Framework: In 1933, the Nazis needed the people of Germany to support their dictatorship and believe in their ideas. Nazi leaders did so using censorship and propaganda, putting a chokehold on access to information the public could consume through various types of media. Unfolding six years before the beginning of World War II in 1939, the glacial pace at which the Nazis edged Germany toward that terrible fate would have been undetectable to the untrained eye. 

Unfortunately for the Mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana - Josh Guillory - the eyes of future generations were forever opened to these lawless tactics. His would-be dictatorship has been routinely met with the full force of the First Amendment - by everyday citizens who refuse to see the mistakes of the past be repeated on their watch. They exercise their civil rights and defend the Constitution against this questionably-elected and unqualified leader, and this episode pays tribute to several of those individuals. Whether it be throwing a barbecue protest, seeking judicial relief, hosting a fake Facebook event to highlight racial inequality, or showing up at the ballot box, Lafayette will fight back, and no amount of illegal policy, unconstitutional police brutality, or fascist propaganda on conservative media will stop them. 

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