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
Bridget Todd talks with Garrison Davis about how TikTok creators are using AI generated videos to make viral racist skits with digital blackface.
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Garrison is joined by Bailey Newposter and Janie Danger to discuss the politics of Superman and Eddington, how each reacts to differing types of American decline, and the psychosis of online political opportunism.
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Mia talks with UPMC therapist Salena Binnig and TransYOUniting founder Dena Staley about the fight against UPMC's capitation to the Trump administrations anti-trans policies and how the community is fighting back.
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Margaret reads you an essay about how to think about living during what feels like apocalyptic times.
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- How We Saved Trans Medicaid Healthcare Coverage
- Tracking ICE Removal Flights
- How LA Resisted ICE
- Why Is Trump So Afraid of Epstein?
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #26
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The gang discuss Trump’s attempts to distract from Epstein, the construction of a 5,000 bed ICE detention camp at Fort Bliss, and cuts to the EPA and public broadcasting.
Sources/Links:
Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose
Robert, Gare, James and Mia discuss new revelations about Trump's relation to Jeffrey Epstein and how the Epstein Files have fractured Trump's base.
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db
Mia and James are joined by journalists Mel Buer and Sean Beckner Carmitchel to discuss two months of ICE raids in LA and how the community has come together to resist them.
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@melbuer.bsky.social
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James is joined once again by Gillian Brockell to discuss the use of private jets to rendition migrants to Africa, safety on ICE Air flights, and commercial airlines who fly for ICE.
Sources/Links:
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ice-may-have-secretly-done-more-third-country-removals-than-previously-known/
https://hardghistory.ghost.io/new-ices-eswatini-flight-went-through-us-base-in-djibouti-americans-stationed-ther...
Mia talks with journalists David Forbes, Mady Castigan, and Mira Lazine of the new Trans News Network about how mass grassroots action driven by trans journalism defeated the GOP's ban on Medicaid covering trans healthcare and how we can do it again.
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Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week.
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- Humanity, the Good feat. Andrew
- Humanity, the Bad feat. Andrew
- What Bombing Means for Freedom In Iran
- What Does the PKK's Disarmament Mean
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #25
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The gang talks about how Trump is totally 100% NOT in the Epstein files, as well as updates on immigration, tariffs, and sadly Elon Musk’s Grok AI :(
Sources/Links:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-for-bukets-asylum-case
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-im-done-talking-about-epstein-tim...
James is joined by Wladimir Van Wilgenburg to discuss the recent disarmament ceremony conducted by the PKK, the fighting between the Syrian Government and Druze people, and the future of the Kurdish freedom movement in Rojava.
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James talks to Gordyaen Benyamin Jermayi about the situation of minority groups in Iran, the issues with the monarchist opposition, and how the Iranian regime has used US and Israeli bombing as an excuse for more violence against its own people.
Links:
https://www.instagram.com/kurdistanipeopleii
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Andrew and Gare discuss the reasons why people justify doing bad things, from pleasing authority to narratives of necessary evil.
Sources:
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
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Andrew talks with Gare about humankind’s better nature, despite self-fulfilling prophecies of selfishness and cruelty.
Sources:
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
A Paradise Built In Hell by Rebecca Solnit
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Margaret reads you a story about mental health, panic disorders, and anticapitalism.
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- Palestine’s Stolen Future
- The Genocide Budget (And How to Stop It)
- Protest, Immigration Enforcement, and the Unhoused Community
- The Minnesota Assassination & Evangelical Terrorism
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #24
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The gang discuss two shootings outside ICE/Border Patrol facilities in Texas, how Elon Musk’s AI chatbot went full nazi, plus updates on immigration and tariffs.
Sources:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-for-bukets-asylum-case
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5460936/trump-tariffs-economy-china-policy
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/trump-tariff-letters-trade.html
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