Rachel Maddow, host of the #1 hits “Bag Man” and “Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra,” is back at the mic with a new original series, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News.” In each episode, Rachel and co-host Isaac-Davy Aronson seek a deeper understanding of a story in today's headlines by asking: Has anything like this ever happened before? Would knowing that help us grapple with what’s happening now… and what might happen next?
A violent right-wing mob interrupts lawmakers formalizing the transfer of power to a new leader.
This March of Time newsreel describes the organizing of the Croix de Feu, "Crosses of Fire," and the events of February 6th, 1934 in Paris, an attempted fascist coup against the democratic government of France. Listen to episode 1 of Rachel Maddow presents: Déjà News for the full story.
November 21, 1934: Major General Smedley Butler makes the shocking claim that a shadowy cabal of rich and powerful business interests tried to recruit him to lead a fascist coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Kaplan finds an analogy for the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in French history.
Smedley Butler, the Marines and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Have you seen something in the news that feels like history repeating, or at least history rhyming? Write to us about it at DejaNews@msnbc.com.
It turns out, Florida has been here before.
Produced by students and faculty at the University of Central Florida, “The Committee” features interviews with people who were targeted by The Johns Committee.
(Warning: Graphic content) See the 1964 report that was so scandalous it led to the downfall of the powerful Johns Committee.
Our guest Stacy Braukman’s brilliantly-titled book about the Johns Committee.
Our guest Robert Buccellato’s book about Charley Johns and the progressive Florida governor who was his nemesis.
Republican complaints about election integrity that actually hide a more nefarious goal are not unknown in U.S. history.
Jim Brosnahan testifies that he saw Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist challenging minority voters at a polling place in the early 1960s. (3:33:45)
Is there a lesson for the U.S. in Poland's extreme anti-abortion law and the popular backlash it has provoked?
A cruel page ripped from an earlier playbook in U.S. politics
NBC News archival video | Original air date: May 22, 1961: NBC's Frank McGee hosts a special report on the violence in Alabama in response to Freedom Riders protesting for civil rights and against segregation in the Deep South, and the federal response of sending U.S. Marshals to preserve order where local law enforcement had failed to do so.
Our guest Gabrielle Emanuel’s groundbreaking reporting on the Reverse Freedom Rides.
When authoritarians are inclined toward expansion...
In two newsreel clips from 1935, African-American men in Harlem volunteer for service in Ethiopia and three men, Italian-American Frank Magrno, George Haldman of Harlem, and William Reynolds, express their views on Italy's invasion of Ethiopia and the relation of the conflict to the U.S. (abrupt ending in original).
Rachel Maddow alerts viewers that her new podcast series, co-hosted by Isaac-Davy Aronson, called “Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News” will premier next Monday, June 12.
The new 'Rachel Maddow Presents' podcast series will see Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson examine stories from today’s headlines and their historical antecedent.
