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It Could Happen Here

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it’s evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41 Nov 14, 2025

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The gang discuss the end of the government shutdown, the release of Epstein emails, a J6 bomber theory, and the wonders of the Trump economy.

Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/italian-pasta-tariffs-trump-rcna243264

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/13/pasta-italian-imports-trump-tariffs

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-50-year-mortgage-loan-bill-pulte-cost/

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2025/11/13/when-will-the-2000-tariff-dividend-be-paid-new-trump-stimulus-check-2025-payment-eligibility-update/87209405007/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/business/fifty-year-mortgage

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93ddrp17zko\

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/white-house-withdraws-ej-antoni-nomination-lead-bls-00589289

https://archive.vn/sHLdh

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/11/13/white-house-will-release-octobers-jobs-report-after-saying-data-would-likely-never-publish/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hell-issue-2000-tariff-dividend-except-high/story?id=127356839\

https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-kept-chicago-police-records-for-months-in-violation-of-domestic-espionage-rules/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/66/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/harris-county-immigration-lawsuit/2501762887924/

https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/study-ny-times-wash-post-coverage-caravan-plummets-after-midterms

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The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson Nov 13, 2025

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Garrison explains how Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes sparked infighting between the Heritage Foundation and Ben Shapiro, and the growing influence of America First branded antisemitism in the Republican Party.

Sources:

https://x.com/jasonahart/status/1985338713791172827

https://x.com/KevinRobertsTX/status/1984335805192532265

https://x.com/markgoldfeder/status/1985000264743416256?s=46

https://x.com/McCormickProf/status/1984646330849837488

https://www.jta.org/2025/10/31/united-states/ted-cruz-to-jewish-republicans-antisemitism-is-an-existential-crisis-in-our-party

https://jewishinsider.com/2025/11/gop-senators-tucker-carlson-left-wing-antisemitism-josh-hawley-james-lankford/

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5586731-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-controversy/

https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/us-news/heritage-foundation-in-revolt-over-tucker-carlson-defense-after-controversial-nick-fuentes-interview-footsie-with-literal-nazis/

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chris-demuth-resigns-from-the-heritage-foundation/

https://x.com/AudreyFahlberg/status/1985781905976115550?s=20

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-task-force.html

https://freebeacon.com/politics/i-made-a-mistake-heritage-foundation-president-apologizes-to-staff-for-video-refusal-to-cancel-tucker-carlson-and-throws-shade-at-former-chief-of-staff/

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/heritage-president-apologizes-for-tucker-carlson-defense-video-in-heated-all-hands-meeting/

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/david-french-schools-matt-walsh-over-his-call-for-no-enemies-on-the-right/

https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1985032452432437704?s=20

https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1985417108407124110?s=20

https://x.com/JDVance/status/1986099131845136594

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/nick-fuentes-kirk-successor.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-interview/684792/

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw-and-heard-in-washington?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide feat. Dana El Kurd Nov 12, 2025

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Dana El Kurd speaks with author, activist, and 2025 Foundation for Middle East Peace fellow Ahmed Moor on the pro-Palestine movement in the US, and what we can learn after two years of genocide.

Sources:

Ahmed Moor & Antony Loewenstein’s book - https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/after-zionism/

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A New Threat to Public Lands Nov 11, 2025

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James and Gare discuss Utah Senator Mike Lee’s latest attempt to erode protections on wilderness in the USA.

Sources:

https://www.energy.senate.gov/2025/10/lee-bill-fights-back-against-biden-s-border-chaos-destroying-america-s-parks-and-public-lands

https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/11/sierra-club-statement-trump-s-nomination-steve-pearce-lead-blm

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kathleen-sgamma-withdraws-jan-6-criticism-came-public--rcna200699

https://recreationroundtable.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ORR-Burgum-Nomination-Letter-of-Support-Final.pdf

https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-lee/summary?cid=N00031696

https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/0DED04C4-18C7-4C1F-BCE4-DD5B79FB0264

https://www.jstor.org/stable/14646

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Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts Nov 10, 2025

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Mia and Gare discuss the wide range of reactions to Mamdani’s victory and see some truly astonishing meltdowns.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600718/wall-street-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor

https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-react-nyc-mayor-election-race-results-zohran-mamdani-2025-11#jamie-dimon-1

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/11/elon-musk-is-having-a-post-election-meltdown-western-civilization-is-doomed.html

https://defector.com/lets-check-in-with-people-who-threatened-to-leave-zohran-mamdanis-nyc

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/democrats-republicans-reaction-mamdani-win

https://lindseyboylan4ny.medium.com/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/lindsey_boylan

https://indypendent.org/2025/07/we-will-beat-these-monsters-lindsey-boylan-reacts-to-cuomos-defeat/

https://archive.vn/3N3wu

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CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Two Nov 09, 2025

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Can our heroes best the mighty beasts who await them in the swamps? Who will Trant throw a bomb at?

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 207 Nov 08, 2025

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

- Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40

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Sources:

The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf, The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025.)

Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.)

The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Dick Reavis, “Charlie Brooks’ Last Words,” Texas Monthly (February 1983.)

The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy

Breanna Ehrlich, “The Last Face Death Row Inmates See,” Rolling Stone, March 29, 2025 (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/)

Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.)

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/1/tangipa-v-newsom/

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/proposition-50-overnight-results/

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-strikes-deal-on-economic-and-trade-relations-with-china/

https://archive.vn/rR8Ix

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522166327/202133199349305758/full

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html

https://archive.vn/BFLOe

https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html

https://archive.vn/BFLOe

https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40 Nov 07, 2025

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The gang discuss the election of Zohran Mamdani and California’s redistricting. Plus updates on immigration, tariffs, and air travel issues.

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Sources:

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/1/tangipa-v-newsom/

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/proposition-50-overnight-results/

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-strikes-deal-on-economic-and-trade-relations-with-china/

https://archive.vn/rR8Ix

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522166327/202133199349305758/full

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html

https://archive.vn/BFLOe

https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript

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The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy Nov 06, 2025

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In the conclusion of this three-part series on lethal injection, Steve Monacelli and Dr. Michael Phillips interview Rais Bhuiyan, a Muslim who was shot and blinded in one eye by a white supremacist on a killing spree in Dallas following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Bhuiyan explains why he campaigned to prevent the execution of his attacker, Mark Stroman. His efforts led European companies that produce lethal chemicals to stop selling them for executions in states like Texas. The episode then looks at how states have evaded such bans by buying the drugs on the black market. Finally, we’ll hear from a from a priest, the Rev. Jeff Hood, who has held the hands of more than 10 condemned prisoners and witnessed their prolonged, tortured deaths. The series ends with a discussion of the uncertain future of the death penalty in this country.

Note: The Rev. Jeff Hood wanted to clarify that he began corresponding with condemned prisoners in 2010 and has has offered counseling to more than 100 prisoners on death row. After our interview, he accompanied Anthony Boyd during his nitrous hypoxia death in Alabama on October 23. That was the eleventh execution he has attended in person.

Sources:

Breanna Ehrlich, “The Last Face Death Row Inmates See,” Rolling Stone, March 29, 2025 (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/)

Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.)

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

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The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind Nov 05, 2025

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In the second episode of the lethal injection series, Steve Monacelli and Michael Phillips interview Dick Reavis, a journalist who witnessed the world’s first execution by lethal injection, that of Charlie Brooks in Texas in 1982. They report on how the lethal injection method was improvised after a Dallas reporter won a temporary court order allowing television stations to broadcast executions. Worried that a televised electrocution might turn the public against the death penalty, Texas politicians instead approved lethal injection. An Oklahoma coroner who admitted he had no expertise in chemistry and knew a lot about dead bodies but not “how to get them that way,” improvised the three-drug protocol eventually used by all death-penalty states, with horrifying results. Then, Monacelli and Phillips interview law professor Corinna Lain, who says that rather than a supposedly painless death, lethal injection is more like a slow drowning.

Sources:

Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)

Dick Reavis, “Charlie Brooks’ Last Words,” Texas Monthly (February 1983.)

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