It Could Happen Here Weekly 233
Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 17K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 230 minutes
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Summary
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- How Trump is Using Election Fraud Claims to Restrict Voting
- Did Donald Trump Ban Buffalo?
- Monopsony, or How You Get Underpaid
- Pop Culture Commodity Warfare @ New York Comic Con
- Executive Disorder: San Diego Mosque Shooting, Trump Settles Lawsuit with Trump
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How Trump is Using Election Fraud Claims to Restrict Voting
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/media/1439301/dl?inline
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/media/1439296/dl?inline
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/media/1439291/dl?inline
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/media/1439286/dl?inline
https://www.michigan.gov/ag/-/media/Project/Websites/AG/releases/2026/April/DOJ-Letter-to-Wayne-County.pdf
https://www.brennancenter.org/media/15517/download/ri-hearing-transcript-2026-03-26.pdf?inline=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/politics/minnesota-trump-voter-rolls.html
Did Donald Trump Ban Buffalo?
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/810541893_202412_990_2025073023621659.pdf
https://gov.mt.gov/_docs/governor/AmericanPrairieProposedDecisionJanuary162026.pdf
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17537.pdf
https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-revokes-american-prairie-bison-grazing-permit
https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/estatetaxfinal.pdf
https://www.blm.gov/about/laws-and-regulations/conservation-and-landscape-health-rule
Monopsony, or How You Get Underpaid
https://archive.org/details/bnarchives_0333
https://strangematters.coop/frederic-s-lee-profile-part-one/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29769757?if_data=e30%3D&seq=1
https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/04/21/g-s1-118071/the-hidden-power-keeping-wages-low
Pop Culture Commodity Warfare @ New York Comic Con
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2018/report-anime-fest@nycc/.137926
https://yattatachi.com/anime-nyc-review-it-begins-anew
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dc-cancels-red-hood-comic-book-series-charlie-kirk-1236368576/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/demon-slayer-infinity-castle-record-box-office-opening-1236370035/
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-strengthens-strategtic-parternship-with-mappa
https://animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/2025-netflix-anime-year-in-review
https://www.diversetechgeek.com/2023-bookstore-graphic-novel-sales/
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/61689/manga-week-comic-stores-pace-manga-growth-2025
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-gunn-superman-immigrant-backlash-response-1236449068/
https://deadline.com/2026/01/kathleen-kennedy-exit-interview-1236665253/
https://www.cbr.com/dc-jim-lee-manga-beats-western-comics/
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-top-media-franchises-by-all-time-revenue/
https://animehunch.com/hideaki-anno-anime-shouldnt-be-made-with-western-audience/
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/11/japan/japan-anime-games-content/
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/politics-government/20251224-300194/
Executive Disorder: San Diego Mosque Shooting, Trump Settles Lawsuit with Trump
Fundraiser: https://goodbricks.org/campaign/icsd.org/official-icsd-victim---family-support-fund
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-talk-about-158456324
https://www.blm.gov/policy/ib-2024-024
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/climate/cyanide-bombs-public-lands.html
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https://x.com/cecelou18/status/2056746877798817830?s=20
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https://www.africom.mil/pressrelease/36568/isis-number-two-killed-in-nigeria
https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/2053890390126665819?s=20
https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/2053889711567970589?s=20
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116602192066577324
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/republican-senators-trump-paxton.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-dismisses-lawsuit-against-irs-court-filing-shows-2026-05-18/
https://www.ft.com/content/57334fae-a475-4ab0-a202-8df3766927e4?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/what-is-behind-bolivias-widening-protests-2026-05-18/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Call Zone Media. |
| 0:07.7 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:08.4 | Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode. |
| 0:12.8 | So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch |
| 0:22.1 | if you want. |
| 0:23.2 | If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new |
| 0:26.3 | here for you, but you can make your own decisions. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a show both things falling apart. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Garrison Davis. |
| 0:38.5 | Today I'm joined by James Stout. Hello. Hi, Gare. I'm excited to see what's falling apart today. Well, that's our |
| 0:45.4 | elections, which have, as we all know, have been rigged for as long as I can remember, which is kind of |
| 0:51.1 | true, considering when I was was born circa the year 2000. |
| 0:56.5 | Oh, yeah, the famous, the great and democratic election of the year 2000 in the United States. |
| 1:02.7 | The flawless election of 2000, yeah. |
| 1:05.5 | But no, we are going to be talking about Trump's continuing claims that the 2020 election was rigged and his investigation |
| 1:13.1 | of election fraud in not just the 2020 election, but also the 2024 election, which if you |
| 1:20.7 | recall, was not rigged against Trump considering Trump won that election, including the popular vote. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, he won every way you could slice that up. |
| 1:32.8 | A sweeping victory. |
| 1:33.9 | Yeah, it was a fat L for the Democrats. |
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