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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For Peter, the father of the deceased child and a member of a Mennonite community in West Texas, the death of his child was God’s will. Many in the Mennonite communities of Texas and across the United States do not vaccinate their children, and their anti-vaccination stance is in line with their general religiously informed practice of eschewing modernity and its technological advances. But it is not merely the few sectarian ...
For many years, the threat of measles, a deadly disease that spreads more rapidly than COVID and regularly took thousands of lives a year, had been effectively eradicated in the United States due to the widespread acceptance of vaccination. The death of a child from measles in West Texas was the first in over a decade and it came as a shock to the American medical establishment that is now grappling with a disturbing reality: the c...
The viral measles outbreak that began in West Texas has taken the lives of two children and one adult, and has reached over eight hundred cases, with thousands potentially exposed to the disease. This episode serves as a deep dive into the outbreak, when it started, how it spread, and will set the stage for the remaining four episodes.
Sources:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/05/20/measles-updates-texas-cases-pas...
Margaret reads you a story about what it takes to break from society in disgust.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Reportback from the West Bank
- The LA Anti-ICE Protests
- Migrant Detention in Libya
- On The Ground In LA
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20
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The gang get together to discuss state violence in Los Angeles, tariffs, the Trump-Musk breakup and more ICE raids across the country.
Sources:
https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2025/05/19/san-diegos-highest-paid-city-employees-cops-racking-up-overtime-and-earning-over-400-000
https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees
James talks to Robert about the LA protests after spending Monday night on the ground in DTLA covering the protests and police response.
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James is joined by Mick to talk about the horrific conditions migrants face in Libya and the EU’s funding of detention camps.
Sources:
https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/mediterranean https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/61570/libyas-coast-guard-has-intercepted-and-returned-nearly-21000-migrants-in-2024
European Com...
Robert and Mia discuss the recent protests in LA against ICE atrocities and the terrifying response of Trump and the LAPD.
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/democrats-california-new-york-detention-facilities
James talks with Charles McBryde about his recent trip to the West Bank, the disastrous Gaza Humanitarian Fund, and the ongoing Gaza blockade.
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Margaret reads you more short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda
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Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1
- Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2
- Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill
The gang discuss the firebombing in Colorado, TACO Trump, ICE raids, and Elon Musk's messy White House breakup.
Sources:
https://www.nilc.org/resources/how-calif-dl-records-shared-with-dhs/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-detained-buona-forchetta-employees
The gang talks about the pronatalist right in Trump's orbit, and historical examples of pronatalism from Japan, Spain, and Romania.
Sources:
https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/119
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781438402062/html?lang=en
Mia revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace.
Sources:
https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/
https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/
http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html
https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/
Mia revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace.
Sources:
https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/
https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/
http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html
https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/
Garrison talks with Kaveh about the FDA's new covid vaccine recommendation and how vaccine access is under threat.
Sources:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-covid-vaccines-can-stay-fall-access-concerns-rcna208492
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Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.
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The gang discusses the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers, how the new budget bill targets trans healthcare, ICE arrests inside immigration courts, and deportations to Myanmar.
Sources:
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto
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