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. 

 


 

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