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Tom Nomad is an organizer based in the Rust Belt and the author of The Master's Tools: Warfare and Insurgent Possibility and Toward an Army of Ghosts. You can find more of Tom's writings on The Anarchist Library. Tom is @tom_nomad@kolektiva.social on Mastadon, and on their blog.

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We speak about conspiracy theories and real conspiracies, strategies of tension, the use of extremist actors to set conditions of concentrating power un-democratically and challenging conspiratorial thought patterns. You can find a past interview we did with Tom on "Insurgencies Journal" and "The Master's Tools".

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