Podcast: Long Shadow - Rise of the American Far Right

Spotlight on one of the best podcasts covering the development of the radical right

As we all settle our way back into the post-holiday, work-a-day world, we here at Armed With Reason are still cleaning the coffee maker and trying to find ink for the printer. (Okay, actually we’re shoving the cat off of the laptop.)

So while we gear up for 2024, we thought we’d highlight one of our favorite podcasts — Long Shadow.

GVPedia leader Devin Hughes has said of Long Shadow, “It's an excellent podcast dealing with insurrection and the intersection of pro-gun extremism and hate. It is the podcast that inspired my Turner Diaries article.” That article was one of our Top 10 posts of 2023.

Long Shadow, which premiered in 2021, describes it’s mission this way:

The Ruby Ridge raid, the Waco siege at the Branch Davidian compound, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Jan. 6 insurrection… they are all explosive moments in recent U.S. history. But connect the dots between these—and other—seemingly disparate, violent events, and you’ll answer some of the most existential questions facing the U.S. today: How did America get the far right so wrong? What will it take now to get it right?

So check out Long Shadow here for stories and facts about the slow, insidious rise of the far right in America.

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