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.
Episodes
Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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The Library Funding Cliff
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Anarchism In Uruguay feat. Andrew, Pt. 2
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RFK Jr. Breaks the Medical System
- How ICE Is Targeting Students for Deportation
Garrison and James discuss how a doxing campaign is targeting student visa and green card holders for alleged ties to pro-Palestine protests.
Sources:
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8
LIBERATION DAY! The gang talks tariffs, the collapse of global trade, and Elon Musk’s big loss in Wisconsin. Plus an update on migrant rendition.
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-stokes-trade-war-world-reels-tariff-shock-2025-04-03/
https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok
https://www.reuters.com/markets/frances-macron-calls-suspension-investment-us-after-tariffs-202...
Mia and Gare discuss RFK Jr.'s hideous cuts to everything from HIV prevention to child vaccination as he entrenches his anti-vaccine agenda in the HHS.
Sources:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/114853
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/health/fda-vaccine-peter-marks-resigns/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-hiv-research-grant-cuts
Andrew and James continue their discussion of Anarchism in Uruguay and talk about the nature of an anarchist military formation.
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James talks to Jamie, a librarian, about the threat of federal funding being withdrawn from libraries and how listeners can help.
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Margaret reads an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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Rendition to El Salvador: How the Trump Administration Is Sending Asylum Seekers to Labor Camps
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Miniature Ethnic Cleansing: Encampment Sweeps in Oakland
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Should You Flee the United States?
Verify your signal number! The gang talks about anti-genocide protesters being hunted by ICE, an update on the rendition of Venezuelan immigrants, and how a journalist learned about airstrikes in Yemen from a Trump admin group chat.
Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/politics/the-atlantic-publishes-signal-mess...
Mia and Gare discuss the social and political role of gamers and why people like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried spend so much effort portraying themselves as gamers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ykCc588Zw
https://thecourier.com/news/549130/browns-need-to-start-asking-questions-about-depodesta/
Robert, James, and Gare discuss the question of fleeing the country, various demographics under threat, and the politics of escape.
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Mia talks with Emma and Sathya, who do advocacy and support work for unhoused people, about Oakland's brutal regime of encampment sweeps.
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James and Gare discuss the rendition of 238 Venezuelan migrants to a prison labor camp in El Salvador.
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Margaret reads Robert Evans the second book in her Danielle Cain series.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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Understanding Rojava’s Tishrin Dam Resistance
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Anarchism In Uruguay feat. Andrew, Pt. 1
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Chuck Schumer and the Collaborators
- Behind the Tesla Attacks
The gang discuss the rendition of Venezuelan migrants, attacks on trans people in the military, more arrests of graduate students, and the bird flu.
Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/politics/deportation-flights-judge-timeline/index.html
Protests and vandalism against Tesla spread around the world as Tesla’s stock value continues to plummet. Garrison breaks down what’s happening, and the response from Trump and Elon Musk.
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-buy-new-tesla-show-support-musk-2025-03-11/
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/trump-musk-tesla-white-house-showroom-buys-car-rcna195905
...Mia and James discuss how Chuck Schumer and the Democratic collaborators handed Trump extraordinary power by passing a devastating continuing government funding resolution and political core of Democratic collaboration with Trump.
Sources:
https://apnews.com/article/dc-budget-trump-congress-gop-29738c7281955d77075c8b98009f860e
Andrew is joined by James to talk about the history of anarchism in Uruguay.
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