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Hey, everyone, Robert here.

The episode you're about to listen to is a keynote speech I gave at a symposium on combating authoritarianism and preserving democracy for the Japanese American

National Museum in Los Angeles, California. So you'll get to hear the speech that I gave them

about what's necessary in order to deal with this new authoritarian way of overtaking the country.

And then there's a Q&A with me afterwards where I sit down with Anne Burroughs,

who's the president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum. She's also an internationally

recognized leader in human rights and social justice. She's a chair on the board of directors

for Amnesty International. She was jailed as a political prisoner for fighting apartheid and her

native South Africa. She's a pretty cool person. prisoner for fighting apartheid and her native South Africa.

She's a pretty cool person. So, that is the episode you're about to listen to.

Our next keynote is going to ask us some difficult truths.

Authoritarianism, as has so often been said, rarely announces itself

all at once. It takes root quietly in policies that silence dissent, in narratives that divide,

and in systems that normalize repression until it feels ordinary.

And when we get to that ordinary point, it's complicity.

So I know that our next keynote is going to challenge us.

We can trust that he will be provocative. We can trust that he

will say some very strong things and it will be fantastic. So without blabbering anymore,

I am going to welcome Robert Evans, who is a journalist and author

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