Greetings, comrades, and welcome to How the Red was One, a podcast about organizing in the South, Texas, fascism, and How to Fight Back.

I'm your host, Jen Big Nasty, and as usual, I just want to start off by plugging my Patreon.

Shout out to everyone who supports me on that platform.

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podcast. There never will be. I am a regular working person, and it's really helpful if you are

able to financially support this project on Patreon. So thank you so much to those who do.

Today's guest is really a man who needs no introduction,

but I'm going to attempt it anyway. So if you are in the U.S. and even vaguely on the political

left, you have heard this man's voice. Maybe it's on Rev. Left Radio, Red Minnis, Shulis in South Dakota. Maybe you heard him

back in the day on Gorilla History or as a guest on such fine podcasts as Upstream or Prol's Pod.

Shout out to the Prol's Always. It is your friend and comrade, Brett O'Shea. Welcome, Brett. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure. It's an honor. I've been following how the red was won since it came about. Obviously, I think we had been following each other before that. So it was on my, you know, feed and I noticed it, and I've been rooting for you, been loving the stuff you've been pumping out. You're in Texas. I'm up here in Nebraska, so we got the great planes thing going for us. But yeah, very cool to finally be here. Yeah, thank you so much. This is actually technically, I think, the one-year anniversary episode. So I didn't plan that on purpose. I kind of just looked at the calendar and was like, oh, my God, here we are already.

So, yeah, thank you. episode. So I didn't plan that on purpose. I kind of just looked at the calendar and was like,

oh, my God, here we are already. So yeah, thanks for joining for this. So the theme today that I wanted to talk to you about, and maybe over the course of this conversation,

we'll come up with a better title. But a small topic, the state of the American left.

You know, just a casual conversation here.

So that is obviously a whole lot.

And we can get into like the different orgs and the movement in general and what the current

political climate is like for those

of us working on this side of the political spectrum.

But let's start off talking about unions, right?

We are workers and, you know, I think it's really important for the working class to be organized.

And one of the best ways to at least start that is through our unions.

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