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Episode 8: Ultra Vires

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

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Leon Lewis and His Undercover Agents in Los Angeles

In 1943, journalist Arthur Darunian went undercover to infiltrate American fascist groups. He spent four years inside these violent ultra-right groups involved in everything from street violence against American Jews to planning and training for the overthrow of the US government. His book was called Undercover, and it was the top-selling book in the United States in 1943. In Boston, a devout Catholic named Frances Sweeney made it her personal mission to stand up to Father Cogland's radical Christian Front militia. She becomes kind of the street-level nemesis to Frances P. Moran. And over on the house side, New York Senator Gerald Nye ran for re-election during the sedition trial that almost

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