Anti Authoritarian Podcast
The Anti-Authoritarian Podcast is here to help the anyone concerned about creeping authoritarianism and fascism in the U.S. and beyond to confront strategy questions that will strengthen their work to advance multiracial democracy and stop the rise of authoritarianism.
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- Sep 16, 2026
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Global Democracy Defense w/Pedro Telles (opens the original)
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Authoritarianism is a global project, coordinated, cross-border, and learning from itself in real time. The resistance has to be, too. In this episode, Scot talks with Pedro Telles, Director and founding board member of D-Hub, about what democratic defense looks like from a transnational vantage point. They cover how authoritarianism takes hold, what civil society can do to stop it, the role of narrative strategy in the fight, and what a new anti-authoritarian toolkit offers democracy defenders
Powerful, Brave, and Free w/Tamika Middleton (opens the original)
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The far-right's assault on democracy has always run through the bodies, agency, and political power of women. That's not incidental, it's structural. In this episode, Scot sits down with Tamika Middleton, Chief Strategy Officer of the Women's March and co-founder of Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, to talk about what it means to organize at the intersection of mass action and healing justice. They dig into the misogyny driving far-right power-building, what it takes to build mass act
No ICE in the Cup w/Paola Mendoza, Austin Weatherford & Jordan Seaberry (opens the original)
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The World Cup is the most watched event on earth. This summer it was on US soil while ICE conducted raids in immigrant communities and used fear as a tool of authoritarian control. No ICE in the Cup is a campaign that meets that global stage with a global message, built on a pillars analysis, powered by artists and cultural workers, organized across deep ideological differences, and grounded in a clear theory of how noncooperation moves the institutions propping up authoritarian power. In this e
Big Tent Culture w/ Julia Roig (opens the original)
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Movements powerful enough to defeat authoritarianism aren't built from a single source. They're built like rivers, from hundreds of springs, each distinct, each alive, all moving in the same direction. In this episode, Scot talks with Julia Roig, founder and Chief Network Weaver of the Horizons Project, about what big tent organizing actually looks like in practice, the role of artists in movements, how to drive counter-narratives that shift culture, and what network weavers do that no other act
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