It Could Happen Here
By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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 (16)
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The U.S. government is now officially labeling nonviolent protests against AI as 'anti-tech violent extremism'—a chilling expansion of surveillance that treats dissent as a national security threat. This shift, driven by fusion centers and intelligence reports
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CZM Book Club: The End, Like Sand, by Margaret Killjoy
The apocalypse didn't arrive with a bang, but as a slow, uneven collapse—like grains of sand through an hourglass. In this raw, genre-blurring narrative, Margaret Killjoy recounts her own transformation from a disoriented urban dweller to a member of the Muppe
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Bears! And the Guys Who Don’t Like Them
A tragic bear attack in Glacier National Park has reignited a national debate over wildlife management, but the real issue isn't bear populations—it's human fear and political manipulation. The podcast dismantles the false narrative pushed by former Interior S
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How to Potluck Your Way to a Union
A small team of workers at a Portland Muji store has launched a groundbreaking unionization effort not through traditional labor tactics, but by hosting potlucks—dinner gatherings that became underground organizing hubs. After winning 'Store of the Year' in 20
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The War on Iran and Convergences of Fascism
The war on Iran has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe inside the country, with inflation soaring, infrastructure destroyed, internet blackouts lasting months, and over 1,700 civilians killed—yet mainstream discourse remains fixated on strategic chokepoints
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Executive Disorder: California Elections, SCOTUS Approves GOP Map, Greg Bovino Update
The Supreme Court has effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act by allowing Alabama to use a racially gerrymandered map that eliminates a Black majority district, marking a devastating blow to multiracial democracy. In a four-page unsigned shadow docket ruling,
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CZM Book Club: Phone Resistance, by Safear Ness -- with In The Belly Magazine
In a powerful episode of the Cool Zone Media Book Club, host Margaret Hilljoy dives into 'Phone Resistance' by Safir Ness—a memoir from an incarcerated abolitionist that reveals how a group of prisoners in Pennsylvania successfully fought back against a dracon
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Bovino’s Visit to Europe
Gregory K. Bovino, a former Border Patrol chief infamous for his role in aggressive immigration enforcement, has become a central figure in a transnational white nationalist network after attending a re-migration summit in Portugal. The episode exposes how Bov
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Idealogical Totalism with Andrew
The episode explores how ideological totalism—defined by psychologist Robert J. Lifton as a state of absolute conviction where beliefs become sacred and immune to doubt—manifests across seemingly disparate movements like ISIS, Aum Shinrikyo, and Christian Zion
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The Globalization of Resistance with Andrew
In the late 19th century, empires didn’t just spread control—they accidentally built the infrastructure for global resistance. Andrew Sage explores how the Spanish repression of anarchists in Barcelona’s Montjuïc prison became a crucible for international revo
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The Arab Gulf States in the Line of Fire
The war in Iran has exposed deep fractures among the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, revealing not a unified bloc but three distinct strategic camps: Saudi Arabia and Qatar pushing for mediation and stability, the UAE adopting a hawkish stance towa
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Executive Disorder: Pogrom in Belfast, Trans Healthcare, Denaturalization Cases
A pogrom in Belfast, fueled by viral social media footage and amplified by far-right figures including Elon Musk, has laid bare the deep-seated racism and paramilitary networks in Northern Ireland’s loyalist communities. The attacks—where non-white residents w
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The U.S. Border Patrol isn’t just failing—it’s systematically producing Nazis. Greg Bovino, a former agent now endorsing ethnic cleansing at a neo-Nazi remigration summit in Portugal, is not an outlier but the predictable outcome of a 30-year institutional des
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CZM Book Club: Poems by Incarcerated Authors -- with In The Belly Magazine
This episode of It Could Happen Here transforms the book club format into a radical act of solidarity, centering poems by incarcerated authors published in In The Belly magazine—a revolutionary abolitionist publication by and for people in prison. Rather than
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How the United States Shaped the Dominican Republic’s Immigration Enforcement Machine
The Dominican Republic's brutal immigration enforcement system is not a domestic invention—it was built by the United States through decades of military occupation, economic coercion, and direct training of border forces. As journalist Carlos Perrios Polanco r
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Anti-ICE Protesters in Minnesota Charged with Conspiracy
The U.S. federal government has indicted 15 individuals from the Twin Cities for conspiracy related to protests at the Whipple Federal Building, the Midwest headquarters of ICE. The indictment, spanning 94 pages, alleges that members of Direct Action Minnesota
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