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Anti Fascist Book Club | To Catch A Fascist - 2026-04-03

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:28:44 GMT

Book In Review

Episode six of the Anti-Fascist Book Club’s reading of Christopher Mathias’ To Catch a Fascist centers on the chapter titled “The Fire Rises,” beginning around page 200, where Mathias traces the accelerationist movement’s path from internet subculture to political mainstream. Nick opens with the book’s account of how figures like Nick Fuentes — once fringe provocateurs whose rhetoric should have disqualified them from public discourse — were welcomed into Trump’s orbit during his first administration. The panel treats this not as history but as diagnosis, connecting Mathias‘ reporting directly to the week’s news: Pam Bondi’s firing as Attorney General, the Epstein Transparency Act violations, and the Supreme Court hearing a case against birthright citizenship.

What makes this episode sharp is the way Nick and Tara refuse to let the book’s analysis sit at arm’s length. Tara draws from Part Two of the book — the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, the doxing campaigns that exposed rally attendees as Republican staffers and military members, and the pattern of those same individuals later being arrested for domestic violence and CSAM. She places these facts against Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” framing, and the contrast does the work Mathias intends: the far right’s sickness isn’t aberrant, it’s structural. Nick extends the argument by connecting the chapter’s cultural analysis to the accelerationist pipeline — how abandoning the cultural space allowed movements like Trad Wives, looks-maxing, and Soft Girl aesthetics to flourish, and how conservative parents who screamed about radicalization were blaming trans people when the actual threat was accelerationist capture of their children.

The episode’s most sustained argument is about gendered power within the fascist apparatus. Nick traces a pattern: every woman removed from Trump’s administration is replaced by a man — Kristi Noem by Markwayne Mullen, Pam Bondi by an as-yet-unnamed male successor. The replacements aren’t just shuffles; they’re escalations. Mullen is described as even more performative than Noem, trading on a false masculinity that American culture is conditioned to accept. Nick connects this to “The Fire Rises” by arguing that accelerationists prefer male figureheads who can perform authority without scrutiny — the “trust me, bro” of fascist governance. The panel insists that while Bondi bears full responsibility for her choices, the systemic patriarchy that positions women as disposable shields for male accelerationists is itself a feature of the movement Matthias documents.

The conversation also addresses the cultural pipeline from rhetoric to policy, tracing how the “they’re eating the dogs” trope — which became viral TikTok content and a meme song — provided the cultural impetus for the Supreme Court to hear a birthright citizenship case. Nick argues this is the accelerationist playbook in action: normalize dehumanizing language through entertainment, then use the normalized hostility as political cover for stripping constitutional rights. Tara reinforces this by noting the double standard in how law enforcement treats right-wing versus left-wing protests, from Charlottesville to Zuccotti Park to January 6th. The episode closes with a live exchange with chat commenters about free speech and hate speech — a microcosm of the very cultural battle the book describes.

This second-to-last episode on To Catch a Fascist arrives at what feels like the book’s operational thesis: awareness without accountability changes nothing. Nick’s call for Bondi’s prosecution under the Epstein Transparency Act, Tara’s insistence that consequences must extend beyond individual scapegoats, and the book club’s standing invitation to start local chapters all point in the same direction — that community-building is not a supplement to anti-fascist action, it is the action itself.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | To Catch A Fascist - 2026-03-27

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:21:40 GMT

Book Club In Review

In the fifth session on Christopher Mathias’ To Catch a Fascist, , , and open with a direct charge for the No Kings rally weekend: stop treating protest as the endpoint. Kristofer framed the Anti-Fascist Book Club as a “social lubricant that becomes social glue” — the goal isn’t just showing up, it’s using those spaces to connect with three people you don’t already know, make concrete plans to meet within a week, and hand them a printed copy of the Veterans Fighting Fascism AFBC leadership guide. The distinction matters: solidarity without community-building is just a feeling. Community-building at scale is democracy itself.

Nick anchored the book discussion in a passage from pages 116–117 on the alt-right’s deliberate targeting of neurodivergent and socially isolated young people. The book documents how the movement weaponized terms like “weaponized autism,” used Discord channels and gaming platforms to build pipelines, and deployed memes, cartoon characters, and pop culture parodies to recruit children in spaces that pro-democracy voices had largely abandoned. Kristofer added a specific mechanism: these communities use self-diagnosed neurodivergence as a rhetorical shield, framing racist behavior as a social processing disorder rather than a moral failure. Nick, speaking from his own experience with ADHD, pushed back directly — a diagnosis explains some things, but it doesn’t transfer your accountability to someone else. That distinction is one of the core tools parents, siblings, and trusted adults need to put in front of young men before the pipeline does.

The conversation moved through the mechanics of radicalization into the harder question Kris raised: what happens when the legal system fails to deliver consequences? He walked through the real cost of pursuing his own case against a neo-Nazi who hand-delivered a death threat to his mother’s home — 18 months, $40,000, and repeated continuances just to get one charge to stick. The process punished him as much as the perpetrator. He put it plainly: he had the man’s address within hours and could have handled it differently if he subscribed to militant antifascism. He’s not endorsing that path, but he’s asking the question honestly, especially as masked federal agents operate with documented impunity and the DOJ blocks FBI investigation into killings. Tara drew the parallel to Hans Litten, the German lawyer who took Nazi street violence to court in the early 1930s and ended up dying in a concentration camp after the regime took power. The lesson isn’t despair — it’s that legal accountability must be pursued aggressively and that the community around those efforts has to be larger than one person.

The episode closed on community as the structural counter to fascism. Tara cited research showing that strong, multiracial local networks are among the most effective documented defenses against authoritarian politics — connected people are harder to isolate and harder to scare. Nick extended that to the practical: take your MAGA-adjacent family members to a city they’ve never been to. Show them culture. Blow their minds in the best way. That work belongs to those of us with the social capital to do it safely — not to the trans people, LGBTQ+ community members, or marginalized groups who are already targeted. With the No Kings rallies the next day, the crew’s unified message was: go, but go with a plan, go to build something, and go to till the garden.

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People, Orgs, and Terms Mentioned

People

Kristofer Goldsmith — veteran, founder of Veterans Fighting Fascism and Task Force Butler, host of On Offense (Valor Media Network); infiltrated Patriot Front
Christopher Mathias — author of To Catch a Fascist; HuffPost journalist; previously appeared on On Offense
Nick Fuentes — named as an example of the alt-right pipeline operating in the open
Hans Litten — German lawyer who cross-examined Hitler and prosecuted Nazi street violence in Weimar Germany; died in a concentration camp after the regime took power
Dylann Roof — white supremacist mass murderer; referenced in context of the “Last Rhodesian” dog whistle and its use in extremist online spaces
Paul Town — subject in the book; a case study in the targeted recruitment of neurodivergent people into white supremacist networks
Renee Nicole Good — the first named victim of masked ICE violence in Minneapolis, MN
Alex Pretti — the second named victim of masked ICE violence in Minneapolis, MN

Organizations / Programs

Veterans Fighting Fascism (VFF) — ’s non-profit organization; hosts the AFBC reading list and leadership guide at veteransfightingfascism.org
Task Force Butler — affiliated organization; resources and gear available at taskforcebutler.org
Patriot Front — neo-Nazi organization Kristofer infiltrated; discussed throughout
Anonymous Comrades Collective — anti-fascist research group cited in the book; documented the targeting of neurodivergent people
Anne Frank Army — Midwest anti-fascist group quoted in the book on the tension between prison abolition and accountability for fascist violence
No Kings Rally — nationwide protests scheduled for March 28, 2026; referenced throughout as the immediate action opportunity
On Offense / Valor Media Network — Kristofer’s podcast and network

Terms / Concepts

Militant antifascism — active, confrontational opposition to fascist organizing; Mathias subscribes to this in the book; the hosts engaged with it honestly without endorsing or dismissing it
Prison abolition — the position that prisons should be eliminated; creates tension for anti-fascists who also want accountability for fascist violence; the book quotes Anne Frank Army on this directly
Neurodivergence — umbrella term for cognitive differences including ADHD, autism spectrum, etc.; discussed in context of recruitment targeting and bad-faith weaponization by extremist communities
Edgelording — transgressive humor used as a gateway to radicalization; described as an appeal to young men’s desire for autonomy and rebellion
The Great Deplatforming — mass removal of alt-right figures from social platforms after January 6th; cited as a brief disruption largely reversed by Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter/X
“Last Rhodesian” — Dylann Roof’s online handle; a dog whistle referencing the white colonial government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); used to signal ideology in plain sight

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Anti Fascist Book Club | To Catch A Fascist 2026-03-20

Banner & Backbone Media — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:29:28 GMT

Book In Review

In the fourth session on Christopher Mathias’ To Catch a Fascist – Nick Paro, Tara Devlin, and Steven Acheson opened with a graphic and necessary reading from page 91 — the documented lynching of Mary Turner in 1918. Nick read the passage aloud with a content warning in place, and the crew used it as an anchor for the entire episode: the violence that built this country’s racial hierarchy was never fully confronted, and its consequences are still being vandalized out of public memory. Tara connected the dots between the removal of Turner’s memorial markers in 2020 and the broader erasure that the anti-DEI agenda now performs under a legal cover that feels more comfortable than a hood.

Steven brought the weight of a veteran’s perspective to the discussion of the KKK’s decline in membership. He pointed to the Rage Against the Machine lyric that crystallized the book’s argument for him — those who once burned crosses are now in the halls of power. Nick built on historian Linda Gordon’s argument from pages 98–99, reading directly from Mathias’s text: the Klan’s most durable victory was not rallies or robes but the Overton Window itself, shifting what passes for acceptable public discourse and encoding white nativist ideology into law. When the ideology is in the statute, the organization no longer needs the membership numbers.

The conversation moved from historical analysis to lived counter-organizing. Steven described blocking Westboro Baptist Church protesters outside a Madison Planned Parenthood by parking his truck on the median — not confrontation, but interference, wasting their time so they couldn’t do worse. Nick and Tara both named the visibility of everyday anti-fascists as a critical force: when your neighbors know who you are and they see that an anti-fascist looks like a normal person, you shift the social landscape. They drew a direct line between community presence, local food systems, CSA farming models, and the parallel infrastructure people need to reduce dependency on corporate supply chains that fascism is currently weaponizing.

The final stretch connected everything upstream. Tara named the Democracy Index downgrade of the U.S. press freedom score. Nick traced the attacks on Iran, fertilizer supply disruptions, and rollback of EV infrastructure as coordinated policy failures that disproportionately hammer the same rural farmers who voted for the administration executing them. The episode closed where it had to: the goal is not simply to stop one man or one party, but to destroy the conditions under which fascism can take root at all — so that the environment that produced a Trump or a Putin cannot re-emerge.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | To Catch A Fascist - 2026/03/13

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:25:23 GMT

Show In Review

In today’s 3rd Anti Fascist Book Club discussion into To Catch a Fascist, we opened not in the book but in Minneapolis — where and had spent the previous week at the AbolishICE Live music event near the Alex Pretti memorial, organized in partnership with the Dropkick Murphys, local bands, , , and anchored by a brass ensemble called Brass Solidarity. What came through in that opening was about the direct lessons learned: Minneapolis is doing anti-fascism in real time, using mutual aid, community kitchens, rent funds, and sustained memorial culture to hold the line against an ICE occupation that has directly damaged the local economy. Kris framed it plainly — every American with the means to do so should plan a trip, support those businesses, and bring lessons home, because ICE is a fraction of its projected size and this is what expansion will look like everywhere.

When the group turned to the book itself, Kris grounded the conversation in the stakes of his own infiltration work. He explained that when he first entered Patriot Front, he assumed the word “Nazi” was being used loosely. It wasn’t — these were people debating national socialist philosophers, using words like “propaganda” and “self-radicalization” without irony, and pursuing genocide as an explicit goal, not an abstraction. Chapter seven’s thesis — that American white supremacy oscillates between masked periods and periods when masks aren’t needed — drove the episode’s central question: are we entering an era when ICE agents, like the Patriot Front members before them, feel socially and legally invulnerable enough to operate in the open? Kris argued that federal pardons cover federal law, which means state and local governments are the only remaining mechanism for accountability — and most of them are not stepping up — yet.

named the structural problem enabling all of this: the paradox of tolerance. A society that extends liberal protections to movements whose explicit goal is genocide isn’t being principled — it’s being cowardly. She connected the normalization of fascist aesthetics and rhetoric to the failure of corporate media to draw clear lines, while pointing out that trans people are now being targeted in precisely the sequence the early Nazi regime used: first strip legal identity, then restrict movement, then remove the ability to vote. The Kansas driver’s license law came up as a concrete, present-day example of that sequence in action. Tara and Kris both pressed that the debate should never have been about what Trump said after Charlottesville — it should have been about the country refusing to tolerate Nazis at all.

joined late in the discussion, bringing a rural Wisconsin ground-level view that sharpened the local organizing argument. An Army veteran, former organic farmer, and current local school board candidate, Steven talked about what it actually looks like to build community trust in a town of 800 where you weren’t born — coaching youth sports, being intentional about the language used with kids, finding common ground before introducing harder conversations. He pushed back on the idea that Wisconsin is a red state, describing it instead as a blue state gerrymandered into losing. His enthusiasm for gubernatorial candidate — the only explicit democratic socialist in the race — closed the episode on a concrete electoral note: education funding, fair maps, and candidates who know their communities from the inside are where the work connects local resistance to statewide change.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | To Catch A Fascist - 2026/02/27

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:45:11 GMT

Book Club In Review

This week on ’s Anti-Fascist Book Club — , , and continued our discussion of To Catch a Fascist, by — and our most important takeaway is this:

The extremist movement in America is not fringe. It is organized.

For years, too many of us dismissed (and continue to dismiss) neo-Nazi and accelerationist groups as scattered, unorganized street thugs. But as put it during our discussion:

“This book is everything I have wanted people to know for like five years.”

We reference both Chris and Kris’ reporting and experiences — showing how deeply networked these groups are, how they self-radicalize online, how they infiltrate institutions, and how they deliberately structure influence pipelines. Doing so brings our discussion through

The radicalization pipeline in the “manosphere”,
How extremist groups deliberately consume propaganda to harden ideology,
Why law enforcement often cannot — and should not — infiltrate these spaces without cause,
The role of citizen investigators, and
The normalization of white nationalist policy at higher levels of power.

One of the most important themes we returned to was masculinity. These movements rely on a masked and performative masculinity — cosplaying strength while hiding behind pseudonyms, avatars, and coordinated anonymity. We confront it with transparency because the fight against fascism is cultural, digital, and institutional — and this book forces us to stop pretending otherwise.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | To Catch A Fascist - 2026/02/20

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:08:26 GMT

Where We Begin

This week and begin our reading and discussion into To Catch A Fascist — Christopher Mathias’ highly insightful “investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascists groups working to expose and stop these hateful factions” (Simon & Schuster).

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Anti Fascist Book Club | Strongmen - 2026/02/06

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:50:39 GMT

Book Club In Review

This final discussion into ’s authoritative study, Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present, brings together the ’s panel — , , , and — for a conversation centered on how modern fascist movements weaponize masculinity, impose subservient femininity, hijack culture, and overburden bureaucracy — and how those systems ultimately collapse and fail when met with sustained, decentralized resistance. We connect ’s historical framework to our present-day, immediate threats: voter suppression efforts like the SAVE Act, the normalization of paramilitary intimidation, and the laundering of authoritarian cultural narratives through “trad-wife” and “soft-girl” aesthetics. Our conversation emphasized that fascism and authoritarianism don’t end on their own — they are dismantled through organized, coordinated, local, persistent pressure that imposes real social, legal, and political costs.

What Comes Next?

Next week we begin our reading and discussion into To Catch A Fascist — ’ highly insightful “investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascists groups working to expose and stop these hateful factions” (Simon & Schuster).

Buy the book directly from the publisher: To Catch A Fascist

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Anti Fascist Book Club | Strongmen - 2026/01/23

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:10:24 GMT

Book In Review

Today’s Anti Fascist Book Club with , , , and explored how strongmen use virility myths and fabricated national origins to legitimize and consolidate rule. Drawing from Chapters 6-8 of ’s authoritative study, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, our discussion examined how authoritarian leaders (and movements) use false, staged masculinity; sexual dominance; and ‘rebirth’ narratives to mask weakness, justify repression, and bind personal power to national identity.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | Strongmen - 2026/01/16

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:06:09 GMT

Book Club in Review

This week’s Anti Fascist Book Club moves from how “strongmen” rise to how they rule. Using Chapters 4 and 5 of Strongmen by , the discussion between , , , and special guest , we examine propaganda, corruption, gendered violence, and repression as interconnected systems — not excesses. We emphasize that authoritarian power is maintained through narrative control, normalized brutality, and elite complicity — and that recognizing and understanding these systems is essential in resisting them.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | Strongmen - 2026/01/09

Banner & Backbone Media — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:00:55 GMT

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Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis—an act that has sparked national outrage and made clear to many people sitting on the sidelines that it’s past time to pay attention. Less than 24 hours later, Border Patrol agents shot two people during a traffic stop in Portland…

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We Need to Renew Our Commitment to Finding Unity With Our Neighbors

Walter Rhein — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:20:56 GMT

Hello Everyone! I’m of and I thought I’d share a suggestion for the anti-fascist book club. Loretta Ross is an amazing speaker, writer, and anti-white supremacy activist. In this book, she talks about the years she’s spent sitting across the table from Klansmen, rapists, and other individuals who have been corrupted by an ideology of cruelty. She’s taken the time to learn how they think, and her observations on how to confront the further spread of hatred are exactly what we need today. This book is not an example of the passive pressure you hear from corporate democrats who lecture us we have to “meet them in the middle.” Instead, this is a real deal narrative from a person who has been in the trenches and endured the worst aspects of humanity. Somehow she emerged as an even better person, and I have all the admiration in the world for Loretta Ross.

You’ll find this is a non-traditional book review. I’ve written it in a conversational style so it feels more like an article than a book promotion. Over the years, I’ve found that’s the best way to generate interest in a book. But please, don’t take my word for it. Get this book. Get the audio book and listen to it. There are strategies in there we NEED in this moment, and these are words that will provide comfort—WR.

The Review

I’ve come to think of my life as a quest. I don’t have all the answers. But sometimes, I get a sense of the direction I need to take in order to find them. Along the way, I pick up little nuggets of information that help provide clarity to the overall message the universe brought me into existence to understand.

It can be a struggle to learn how to adopt a mindset that will help unify a community in pursuit of a common goal. Often, we allow minor disagreements to blow up out of proportion, and that undermines our ability to work together.

Calling In by Loretta Ross also wrestles with these dilemmas. In reading her book, I got the sense that Ross is a fellow traveler on a parallel quest. Throughout the decades, through hardship and in celebration, she’s picked up her own precious fragments of information. She shares them in this kind and engaging book, and I feel her words have empowered me to become much more effective in my own journey.

It’s a book that brings me comfort. It’s a book that leaves me inspired. For those gifts, I feel both grateful and renewed.

My conversation with Loretta Ross

I came across Loretta Ross at a time of personal struggle. I’d recently endured several traumas that had left me feeling bitter over the depths of cruelty to which people can descend. Slowly, I’d been making my way through stages of depression that involved anger and denial. Ms. Ross’s appearance was like a guiding light.

One morning, her name appeared in my inbox. I clicked on the message to find that she wanted to congratulate me on one of my articles. She requested my phone number so that we could schedule a conversation.

Giving out my phone number is not something I normally do, but I suspect the universe had arranged this encounter for a reason. Above all, I am a student of words. Some words contain power that can’t be explained even by somebody like me.

Ross’s email radiated kindness. In a world of AI writing, her words were as organic as if they’d been formed into the bark of a tree. Captivated by the power of that sentiment, I gave her my number.

Humanity and grace

Ross called me a few days later and said exactly what I needed to hear. She told me I was doing good work. She said she believed in reaching out to encourage the positive behavior we want to see, and I felt extremely honored by this.

I’ve thought about that conversation often in the intervening years. We should never forget the enduring impact we can make by simply taking the time to stop and say, “Good work.”

Quoted in a major release

I discovered that Ross’s book had been released through my email. I set a Google Alert to send a message whenever my name appears in the media. This is a useful journalism trick that will keep you informed about important topics that tend to fly under the radar.

The notification sent me to an article in Ms. Magazine that revealed I’d been quoted in Calling In by Loretta Ross. The book was released by Simon and Schuster in February of 2025.

I immediately grabbed an audio copy, and listened to it during some long and reflective workouts on my cross-country skis. Ross reads the audio version herself. The book brought me a lot of relief during a time of anxiety.

In many ways, Calling In is the exact book the world needs right now.

How do we transform conflict into connections?

Calling In is a discussion on the most effective tactics for reaching out and understanding the people who don’t share our viewpoints. It walks you through clear and tested examples, and it provides a framework for creating unity and overcoming division.

Loretta Ross’s story is remarkable, and she shares it with heartbreaking honesty. She details how she survived various assaults that threatened to leave her life in shambles. But she didn’t allow these events to define her, and has managed to harvest a level of wisdom few people attain.

Ross details how she received a letter from a man who had formed an anti-rape group in prison. He reached out to her for help, and although her first impulse was to throw the letter into the trash, she eventually agreed to go.

The meetings with that man and others went on for years, and Ross began to develop her sense of how to cultivate an internal sense of decency in others.

Outreach is more productive than anger

When we’re hit by emotional triggers, it’s easy to lash out in anger. Ross details one instance where a colleague made a dismissive comment about the concept of Reproductive Justice.

The United States medical industry has long sterilized Black women at a disproportionate rate. Ross’s activism includes raising awareness about the true extent of this issue.

Rather than respond with anger to the careless comment of her colleague, Ross managed to regain control of her emotions and explain the facts about the issue. In doing this, she was able to transform her colleague into an ally.

The time for positive activism is now

Ross emphasizes that we shouldn’t delay our activism until the moment we find others who are in complete agreement. If we do that, we’ll never get started.

Instead, we have to form alliances with people who don’t completely share our beliefs. We have to see that they are our allies, and that as we move forward together, we’ll understand and accept each other more effectively.

Too often we fall into the habit of categorizing everyone we meet as either friend or foe. The reality of this diverse and beautiful universe is that things are much more complex.

Every individual we meet has both the capacity for good and the capacity to inflict harm. We are surrounded by individuals who are in the throes of conflict and subject to the destructive power of malicious influence.

We have to remember that they, too, are seeking a way out.

Guidance to help us find a way forward

Calling In details various effective strategies for forging positive connections. She uses clear, relatable, and captivating examples. Ross has endured things in her life that would have broken most people. Yet, she has emerged from these experiences as a compassionate and understanding human being. This book provides the exact guidance that I didn’t even realize I needed.

We have to become sources of inspiration that will help encourage the people around us to cultivate all the good they have to offer. Of all the books I’ve read recently, I feel Calling In offers the clearest explanation of a model for success. It features ideas I’ve already adopted, and many others that were new to me. It provided further understanding even about some subjects I thought I knew very well.

Overall, I’m most impressed by the compassion and kindness that radiates from the pages. There is always a shortage of these emotions in the world, so it’s a delight to come upon a source. Calling In gives me hope that there is a way that we can get through to our neighbors, and our friends, and the people who disagree with us. We can overcome our differences and find a way to work together in pursuit of a society that offers compassion, prosperity, health and love for ourselves and our children.

After all, isn’t that what everyone wants?

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Anti Fascist Book Club | Strongmen - 2025/12/19

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:37:35 GMT

Book Club in Review

Today’s Anti Fascist Book Club (AFBC) — with , , and — returns for their 2nd discussion into ’s authoritative study, Strongmen: From Mussolini to Present, while discussing Chapters 1 and 2 — the chapters that explain how authoritarianism actually begins. Not with tanks in the streets, but with patterns.

From the opening moments of the episode, our discussion reflected the emotional and political weight Ben-Ghiat describes: exhaustion, anger, grief, and a sense that the world feels permanently “on fire or underwater.” That collective mood is a feature of authoritarian systems — one Ben-Ghiat identifies early on as a tactic, not a coincidence.

Exhaustion and burnout is a feature, not a bug.

Strongmen and the Cult of Personality

Several speakers returned to Ben-Ghiat’s analysis of early strongmen—particularly her discussion of Mussolini—as an example of how personal pathology meets institutional opportunity. The team emphasized that strongmen are rarely political geniuses; they are enabled by systems willing to overlook violence, instability, and cruelty in exchange for power or perceived order. This relates back to a quote from George Orwell’s 1984, where he introduces the Party’s slogan:

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

These themes resonated throughout the team’s conversation: fascism doesn’t succeed because one person is dangerous, but because elites, media, and political institutions decide to accommodate them.

That lesson became especially relevant as speakers discussed modern figures whose incompetence is often underestimated, even as their systems grow more sophisticated.

Cruelty Is the Point

A major thread of the show echoed one of Ben-Ghiat’s clearest lessons from Chapters 1–2: cruelty is not accidental — it is the point.

The team talked about how authoritarian movements rely on unrelenting cruelty to exhaust the public, fracture solidarity, and normalize abuse. This cruelty manifests itself through threats, harassment, disinformation, or institutional bullying, cruelty serves to signal dominance and discourage participation. Note how wasn’t in the beginning of the discussion because he was on the phone with the FBI after a threat was made against his and his family’s lives.

The team noted that disengagement — often framed as self-care — is precisely what these systems are designed to produce. Ben-Ghiat’s work helped reframe burnout as a political outcome, not a personal failure.

Undermining Trust to Consolidate Power

Our discussion also dove deeply into Ben-Ghiat’s warning about the erosion of democratic trust. The team debated how strongmen hollow out institutions by attacking elections, media credibility, and the rule of law — all while still maintaining the appearance, or illusion, of democracy.

The team focused in on the need for precision — with out language and actions — because defending democracy requires strengthening trust without denying real institutional failures. Strongmen thrive in chaos and cynicism, but blind faith is not the answer either. We highlighted that transparent systems, accountable institutions, and active civic participation is how we go on offense for the cause of reclaiming democracy.

Class Solidarity vs. Authoritarian Loyalty

One of the clearest connections to Strongmen came through the discussion of class solidarity. Ben-Ghiat describes how strongmen redirect economic anger away from systems of extraction and toward scapegoats, replacing shared class solidarity with loyalty to a single masculine figure.

The team stressed that resisting this requires a horizontal alignment of people — recognizing shared struggles across political and cultural divides. We framed this not as abstraction, but as the learned lesson for organizing: fascism fractures communities; democracy depends on rebuilding them.

“You Are the Institution”

The team closed there discussion by returning to a theme implicit throughout Ben-Ghiat’s early chapters: authoritarianism advances when people wait for someone else to intervene — or more simply put, we are the change we’ve been waiting for.

We emphasized that institutions are only as strong as the people willing to defend and reclaim them. Journalism, legal accountability, local organizing, mutual aid, and civic engagement were framed as acts of patriotism — not heroics, but responsibilities.

The overall takeaway from today: there is no one coming to save us — we have to go on offense for democracy ourselves.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | Strongmen - 2025/12/12

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:48:00 GMT

Book Club in Review

On today’s Anti Fascist Book Club (AFBC), welcomes on our panel — , , , and — to begin their discussion into the 3rd book on the Veterans Fighting Fascism’s reading list — Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. Strongmen is ’s landmark study into authoritarianism. The AFBC team explores how modern strongmen — from Mussolini to Trump — use carefully crafted personas of virility, rampant corruption, propaganda, and cooperation of the elites to consolidate power. The team connects these themes to current U.S. political dynamics — focusing in on Abrahamic Nationalists, tech-billionaires and the elites, and the erosion of democratic norms.

The major takeaway from today’s discussion: authoritarianism is not a single leader — it is a system. It spreads through the merging of political and personal identities, capturing the media infrastructure and distribution mechanisms, and the deliberate creation of instability — yet, authoritarianism is historically fragile. Strongmen fall when communities organize, effectively message, and reclaim democratic power at the local level.

The AFBC’s mission reflect this truth: we are building networks of informed, connected, and active citizens who will break the authoritarian cycle. Patriotism is both knowledge and action — this path forward requires long-term thinking, authentic leadership, and being courageous by telling and creating a better national story.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | On Tyranny - 2025/12/05

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:16:18 GMT

Show Notes

Today on the Anti Fascist Book Club, our panel — , , , and — dive into the final 3 chapters of ’s On Tyranny.

Before jumping into the main discussion, the team took some time to go over ’s latest article where the team goes over the importance of doing our own, good journalism to bring easily digestible information to everyday citizens.

In the main discussion, the team goes into depth on the importance of:

Being calm (and well informed) in the event of a terrorist event — as Snyder describes, fascism takes hold and advantage of managed terror events.
Being a patriot — acknowledging that the work and efforts you are doing are patriotic because you are actively taking part in and being for democracy.
Being courageous and willing to put yourself in spaces you have previously been afraid to fill — now is the time to make small acts of creativity and community building a habit — get comfortable being uncomfortable because you’ll be living in that state for a while.

What comes Next?

Next week, 12/12 at 12:30pm ET, the team begins their discussion into ’s Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.

Sneak Peek

Awesome surprise at the end from as he announces, secret to you 🤫, a new addition to the Veterans Fighting Fascism webpage… and have been busy working on new books for the reading list, now there is an entire playbook and learning series from Kris is now out — How to be Antifa.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | On Tyranny - 2025/11/22

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:28:58 GMT

Show Notes

Today’s episode of the ’s Anti Fascist Book Club with , , and , is a deep dive into chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17 of ’s On Tyranny.

14. Establish a private life

It’s creating a meaningful and purposeful separation on public and private activity — it’s using our resources to offer collaborative tools and services that ensure our creators and friends are receiving the best tools for personal and familiar security.

15. Contribute to good causes

It’s about making a meaningful and repeated contribution to causes you, personally, find important. Those causes can and should include your favorite independent media networks and creators. Those causes can and should include your favorite charitable organizations.

16. Learn from peers in other countries

Take the lessons from countries which have fallen to totalitarian, authoritarian, dictatorial, and fascist governments. Learn the failings that led to the fall of the previous governments. Learn the lessons that led to overcoming those failures.

17. Listen for dangerous words

It’s pitting the masses against one another through targeted words, like terrorist and extremism, meant to evoke fear and danger — it’s taking the meanings of those words to consume and abuse powers. Our lesson is to take that power away through the proper usage of words — it’s flooding the zone with pro-democracy, pro-constitutional, and pro-freedom messaging.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | On Tyranny - 2025/11/14

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:29:17 GMT

Show Notes

Today’s AFBC continues the discussion into ’s On Tyranny with a deep dive into chapters 11, 12, and 13. The panel — , , , , and — spend the majority of the discussion talking about the importance of investigation, doing your own journalism, and applying those practices to in-person interactions.

This is turning words into actions — it’s going on offense — it’s actively engaging in community building through personal relationships and authenticity.

It’s the community — you all are turning your words into actions by being involved, engaged, willing to learn, and spreading that knowledge to others.

Knowledge is power; however, that is only half the battle — power is useless without direction. We at — with the support of our colleagues and community — offer a pro-democracy, pro-dignity, pro-life, pro-freedom direction to restore integrity, service, and ethics into U.S. society.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | On Tyranny - 2025/11/07

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:21:26 GMT

Show Notes

On today’s episode of ’s Anti Fascist Book Club, featuring , , , and , the team continue their deep-dive discussion into ’s On Tyranny. This conversation focuses in on chapters 8-10 — Stand out, Be Kind To Our Language, and Believe In Truth.

The Full Discussion

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Anti Fascist Book Club | On Tyranny - 2025/10/31

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:40:02 GMT

Show Notes

Today’s episode is the next in our deep dive into the lessons outlined in ’s book, On Tyranny. The focus is on chapters 6 and 7 — Be wary of paramilitaries and Be reflective if you must be armed — and the team brings together a highly pertinent discussion on the paramilitary being created in the U.S. as the government remains shut down. These efforts are focused on bankrupting and closing all social programs which support a nation’s populace — creating an environment of desperation where the only option is to “join President Trump’s D.C. Task Force” — a paramilitary under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security.

This “task force” is specifically targeted as “Trump’s D.C. Task Force” — it is marketed as a video game. Visit safedc.gov to see the propagandized webpage. There is a lot to unpack with this propaganda; however, the team at are not backing down — we are going to take peaceful and patriotic actions through coordinated, online team + live chat events.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | On Tyranny - 2025/10/24

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:00:15 GMT

Show Notes

On today‘s Antifascist Book Club, our panel — , , , , and — continue their deep dive into ’s book On Tyranny with a conversation into the lack of accountability within a single-party state, the understanding that the U.S. does not have free or fair elections, and going on offense is the only way to stop authoritarianism in its tracks.

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Anti Fascist Book Club | On Tyranny - 2025/10/17

Banner & Backbone Media — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:20:53 GMT

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