The Empire Never Ended

The Empire Never Ended
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Aug 5, 2024 • 2min

282: Film Club - The Intruder (1962) (teaser)

Roger Corman and William Shatner take on the White Citizens Councils through their fictionalized depiction of John Casper's time in Clinton, TN during the final years of the Jim Crow era in 1962's The Intruder. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Aug 2, 2024 • 2min

281: National States Rights Party pt. 1 - "Out-Hitlering Hitler" (teaser)

Rey begins his study of the National States Rights Party's brutal history. Uniting disparate right-wing organizations like the Klan and the Columbians under increasingly European fascist ideals, the NSRP set the stage for a half-century of fashy freaks to follow. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jul 28, 2024 • 1h 12min

280: Mid-Arc Recap to The Long 1950s

TENE pod pauses at the doorstep of Willis Carto and his Liberty Lobby to collect their thoughts about Arc 5 so far before digging deeper into American fascism's 'Long 1950s'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jul 19, 2024 • 1min

279: Fash Fic Book Club - The John Franklin Letters (teaser)

TENE pod adds Revilo P. Oliver's The John Franklin Letters (1959) to their fash fic library. John Birch Society meets SIEGE in this excruciating predecessor to William Luther PIerce's The Turner Diaries (1978). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 37min

278: Sweet Valle High - Pedro del Valle & Co.

The story of Pedro del Valle: marine, general, and fascist. Seemingly connected with all US fascists, from ANP to the Klan, Pedro was into militias and GLADIO-type stuff before they were cool. Music: David Fesliyan. "In Honor", "Land of Fantasy" Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jun 29, 2024 • 2min

277: Baj Baj, Bajden! (teaser)

TENE pod watches the first presidential debate of this cycle, reflects on old anti-USSR arguments about their dying gerontocracy, and checks in on ex-Yugoslav tabloid coverage of the contest. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jun 27, 2024 • 5min

276: California Reich, 1975 - Where no one will be Home Alone... (teaser)

TENE continues their refresher course on the American Nazi Party by checking in on its successor, the National Socialist White People's Party, through the lens of a 1975 documentary film entitled, California Reich (1975). Reading: Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. By Spencer Sunshine. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jun 22, 2024 • 1h 42min

275: Revilo P. Oliver - the Oldfather of SIEGE

Fritz finally cracks the topic of Revilo P. Oliver, whose nutty ideas connect the mainstream National Review-types of the Cold War to the whackiest communist conspiracy theories of the John Birch Society, as well as the Turner Diaries and even the rudiments of 'SIEGE-culture'. Reading: Matthew Erlich - Dangerous Ideas on Campus (2021) Frank Mintz - The Liberty Lobby and the American Right (1985) Claire Conner - Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right (2013) Music: Air Lock and In Honor by FeslyianStudios.com The Jack Ash Society by Pete Seeger Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jun 13, 2024 • 2min

274: Europe's Fashy Election and Patriot Fail Valuetains Us (teaser)

TENE pod peeks in at the European Parliament election results and then suffers through the PBD Podcast's platforming of Patriot Front's Thomas Rousseau. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Jun 8, 2024 • 1h 33min

273: Legally Blonde - How the U.S. inspired the Nuremberg Laws

The Nazis regularly cited the United States as the key inspiration for their infamous Nuremberg Laws; Rey explains the many reasons why. Reading: Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Whitman Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

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