One of the problems that my generation, I'm a millennial, we have, is that we tend to focus super online.

You know, local newspapers died after we graduated high school. They just didn't exist anymore.

So we tend to focus on what Washington, D.C. is doing. Congress and Musk and Trump, that's all we

pay attention to. But fascism, when it grows, it grows

in your backyard. It's not a top-down thing. It's also grassroots. So we're encouraging

people to get active, get local, and to go to your school board and make sure the fascists

aren't pulling books out of your libraries because that is how fascism materializes

all across the United States. And that's where each of us individually can make the greatest

impact. Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

The country is an absolute mess. Based on the newest tax bill passed by the Republican House,

we have a government that seemingly doesn't care if we live or die. They will kick us off our health insurance,

out of our jobs, away from our doctors, choosing instead to make the richest among us have more. It's irrational,

illogical, deeply dangerous, and yet many of the people who will be hurt most by these decisions

voted for this government. Instead of being radicalized against these people who steal from them

and will let them starve or die, they have been radicalized against the rest of us because of culture wars and propaganda.

So today we're going to speak to Christopher Goldsmith, an Iraqi combat veteran, investigator and

writer who studies disinformation and domestic extremist movements in America.

Chris is the author of the popular substact on offense with Chris Goldsmith

and one of the host of the Find Out podcast. But we're going to be talking to him today mostly

about his group, Veterans Fighting Fascism, an organization that is part of the Task Force Butler

Institute out here using their military training for democracy rather than insurrection.

So without further ado,

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