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Next Comes What
Author Andrea Pitzer reveals what we can learn from the rise of strongmen around the world to thwart Trump and his allies.
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Next Comes WhatHow We Learn to Beat Fascism
Around the world and at home, a global democratic movement is making huge strides toward freedom and accountability. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's…
Next Comes WhatMaking Trumpers Pay for Their Corruption
People are waking up to the profiteering at the heart of the administration. We can use the resulting fury to build a movement. Support Next Comes What + Get…
Next Comes WhatMillions Against Trump's Clampdown
FIND A NO KINGS OCTOBER 17 VOTE EARLY EVENT NEAR YOU: https://www.nokings.org/ We can send the people pushing fascism on us back into their holes without…
Next Comes WhatThe End of Trump (Is Not Enough)
The roots of everything that ails the country go deeper than Trump, so we need to think beyond November 3rd. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts…
Next Comes WhatWho Dumps Trump?
Authoritarians reveal themselves, even to followers who prefer not to see. And that leaves an opening for change. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts…
Next Comes WhatEvery Dictator Wants You in the Box
Corrupt power will always inflict more harm if it can benefit from that additional suffering. But we don't have to let it happen. Support Next Comes What + Get…
Next Comes WhatIn Trump's America, TV Watches You
Companies and agencies are spying on everyone they can. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/subscribe Read…
Next Comes What21st Century Fascism Is for Losers
Here's how to take on the global right-wing nostalgia for the glory days of fascism. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST…
Next Comes WhatA Movement Bigger Than Hating Data Centers
The data center revolt and the pushback against detention camps have something in common. The public is realizing it has power. Support Next Comes What + Get…
Next Comes WhatWhy You Can't Compromise with Fascists
As elections loom, resist the calls to throw away your moral compass. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST…
Next Comes WhatThe Torturers' Club & The Business of Barbed Wire
To help keep concentration camps from becoming a permanent feature, figure out who's in the torturers' club and who sells the barbed wire. Support Next Comes…
Next Comes WhatBreaking ICE
A panoramic review of immigrant persecution under Trump 2.0 so far and a look at where we are now. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST…
Next Comes WhatStrongmen, Cockroaches, and Flamingos
India and Albania reveal how small protests can transform into big movements, creating possibilities for massive change. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's…
Next Comes WhatBooed, Sued, and Blocked
Every day, people are showing how we can stop Trump's dismantling of our laws and norms by using both to fight back. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's…
Next Comes WhatLittle Gitmos Everywhere
A new U.S. government call for contractors aims to set up a global network of concentration camps, and your representatives likely don't know about it yet…
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Is Trumpism contagious?
Support for authoritarianism can spread person to person, like a disease. Here's how to stop it. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST…
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How NOT to Speedrun a Dictatorship
Trump's goons got the oppression flowchart backward. Now they're trying to fix it, but we can foil their plans. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts…
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Turning the World to $&*%
We are in the midst of the deliberate worsening of every aspect of existence. But we don't have to accept it. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts…
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Private prison profits up 700%
Concentration camps using forced labor are alive and well today in America. But there's a lot we can do to put an end to them. Support Next Comes What + Get…
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White solidarity dooms democracy
Race nostalgia has infected nearly every political argument made today. A look at what it is and how to stop it. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts…
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What should Democrats be doing? NOT THIS!
Why are elected Democrats punishing the very people who voted for them? Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST…
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PropagandA.I.
Four hundred years of propaganda is way too much. Here's how we can push back. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST…
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MAGA's American Eugenics
Wild-eyed extremists running our government have resurrected hateful pseudoscience. Support Next Comes What + Get Andrea's posts FIRST…
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Why Nonviolence Wins
When times get grim, it's tempting to resort to political violence. But what if nonviolence packs a bigger punch? Listen & Subscribe Support Next Comes What +…
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How to Treat a Sick Society
There are a lot of ways to cure our ailing country. Here's how to convince the patient to cooperate. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to…
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RE-UP: What's in a Concentration Camp?
A guide to understanding our new concentration-camp era and how to fight it. A re-release of a Next Comes What from July 10, 2025. Read the post that inspired…
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RE-UP: One Day Trump Will Be Gone
A look at the ways that lives of tyrants come to an end, and how that might shape what you should be doing now. Re-release from August 28, 2025. Get more from…
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Actions to Take and Andrea's Book Break
Actions to take while Andrea takes the rest of April off to finish her next book, SNOWBLIND. Subscribe to support this podcast and get Andrea's posts first…
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Planet of the Camps
Trump is using deportations to create an international concentration camp system. We need to shut it down. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art…
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'No Kings' Is Even Bigger Than It Looks
The movement behind the biggest single-day protest in US history understands that the assignment is to save democracy. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate…
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The Science of Partying Against Fascism
People who aren't already standing up against fascism can be persuaded to. Here's how to reach them without having to embrace hateful policies. Subscribe to…
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What counts as a concentration camp?
Concentration camps are spreading across the US today. Here's why it matters what we call them. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to…
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The Most Divorced Men in History
Is there a link between a specific subset of men who resent their exes and everything wrong in the country today? Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art…
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Trump's trying the authoritarian handbook. Will it break him?
Classic authoritarian tactics reveal what Trump is hoping to do, but they may backfire. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next…
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Trump is sending pregnant girls to Texas. Why?
The US is detaining pregnant children in Texas and limiting their access to health care. We shouldn't tolerate this obscenity. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's…
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Don't Help Trumpism Survive Trump
Small fixes to ICE brutality can be dangerous, because they run the risk of entrenching what we want to stop. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art…
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What do you call warehouses full of humans?
The Trump administration is pushing to acquire warehouses to stage mass deportations. But we can bust the concentration camp boom. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's…
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THIS is What Momentum Looks Like
A sea change is underway. Take heart, and keep going. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What and get Andrea's posts…
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Survival shouldn't require sainthood
Demanding a perfect victim to justify outrage when law enforcement kills someone is a trap we don't have to step into. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate…
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What 'ABOLISH ICE' Should Mean
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards. We can end the current nightmare. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter…
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Finding Your Outside Voice
The US government is attacking its own people (and others), but you don't have to spend your life feeling helpless or marinating in fear and fury. Subscribe to…
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Why This Is Bigger Than Trump
Donald Trump is just a symptom of our national disease. We have to--and we can--change the system that coughed him up. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate…
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This is your brain on propaganda
The tactics Trump allies are using to gin up hate against trans people reveal how propaganda works and why it's so dangerous. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's…
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Shredding Public Knowledge
Why the Trump administration (and a lot of other people) are trying to kill journalism, and what we can do to stop them. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's…
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No one knows exactly what will end Trump
None of us know what exactly will end Trump's rule. But we can keep expanding the possibilities. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to…
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Quiet, Piggy
Trump's denigration of women is part of the authoritarian playbook. Here's how to stop it. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support…
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Update your bingo card
What if you threw a party to transform the country—or at least your little corner of it—and everybody came? Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art…
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Ending Trans Panic
Standing up for trans folks isn't just the right thing to do—which it is!—it's also a way to win elections. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art…
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We won. Now what?
Tuesday was a big day for democracy! But only if we follow through on its promise. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes…
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Why Trump Wants Chaos
Trump's immigration policies may be echoing Nazi history, but that doesn't mean there's nothing we can do about it. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art…
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What NO KINGS Means
Saturday's NO KINGS is the beginning of a movement. Thoughts on what it means and where we go from here. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter…
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How to Spook a Fascist
Our society is descending deeper and deeper into authoritarianism, but hitting the streets this weekend is a good way to push back. Subscribe to Andrea…
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The State of The Degenerate Union
Public apathy is a greater danger to the country than actual oppression in this moment. As our first anniversary approaches, we've gathered the most important…
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You don't have to swallow frogs
If you aren't sure what you stand for, you're going to get played. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What and get…
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Kill this podcast?
What if my telling you there's still time to save democracy keeps you from thinking you need to act now? Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter…
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A Few Bad Men
It only takes a few bad men to ruin scientific progress for everyone. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What and…
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Why Speaking Out Matters
DC shows how to push back against a government clamping down on vulnerable Americans, and how to stand up for what we believe in. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's…
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Why Journalists Ignore Reality
Journalism is reverting to a pre-kindergarten state in the face of Trumpism, but we can still get the word out. Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art…
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One Day Trump Will Be Gone
A look at the ways that lives of tyrants come to an end, and how that might shape what you should be doing now. Watch this episode…
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5 Ways Concentration Camps Close
The ways that concentration camps get closed down and how we can make that happen. Read the post that inspired this episode…