•Dino Louis. A
well‑known, well‑respected, and well‑employed free‑lance
sports journalist, before and during the pre-fascist Transition Era, Louis engaged
in political analysis on the side. From time‑to‑time he made attempts to draw attention to his
political work, but was never successful in so doing.
Louis disappeared in 2001. It is not known whether he was
able to successfully emigrate. Many who could afford it did in that year before foreign travel for
American citizens was restricted as it had been during the McCarthy Era of the
1950s. (In that case he may just
have maintained a low profile abroad to avoid detection by the
International Death Squads.) Or he may have been caught and "disappeared"
in the old CIA‑inspired Latin American style of the 1970s and 1980s by a
pre‑Helmsmen Domestic Death Squad. In any case, he had sent copies of the
essays reproduced here to his friend Alex Poughton in London, as they were
written. Those copies, preserved in Poughton's library, are used here
with permission.
•Alex Poughton. The pencil‑thin English journalist Alex Poughton sported a pencil‑thin
mustache and bore a striking resemblance to the well‑known 20th century English actor, David Niven. Poughton chronicled the Fascist Period
for the London
Sunday Times under the head "American
Democracy." Staying in political
tune with the owner of his paper, Poughton's published writings were generally
favorable to the fascist regime, and he was able to remain in and travel
freely throughout the country (as a whole before 2011 and in the White
Republic after that date).
However, published here are not his public puff pieces but
private letters that he sent home by diplomatic pouch from time to time
through his connections in the British Embassy. They present a rather different
picture of American reality. The "Karl" to whom these letters were
written has never been identified. Thus the originals are lost. But along with the Louis essays, copies are preserved in Poughton's
library and are used here with permission.
•Curley Oakwood. At 6'5" tall, weighing in at 320 lbs., his shaved head was always
slightly aglow with sweat when bathed in the glow of television lights. He was the dominant electronic media
figure of his time. Presented here
are transcripts of broadcasts he made during the Fascist Period, until he went
off the air the day before New Washington fell in 2023.
A high‑school drop‑out with a great radio voice,
a great deal of personal hate and resentment of anyone he regarded as
"different," and a great ability to absorb quickly and regurgitate
faithfully the intensive political coaching he received daily throughout his
career from his Right‑Wing political mentors, Oakwood began his career at
the age 25 in 1997.
Late in the Transition Era (1980 ‑ 2001), he had
succeeded one Rush Limbaugh as the dominant Right‑Wing presence on the
contemporary mediums of "talk‑radio" and "talk‑television." He proceeded to go beyond Limbaugh,
taking his one‑time mentor's often subtle expressions of hatred and anger
that were beginning to wear thin and become too subtle for many of Limbaugh's
20 million listeners to follow, to a much more open form.
Imitating the example of lesser‑light reactionaries
who had begun to appear mainly on local talk‑radio in the mid‑1990s,
Oakwood made it abundantly clear to everyone listening just how hateful and
angry he was. In that time of mounting frustration and rage for so many in the
country, open hate just began to play much better than any even slightly veiled
version. (Radio station KFSO in
San Francisco, CA was one of the first to begin the "open hate"
trend, early in 1995.)
Oakwood went on to become the leading public, non‑governmental
voice of the American Fascists for their whole time in power. Unrepentant until the end, in 2026
at the age of 54 he was publicly hung for the crime of being "a principal
leader of American Fascism." It was an unusual role to play for a media figure who remained
in media. But it was one he had
sought, and in the eyes of the forces whose interests he doggedly and
faithfully served, he served them well.
•"Short, blond, and perky," according to a
contemporary's description, Constance "Connie" Conroy was a
White House press officer who managed to maintain her post through every
twist and turn of the intense political infighting which characterized the
Fascist Period. Her commentaries
reproduced in this book are brief excerpts from a set of non‑system, secret
notes she kept throughout the time on an ancient computer called a
"PC."
Conroy had first arrived in the White House under President
Pine (despite his age some say literally, others figuratively) shortly after
his accession to the Presidency in 2001, and lasted until the end. By pure chance, her old computer fell
intact into the hands of the Constitutionalist forces during the conquest of
New Washington. Fortunately
for us, a technician of the Movement for the Restoration of Constitutional
Democracy figured out how to operate it.
Conroy's notes, incomplete as they are, have provided the
only "inside look" available to historians of the period. Following the lead of American Right‑Wing
Reactionaries in government ever since the famous "White House
Tapes" incident which forced the resignation of President Richard Nixon in
1973, all of the official written and computer records of the whole
Fascist Period located in New Washington were destroyed by the Fascists in the
frantic weeks just before the city fell.
Conroy was Isolated for five years following the end of the
Second Civil War. After her
release she married a retired Constitutionalist press officer, and is still
alive at this writing. As readers
will be aware, since the written record is so sparse, any writings of
former Fascists, whether private or public, are by law in the public domain and
so permission to reproduce is not required.
•Parthenon "Pudge" Pomeroy, the owner of a
gasoline station in northern New Jersey, was an archetypal supporter and
beneficiary of American Fascism. (Accounting for his strange given name were the facts that his parents
were travelling in Greece the summer he was conceived, and liked
alliteration. His childhood nickname
had been considered to parsimoniously describe his appearance. People viewing at the same time adult
and childhood photographs of him often remarked how much like
"himself" he looked at an early age.)
Well over‑age during the Second Civil War, but forced
to work for the Army of the NAR as a human pack animal (ironically for a man in
his business, petroleum no longer being available for the mere transportation
of supplies), he was killed during the Battle for the Liberation of New York in
2022. A diary kept by him from the
year 2003, when he took over the family gasoline station from his father at the
age 38, was found on his person. He had no known survivors.