It has been 6 years since we started this podcast and our mission to refuse fascism has never been more needed! This week, Sam talks w Emma from the Refuse Fascism chapter in NYC about ongoing protests at Delaney Hall, where hundreds of captives have been on a hunger & labor strike since May 22.

“We were documenting the agents to make sure the public saw their violence. The agents just thought they were in the eye of the paparazzi.” Great piece by Amanda Moore

Santa Monica area people, Join me for a "Trump Must Go, NOw" protest on the Cloverfield overpass, over the 10 freeway THIS Sunday, May 31.

Mullin's lie that there is no hunger strike in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary *from the strikers themselves* is a nice illustration of the point that fascists' most basic demand is all of society bending to their reality.

White House Launches Genocidal Website

ICYMI go now + listen to @ibramxk.bsky.social on the latest episode of our pod Here: bit.ly/4egUiFl Then go out and spread TRUMP MUST GO NOW everywhere

Twilight Zone fascism: What if Goebbels had thought he was “funny”?

What ties together the San Diego mosque shooting, Trump’s new green card policies, and the fast-tracked resettlement of white South African “refugees”? Listen to our interview with Ibram X. Kendi on his new book, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. Full episode: bit.ly/4u0OPbr

@ibramxk.bsky.social gets deep into the chain of ideas undergirding Great Replacement Theory, which makes up a large part of the ideological foundation of the Trump Fascist Regime’s agenda. This theory is not a mere rhetorical device, but it has very real & often deadly, effects in the real world.

@ibramxk.bsky.social joins Refuse Fascism to discuss his latest book Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. He break down the Great Replacement theory, why terror is its logical conclusion, and much more. Give it a listen and let us know your thoughts!

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

Santa Monica area people, let's get together for an overpass protest at the Cloverfield overpass, over the 10 freeway on Sunday, May 31, at 4:00 P.M.. Trump Must Go Now.

Tonight, Stephen Colbert’s show will end. You know what won’t end? Trump’s deeply corrupt and autocratic efforts to harass and censor late-night TV hosts who mock or criticize him. Read @swin24.bsky.social’s latest on Trump’s war on Late-Night Comedy: zeteo.com/p/trump-war-...

This week on the pod members of the Tennessee state legislature speak about the state’s immediate redistricting designed to disempower Black communities in response to the SCOTUS overturning of the VRA Listen here: bit.ly/4uUOFmS

Rep. Ogles: "Muslims don’t belong in American society," Rep. Fine on "mainstream Muslims": "I think you should destroy them first" Sen. Tuberville: "The enemy is inside the gates". Rep. Roy posted "No more Muslims" on his social media. None of them censured by Democrats. No penalty.

This is on scale even bigger than Japanese American internment.

“Roughly three-quarters of those children… are likely U.S. citizens”

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

This week Sam speaks to members of the Tennessee state legislature about the state’s immediate redistricting designed to disempower Black communities in response to the SCOTUS overturning of the VRA. Feat Senator Charlane Oliver and @votegloriaj.bsky.social

Spot on!

On the latest episode of the pod, Coco Das breaks down the moral imperative to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism. Give the full episode a listen, see link in bio or search for Refuse Fascism wherever you get your podcasts

Smash Fascism - @refusefascism.bsky.social RefuseFascism.org Fundraiser Thu 5/14 8:00pm - 10:00pm Happy Dog, 5801 Detroit Ave, #Cleveland tockify.com/neohiounited... For more NE #Ohio Resistance events, please see our new website's "NEOhio United Calendar" IndivisibleNEO.org/#calendar

Sam and Coco discuss the recent SCOTUS ruling gutting the VRA + re-disenfranchised Black voters. Do we need to be “voting harder…” OR acting to bring into being a groundswell demanding Trump Must Go NOW – changing the entire political conversation & calculus that all in power must respond to?

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

SCOTUS and TRUMP are illegitimate. SCOTUS and TRUMP are illegitimate. SCOTUS and TRUMP are illegitimate. SCOTUS and TRUMP are illegitimate. SCOTUS and TRUMP are illegitimate. SCOTUS and TRUMP are illegitimate. SCOTUS and TRUMP are illegitimate. SCOTUS and TRUMP are illegitimate.

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

BREAKING: SCOTUS acts immediately on Alabama redistricting, vacating earlier decisions blocking the 2023 map and sending cases back to the district court — over the objection of Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

Protest RFK Jr in #Cleveland Thur 5/7 4:15pm The City Club 1317 Euclid Ave, Playhouse Square Come to nonviolent protest of this anti-science lunatic! @refusefascism.bsky.social central demand “Trump Must Go!” tockify.com/neohiounited... More NE #Ohio Resistance events: IndivisibleNEO.org/#calendar

ICE detainee found dead, 18th in-custody death in 2026. "Immigration & Customs Enforcement says 33-year-old Cuban immigrant Denny Adan Gonzalez was found unresponsive in his cell at the for-profit Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, last Tuesday." www.democracynow.org/2026/5/4/hea...

At what point do the decent people who do NOT want to see the nuclear-armed resurrection of the confederacy take to the streets in our millions to demand TRUMP MUST GO NOW? Seems like it should have been over a year ago but NOW will have to do

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

Just a reminder that, in April 2023, Justice Alito *also* issued administrative stays of Judge Kacsmaryk's ruling purporting to take mifepristone off the shelves on a nationwide basis, and then dissented when the full Court stayed that ruling indefinitely. Don't read too much into what he did today.

He's trolling, yes, but we can't afford to dismiss his trolling as just that. His method, particularly around his vanity, has always been to introduce his actual greed via "joke" that becomes real intent.

This week on the pod Sam interviews Omer Aziz to discuss his latest book (published April 28) is ⁠Shadows of the Republic: The Rebirth of Fascism in America and How to Defeat It for Good⁠. Listen to full episode via link in bio or by searching for Refuse Fascism on your favorite listening platform

Myth: fascism is something foreign to America. Reality: it has deep roots here. This week on the pod Sam chats with Omer Aziz about his latest book- Shadows of the Republic: The Rebirth of Fascism in America and How to Defeat It for Good Give it a listen & let us know your thoughts!

“This is not a time for Dem Party midterm “affordability” politics. Shrinking the existential threat of the Trump Fascist Regime down to “kitchen table concerns” is like saying the German people should have demanded a better standard of living under Hitler. TRUMP MUST GO NOW” refusefacism.org

This is an absolute travesty. The 5th circuit is imposing a nationwide restriction on accessing abortion medication. This is such a blatant power grab and perversion of the law. www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, TRUMP MUST GO NOW! THE WORLD IS COUNTING ON US.

From the streets to everywhere: TRUMP MUST GO NOW! Join us: RefuseFascism.org

SCOTUS just demolished the VRA. Of course they don’t think Black people should have majority Black congressional districts. These fascists don’t think Black people should have the right to vote at all. TRUMP & SCOTUS ARE ILLEGITIMATE! FRI May 1 — take to the streets to demand: TRUMP MUST GO NOW!

Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New episode feat interview w/ @waynebesen.bsky.social longtime activist with @truthwinsoutorg.bsky.social discussing the recent (terrible) Supreme Court ruling on this cruel and anti-scientific quackery and the movement that is needed to stop fascism in the US now.

“Have you tried contacting your representative?” This is how people accommodate what they should be stopping. MAY DAY 5/1/26 — A Day to Demand TRUMP MUST GO NOW Everywhere

"the highest volume of denaturalization referrals in history" It's a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

ICYMI All Out for May Day: TRUMP MUST GO NOW webinar

May Day 5/1/26 A day of no work, no school, no business as usual. A day to demand: Trump Must Go Now! Full CTA see link in bio