Defections, Co-optation, and GOP Infighting

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts

- A New Threat to Public Lands

- The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide feat. Dana El Kurd

- The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41

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Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts

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https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-react-nyc-mayor-election-race-results-zohran-mamdani-2025-11#jamie-dimon-1

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/11/elon-musk-is-having-a-post-election-meltdown-western-civilization-is-doomed.html

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A New Threat to Public Lands

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kathleen-sgamma-withdraws-jan-6-criticism-came-public--rcna200699 

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The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide

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The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson

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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41

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