A few nights a month, members of the D.C. folk punk scene gather in a small venue or bar to sing and mosh together to the sound of banjos, mandolins, accordions and horns. Amidst original songs outlining the future anarchist revolution, artists lead the room in impassioned choruses of leftist anthems like “Solidarity Forever” and “Bella Ciao.” Many folk punk artists intentionally reference songs from the past when performing in the district in order to convey a sense of continuity between the subculture and anarchist and leftist movements at large. However, I argue that by also leading group singing about events taking place in D.C., the local band Trash Boat and the Ambush link the notion of an anarchist revolution to actions that can be taken against the U.S. government by scene members in their immediate community. I focus on performances of two of their original songs: “The Ballad of Rahul Dubey” and “Burn it Down,” which are situated in the recent past and imagined future of D.C. respectively. This paper, based on ongoing ethnographic research, makes a significant contribution to scholarship on folk punk, as published work on this topic is limited to one recent article (Fox 2024). It also builds on related scholarship on anarcho-punk (Mattern 2016, Dunn 2012) and dynamics of participatory music making (Turino 2008) as part of a larger project on the intersection of folk punk scene participation and anarchist resistance in the U.S.