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 Garrison about how apocalyptic cult-like groups override critical thought and promote mass violence.
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Former Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino travelled to a racist conference in Europe, James and Mia break down his interviews there and what it tells us about the culture of the agency he spent decades in.
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This week we are collaborating with In The Belly Magazine to read you a short memoir piece about organizing behind bars.
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- Bears! And the Guys Who Don’t Like Them
- How to Potluck Your Way to a Union
- What’s In the DNC’s 2024 Autopsy
- The War on Iran and Convergences of Fascism
- Executive Disorder: California Elections, SCOTUS Approves GOP Map, Greg Bovino Update
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The gang discuss Spencer Pratt’s LA mayoral campaign, a Supreme Court ruling on redistricting in Alabama, and changes to OMB funding.
Sources:
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2061537793843532054?s=20
https://x.com/Tomhennessey69/status/2061343239794299374
Dana El Kurd speaks to Negar Razavi, a political anthropologist at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Dana and Negar discuss conditions in Iran today, the impact the war has had on the regime and on regional dynamics, and how the “experts” in DC are implicated in this disaster.
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Garrison and Sophie talk about the long awaited DNC 2024 election autopsy, its many factual errors, contradictory analysis, and the glaring omissions from Palestine to inflation and Biden’s age.
Sources:
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/May-20-2026.pdf
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/01/ken-martin-elected-dnc-party-chair-00201938
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/dnc-autopsy-inside-sto...
Mia talks with Morgan and Rene of Muji Workers United about their struggle for a union and how ordinary people out-organized their bosses.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/MujiWorkersUnited
https://www.instagram.com/mujiworkersunited.pdx/
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James is joined by Molly to talk about bears, and the campaign to remove them from the Endangered Species Act.
Sources:
https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/news/missing-hiker-and-bear-encounter-victim-identified.htm
https://www.hcn.org/issues/49-9/zinke-went-to-bears-ears-to-listen-but-supporters-felt-unheard/
Margaret reads you a story about how to set up mutual aid societies in the wake of social collapse, and how to fight against cannibal nazis from the suburbs
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- Nakba Stories
- Real You Electrolysis Workers United: A Unionization Speedrun
- Outlaw: ICE Protest Repression Trends
- Executive Disorder: Green Card Application Changes, the Pope’s AI Encyclical, Federal Court Blocks GOP Map in Alabama
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The gang discuss USCIS policy changes making it harder to apply for a green card, law enforcement tracking anti-AI sentiments, an Alabama congressional map ruled as racially discriminatory, and the Trump admin pushing the Fed to allow transferring crypto.
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On this episode of Outlaw, Olive is joined by movement attorneys Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Bina Ahmad, and Joey Mogul to discuss trends in the repression of anti-ICE activity across the country and how to prepare for the long road ahead.
To learn more about how the law is used to crush dissent, check out the other episodes of Outlaw, an anti-repression podcast. Find past episodes here: https://linktr.ee/outlawpod
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Through debt traps, bouncing paychecks and firings, Real You Electrolysis Workers United members Jackie Mae and Deja discuss their union campaign and strike with Mia.
Strike Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/manage/support-real-you-electrolysis-workers-united
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Dana El Kurd shares her family’s Nakba stories, the process of discovering an Israeli connection, and what she takes away from understanding intergenerational trauma.
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Margaret reads you a story about an enchanted graffiti turf war and a flying bike chase.
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- How Trump is Using Election Fraud Claims to Restrict Voting
- Did Donald Trump Ban Buffalo?
- Monopsony, or How You Get Underpaid
- Pop Culture Commodity Warfare @ New York Comic Con
- Executive Disorder: San Diego Mosque Shooting, Trump Settles Lawsuit with Trump
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The gang discuss the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, memetic nazi accelerationism, tariff rebates, and Trump’s new $1.776 billion slush fund from a lawsuit against his own IRS.
Fundraiser: https://goodbricks.org/campaign/icsd.org/official-icsd-victim---family-support-fund
Sources:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-talk-about-158456324
https://www.blm.gov/policy/ib-2024-024
Garrison attends New York Comic Con to investigate the (pop) culture war and why anime is beating western superhero comics. Oh also Lego Batman is here for some reason.
Sources:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2018/report-anime-fest@nycc/.137926
Mia tells Molly about monopsony and how economists conspired to bury the theories that explain your wages.
Sources:
https://archive.org/details/bnarchives_0333
https://strangematters.coop/frederic-s-lee-profile-part-one/
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