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 the batch of recent Supreme Court rulings from birthright citizenship and mail in voting, the president's ability to end Temporary Protected Status and fire independent agency heads, and the strengthening of gun rights and digital privacy rights.
Andrew and James discuss the strike of London dockworkers in 1889 and the solidarity and support it received.
Sources:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-about-a-strike
https://libcom.org/article/great-london-dock-strike-1889
https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/the-1889-london-dockers-and-tailors-strikes/&...
Mia is joined by writer Vicky Osterweil to discuss the rollercoaster of the Korean stock market and how it’s gambling all the way down
Sources:
https://bsky.app/profile/assignedmale.bsky.social/post/3mp7473bzrs2e
https://www.investopedia.com/single-stock-etf-5667162
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-kospi-plunges-nearly-10-after-regulator-cautions-leveraged-etfs-2026-06-23/
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James is joined by Elia Ayoub to talk about how British media framing paved the way to a Pogrom in Northern Ireland.
Sources:
https://chuffed.org/project/185445-support-people-and-groups-impacted-by-racist-attacks
https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/the-belfast-pogrom-was-predictable/
https://eliaayoub.com/
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Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors
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- The Truth Behind the Alleged Terror Plot at the White House UFC Fight
- An Update from Belfast
- The Condition of the Trans Working Class in America
- Executive Disorder: Prairieland Sentencing, DOGE Deaths, DSA Sweep in New York
- How Graham Platner Won the Democratic Primary
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We discuss anti-ICE protesters being sentenced to 30-100 years in prison, updates on immigration and Iran, how Elon Musk’s cuts to USAID may have caused millions of potential child deaths, and a deadly heatwave in India, Pakistan, France, and the UK.
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Garrison outlines Graham Platner’s campaign platform, his ties with labor unions and local organizing in Maine, and how those relations paved the way for Platner’s working class campaign to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, despite personal scandals and controversies.
Sources:
https://maineaflcio.org/news/maine-afl-cio-endorses-graham-platner-us-senate
https://uaw.org/uaw-endorses-graham-pl...
Mia discusses the economic and social condition of trans workers in the US and what it means for trans workers as a class
Sources:
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/over-400000-transgender-people-have
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-287.html
https://endhomelessness.org/resources/nationwide-survey-show...
Lee Hurley, a writer and resident of Belfast, participated in relief efforts after vicious racist riots spread through the city, targeting non-white residents. In this essay he lays out what he saw and experienced.
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Garrison talks with Bailey Newposter about how a group of military LARPers from TikTok planned to spark a second American revolution by attacking UFC Freedom 250 at the White House.
Sources:
https://time.com/article/2026/06/15/ufc-fight-white-house-hokit-obama/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/white-house-ufc-fighters-crypto
https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/18/white-house-fight-ticket-breakdown/
https://www.ju...
Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution
Original Air Date: 6.1.2025
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- How the United States Shaped the Dominican Republic’s Immigration Enforcement Machine
- Settler Colonialism with Andrew
- Anti-ICE Protesters in Minnesota Charged with Conspiracy
- The Necessary War on Data Centers
- Executive Disorder: Iran Deal, UFC at the White House, Dialog Hack
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The gang discuss a police killing of a 1 year old boy in Mississippi, visa restrictions affecting the World Cup, an alleged terrorist plot targeting UFC Freedom 250, the MOU with Iran, and a hack of Peter Thiel’s IRL social network Dialog.
Sources:
Short Stories:
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacex-ipo-makes-elon-musk-worlds-first-trillionaire-2026-06-11/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-...
Robert argues that the current groundswell of public anger against data center projects represents an opportunity to hit Silicon Valley oligarchs where it hurts.
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James is joined by Olive, Margaret, Mo, to discuss the indictment of 15 anti ice protesters in Minnesota and what it means for the first amendment.
Sources:
Andrew and James discuss settler colonialism across several contexts.
Sources:
Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native by Patrick Wolfe
https://www.britannica.com/place/Liberia/History
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy by Mary H Moran.
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Kh...
Journalist Carlos Berríos Polanco speaks with James about how the Dominican Republic’s border and immigration enforcement was shaped by the United States.
Sources:
Help Bring Ezra Home and Seek the Truth
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More than a Massacre; Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican
Borderlands by Sabine Cadeu
Empire of Borders by Todd Miller
Border Patrol Nation...
This week, In The Belly is doing a take over to feature the poems of incarcerated writers in their own voices
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- Bovino’s Visit to Europe
- Idealogical Totalism with Andrew
- The Globalization of Resistance with Andrew
- The Arab Gulf States in the Line of Fire
- Executive Disorder: Pogrom in Belfast, Trans Healthcare, Denaturalization Cases
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