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We can send the people pushing fascism on us back into their holes without buying into hate.

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The roots of everything that ails the country go deeper than Trump, so we need to think beyond November 3rd.

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This week's episode considers three recent news events and how they reveal the larger challenges facing the county. But first, Andrea Pitzer...

Authoritarians reveal themselves, even to followers who prefer not to see. And that leaves an opening for change.

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This week, Next Comes What looks at the disillusionment that eventually takes place for most people who succumb to the cult of personality in an aut...

Corrupt power will always inflict more harm if it can benefit from that additional suffering. But we don't have to let it happen.

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This week's episode of Next Comes What looks at an inspector general's report on Alligator Alcatraz, describing the uses there of a f...

Companies and agencies are spying on everyone they can.

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 Our episode this week gathers a series of recent surveillance scandals, in which everything from public cameras to your AI agent and even your television may be monitoring you. To put the current snooping in context, Andrea Pitzer looks at the hist...

Here's how to take on the global right-wing nostalgia for the glory days of fascism.

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This week's Next Comes What looks at the victory of the authoritarian, reactionary party AfD in last weekend's election in eastern Germany. Andrea Pitzer considers a few of the regional specifics of that election, and considers other uni...

The data center revolt and the pushback against detention camps have something in common. The public is realizing it has power.

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This week, "Next Comes What" considers how the oligarchs driving the AI boom and the president of the United States are all driven by a desire not just for...

As elections loom, resist the calls to throw away your moral compass.

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With so many pundits calling for meeting Republicans and independent voters where they're at before the midterms, this week's "Next Comes What" considers what that means. Andrea Pitzer discusses how the days in which fringe candidates could be dismissed as irre...

To help keep concentration camps from becoming a permanent feature, figure out who's in the torturers' club and who sells the barbed wire.

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This week's episode looks at what it means to be in the middle stages of a concentration camp regime—which is where the United States is at now. Andrea Pitzer...

A panoramic review of immigrant persecution under Trump 2.0 so far and a look at where we are now.

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This week, Andrea Pitzer reviews what has happened with the Trump administration's strategic violence against immigrants in the U.S. during the year and a half si...

India and Albania reveal how small protests can transform into big movements, creating possibilities for massive change. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/subscribe Read the post: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/roots-for-real-change WATCH YouTube: https://youtu.be/CRVe4pVKoIM TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@degenerateartnews Listen everywhere: https://pod.link/1779885475 This week's Next Comes What considers what can be learned from overseas movements for political change. Andrea Pitzer reviews a few big examples she's discussed before, from Brazil and South Korea to Hungary. But she points out that these countries, which were able...

Every day, people are showing how we can stop Trump's dismantling of our laws and norms by using both to fight back.

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Our episode this week looks at how the current administration has violated both laws and customs on every front to try to profit from government positions and maximize Trump's power across the boa...

A new U.S. government call for contractors aims to set up a global network of concentration camps, and your representatives likely don't know about it yet.

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This week's episode of "Next Comes What" looks at a new U.S. government document seekin...

Support for authoritarianism can spread person to person, like a disease. Here's how to stop it.

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In this week's episode, Andrea Pitzer looks at recent research suggesting that support for authoritarianism spreads socially from person to person. Researchers from the University of Oslo in Norway...

Trump's goons got the oppression flowchart backward. Now they're trying to fix it, but we can foil their plans.

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This week's episode looks at the typical arc of concentration camp societies, laying out how authoritarian governments use violence against both scapegoated commun...

We are in the midst of the deliberate worsening of every aspect of existence. But we don't have to accept it.

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This week, "Next Comes What" considers the enshittification of the world. Andrea Pitzer lays out Cory Doctorow's theory of how the internet got ruined and then e...

Concentration camps using forced labor are alive and well today in America. But there's a lot we can do to put an end to them.

Race nostalgia has infected nearly every political argument made today. A look at what it is and how to stop it.

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This week, Andrea Pitzer considers the prioritization of white South Africans in US refugee policy, noting that they make up literally the only refugees currently being admitted to the United States. She expl...

Why are elected Democrats punishing the very people who voted for them?

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This week's episode tackles the tendency to criticize Democrats when Republicans are the principal drivers of authoritarianism in the U.S.right now. Andrea Pitzer tries to answer the perennial question "What do you want Democrats to...

Four hundred years of propaganda is way too much. Here's how we can push back.

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This week, Andrea Pitzer traces the introduction of the idea of propaganda and its role in nearly everything bad that's being sold...

Wild-eyed extremists running our government have resurrected hateful pseudoscience.

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This week, "Next Comes What" looks at the various ways that the administration has adopted discredited historical views on eugenics and turned them into policies that have already ki...

When times get grim, it's tempting to resort to political violence.   But what if nonviolence packs a bigger punch?     Listen & Subscribe Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/subscribe Full post: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/on-violence Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get podcasts: https://pod.link/1779885475   
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There are a lot of ways to cure our ailing country. Here's how to convince the patient to cooperate.

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A guide to understanding our new concentration-camp era and how to fight it. A re-release of a Next Comes What from July 10, 2025.

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In this episode, Andrea Pitzer lays out the definition of a concentration camp and breaks down each part of...

A look at the ways that lives of tyrants come to an end, and how that might shape what you should be doing now.

Re-release from August 28, 2025.

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A look at the ways that lives of tyrants come to an end, and how that mi...

Actions to take while Andrea takes the rest of April off to finish her next book, SNOWBLIND.

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Movement Call: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention, April 14 https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/932124/ 

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Trump is using deportations to create an international concentration camp system. We need to shut it down.

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This week, Andrea Pitzer looks at third-country deportations of immigrants under Trump—when detainees are forced out of the U.S. but can't be sen...

The movement behind the biggest single-day protest in US history understands that the assignment is to save democracy.

People who aren't already standing up against fascism can be persuaded to. Here's how to reach them without having to embrace hateful policies.

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This week's "Next Comes What" focuses on the work and ideas of Anat Shenker-Osorio. A cogni...

Concentration camps are spreading across the US today. Here's why it matters what we call them.

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This week's episode is a response to Jake Tapper discouraging the use of the term "concentration camp" on CNN while interviewing a bookstore o...

Is there a link between a specific subset of men who resent their exes and everything wrong in the country today?

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The latest "Next Comes What" considers Trump and his lackeys through the prism of being the...

Classic authoritarian tactics reveal what Trump is hoping to do, but they may backfire.

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The US is detaining pregnant children in Texas and limiting their access to health care. We shouldn't tolerate this obscenity.

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Our episode this week looks at events in San Benito, Texas, where pregnant immigrant minors are being detained by t...

Small fixes to ICE brutality can be dangerous, because they run the risk of entrenching what we want to stop.

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The Trump administration is pushing to acquire warehouses to stage mass deportations. But we can bust the concentration camp boom.

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This week Andrea Pitzer talks about the Trump administration's move toward the warehousing of hu...

A sea change is underway. Take heart, and keep going.

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This week's episode focuses on two events from Texas in recent days. The first is the release of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from a detention camp after cou...

Demanding a perfect victim to justify outrage when law enforcement kills someone is a trap we don't have to step into.   Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What and get Andrea's posts first:  https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/subscribe   Read the post that inspired this episode:  https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/the-innocence-trap 
Watch YouTube: https://youtu.be/-z3OVVkJBXM  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@degenerateartnews   This week, Andrea Pitzer considers four recent killings by law enforcement officers responsible for apprehending or detaining immigrants. She goes through the huge outpouring of sympathy after the shootings of Renee G...

The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards. We can end the current nightmare.

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 This week's episode discusses how societies come to concentration camps, and the ways ICE is helping the US to sol...

The US government is attacking its own people (and others), but you don't have to spend your life feeling helpless or marinating in fear and fury.

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Donald Trump is just a symptom of our national disease. We have to--and we can--change the system that coughed him up.

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 This week, Andrea Pitzer focuses on the U.S. attack on Venezuela, looking at what we know, how re...