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Flashpoint

Flashpoint · Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts

A clear-eyed radicalization study that connects the 1996 Olympic Park bombing to the ideas and anti-abortion violence surrounding it.

LR score 89 · 1 published rating

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Work
Finite series
Release
Complete
Episodes
8 verified main-run episodes
Count scope
This is a verified main-run count, not an all-published feed total; bonus, update, trailer, and epilogue items may be excluded.
Facts reviewed
July 21, 2026
Editorial review
July 22, 2026

Listening Record verdict

Why we recommend it

The series looks beyond the bombing as an isolated event, tracing how ideology can move toward action and giving the case a wider history of domestic extremism.

Best for: Listeners interested in domestic extremism, ideological violence, and reporting that explains how radicalization develops.

Not for: Listeners seeking only a case chronology or wishing to avoid sustained discussion of bombing and anti-abortion violence.

Strengths

  • Places one attack within a broader ideological ecosystem.
  • Examines the movement from belief to violent action.

Caveats

  • Its contextual purpose requires substantial engagement with extremist ideas and violence.

Sensitivity guidance: Contains discussion of bombing, extremism, anti-abortion violence, and death.

Editorial signals

Story, reporting, and tone

  • Olympic Park bombing
  • domestic extremism
  • anti-abortion violence
  • radicalization analysis
  • historical context
  • systems reporting
  • analytical
  • urgent
  • sobering

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