![]() There was this very well-connected, very rich Nazi agent. It has had decades of consequences for the United States in terms of this protection racket at the heart of the far right. They used their political power to get away and to get their co-conspirators off. They pressured the Justice Department to get the prosecutor fired, and to get the whole thing shut down. There were powerful elected officials who were involved in this terrible plot. But that doesn’t mean that these guys weren’t actually doing what they were accused of. It’s mostly forgotten history, in large part because the trial didn’t work. It was called The Great Sedition Trial of 1944. government by force, with help of the Hitler government, which by then we were actively fighting in World War II. They brought a big prosecution to try to stop a seditious conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. ![]() The Justice Department at the time - in fits and starts - ended up cottoning to both of these plots and realized they were connected. Kevin McCarthy Is Stacking the Ethics Committee With Election Deniers Some of them were getting paid by the German government. ![]() Lots of members of Congress - both senators and members of the House - were involved. In the lead up to World War II, there was a Nazi agent operating in the United States, running a big propaganda operation out of the U.S. What are the contours of the Great Sedition story? But there are a lot of things that resonate. It’s not a perfect allegory for any one thing. And so Ultra is the story of sedition, and fighting against authoritarianism and fascism in the United States, but 80 years ago. Americans can recognize, ‘Oh, yeah, Putin is an autocrat.’ People can see the Italian party whose logo is based on the eternal flame on Mussolini’s mausoleum that it coming back to power is probably not good.ĭomestically, we can have a comfort level talking about it, and we can be constructive and rigorous in our thinking when we’re talking about something that happened in the past. It’s easier to see when it happens in another country. It is hard for us to conceive that they apply to our generation. It is also about authoritarianism and fascism in the United States. It’s called Ultra, and in the broadest sense it is about sedition - which is timely with the Oath Keepers sedition trial in D.C. I have to warn you, you’re getting the raw, uncooked, blurred blurts about it. This is the first time that I’ve talked about it. You’ve kept this project very close to the vest. Maddow talked exclusively to Rolling Stone last week to introduce the “mostly forgotten history” that Americans would do well to remember. The trailer for Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra dropped early this morning. As she pursues such projects from her home in Western Massachusetts, Maddow has dialed back her namesake MSNBC show to Monday nights, while also anchoring the network’s special politics coverage. As part of the rapidly expanding Maddow multiverse, Bagman is now being developed as a feature film, produced in conjunction with SNL’s Lorne Michaels and director Ben Stiller. Ultra is Maddow’s second podcast, following the hit Bagman that chronicled the fall of America’s most ignominious vice president, Spirow Agnew. ![]() ![]() “Accountability doesn’t only happen in jail,” Maddow says. 6 committee continues to shine a spotlight on Donald Trump’s chaotic coup attempt. The prosecution exposed a Nazi-backed plot that connected sitting members of Congress - many of them tied to the original, nativist America First movement - and militias and street thugs who wanted to overthrow the republic and install a fascist, authoritarian regime.īut in the story of the fight to expose the plot, Maddow sees the success of a broader American resistance to authoritarianism, and important lessons for our current politics as the Jan. 6 insurrection ramps up in Washington, D.C., Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra explores a World War II-era prosecution known as the Great Sedition Trial of 1944. As the seditious conspiracy trial seeking to hold the Oath Keepers accountable for their role in the Jan. For a historical podcast, Rachel Maddow’s new project could hardly be more timely. ![]()
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