This year, we've put out over 50 episodes, almost double what we did in Season 1, and we learned a lot.

From interviews with Ohio organizers/farmers to political thinkers online to former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation army members; to breakdowns of 101 topics like PROPERTY, CAPITALISM, and beyond.

Now we want to reflect and thank you all for listening!

Season 2 Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3op9939LV5uWX3tYSkISfs?si=1cc2f360135b42b1

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In this episode, we sit down with members of the DFW Defense Committee to break down the state and federal repression facing local organizers and community members. We begin with who the defendants are and their relationship to the defense work, then move into what’s happening on the ground beyond the state’s narrative.

Our guests reflect on the lives and commitments of the defendants before their arrests and trace how state repression has materially shaped their lives and the broader community. They outline major takeaways from this moment, including how the state is revealing its hand, and explain the differences between state and federal charges.

We also explore how prosecutors, the DOJ, ICE, and the media have misled the public, what defense committee work actually looks like, and the moments of clarity that have emerged throughout this process. As the episode closes, our guests share what support is most needed for the defendants and the committee, followed by final reflections from Hannah and Xavier.

This conversation offers a grounded, first-hand look at criminalization, solidarity, and the work required to hold each other through targeted repression.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:33 Who are you and what is your relation to the DFW defense work?

02:43 How would you describe what is happening beyond the states narrative?

05:03 What kind of community members and organizers were some of the defendants before their arrest?

12:09 How has the repression from the state played out materially?

16:05 What are important takeaways form this moment and how they state is paying their hand?

18:37 What is the difference in the state and federal charge

20:51 What are thing that the prosecution, doj, ice, and media have been doing to mislead people in this case?

29:23 What has the defense committee work been like?

36:15 Have you found any moments of clarity in this process that you want to share?

38:44 What forms of support do the defendants and defense committee need currently?

42:22 Hannah's last thoughts

45:01 Xavier's last thoughts

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What happens when war becomes something you can ‘like’ on Instagram? When war becomes a brand? We live in a world where violence is curated aesthetically in more ways than we can imagine. INSPIRED BY  @uncivilized_media - "how israel uses sex to sell Zionism"...https://youtu.be/OHJEpnCL5nE?si=zugNnzR6kx540lpd

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LEARN MORE FROM THIS VIDEO ESSAY1. “The Naked Faces of Israel” — (Book Chapter / Academic)

Analyzes the Brand Israel campaign and how the state used sexuality, tech aesthetics, and Western liberalism to reframe Zionism.

https://artistsforpalestine.org.uk/2017/09/04/the-naked-face-of-israel-ilan-pappe-on-rebranding-zionism/

Explores the erotic imagery and sexual politics embedded within Zionist ideology, and how it shaped modern Israeli nationalism.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520221499/eros-and-the-jews

2. “Zionism as an Erotic Revolution” by David Biale
Explores the erotic imagery and sexual politics embedded within Zionist ideology, and how it shaped modern Israeli nationalism.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520221499/eros-and-the-jews

3. Sam Biddle — “Trump’s Big Beautiful Gift to Anduril” (The Intercept)

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/09/trump-big-beautiful-bill-anduril/

4. Belén Fernández — “Hollywood’s Israel Problem” (Al Jazeera / Analysis)

Examines how the U.S. entertainment machine collaborates with Zionist branding strategies.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/7/hollywoods-israel-problem

Breakdown of Israel’s propaganda strategy, its failures, and how it adjusts narratives for Western audiences.

https://jcfa.org/article/why-are-israels-public-relations-so-poor/

5. “Why Israel’s Public Relations Are So Poor?” by Dr. Dan Diker

Breakdown of Israel’s propaganda strategy, its failures, and how it adjusts narratives for Western audiences.

https://jcfa.org/article/why-are-israels-public-relations-so-poor/

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro02:12 The Sinister Marketing of BRAND ISRAEL07:27 Bikini Diplomacy, Gal Gadot, and Maxim11:19 MEANSTV Announcement12:45 The Mifgash during Birthright and Zionism as Sex Tourism?19:25 Having a Black friend move to Israel 21:29 How ANDRUIL Markets War With Language and Aesthetics27:10 Trump, Andruil, Palmer, Lucky, and The Illusion of Language29:10 How To Become a WAR BRAND33:57 On JUST WAR theory36:49 The Internetification of Violence and War

In this expansive conversation, writer and creator Prince Shakur traces the evolution of his political, creative, and personal journeys from being a precocious kid entering college early to becoming a sharp, imaginative voice on YouTube and in contemporary literature. Prince reflects on the early days of his channel, how experimenting online shaped his storytelling, and how technical growth allowed him to more fully realize his creative vision.

Across the episode, we examine the pressures of the attention economy, the shifting terrain of journalism and truth-telling, and the responsibilities that come with documenting one’s own life. Prince breaks down the framework and goals behind his memoir, the role primary sources played in shaping his archive, and what he is exploring in his new essay collection. He outlines how hope, discipline, and political intuition shape his decisions, what he looks for in liberatory or emergent spaces, and how he navigates communities that fall short of the futures he imagines.

BOOKS 

📚When they tell You To Be Good by Prince Shakur https://bookshop.org/a/109212/9781953534934

📚Black Reader I: On Searching for Radical Connections by Prince Shakur www.amazon.com/Black-Reader-Searching-Radical-Connections/dp/B0D7JPVXN9/

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:43 Who are you?

05:04 what was a young you like?

06:14 How was going into college younger than your classmates?

09:45 what was your early YouTube career like?

11:54 what has your been your journey crafting your channel?

14:56 What made you focus on YouTube as an outlet for your creative vision?

17:01 How has your technical growth impacted implementing your vision for your work?

18:34 How do you feel attention economy side effect are impacting the writing and blogging scene

21:29 what is your read on the Journalistic and truth telling part of the world right now for creators and consumers

24:30 Prince's memoir goals and framework

26:37 When doing memoir research, what primary resources did you find useful and how does that impact the archive you leave for yourself now?

29:02 With your new essay collection, what are two major themes or questions your exploring

30:02 What are you hoping to be surprised by or encounter in this writing process?

31:58 Role of Hope in your decision making

34:30 How do you approach discipline

36:48 What structures and dynamics do you look for in new political and social spaces?

38:41 How do you move through a space that doesn't have what you like to see

40:06 What kind of media scenes do you see The Dugout existing within and in community with?

44:05 What does being a revolutionary mean to you and what impact does that have on your planning?

45:55 What does rising up mean to you?

48:12 what question do you want answered before you pass?

48:23 What do you envision for your late years?

52:15 What infrastructure is needed to make the life you want to happen?

53:44 If you could time travel but only one way when are you going?

1:00:05 Bank Heist Roster: Celebrity & Fictional Character Edition

1:02:08 Last Thoughts

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I (Prince) sat down with my co-host, Jordan, to talk about how they came into politics — not as theory first, but through life, loss, and the chaos of 2020.

We talked about what it means to get assigned Marx by a professor, their upbringing and early anti-authoritarianism. About being radicalized by police violence during the George Floyd protests. Jordan opens up about the moments that shaped him: studying revolutionary texts for the first time, organizing on the ground, and trying to make sense of what martyrdom means.

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I decided to sit down after hours of research to map out the elite puppets behind Trump's base. Here's what I learned.

Available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/kbuDui_Y4qg

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We sit down to break down what actually happened at the White House’s recent “anti-fa roundtable” — what was discussed, what it reveals about government priorities, and what it could mean for activists and organizers on the ground.

We talk through how this moment fits into a longer history of surveillance and repression on Turtle Island. The conversation looks at both the risks ahead and how movements can prepare, stay grounded, and keep building power.

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Show Notes

Trump takes aim at Antifa — and the press — in White House roundtable | READ

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/politics/antifa-white-house-roundtable

Trump Holds a Roundtable on Antifa, but There Is Little Legal Ground for the Terrorist Designation | READ

https://www.cato.org/blog/trumps-anti-antifa-executive-order

As Trump talks of designating antifa a foreign terrorist group, experts see danger | READ

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/28/nx-s1-5587726/trump-antifa-terrorist-group

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In this conversation, we sit down with an organizer and fighter from the internationalist front in Myanmar to explore the lived realities of the Spring Revolution and the autonomous women’s struggle rising from within it. Moving from poetry to political analysis, we discuss what it means to take up internationalism in practice, not as an idea, but as a commitment carved through shared danger, discipline, and deep love for the people.

We trace the formation of the AIF (Anti-Fascist Internationalist Front), the roots of women’s autonomous power in the hills, and the political and cultural contradictions that shape collective life under war. We talk about comradeship, grief, and joy as the emotional infrastructure of revolution, the role of art and memory, and how different cultural understandings of gender and liberation collide, transform, and re-form through struggle.

This episode is a meditation on building political consciousness in motion, forging international solidarity without romanticization, and creating structures capable of holding not only power, but freedom itself

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01:33 Intro

02:24 Poem

05:59 What does being an internationalist mean to you?

08:42 What is context did the AIF come from within the Spring Revolution?

15:15 Context cont. Spring Revolution

17:22 Context cont. AIF

18:22 Q: What is the context of the Women's Revolution as you've been able to participate?

24:01 Q: How does the AIF participate in this Women's struggle

27:29 Q: How does cultural differences within the Internationalist bring their own patriarchal tensions around collective development

30:29 Q: What kind of autonomous structure are you coming into contact with or seeing created?

32:16 Q: Organization's in Myanmar with positions on Women and Queer struggle

34:25 Q: Are there any intentional spaces or structures for political development, education and knowledge sharing?

38:28 Q: What does building comradery look like for you?

41:44 Q: How does the struggle in Myanmar teach you to navigate cultures of choosing commitment to struggle or to your comrades?

47:07 Q: How is grief addressed in the struggle? How does grief influence the martyr culture and vice versa

54:02 Q: What audience did you have in mind when writing Lessons From The Hills

56:15 Q: Are there lots of artist in the revolution? How does that influence the culture?

50:01 Q: Were there any lesson you left out of the text

59:57 How to Support and last thoughts

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Support The AIF

https://aifmyanmar.noblogs.org/

https://ko-fi.com/aifmyanmar

Instagram

@AIFMyanmar

@RachelRamLenMawi

@Azad_afa

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Here's a link to donate to comrades in Sudan : https://opencollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

I wanted to take some time to breakdown the rise of lone wolves in 2024/2025 from Luigi Mangione to Tyler Robinson, the rise of anti-fascist repression, and what this says for the political moment we're in under Trump fascism.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' & Political Violence

02:05 Necropolitics, The Rise of Anti-Fa Repression, and State Definitions of Violence

08:38 Trump Fascism and the messages behind it

15:02 "Some people have to die, so that others can live." - A personal look at NECROPOLITICS

26:49 Tyler Robinson, Lone Wolf Violence, and What This Moment Means

32:28 Reading from TIP OF THE SPEAR by Orisanmi Burton

36:50 Conclusion and Call to Action

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HOW TO LEARN MORE...

Black Power Mixtape

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLSnAheeqO4&t=1s&pp=ygUTYmxhY2sgcG93ZXIgbWl4dGFwZQ%3D%3D

Kirk shooting suspect appeared to confess on Discord

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zkxy2xmno

TIP OF THE SPEAR by Orisanmi Burton

🔗 https://bookshop.org/a/109212/9780520396326

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Do what you can to support Sudanese comrades!!

HOW TO DONATE: https://opencollective.com/support-sudanese-comrades

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