I've heard it said we must meet readers where they are. This Saturday I'll greet runners who've completed a loop around downtown Seattle, the waterfront, and Chinatown/International District, and tell them about the legacy of John Okada and NO-NO BOY. Glad I don't have to run alongside them.

I hope & believe I shared this at some point in 2024 when it came out, but it's sadly only more timely still & must-read material here in early 2026. Incredible work from @frankabe.bsky.social & my friend Floyd Cheung, full of authors & texts that will be new to most of us (me included). 🗃️

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Just picked up the book yesterday. ❤️

It is powerful to refuse. Even the most powerless have that power. bsky.app/profile/fran...

Mind-blowing to bring the story of wartime incarceration and the links to today to 1,900 @maddow.bsky.social fans in LA on Sunday. Watch for the full program on Monday, December 29 on @msnownews.bsky.social. My impressions here: resisters.com/2025/12/16/b...

Thanks. Rachel made it easy for us to feel comfortable in front of all two thousand of you.

I finished Burn Order and cried. Time to write lesson plans for students to learn about then and now!

Absolutely incredible. The team did an amazing job. As in the previous podcasts the research, facts, human stories so well done. I’ve learned more about this history that informs us today. We must never give in or give up our rights. We require courts and elected to hold & honor these truths.

Amazing work by Rachel as always.🇺🇸

Great show. Come back!

Just finished the podcast today. It was brilliant.

@maddow.bsky.social @frankabe.bsky.social.

OMG...I'm so very excited 😊 an eve with @maddow.bsky.social and @frankabe.bsky.social at the @OrpheumTheater and in LA.

Great podcast. Rachel is a consummate professional and so smart. She does justice to telling your story. I have long yearned to know more about that chapter in our history. It has been an honor to get to know you all a little bit via the podcast.

Thank you for this work. I was 17 when I first learned about the imprisonment of Japanese Americans and legal immigrants. I was so shocked by it. I am half-Japanese (dad is white from Oregon, mom from Kyushu). My American grandmother was opposed to their marriage her entire life 1/2

Anti-Japanese racism was a destructive force in our family, sadly. I didn't know why she believed these things and now I do. I asked my three kids to listen to this series and to imagine all of us on the trains because they would have been sent away, too...to really picture how it would feel...

and then to keep it in mind as we hear similar rhetoric directed at other people. Thank you so much for this important work. You are a hero of mine! I admire so much the Japanese Americans who fought against this treatment and who demanded more from our country....

I cannot recommend BURN ORDER strongly enough. Really well done and, unfortunately relevant today.

I’ve asked my entire family to listen to the Burn Order podcast between now and Christmas so we can discuss it. 👊🏻

In LA Sunday for the live launch of the BURN ORDER podcast on Japanese American wartime incarceration. Backstage, Rachel Maddow greeted us in person like old friends, after having studied our recorded voices in her podcast edit bay for the past several months. 1/

Thx @maddow.bsky.social for endorsing our @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology: “An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it.” —Rachel Maddow

I just heard the sixth and final episode of Rachel Maddow’s podcast which will be free on Monday. My measure for these things is whether or not we get new information. Episode 6 has audio that’s never been heard before and it will blow your mind. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Two new episodes of Rachel Maddow's BURN ORDER podcast available today. Ep. 3, "One Drop," features Norm Mineta, Satsuki Ina, and Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga. Ep. 4, "Like an Ordinary American," highlights the Supreme Court cases of Gordon, Min, Fred, and Mitsuye Endo. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Hear my chat with Feliks Banel for the Cascade of History on this anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the upcoming Rachel Maddow BURN ORDER live event in LA this Sunday Dec. 14, and the "We Hold These Truths" live radio broadcast Dec. 15 at Town Hall Seattle. on.soundcloud.com/u2FrOa4VU9Vg...

December 7th was once the day that Japanese Americans went into hiding. Tune in tonight at 8:40 pm PST on SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and worldwide as I recall with host Feliks Banel on his "Cascade of History" program how this day landed with the Seattle JA community in 1941. www.space101fm.org

In three minutes of network television on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, Rachel Maddow summarizes the arc of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans up to and including redress, some of it drawn from her reading of our graphic novel, WE HEREBY REFUSE. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLAe...

The first two episodes drop Monday morning from MS NOW: Episode 1: Safecracker - This will undoubtedly feature Lori Bannai and Peter Irons talking about the uncensored 10th copy of the DeWitt Final Report, and Ken Ringle Jr. on his father's Ringle Report to FDR: www.facebook.com/reel/1498321...

Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

My film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 years ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. More: resisters.com/2025/11/30/f...

NEW! Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.” Listen to the trailer now and follow the series. New episodes drop Mondays. podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...

Rachel Maddow has a new six-part podcast on the time “the US military deployed on the streets of America" to forcibly remove a targeted minority. I'm told I'm featured in Part 2. The first two eps drop on December 1 from MSNOW.

We mourn the loss of historian Art Hansen. Thanks to @kenjitaguma.bsky.social for giving us a chance to remember him and his lifetime contributions. Subscribe to the Nichi Bei News.

Thanks to the Seattle Mariners for taking us to a place we’ve never been before. If you had suggested to me in the spring that we’d play a game 7 in the ALCS, I would have happily taken it. We’ll get em next year.

In the darkest of times, we still have baseball for self-care. Thanks to Feliks Banel for having me on his "Cascade of History" radio program to relive the agony of Friday's @mariners.com 15-inning walk-off win in Game 5 of the ALDS, on @space101fm.bsky.social. on.soundcloud.com/wvwTIyBZVHhq...

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies. No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

Frank Abe is always worth listening to

This story isn't going away. The Nichi Bei News has posted a web version of its coverage of my June 22 talk on "What Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportation Today:" www.nichibei.org/2025/08/what...

"We want parks, not prisons! Park rangers, not ICE agents!" -- Huy Pham, APIAHiP: Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation on the Seattle waterfront for the National Day of Action to Protect Every Park.

This is a crucial moment to safeguard our collective memory, especially as efforts to erase our histories grow stronger. Become a monthly donor and ensure stories of Japanese American WWII incarceration—and the lessons they carry—remain visible, powerful, and protected. densho.org/historykeepe...

It’s a clear line from the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans to the abduction of innocent people off the streets today. Thanks to @benhamamoto.bsky.social for this coverage in the Nichi Bei News of my June 22 talk.

Thank you @frankabe.bsky.social and the rest of the #AAJA25 organizers for educating me about this important part of Asian American media history

Thanks Alex for the great photo. Glad you could join us for the tour of Seattle Chinatown. #AAJA25

The most detailed story yet from one of my recent talks on the links between wartime incarceration and ICE abductions. Thanks to Kai Curry and the Northwest Asian Weekly, and to the King County Library System for having "We Hereby Refuse" as their "One Bellevue, One Book."