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.
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Andrew is joined by Mia to discuss different conceptions of indigeneity and what they mean politically.
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Mia is once again joined by Molly to discuss a bank run on another type of shadow banks caused by subprime car loans!
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https://businessjournalism.org/2026/01/tricolor-investigation/
https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/deutsche-bank-signals-30b-risk-020300965.html
James reads Margaret the first chapter of his new book
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- The Most Extreme Trans Healthcare Ban You've Never Heard Of
- Rojava with Andrew
- Are Workers Lighting Warehouses on Fire?
- What Next for the People of Iran?
- Executive Disorder:
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The gang discuss the electoral defeat of Viktor Orbán, violent abuse at Alligator Alcatraz, Tom Steyer’s plan to prosecute ICE agents and leadership, a ‘No Tax on Tips’ stunt at the White House, multiple attacks at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and an update the US war on Iran.
Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/turkey-high-school-shooting-gunman-dead/
James brings listeners up to date with the US and Israel’s bombing campaign in Iran and recent peace negotiations.
Sources:
https://fpa.org/netanyahus-speech-and-the-question-of-an-iran-deal/
https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1996/shock-n-awe_ch5.html
Garrison investigates viral claims that a spree of warehouse fires across the country have been started by underpaid workers.
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Andrew is joined by James to discuss Rojava and the current situation in Syria.
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Mia talks with David Forbes, editor and journalist with the Trans News Network, about her work covering the Catholic Church’s draconian trans healthcare ban and how Catholic hospitals spread across the healthcare system.
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Happy National Poetry Month! Margaret reads some poems from a "Classic Age" anarchist poet and agitator
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- How to Break a Union From the Inside: The NFL Players Association, Pt. 1
- How to Break a Union From the Inside: The NFL Players Association, Pt. 2
- The Jewish Bund and Political Imagination
- Nigeria with Andrew
- Executive Disorder: FEMA Teleportation, Pam Bondi Fired, Iran Ceasefire?
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The gang discuss the rescue of an US airman in Iran, ceasefire negotiations, a FEMA official who say he teleported to a Waffle House, and elections in Georgia and Wisconsin.
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Andrew talks to James about the USA’s military incursion into Nigeria and the reality around claims of Christian genocide in the country.
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Dana El Kurd speaks to Molly Crabapple, an award winning writer and artist. Her most recent book is Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, will be out on April 7th. Dana and Molly discuss what the Jewish Bund teaches us about the current political moment.
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Here Where We Live is Our Country - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mia finishes her interview with Yahoo Sports writer Charles McDonald with the disturbing realization that the NFL might have paid a guy to keep the current leadership in power.
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Mia talks with Yahoo Sports writer Charles McDonald about the history of the NFLPA and how it installed a corporate consultant as its Executive Director.
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Margaret reads you some golden-age pulp sci-fi about a hypercompetant space captain and her trusty cat
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- The Trans Panic Clickbait Economy
- Talking to Venezuelans About Venezuela
- Strange People on the Hill: An Interview with Michael Edison Hayden
- Slouching Towards Gallipoli: How The U.S. Might Be Losing To Iran
- Executive Disorder: Tariff Refund Disaster, DHS Citizenship List, Idaho Bathroom Bill, Two Bombing Plots
The gang discuss Trump threatening to bomb desalination plants in Iran, an executive order to create a State Citizenship List and restrict mail in voting, misinformation about an anti-trans bill in Kentucky, and a bombing plot targeting a pro-Palestinian activist. Plus, updates on tariffs and immigration.
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Robert sits down to explain how Iran has responded to the U.S. invasion, and how the odds of a military disaster have become almost a guarantee.
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