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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.

It Could Happen Here

The gang discuss the government shutdown, War Department plans to deploy troops to US cities, ICE raids in Chicago, new border wall construction, and a National Security Presidential Memo targeting political violence indicators like “anti-capitalism, anti-christianity, and extremism on migration, race, and gender.”
 
Sources:
 
https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-run-wild-blatantly-false-claim-democrats-are-shutting-down-government

 
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ 
 
​​https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42 
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/ 

 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/ 
 
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility 
 
https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458 
 
https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california 
 
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/ 
 
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 
 
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528 
 
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ 
 
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ 
 
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ 
 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/ 

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36

James introduces a rebroadcast of Final Straw Radio in which Mo speaks with Bursts about the implications of recent Executive Orders and Memoranda for free speech and the First Amendment.
 
https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/ 

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What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech?

James is joined by Dr. Tyler Black and Dr. Kaveh Hoda to discuss the MAHA claim that the medication Tylenol is increasing the incidence of autism. 
 
Sources: 
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

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Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism?

Mia talks with CAW writer and editor Vicky Osterweil about Republican unpopularity, Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney’s history of fascism
 
Links: 
 
https://www.cawshinythings.com/about-caw/
 
Sources: 
https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/fair-shakes-amv.pdf
 
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-after-suspension-for-charlie-kirk-comments-our-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-do-and-do-not-say-on-television-195436293.html
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/24/trump-approval-rating/86306451007/
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-dips-americans-worry-about-economy-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-09-23/
 
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/democrats-pounce-in-reliably-red-iowa-fueled-by-special-election-hopium-00538075
 
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-win-in-iowa-special-election-breaks-gop-supermajority
 
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democrats-win-massive-upset

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Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel

Prop's friend, Tanjint Wiggy aka Tristian is the the elected Union negotiator for the health workers in the Inland Empire of California. We talk to him about the highs and lows of negotiating with the state, ICE raids, the jailing of David Huerta and how we can stand in solidarity with them.
 
@tanjint
 
Itsonlyempire.com 
 
@famlikley

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SEIU 1000 Union Rep of the IE Reports Live from the Frontline

Margaret reads you a story about yearning and magic and folklore and teenage gays.

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CZM Book Club: Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- An Inside Look at the Asylum Process
 
- What is Tren de Aragua and Why is Trump Obsessed With Them?
 
- Autism and RFK Jr.’s War on Pregnant People
 
- How the US attacks on Venezuela Impact Trinidad and Tobago with Andrew 
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #35
 
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Sources:
 
https://x.com/ConsulMexCho/status/1966636249910738951 

 
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/12/dhs-statement-ice-officer-seriously-injured-line-duty-and-shooting-chicago-during 

 
https://unraveledpress.com/what-happened-to-silverio-villegas-gonzalez/ 

 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773.37.0_2.pdf 

 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773.41.0.pdf 

 
https://calmatters.org/inside-the-newsroom/2025/04/calmatters-partners-with-evident-media-on-a-documentary-exposing-truth-behind-border-patrol-raid/ 

 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/16/us/tyler-robinson-charges.html 
 
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-leaked-messages-from-charlie 
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-kimmel.html 
 
Crossing Borders: The Evolution and Impact of Tren de Aragua | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University https://share.google/xnyZpnUILdcDrZep1
 
Debunking 3 Myths About Tren de Aragua https://share.google/TGwfFwu9ApWrOuU7N 
 
Tattoos of deported Venezuelans don't necessarily signal gang affiliation, experts say https://share.google/PD8reoZTA8yDc7mA5 
 
Tattoos of deported Venezuelans don't necessarily signal gang affiliation, experts say https://share.google/PD8reoZTA8yDc7mA5 
 
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-health-autism-white-house-september-22-2025/
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/22/autism-tylenol-takeaways-trump-rfk-jr/86293921007/
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550153/trump-rfk-autism-tylenol-leucovorin-pregnancy
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-health-experts-trump-tylenol-autism-link/
 
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/pm-us-military-should-kill-them-all-violently-6.2.2390747.79d6204d7c 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jel4gyezo 
 
https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/09-16-2025-Whistleblower-Disclosure-to-Congress-re-Guatemalan-UC-Repatriation-SN.pdf
 
https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MEMORANDUM-OPINION.pdf 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/the-gold-card/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/ 
 
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1970491119831028000 
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5550915/trump-immigration-judges 
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/g-s1-86691/military-lawyers-immigration-judges-jag 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/ 
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-afpi-tpusa-hillsdale-college-and-over-40-national-and-state-organizations-launch-america-250-civics-coalition#:~:text=Home-,U.S 
 
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/centers/america-250-civics-education-coalition?__cf_chl_tk=CX4TkwEkLHCaXlh.Fd5SU143s0.XxeWDM.gYxCgS1R4-1758115761-1.0.1.1-PtDspNboVVBLqiywS5GF3.Ns09TzWf.a9IAN86NyplM 
https://oversight-project.revv.co/urge-the-fbi-to-designate-transgender-terrorism 
 
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people 
 
https://www.them.us/story/trump-admin-fbi-trans-nihilistic-violent-extremists-terrorist

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 201

We discuss the shooting of three ICE detainees in Dallas, Trump’s Gold Card and 100k H1B visa fee, soybean tariffs, and reports of the FBI designating trans people “terrorists.”
 
Sources: 
https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/09-16-2025-Whistleblower-Disclosure-to-Congress-re-Guatemalan-UC-Repatriation-SN.pdf
 
https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MEMORANDUM-OPINION.pdf 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/the-gold-card/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/ 
 
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1970491119831028000 
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5550915/trump-immigration-judges 
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/g-s1-86691/military-lawyers-immigration-judges-jag 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/ 
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-afpi-tpusa-hillsdale-college-and-over-40-national-and-state-organizations-launch-america-250-civics-coalition#:~:text=Home-,U.S 
 
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/centers/america-250-civics-education-coalition?__cf_chl_tk=CX4TkwEkLHCaXlh.Fd5SU143s0.XxeWDM.gYxCgS1R4-1758115761-1.0.1.1-PtDspNboVVBLqiywS5GF3.Ns09TzWf.a9IAN86NyplM 
https://oversight-project.revv.co/urge-the-fbi-to-designate-transgender-terrorism 
 
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people 
 
https://www.them.us/story/trump-admin-fbi-trans-nihilistic-violent-extremists-terrorist 

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #35

Andrew is joined by James to discuss recent US attacks on Venezuelan boats, and how the Prime Minister of Trinidad’s full throated support puts the small Caribbean nation at risk. 
 
Sources: 
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/pm-us-military-should-kill-them-all-violently-6.2.2390747.79d6204d7c 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jel4gyezo 

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How the US attacks on Venezuela Impact Trinidad and Tobago with Andrew

Mia talks with unionized abortion care worker Crystal about RFK Jr.’s new announcement that Tylenol in pregnant people can cause autism and the real reproductive healthcare crises in the US.
 
Links: 
 
https://prh.org/
 
https://www.instagram.com/acog_org?igsh=MXA1am4xeWg4Mzh2eA%3D%3D
 
Sources: 
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-health-autism-white-house-september-22-2025/
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/22/autism-tylenol-takeaways-trump-rfk-jr/86293921007/
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550153/trump-rfk-autism-tylenol-leucovorin-pregnancy
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-health-experts-trump-tylenol-autism-link/

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Autism and RFK Jr.’s War on Pregnant People

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
 
https://archive.ph/35bXs
 
https://apnews.com/article/house-gop-budget-trump-tax-cuts-agenda-7d29a6840fa474b841228d20e5e96b55
 
https://time.com/7268499/senate-democrats-budget-vote/
 
https://www.commondreams.org/news/republican-spending-bill
 
https://nlihc.org/resource/congress-passes-and-president-trump-signs-law-year-long-stopgap-funding-bill-underfunding
 
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/schumer-trump-budget-senate-dems-aoc/
 
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/250308_johnsons_yearlong_crpdf.pdf
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/politics/democrats-gop-government-funding-bill/index.html

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Chuck Schumer and the Collaborators

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