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Alt Weeklys are an important part of America's media landscape.

It's local reporting from people with a different point of view and different goals.

If you're mad at mainstream narratives, you could do worse than picking up, say, the Inlender

out of the Pacific Northwest.

If you want to know what's really going on there, how worried you should be about budding extremist movements and what role politicians are playing in our current various crises, it's a good place to start. So with us today is Daniel Walters. Walters is an award-winning investigative journalist at the Inlander where he covers right-wing

extremism, politics, maybe just a little bit of pop culture. Daniel, thank you so much for

joining us. Yeah, I appreciate it. All right, so I'll be a little honest with you up here at the top. I must admit that the reason we're having you on the show is that our mysterious producer Kevin DoDell brought your work to my attention after you got into a Twitter spat with Seth Abramson.

Can you tell us, I don't want to focus too much on the beef itself, but I think the story that's at the center of the beef that he was commenting on is actually interesting and

instructive. Can you kind of walk us through what he was looking at and what he was

getting wrong there? Yeah, I guess I guess the first thing is that you know it's kind of

like it's like I made a wish,

say, oh, I wish that I kind of my name, you know, I get invited on a national podcast and then you can

like to hear the monkeys pod.

Because it's like, you know, you never want to like have some argument you have on

Twitter as that's kind of you know my editor certainly wouldn't want that either

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