to convince us he's above the law, and how we can show him that he isn't.

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Groundhog Day - The Movie

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/

Alito and his wife are captured in audio recordings talking about abortion leak, flag controversy

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/alito-wife-supreme-court-recordings-00162610

Alito’s Wife Shocked Even the Activist Who Secretly Recorded Her

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/11/alito-recording-undercover-interview-00162808

A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears He Would Resign

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus

Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus

(Editor’s Note: We had to find this out from a Senate Probe? SMDH.)

What is Court Packing?

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/what-court-packing

The first Court-packing plan

https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/07/the-first-court-packing-plan/

“Between 1862 and 1869, Congress thus re-arranged the federal circuits to curb southern influence, added a tenth Justice to uphold Union war policies, and reduced the size of the Court to thwart an antagonistic president.  Taken together, these measures constituted a mostly partisan attempt to shape the structure and personnel of the Supreme Court:  the first Court-packing plan.”

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In this episode, Mike Senters joins me once again to talk about Trump's conviction, and the tactics used by his supporters in response

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Why Biden’s escalation on Trump guilty verdict is so significant | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/politics/biden-slams-trump-convicted-felon-analysis/index.html

What We Know About The Jury Member Trump Critics Worry Most About

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/05/30/the-truth-social-juror-what-we-know-trump-hush-money-trial-jury-deliberations-day-two/?sh=73dd0ceb42ea

Trump supporters try to dox jurors and post violent threats after his conviction

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-supporters-try-doxx-jurors-violent-threats-conviction-rcna154882

Michael Cohen’s family doxed in wake of testimony in Trump criminal trial

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/04/michael-cohen-family-doxed-trump-trial 

David DePape trial: Alleged Paul Pelosi attacker searched web for 1920s murder scenes

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/david-depape-internet-search-history-19494550.php

Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly Killing a Gay Jewish College Student

https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-inside-white-hate-group

Former Atomwaffen Division Leader Sentenced for Swatting Conspiracy

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/former-atomwaffen-division-leader-sentenced-swatting-conspiracy

Mother of Jan. 6 officer Michael Fanone swatted after he called Trump 'authoritarian'

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/mother-jan-6-officer-michael-fanone-swatted-called-trump-authoritarian-rcna154467

Meet the Mad Scientist Who Wrote the Book on How to Hunt Hackers

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers/

Nick Fuentes vs Protestant Christianity: “America First Must Be Catholic.”

https://evangelicaldarkweb.org/2024/06/05/nick-fuentes-vs-protestant-christianity-america-first-must-be-catholic/

Roman Catholicism Is Not Christianity

https://archive.is/qCqVB

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Karl Folk joins the Pod to discuss the Dilley Scheme Team, the rise in authoritarian signaling, and the need for Democrats to learn from their messaging mistakes.

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The pro-Trump ‘meme team’ behind video referencing ‘Reich’

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7228wlpe0ko

Brenden Dilley: ‘It Doesn’t Have to Be True; It Just Has to Go Viral’

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/brenden-dilley-it-doesnt-have-to-be-true-it-just-has-to-go-viral/#google_vignette

Inside the Troll Army Waging Trump’s Online Campaign

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/us/politics/trump-meme-trolls-2024.html

Christian Nationalism in the Case of the Dilley Meme Team

https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/ctec-publications-0/christian-nationalism-case-dilley-meme-team

‘Timcast IRL’ Livestream Abruptly Ends After Laura Loomer Calls For Executing Democrats

https://angrywhitemen.org/2024/05/31/timcast-irl-livestream-abruptly-ends-after-laura-loomer-calls-for-executing-democrats/

'Hang Everyone': The Far Right's Violent Rhetoric in Response to the Conviction of Donald Trump

Steve Bannon Vows Purge if Donald Trump Wins Election

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-purge-doj-trump-elected-1905739

Steve Bannon Issues Warning to Donald Trump's Enemies—'We Want You to Fear'

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-warning-donald-trump-enemies-fear-1903830

Trump's Deportation Army

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Part two of a two part interview with author and activist Spencer Sunshine where we discuss his new book about James Mason, "Siege", and the people who revived his career in the 1980s and 1990s.

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About Spencer

https://spencersunshine.com/about/

Finally in Print! "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism"

https://spencersunshine.com/2024/05/09/finally-in-print-neo-nazi-terrorism-and-countercultural-fascism/

Spencer's Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/spencersunshine

Boyd Rice: Neo-Nazi Collaborator

New York Gallery Pulls Boyd Rice Show Following Neo-Nazi Claims

https://www.frieze.com/article/new-york-gallery-pulls-boyd-rice-show-following-neo-nazi-claims

Just Say Non: Nazism, Narcissism and Boyd Rice - Strelnikov

https://libcom.org/article/just-say-non-nazism-narcissism-and-boyd-rice-strelnikov

Adam Parfrey, Publisher of the Provocative, Dies at 61

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/obituaries/adam-parfrey-publisher-of-the-provocative-dies-at-61.html

Adam Parfrey A Neo-Nazi's Best Friend

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780429200090-18/adam-parfrey-spencer-sunshine

Michael Moynihan's Seige Mentality – Strelnikov

https://libcom.org/article/michael-moynihans-seige-mentality-strelnikov

Nikolas Schreck's "Charles Manson Superstar" featuring James Mason

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097047/

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Part one of a two part interview with author and activist Spencer Sunshine where we discuss his new book about James Mason, "Siege", and the people who revived his career in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:

About Spencer

https://spencersunshine.com/about/

Finally in Print! "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism"

https://spencersunshine.com/2024/05/09/finally-in-print-neo-nazi-terrorism-and-countercultural-fascism/

Spencer's Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/spencersunshine

The shadow of an assassinated American Nazi commander hangs over Charlottesville

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/

When Malcolm X Met the Nazis

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpwamv/when-malcolm-x-met-the-nazis-0000620-v22n4

James Mason's SPLC Extremist File

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/james-mason

HOW A MAINSTREAM RACIST GROUP REVIVED THE TERRORISTIC TOME 'SIEGE'

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/03/28/how-mainstream-racist-group-revived-terroristic-tome-siege

ATOMWAFFEN AND THE SIEGE PARALLAX: HOW ONE NEO-NAZI’S LIFE’S WORK IS FUELING A YOUNGER GENERATION

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/22/atomwaffen-and-siege-parallax-how-one-neo-nazi’s-life’s-work-fueling-younger-generation

Siege Culture After Siege: Anatomy of a Neo-Nazi Terrorist Doctrine

https://www.icct.nl/sites/default/files/2022-12/siege-culture-neo-nazi-terrorist-doctrine.pdf

Influential neo-Nazi eats at soup kitchens, lives in government housing

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/influential-neo-nazi-eats-soup-kitchens-lives-government-housing-n1091681

James Mason Archive - University of Kansas

https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/resources/5069

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