S2 THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 2: You Must Form Your Militia Units
On the Media | May 14, 2025
EPISODE 2
Many governments eased off the shortwaves after the Cold War, and homegrown US-based rightwing extremists edged out shortwave peaceniks to fill the void. In the 1990s, US shortwave radio stations became a key organizing and recruiting ground for white supremacists and the burgeoning anti-government militia movement. On this instantaneous, international medium, they honed a strategy and a rhetoric that they would take to the early internet and beyond.
The Divided Dial was supported in part by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
