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On this week's Refuse Fascism podcast:

Sunsara Taylor interviews Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez (@kkdumez), author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, about the rise of militant and militaristic patriarchy among Christian fascists as a major social force in this country (originally broadcast on The RNL Show).

Sam Goldman (@SamBGoldman) and Coco Das @coco_das talk about how and why the call for continuous non-violent mass protests to drive out the Trump/Pence regime didn’t take root – and why that means we still face a serious threat of fascism in the United States.

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This week, we saw that the fascists are still moving, filled with revanchism. The Republi-fascists show no signs of backing down in resurrecting Jim Crow voter suppression. As we reported last week, Georgia Governor Brian "KKK" Kemp is doubling down. The Republican-dominated Texas State Senate just passed a sweeping voter suppression bill outlawing drive-thru voting, cutting early voting hours and preventing election officials from sending mail-in ballot applications, even to qualified voters.  At a speech in Mar-a-Lago this weekend, Trump repeated the lie of a stolen election and celebrated his actions, including the rally that precipitated the storming of the Capitol. The Save America Summit is Trump and his fascist goons plotting their eventual comeback. And who is the host of this four day summit to save America at Donald Trump's Doral Resort? It's Women for America First, one of the -- perhaps THE main -- organizer of the rally that took place on January 6.

Before week three in the trial of white supremacist, killer cop, Derek Chauvin, the cop who murdered George Floyd, white supremacists planned held protests to "revive the white racial consciousness and to unify white people against white hate." And fascist mouthpiece, Tucker Carlson, this past Thursday continued to show his Nazi stripes defending white supremacist conspiracy theory on Fox News, saying that the Democratic Party is "trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots with new people, more obedient voters from the third world," he said. He continued to say, "but they become hysterical because that's what's happening, actually. Let's just say it. That's true. Others have correctly pointed out that this Xenophobic white supremacist diatribe was the ideology that fostered El Paso, that brought to you Christ Church, that brought to you Pittsburgh.

Last week was also a reminder of how we are still just learning the full scope of harm done by the Trump/Pence regime as more continues to come out about the January 6th coup attempt. Documents from the Pentagon garnered by the Associated Press provide more insight into the timeline for responses from federal government leaders on the day of January 6th, including a call from then Vice President Mike Pence pleading to clear the building hours before order was actually restored. We learned that Trump officials celebrated efforts to change CDC reports on the Coronavirus as the Washington Post reported, based on documents from a House probe. Trump appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services celebrated their efforts to block, silence, and change scientific findings on COVID to conform to Trump's lies. Trump loyalists actively suppressed science at a time of deadly pandemic.

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