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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This week we dig into a peacoat-wearing QAnon counter-protester and end up unspooling a whole new nest of open fascists. First up: pardoned Jan. 6 figure and proud white supremacist Jake Lang, doing street-theater politics in Washington, D.C. at a “crusader rally,” complete with Nazi posturing, bizarre props, and an argument that quickly devolves into the classic far-right pastime: accusing each other of being FBI. We also track Lang’s later appearance near Minneapolis City Hall, where he and his crew clash with anti-ICE protesters, and where his claims about being “stabbed” don’t line up with what’s publicly verifiable. Then we pivot to a very different attempt at building an “American Reich”: a neo-Nazi “urban wear” merch brand that seemingly springs to life overnight on Instagram. From “Woke Reich” prototypes to explicit Nazi aesthetics, the episode traces the rapid online radicalization of an online creator and how algorithmic attention, engagement, and audience validation can help turn grievance content into an overt extremist identity (with a storefront attached). Content warning: This episode discusses neo-Nazi propaganda and symbolism, antisemitism, racist rhetoric, and political violence. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium QAA episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media and binge the entirety of our new show Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: https://cursedmedia.net Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm
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0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet.
0:36.3	Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium Episode 320 American Reich.
0:42.5	As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky.
0:45.0	Liv Akar.
0:46.1	And Travis View.
0:47.5	Hello.
0:48.4	How is everybody doing today?
0:50.4	I'm good.
0:50.9	I haven't been on any scrolling apps at all. so I've been crocheting, which is nice.
0:58.0	Scrolling today or for the new year in general?
1:01.3	For the last like a couple weeks, which has really helped my attention spend.
1:05.7	Nice.
1:06.2	I've been, yeah, back to crocheting, which it's really just like riding a bike.
1:09.1	You really get into it.
1:10.2	And reading.
1:45.1	I'm in the middle of Lord of the Rings trilogy. Oh, sick. Which is great. It's one of those things that's like so influential that you're like, oh, it's cool that he invented that. And then all the bad things, it's like, you know, the Bourdain quote about Kissinger, like when you go to Cambodia, you'll never want to stop beating Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. It's like, that's how I feel about Tolkien of like the concept of an evil race. Yeah. It's not good. It's probably not a good addition of fantasy. Yeah, I guess, yeah, I guess that is true. And sort of one ring, you know, one ring to rule them all. And people, they've been trying to create this ring ever since. I mean, you know, I think there's still a lot of work to be done, but. He really stole it from play. It's just the ring of gauges from the republic, which is like a ring that's a thought experiment for like, if you didn't have any consequences for your actions, would you still be moral? It's like, yeah, it's an all powerful ring that makes you invisible. Wow. Although it's, it's, it's, the ring is like extra powerful in Lord of the Rings is my understanding. I still don't quite understand what Plato was cooking when he said that you would have no consequences for your actions if you had a ring that turned you invisible, but maybe we're just living a different social world than Plato. Yeah, and it doesn't look like Frodo's having a good time when he goes invisible.
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