[last updated July 2024]

February 2021 Intro:
Starting with the Capitol takeover, January has been an exceedingly busy month for me. So in the spirit of cutting corners, there's no new original essay this month. But what i have been doing is compiling (mostly for my own gratification) a list of recorded appearances I've made over the last decade, including radio, podcast, internet videos, and TV. I'm still missing a few but below is a list.

The interviews are often a big time-suck, pretty draining (I finally had to admit to myself), and mostly unpaid - so they are one of the things that your Patreon donations help me continue to do. (Also I am happy to give talks to activist groups - so if you'd like me to do one, just reach out.)

From the list below, here are my most memorable recorded talks, in reverse order. If any of the links are broken, please tell me so I can update them.

Of the slew of interviews I did this month, i liked the 12 Rules for WHAT? and Building Bridges the most, albeit for different reasons. Before that, I did a number of talks to promote 40 Ways to Fight Fascists. My favs were Sh!tstack with Jared Holt, and the long talk I had with Dan from the Internet on Power Report (where he is totally blown away to find out about QAnon and Nazis in yoga circles).

Of the made-for-internet videos, the Splinter one is by-far-and-wide my most on the ball. Three arrows down.

After Charlottesville, I did some programming at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. I gave introductions to each of the three presentations: the conference on Yiddish anarchism, a panel on Bundism today, and a talk by Chip Berlet and Talia Lavin.

My two interviews with Mark Thompson - one two days before Charlottesville, and the others two days after, today have a certain eerie quality to them. Of the other interviews directly after Charlottesville, The Grio is the best.

There are also three other pre-Charlottesville standouts. One is the presentation I did on the "Far Right in New York City." Even tho it happened two months before Charlottesville, it was considered an audacious event to admit the Far Right was active in the city; comparatively few people came. Afterward, of course, opinions changed.

At the very beginning of the Trump regime, I appeared on the Submedia show Trouble; the episode was called "Bash the Fash." When it came out I was really taken aback to find out that I was the only person not wearing a mask and who used their full name!

Last, there is a 2010 interview with the (now infamous) Rose City Antifa, on left-wing antisemitism. Despite the fact that it's the worst delivery of the bunch (it took me a long time to be comfortable giving talks), it keeps getting rediscovered and recirculated by different folks.

I hopefully you find something to enjoy here. I will return to a regularly scheduled essay or video next month.

—spencer—

///// 2024 ///// 

"98 - Siege And Its Fanboys w/ Spencer Sunshine," 12 Rules for WHAT, July 29, 2024
https://soundcloud.com/12rulesforwhat/98-siege-and-its-fanboys-w-spencer-sunshine

“Club Integral Radio Show - 17 July 2024,” broadcast on Resonance FM (recorded June 19, 2024)
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/club-integral-radio-show-17july-2024/

“A Book Talk with Spencer Sunshine,” July 9, 2024, Program on Extremism at GWU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQf1FIgrwK8&list=PLFEFvQljX0EZdeLC8qK3kntRMmo1bjxU9

“Neo Nazi terrorism and countercultural fascism,” July 4, 2024 (recorded June 20, 2024), Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYW-hhzF3nk

YIVO, "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism," May 30, 2024
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjtC7q2iMv8

Did Nothing Wrong, "Episode 140 - Part 2-Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Cultural Fascism w/Spencer Sunshine," May 27, 2024
www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/episode-139-part-2-neo-nazi-terrorism

Slackbastard, "Dr Spencer Sunshine on Neo-Nazi Terrorism," May 23, 2024
www.3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasaran/episode/dr-spencer-sunshine-neo-nazi-terrorism

Death // Sentence, "Spencer Sunshine - Countercultural Fasism and Neo-N*zi Terrorism," May 22, 2024,
https://soundcloud.com/death-sentence-pod/spencer-sunshine-countercultural-fasism-and-neo-nzi-terrorism

"Boyd Rice: Neo-Nazi Collaborator," May 21, 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iu2uV9rVGg&t=38s

Did Nothing Wrong, "Episode 139 - Part 1 -Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Cultural Fascism w/Spencer Sunshine," May 20, 2024 [part 1 of 2]
www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/episode-139-part-1-neo-nazi-terrorism

VNM, May 19, 2024, "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s/Siege – by Spencer Sunshine"
www.vermontmovementnews.org/2024/05/20/neo-nazi-terrorism-and-countercultural-fascism-the-origins-and-afterlife-of-james-masons-siege-by-spencer-sunshine/

Background Briefing, May 14, 2024
https://kpfa.org/episode/background-briefing-may-14-2024/

"Nazis of Color," YouTube, March 12, 2024 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63RYJ4mhJhs

///// 2023 /////

Did Nothing Wrong, "Episode 115 - Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism (With Spencer Sunshine)," December 11, 2023
https://www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/episode-115-neo-nazi-terrorism-and

TheLoopcast, "Mainstream Politics and White Nationalism," December 10, 2023,
https://www.theloopcast.com/e/mainstream-politics-and-american-white-nationalism
if you prefer on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1dMMqY2p76n1LtpH23itUY

Talkies, Kris Welch on KPFA, September 15, 2023
https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=407662

Background Briefing with Ian Masters, "Threats of Civil War from a U.S. Congressman," August 14, 2023, https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael, "The Texas Mall Shooting and the Phenomena of Nazis of Color w/ Spencer Sunshine and Isaac," August 8, 2023, https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/sunshinei/

Public Research Podcast,"Spencer Sunshine - History and Future of the Far Right (Ep. 4)," June 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYeOahHkM6Ua

It Could Happen Here, "Stories of Armed Community Defense," February 8, 2023
Special hosts It's Going Down
https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/stories-of-armed-community-defense

///// 2022 /////

The Absolute State of the Far Right - Part II, Left Coast Right Watch July 29, 2022
https://shows.acast.com/the-absolute-state/episodes/the-absolute-state-of-the-far-right-part-ii

The Absolute State of the Far Right - Part I, Left Coast Right Watch
July 23, 2022
https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/podcast/the-absolute-state-of-the-far-right-part-i

A Public Affair, WORT-FM 89.9FM
"The Buffalo Shooting, In Context"
May 26, 2022
https://www.wortfm.org/spencer-sunshine-buffalo-shooting

It's Going Down
"Spencer Sunshine on the Continuing Intersections of the GOP and the Insurgent Far-Right"
February 24, 2022
https://itsgoingdown.org/spencer-sunshine-gop-far-right

Failed State Update
"Spencer Sunshine on Oath Keepers, militias, and left antisemitism"
January 26, 2022
https://roundtable.io/failed-state-update/podcasts/spencer-sunshine-oath-keepers-militias-antisemitism

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
"Seditious Conspiracy" Charges Against the Oath Keepers and Their Plans to Hold the Capitol,"
January 17, 2022
https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/seditious-conspiracy-charges-against-the-oath-keepers-and-their-plans-to-hold-the-capitol

///// 2021 /////

"Nazism, neo-Nazism and Music"
introduction to panel, with Luca Signorelli, Shannon Foley Martinez, Kirsten Dyck and Edward B. Westermann
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC
November 17, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgCWG_n8Peg&list=PLFEFvQljX0EZdeLC8qK3kntRMmo1bjxU9&index=20&t=3763s

Nazi Lies Podcast
"Ep. 2: No Fascist USA? The American Nazi Party"
May 2021
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nazi-lies-podcast-ep-2-no-fascist-usa-american-nazi/id1566592852?i=1000520691513

“Leftists on Left-Wing Antisemitism”
introduction & panel moderator
with Sina Arnold, Shane Burley, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Joshua Leifer
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC
May 4, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6xXC7imk0A

Vice, Super Users show
"I’m the Victim of a Far Right Conspiracy Theory | Super Users"
February 17, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cARtkJQj34E

Reach Out America
"Reach Out America Presents Guest Speaker Spencer Sunshine"
Zoom presentation, uploaded Feb 15, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYwfxHdgUc

Upfront with Jeannine Etter
“A Black, progressive view on the Biden Presidency with Benjamin Dixon; Plus: The danger of conspiracy theories”
KPFA, January 29, 2021
with Ramesh Srinivasan
https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=350243

12 Rules for WHAT? #32
“Forty Ways to Fight Fascism w/ Spencer Sunshine”
January 27, 2021
https://soundcloud.com/12rulesforwhat/forty-ways-to-fight-fascism-w-spencer-sunshine

Building Bridges with Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
WBAI (syndicated)
January 25, 2021
www.wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=19928

The Final Straw
“The Security State, Far Right and Media Post-January 6th”
January 24, 2021
https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2021/01/24/the-security-state-far-right-and-media-post-january-6th

Last Born in the Wilderness #284
“Breaches & Fissures: Capitol Siege & The Next Phase Of Far Right Terror w/ Spencer Sunshine”
January 20, 2021
www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/spencer-sunshine-3

Al Jazeera: The Stream
“What makes people believe in conspiracy theories?”
with Ramesh Srinivasan and Nadia Brashier
online live broadcast, January 17, 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQUOwZ7Cea4&feature=emb_title

///// 2020 /////

Concrete Milkshake: the PopMob podcast
November 2, 2020
https://soundcloud.com/popmobpdx/01-40-ways-to-fight-fascists-w-spencer-sunshine

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Oct 29, 2020
https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/an-army-of-militias-will-answer-trump-to-intimidate-voters-on-Tuesday

Softboy Social Club
“40 Ways To [Legally] Fight F@scists - Interview w/ SPENCER SUNSHINE”
uploaded by Softboy Social Club, October 2, 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1fbKmh0-ZA

“Why the Far Right Kills”
panel introduction (along with Abby Scher & Jonathan Brent)
with Talia Lavin & Chip Berlet
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
March 10, 2020
uploaded October 10, 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_LC8dnDB5Q&t=3949s

[excerpt from interview below]
“Would You Trust a Former White Nationalist?”
Power Report, Oct 28, 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdXcQjhTn54

Power Report #13 with Dan from the Internet
“40 Ways To Fight Fascists”
October 11, 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LMTIm7RVqs&feature=youtu.be

Sunday Show with Philip Maldari
“RBG’s Legacy, The 40 Ways to Fight Fascists & Generation Priced Out”
KPFA, September 20, 2020
https://kpfa.org/episode/sunday-show-september-20-2020

Sh!tstack with Jared Holt
“40 Ways to Fight Fascists (9/16/20) ft/ Spencer Sunshine”
September 16, 2020
https://shtpost.substack.com/p/40-ways-to-fight-fascists-91620-ft

Yeah Nah Pasaran with Andy Slackbastard and Cam Smith
“Spencer Sunshine on Outlawing Antifa”
June 11, 2020
https://www.3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasaran/episode-202006111630/spencer-sunshine-outlawing-antifa

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
“While Police Mass Against Demonstrations, Stores and Pharmacies are Looted”
June 3, 2020
https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/while-police-mass-against-demonstrations-stores-and-pharmacies-are-looted

YouTube video
"Is It Antisemitic to Call Landlords Parasites?"
May 21, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxGyWJa60RA

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
“Why Trump Won't Condemn White Nationalism”
March 18, 2019
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/03/17/background-briefing-march-17-2019/
https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/students-around-the-world-protest-inaction-on-global-warming

///// 2019 /////

“Bundism's Influence Today”
introduction to the panel
with Molly Crabapple, Irena Klepfisz, Jenny Romaine, and Jacob Plitman
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC
September 16, 2019
uploaded by YIVO on September 23, 2019
www.youtube.com/watch?v=biNDR4r9BS8

“Counter-Organizing Against Far Right Decentralization”
Institute for Social Ecology, Summer Gathering 2019 (Aug 23-25)
“Moving Beyond the Local” panel with Brian Tokar and Mason Herson-Hord
August 24, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOIIe_v-VP4

Final Straw
“Out-Organizing Racists: ROAR Conference 2019 + Spencer Sunshine on Fascism”
April 14, 2019
thefinalstrawradio.libsyn.com/out-organizing-racists-roar-conference-2019-spencer-sunshine-on-fascism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx0_v3meZvQ

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
“Trump Tries to Blame the Left for Domestic Terrorism”
August 8, 2019
https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/trump-tries-to-blame-the-left-for-domestic-terrorism

IGD podcast
“Through The Screams: Audio Report from Black Flags Over Brooklyn,”
February 19, 2019
https://itsgoingdown.org/through-the-screams-audio-report-from-black-flags-over-brooklyn

“Introductory Remarks | Yiddish Anarchism Conference”
introduction an all-day symposium
YIVO, January 20, 2019
uploaded by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, February 14, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zytgNh_JmIM&t=214s

///// 2018 /////

Splinter
“How To Fight the Alt-Right”
November 21, 2018
https://splinternews.com/how-to-fight-the-alt-right-1830608402
https://twitter.com/splinter_news/status/1065316397863976960
www.facebook.com/splinternews/videos/2041293506161644/

Last Born in the Wilderness #153
“Fighting Solves Everything: The Rise Of International Far Right Violence w/ Spencer Sunshine”
October 29, 2018
* www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/2018/10/29/153-fighting-solves-everything-the-rise-of-international-far-right-violence-w-spencer-sunshine
* www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyy42y53unA

///// 2017 /////

Antifa, directed Brandon Jordan, 2018
[includes pieces of the Submedia interview]
https://sub.media/video/antifa/

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
“[RECORDING] No Hate Action Call: Learning about white nationalists in Kentucky and how to organize against hate”
2017
https://vimeo.com/213221696

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
“November 2 - Trump's Trickle-Down Tax Plan; The Alt-Right Prepares for a Civil War in America That Starts on Saturday; The Tech Giants Who Allowed Russia to Help Elect Trump”
November 2, 2017
http://archives.ianmasters.com/content/november-2-trumps-trickle-down-tax-plan-alt-right-prepares-civil-war-america-starts-saturday

[excerpt from below] Last Born in the Wilderness
“The Roots Of Antifa Resistance In America w/ Spencer Sunshine”
September 14, 2017
* https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/segments/2018/5/12/the-roots-of-antifa-resistance-in-america-w-spencer-sunshine
* www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGtlhM70XM&t=4s

Last Born In The Wilderness#77
“A Gettysburg Moment: Charlottesville, Antifa, & The Future Of Resistance w/ Spencer Sunshine”
October 30, 2017
* www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/2018/5/12/78-a-gettysburg-moment-charlottesville-antifa-the-future-of-resistance-w-spencer-sunshine
* www.youtube.com/watch?v=spR1p8hG29M

[excerpts of below interview]
“Activist Spencer Sunshine talks how to organize against white supremacy”
The Grio, August 31, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1kzBNzZEy4&t=77s
“After Charlottesville, what are white supremacists planning next?”
The Grio, August 31, 2017
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dbzhl7krSA

The Grio
“Activist Spencer Activist Spencer Sunshine talks about white supremacists in Charlottesville”
August 30, 2017
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTJl6ss7ds0

Sunday Show with Philip Maldari
KPFA, August 27, 2017
https://kpfa.org/episode/sunday-show-august-27-2017/

“Charlottesville and the Far Right”
MoveOn.org, August 22, 2017
www.facebook.com/moveon/videos/10154711980435493

The 8 O’Clock Buzz, WORT
August 21, 2017
https://www.wortfm.org/the-alt-right-movement-whos-who

Politically Reactive with W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu
“Charlottesville: Why did this happen and how do we move forward?”
August 17, 2017
panel with Matthew Gertz, Rosa Clemente & Michael McBride
https://archive.org/details/podcast_politically-re-active-with-w_charlottesville-why-did-this_1000391145271

Newsy
“Access To Each Other Was A Big Factor In Hate Groups' Comeback”
August 18, 2017
https://www.newsy.com/stories/there-are-several-reasons-for-a-new-rise-in-hate-groups

Make It Plain with Mark Thompson
“Spencer Sunshine with his firsthand account from #Charlottesville”
Sirius XM, August 14, 2017
www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=10155741375807048

Make It Plain with Mark Thompson
“Spencer Sunshine on The Largest Fascist Rally in Recent Memory”
Sirius XM, August 10, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ZhOqhMUmg

IGD podcast
“Snakes in the Grass: Spencer Sunshine on the Militia Movement”
July 17, 2017
https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/snakes-in-the-grass-spencer-sunshine-militia-movement

“The Far Right Today in the U.S. and New York City”
Verso Books, June 28, 2017
sponsored by PRA, intro by Dania Rajendra
uploaded by Political Research Associates, June 30, 2017
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmv0iAO4bBc&t=3s

Trouble #2, “Bash the Fash”
Submedia, early 2017
https://sub.media/video/trouble-2-bash-the-fash

"Antifa/Fascism in the United States,"
Station Ho.st , Montreal, April 24, 2017
https://archive.org/details/SpencerSunshineMontrealApril2017

Challenging the Rhetoric with Cheri Roberts - Show #46
February 1, 2017
https://archive.org/details/podcast_challenging-rhetoric-with_challenging-rhetoric-with_1000380661618

///// 2016 /////

Die Untüchtigen
“Spencer Sunshine: The radical right in the United States”
October 30, 2016
live talk in Hamburg, introduction by Olaf Kistenmacher
https://soundcloud.com/dieuntuechtigen/so-30102016-spencer-sunshine-the-radical-right-in-the-united-states

Up In Arms: A Guide to Oregon's Patriot Movement
October 20, 2016
promo trailer for the 2016 report of the same name that i was the lead author of; wrote the script of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIc62J9jiM8

Background Briefing with Ian Masters
“October 19 - The Trump-Ailes-Bannon Alt-Right Post-Election Alternative to Fox News; Will the Trump Post-Election Movement Involve Violence?; How Will Sexual Harassment Be Handles in the Upcoming Debate?”
https://archives.ianmasters.com/content/october-19-trump-ailes-bannon-alt-right-post-election-alternative-fox-news-will-trump-post-e

Challenging the Rhetoric with Cheri Roberts - Show #45’"
October 5, 2016
https://archive.org/details/podcast_challenging-rhetoric-with_challenging-rhetoric-with_1000376697104

Treyf podcast
“Short: Anti-Semitism on the Left with Spencer Sunshine”
September 20, 2016
https://soundcloud.com/treyfpodcast/short-anti-semitism-on-the-left-with-spencer-sunshine

"PRA's Spencer Sunshine Reports from Oregon"
January 25, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgkB4ciDhz0&list=PLFEFvQljX0EZdeLC8qK3kntRMmo1bjxU9&index=2

KPFA Philip Maldari, Sunday Show
January 17, 2016
https://kpfa.org/episode/sunday-show-january-17-2016
https://kpfa.org/program/sunday-show/page/11/

KALW
with Mark Potok
January 14, 2016
[live from the Narrows restaurant in Malheur]
http://kalw.org/post/your-call-growing-right-wing-extremism

UpFront with Guest Host Philip Maldari
KPFA, January 6, 2016
https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-january-6-2016/
direct link to audio: https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=221959

News In Depth with Paul Roland
“Who are the Malheur occupiers? Analysis by Spencer Sunshine”
KBOO, January 4, 2016
http://kboo.fm/whoarethemalheuroccupiersanalysisbyspenc
https://kboo.fm/media/17540-who-are-malheur-occupiers-analysis-spencer-sunshine

///// 2010 /////

ARA Conference / Rose City Antifa
“Spencer Sunshine left antisemitism presentation 2010 ARA conference”
July 25, 2010
https://soundcloud.com/rosecityantifa2/spencer-sunshine-left-1

NOT ME PERSONALLY, BUT RELATED VIDEOS

Mx. Asa Metric, 'We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing' / '40 Ways to Fight Fascists' (Heaven 17 Cover.. and more)"
—antifascist surrealist drag performance art video based on the 40 Ways to Fight Fascists guide (starting a little before 3:00)
uploaded by Creep Cuts, September 20, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8otVcgE_ig&list=PLFEFvQljX0EZdeLC8qK3kntRMmo1bjxU9&index=14

"What is Antifa? (Debunking Myths About Antifa) - Radical Reviewer"
—extended review of my essay "Debunking the 3 Biggest Myths about Antifa"
uploaded by Radical Reviewer, June 20, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnj9i19aBos&list=PLFEFvQljX0EZdeLC8qK3kntRMmo1bjxU9&index=13

"Up In Arms: A Guide to Oregon's Patriot Movement"
—promo for release of said report
uploaded by Resist.TV, Oct 20, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIc62J9jiM8&list=PLFEFvQljX0EZdeLC8qK3kntRMmo1bjxU9&index=19&t=2s