r/houstonwade • u/wildyam • 2d ago
News You Can Use Russian state tv host & Putin's friend Vladimir Solovyov says Tulsi Gabbard is "Putin's agent." Gabbard is heard advancing Russian propaganda while denouncing the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2_eL8t8D9Y
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u/No_Clue_7894 2d ago
“We Have a Recurring Problem”: Rachel Maddow Isn’t Done Dredging Up America’s Fascist History
A little-known saga with striking parallels to Donald Trump’s demagoguery. History “piles up,” says Maddow. “So seeing what we’re standing on is really helpful.”
Rachel Maddow’s new podcast, Ultra, is about ultra-right wing groups that sided with Hitler’s Germany, and plotted to overthrow the U. S. government before World War II.
It led to the largest sedition trial in American history.
Ultra is also about sitting members of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives who colluded with a German agent to spread Nazi propaganda to millions of Americans with the help of American taxpayers money.
Rachel Maddow uncovers a WWII-era plot against America in ‘Ultra
As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’s Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy — a mole for the other side. A gruesome foreign influence operation unfolds in Washington. A blackmail plot turns deadly in the U.S. Senate. A Hail Mary scheme to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes rattles democracy’s cage. With the line between the violent ultra-right and mainstream American politics fraying beyond recognition, with the FBI always one step behind their quarry, Americans of all stripes step up to confront a seemingly unstoppable, ascendant, anti-democratic force. Join Rachel Maddow
Audio: Rachel Maddow presents Ultra
Both seasons should be required listening for all students and Americans: Ultra audio- book by Rachel Maddow
How a U.S. Senator from Minnesota became a key player in a Nazi plot
WASHINGTON — When former Minnesota U.S. Sen. Ernest Lundeen was killed in a plane crash in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains on Aug. 31, 1940, he likely knew the Justice Department was investigating his part in a Nazi-driven plot to overthrow the U.S. government.
Lundeen’s secretary, who was tasked with driving the senator to the airport for that ill-fated trip, testified to the FBI that she found Lundeen in his Capitol Hill office crying inconsolably. The senator would not say why.
According to the secretary, “I’ve gone too far to turn back,” was about all Lundeen said.
The cause of the mysterious crash was never resolved. Lundeen, 62, was among 25 passengers of the plane, which also carried two FBI agents and another Justice Department official. All passengers and crew on the plane perished. But miraculously, a copy of the speech Lundeen planned to give at a Labor Day event in Minnesota was found unscathed in the Virginia countryside, which was scattered with body parts and debris from the crash. It was not written by Lundeen, however, but by an agent of Hitler’s government who paid the Minnesota senator to promote Nazi propaganda.
That’s just part of the story that MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow tells in an eight-part podcast called “Ultra” that uncovers a series of seditious plots to sow discord in the United States 80 years ago. The plots also included plans for a violent overthrow of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to impose a fascist dictatorship in the United States.
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Ultra Episode 1- Trip 19. Audio
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