It Could Happen Here
It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.
Episodes
The gang discuss presidential approval polls and the growing nationwide sentiment against ICE, what the partial government shutdown means for DHS, and a public domestic violence shooting being weaponized for the culture war.
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Mia discusses the history of general strikes starting with another strike over armed occupiers killing unarmed protesters: the Shanghai general strike of 1925.
Sources:
Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor: https://libcom.org/article/shanghai-strike-politics-chinese-labor
From War to Nationalism - China’s Turning Point, 1924-1925
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James is joined by Mick and Georgio to discuss the Sarajevo Safari documentary and establish context for the investigations of people who travelled to Sarajevo to kill people during the siege of the city.
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https://www.icty.org/x/cases/dragomir_milosevic/trans/en/070222ED.htm?utm_source=copilot.com
Garrison and Lance from The Serfs discuss the online right’s attempt to weaponize the tragedy, misinformation about the shooter’s politics, and how the shooter's online footprint shows a growing obsession with other mass shooters.
Happy Valentine's Day! Margaret reads you a story about codependent lesbian mushroom parasites.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Why Fascists Have Adopted A Suicidal Penguin as a Mascot
- Normalcy feat. Andrew
- Fighting ICE’s Warehouse Prisons
- The Art of Petty with Prop & Amanda Nelson
- Executive Disorder: Turning Point Halftime Show, Pam Bondi’s Epstein Hearing & ICE Detention of Liam Conejo Ramos
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The gang discuss the All American Halftime Show featuring Kid Rock and Friends, a student walkout in Chicago protesting ICE, a Washington State bill restricting 3D printers, Pam Bondi’s congressional testimony on the mishandling of the Epstein files, and immigration updates.
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https://rumble.com/v75hvqg-tpusa-presents-the-all-american-halftime-show.html?e9s=rel_v2_ep
In the raging pile of slop that is social media, every once in a while you stumble across someone doing something genuinely amazing. That’s how Prop found Amanda Nelson, the creator behind Amanda’s Mild Takes, where she delivers comprehensive breakdowns of politics and history and artfully drags the trolls in her comment section while she’s at it...
James is joined by Sam Hamilton to discuss how people in Social Circle, GA are organizing against an 8,000 person detention facility that ICE is planning to build in a warehouse in their community.
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Andrew and James talk about the idea of “normalcy” and the bias towards it.
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Garrison explains why the online right are memeing about a penguin who fled its colony to march to its own death, and how this deranged penguin reflects fascism as a suicidal state.
Sources:
Paul Virilio, “The Suicidal State,” in J. DerDerian, ed. The Virilio Reader
https://files.libcom.org/files/A%20Thousand%20Plateaus.pdf
Margaret continues to read you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aid
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- CZM Rewind: Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
- Panama 1989 to Venezuela 2026: What History Can Teach Us feat. Andrew
- Panama 1989 to Venezuela 2026: What History Can Teach Us, Pt. 2
- What Must Be Done? The Battle Against Fascism
- Executive Disorder: ICE Body Cams, Fulton Election Raid, Portland Protest
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The gang discuss the FBI raid of the Fulton County Election office, ICE protests in Portland, DHS bodycams, and an unsealed memo on the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk. Plus, updates on Minneapolis and Syria.
Sources:
https://sortor.us/release/lemon.pdf
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_DD...
Robert's keynote speech for the Japanese American National Museum on combatting authoritarianism in the modern world.
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Andrew and James continue their discussion of what happened in Panama in 1989 and why people are comparing these events to what is happening in Venezuela.
Sources:
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/omar-torrijos-ousts-arias-panama
Emperors In the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama by John Lindsay-Poland
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Andrew and James discuss what happened in Panama in 1989 and why people are comparing these events to what is happening in Venezuela.
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Emperors In the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama by John Lindsay-Poland
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Garrison and Mia unravel whether the DHS is posting coded nazi messages, and discuss the limits of treating anti fascism as an easter egg hunt.
Original Air Date: 08.07.25
Sources:
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
https://files.libcom.org/files/[Mark_Fisher]_Capitalist_Realism_Is_There_no_Alte(BookZZ.org).pdf
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trumps-immigration-record-far-high-...
Margaret reads you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aid.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Gaza and the Board of Peace feat. Dana El Kurd
- Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground In Minnesota
- Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground In Minnesota, Pt. 2
- To Catch A Fascist: An Interview with Christopher Mathias
- Executive Disorder: Alex Pretti Shooting, DHS Funding Bill & Rojava
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