Friend,

Preparing for a Coup: What’s changed, What Hasn’t

Episode 221 dropped October 13: One month to go before the election, what’s happening? Elon + X going all out to get Trump back in power, mass deportation plans, nakedly Nazi justifications for those horrific plans, voter rolls being purged, multiple climate-change fueled storms pummeling the southeast with storms of disinformation and death threats against meteorologists following, and more. The new apostolic march on Washington this past week called this election “America’s last stand.”

Host Sam Goldman speaks with Nick Quested, the filmmaker who embedded himself with the Proud Boys for the new documentary 64 Days (64daysfilm.com), which covers the period from the November 2020 election to the January 6, 2021 insurrection.

>> Listen
>> Listen on Youtube

Nick Quested: I think we're going to see a similar playbook to "stop the steal" again. I think we're going to see poll workers and election workers creating pretexts for protests. We're going to see protests outside of narrow swing state victories. We're going to see Trump refusing to accept the election results if he loses. We're going to see state legislators and boards of electors refusing to certify precincts, counties, states. We're going to see alternate slates of electors. We're going to see a flurry of spurious lawsuits. State capitals, are very soft targets compared to the nation's capital. I think we're standing at a moment where we face exactly the same challenges in exactly the same way, and we haven't learned from any of this.

Sam Goldman: This assault on migrants is not separate from the coup attempt already in motion. This lexicon of violence, the disinformation campaign is all part of this rolling coup. In military lingo it’s “setting the theater, “ preparing the operational area for the execution of the strategic plan, enabling conditions. Yes, it is about intimidating people of color from voting; yes it is about laying the basis for further attacks on the voting rights of people of color, but it is also about hardening, expanding and coalescing the fascist movement for a possible violent seizure of power and the violence necessary to enact every aspect of this fascist program including the mass rounding up and deportation of over ten million people.
Immigrants are full human beings, not criminals to be demonized, hunted down, terrorized, locked up, and thrown out. Now, not waiting later or some better time, we must show our determination to stand up for our immigrant siblings.

Thanks to all who participated in yesterday's discussion of the documentary War Game.

We love this excellent review from Alex__. Join Alex in rating and reviewing the Refuse Fascism podcast. When you do so, it makes the podcast more visible to new listeners on all platforms.

You can also help tremendously by becoming a patron of the Refuse Fascism podcast or making a one-time donation to RefuseFascism.org

Sam Goldman and the Refuse Fascism national team

Facebook ● Twitter ● Instagram ● YouTube ● Podcast

Make a donation online

Send checks or money orders, payable to "Refuse Fascism"
To make a tax-deductible donation of $100 or more in support of Refuse Fascism's educational activities, please make checks out to "Alliance for Global Justice," a 501(3)(c) organization, note: Refuse Fascism

Refuse Fascism | (917) 407-1286 | 2 East 28th Street #321, New York NY 10016-7402