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
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
James and Gare discuss the targeted assassination of a Minnesota Democrat by an anti-abortion evangelical missionary.
Sources:
https://mblsportal.sos.mn.gov/Business/SearchDetails?filingGuid=0792690a-c0b6-e811-9165-00155d0deff0
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25976535-boelter-federal-affidavit/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250614161224/https://www.pguards.net/leadership-team
...James talks to Theo Henderson, host of We The Unhoused, about the impact of protests in LA on the unhoused community, and how people at the intersection of the undocumented and the unhoused community are coping with federal, state, and local crackdowns.
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Mia and Gare discuss the contents of the recently passed budget bill and how its worst provisions can be defeated.
Sources:
Trans Income Project: https://www.transincomeproject.org/donate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/planned-parenthood-trump-lawsuit
Guest host Dana El Kurd, Palestinian researcher and writer, provides an overview of Palestinian politics, explains the legitimacy crisis within Palestinian politics, and outlines the impact international actors have had on Palestinian leadership and strategy. She highlights how these issues affect ending the war on Gaza, and the future of Palestine more broadly.
Sources:
Raz Segal on genocide - https://jewishcurrents.org/a-t...
Margaret reads you a story about the endless quest to find the roots of inequality.
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- How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 1
- How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 2
- The Fall of the House of Liver King
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #23
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The gang discuss the DOJ‘s attempts to denaturalize American citizens, how the Big Beautiful Bill funds genocide, and Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani from Republicans and Democrats. Plus, updates on tariffs, the Diddy trial, and Elon Musk’s subsidies.
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Robert walks the gang through the Liver King's recent arrest for terroristic threats and his rapid decline towards what will probably be an early grave.
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Mia continues her conversation with Margaret Killjoy about how to actually run a meeting and the role of proper meetings as the tools that build a democratic society.
https://libcom.org/article/how-hold-good-meeting-rustys-rules-order
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Mia talks with Margaret Killjoy about how to actually run a meeting and the role of proper meetings as the tools that build a democratic society.
https://libcom.org/article/how-hold-good-meeting-rustys-rules-order
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Margaret reads you a story about arts and crafts.
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- A Medical Perspective On Protest Safety
- Dividing the World, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew
- Dividing the World, Pt. 2: Externalization feat. Andrew
- Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Dem. Primary
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #22
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The gang discusses the war with Iran, the Supreme Court’s decisions on rendition and trans people, and the New York mayoral primary election.
Sources:
Gare and Mia discuss the New York City mayoral primary and what it means for the Big Apple and the future of the Democratic Party.
Sources/Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyXXVoi514
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor
James and Andrew continue their discussion on different ways of splitting up the world, and what they tell us about the way their proponents see the world.
Sources:
David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation
Immanuel Wallerstein - The Modern World System
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James and Andrew discuss different ways of splitting up the world, and what they tell us about the way their proponents see the world.
Sources/Links:
Rome: https://europe.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-1087.html
China: Rome, China, and the Barbarians Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires by Randolph B. Ford
European Colonialism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mf71b8.7?seq=1
Edward Said - Orientalism
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