Behind the Bastard‪s

Special Bonus Minisode: The collected unedited audio of the interviews from 'The World is Burning.'

For more than a hundred consecutive nights, Portland's Black Lives Matter movement endured violence from police, federal agents and right-wing vigilantes. In this episode, you'll learn how it all started, and why the city of Portland's history turned it into a battleground.

How did a bunch of angry strangers turn into a movement capable of braving unprecedented showers of tear gas and state violence? In this episode, we learn how a chaotic mass of protesters organized themselves into a unit capable of standing up to the worst violence the cops could throw at them.

Over the course of June, 2020, BLM protests in most of the country either fizzled out or started to wane in frequency. Portland kept right on going, every single night, without break. In this episode we explain the infrastructure of resistance that gave birth to the Portland Uprising, and we talk about the fateful decision that turned President Trump's eyes towards the City of Roses.

After more than a month of enduring police violence, Portland protesters finally leveled up enough to fight back. This is the story of the battle of July 4th.

In this episode we discuss how Portland's confrontation with the feds mushroomed from the Battle of July 4th into a massive, nationwide spectacle.

Throughout the second half of July, Portlanders continued showing up en masse to confront federal agents downtown. As the struggle neared its conclusion, national media attention brought a strange, carnival air to the proceedings.

Travel back to the very birth of fascism in this episode about the March on Rome. You'll learn how the first trailblazing fascist dictator took power and destroyed a democracy.

Thousands of Portlanders decided their city had failed them. So they decided to take care of each other.

We continue our study of fascist insurrections with the most famous of them all: Hitler's disastrous beer hall putsch.

In Part Two, we continue to discuss Hitler's disastrous beer hall putsch.

For decades, Portland has been one of the USA's most violent battlegrounds between the white supremacist right and the anti racist left. In 2020, after months of anti police demonstrations, American fascists again took to the streets of Portland for what would be one of the bloodiest brawls in its history.

In this episode, we discuss the birth of Fascism in Spain and how it led to the first great armed conflict between Fascism and Democracy: the Spanish Civil War.

The incredible, heartbreaking story of the antifascist struggle in Spain.

The most direct precursor to January 6th, 2021 was a fascist assault on the French Capitol on February 6th 1934. Today we talk about that and, as a bonus, French Jeffrey Epstein.

In the early 1930s a consortium of America's wealthiest men conspires to overthrow President Roosevelt and institute a fascist state. This is the story of how they almost succeeded.

Inspired by past resistance movements, Portland has at different points adopted a variety of tactics used to achieve protest objectives. Broken windows, graffiti, and nearly nightly dumpster fires has lead the perception that Portland is in ruin. But if you dig deeper than the snappy headlines you’ll find the real destruction that’s facing the city and local ecosystem is due to the unprecedented amount of poison gas munitions used in an American city.

In this episode we cover the struggle to save the Red House, and where things in Portland stand today.

In 2070, the Republic of Texas is crumbling as a network of Christian extremist militias, the Heavenly Kingdom, assaults from all sides. Manny Sanchez is a fixer, leading journalists into and out of the sundry hotspots of the old Metroplex. Violence and war have become routine for him. But today, that's all about to change. In chapter two we meet Roland, a veteran and ex revolutionary with a body full of old army cyberware. He spends most of his time getting wasted in a shack on top of a mountain in Arizona. But tonight, the world is about to catch up with him.

Sasha Marion is a suburban teenager in the East coast's American Federation. To all eyes she is a normal high school senior. But, secretly, Sasha has become enthralled with the 'Heavenly Kingdom', a group of a Christian militias trying to conquer the Republic of Texas. While everyone else prepares to graduate, she plans to flee her home and join it. As an alliance of Christian Dominionist militias invade Dallas, Manny is forced to get himself, and his journalist, to safety. Roland catches up with an old friend and gets offered a job.

Sasha begins her journey to the Heavenly Kingdom. Manny and Reggie attempt to escape Ciudad de Muerta. But the Heavenly Kingdom has other ideas. Roland travels to Dallas and meets some new friends.

Sasha arrives at the Heavenly Kingdom. Manny and Reggie meet The City of Wheels, and Manny is offered a job. Roland visits Waco, gets laid, and takes a trip to the City of Wheels.

Sasha earns a job in the Heavenly Kingdom, and finally meets Alexander. Manny has to make a difficult decision. Drugs help. Manny and Roland go on a road trip. Minor eye-gouging follows.

Sasha comes to grips with the realities of life in the Heavenly Kingdom. Manny and Roland begin their time as undercover soldiers of the Heavenly Kingdom. Roland goes exploring, and things come to a head in the Heavenly Kingdom.

Sasha makes a decision. Manny has a bad time. Roland and the Heavenly Kingdom have a scuffle.

Sasha finds a car for her friends. Back to Rolling Fuck. The end of the book (just kidding, there's an epilogue.)