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Weird Little Guys is a weekly show about the worst people you’ve never heard of, taking you beyond the headlines to get to know the race warriors and aspiring terrorists trying to unravel the fabric of our society. Weaving together the origin stories of modern American white supremacist groups and the crimes that land their members in court, independent journalist Molly Conger exposes the monsters for what they really are - some weird guy. Whether they’re conspiring to build bombs or serving swastika shaped cookies at a dinner party, the weird little guys trying to destroy America are a little less scary with their masks off.
- 142 - Salisbury Steak, A Civil War Diarrhea Cure: Carnivore Diet Guys, Pt 1
There are a lot of made up reasons for eating an all-meat diet. Steak won't cure your cancer and it probably wasn't that effective at preventing death from diarrhea during the Civil War. As we enter the season of gluttony, let's take a brief tour of the history of guys who think you should be eating WAY more meat.
Sources & Further Reading:
Salisbury, James (1888). The Relation of Alimentation and Disease. JH Vail & Company, New York.
McLaughlin, Terence (1978). A Diet of Tripe: The Chequered History of Food Reform. David & Charles.
Moncriff, Bernard (1856). The Philosophy of the Stomach; OR An Exclusively Animal Diet (Without Any Vegetable or Condiment Whatever) Is The Most Wholesome and Fit For Man. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London.
Stuart, Elma (1889). What Must I Do To Get Well AND How May I Keep So? By One Who Has Done It. An Exposition Of The Salisbury Treatment. Trow’s Printing & Bookbinding. New York.
Baker, Shawn (2019). The Carnivore Diet. Victory Belt Publishing, Inc.
Sutherland, George Alexander (1908). A System of Diet and Dietetics. Oxford University Press.
Clummer, Clyde, L. (1950). "Dr. James H. Salisbury and the Salisbury Diet". Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. 59 (4): 352–370.
Parry, Thomas (1844). On Diet, With Its Influence On Man
https://www.foodandwine.com/carnivore-diet-8769136
https://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/deathsandinquests1860.html
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/sep/12/carnivore-diet-meat-plants
http://docfinder.docboard.org/nm_orders/Baker,%20Shawn%20Mark.pdf
https://www.pbs.org/mercy-street/uncover-history/behind-lens/disease/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 05 Nov 2026 - 141 - The Weird Little Guys of AI with Adam Becker
Molly talks to Adam Becker about his book, More Everything Forever
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Thu, 29 Oct 2026 - 140 - Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 3
A final look at the Pioneer Fund's attempt to use racist pseudoscience to overturn the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
Sources & Further Reading:
Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.
Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press.
Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.
Newby, IA (1967). Challenge to the Court: Social Scientists and the Defense of Segregation 1955-1966. Louisiana State University Press.
Gabriel, Ricardo, "Somos Boricuas y Estamos Despertando: Decolonial Education, Collective Identity, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies" (2023). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5583
Kenneth B. Clark, The Desegregation Cases: Criticism of the Social Scientist' s Role, 5 Vill. L. Rev. 224 (1959).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol5/iss2/5
Ernest van den Haag, Social Science Testimony in the Desegregation Cases - A Reply to Professor Kenneth Clark, 6 Vill. L. Rev. 69 (1960).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol6/iss1/3
https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/significance-doll-test/
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/dont-blame-us-church-shootings-council-conservative-citizens-says-n380126
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/02/03/south-africa-the-south-west
https://x.com/socialistdogmom/status/1439283771237339139
https://time.com/archive/6873118/education-a-negro-in-ole-miss/
https://time.com/archive/6873165/the-south-the-intruder/
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-the-lies-scientific-racists-told-about-jacksons-children/
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-integration-failed-jacksons-public-schools-196/
https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/revisiting-brown-v-board-education-70-years-later
https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal83-857-26237-1197399#_
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/07/us/desegregation-plans-in-peril.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1963/09/10/archives/wallace-orders-guard-units-out-for-school-duty-they-replace-state.html
Transcripts:
https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d965a6d8-9452-495b-84ad-0d5be465964a/stell-v-savannah-chatham-county-board-of-education-transcript-of-proceedings
https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/209f0fe1-c065-4a37-b229-fc7b233ce2f3/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript
https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/df5c8b3d-e3fa-465d-a071-7c18dcbd1ce7/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript-1
https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3c162003-4708-41e2-83da-437c93f0394a/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript-2
Other Court Documents:
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/47
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1748927/evers-v-jackson-municipal-separate-school-district/
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/347/483/#F11
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/220/667/1815159/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/255/88/1818366/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/724/1384/1468033/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/387/486/262018/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/333/55/14062/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 22 Oct 2026 - 138 - CZM Rewind: Third Position & A Secret Third Thing
We're revisiting two classic Weird Little Guys episodes from last year about a white nationalist political party's attempt to get their candidate on the ballot.
Third Position
Original air date: 8/21/25
In 2012, a newly formed white nationalist political party tried to get their candidate on the ballot. The American Third Position Party wanted Americans to vote for Merlin Miller, but how did the party end up picking him?
Sources:
https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf#page=11
https://irehr.org/2018/06/14/what-is-the-american-freedom-party/
https://www.ocregister.com/2009/09/04/two-time-felon-runs-pro-white-political-group/
https://rosecityantifa.org/articles/meet-the-oregon-chapter-of-the-american-freedom-party-part-one/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/will-la-elect-a-ron-paul_b_104053
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2013/08/two-american-freedom-party-leaders-speak-out-about-their-party/
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19/d284
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/middle-east/six-day-war-liberty.html
A Secret Third Thing
Original air date: 8/28/25
After the 2012 election, the American Third Position Party rebranded. Not because their candidate lost, they expected that. But probably because their candidate didn't know what the party's name meant.
Sources:
https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf
https://politicalresearch.org/2016/12/19/what-third-position
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/neofascism-european-style/
https://www.alternet.org/2008/07/surviving_a_weekend_with_americas_premiere_pro-white_activist_group#
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2016/10/18/former-mpd-chief-drue-lackey-dead-90/92349168/
Winkler, Martin M. Arminius the Liberator: Myth and Ideology. Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 - 137 - KFC #1: The Lies of Math (w/ Molly Conger)
In the first level of Knowledge Fight Country, Dan and his guest adventurer Molly Conger set out to understand the context around Tucker Carlson's interview with a welder who is mad about algebra.
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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 - 136 - Scientists for Segregation: Ernest van den Haag
A closer look at one of the men on the Pioneer Fund's team of scientists for segregation reveals that he wasn't a scientist at all.
Sources & Further Reading:
Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.
Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press.
Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.
Van den Haag, Ernest (1969). The Jewish Mystique. Stein and Day.
Ernest van den Haag, Academic Freedom and Tenure, 15 Pace L. Rev. 5 (1994)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58948/2331-3528.1354
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol15/iss1/2
Chianese, Gloria (2006). Fascismo e lavoro a Napoli: Sindacato corporativo e antifascismo popolare (1930-1943).
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/538438703?objectPage=3
https://ilmanifesto.it/melamerson-una-coppia-in-fuga-a-vietri
https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/the-intellectual-portrait-series-a-conversation-with-ernest-van-den-haag
https://web.archive.org/web/20031010001427/http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/pioneer.htm
https://holidaycoast.it/en/Vietri-sul-Mare-and-Salerno%3A-highlights-on-designer-ceramics-with-Europe/
https://www.ilvescovado.it/it/storia-e-storie-19/verso-il-25-aprile-l-antifascismo-vietrese-105190/article
https://www.nytimes.com/1969/11/23/archives/the-jewish-mystique-by-ernest-van-den-haag-252-pp-new-york-stein.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/nyregion/e-van-den-haag-87-educator-and-backer-of-death-penalty.html
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/cultural-revolutions/ernest-van-den-haag-r-i-p/
https://vdare.com/articles/in-memoriam-ernest-van-den-haag
https://kirkcenter.org/essays/ernest-van-den-haag-19142002/
https://sousamendesfoundation.org/family/melamerson
https://archives.albany.edu/description/catalog/apap135
https://files.supersite.aruba.it/media/31058_cfca3f8a5fa8002f9ebf82670aba47c97078fb72.pdfSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 08 Oct 2026 - 135 - Segregation Forever
Last week, the DOJ's Civil Rights division announced they were moving to dismiss more than 50 desegregation cases against school districts all over the country. Like the weird little guys trying to overturn the Brown v Board of Education decision in the 1960s, the Trump administration is trying to take us all back to a version of America they think was great.
Sources & Further Reading:
Reardon, Sean & Grewal, Elena & Kalogrides, Demetra & Greenberg, Erica. (2012). Brown Fades: The End of Court-Ordered School Desegregation and the Resegregation of American Public Schools. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 31. 876-904. 10.2307/41653800.
https://selc.wordpress.ncsu.edu/files/2013/03/Brown-Fades.pdf
Wang G, White JS, Hamad R. The end of court-ordered desegregation and US children's health: quasi-experimental evidence. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2024 Nov 4;193(11):1530-1540. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae082
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12096290/
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. (2007). Becoming less separate? School desegregation,
justice department enforcement, and the pursuit of unitary status. Washington, DC
https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/docs/092707_BecomingLessSeparateReport.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-ends-over-50-half-century-old-desegregation-cases-throughout-united
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-dismisses-half-century-old-louisiana-consent-decree
https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/communication/speech-march-washington-aug-28-1963
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/freedom-black-women-speak-march-washington-jobs-and-freedom
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jun/18
https://www.k-12legalinsights.com/2026/03/some-recent-motions-for-unitary-status-seem-to-be-facing-less-careful-scrutiny/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-seeking-to-end-school-desegregation-cases/
https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/why-are-schools-still-segregated/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/justice-department-desegregation-cases.html
https://www.ed.gov/grants-and-programs/grants-birth-grade-12/school-and-community-improvement-grants/training-and-advisory-services-equity-assistance-centers
https://www.regulations.gov/document/ED-2026-OESE-0958-0001
https://www.justice.gov/crt
https://web.archive.org/web/20240301102317/https://www.justice.gov/crt
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-employees-us-justice-department-blast-destruction-civil-rights-unit-2025-12-09/
https://redlinecivilrights.org/education/
https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/us-federal-court-ends-decades-long-school-desegregation-lawsuit-in-louisiana/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6105774/smith-v-concordia-parish/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14791822/boudreaux-v-st-mary-parish/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5295676/thomas-v-st-martin-parish/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72066767/navy-v-sch-bd-of-st-mary-prsh/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 - 134 - Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 2
In the decade after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Brown v Board of Education case, segregationists used every tool available to prevent integration. By the early 1960s, a group of Pioneer Fund-backed scientists had teamed up with the lawyer they hoped could get their pseudoscientific argument against Brown in front of a judge.
Sources & Further Reading:
Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.
Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press.
Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.
McMillen, Neil (1971). The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1964. University of Illinois Press
Reardon, Sean & Grewal, Elena & Kalogrides, Demetra & Greenberg, Erica. (2012). Brown Fades: The End of Court-Ordered School Desegregation and the Resegregation of American Public Schools. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 31. 876-904. 10.2307/41653800.
https://selc.wordpress.ncsu.edu/files/2013/03/Brown-Fades.pdf
Albert P . Blaustein & Andrew H. Field, "Overruling" Opinions in the Supreme Court , 57 MICH. L. REV. 151 (1958). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol57/iss2/2
Amy M. Gardner, Comment, "An Attempt to Intervene in the Confusion: Standing Requirements for Rule 24 Intervenors," 69 University of Chicago Law Review 681 (2002).
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5684&context=journal_articles
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/08/how-often-does-the-supreme-court-overturn-its-own-decisions/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 24 Sep 2026 - 133 - Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 1
Wickliffe Draper's Pioneer Fund started out in 1937 by funding screenings of Nazi propaganda films in high schools. But like most American racists, the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v Board of Education case changed how he approached the fight for white supremacy.
Sources & Further Reading:
Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.
Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press.
Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.
McMillen, Neil (1971). The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1964. University of Illinois Press
Kevin M. Kruse, The Paradox of Massive Resistance: Political Conformity and Chaos in the Aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, 48 St. Louis U. L.J. (2004).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/vol48/iss3/13
Thompson, Susan C. "Racial Injustice: A History of the Segregated School System in Jackson, Mississippi." Georgia State University, 2018. https://doi.org/10.57709/12100172
Sadler, Cynthia Jones, "Standing in the Shadows: African American Informants and Allies of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 268. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/268
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/how-integration-failed-in-jacksons-public-schools-from-1969-to-2017/
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/06/archives/antiintegrationad-seeks-teachers-aid.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/02/20/justice-department-lawyer-george-s-leonard-86-dies/238e9399-ef53-4983-9814-40b2250a2223/
https://ldfrecollection.org/content/archives/ba006941-a08b-4c85-b0d7-2f2e5ff00e85
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/21/archives/jackson-schools-end-segregation-43-negroes-sign-up-quietly-for.html
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/meridian-schools-no-longer-under-federal-supervision-stemming-from-1965-desegregation-lawsuit/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB929056013324992946
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/19/archives/mississippi-agency-channels-260000-to-antirighits-drive.html
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/sovcom/document/images/png/cd12/113717
https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/coordinating-committee-for-fundamental-american-freedoms/
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/nativist-lobby-three-faces-intolerance/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/eugenics-voter-id-laws-thomas-farrs-connections-pioneer-fund/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 17 Sep 2026 - 132 - Death of a Demagogue (rewind)
Sometimes when a weird little guy gets shot, the guy who killed him is just a weirder little guy.
Original Air Date: 9/18/2025
Sources:
Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's
Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press
Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Lee, Martin A. (1997). The Beast Reawakens. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
Rosenthal, A. M.; Gelb, Arthur (1967). One More Victim: The Life and Death of an American-Jewish Nazi. New York: New American LibrarySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 10 Sep 2026 - 131 - An American Racist in Berlin
In 1937, the heir to a textile manufacturing fortune established a charitable foundation to funnel money into disseminating propaganda produced in Nazi Germany. Since then, that fund has subsidized the overwhelming majority of research in the pseudoscientific field of 'race science.'
Sources & Further Reading:
Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.
Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.
Lusane, Clarence (2003). Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era. Routledge.
Kühl, Stefan (1994). The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. Oxford University Press.
Barry Mehler, “The New Eugenics,” Science for the People (May/June 1983)
Lorimer, Frank, et al. “The Role of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.” The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4, 1971, pp. 86–105. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3349466.
“Current Topics.” The Economic Journal, vol. 45, no. 178, 1935, pp. 406–09. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2224670.
“116. International Congress for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems.” Man, vol. 35, 1935, pp. 109–109. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2790721.
“Medical News.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3890, 1935, pp. 192–93. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25344986.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/12/01/the-tainted-sources-of-the-bell-curve/
1994 publication of excerpt from The Bell Curve:
https://newrepublic.com/article/120887/race-genes-and-iq-new-republics-bell-curve-excerpt
Rebuttals published in the same issue:
https://newrepublic.com/article/120890/responses-new-republics-bell-curve-excerpt
Andrew Sullivan’s 2022 article
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/denying-genetics-isnt-shutting-down-racism-its-fueling-it.html
https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/
https://x.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/business/media/im-still-reading-andrew-sullivan-but-i-cant-defend-him.html
https://www.ub.edu/personal/docencia/infocomp/bell.htm
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,748954-1,00.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1956/06/17/archives/dr-cg-campbell-88-expert-on-eugenic.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/136100c0
https://www.nytimes.com/1935/08/31/archives/berlin-congress-ends-in-dispute-international-and-scientific-nature.html
https://newrepublic.com/article/147960/charles-murray-marketing-genius
Herrnstein 1971 article in the atlantic
https://gwern.net/doc/iq/1971-herrnstein.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/16/obituaries/richard-herrnstein-64-dies-backed-nature-over-nurture.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20170324145730/http://www.intelligence.martinsewell.com/Gottfredson1997.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20200608195813/http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/intelligence/cache/eugenics2.html
https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/the-bell-curve/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2757926/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 03 Sep 2026 - 129 - Race Scientists and the Human Zoo
In 1904, men who believed in 'race science' put hundreds of people in a human zoo at the St. Louis world's fair. Today, those same racist, pseudoscientific views persist, and the men who hold them demand to be taken seriously in the name of academic freedom.
Sources & Further Reading:
Newkirk, Pamela (2015). Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Amistad.
Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.
McCray, Carrie Allen (2012). Ota Benga Under My Mother’s Roof. University of South Carolina Press.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.
Nathan Cofnas’ Doctoral Thesis: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd78170f-1131-47ef-af8d-7a3bb2ef41d0
https://jannalangholz.wordpress.com/2022/12/26/17-worlds-fair-deaths/
https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/specimen-days-human-zoos-at-the-1904-worlds-fair/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070610034510/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Bontoc.html
https://ashp.cuny.edu/documentaries-list/savage-acts-wars-fairs-and-empire-1898-1904/#
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/how-i-became-the-scapegoat-in-the-jason-arday-affair-dc134088
https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2007046/ghent-university-under-fire-for-appointing-us-philosopher-with-ties-to-scientific-racism
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/reptiles-with-a-conscience-the-coevolution-of-religious-and-moral-doctrine-by-nathan-cofnas-pp-523-ulster-institute-for-social-research-press-london-2012-3000-isbn-9780956881151-paperback/4005A8AD3C5B21AC0A82A38D5D97BBF8
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/the-man-who-was-caged-in-a-zoo
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/nyregion/thecity/the-scandal-at-the-zoo.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevmrjd9lj1o
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/06/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism
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Thu, 27 Aug 2026 - 128 - Mississippi's Still Burning: Byron de la Beckwith Pt 7
In 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of murder for killing Medgar Evers in 1963. He died in prison, his story is over. But history repeats itself.
Sources & Further Reading:
Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.
DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner.
Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster.
Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.
Newton, Michael (2010). The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. McFarland & Company, Inc.
Dittmer, John (1994). Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. University of Illinois Press.
Ball, Howard (2004). Murder in Mississippi. University Press of Kansas.
Snipe, Tracy (2021). The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, The Sarah Collins Rudolph Story. Africa World Press.
Doyle, William (2001). An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962. Doubleday.
Nossiter, Adam (1994). Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/719/1345/1438234/
https://shadowproof.com/2018/03/07/documents-reveal-police-targeting-anti-racists-charlottesville/
https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/4404359-DHS-Bulletin-Aug-9/
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2007/may/30/dredging-up-the-past-why-mississippians-must-tell/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-minneapolis-news-agents-claim-alberto-castaeda-mondragn-hit-wall-shattered-skull-triggers-tension-hospital/18514566/
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Thu, 20 Aug 2026 - 127 - No Golf No Masters: Celebrating Our Ungovernable Peccary Friends
James talks with Molly Conger about the javelina and their installable appetite for golf courses.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65x0RvhJNa8
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov/05/conservation.sciencenews
https://www.azgfd.com/wildlife-conservation/living-with-wildlife/living-with-javelina/
https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/8e8abbf4-6775-4575-9a10-fedacb7cb2c1
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Mon, 17 Aug 2026 - 126 - The Fiery Cross: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 6
In 1964, crosses burned all over Mississippi, signaling a return of the Ku Klux Klan. Their big debut was perfectly timed as a show of support for Byron de la Beckwith.
Sources & Further Reading:
Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.
DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner.
Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster.
Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.
Sims, Patsy (1978). Stein & Day.
Nelson, Stanley (2016). Devils Walking: Klan Murders Along the Mississippi in the 1960s. Louisiana State University Press.
Dirks, Annelieke. “Between Threat and Reality: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Emergence of Armed Self-Defense in Clarksdale and Natchez, Mississippi, 1960-1965.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 1, no. 1, 2007, pp. 71–98.
Ball, Howard (2004). Murder in Mississippi. University Press of Kansas.
Hamm, Mark (2017). The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism. Columbia University Press
Biondi, K., and J. Curtis. 2018. “From Structural to Stochastic Violence.” Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.
Newton, Michael (2010). The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. McFarland & Company, Inc.
Dittmer, John (1994). Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. University of Illinois Press.
Payne, Charles (1995). I’ve Got The Light of Freedom. University of California Press.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/accused-in-1964-mississippi-race-slayings-wrote-hate-letter-1.668898See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 13 Aug 2026 - 125 - The First Trial: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 5
Byron de la Beckwith was tried for the same murder three times. In 1964, it just wasn't generally considered illegal for a white man to kill a black man in Mississippi.
Sources & Further Reading:Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.
DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner.
Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster.
Evers, Myrlie (1967). For Us, The Living. Doubleday & Company.
Tyson, Timothy (2017). The Blood of Emmett Till. Simon & Schuster
Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.
Martin, Ralph (1983). A Hero For Our Time. Bandwagon, Inc.
Baden, Michael (2006). Exhumation. in Spitz & Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death.
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Thu, 06 Aug 2026 - 124 - Rabid on the Subject of Segregation: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 4
In the months leading up to the murder of Medgar Evers, the man who killed him was watching his world crumble. Byron de la Beckwith had dedicated his life to the cause of segregation, but it was a losing battle. The governor of Mississippi had backed down, allowing a second black student to enter Ole Miss. Governor George Wallace in Alabama backed down, too. Integration was creeping in all over. That, and his wife left him.
Sources & Further Reading:
Doyle, William (2001). An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962. Doubleday.
Lambert, Frank (2010). The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights vs States’ Rights. Oxford University Press.
Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.
Metzl, Jonathan (2009). The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease. Beacon Press.
Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press
Smith, Frank (1964). Congressman From Mississippi. Capricorn Books.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/100262race-ra.html
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news/index.3.html
https://www.southernfoodways.org/the-greenwood-food-blockade/
https://snccdigital.org/events/leflore-county-cuts-off-surplus-commodities/
https://snccdigital.org/people/dick-gregory/
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/22/us/samuel-block-60-civil-rights-battler-dies.html
https://www.crmvet.org/docs/src/6210_src_ns.pdf
https://themilitant.com/1962/2633/MIL2633.pdf
https://snccdigital.org/people/lawrence-guyot/
https://snccdigital.org/events/jimmy-travis-shot-greenwood/
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/multimedia/medgar-evers-and-jackson-movement.html
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/vault/projects/OHtranscripts/AU_MP198001_119_098611.pdf
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Thu, 30 Jul 2026 - 123 - Black Monday: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 3
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Segregated schools didn't react right away, but segregationists did. Within months, the Citizens' Councils began to form in counties across Mississippi. And Byron de la Beckwith was one of the group's earliest and most enthusiastic members.
Sources & Further Reading:
Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.
Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press
Silver, James W (1963). Mississippi: The Closed Society. Harcourt Brace & World Inc.
Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.
Williams, Michael Vinson (2011). Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr. The University of Arkansas Press
Cook, James Graham (1962). The Segregationists. Appleton Century Crofts
McMillen, Neil (1971). The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1964. University of Illinois Press
Mendelsohn, Jack (1966). The Martyrs. Harper & Row
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/buried-truth-unresolved-disregarded-lamar-smith-murder-haunts-lincoln-county/
Cashion, S. A. (2013). "And So We Moved Quietly": Southern Methodist University and Desegregation, 1950-1970. Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Delao, Frank Delao, "Containing Communism in Texas: How the Right Interpreted the Cold War, 1945-1965" (2016).Open Access
Theses & Dissertations. 633
Rich, Evelyn (1988). "Ku Klux Klan Ideology, 1954-1988" Graduate Theses and Dissertations
https://supremecourthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Volume-37-Number-3-2012.pdfhttps://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_eea548ac-a609-4b6f-be15-7ae300c2206b
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/7/27/al-aqsa-one-encroachment-too-many
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Thu, 23 Jul 2026 - 122 - Sons of Mississippi: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 2
Byron de la Beckwith and Medgar Evers never met. Evers didn’t even see the man who killed him. But the man and his killer grew up a hundred miles apart, fought in the same war, worked similar jobs, and were both deeply invested in the outcome over the fight for integration.
Sources & Further Reading:
Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.
Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row
Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.
Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press
Williams, Michael Vinson (2011). Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr. The University of Arkansas Press
Evers, Charles and Andrew Szanton (1997). Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story. John Wiley & Sons Inc
Tisale, John (1996). Medgar Evers (1925-1963) and the Mississippi Press. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Texas
Sheridan, Louis (2021) "Patriotism Betrayed: How the U.S. Military Resegregated From 1913-1939," Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II : Vol. 26, Article 11.
Donaldson, Le'Trice, "A Legacy All Their Own: African American Soldiers Fight for Citizenship, Race, and
Manhood, 1870-1920" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1167.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1167Hartgrove, W. B. “The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 1, no. 2, 1916, pp. 110–31. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3035634.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/07/06/where-is-the-voice-coming-from
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty/welty-manuscripts/weltys08
https://press.bobmizer.org/releases/instant-gratification
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/books/my-uncle-the-bigot.html
https://www.history.com/articles/battle-of-tarawa
https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/Tarawa/InvasionCasualties
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/marine-killed-battle-tarawa-laid-rest-80-years-later
https://www.oyez.org/about-audio
https://www.army.mil/article/97705/black_soldiers_in_the_revolutionary_war
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/CombatMultipliers.pdf
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Thu, 16 Jul 2026 - 121 - CZM Rewind: The Roommates & In Minecraft
It's a Weird Little Guys classic episode - the story of the Atomwaffen member who murdered two other Atomwaffen members. Stay tuned until the end for some updates to the story.
Sources & Further Reading:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67075979/united-states-v-clendaniel/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71119306/united-states-v-brandon-russell/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/fbi-surveillance-terrorist-attack-00141200
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-did-a-convicted-neo-nazi-release-propaganda-from-prison-628437/
The Roommates
In 2017, police investigating a double homicide found more than just bodies in a Tampa condo. The founder of a neonazi group was making bombs in the garage.Original Air Date: 8.7.25
Sources:
https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-threat-is-the-network-the-multi-node-structure-of-neo-fascist-accelerationism/https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/visions-chaos-weighing-violent-legacy-iron-march/
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2016/police-release-video-of-suspect-in-hate-poster-distribution/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/all-american-nazis-628023/
In Minecraft
After Devon Arthurs murdered his roommates, he claimed he'd only done it to prevent the loss of innocent lives. The man he said was planning a terrorist attack was arrested with a car full of guns, but not charged with any of the things Arthurs claimed their nazi terror cell had been working on.
Original Air Date: 8.14.25
Sources:
https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mysteryhttps://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article156282099.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/transcript/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjEBXDfuBDE&ab_channel=COURTTV
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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 - 120 - I Watched Uwe Boll's Far Right Power Fantasy So You Don't Have To
This week, Molly watched Citizen Vigilante, a new film from the world's worst director.
Sources & Further Reading:
https://scoutmagazine.ca/remembering-gastowns-ambitious-but-doomed-modern-german-restaurant/https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/cinema/hanau-attack-film-angers-victims-families
https://people.com/movies/armie-hammer-controversy-timeline/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/sep/26/news
Simi, Pete, and Robert Futrell. American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010
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Thu, 02 Jul 2026 - 119 - June 11, 1963: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 1
On the night of June 11, 1963, Byron de la Beckwith murdered Medgar Evers with a single shot. But how did he end up hiding in a bush across the street from the home of a civil rights leader?
Sources & Further Reading:
Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.
Zinn, Howard. (1964) SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Beacon Press. Boston.
Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/06/12/issue.htmlhttps://www.lodinews.com/features/vintage_lodi/article_426cb4b4-269e-5c6f-ba07-7e92ecf23142.html
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/witnesses/medgarevers.htmhttps://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/medgar-evers-and-the-origin-of-the-civil-rights-movement-in-mississippi
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnalhn/runawayslavenotices.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/us/byron-de-la-beckwith-dies-killer-of-medgar-evers-was-80.html
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Thu, 25 Jun 2026 - 118 - Flagged for Removal
Last week, a federal judge ordered the Department of the Interior to stop implementation of a Trump executive order that would whitewash history at National Park sites. A leaked database shows the materials that parks employees had flagged for removal. They want to 'make America great' by erasing its past.
Sources & Further Reading:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72178941/city-of-philadelphia-v-burgum/
https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/save-our-signs/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ulzIcpjpyTKLa52DClUkUlcazJPdAryK0B0oKmA9TF8/
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/medgar-evers-killer-trump-says-stop-calling-him-racist/
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/visitor-brochures-returned-medgar-evers-home/
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/12/medgar-evers-home-omissions-to-story/
https://mississippitoday.org/2025/03/17/wwii-vet-medgar-evers-erased-from-arlington-cemetery-website/
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/brochures-calling-medgar-evers-killer-racist-still-available-at-evers-home/
https://www.nhpr.org/2013-08-12/van-evers-honors-his-father-in-his-own-way
https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-announces-usns-harvey-milk-renamed-usns-oscar/story?id=123266490
https://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/medgar-evers-family-fights-efforts-to-strip-his-name-from-navy-vessel/
https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2026/02/national-park-service-plans-censor-brochures-murder-civil-rights-leader
https://npshistory.com/publications/memy/brochures/2021.pdfhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/16/philadelphia-trump-judge-slavery-history/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/us/politics/judge-national-parks-trump.html
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Thu, 18 Jun 2026 - 117 - Klan Camp
In 1980, Texas Klan Grand Dragon Louis Beam was running a paramilitary training camp outside of Houston. But they weren't just training klansmen for the race war. They ran a boy scout camp on the weekends.
Sources and further reading:
Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/518/993/2128255/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/518/1017/2128803/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/543/198/1460786/
https://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/30/archives/paramilitary-actions-irk-neighbors-of-texas-camp-charter.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/11/24/boy-scouts-taught-to-fire-weapons-strangle-opponents/1eec4466-569a-47a8-b2e1-ce60c763ffe7/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/11/23/Charge-Klan-teaches-scouts-how-to-strangle-people/2641343803600/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/11/24/Klan-member-trains-youths-at-paramilitary-camp/6144343890000/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/11/25/A-mother-says-two-teen-age-Explorer-scouts-who-attended/4442343976400/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/12/05/The-owner-of-a-10-acre-plot-of-land-used/1128344840400/
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Thu, 11 Jun 2026 - 116 - Outside Agitators
In 1967, segregationist lawyer Jack Kershaw swore out a warrant against George Ware, an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By the end of the week, a congressman was denouncing Ware on the house floor as an outside agitator. But what is an outside agitator? What do we mean when we blame unrest on these untrustworthy outsiders? Where does that idea come from? And is it even true?
Sources & Further Reading:
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ARCHIVE/kerner_commission_full_report.pdfhttps://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
https://www.crmvet.org/docs/sv/670400_sncc_nyc-newsletter.pdf
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/274/538/1574803/
https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/GSB/id/10262/
https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal67-1311343
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/09/archives/official-changes-testimony-on-antiwhite-school.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/30/archives/sedition-charges-dropped.html
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2020/07/27/a-brief-history-of-dangerous-others/
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/11/12/audio/defining-safe-defining-the-outside-agitator/
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Thu, 04 Jun 2026 - 115 - In Loving Memory of Laura & Mike Sullivan
We lost one of the greats last month. Laura Sullivan was an antifascist researcher, a photographer, a journalist, a friend, a mother, and a mentor. She was a legend and we were lucky to have her while we did.
You can make a donation to One People's Project, the antifascist organization Laura was involved in for more than two decades, here:
https://onepeoplesproject.com/donate/Daryle Lamont Jenkins' tribute to his longtime friends & collaborators, Laura & Mike Sullivan: https://idavox.com/index.php/2026/05/07/the-sullivans-much-love-and-rest-in-peace/
Abner Hauge's tribute to Laura & Mike: https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/in-memoriam-laura-mike-sullivan/
Laura's Obituary: https://obituaries.carewellcremations.com/laura-sullivan
Sources & Further Reading:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-clark-dc-neo-nazi-arrested_n_5beb99ffe4b0caeec2bf24e5https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nazi-punch-antifa_n_59e13ae9e4b03a7be580ce6f
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/fbi-court-battle-identity-imf-protest-informantsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 04 Jun 2026 - 114 - It's One Nazi Rally, Donald, How Much Could It Cost?
Wrapping up the discussion of the MAGA narrative surrounding the SPLC indictment, Molly addresses the question of money. If the administration is implying the SPLC fully funded the 2017 Unite the Right rally, what would that mean? How much does something like that cost? And who actually paid for it?
Sources & Additional Reading:
https://www.integrityfirstforamerica.org/exhibitshttps://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/server/4
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/02/patriot-front-recruits-members-young-pyramid-scheme
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59680212/united-states-v-hiles/
https://vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontleaks/
National Policy Institute Form 990s
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521259838Mary Noel Kershaw Foundation Form 990s
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/621608693Charles Martel Society Form 990s
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/364397594https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00583658/?tab=filings&cycle=2018
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Thu, 28 May 2026 - 113 - Nazis React to the President Saying They Aren't Real
The MAGA media is running with the President's theory that the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 wasn't real. That's offensive to anyone with a solid relationship with reality, but it's especially hurtful for the guys who worked very hard to plan that nazi rally.
Link to the September 29, 2025 episode of I Don't Speak German that was mentioned: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/136-the-final-cantwell
https://eugeneantifa.noblogs.org/post/2019/06/28/davidzsutty/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IufVP9wHeUs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4pUinLZ_0
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Thu, 21 May 2026 - 112 - The Southern Poverty Law Center Did Not Plan Unite the Right
The President of the United States went on 60 Minutes last month and claimed that the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 was fake, a hoax perpetrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He's referring to allegations made in the recent indictment against the SPLC that one of their paid informants was a member of the planning chat for the rally. But what does the indictment actually say? And what kind of person snitches for money?
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Thu, 14 May 2026 - 111 - Emergency Minisode: Jason Kessler Sues Gavin McInnes
It's the first ever Weird Little Guys emergency broadcast! A weird little guy has filed a lawsuit against another weird little guy.
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Mon, 11 May 2026 - 110 - Listener Questions
Molly answers some of your burning questions about important stuff, like a nazi's tuna casserole recipe, who came up with a rhyming phrase about fascist violence, and what kind of cake she's eating this week.
Sources:
Testa, M. Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance. AK Press, 2015.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/m-testa-militant-anti-fascism
https://socialistworker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/a-radical-guide-to-antifascism-LR-1.pdfhttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-should-give-no-quarter-those-seeking-divide-us
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Thu, 07 May 2026 - 109 - Say a Good Word for Slavery: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 3
In the final part of the story about Jack Kershaw, we'll talk about his legal career. Before he represented MLK's assassin, before he sculpted a gigantic racist statue out of old bathtubs, he got a law degree from a part time night school program at the YMCA so he could do his part to stop integration.
Sources:
Phillips, Betsy. Dynamite Nashville: the FBI, the KKK, and the bombers beyond their control. Third Man Books 2021.
Houston, Benjamin, et al. “‘We Kept the Discussion at an Adult Level’: Jack Kershaw and the Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government.” Southern Cultures, vol. 20, no. 4, 2014, pp. 72–88. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26217566Graham, Hugh Davis. “Desegregation in Nashville: The Dynamics of Compliance.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2, 1966, pp. 135–54. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42622869
McMillen, Neil R. “Organized Resistance to School Desegregation In Tennessee.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3, 1971, pp. 315–28. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42623247
Michael J. Henry, Student Display of the Confederate Flag in Public Schools, 33 J.L. & EDUC. 573 (2004).
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2824&context=jledEgerton, Joel. Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
https://southernspaces.org/2009/walking-history-beginning-school-desegregation-nashville/https://www.ahcuah.com/lawsuit/federal/melton.htm
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/328/88/1428295/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/42777957/james-n-mason/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/BR/81/897/1821803/
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/the-fugitives/https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/clinton-desegregation-crisis/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/us/nashville-civil-rights-bombings.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 30 Apr 2026 - 108 - The Princess in the Parking Lot
Police in New Jersey arrested a woman found sleeping in her car in a strip mall parking lot after the plates came back registered to a stolen vehicle. Her lawyer, Tennessee segregationist Jack Kershaw, insisted that his client was not only innocent, but said she was telling the truth - she really was a Romanian princess.
Sources:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1509995/HRH-Prince-Carol-of-Romania.htmlhttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/15/Lawsuit-against-princess-dismissed/2985395553600/
https://stiri.botosani.ro/stiri/actualitate/paul-de-romania-mai-are-un-frate-printul-alexandru.html
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Thu, 23 Apr 2026 - 107 - CZM Rewind: Disney's Villain
After losing his job, an ex-Disney employee tried to get his former employer's attention by hacking in and making strange updates to company files.
Original Air Date: 6.5.25
Sources:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69534211/united-states-v-scheuer/
https://www.eeoc.gov/what-you-can-expect-after-you-file-charge
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Thu, 16 Apr 2026 - 106 - Playboy Payola: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 2
Decades before he sculpted a Confederate general out of old bathtubs, Jack Kershaw briefly represented his most famous client - Martin Luther King Jr's assassin, James Earl Ray. The relationship soured after Ray discovered his lawyer had pocketed a payment from Playboy magazine.
Sources:
James McKinley, "Playboy Interview: James Earl Ray," Playboy Magazine, September 1977
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/09/archives/polygraph-indicates-ray-lied.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/25/archives/james-earl-ray-wants-mark-lane-to-replace-his-tenth-lawyer.html
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Thu, 09 Apr 2026 - 105 - Strange People on the Hill feat. Michael Edison Hayden
Molly interviews Michael Edison Hayden about his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town. The book is an intimate portrait of what happened in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia after a white nationalist group moved into the castle on the hill.
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Fri, 03 Apr 2026 - 104 - The Ugliest Confederate Statue in the World: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 1
Jack Kershaw created his most famous piece of art in his 80s. His lifelong passion for the arts had to take a backseat when he shifted his focus to becoming a professional racist during the fight against integration. He was doing it for his confederate ancestors, he would often say. But he was never very specific about who exactly his ancestors were...
The It Could Happen Here episode mentioned, originally aired 2/22/2024 -
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ZQAqsxImsNGQUTzHGKhNp
Sources:
https://thesewaneepurple.org/2021/03/23/polk-sculpture-donated-by-white-supremacist-jack-kershaw/https://thesewaneepurple.org/2021/03/22/polk-sculpture-removed-by-student-taken-to-archives/
https://meridiana.sewanee.edu/2022/04/30/a-year-later-a-letter-of-explanation/
https://www.moca.org/collection/work/unmanned-drone
https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/28/swords-plowshares
https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/confederate-icongraphy.html
https://wpln.org/post/even-as-statue-forrest-still-draws-fire/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/03/30/Ray-says-lawyer-hid-Playboy-fee/1722386312400/
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, August 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvCjM1lPwg4Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, October 2017
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Thu, 02 Apr 2026 - 103 - Minisode: The Real Earl Turner
Before we leave the novels of William Luther Pierce behind us, let's take a quick look at the real Earl Turner. The protagonist of The Turner Diaries was, like all of Pierce's characters, named after a real guy he knew.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2026 - 102 - The Nazi's Mary Sue: Hunter, Pt. 2
At the end of this exploration of nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin and the novel loosely based on his crimes, the question remains: did any of his friends in the white power movement know what he was going to do before he did it? What clues does the novel hold?
Sources:
Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020
Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.
Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011
Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge
Bill Simmons, "Defendants All Acquitted In Sedition Trial," AP News, April 8, 1988
https://www.kcur.org/news/2024-04-12/overland-park-antisemitic-murders-jewish-community-center-shooting-survivorshttps://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article2595772.html
http://www.kansas.com/2014/04/15/3406670/records-suggest-federal-authorities.html
https://momentsthatsurvive.org/tribute/pierce-hastings/
https://www.wunc.org/2014-04-15/an-idiot-with-a-gun-leaves-families-in-kansas-reeling
https://www.kmbc.com/article/shooting-victim-remembered-for-upbeat-attitude-work-with-kids/3681879
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Thu, 26 Mar 2026 - 101 - The Nazi's Mary Sue: Hunter, Pt. 1
A closer look at the second novel by the man who wrote The Turner Diaries reveals that it isn't just about serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin... it's the author's fantasy about the man he wishes he could have been.
Sources:
Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020
Thomas Martinez, Brotherhood of Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of The Order. McGraw Hill, 1988
Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.
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Thu, 19 Mar 2026 - 100 - One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 6
As we approach the end of the series on nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, the rest of the timeline is filled in. Shortly after murdering two young men in Utah, Franklin was arrested at a motel in Kentucky after calling to complain that a police car had him double parked.
Sources:
Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011
Ralph Echols, Life Without Mercy: Jake Beard, Joseph Paul Franklin and the Rainbow Murders,
Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge
Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 12 Mar 2026 - 99 - Raymond Turner
Just about every source of information about nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin gets the name of one of his victims wrong. In my search for information about the man who was murdered in Falls Church, Virginia in August of 1979, I came up mostly empty. We've erased a man from the story of his own murder because it's easier to tell a story about a racist than it is to talk about racism.
Sources:
Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011
Moon, V. The middleburg mystique: A peek inside the gates of Middleburg, Virginia. Waverley Lee Media, LLC. 2016
Matthew Exline, We Have Been Waiting Too Long: The Struggle Against Racial Segregation in Loudoun County, Virginia. Have History Will Travel Press, 2020.
Carole Townsend, Blood in the Soil. Skyhorse, 2016
Douglas, John E., Ann W. Burgess, et al. Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes. John Wiley and Sons, 2006.
The Study of the Operation of Segregated Schools in Loudoun County, Virginia conducted by Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project Research Team University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development
https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/214704/The-Study-of-the-Operation-of-Segregated-Schools-in-Loudoun-County-Virginia_FINAL
https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/index.cfm?fa=newsinfo.displayContent&theFile=content/deathPenalty/trial
https://www.aclunorcal.org/app/uploads/2010/03/costs_of_death_penalty_trials.pdfhttps://fds.duke.edu/db?attachment-34--1667-view-301
https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/259-0162-0007_ShilohBaptistChurch_2017_NRHP_FINAL.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/05/loudoun-county-segregated-schools-reparations/
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/government/constitution1902.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/08/21/turner-raymond-elton/4ae0ab2f-ef82-477d-a8f8-39ababc4c72c/
https://edwinwashingtonproject.org/files/original/62047/1014789_EWP_2-5A_Yr_1930_CountyWide_on_Gibbons_Lot.pdfSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 05 Mar 2026 - 98 - One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 5
After Joseph Paul Franklin was arrested in 1980, prosecutors all over the country were waiting their turn to try him for murder. After a federal prosecutor failed to convince a jury that shooting a man just for being black was a civil rights violation, they lost their confidence. But Joseph Paul Franklin was desperate to get out of the federal prison where he was serving his first few life sentences.
Sources:
Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011
Thomas Martinez, Brotherhood of Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of The Order. McGraw Hill, 1988
Jessica Mitford, Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business, New York, Vintage Books, 1973
Devins, Neal, "Reagan Redux: Civil Rights Under Bush" (1993). Faculty Publications. 429.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/429
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/06/28/reynolds-nomination-voted-down/115c0520-c848-4c17-a302-209a9a9d5a4a/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/28/us/senate-committee-rejects-reynolds-for-justice-post.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/07/us/us-rights-official-discounts-tension.html
https://www.hcpros.org/case-vault-1
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/us/slayer-faces-trial-in-2-apparently-racial-killings.html
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_v._Lanza
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-5/dual-sovereignty-doctrine
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7299259/united-states-v-fields/
https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Utah-AG-Report.pdf
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4403054/mitchell-v-roberts/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-02-mn-747-story.html
https://people.umass.edu/~kastor/ceml_articles/cu_in_us.html
https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC3_scans/3.journal.prisons.prisoners.griffin.1993.pdf
https://concrim.asc41.com/wp-content/uploads/j32.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/10/23/murders-of-blacks-baffle-us-officials/f8eefeac-1ca3-48de-85a0-4b9db645b01e/
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/24/us/study-accuses-justice-dept-of-waging-attack-on-civil-rights-laws.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/10/marion-prison-lockdown-thomas-silverstein-how-a-1983-murder-created-america-s-terrible-supermax-prison-culture.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 26 Feb 2026 - 97 - One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 4
When Joseph Paul Franklin hit the road to start his killing spree, his movements seemed completely random. But what if they weren't?
Sources:
Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011
Fine, Morris, and Milton Himmelfard. American Jewish Year Book 1979. 1978.
Frenkel, Margaret. American synagogue directory, 1963
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-25016217
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4300634/zink-v-lombardi/
https://isthmus.com/archive/from-the-archives/in-cold-blood/
https://www.almd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2022-04/OH-transcript-baxley.pdf
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2014/04/14/timeline-hate-filled-life/7712569/
https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2000/sc-81859-1.html
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Thu, 19 Feb 2026 - 96 - One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 3
Last week, we looked at the nazi newletters serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was probably reading in the leadup to his killing spree. But there is one thing we know for certain he was reading: Hustler.
Sources:
Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011
Jonathan Golomb, Regulation of Indecency in Political Broadcasting, 13 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 69 (1979).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol13/iss1/5
https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/justice/death-row-interview-joseph-paul-franklin
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/12/archives/antiobscenity-drive-disputed-in-atlanta-prosecutors-campaign-widely.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/10/archives/a-bullet-paralyzed-flynt-below-waist-his-doctor-reports-operating.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 - 95 - One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 2
In 1977, Joseph Paul Franklin started his three year killing spree, but he wasn't the only neo-nazi who murdered for the movement that summer.
Sources:
Sunshine, Spencer. (2024). Neo-Nazi terrorism and countercultural fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Taylor & Francis.
Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020
Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011
Gardell, Mattias. “Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide.” Cambridge University Press eBooks, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108609760.
Bart Schuurman, Lasse Lindekilde, Stefan Malthaner, Francis O'Connor, Paul Gill & Noémie Bouhana (2017): End of the Lone Wolf: The Typology that Should Not Have Been, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2017.1419554
Jeffrey Kaplan (2014) Mel Ayton. Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin , Terrorism and Political Violence, 26:5, 855-857See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 05 Feb 2026 - 94 - To Catch A Fascist: An Interview with Christopher Mathias
Molly interviews Christopher Mathias about his new book, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right. It's a rollicking tale of infiltrating nazi groups and exposing their private communications to dox them en masse.
Preorder Chris' book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767
The article Chris mentioned about Spit & Dan: https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/death-in-the-desert-2263332/
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Fri, 30 Jan 2026 - 93 - CZM Rewind: Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney
Part One: Frank Abbott Sweeney Jr may be the Forrest Gump of American white supremacy in the 20th century. Starting with a failed bank robbery for the American Nazi Party in the 60s, Frank stumbled his way into being an inconsequential side character in major historical events for decades.
Original Air Date: 8.28.24
Part Two: In part two of the life of the Forrest Gump of fascism, Frank Sweeney leads the CIA on an international goose chase, befriends and then betrays a serial killer, and just can't stop committing crimes by mail.
Original Air Date: 9.5.24
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Thu, 29 Jan 2026 - 92 - One Man Race War: Joseph Paul Franklin, Pt. 1
Years before he set off on his three year killing spree, Joseph Paul Franklin left his home in Alabama to attend a nazi conference in Virginia.
Sources:
Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011
Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge
Kaplan, Jeffrey. (2022). No Longer Alone: Lone Wolves, Wolf Packs, and Made for Web TV Specials. In: Perry, B., Gruenewald, J., Scrivens, R. (eds) Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States . Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Saslow, Eli. Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist. Anchor, 2018.
Malthaner, Stefan, et al. “Scattered Attacks: The Collective Dynamics of Lone-Actor Terrorism.” Perspectives on Politics, vol. 22, no. 2, Dec. 2023, pp. 463–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592723002852.
Bart Schuurman, Lasse Lindekilde, Stefan Malthaner, Francis O'Connor, Paul Gill & Noémie Bouhana (2017): End of the Lone Wolf: The Typology that Should Not Have Been, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2017.1419554
Pantucci, Rafaello. A Typology of Lone Wolves: Preliminary Analysis of Lone Islamist Terrorists. (London: International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), 2011): 14-31.
Gardell, Mattias. “Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide.” Cambridge University Press, 2021.
https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NCITF-Final-Paper.pdf
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/movement-and-madman/#part01
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/11/20/november-mobilization/
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Thu, 22 Jan 2026 - 91 - Cops & Klan
In 1965, a car full of klansmen shot and killed Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit who volunteered to drive civil rights activists back to Selma after the march to Montgomery. The FBI immediately kicked into overdrive to drag her name through the mud.
Sources:
Stanton, Mary. From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998
Mendelsohn, Jack. The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row 1966
https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/micheal-schwerner-james-chaney-andrew-goodmanhttps://famous-trials.com/mississippi-burningtrial/1978-barnetteconfession
https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/schwerner-michael/
http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/7p88cm77s
https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/
https://archive.org/details/martyrssixteenwh00mend/page/176/mode/2up
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Thu, 15 Jan 2026 - 90 - Earl Turner's Diary
When the man responsible for bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City was arrested, he was carrying a page of his favorite book. The book had been sold at gun shows and in ads in nazi newsletters for years, but suddenly the rest of the country was asking... can a book kill?
Sources:
Berger, J.M. "The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism’s Deadly Bible", The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague 7, no. 8 (2016).
Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge
Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020
Martin Durham, White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics (new
york: routledge, 2007)
Gardell, Mattias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham: Duke University Press.
Kaplan, Jeffrey (July 2018). "America's apocalyptic literature of the radical right". International Sociology. 33 (4): 503–522
Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.
Michael, George(2003) 'The revolutionary model of Dr William L. Pierce', Terrorism and Political Violence, 15: 3
Michael, George(2010) 'Blueprints and Fantasies: A Review and Analysis of Extremist Fiction', Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33: 2
Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.
Cullick, Jonathan S. “The Literary Offenses of a Neo-Nazi: Narrative Voice in ‘The Turner Diaries.’” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 24, no. 3, 2002, pp. 87–99.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/guru-white-hate-william-pierce-timothy-mcveigh-831091/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 08 Jan 2026 - 89 - CZM Rewind: Blood River & Mission South Africa
Parts 7 & 8 of the South Africa arc.
Blood River
Original Air Date: 4.17.25
In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God.
Sources:
Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986.
FA Mouton (1995) F A van Jaarsveld (1922–1995) — a flawed genius?, , 27:1,
5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00232089585310011Stephney, Inez Mary. “Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990’s, with particular reference to South Africa”
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Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. “Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of ‘Blood River’ and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.” History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052.
http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe
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https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage
https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222024000200001
https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838
https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/
https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c
https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/
Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999.
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Mission South Africa
Original Air Date: 5.1.25
At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee status under Trump's executive order.
Sources:
https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/
https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/
https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary
https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/
https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/
https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html
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Thu, 01 Jan 2026 - 88 - CZM Rewind: The Whites' Last Stand & The Jamboree in Jamba
Parts 5 & 6 of the South Africa arc.
The Whites' Last Stand
Original Air Date: 4.3.25
In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century.
Sources:
https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/
https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong
Guelke, Adrian. “Political Violence and the South African Transition.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810.
https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme
https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/
https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm
https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm
Death of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.
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The Jamboree in Jamba
This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.
Sources:
Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.
Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.
Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Ivon, David. “Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.” Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.
Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.
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https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/
https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdf
https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/
https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress
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Tue, 30 Dec 2025 - 87 - CZM Rewind: The White Wolf & White Guns for Hire
Parts 3 & 4 of the South Africa arc.
The White Wolf
Original Air Date: 3.2.25
In 1989, four Afrikaner nationalists and one German mercenary killed a security guard at a United Nations outpost in Namibia. After escaping from custody, they fled home to South Africa. A possibly non-existent group called The White Wolves took credit for the wave of bombings that followed.
Sources:
Du Preez, M. (2010). Pale native: Memories of a Renegade reporter. Zebra Press.
Rotberg, Robert (1988). The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Enigma of Power. Oxford University Press.
Falkof, Nicky. The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2016.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-09-bruce-and-leonard-a-sad-african-immigrant-tale-of-injustice/
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/19/world/outjo-journal-un-namibia-team-makes-some-unlikely-friends.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20010429091808/http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/spec/aress14-1.htm
https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZASCA/1999/72.html
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/08/11/Gunmen-attacked-a-UN-peace-keeping-force-adminstrative-headquarters-and/6550618811200/
https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-nexus-between-far-right-extremists-in-the-united-states-and-ukraine/
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=ncitereportsresearch
https://web.archive.org/web/20181118212149/https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/the-day-wit-wolf-turned-pretoria-red-with-blood-18125595
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/bradley-steyn-undercover-with-mandelas-spies-part-one/
https://theafricancriminologyjournal.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/south-africa-the-strijdom-square-massacre/
https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/us-wit-wolf-slaughter-1873433
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/what-became-of-the-big-wit-wolf-424408
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White Guns for Hire
Original Air Date: 3.27.25
In 1994, a second group of mercenaries arrived at the airport in Johannesburg... but no one was there to pick them up. Their host had been arrested days earlier, after the last group of mercenaries she'd hosted got into a deadly shootout with the South African police. But how did all these Germans end up in South Africa in the first place?
Sources:
Simonelli, F. J. (1999). American Führer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. University of Illinois Press.
Krott, R. (2008). Save the last bullet for yourself: A soldier of fortune in the Balkans and Somalia. Casemate.
Eisenberg, D. (1967). The Reemergence of Fascism. Barnes.
https://balkans.aljazeera.net/news/balkan/2017/11/29/slobodan-praljak-umro-u-bolnici
Bartholomäus Grill: German right-wing radicals shoot in South Africa: License plate D. In: Die Zeit . No. 13 , 25 March 1994
Antifaschistisches Autorenkollektiv: Drahtzieher im braunen Netz : Ein aktueller Überblick über den Neonazi-Untergrund in Deutschland und Österreich. Konkret Literatur Verlag, 1996,
https://etd.library.emory.edu/concern/etds/jm214q33q?locale=it
https://js.emory.edu/news/news-stories-container/Using%20South%20African%20Archives%20to%20Study%20PostWorld%20War%20Two%20Antisemitism%20and%20White%20Supremacist%20Networks.html
https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/c7f1b03d-343d-4abf-bcb3-e508f43dbc90/content
https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib99/dressed-kill
Searchlight Magazine, issues July, August, September 1996
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Thu, 25 Dec 2025 - 86 - CZM Rewind: The White House Weighs in on White Genocide & Apartheid International
For the end of the year reruns, Weird Little Guys is revisiting the longest, strangest story of 2025 - the South Africa arc. Those eight episodes tell the strange story of how one little skinhead rally in California in 2012 connects to a vast international conspiracy to stop the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994.
----The White House Weighs in on White Genocide
Original Air Date: 2.27.25
In February of 2012, racist skinheads in California rallied at the capitol building in Sacramento. They were trying to raise awareness for an imaginary problem - an ongoing genocide against white South African farmers. In February of 2025, the President of the United States signed an executive order stripping foreign aid from South Africa as punishment for that same imaginary problem.
Sources:
Falkof, Nicky. (2022). Worrier state: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester University Press.
Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens. The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), 2018.
Holmes, Carolyn. Victimhood for an Audience: Portrayals of Extra-Lethal Violence and their Utility for Self-Identified Victims
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b6672f43c3a5320c2bec900/t/5c98fd14a4222fc0ef950ccd/1553530134194/Victimhood+for+an+Audience+-+March+2019.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/white-farmers-trump-south-africa-tucker-carlson-far-right-influencehttps://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/dangerous-myth-white-genocide-south-africa/
https://africasacountry.com/2018/02/searching-for-white-genocide-in-south-africa/
https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/far-right-racists-push-fake-south-africa-white-genocide-narrative/
https://goodauthority.org/news/misinformation-south-africa-new-land-act-trump-musk/
https://africasacountry.com/2018/05/flight-of-the-boers
https://www.news24.com/News24/afriforums-own-farm-murder-stats-dont-support-their-claims-20180507
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-15/dutton-wants-australia-to-help-white-south-african-farmers/9550050https://theconversation.com/peter-duttons-fast-track-for-white-south-african-farmers-is-a-throwback-to-a-long-racist-history-93476
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/22/south-africa-risks-food-shortages-if-white-farmers-go-to-australia-nationals-mp-says
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/27/dutton-should-prioritise-refugees-on-nauru-not-white-south-africans-unhcr-says
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ramaphosa-hits-back-at-donald-trump-on-land-tweet/
https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Acts/2024/Act_13_of_2024_Expropriation_Act_2024.pdf
https://www.enca.com/videos/exclusive-interview-frontrunner-become-us-ambassador-sa
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Apartheid InternationalOriginal Air Date: 3.13.25
In the last episode, we looked at a strange series of rallies held in cities across the United States in 2012 - American neo-nazis were rallying in support of white South African Farmers. But how did they get that idea in their heads? The rallies were put on by a group called The South Africa Project, run by a woman I'd never heard of. Digging into this mysterious South African, I found a lot more than I bargained for - bombings and mercenaries and an international network of fascist terror.
Sources:
https://www.24sata.hr/news/hsp-as-prisegnuli-na-vjernost-domovini-i-donaldu-trumpu-513281#google_vignette
https://balkaninsight.com/2017/02/27/us-condemns-zagreb-neo-nazi-march-for-trump-02-27-2017/
https://www.icty.org/x/cases/naletilic_martinovic/cis/en/cis_naletilic_martinovic_en.pdfhttps://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/
https://time.com/3927339/dylann-roof-charleston-shooting-flags/
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https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/1981/0219/021960.html
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/anti-genocide-protests-around-nation-were-organized-neo-nazis/Visser, Myda. 1999. University of Pretoria. DIE IDEOLOGIESE GRONDSLAE EN ONlWIKKELING VAN DIE BLANKE FASCISTIESE BEWEGINGS IN SUID-AFRIKA, 1945-1995
Hill, Ray, and Andrew Bell. The Other Face of Terror: Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network. Grafton, 1988.
https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/finalreport/volume%202.pdfhttps://www.sahistory.org.za/article/june-16-soweto-youth-uprising
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Tue, 23 Dec 2025 - 85 - Minisode: Reverse Q&A
In this minisode, Molly highlights a couple of listener answers to questions raised on the show. Most importantly, we finally find out what Dan Burros was watching on TV on November 10, 1962.
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Fri, 19 Dec 2025 - 84 - The Florida Bar v Invictus
Augustus Invictus has finally been suspended by the Florida Bar for his felony conviction for participating in a nazi torch march in 2017. But when will he actually serve his jail sentence?
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Thu, 18 Dec 2025 - 83 - The Insurrectionist: Tyler Dykes, Part Two
In 2017, Tyler Dykes marched in Charlottesville. In 2021, he breached the capitol. In 2026, he hopes to win a congressional election.
Sources:
https://www.postandcourier.com/beaufort-county/politics/tyler-dykes-campaign-sc1-congress/article_c255115c-45cf-430e-b4a4-160a322631e1.htmlhttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/givesendgo-crowdfunding-extremism/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67681795/united-states-v-dykes/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/racist-crowdfunding-campaigns-extremist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/06/jan-6-prisoners-supporters/
https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/base
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/fbi-arrests-the-base-michigan.html
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Thu, 11 Dec 2025 - 82 - CZM Rewind: Burning Hate: Tyler Dykes
This episode originally ran on October 17, 2024. There is a brief new introduction, but it's back at the top of your feed for listeners who didn't catch it the first time around. Today's regular episode picks up where this one left off.
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-supporters-who-stormed-us-capitol-begin-leave-prison-following-sweeping-2025-01-21/
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-high-water-mark-of-the-jan.-6-prosecutions
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Tyler Bradley Dykes entered a guilty plea last year on the charge of burning an object with the intent to intimidate for his participation in the 2017 nazi torch march in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was sentenced to just six months and was probably expecting to see his parents waiting for him outside the jail on his scheduled release date... but it was the FBI who picked him up.
Sources:
https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/04/19/inside-southern-sons-active-club-part-i/https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/04/19/inside-southern-sons-active-club-part-ii/
https://sunlight161.noblogs.org/technology-king-lowcountry-ceo-tyler-dykes-bluffton-sc-marine-nazi/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67681795/united-states-v-dykes/
https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/burning-hate-bond-review/
https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/unite-the-right-marcher-pleads-guilty-to-j6-charges/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/white-nationalist-active-clubs-1234835015/
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Thu, 11 Dec 2025 - 81 - Weird Little Guys 2025 Q&A
Molly answers your weird little questions and shares her personal conspiracy theory about who tried and failed to assassinate a nazi in 1967.
Sources:
Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, 'Mass Communication and Parasocial Interaction:
Observations on Intimacy at a Distance', Psychiatry 19: 215-29, 1956
https://www.participations.org/03-01-04-horton.pdfNadora, Mikhaela, "Parasocial Relationships with Podcast Hosts" (2019). University Honors Theses. Paper 771.
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Thu, 04 Dec 2025 - 80 - CZM Rewind: Magic Beans
In 2017, a man showed up at the emergency room and confessed that he'd accidentally poisoned himself with homemade ricin. He was federally charged with possessing a biological agent, but his case was dismissed on almost unbelievable technicality. But he's not the only man who thinks he can create the perfect weapon from nothing but a handful of beans.
Original Air Date: 7.31.25
Sources:
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional/ajc-watchdog-north-man-arrested-for-ricin-radicalized-online/wdxws9G7zMmaUDmm22njYK/
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-perfect-poison-ricin-used-in-3-recent-cases/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17023504/united-states-v-jordan/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6378803/united-states-v-siers-hill/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6293428/united-states-v-gibbs/
Melissa Abbes, Marc Montana, Christophe Curti, Patrice Vanelle. Ricin poisoning: A review on contamination source, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and reporting of ricin poisoning. Toxicon, Volume 195, 2021
Tucker, Jonathan B. “Dilemmas of a Dual-Use Technology: Toxins in Medicine and Warfare.” Politics and the Life Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1, 1994, pp. 51–62
Bergen, Peter, et al. “Key Trends in Terrorism.” Terrorism in America 18 Years After 9/11, New America, 2019, pp. 45–50
Leo J. Schep, Wayne A. Temple, Grant A. Butt, Michael D. Beasley. Ricin as a weapon of mass terror — Separating fact from fiction. Environment International, Volume 35, Issue 8, 2009
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USAMRIID’s MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CASUALTIES HANDBOOK, Ninth Edition
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 - 79 - The Lost Episode: Nazis for Ron Paul: Curtis Maynard, Pt. 2
In 2007, a white nationalist known for his addiction to causing drama claimed he saw Ron Paul at a nazi supper club. Ron Paul supporters, including those on nazi message boards, pushed back. The feud that ensued led to Curtis Maynard's fall from grace as a holocaust denial blogger - he'd been keeping a secret from his readers.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/politics/ron-paul-disowns-extremists-views-but-doesnt-disavow-the-support.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jan/16/guiltbyassociation
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/pageoneplus/corrections.html
https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/white-nationalist-writer-peter-gemma-resigns-sarasota-gop-executive-committee
https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/conservativism-and-foreign-policy/182250
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/world/americas/21iht-hate.4.17140643.html
https://roanoke.com/news/local/nazi-leader-bill-white----in-his-own-words/article_7e5c7e03-bdcf-5542-a6be-0433ba2d7aee.html
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/assault-gets-even-ugliercontroversy-escalates-over-sexual-violence-campus/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 - 78 - CZM Rewind: Revisionist History Riverboat Cruise: Curtis Maynard, Pt. 1
This episode originally ran on January 23, 2025. The second half of the story had to be taken down a few weeks later. That episode has now been rewritten and re-recorded. Before you listen to the newly released version of the lost episode, here's the original part one to refresh your memory.
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In 2010, a rising star in the small world of holocaust denial blogging murdered his ex-wife and then took his own life. This first chapter of his story follows his path from a troubled career as a registered nurse to his growing fame as a white supremacist blogger.
Sources:
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Lawyer-Lake-Jackson-murder-suicide-followed-1710794.phphttp://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/americas-promise-ministries/
https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/Szittyakurt_USAHUN_1986/?pg=39&layout=s
https://www.bocskairadio.org/en/an-interview-with-akos-l-nagy-president-of-the-american-hungarian-federation/Katalin Hasulyó-Pintz. Doctoral dissertation, Identity Preservation and Diaspora Relations in the USA: the Hungarian Community of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 2020
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https://www.yadvashem.org/docs/international-commission-on-romania-holocaust.html
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Thu, 20 Nov 2025 - 77 - CZM Rewind: An Accidental Nazi Rally
In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned out to be well known white supremacists.
Original Air Date: 2.13.25
Sources:
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/05/portland_suspect_in_2_slayings.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/portland-double-murder-white-supremacist-muslim-hate-speech
https://islamophobia.org/special-reports/the-hate-that-act-for-america-wrought/
https://islamophobia.org/islamophobic-organizations/act-for-america/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidnoriega/meet-the-charming-terrifying-face-of-the-anti-islam-lobby
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/americas-most-anti-muslim-activist-is-welcome-at-the-white-house/520323/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 - 76 - Disorganized Crime, Pt. 4
In the final chapter of his life, Frank Smith really did start the whites only church he first proposed to George Lincoln Rockwell.
Sources:
https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F2/975/975.F2d.17.92-1180.html
https://law.justia.com/cases/nebraska/supreme-court/1989/946-0.html
Sunshine, Spencer. (2024). Neo-Nazi terrorism and countercultural fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Taylor & Francis.
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Thu, 06 Nov 2025 - 75 - Disorganized Crime, Pt. 3
In 1965, Frank Smith was laying low in Maine after a failed mob hit nearly killed him. He reappeared a few months later in Virginia, acting as a body guard for his new best friend, the commander of the American Nazi Party.
Sources:
Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press
Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Rosenthal, A. M.; Gelb, Arthur (1967). One More Victim: The Life and Death of an American-Jewish Nazi. New York: New American Library
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/us/ex-fbi-agent-is-charged-in-a-1981-gangland-killing.html
https://fbistudies.com/2016/06/14/the-paul-rico-case/
https://www.congress.gov/event/107th-congress/house-event/LC16939/text
https://www.congress.gov/committee-report/108th-congress/house-report/414/1
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-charged-in-mob-hit/
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Thu, 30 Oct 2025 - 74 - The Other Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell was a nazi. Norman Rockwell was a painter. They didn't have much in common at all, but people can't seem to stop mixing them up.
Sources:
https://library.washu.edu/news/norman-rockwell-and-race-complicating-rockwells-legacy/https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal66-1301767
https://www.smh.com.au/national/spy-or-nazi-20120331-1w52i.html
Berger, Alan L. Review of American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party, and: Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 17 no. 1, 2003, p. 180-185
Gallagher, V., & Zagacki, K. S. (2005). Visibility and Rhetoric: The Power of Visual Images in Norman Rockwell’s Depictions of Civil Rights. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91(2), 175–200.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tue, 28 Oct 2025 - 73 - Disorganized Crime, Pt. 2
When Frank Smith got out of prison in 1964, he went right back to working for the New England mafia. He also joined the American Nazi Party. And he had a dream that the two organizations could work together.
Sources:
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-boston-irish-gang-wars-terrify-a-city/https://www.nytimes.com/1965/11/04/archives/the-boston-gang-war-a-deadly-web-of-revenge.html
https://mattofboston.com/boston-gang-wars-the-first-irish-gang-war-mclaughlin-v-mclean-introduction/
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/pdfs-docs/origins/ms-littest55.pdf
https://idahopotato.com/dr-potato/length-and-circumference-of-a-potato
https://utia.tennessee.edu/cpa/wp-content/uploads/sites/106/2020/10/CPA-222.pdf
Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press
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Thu, 23 Oct 2025 - 72 - Disorganized Crime, Pt. 1
Before he joined the American Nazi Party in 1965, Frank Smith was already a career criminal working for the New England mafia.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/1952/05/06/archives/friend-of-sutton-seized-as-suspect-in-schuster-death-armed-burglar.html
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/news/legacy-of-the-commander/article_c5ebf480-2fef-536c-aee8-11a2925441a0.htmlSimonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/1961/342-mass-180-2.htmlhttps://time.com/archive/6618452/people-visions/
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Thu, 16 Oct 2025 - 71 - George Lincoln Rockwell's Coffin Flop
When the commander of the American Nazi Party died, he left instructions with his successor. He wanted the military funeral he was entitled to as an American veteran. It didn't go well.
Sources:
https://snccdigital.org/events/protests-danville-virginia/
https://www.thejc.com/life/lawyer-who-helped-a-loving-couple-nn57y8ct
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article120224913.html
https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/philip_hirschkop_peta_social_justice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/
Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press
Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 09 Oct 2025 - 69 - Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3.5
In 1976, the recently paroled assassin went back to prison after being arrested in Charlottesville. He was acquitted on the charge of being naked in a stranger's living room, but he'd violated his parole. He's tried to stay out of the spotlight ever since. Decades later, his son wrote that he was a changed man. His comments after the 2017 Unite the Right rally say otherwise.
Sources:
Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press
Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/21/the-shadow-of-an-assassinated-american-nazi-commander-hangs-over-charlottesville/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/12/15/the-accounting/22c75ac3-d752-4339-bccb-dcce7e3a999f/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/07/18/man-found-guilty-in-15-year-old-murder/95c86fe6-2f03-4043-a7f3-5d49c89c2b13/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 - 68 - Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 3
In the third episode of the story of George Lincoln Rockwell's assassin, Rockwell finally dies and his assassin goes on trial.
Sources:
Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press
Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/25/shocking-neo-nazis-fly-swastika-salute-at-shopping-center-where-leader-was-killed/
https://www.fcnp.com/2017/08/25/nazis-swoop-arlington-mark-50th-anniversary-rockwell-shooting/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 02 Oct 2025 - 67 - Death of a Demagogue, Pt. 2
In the year leading up to George Lincoln Rockwell's assassination, he was trying to take the American Nazi Party in a new direction. Not everyone within the party was on board with the changes.
Sources:
Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's
Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press
Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.
https://time.com/5096937/martin-luther-king-jr-picture-chicago/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323670005_An_order_of_crime_the_criminal_law_of_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia_NDH_1941-1945See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 25 Sep 2025 - 66 - Death of a Demagogue
Sometimes when a weird little guy gets shot, the guy who killed him is just a weirder little guy.
Sources:
Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's
Schmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend Press
Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Lee, Martin A. (1997). The Beast Reawakens. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
Rosenthal, A. M.; Gelb, Arthur (1967). One More Victim: The Life and Death of an American-Jewish Nazi. New York: New American LibrarySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 - 65 - American Fart Party
The American Freedom Party and the American Fart party have a couple things in common - the acronym, for one thing. They've also both filed paperwork with the federal election commission claiming to be a national political party. One is a silly little joke about farts, the other is a group of white nationalists who don't know how to do paperwork.
Sources:
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/american-freedom-party/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/identity-evropaamerican-identity-movement/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/kyle-bristow/
https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/white-nationalists-seeking-to-rent-msu-facilities,1820
https://www.antihate.ca/neo_nazi_hate_group_distribute_flyers_outside_canadian_university
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/airman-white-supremacist-group-discharge/
https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/30/gordon-kahl/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/forrest-gump-fake-presidential-candidates-days-numbered/story
https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00917005/
https://www.newsweek.com/university-tennessee-protest-white-nationalist-rick-tyler-1437527
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-american-freedom-party-emails_n_5702b470e4b0a06d580659c7
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Thu, 11 Sep 2025 - 64 - Recalled, Replaced
In 2017, Judd Blevins marched in Charlottesville with men chanting 'you will not replace us.' In 2024, voters in Enid, Oklahoma replaced him - a recall election removed him from office as a city commissioner. During his short time in office, members of the American Freedom Party rallied to support him.
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Thu, 04 Sep 2025 - 63 - A Secret Third Thing
After the 2012 election, the American Third Position Party rebranded. Not because their candidate lost, they expected that. But probably because their candidate didn't know what the party's name meant.
Sources:
https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf
https://politicalresearch.org/2016/12/19/what-third-position
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/neofascism-european-style/
Winkler, Martin M. Arminius the Liberator: Myth and Ideology. Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Thu, 28 Aug 2025 - 62 - Third Position
In 2012, a newly formed white nationalist political party tried to get their candidate on the ballot. The American Third Position Party wanted Americans to vote for Merlin Miller, but how did the party end up picking him?
Sources:
https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf#page=11
https://irehr.org/2018/06/14/what-is-the-american-freedom-party/
https://www.ocregister.com/2009/09/04/two-time-felon-runs-pro-white-political-group/
https://rosecityantifa.org/articles/meet-the-oregon-chapter-of-the-american-freedom-party-part-one/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/will-la-elect-a-ron-paul_b_104053https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19/d284
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Thu, 21 Aug 2025 - 61 - In Minecraft
After Devon Arthurs murdered his roommates, he claimed he'd only done it to prevent the loss of innocent lives. The man he said was planning a terrorist attack was arrested with a car full of guns, but not charged with any of the things Arthurs claimed their nazi terror cell had been working on.
Sources:
https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/three-murder-suspects-linked-to-atomwaffen-where-their-cases-stand/
https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article156282099.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicholas-giampa-neo-nazi-teenager-murder-girlfriends-parents-virginia_n_5a4d0797e4b0b0e5a7aa4780
https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-4
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/transcript/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjEBXDfuBDE&ab_channel=COURTTVSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 14 Aug 2025 - 60 - The Roommates
In 2017, police investigating a double homicide found more than just bodies in a Tampa condo. The founder of a neonazi group was making bombs in the garage.
Sources:
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/visions-chaos-weighing-violent-legacy-iron-march/
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2016/police-release-video-of-suspect-in-hate-poster-distribution/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/all-american-nazis-628023/
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Thu, 07 Aug 2025 - 59 - Magic Beans
In 2017, a man showed up at the emergency room and confessed that he'd accidentally poisoned himself with homemade ricin. He was federally charged with possessing a biological agent, but his case was dismissed on almost unbelievable technicality. But he's not the only man who thinks he can create the perfect weapon from nothing but a handful of beans.
Sources:
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional/ajc-watchdog-north-man-arrested-for-ricin-radicalized-online/wdxws9G7zMmaUDmm22njYK/
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-perfect-poison-ricin-used-in-3-recent-cases/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17023504/united-states-v-jordan/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6378803/united-states-v-siers-hill/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6293428/united-states-v-gibbs/
Melissa Abbes, Marc Montana, Christophe Curti, Patrice Vanelle. Ricin poisoning: A review on contamination source, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and reporting of ricin poisoning. Toxicon, Volume 195, 2021
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Bergen, Peter, et al. “Key Trends in Terrorism.” Terrorism in America 18 Years After 9/11, New America, 2019, pp. 45–50
Leo J. Schep, Wayne A. Temple, Grant A. Butt, Michael D. Beasley. Ricin as a weapon of mass terror — Separating fact from fiction. Environment International, Volume 35, Issue 8, 2009
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https://slate.com/technology/2012/01/white-powder-hoaxes-a-trend-in-fake-terrorism.html
https://www.justice.gov/archive/tax/usaopress/2002/txdv02091.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-49434687
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/22/woman-poison-plot-mother-breaking-bad-court
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/breaking-bad-inspired-georgetown-student-charged-ricin
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USAMRIID’s MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CASUALTIES HANDBOOK, Ninth Edition
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Thu, 31 Jul 2025 - 58 - Slow Decline
In 2016, Nicholas Young became the first American police officer to be arrested and charged with a federal terrorism offense. At trial, jurors were shown mountains of evidence about his collection of nazi memorabilia. But what does that have to do with the gift cards he texted to an FBI informant he thought was a member of ISIS?
Sources:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4559133/united-states-v-young
Helen Taylor (2019): Domestic terrorism and hate crimes: legal definitions and media framing of mass shootings in the United States, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
https://www.academia.edu/81063064/Domestic_terrorism_and_hate_crimes_legal_definitions_and_media_framing_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/11/19/official-allegedly-hinted-at-saudi-torture-of-va-man/d2a5ab07-28dd-4390-a245-c937083178f4/
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https://harpers.org/2009/03/more-prosecutorial-misconduct-in-the-al-arian-case/
https://theintercept.com/2021/07/17/julian-assange-extradition-gordon-kromberg/
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/16/prosecutors-allege-dubious-isis-nazi-connection-in-terror-sting-case/
https://www.cair.com/cair_in_the_news/va-terror-prosecutor-accused-of-anti-muslim-bias/
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/prosecutor_accused_of_personal_animus_in_muslim_terrorism_cases
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Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/human_rights_institute/44
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German, Mike and Beth Zasloff. Policing White Supremacy. The New Press, 2025.
Hoffman, Bruce, and Jacob Ware. God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America. Columbia University Press, 2024.
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Thu, 24 Jul 2025 - 57 - Red Flag
When FBI agents started combing through the digital footprint of a dead school shooter, they found more than the usual missed warning signs.
Sources:
https://www.maargentino.com/narrative-examination-of-the-antioch-high-school-shooters-manifesto-and-diary/
https://www.maargentino.com/digital-dystopia-the-dark-nexus-of-violent-extremism-and-sexual-exploitation-a-case-study/
https://www.maargentino.com/examining-the-soyjak-attacker-video-fandom-part-i/
https://www.propublica.org/article/madison-nashville-school-shooters-online-extremism
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-assassionation-plot-nikita-casap-terrorgram-wisconsin-propublica/
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/solomon-henderson-natalie-rupnow/
https://www.accresearch.org/accreports/inside-terrorgram-a-strategic-look-at-the-collectives-history
https://gnet-research.org/2024/08/16/dead-society-tracing-the-online-dimension-of-a-militant-accelerationist-inspired-attack-in-turkey/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/terrorgram-collective-bratislava-murders/
https://www.wsmv.com/2025/05/02/antioch-school-shooter-signed-paperwork-not-have-gun-morning-shooting-juvenile-criminal-records-show/
https://wpln.org/post/first-came-the-warning-signs-then-a-teen-opened-fire-on-a-nashville-school/
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/court-bars-carlsbad-man-linked-to-wisconsin-school-shooter-from-obtaining-firearms/
https://therighting.com/original/meet-the-radical-feminists-who-stoked-the-biggest-olympics-gender-controversy/
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Thu, 17 Jul 2025 - 56 - CZM Rewind: The Civil War False Flag
When someone left a bomb at a Civil War reenactment event in 2017, it looked like antifascist activists were out for revenge after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. A mysterious letter writer claiming to be an antifascist collective took credit for the bomb and threatened even more violence to come if Civil War reenactments weren't called off. But the bomber wasn't antifa - it was a spurned Confederate re-enactor.
Orignal Air Date: 8.15.24
Sources:
https://qz.com/1800988/antifa-falsely-accused-of-threatening-civil-war-group https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/02/12/civil-war-reenactor-antifa-threats/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/civil-war-reenactment-in-virginia-canceled-amid-worries-over-violence/2017/08/18/633b71d8-844a-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-wanted-to-send-a-message-reenactors-stage-civil-war-battle-despite-threat/2017/10/15/77dd0348-b1c4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html https://www.winchesterstar.com/news/frederick_county/increased-security-planned-for-battle-of-cedar-creek-event/article_aec48f2e-c708-5b7d-8679-1ca677e96f3d.html https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65406287/united-states-v-drake/
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Thu, 10 Jul 2025 - 55 - There Is A Spectre Haunting New York City
The right wing media is buzzing with accusations that the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City is a communist. They're calling for his removal from not only the ballot... but the also the country. This anticommunist panic isn't new.
Sources:
Drabble, John. “To Ensure Domestic Tranquility: The FBI, Cointelpro-White Hate and Political Discourse, 1964-1971.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2004, pp. 297–328. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27557518.
Horowitz, David Alan. “White Southerners’ Alienation and Civil Rights: The Response to Corporate Liberalism, 1956-1965.” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 54, no. 2, 1988, pp. 173–200. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2209398.
Katagiri, Yasuhiro. Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism In the Jim Crow South. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
Lewis, George. The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965. University Press of Florida, 2004.
Kovel, Joel. Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America. 2nd ed. London: Cassel, 1997.
https://politicalresearch.org/2022/01/04/blue-lives-matter-and-us-counter-subversive-tradition
Shanahan, J., & Wall, T. (2021). ‘Fight the reds, support the blue’: Blue Lives Matter and the US counter-subversive tradition. Race & Class, 63(1), 70-90.
Brenner, Samuel Lawrence (May 2009). Shouting at the Rain: The Voices and Ideas of Right-Wing Anti-Communist Americanists in the Era of Modern American Conservatism, 1950-1974 (Thesis). Brown University.
Schrecker, Ellen. “Immigration and Internal Security: Political Deportations during the McCarthy Era.” Science & Society, vol. 60, no. 4, 1996, pp. 393–426.
Schrecker, Ellen. “Archival Sources for the Study of McCarthyism.” The Journal of American History, vol. 75, no. 1, 1988, pp. 197–208
Ornstein, Norman J., et al. The People, the Press & Politics : The Times Mirror Study of the American Electorate. Addison-Wesley, 1988.
https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/denaturalization_pa.pdf
https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fact-Sheet-on-Denaturalization.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2021/01/08/gov-kristi-noem-says-georgia-elected-communists-serve-u-s-senate/6605474002/
https://www.warscapes.com/conversations/conversation-mahmood-mamdani
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1424
https://www.congress.gov/103/statute/STATUTE-107/STATUTE-107-Pg2317.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/department-justice-creates-section-dedicated-denaturalization-cases
https://www.niemoeller-haus-berlin.de/niemoeller-gedicht/
https://thelifeofahistorian.com/historiographical-review-woods-lewis-katagiri/
https://www.justice.gov/civil/media/1404046/dl?inlineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 03 Jul 2025 - 54 - A Brief History of Vehicular Violence
Last week, we talked about one particular incident of vehicular violence on protesters. But where does the tactic come from? Who is doing it? And why?
Sources:
Miller, Vincent, and Keith J. Hayward. “‘I DID MY BIT’: TERRORISM, TARDE AND THE VEHICLE RAMMING ATTACK AS AN IMITATIVE EVENT.” The British Journal of Criminology, vol. 59, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1–23. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26780645. Accessed 16 June 2025.
Brian Michael Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth, Smashing into Crowds: An Analysis of Vehicle Ramming Attacks. San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute, 2019
https://transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/default/files/SP-1119-Vehicle-Ramming-Attacks.pdf
Brian Michael Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth, Metal Against Marchers. San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute, 2020
https://transweb.sjsu.edu/sites/default/files/SP1020-Metal-Against-Marchers.pdf
Gabriel Nowacki & Cezary Krysiuk & Damian Szafranek, 2025. "Vehicle Ramming as a Form of Terrorist Attack Threatening Public Safety," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(1), pages 707-722.
Simon Perry, Badi Hasisi & Gali Perry (2018) Who is the Lone Terrorist? A Study of Vehicle-Borne Attackers in Israel and the West Bank, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism,
41:11, 899-913, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2017.1348101
Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/Vehicle_Incident_Prevention_and_Mitigation_Security_Guide_508_20240418.pdf
https://www.al.com/news/2025/06/stand-your-ground-on-steroids-debate-emerges-over-drivers-hitting-protesters-in-alabama.html
https://local21news.com/news/local/adams-county-community-reacts-to-sheriffs-controversial-facebook-post-about-protestors
https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/detail/pedestrians
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331
https://cwa-union.org/news/strike-line-remembering-gerry-horgan
https://sfist.com/2025/03/10/truck-seems-to-drive-into-striking-vta-workers-on-picket-line-one-hospitalized/
https://komonews.com/amp/news/local/king-county-detective-on-leave-after-alleged-all-lives-splatter-facebook-post
https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/flint-man-who-hit-striking-uaw-members-pleads-guilty/article_b007099a-bf9a-11ee-9de4-0bfd68db8786.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1929/06/16/archives/federal-arms-barred-secretary-good-warns-governor-on-use-of.html
https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/media/daily-caller-fox-news-video-car-crashing-liberal-protesters/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/world/europe/uk-van-attack-london-mosque.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/alek-minassian-toronto-van-attack-incels-891678/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-17/man-arrested-hit-and-run-no-kings-protester-riverside
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14915697/united-states-v-henry/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 - 53 - Murder on Fourth Street
With vehicular attacks on protests on the rise and elected officials encouraging the tactic, old conspiracy theories about one vehicular attack in particular are circulating once again. This is the story of what actually happened on Fourth Street in downtown Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/08/us/la-immigration-protests-photos-map.html
https://files.integrityfirstforamerica.org/14228/1641845853-dillon-hopper-deposition-as-played-at-trial.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/florida-desantis-protests-warning.html
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6168921/sines-v-kessler/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7299259/united-states-v-fields/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 - 52 - Stand Back and Stand By
Last week, five Proud Boys announced a $100 million lawsuit against the government over their treatment during the January 6th prosecutions.
Sources:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70474277/tarrio-v-united-states-of-america/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ex-soldiers-acceptance-trump-pardon-didnt-constitute-confession-guilt-court-2021-09-23/https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/proud-boys-leaders-sue-u-s-over-jan-6-prosecutions-90f9f4ce
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/enrique-tarrio-prison-sentencing-proud-boys-00114104
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y93jgdvqjo
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/trump-tarrio-proud-boys-pardon.html
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/new-fight-club-ready-street-violence/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/fraternal-order-alt-knights-foak/
https://www.flmd.uscourts.gov/local-rules/rule-204-discipline-
https://www-media.floridabar.org/uploads/2025/05/2025_11-MAY-Chapter-3-RRTFB-5-29-2025.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions
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Thu, 12 Jun 2025 - 51 - Disney's Villain
After losing his job, an ex-Disney employee tried to get his former employer's attention by hacking in and making strange updates to company files.
Sources:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69534211/united-states-v-scheuer/
https://www.eeoc.gov/what-you-can-expect-after-you-file-charge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/disney-worker-prison-hacking.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 05 Jun 2025 - 50 - State Created Danger
In April 2025, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case filed by a pair of white supremacists who felt the police had violated their civil rights by refusing to help them put on a rally in Charlottesville in August of 2017. Their lawsuit was a joke, but unfortunately for all of us, the punchline is that the police don't actually have to help anyone.
Sources:
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/neo-nazi-lawyer-represents-baltimore-suit-over-wrongful-arrest-and-19-year-imprisonment/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/leaked-emails-name-shadow-lawyer-charlottesville-case/
https://www.hunton.com/media/publication/34613_final-report-ada-compliant-ready.pdf
https://www.courthousenews.com/attorney-accused-of-neo-nazi-ties-argues-for-new-shot-at-libel-case/
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21-5952.html
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-1241.html
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24-891.html
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/03/city-council-members-call-to-remove-robert-e-lee-statue
https://legacylis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0752
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title15.2/chapter18/section15.2-1812/
https://www.danielshular.com/charlottesville
https://angrywhitemen.org/2021/12/22/neo-nazi-activist-wants-to-desensitize-white-people-to-hitler-and-holocaust-denial/#more-54777
https://valawyersweekly.com/2023/05/11/unite-the-right-attendees-suit-vs-officials-dismissed/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/white-nationalist-organization-forms-racist-antisemitic-political-party/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/students-horrified-about-coach-with-white-nationalist-ties-school-says/2018/01/10/81617f88-f5a4-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html
http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/fcas/fcas_docs/2013JUL/3001010882012002SCIV.pdf
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2004/04-278
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-4th-circuit/1709128.html
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-4th-circuit/1336802.html
Julia Steiner, Beware of the Dangers of the State-Created Danger Doctrine: A Look at the Ninth Circuit's Approach, 79 U. Mia. L. Rev. 573 (2025)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67454526/warren-balogh-v-commonwealth-of-virginia/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16058534/conte-v-commonwealth-of-virginia/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/9471/robert-turner-v-al-thomas-jr/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16044736/kessler-v-city-of-charlottesville/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66692843/jason-kessler-v-city-of-charlottesville/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 29 May 2025 - 49 - Small Time Arms Dealer
In 1992, a small business owner in Oregon had to shut down his gun store. But he had to do something with all his remaining inventory….
Sources:
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-21-ariel-sharon-apartheid-south-africa-and-mutual-military-interests/#.Vc4WVige5lk:
Moore, Matthew. “Arming the Embargoed: A Supply-Side Understanding of Arms Embargo Violations.” The Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 54, no. 4, 2010, pp. 593–615.
United Nations General Assembly. Special Report Of The Special Committee Against Apartheid. Implementation Of The Arms Embargo Against South Africa. United Nations General Assembly, 1986. Princeton University, Firestone Library
Klare, Michael T. “EVADING THE EMBARGO: ILLICIT U.S. ARMS TRANSFERS TO SOUTH AFRICA.” Journal of International Affairs, vol. 35, no. 1, 1981, pp. 15–28.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1979/11/18/tripping-up-a-s-african-gunrunner/74a6f74b-18d3-4850-9ab6-8a206c1a0bac/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 22 May 2025 - 47 - CZM Rewind: Arrested Democracy
Arrested Democracy, Part 1
In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have the President indicted. And when none of that worked, some of them took matters into their own hands and tried to arrest the county court employees they thought were standing in their way. In the first half of this story, Walter Fitzpatrick unsuccessfully storms the courtroom in Madisonville, Tennessee. The outcry over his arrest would motivate Oath Keeper Darren Huff to rally supporters for a second attempt.
Original air date: 11/14/24
Arrested Democracy, Part 2
When Oath Keeper Darren Huff returned to Madisonville, Tennessee on April 20, 2010, he was planning to take control of the courthouse. It didn't quite work out that way. He didn't even see the inside of a courthouse until his own arrest a week later.
Original air date: 11/21/24
Part 1 Sources:
Jardina A, Traugott M. The Genesis of the Birther Rumor: Partisanship, Racial Attitudes, and Political Knowledge. The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 2019;4(1):60-80. doi:10.1017/rep.2018.25
Josh Pasek, Tobias H. Stark, Jon A. Krosnick, Trevor Tompson,
What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes, Electoral Studies, Volume 40, 2015
Hughey, M.W. Show Me Your Papers! Obama’s Birth and the Whiteness of Belonging. Qual Sociol 35, 163–181 (2012).
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/birther-movement-founder-trump-clinton-228304
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33388485
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/us/12alabama.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oath-keepers-poll-watching_n_58122566e4b0990edc2f8178
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/25/judge-lamberth-jan-6-trump-00137960
https://www.tncourts.gov/rules/rules-criminal-procedure/6
Part 2 Sources:
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/04/army-birther-under-investigation-035823
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/army-birther-lakin-released-from-leavenworth/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/08/roger-stone-kristin-davis-robert-mueller/
https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/gan/press/2011/11-01-11.html
https://time.com/archive/6597707/the-secret-world-of-extreme-militias/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxxers-charge-followers-to-join-fake-anthony-fauci-grand-jury/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4382623/fitzpatrick-v-bivins/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5092131/united-states-v-huff-tv1/
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69341723/united-states-v-darren-huff/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 15 May 2025 - 46 - Minisode: Pappas v Giuliani
A bite-sized look at the NYPD officer who sued the city for firing him over anonymously mailing racist pamphlets to charitable organizations
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/17/nyregion/officer-admits-to-racist-mail-and-is-offered-deal-to-retire.htmlhttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/sotomayors-defense-of-whi_n_210795
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2358084/pappas-v-giuliani/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tue, 13 May 2025 - 45 - CZM Rewind: The Devil's Chatroom
The Devil's Chat Room: Ethan Melzer, Part 1
In June of 2020, US Army Private Ethan Melzer was arrested for leaking information about his unit's deployment to Turkey with the intention of causing a mass casualty incident. The plot was hatched in a Telegram chat room for a group calling itself Rapewaffen, an Atomwaffen splinter cell that was committed to the beliefs of a neonazi satanic cult called the Order of Nine Angles. This episode follows the rise of satanism within Atomwaffen and the chaos that influence caused.
Original air date: 10/31/24
A Deal With the Devil: Ethan Melzer, Part 2
In 2022, Ethan Melzer pleaded guilty to plotting to help al Qaeda ambush and kill his entire unit while on a sensitive mission in Turkey. But Melzer's co-conspirators turned out to be a Canadian teenager and a government informant, not members of al Qaeda. And the satanic cult that drew him down this nazi rabbit hole turned out to have been run by a man on the FBI payroll.
Original air date: 11/7/24
Part 1 Sources:
https://unicornriot.ninja/2020/national-guard-soldier-who-deployed-to-dc-identified-as-neo-nazi/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280
https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/06/23/the-rapewaffen-telegram-channel/
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/atomwaffen-division
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-56044179
https://gnet-research.org/2023/09/25/the-significance-of-dark-foreigners-arrest/
Ariel Koch (2024) The ONA Network and the Transnationalization of Neo-Nazi-Satanism, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 47:10, 1172-1199, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.2024944
Mathieu Colin (01 Jul 2024): “And the Devil Marches with Us”: Aesthetics and Accelerationism in the Order of Nine Angles, Terrorism and Political Violence, DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2024.2365749
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Emelie Chace-Donahue (07 Mar 2023): The Order of Nine Angles: Cosmology, Practice & Movement, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2186737
Shanon Shah, Jane Cooper & Suzanne Newcombe (19 Apr 2023): Occult Beliefs and the Far Right: The Case of the Order of Nine Angles, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2195065
Part 2 Sources:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17286246/united-states-v-melzer
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69307006/united-states-of-america-v-melzer/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/neo-nazi-1378280
https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-extremist-fbi-informant/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 08 May 2025 - 44 - Shooter Without A Cause
The guy who took a shot at Trump last summer wasn't the first person to shoot a presidential candidate without a clear political motive. In 1972, Arthur Bremer failed to assassinate Richard Nixon and settled on one of Nixon's opponents instead.
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Tue, 06 May 2025 - 43 - Mission South Africa
At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee status under Trump's executive order.
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration
https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/
https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/
https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary
https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/
https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/
https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html
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Thu, 01 May 2025 - 42 - Listener Q&AThu, 24 Apr 2025
- 41 - Blood River
In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God.
Sources:
Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986.
FA Mouton (1995) F A van Jaarsveld (1922–1995) — a flawed genius?, , 27:1,
5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00232089585310011
Stephney, Inez Mary. “Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990’s, with particular reference to South Africa”
https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/b04bdabb-ecd9-4f99-a3ae-fff55b88f483/content
Schönteich, Martin, and Henri Boshoff. “Volk”, Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right. Institute for Security Studies, 2003.
Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. “Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of ‘Blood River’ and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.” History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052.
http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe
https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage
https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222024000200001
https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf
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Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thu, 17 Apr 2025 - 40 - The Jamboree in Jamba
This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.
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Thu, 10 Apr 2025 - 39 - The Whites' Last Stand
In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century:
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Thu, 03 Apr 2025
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