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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Trump has deployed federal agents and soldiers to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

And now on to Memphis, and then he suggests Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, and so on.

Trump is dramatically intensifying police, ice, and military repression.

What does this all reveal about MAGA's fascist and authoritarian project,

and about the illiberalism already imminent in the U.S. carceral and imperialist

state. That's what I discuss with Alberto Tuscano and Stuart Schrader in this two-part

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