Frank Abe
@frankabe.bsky.social
Co-editor, THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION. Lead author, WE HEREBY REFUSE. Blogs at http://Resisters.com. Links: https://linktr.ee/
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Mind-blowing to bring the story of wartime incarceration and the links to today to 1,900 @maddow.bsky.social fans in LA on Sunday. Watch for the full program on Monday, December 29 on @msnownews.bsky.social. My impressions here: resisters.com/2025/12/16/b...
Mind-blowing to bring the story of wartime incarceration and the links to today to 1,900 @maddow.bsky.social fans in LA on Sunday. Watch for the full program on Monday, December 29 on @msnownews.bsky.social. My impressions here: resisters.com/2025/12/16/b...
December 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Mind-blowing to bring the story of wartime incarceration and the links to today to 1,900 @maddow.bsky.social fans in LA on Sunday. Watch for the full program on Monday, December 29 on @msnownews.bsky.social. My impressions here: resisters.com/2025/12/16/b...
Thanks. Rachel made it easy for us to feel comfortable in front of all two thousand of you.
I loved your portion of the program!
Onstage, @maddow.bsky.social put us at ease with questions that were so focused and specific, it was easy to share our thoughts with her wildly engaged audience of 1,900 in the ornate Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. 2/
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Thanks. Rachel made it easy for us to feel comfortable in front of all two thousand of you.
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I finished Burn Order and cried. Time to write lesson plans for students to learn about then and now!
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I finished Burn Order and cried. Time to write lesson plans for students to learn about then and now!
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Absolutely incredible. The team did an amazing job. As in the previous podcasts the research, facts, human stories so well done. I’ve learned more about this history that informs us today. We must never give in or give up our rights. We require courts and elected to hold & honor these truths.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Absolutely incredible. The team did an amazing job. As in the previous podcasts the research, facts, human stories so well done. I’ve learned more about this history that informs us today. We must never give in or give up our rights. We require courts and elected to hold & honor these truths.
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Amazing work by Rachel as always.🇺🇸
In LA Sunday for the live launch of the BURN ORDER podcast on Japanese American wartime incarceration. Backstage, Rachel Maddow greeted us in person like old friends, after having studied our recorded voices in her podcast edit bay for the past several months. 1/
December 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Amazing work by Rachel as always.🇺🇸
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Great show. Come back!
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Great show. Come back!
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Just finished the podcast today. It was brilliant.
December 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Just finished the podcast today. It was brilliant.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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OMG...I'm so very excited 😊 an eve with @maddow.bsky.social and @frankabe.bsky.social at the @OrpheumTheater and in LA.
December 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
OMG...I'm so very excited 😊 an eve with @maddow.bsky.social and @frankabe.bsky.social at the @OrpheumTheater and in LA.
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Great podcast. Rachel is a consummate professional and so smart. She does justice to telling your story. I have long yearned to know more about that chapter in our history. It has been an honor to get to know you all a little bit via the podcast.
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Great podcast. Rachel is a consummate professional and so smart. She does justice to telling your story. I have long yearned to know more about that chapter in our history. It has been an honor to get to know you all a little bit via the podcast.
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Thank you for this work. I was 17 when I first learned about the imprisonment of Japanese Americans and legal immigrants. I was so shocked by it. I am half-Japanese (dad is white from Oregon, mom from Kyushu). My American grandmother was opposed to their marriage her entire life 1/2
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Thank you for this work. I was 17 when I first learned about the imprisonment of Japanese Americans and legal immigrants. I was so shocked by it. I am half-Japanese (dad is white from Oregon, mom from Kyushu). My American grandmother was opposed to their marriage her entire life 1/2
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Anti-Japanese racism was a destructive force in our family, sadly. I didn't know why she believed these things and now I do. I asked my three kids to listen to this series and to imagine all of us on the trains because they would have been sent away, too...to really picture how it would feel...
December 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Anti-Japanese racism was a destructive force in our family, sadly. I didn't know why she believed these things and now I do. I asked my three kids to listen to this series and to imagine all of us on the trains because they would have been sent away, too...to really picture how it would feel...
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and then to keep it in mind as we hear similar rhetoric directed at other people. Thank you so much for this important work. You are a hero of mine! I admire so much the Japanese Americans who fought against this treatment and who demanded more from our country....
December 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
and then to keep it in mind as we hear similar rhetoric directed at other people. Thank you so much for this important work. You are a hero of mine! I admire so much the Japanese Americans who fought against this treatment and who demanded more from our country....
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I cannot recommend BURN ORDER strongly enough.
Really well done and, unfortunately relevant today.
Really well done and, unfortunately relevant today.
Onstage, @maddow.bsky.social put us at ease with questions that were so focused and specific, it was easy to share our thoughts with her wildly engaged audience of 1,900 in the ornate Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. 2/
December 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I cannot recommend BURN ORDER strongly enough.
Really well done and, unfortunately relevant today.
Really well done and, unfortunately relevant today.
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I’ve asked my entire family to listen to the Burn Order podcast between now and Christmas so we can discuss it. 👊🏻
December 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I’ve asked my entire family to listen to the Burn Order podcast between now and Christmas so we can discuss it. 👊🏻
In LA Sunday for the live launch of the BURN ORDER podcast on Japanese American wartime incarceration. Backstage, Rachel Maddow greeted us in person like old friends, after having studied our recorded voices in her podcast edit bay for the past several months. 1/
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
In LA Sunday for the live launch of the BURN ORDER podcast on Japanese American wartime incarceration. Backstage, Rachel Maddow greeted us in person like old friends, after having studied our recorded voices in her podcast edit bay for the past several months. 1/
Thx @maddow.bsky.social for endorsing our @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology: “An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it.” —Rachel Maddow
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Thx @maddow.bsky.social for endorsing our @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology: “An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it.” —Rachel Maddow
I just heard the sixth and final episode of Rachel Maddow’s podcast which will be free on Monday. My measure for these things is whether or not we get new information. Episode 6 has audio that’s never been heard before and it will blow your mind. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
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December 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I just heard the sixth and final episode of Rachel Maddow’s podcast which will be free on Monday. My measure for these things is whether or not we get new information. Episode 6 has audio that’s never been heard before and it will blow your mind. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Two new episodes of Rachel Maddow's BURN ORDER podcast available today. Ep. 3, "One Drop," features Norm Mineta, Satsuki Ina, and Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga. Ep. 4, "Like an Ordinary American," highlights the Supreme Court cases of Gordon, Min, Fred, and Mitsuye Endo.
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Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
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December 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Two new episodes of Rachel Maddow's BURN ORDER podcast available today. Ep. 3, "One Drop," features Norm Mineta, Satsuki Ina, and Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga. Ep. 4, "Like an Ordinary American," highlights the Supreme Court cases of Gordon, Min, Fred, and Mitsuye Endo.
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Hear my chat with Feliks Banel for the Cascade of History on this anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the upcoming Rachel Maddow BURN ORDER live event in LA this Sunday Dec. 14, and the "We Hold These Truths" live radio broadcast Dec. 15 at Town Hall Seattle.
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Ep. 128: LIVE REPORT from Pearl Harbor Commemorations in Hawaii; LIVE UPDATES from Candy Cane Lane; Meteorologist Scott Sistek on Storm History; and Frank Abe on Japanese American Incarceration
Feliks Banel's guests on this LIVE BROADCAST of CASCADE OF HISTORY include Lt. Colonel Erik Flint (retired) LIVE from Pearl Harbor Day commemorations in Honolulu; Roving Correspondent Ken Zick with mu
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December 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Hear my chat with Feliks Banel for the Cascade of History on this anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the upcoming Rachel Maddow BURN ORDER live event in LA this Sunday Dec. 14, and the "We Hold These Truths" live radio broadcast Dec. 15 at Town Hall Seattle.
on.soundcloud.com/u2FrOa4VU9Vg...
on.soundcloud.com/u2FrOa4VU9Vg...
December 7th was once the day that Japanese Americans went into hiding. Tune in tonight at 8:40 pm PST on SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and worldwide as I recall with host Feliks Banel on his "Cascade of History" program how this day landed with the Seattle JA community in 1941. www.space101fm.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
December 7th was once the day that Japanese Americans went into hiding. Tune in tonight at 8:40 pm PST on SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and worldwide as I recall with host Feliks Banel on his "Cascade of History" program how this day landed with the Seattle JA community in 1941. www.space101fm.org
In three minutes of network television on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, Rachel Maddow summarizes the arc of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans up to and including redress, some of it drawn from her reading of our graphic novel, WE HEREBY REFUSE. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLAe...
Rachel Maddow: Government Bad Guys Can Face Consequences Even Decades After Their Crimes
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December 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
In three minutes of network television on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, Rachel Maddow summarizes the arc of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans up to and including redress, some of it drawn from her reading of our graphic novel, WE HEREBY REFUSE. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLAe...
The first two episodes drop Monday morning from MS NOW:
Episode 1: Safecracker - This will undoubtedly feature Lori Bannai and Peter Irons talking about the uncensored 10th copy of the DeWitt Final Report, and Ken Ringle Jr. on his father's Ringle Report to FDR:
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Episode 1: Safecracker - This will undoubtedly feature Lori Bannai and Peter Irons talking about the uncensored 10th copy of the DeWitt Final Report, and Ken Ringle Jr. on his father's Ringle Report to FDR:
www.facebook.com/reel/1498321...
18K views · 518 reactions | Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.”
This six-part series rev...
Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.”
This six-part series reveals how an executive order....
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December 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The first two episodes drop Monday morning from MS NOW:
Episode 1: Safecracker - This will undoubtedly feature Lori Bannai and Peter Irons talking about the uncensored 10th copy of the DeWitt Final Report, and Ken Ringle Jr. on his father's Ringle Report to FDR:
www.facebook.com/reel/1498321...
Episode 1: Safecracker - This will undoubtedly feature Lori Bannai and Peter Irons talking about the uncensored 10th copy of the DeWitt Final Report, and Ken Ringle Jr. on his father's Ringle Report to FDR:
www.facebook.com/reel/1498321...
Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
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December 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
My film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 years ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. More: resisters.com/2025/11/30/f...
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 years ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. More: resisters.com/2025/11/30/f...