Propaganda of the Deed (Part 2)

Reflector

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Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Political tensions across the country continue to rise. Today, we spoke with protesters who believe the time for debate, peaceful protest, and civil disobedience has passed, asking what they think must now be done to defend their values. From the anti-ICE protests to the fans of Luigi Mangione, we also explore the similarities—and the key differences—between this moment and the anarchist wave that swept America more than a century ago. Check out Propaganda of the Deed (Part 1) if you haven’t listened to it yet. CREDITS: This episode of Reflector was reported and produced by Andy Mills, Ethan Mannello, Eli Cohen, and Matthew Boll Music for this episode was composed by ⁠⁠Cobey Bienert⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠Peter Lalish⁠ Reflector artwork by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jacob Boll⁠⁠⁠⁠ To become a Longview subscriber you can visit us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thank you to our sponsor Ground News. You can visit them here to learn more: ⁠⁠⁠GROUND.NEWS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Andy Mills, and welcome back to Reflector.
0:06.0	Last week, we dove into the largely forgotten chapter in American history where a violent
0:11.5	tit-for-tat emerged between a fringe on the radical left and the government determined to
0:19.4	quash them.
0:20.0	It's set the groundwork for a combustible situation in those decades.
0:24.7	You know, various sort of assassination and bombing campaigns carried out by politically motivated
0:30.1	individuals or by very small revolutionary cadres.
0:34.3	And this created a real opportunity for radical thinking to come in.
0:40.3	And if you've not heard that episode, I would advise you to pause this one right now. Go back and
0:46.4	check it out. Because today, we're going to revisit propaganda of the deed. And once again,
0:52.8	I'm joined by Longview reporter, Ethan Manello. Hello, Ethan.
0:57.1	Hey, Andy. And together, Ethan and I, we are going to share some of the reporting that we've been doing over the last several months, where we have been exploring this question of where there are and where there are not echoes between last week's story and today's fraught political
1:14.5	climate. And, you know, there are obvious parallels between the post-industrial revolution era.
1:19.2	We talked about last time and what we're living through today. Then, just like now, technology
1:24.7	was reshaping everything from the economy to people's social lives.
1:28.2	There was massive amounts of immigration, an increasing wealth gap between the very rich and everyone else.
1:33.7	And of course, then, just like now, there was a rise in radical politics.
1:38.6	And maybe most potently, all of this was accompanied by an outbreak in politically motivated violence. just like what we've been seeing in this growing list of attacks happening recently.
1:50.0	That chart's a couple of months old, and if you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
1:57.3	For example, back in 2024, there were two attempts made by two separate would-be assassins to kill President Trump.
2:07.3	We begin with breaking news in Pennsylvania, where police are searching for an arsonist to set fire to the governor's residence.
2:14.0	In April of 2025, a man in Pennsylvania.
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