the last Friday in August, when Congress rushed through Roosevelt’s $5 billion “Total Defense” package to fund the building of a navy capable of defe… - Rachel Maddow

Hitler was counting above all on racism and religious bigotry to carry the day in the United States, and to set the stage for global domination.

I had long blonde hair, but even as a little girl with long blonde hair, I looked like one of the Hanson boys.

The fight here at home in the 1930s and 1940s is a story of American politics at the edge: a violent, ultra-right authoritarian movement, weirdly infatuated with foreign dictatorships, with detailed plans to overthrow the U.S. government, and even with former American military officers who stood ready to lead.