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A daily podcast following tax revolts, ICE crackdowns, and conflicts from Iran to Nigeria.
It Could Happen Here treats current events as symptoms of larger systems under strain. Recent episodes move from Iran and the Strait of Hormuz to DoorDash tax messaging, warehouse-fire rumors, Rojava, trans healthcare bans, and anarchist poetry.
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It Could Happen Here publishes daily, with individual episodes running roughly 25 to 60 minutes and mixing solo commentary, on-the-ground field reporting, and one-on-one interviews. The show rotates among a small host team — Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, James Stout, and Robert Evans — each associated with a different beat. Davis frequently reports from protests and rallies, including an Albany tax-the-rich demonstration and Minneapolis ICE Watch actions, and has run segments fact-checking viral social-media claims such as a rumored spree of warehouse arson. Wong conducts investigative interviews on policy questions, including one on a US Catholic bishops' vote restricting trans healthcare across Catholic hospital networks. Stout covers international conflict, borders, and anarchist political history, including a book-club-format episode discussing his own book on horizontal organizing in Rojava, Myanmar, and the Spanish Civil War. Guests tend to be journalists, organizers, union representatives, and regional specialists rather than celebrities — examples include a Trans News Network editor, a PSC CUNY union advisor, and a commentator on Nigerian conflict. Subject matter recurs around state and municipal tax and budget politics, immigration enforcement, trans healthcare access, labor disputes and workplace conditions, media consolidation, and geopolitical flashpoints such as Iran, Nigeria, and Kurdish-held Rojava. The show frames current events through a left and anarchist-adjacent political lens, treating specific bills, court rulings, and organizing campaigns as evidence rather than relying on general punditry. Listeners who follow daily political news and protest movements will find continuity across episodes, while occasional standalone episodes go deep on a single country or policy fight. Production is voice-driven with minimal sound design, centered on host narration, field audio, and interview conversation.
Made for: People who follow US protest movements, policy fights, and international conflict news, especially listeners sympathetic to left and anarchist organizing.
What sets it apart: It pairs daily field reporting from protests and rallies with detailed breakdowns of specific bills and court actions and dedicated viral-claim debunking, rather than general punditry or news roundups.
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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Forthright political commentary connects breaking events to institutional power, labor struggles, foreign conflict, and the practical work of solidarity.
It Could Happen Here turns volatile headlines into arguments about the institutions and power arrangements underneath them. Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout bring an informal, openly opinionated register to subjects including presidential rhetoric,…
Judicial power meets DoorDash math, and you get the context before the outrage hardens.
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A book-club entry that signals anti-authoritarian politics, though the available audio is mostly promotional clutter.
CZM Book Club: Against the State by James Stout is framed as an It Could Happen Here book-club installment, but the available audio is dominated by iHeart house ads rather than the book discussion itself.
A sharp, irritated read on how a DoorDash tips stunt became tax-policy theater.
Executive Disorder is strongest when it slows the DoorDash no-tax-on-tips stunt down and treats it less as a viral awkward moment than as a political sales job.
A focused look at Hormuz, mine clearing limits, and Iran's wider military response.
It Could Happen Here turns a crisis around Iran into a practical question: what happens if the Strait of Hormuz is mined, blocked, or only partly usable? The useful part is the attention to capacity.
A sharp check on how scattered fire reports became a viral class-war story before the evidence could support it.
It Could Happen Here uses a viral warehouse-fire claim to show how fast class-war storytelling can outrun evidence. The episode tracks a TikTok thread that bundled scattered comments about fires in California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey into a theory of…
A careful look at Rojava's position between anti-ISIS cooperation, U.S. backing, and rising Turkish pressure.
Rojava comes through as a movement trying to survive inside a hard map of wars, alliances, and suspicion. The central point is careful: U.S. backing is not presented as proof that Rojava was designed or controlled by Washington, but as the result of overlapping interests and…
A clear look at how a quiet Catholic hospital ban can sharply narrow trans healthcare access.
This episode turns a little-known trans healthcare ban into a concrete story about access: who gets to approve care, which hospitals will provide it, and what happens when rural patients have nowhere else to go.
A stark reading of Voltairine de Cleyre's political poems turns martyr memory into public pressure.
It Could Happen Here's book club reading of Voltairine de Cleyre's poems gives the episode a grave, political charge. The central stretch moves through the Chicago martyrs, the Waldheim Cemetery monument, and a language of mourning that refuses to stay private: marching crowds,…
A furious read on Iran escalation and why Trump's threats should not be treated as noise.
This It Could Happen Here installment centers on the Iran escalation, with the hosts reacting to reported strikes on Iranian targets, Pakistan's offer to mediate a ceasefire, and speculation that the fighting could pull the United States toward a larger operation.
Sam Harris interviews scientists and journalists on AI risk, religion, and US politics.
WSJ reporters unpack the Epstein files, surrogacy industry abuses, and true-crime court battles.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway argue through tech, media, and Trump-era politics twice weekly.
Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
Sharp political debate with policy detail and real disagreement.
The usable excerpt is basically ad inventory.
DoorDash becomes the whole mess.
The question is the Strait of Hormuz.
Warehouse-fire rumors outrun the reporting.
Since 2012, Rojava has had a hard road.
Mia Wong and guest David Forbes say the U.S.
First, the dead.
Strikes hit Iran before the deadline, and the segment moves target by target: Shiraz's Ministry of Intelligence building, possible tunnels, the Aerospace Research Institute, bridges, an aluminum factory, and Karg Island.
It Could Happen Here: Nigeria with Andrew focuses on why violence in Nigeria cannot be reduced to a single religious explanation, even as Christians in the north face real attacks and restrictions.
The excerpt catches a tight argument.
Election day narrows the field.
The salary cap disappears, and the owners respond.
A weekly newscast covering political news and events from the White House and around the world.
Attrition is the point.
Molly Conger starts with the book, then lets Michael Edison Hayden talk through what the threats did to normal life.
Venezuela becomes the lesson.
Garrison Davis examines recent panic-inducing claims about trans rights and government actions, emphasizing the 'could' in the show's title.
James Ho's rise gets taken apart slowly.
The hosts discuss recent political events, including frustrations with AI features in software, and preview the week's news.
Mia Wong and Molly Conger discuss the convoluted financial instruments that could destroy the world economy, with a focus on the Federal Reserve and economic collapse.
An interview discussing the ongoing Israeli attack on Lebanon within the context of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
A discussion about the Fifth Circuit and Judge James Ho, exploring political extremism and judicial history.
Garrison Davis and Robert Evans discuss the first Antifa terrorism conviction under the Trump administration, analyzing the Prairieland trial and its implications.
A weekly newscast covering political news and societal collapse, with a humorous apology for a previous story.
Host Theo Wong and guest Shane Lee discuss the rise of a fascist network state driven by venture capital tech elites, critiquing their influence and exploring systemic collapse.
Mia Wong interviews Shanley about venture capital firms and their negative impact on society.
An update on the Gaza ceasefire, detailing ongoing demolitions, restricted aid, and continued attacks despite the agreement.
James and Garrison discuss recent Iranian attacks on boats in the Strait of Hormuz and the broader implications for global security.
A weekly news roundup covering political and cultural events with a satirical edge.
Mia Wong analyzes Trump's use of different legal authorities to impose tariffs after a Supreme Court ruling, framing it as a manufactured crisis.
An arrest and detention turn into a tense booking process.
A daily show exploring societal collapse and envisioning a better future.
The hosts discuss Bill and Hillary Clinton's speeches at the 2024 DNC and their personal experiences covering the event.
A weekly newscast covering political news from the White House and global events, with a satirical edge.
Cable is dying, and the episode treats that as a symptom, not a side plot.
Iran's government looks layered on paper.
Garrison Davis reports from the New York State Capitol as more than a thousand people in Albany push Kathy Hochul and the New York Legislature to “tax the rich.” The episode connects that rally to Mayor Zoran Mamdani’s first budget, a newly discovered $12 billion deficit inherited from Eric Adams, and a choice between a 2% tax on millionaires or a 9.5% property tax increase.
The provided transcript does not include the episode "What’s Happened to the Israeli Left" from It Could Happen Here; it contains only iHeart Podcast promo spots for "2%", "Love Trapped", and "Money and Wealth with John O'Brien." Michael Easter describes "2%" as a show about "mental toughness, fitness, and building resilience," while another promo says women discovered they all dated "the same prolific con artist." A third promo references Clayton Eckerd, Laura Owens, Greg Gillespie, and Michael Marancini in the context of a pregnancy-hoax allegation, but none of that material matches the requested episode title.