HOUSEKEEPING: Had a lot of wild news roll through Spokane last week. If you haven't subscribed to the RANGE Newsletter, you really should. 

Western States Center's Kate Bitz joins us to talk about the ever-percolating threat of white nationalism, it's roots stretching back to the founding of our nation and the settling of the Inland Northwest, why it's such a uniquely pernicious problem here, and how this history of hate might affect the election and how a Biden victory might embolden extremists the way the Clinton presidency did. 

Stay safe, y'all, take care of each other this week, and oh yeah:

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Profoundly happy to welcome Jess Walter on to talk about his brand new book, The Cold Millions, which you can buy starting TODAY from literally anywhere books are sold because the man is a damn phenomenon. 

And while you CAN buy this book anywhere, I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Wishing Tree Books for lending me their advance copy to make this review happen.

• Book Trailer by Factory Town

TRUE CRIME

• Dashiell Hammett’s Spokane detour in The Maltese Falcon.

Tenant organizer and Spokane DSA co-chair Jeremy Logan joins us to talk about his arrest at the hands of Spokane County Sheriff's Deputies on the way to a Black Lives Matter protest and the truly remarkable obsession Sheriff Ozzie seems to have now that national media took an interest in the arrest.

Logan also shares the story of the last decade of his life and just how hard it is to pull yourself out of poverty, especially when you've previously been in the system.

BACKGROUND

• Huffington Post article about Jeremy's arrest -- the one that set Ozzie off

In what is sure to be a collectors item for real news heads, this ep features rare journo-nerd b-sides from The Spokesman Review's Shawn Vestal. 

TOPICS DISCUSSED

• East-coast bias

SUPPLEMENTS

• The Truth Does not Change According to Our Ability to Stomach It -- Leah's poppin' fresh newsletter 

This week’s guest is a big deal. How big? I’m just going to quote her bio in the New York frickin Times: 

Leah Sottile is a writer based in Oregon whose work focuses on extremist ideologies, the anti-government movement and fringe cultures. She is the host and reporter for the podcast “Bundyville,” which has been nominated twice for a National Magazine Award.

I should have outlined it better in my intro, but I'll do it now: Bundyville is an absolutely essential look at extremism in the West and season two drills down specifically into our little nook of the Inland Northwest. Check it out.

She’s back in Oregon now but she’s lived in Spokane on and off for a good chunk of her life. I can’t think of anyone better to help look at the Boogaloo specifically and extremism more generally, both taking the national view and pulling some of the local threads.

Tremendously proud of this interview and grateful to Leah for carving two frickin' hours out of her busy schedule to hang out.

SUPPLEMENTS

• Inside the Boogaloo - Leah's story for NYT Mag

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