Rachel Maddow

Broadcast journalist Rachel Maddow appeared at The Progressive Forum to discuss her New York Times bestseller, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism. It took place at Congregation Emanu El, Houston, Texas, on June 13, 2024. This page also features Maddow’s appearance at the Wortham Center, Houston, Texas, on March 10, 2013, discussing her book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.

 
SHORT: In 1925, Hitler’s 'Mein Kampf' appeared to lift whole passages of Henry Ford’s four-volume book, 'The International Jew.' Hitler: “Somebody has to be blamed for our troubles." (7:21)

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SHORT: Aspiring Nazi, architect Philip Johnson, with many buildings in Houston, sought to find America’s Hitler, then tried to be the American Hitler himself. (5:18)
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SHORT: A measure of approaching fascism is scapegoating, which Texas government leaders are doing to immigrants, Blacks and Browns, LGBTQ people, and others. (6:08)
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SHORT: What should gay people be most worried about? (3:02)
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Introduction of Rachel Maddow by Randall Morton, Progressive Forum president. (7:03)

Background

Rachel Maddow is the host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC, as well as the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drift and Blowout. Born in Castro Valley, California, Maddow received a BA in public policy from Stanford University and earned a doctorate at Oxford, where she studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. She lives in New York City and Massachusetts with her partner, artist Susan Mikula. She appeared at The Progressive Forum March 10, 2013, discussing Drift. 

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Thanks to Rachel Maddow for permission to post the entire events of March 10, 2013 and June 13, 2024.