Episode 89: The Veiled Prophet Secret Society feat Devin Thomas O'Shea
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Jonathan
Aug 10, 202628 January 2026
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We're with Devin Thomas O'Shea, author of The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis.
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The V.P. Fair, as I had researched it over the years, is a celebration of a union strike back around 1878. It was very violent with the militia whipping both blacks and whites. And after that, the pow
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