Hey everybody. I am releasing this conversation with Sarah Kinseyer as a bonus episode here on the Muckraig podcast. I recorded this for the podcast over at my substack. Dispatches from a collapsing state. The podcast is audio from a collapsing

state. But I thought it was an important conversation that I wanted as many people as possible

to hear, and I thought the McCrack community would be interested in it as well. This conversation, it clarified a few things for me.

You know, Sarah and I have been talking now for years about the threats that we've been

facing and where they were heading if something didn't change.

And lo and behold, we're

looking directly in the face of the consequences of those things not changing. And what I have

decided, as I've been looking at the 2024 election and thinking about the space beyond it is that a little bit different

of a tact is necessary. I love making the muckrake with my friend Nick Alseman and getting

into breaking news and current events and giving them historical context and, you know,

more in-depth analysis.

But also, I want to have a place as well where, much like some of the solo episodes I've done on this show,

I can go increasingly further and further into the subjects at hand, get into some historical

narratives, but also focus more and more on organizing and what we as individuals can do in order

to fight back against what is either going to be an inherently fascistic presidential

administration, creating an occupied state, more or less, that I think a lot of us are scared of,

but also an environment in which things are increasingly growing more authoritarian as it feels

like we do not have representation. And I think

that a new tact is necessary. In that regard, I'm going to be releasing a lot more regular

episodes of audio from a collapsing state over at dispatches from a collapsing state.

If you haven't already check out that substack and consider becoming a paid subscriber to hear those podcast episodes and the work that I'm planning on doing here, including talking about...

I'm working on a project right now and organizing project that I'm really, really excited that's going to take off after the new year.

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