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Hey, everybody. This is Jared Yates-Saxton with the Weekender edition of the Muckrake podcast.

We have a special opportunity today.

I had a chance to sit down and talk with security analyst Bryn Tannahill, the author of

American Fascism, How GOP is Subverting Democracy. A really excellent book. I recommend everybody

pick it up. It is a must read, a really good synopsis of the current crisis.

Bren, of course, is a veteran and a security analyst and has a lot of really interesting and important things to say about this current moment of crisis.

So without further ado, Bryn Tannahill.

Hey, everybody.

We have a real treat today.

We have with us, Bryn Tana Hill. Hey, everybody. We have a real treat today. We have with us, Brin Tannahill.

Bryn Tana Hill is a security analyst and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and the Air Force

Institute of Technology with degrees in computer science and operations research, respectively.

She did four deployments as a naval aviators location such as the Adriatic, Middle East,

and the North

Atlantic. We're here today to talk about Bryn's incredibly important new book, American fascism,

how the GOP is subverting democracy. I was lucky enough to do an event earlier this week with

Bren and found her to be uh intelligent and has an incredibly

important prescient message and i uh i was so excited that we got to have another conversation

today uh and to talk about this book but i we were talking right before we started recording

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