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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

In Texas, the world’s richest man is bringing back to life one of the worst ideas of the Gilded Age, local Robber Baron-owned dictatorships called company towns. Elon Musk has already established two in Texas and other high-tech oligarchs like Peter Theil hope to create more. In this episode, journalist Steven Monacelli and historian Dr. Michael Phillips explore the history of company towns in the United States and their disturbing rebirth. 
 
Sources:
 
Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns
 
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State
 
Hardy Green, The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
 
Chad Pearson, Capitalism’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

DC resident Bridget Todd talks with Garrison about Trump’s police takeover in Washington DC, the manufacturing of crime panics, and how federal police are effecting the city.

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The Federalization of DC Police feat. Bridget Todd

Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. 

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Three

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew
 
- Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen
 
- How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center
 
- Tariffs and the Corruption State
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29
 
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Sources/Links:
 
Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen
 
https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/
 
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1908354
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lead-investigator-james-comer-biden-autopen-digital-signature-rcna216719
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/autopen-trump-biden-analysis
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-clemency-interview.html
 
How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center
 
http://nodesertdatacenter.com
 
https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a
 
https://vermaland.com
 
Tariffs and the Corruption State
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nvidia-amd-chip-sales-china-15-percent-h20-mi308/
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/tariffs-switzerland-trump.html
 
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-come-into-effect-hitting-dozens-of-us-trading-partners.html
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/12/trump-extends-china-tariff-deadline-for-the-second-time-what-does-it-mean
 
https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/08/12/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/business/trade-exemptions-tariffs-trump
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7jjkvzmkxo
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administration-tells-foreign-military-junta-wants-hear-raising-e-rcna221569
 
https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29
 
https://www.cvesd.org/parents/family-and-community-resources
lausd.org
 
https://www.lausd.org/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/577/Parent%20Resources/ComResourceGuideEng.pdf

 
https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2024/11/21/with-trump-back-in-power-advocates-criticize-gloria-for-shuttering-immigrant-affairs-office
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html
 
https://x.com/AngulusTerrarum/status/1955320816855294169
 
https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955041060197114136
 
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/stephen-miran-federal-reserve-board-e7855877
 
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/bls-nominee-trump
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ej-antoni-trumps-pick-lead-bls/story?id=124579471
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8600x7dnn4o
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-democrats-return-after-governor-ends-special-session/story?id=124592449
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loldo4Vmno

 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-gunman-cdc-shooting-fired-500-rounds-officials/story?id=124577732

 
https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-jr-in-interview-with-scripps-news-trusting-the-experts-is-not-science 
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 195

The gang discuss the deployment of National Guard and federalization of police in Washington DC, a Heritage Foundation economist being appointed to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a shooting targeting the CDC headquarters.
 
Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-for-bukets-asylum-case
 
Sources:
 
https://www.cvesd.org/parents/family-and-community-resources
lausd.org
 
https://www.lausd.org/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/577/Parent%20Resources/ComResourceGuideEng.pdf

 
https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2024/11/21/with-trump-back-in-power-advocates-criticize-gloria-for-shuttering-immigrant-affairs-office
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html
 
https://x.com/AngulusTerrarum/status/1955320816855294169
 
https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955041060197114136
 
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/stephen-miran-federal-reserve-board-e7855877
 
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/bls-nominee-trump
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ej-antoni-trumps-pick-lead-bls/story?id=124579471
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8600x7dnn4o
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-democrats-return-after-governor-ends-special-session/story?id=124592449
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loldo4Vmno

 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-gunman-cdc-shooting-fired-500-rounds-officials/story?id=124577732

 
https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-jr-in-interview-with-scripps-news-trusting-the-experts-is-not-science 
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29

Mia gives an update on the recent round of tariffs and what they say about the American state under Trump.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nvidia-amd-chip-sales-china-15-percent-h20-mi308/
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/tariffs-switzerland-trump.html
 
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-come-into-effect-hitting-dozens-of-us-trading-partners.html
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/12/trump-extends-china-tariff-deadline-for-the-second-time-what-does-it-mean
 
https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/08/12/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/business/trade-exemptions-tariffs-trump
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7jjkvzmkxo
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administration-tells-foreign-military-junta-wants-hear-raising-e-rcna221569
 
https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/

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Tariffs and the Corruption State

James is joined by Karl Kasarda of InRangeTV to discuss the Project Blue data center and the coalition of people who campaigned against its construction in Tucson.
 
Sources:
 
http://nodesertdatacenter.com
 
https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a
 
https://vermaland.com

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How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center

Garrison talks with Robert about Republican investigations into the presidential autopen as a way to rescind pardons and remove judges.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/
 
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1908354
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lead-investigator-james-comer-biden-autopen-digital-signature-rcna216719
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/autopen-trump-biden-analysis
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-clemency-interview.html

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Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen

Andrew is joined by James to discuss how physical and digital infrastructure can be used as systems of control, and how communities have resisted and built their own infrastructure.

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Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew

Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue!

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Two

Mia, Shereen, and James discuss the structure of Israeli settler colonialism and how the housing market fuels violent settler land grabs and accelerates Israel’s hard right political turn.

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The Cheapest Land is Bought in Blood, Part 1

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