So, how 'bout them politics goin' on? This week, hosts Summer, Jesse and Jonathan discuss the electoral college vote, the abnormality of Trump,  and the case for hope. Authoritarian scholar Dr. Sarah Kendzior joins to talk about the dangers of rising autocracy, and California Congressman Eric Swalwell explains his bill to investigate  Russian hacking of the 2016 election. (Artax is the name of the horse  who dies in the Swamps of Sadness in the 1984 fantasy film The NeverEnding Story.)

Naming Names

We are The FourFiftyOne, a podcast for the Resistance. Our hosts are Summer Brennan, Jesse Hirsch, and Jonathan Mann, two journalists and a musician discussing what it means to be an American in the age of Trump.

"The FourFiftyOne" takes its name from the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, set in a dystopian America where books are outlawed and any that are found are burned. The book's name comes from the assumed temperature at which paper will burst into flame.