teaser – Radio Free

“Always be learning.” – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:11:00 +0000

We opened with the trailer from Andor, a series that’s earned a top spot on the watch list of this week’s guest: the fearless Erin Reed, a real-life member of the Rebel Alliance and one of the most essential journalists working today.

Erin is the creator of Erin In The Morning, the go-to source for breaking news on LGBTQ+ rights, trans healthcare, and the rising tide of attacks on civil liberties across the country. Her reporting has exposed the truth behind anti-trans legislation, tracked authoritarian policies in real time, and armed millions with the facts they need to fight back. Her courage, clarity, and compassion make Erin one of the most vital voices in the resistance, and we’re honored to have her on the show.

Want to join the conversation? Come to the Gaslit Nation Salon, live every Monday at 4pm ET. It’s a community of listeners, activists, and fellow travelers where we unpack the headlines, share strategies, vent our frustrations, and build a living archive of this moment in history.

Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Annual memberships are discounted, and your support keeps our show alive. Thank you to everyone who helps make Gaslit Nation possible.

Looking for a summer read that pairs rage with laughter? Check out the Gaslit Nation graphic novel, Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! Follow our delightfully shady narrator, Judge Lackey, as he stumbles through a step-by-step guide to seizing and holding power, dodging accountability, and panicking over activists and journalists. Grab it at your local library or at BookShop.org.

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

NEW DATE! Thursday July 31 4pm ET – the Gaslit Nation Book Club discusses Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s The Little Prince written in the U.S. during America First.
Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect, available on Patreon.
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

Want to enjoy Gaslit Nation ad-free? Join our community of listeners for bonus shows, exclusive Q&A sessions, our group chat, invites to live events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit!

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

“Outrage is natural, but it must be paired with quiet thinking.” – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:11:00 +0000

We opened with “Papaoutai” by Belgian artist Stromae, a powerful performer who inspires this week’s guest, Jamila Raqib. She once saw him live in an unforgettable setting: the ancient Roman ruins of Carthage, Tunisia.

Jamila Raqib is a powerhouse for peace and democracy. As Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution, she has spent years training people across the globe in militant nonviolent resistance. Her work fuels the kind of courage that topples dictators and changes the course of history. She trained under legendary activist Gene Sharp whose book From Dictatorship to Democracy the Gaslit Nation Book Club read back in March, brought the fight for freedom to the frontlines, and she’s just getting started.

Want more bold conversations like this? Join the Gaslit Nation Salon, live every Monday at 4pm ET. Meet fellow listeners, unpack the news, share strategies, vent, and build a real-time record of this moment in history. Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Annual memberships are discounted, and you can even give the gift of membership.

If you’re packing for the beach or hiding from the heat, take along a little inspiration. Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! is our graphic novel starring the delightfully dodgy Judge Lackey. He’ll walk you through the do’s and don’ts of becoming a dictator and staying one, all while trying to outwit the pesky activists and journalists out to ruin his grip on power.Grab your copy at your local library or at Bookshop.org.

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

NEW DATE! Thursday July 31 4pm ET – the Gaslit Nation Book Club discusses Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s The Little Prince written in the U.S. during America First.
Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect, available on Patreon.
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

“If you can’t find the job you want, create it.” – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:11:00 +0000

Our opening clip featured the poet June Jordan reciting her powerful piece A Menace to My Enemies. Jordan is a sheroe of this week’s guest, the unstoppable Mona Eltahawy: journalist, feminist firebrand, and global truth-teller whose voice cuts through the noise like no one else.

Mona is the author of Headscarves and Hymens, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, and her latest, Bloody Hell!: Adventures in Menopause From Around the World. Her work spans continents and revolutions, from the frontlines of Egypt’s Arab Spring to the ongoing fight against patriarchy, white supremacy, and fascism everywhere. She’s here to inspire rebellion, liberation, and the refusal to be silenced.

Want to be part of conversations like this? Join the Gaslit Nation Salon, live every Monday at 4pm ET on Zoom. Meet fellow listeners, trade insights, vent your rage, and help build a living archive of resistance.

Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Annual memberships are discounted, and to everyone who already supports the show—thank you. You make this space possible.

Looking for a summer read that pairs well with revolution? Pick up the Gaslit Nation graphic novel, Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! Follow our shady narrator, Judge Lackey, as he bumbles through the dark comedy of authoritarianism, dodging accountability and panicking over activists and journalists. Find it at your local library or at Bookshop.org.

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

August 25 4pm ET – Join the Gaslit Nation Book Club for a powerful discussion on The Lives of Others and I’m Still Here, two films that explore how art and love endure and resist in the face of dictatorship.
Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect, available on Patreon.
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

Show Notes:

June Jordan reciting her poem “A Menace to My Enemies” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L898_qsfv7M

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

“Trust your instincts.” – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:11:00 +0000

We opened with the legendary James Baldwin, because this week, we’re passing the mic to someone walking boldly in Baldwin’s footsteps: Amber Wallin, Executive Director of the State Revenue Alliance and a fearless fighter for tax justice, equity, and economic power from the ground up.

Whether she’s calling out lawmakers, organizing communities, or reshaping policy, Amber is part of a new generation of leaders who refuse to back down. Here she shares the thinkers, art, and music that inspires her in the fight as she takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A. Because self-care is an act of resistance.

Want more fierce, unfiltered conversations like this? Join the Gaslit Nation Salon, live every Monday at 4pm ET. It’s our weekly dose of truth, strategy, and righteous rage with listeners from around the world. Sign up now at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Annual memberships are discounted, and your support keeps us going.

Hitting the beach or binging podcasts from the couch this summer? Take along our graphic novel: Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! Follow our corrupt narrator, Judge Lackey, as he bungles his way through authoritarianism, dodging activists and desperately clinging to power.Grab it at your local library or at BookShop.org.

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

NEW DATE! Thursday July 31 4pm ET – the Gaslit Nation Book Club discusses Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s The Little Prince written in the U.S. during America First.
Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect, available on Patreon.
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

We Are All Artists Now – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:33:00 +0000

Yes, things are dark. But if history has taught us anything, it’s this: regimes fall, because people rise. Some soldiers will follow orders. Others won’t. And that fault line? It’s where dictatorships begin to crack. Just ask Romania in 1989, as we discussed in our March episode, “How to Overthrow a Dictator.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s team can’t even staff the Pentagon, according to reports. No one who can put one foot in front of the other wants to work for “Whiskey Pete.”

The NIH is being gutted. Five-year research grants canceled in year four. Science is being purged, not for savings, but for submission. Stalin would be proud. So what do we do?

We create. We resist. We document.

We fund the arts. We fund scientists. We dance in the streets. Because protest is not just rage: it’s dance, murals, color, joy.

We outnumber them. They know it. That’s why they’re afraid. That’s why they send in the troops.

So unleash your inner rebel. Paint. Dance in the streets. Testify.

We are all artists now.

Want to enjoy Gaslit Nation ad-free? Join our community of listeners for bonus shows, ad-free episodes, exclusive Q&A sessions, our group chat, invites to live events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit!

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

NEW! We now have a Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
June 16 4pm ET – Gabe Garbowit and Keira Havens of Citizens’ Impeachment join our salon to discuss the growing movement to impeach Donald Trump.
June 30 4pm ET – America has been here before. Book club discussion of Lillian Faderman’s The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
NEW! Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect, available on Patreon.
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

Show Notes:

Trump’s concentration camp bill: $160 billion to expand the powers of ICE and build a network of concentration camps https://www.wola.org/analysis/160-billion-to-detain-and-deport-congresss-reconciliation-bill-is-a-betrayal-of-priorities-and-will-harm-the-most-vulnerable/

CNN: Trump sends in the troops: https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lr76cgcuap26

Gavin Newsom & Federal Tax Boycott (Secession Hints) CBS News – What to Know About Newsom’s Tax Threat https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-gavin-newsom-federal-tax-boycott-trump-what-to-know/

Scientific Purges Bethesda Declaration – Defend NIH Scientists https://standupforscience.org/bethesda-declaration

NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5425466/nih-research-freedom-bethesda-declaration

Resistance Art Show – KGNU, Boulder (7/11/25) https://kgnu.org/calendar

ArtWorks for Milwaukee – Teen Art Internships (Donate) https://www.artworksformilwaukee.org/donate

Zoe Leonard’s Poem “I Want a Dyke for President” – Performed by Mykki Blanco https://www.youtube.com

“Invading Antifa Land” – The Stranger https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/05/30/80080084/invading-antifa-land

Protesters dancing in Los Angeles https://bsky.app/profile/cafastfoodunion.bsky.social/post/3lr7akcfywk2r

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Build, Baby, Build! The World Needs Your Light – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 30 May 2025 16:31:00 +0000

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood before a group of students and asked them: What is your life’s blueprint? Nearly 60 years later, that question still echoes louder than ever.

We’re living in a time of weaponized exhaustion. Democracy is being undermined, basic human rights are under attack, and billionaires are playing dictator, gleefully sentencing millions to death by slashing desperately needed aid. But history shows us again and again: when the forces of destruction rise, ordinary people must rise higher.

Dr. King built a movement in the face of death threats, betrayals, and overwhelming pressure to give up. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott to victory. Our Patreon community came together to discuss his powerful instructional memoir, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. We’re called to lead our own. Whether you’re boycotting companies that cave to fascism or marching on June 14 at the No Kings March, every action matters. Join a community, find your people, and check out the Gaslit Nation Action Guide at GaslitNationPod.com.

The arc of justice won’t bend itself. Our job is to build, baby, build. Build movements. Build communities. Build a world where everyone’s light can shine.

So what’s your blueprint? The world needs your light.

Sensitivity warning: The full conversation on Patreon includes themes related to religion and spirituality, including references to church, faith, and astrology. These topics may be sensitive or triggering for some members based on personal beliefs, experiences, or cultural backgrounds. Engage with care and take the space you need. Thank you!

Show Notes:

Full discussion of Stride Toward Freedom from Gaslit Nation's salon available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/build-baby-build-130278922?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Martin Luther King, Jr.: "What Is Your Life's Blueprint?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmtOGXreTOU&t=10s

No King’s March June 14 2025: https://indivisible.org/statements/indivisible-and-partners-announce-no-kings-nationwide-day-defiance-flag-day-during

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html

Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

In addition to Musk, multiple top DOGE officials leaving Trump administration: Sources https://abcnews.go.com/US/addition-musk-multiple-top-doge-officials-leaving-trump/story?id=122321780

As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests: The president and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html

Women account for 28% of lawmakers in the 119th Congress – unchanged from the last Congress https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/21/women-account-for-28-of-lawmakers-in-the-119th-congress-unchanged-from-the-last-congress/

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gay-revolution-the-story-of-the-struggle-lillian-faderman/16646200?ean=9781451694123&next=t

Musk's SpaceX town in Texas warns residents they may lose right to 'continue using' their property https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/29/elon-musk-spacex-starbase-texas.html

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Build, Baby, Build! The World Needs Your Light – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 30 May 2025 16:31:00 +0000

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood before a group of students and asked them: What is your life’s blueprint? Nearly 60 years later, that question still echoes louder than ever.

The arc of justice won’t bend itself. Our job is to build, baby, build. Build movements. Build communities. Build a world where everyone’s light can shine.

So what’s your blueprint? The world needs your light.

Show Notes:

Martin Luther King, Jr.: "What Is Your Life's Blueprint?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmtOGXreTOU&t=10s

No King’s March June 14 2025: https://indivisible.org/statements/indivisible-and-partners-announce-no-kings-nationwide-day-defiance-flag-day-during

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html

Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

In addition to Musk, multiple top DOGE officials leaving Trump administration: Sources https://abcnews.go.com/US/addition-musk-multiple-top-doge-officials-leaving-trump/story?id=122321780

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gay-revolution-the-story-of-the-struggle-lillian-faderman/16646200?ean=9781451694123&next=t

Musk's SpaceX town in Texas warns residents they may lose right to 'continue using' their property https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/29/elon-musk-spacex-starbase-texas.html

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

LA FAUTE DES FLEURS • a portrait of Kazuki Tomokawa (official teaser)

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Wed, 28 May 2025 09:33:56 +0000

This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.

TEASER – We Can Overcome Oligarchy

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:30:00 +0000

How much have the Trumps made since returning to power? According to The New York Times, a staggering $2 billion in the last month alone. From Russia to the Middle East, the Trumps have long cultivated ties with the global oligarchy, welcoming support from some of the world’s most repressive regimes to gain power in 2016 and, now, to enrich themselves.

You’ve likely heard about the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian operatives. And perhaps you know about Trump’s covert meeting with sanctioned Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during the UN General Assembly that September. But what about the August 2016 Trump Tower meeting involving the Trump campaign and envoys from several Middle Eastern dictatorships?

In this week’s bonus episode, we revisit the explosive 2018 reporting that detailed this secretive gathering, now more relevant than ever as Trump embarks on what can only be described as a Middle East cash-grab tour. Among the key figures: convicted pedophile and Trump ally George Nader, and Joel Zamel, an Israeli operative with links to Russian intelligence and expertise in digital influence warfare.

To help make sense of the chaos, and chart a path through it, we continue our conversation with Olga Lautman, a leading expert on the Russian mafia and transnational kleptocracy. It’s a deep dive into how the oligarchy operates, and how we resist it.

Thank you to everyone who supports Gaslit Nation–we could not make this show without you!

Show Notes:

The Trumps Get Richer: We take a look at the Trump family’s business deals. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/briefing/trump-family-business.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HE8.DPvg.yMtnHvgKpHjK&smid=url-share

George Nader pleads guilty to child sex crimes https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/politics/george-nader-plea

Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/politics/trump-jr-saudi-uae-nader-prince-zamel.html

Early Gaslit Nation episode on Andrea meeting a Russian agent in the 2016 Trump Tower meeting: https://youtu.be/gftsj4PVbvc?si=A8fGSATV1anM_AKd

Olga Lautman’s Trump Tyranny Tracker: https://trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Pope Leo and Opus Dei – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 09 May 2025 18:39:00 +0000

Fifteen years after Sarah Silverman’s viral call to “Sell the Vatican, Feed the World,” we now have a “Marxist Pope,” according to Trump stormtrooper Laura Loomer, and our wildest dreams. This week for Gaslit Nation’s bonus show, we dive into the groundbreaking election of the first American pope, Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, whose ancestry ties him to Black lineage. While many celebrate this historic milestone, deeper questions remain.

Most crucially, Pope Leo’s stance on Opus Dei, a secretive, powerful crime cult aligned with far-right politics and accused of human trafficking and labor abuses, remains unclear, especially given his close connections to Opus Dei in Peru. By Vatican standards, Pope Francis launched an open war on Opus Dei. (Fun fact: Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent and traitor who spied for the Kremlin, was an Opus Dei member).

Pope Francis began the work of reigning in Opus Dei’s unchecked power. Pope Leo, seen as a moderate administrator, played both sides during his tenure in Peru, where Opus Dei holds sway. Will he now take bold action to finish Francis’s mission, and protect the world from Opus Dei, especially America where Opus Dei has been expanding its influence in Washington, DC, thanks to allies Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society and Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025?

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

May 26 4pm ET – Book club discussion of Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

Show Notes:

‘Papabile’ of the Day: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost https://cruxnow.com/papal-transition/2025/05/papabile-of-the-day-cardinal-robert-francis-prevost

Trump’s New Favorite Adviser Starts MAGA Meltdown Over ‘TDS’ Pope https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-advisor-laura-loomer-starts-maga-meltdown-over-tds-pope/

The Far Right is Coming for the Vatican https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/the-far-right-is-coming-for-the-vatican

Catholic Church To Excommunicate Priests for Following New US State Law https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-excommunicate-priests-following-new-us-state-law-2069039

Opus Dei: The Gaslit Nation Gareth Gore Interview: https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2024/12/31/opus-dei?rq=Gareth%20Gore

Mafia boss breaks silence over Roberto Calvi killing: This article is more than 13 years old Godfather turned supergrass accused of murder of 'God's banker' claims case will never be solved https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/may/12/roberto-calvi-blackfriars-bridge-mafia

Surveillance Self-Defense: A Presentation by the Gaslit Nation Security Committee https://www.patreon.com/posts/surveillance-128381880?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Parable of the Sower: Gaslit Nation Book Club Discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/zoom-link-for-et-128213704?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

The Sounds of Abkhazia • teaser

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:37:21 +0000

This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.

TEASER – Ignore the Edgelords. Build Political Power

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:34:00 +0000

There’s a reason the loudest voices online are often the least helpful. The edgelords, those who posture with performative rage, contrarian hot takes, and a cynical flair for nihilism, aren’t trying to build anything. Their goal isn’t liberation. It’s clout.

But we don’t have time for clout. We’re living through a coordinated, well-funded, global assault on democracy. In the U.S., basic freedoms are under attack, from reproductive rights to the ability to teach honest history in schools. While the edgelords are busy fighting each other for likes and retweets, authoritarians are organizing, legislating, and winning.

We need to focus.

Real change happens when people organize, not just online, but in communities, city councils, state legislatures, and the courts. Building political power means showing up to vote, yes, because not voting is voting, but also recruiting candidates, knocking on doors, demanding judicial accountability, and refusing to be distracted by culture war bait.

Want to know who to trust in the influencer economy’s crowded marketplace of ideas? Prioritize the voices who are brave and smart by pointing out the obvious truth: the only way out is by building political power. The far-right knows that, which is why they work so hard to suppress the vote. Political power is what taxes the rich, enforces the good laws we have, repeals the bad ones, and forces accountability. You cannot do those things unless you are in power.

So ignore the noise. Turn down the doomscrolling and tune in to your community. Find the people doing the work: mutual aid organizers, voting rights advocates, school board watchdogs, and back them up.

Ignore the edgelords. Build political power. It’s the only way we win.

Show Notes:

Opening Clip: Pat Bondi pretends to care about the rule of law: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lnnprevixu2y

Bella Ciao by Pink Martini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksj5lCh-JSo

Terrell Starr’s Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack: https://terrellstarr.com/

FBI arrests Milwaukee judge, alleging she interfered in immigration operation https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-arrests-milwaukee-judge-alleging-interfered-immigration-operation-rcna203006

Former New Mexico judge and wife arrested on charges of tampering with evidence linked to suspected Tren de Aragua member https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/us/new-mexico-judge-arrested-tren-de-aragua/index.html

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

April 28 4pm ET – Book club discussion of Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:44:00 +0000

Why did Trump hit 185 countries with tariffs, even uninhabited islands of penguins near Antarctica, but not Russia and its vassal state Belarus, used to wage Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine? It’s almost like Trump is a Russian asset, repaying Russia for helping him rise to power twice and for all the easy money he received over the years when no credible institution would lend to this trust-fund kid who went bankrupt six times.

But why crash the global economy? The answer only makes sense if you’re Putin. As a dictator with no electoral pressure, Putin benefits from destabilizing democracies. By causing economic chaos, he weakens his competitors and fuels backlash against incumbents—exactly what helped Trump return to power in 2024. When you factor in election hacking and influence operations, it becomes clear: crashing the global economy gives the Kremlin an advantage in manipulating elections worldwide. This pressure on elected officials, like Keir Starmer in the UK or Macron in France, plays into Putin’s hands. Trump’s actions seem to align with that strategy.

In this week’s bonus episode, we discuss Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy from our recent Gaslit Nation book club. On April 7 at 4 PM ET, the Security Committee will present on protecting our digital world in a dystopian era. Then, on April 14, we’ll host a live taping with Patrick Guarasci, strategist behind Judge Susan Crawford’s victory in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, to discuss how to fight and win righteous battles, even if you’re up against the richest man in the world.

Thank you to all who support Gaslit Nation–we could not make the show without you!

Show Notes:

Read From Dictatorship to Democracy. It’s free! https://archive.org/details/from_dictatorship_to_democracy_1306_librivox

Trump’s tariffs: Why are Russia and Belarus spared? https://www.dw.com/en/trumps-tariffs-why-are-russia-and-belarus-spared/a-72150328

Opening: https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3llwfjnhjwc22

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

April 7 4pm ET – Security Committee Presents at the Gaslit Nation Salon. Don’t miss it!
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Unpacking SignalGate with Olga Lautman – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:36:00 +0000

In this week's Gaslit Nation bonus show, we’re joined by Olga Lautman, an expert on the Russian mafia. Her Substack, Trump Tyranny Tracker, is a vital resource documenting Trump’s war against America, and the global war of fascism vs. democracy.

Olga made headlines recently by exposing connections between Trump’s National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, and Russia, connected to SignalGate. (We call it the Kremlin Klown Kar for a reason!) Olga breaks down the implications of SignalGate and Trump’s Putin-backed war against our democracy.

We also discuss a disturbing trend: an anti-war Russian scientist at Harvard was detained at immigration and faces deportation back to Russia, where she could be imprisoned or worse. This escalates alarm bells that the Trump regime is “disappearing” people, starting with the most vulnerable.

Olga offers insights on recent victories like the historic Democratic win in deep-red Trump country in Pennsylvania, as well as Trump’s ongoing efforts to suppress votes and carry out his next coup. We also discuss whether to stay and fight or flee the country.

Stay and fight! Fleeing abroad, especially this early, is like obeying in advance.

Thank you to everyone who supports Gaslit Nation–we could not make this show without you! To listen to the full episode and get all bonus shows, all shows ad-free, and more, be sure to join our community on Patreon.com/Gaslit - discounted annual subscriptions are available.

Show Notes:

Tell Gov. Kathy Hochul NO mask ban in New York state! https://action.aclu.org/send-message/say-no-mask-bans-new-york

Signalgate: Trump Tries To Dodge Explosive National Security Scandal | All Of Them Should Be Fired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihHU3IVVrfM&t=552s

Don't miss out on our upcoming Gaslit Nation book club discussion and more. For all the details, check the show notes! For March, we’re reading Gene Sharp’s revolutionary handbook From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which informed revolts in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, Hong Kong, and beyond. Our March 31st salon at 4pm will open with a book club discussion of Dictatorship to Democracy. For April, we’re reading (if you haven’t already!) Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower, and May’s book club pick is Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warefare And Underground Operations. Get ready to make some good trouble!

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

March 31 4pm ET – Gaslit Nation Book Club: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which informed revolts in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, Hong Kong, and beyond
NEW! April 7 4pm ET – Security Committee Presents at the Gaslit Nation Salon. Don’t miss it!
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Controlled Opposition – TEASER

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:45:00 +0000

What’s the Republican spending bill all about? It’s an extremely dangerous powergab engineered by Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and dirty lawyer who came up with the legal strategy to try to overturn the 2020 election. The Republican spending bill essentially grants legal protections to Trump and Musk’s ongoing illegal mass purge, to protect them against court orders–one of the last levers of power we have left. Any Democrat who votes for this is complicit in Trump and Musk’s tech-backed coup, illegally mass firing federal workers to replace them with an A.I. surveillance state.

This week’s episode continues our conversation with Gil Durán of the Third Reich and FrameLab newsletters on Controlled Opposition—those Vichy Democrats who refuse to stand up to the fascist Republicans in power. But why? What’s in it for them? In a dictatorship, no one is safe—not even former allies like Putin, who’ve found themselves mysteriously falling out of windows or exploding mid-air. Why are some Democrats still playing the role of complicit bystanders?

The Senate is gearing up to vote on the extreme Republican spending bill, which slashes life-saving programs like Head Start and community health centers, while funneling billions to the Pentagon and Homeland Security. At a time when Trump is threatening to invade Canada and Greenland, and ICE is denying due process to green card holders like Mahmoud Khalil, the stakes couldn’t be higher. The bill also cuts Washington, DC’s budget—an attempt to punish the city for daring to protest Trump’s corrupt regime.

But here's the thing: shutting down the government doesn’t empower Trump or Musk—it forces Democrats to get on the front lines and expose the Republican spending bill for what it really is: a power grab designed to protect Trump and Musk’s illegal tech-backed coup.

There’s hope, though. While Trump and Musk face a future of justice (their approval ratings are plummeting), we need to keep fighting back.

Show Notes:

The Nerd Reich https://www.thenerdreich.com/

FrameLab https://www.theframelab.org/

Chuck Schumer and Senate Dems are expected to help advance the GOP spending bill, which Republicans say would let Trump defund whatever projects he wants https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-republican-cr-budget-bill-nightmare-democrats-1235296004/

The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Rep. Al Green are misreading the moment https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/al-green-trump-resistance-democracy-rcna195314

Crypto cash is flooding the 2024 election. Here’s who’s benefiting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/crypto-firms-candidates-house-senate-election-2024/

Facebook cofounder Sean Parker illegally damages redwood forest for fantasy Game of Thrones wedding https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/crypto-firms-candidates-house-senate-election-2024/

Rep. Al Green Speaking in Congress https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3ljo4v6aip223

Congressional Supporters of Al Green Sing “We Shall Overcome” in Congress https://bsky.app/profile/ariellaelm.bsky.social/post/3ljqoabwcps2i

Some Democrats Endorse Bill Allowing Elon Musk to Create His Own Currency The GENIUS Act is the first pro-crypto bill Republicans want to rush through this Congress. Thanks to industry money, several Democrats are ignoring the bill’s major problems. https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-10-some-democrats-endorse-bill-allowing-elon-musk-create-own-currency/

These 10 Democrats voted to censure Al Green https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5180324-10-house-democrats-censure-al-green/

Announcement! Are you concerned about what the broligarchy is doing with your data but feeling overwhelmed by all the tech? Do you get frustrated by the erosion of your sense of privacy and yet are unsure of what steps you, as a non-techie individual, can do?

Join us on Monday April 7th for a special edition of the Gaslit Nation salon when representatives from the Gaslit Nation Security Committee will share a plan for taking control of your data, protecting your privacy, and regaining data sovereignty in an age of surveillance capitalism.

This presentation will be geared towards non-techies and will help you prioritize steps you can take today to secure your data. Attendees will receive the following documents in a PDF: surveillance awareness self-assessment, prioritized action plan checklist, a calendar for the first thirty days of taking control of your data, and a copy of the presentation slides.

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

March 17 4pm ET – Dr. Lisa Corrigan joins our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss America’s private prison crisis in an age of fascist scapegoating
March 31 4pm ET – Gaslit Nation Book Club: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which informed revolts in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, Hong Kong, and beyond
NEW! April 7 4pm ET – Security Committee Presents at the Gaslit Nation Salon. Don’t miss it!
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

TEASER – Book Club: The Stranger and Man’s Search for Meaning

Andrea Chalupa — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:31:00 +0000

This motivating discussion was supposed to run earlier, but then the third year anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine was marked by Trump viciously reminding the world he works for Russia by kicking Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House, after he, Vance, and MTG’s boyfriend tried to ambush the war hero.

In our recorded first ever Gaslit Nation book club, we discussed Albert Camus’ The Stranger (Matthew Ward translation) and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, to see what wisdom they hold for us today, and how these two works “talk to each other.”

For March, we’re reading Gene Sharp’s revolutionary handbook From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which informed revolts in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, Hong Kong, and beyond. Our March 31st salon at 4pm will open with a book club discussion of Dictatorship to Democracy. For April, we’re reading (if you haven’t already!) Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower, and May’s book club pick is Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warefare And Underground Operations. Get ready to make some good trouble!

To hear the full discussion, be sure to join our community on Patreon. Thank you to everyone who supports Gaslit Nation–we could not make this show without you!

EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

March 17 4pm ET – Dr. Lisa Corrigan joins our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss America’s private prison crisis in an age of fascist scapegoating
March 31 4pm ET – Gaslit Nation Book Club: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which informed revolts in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, Hong Kong, and beyond
NEW! April 7 4pm ET – Security Committee Presents at the Gaslit Nation Salon. Don’t miss it!
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available here
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available here
Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

TEASER – Hey EU, Pass an Ivanka Trump Travel Ban

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

To help us navigate these dark times, Gaslit Nation will hold our first book club. Join us next Monday, February 24, at 4pm ET for a salon discussion on two profound works: Albert Camus’ The Stranger (the Matthew Ward translation) and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. These books capture the emotional truth of our era. Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and psychologist, offers extraordinary insights into how people confronted genocide in death camps. His account of prisoners organizing cabarets and finding spiritual connections, even in the face of death, is both harrowing and inspiring. Man’s Search for Meaning is essential reading for understanding how casual sadism, like Elon Musk’s highly illegal mass purge of live-saving government programs, is already taking root in the U.S.

This week’s bonus show also features a continuation of our conversations with Elie Mystal, author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America, on why we need an EU travel ban of Ivanka Trump and others complicit in the destruction of democracy in America, and investigative journalist Greg Palast, director of Vigilantes, Inc., a must-see film about the GOP’s war on democracy. To access the full episode, join our Patreon community at Patreon.com/Gaslit.

As we face these turbulent times, Gaslit Nation remains committed to shedding light on the truth. Stay tuned for our all-new episode this Tuesday. Together, we can weather this storm and reclaim our democracy.

Show Notes:

Watch Vigilantes, Inc. for free, by Greg Palast: https://www.gregpalast.com/vigilantes-inc-stream-for-free/

Bad Law Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America https://thenewpress.com/books/bad-law

Events at Gaslit Nation

Feb 24 4pm ET – Gaslit Nation Book Club at our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss Albert Camu’s The Stranger (Matthew Ward translation) and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
March 17 4pm ET – Dr. Lisa Corrigan joins our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss America’s private prison crisis in an age of fascist scapegoating
NEW! Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
ONGOING! Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
NEW! Climate Crisis Committee launched in the Patreon Chat thanks to a Gaslit Nation listener who holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences
NEW! Caretaker Committee launched in the Patreon Chat for our listeners who are caretakers and want to share resources, vent, and find community
NEW! Public Safety page added to GaslitNationPod.com to help you better protect yourself from this lunacy (i.e. track recalls, virus threats, and more!)
ONGOING! Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
ONGOING! Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

TEASER – How to Stop a Mafia State

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:06:00 +0000

This week’s bonus show is our live recording with Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman, who answers listener questions about combating the Russian-backed fascist threat of the Musk/Trump regime. We also discuss Trump and Russia’s attempts to strongarm Ukraine into a deal that would buy Russia time to continue its genocidal invasion. Don’t miss this special episode.

A heartfelt thank you to all our Gaslit Nation supporters. This show wouldn’t be possible without you. Together, we’re shining a light on the truth and fighting for a better future.

Show Notes:

Olga Lautman Substack: https://trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/

Events at Gaslit Nation

Feb 24 4pm ET – Gaslit Nation Book Club at our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss Albert Camu’s The Stranger (Matthew Ward translation) and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
March 17 4pm ET – Dr. Lisa Corrigan joins our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss America’s private prison crisis in an age of fascist scapegoating
NEW! Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
ONGOING! Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
NEW! Climate Crisis Committee launched in the Patreon Chat thanks to a Gaslit Nation listener who holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences
NEW! Caretaker Committee launched in the Patreon Chat for our listeners who are caretakers and want to share resources, vent, and find community
NEW! Public Safety page added to GaslitNationPod.com to help you better protect yourself from this lunacy (i.e. track recalls, virus threats, and more!)
ONGOING! Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
ONGOING! Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

TEASER – Divided We Fall, United We Fight Oligarchy

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Don’t count America out just yet! Democrats flipped a state Senate seat in Iowa, in a district Trump won by 21 percent—a resounding rebuke to the psychopath in the White House. In an election year that saw incumbents lose all over the world, Trump barely scraped by with one of the narrowest victories in generations, even with the help of the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, bribing voters, rampant far-right disinformation, voter suppression laws, several Russian bomb threats, and GOP ratf*cking—everything we covered on the show during the 2024 election, asking, “Is anyone going to do anything, Merrick Garland?”

Americans are notoriously fickle, flipping back and forth between parties 16 times since 2000. Expect a shift in the midterms and a potential flip in the 2028 presidential election. But here’s the real question: what if our elections have become as fake as Russia’s? We’ll dive into that in an upcoming episode to explore what leverage we have left to protect the integrity of our vote.

What matters most now is unity in opposition to Trump. But how can we come together when so much resentment remains over who refused to vote for Kamala Harris out of protest and encouraged others to do the same. In this week’s bonus show of Gaslit Nation, Andrea and Terrell Starr from the Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack discuss how we can set aside our differences, forgive the past, and unite for the future of our democracy. It’s the beginning of a tough conversation that ignited online after Trump essentially called for ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the deportation of pro-Palestinian protesters here at home—an outcome many of us warned about when we urged people to vote for the sake of humanity’s survival.

Show Notes:

Rachel Maddow episode that includes segment on Curtis Yarvin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UdHdjuodPg

Transcript: Rachel Maddow episode that includes segment on Curtis Yarvin: https://www.happyscribe.com/public/the-rachel-maddow-show/exclusive-rachel-maddow-interviews-mn-governor-tim-walz-as-trump-plots-end-of-u-s

New York Times profile of Curtis Yarvin (gift article) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU4.5F3W.Vw3JZNQC_UYS&smid=url-share

Terrell Starr // Black Diplomats Substack https://substack.com/@terrellstarr

The size of Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, explained in 5 charts https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-size-of-donald-trumps-2024-election-victory-explained-in-5-charts

Trump’s Gaza proposal rejected by allies and condemned as ethnic cleansing plan https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause

Iowa Democrats flip Senate seat in special election to cut into Republican majority https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/28/iowa-democrats-flip-senate-seat-in-special-election-chris-cournoyer/77999519007/

Don’t Let Liberal Purity Elect Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/opinion/gaza-harris-trump.html

Events at Gaslit Nation

Feb 3 4:30pm ET – Dr. Meena Bewtra of Doctors for America joins our Gaslit Nation Salon to share how to protect Obamacare and medicaid
Feb 7 8:30pm ET - Gaslit Nation Board Game Night! We’re playing Codenames. Here’s a primer: https://youtu.be/zQVHkl8oQEU?si=YjkUvZa9XQQTVlF8
Feb 10 4pm ET – Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman joins our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss Russia, Ukraine, and Trump
Feb 24 4pm ET – Gaslit Nation Book Club at our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss Albert Camu’s The Stranger (Matthew Ward translation) and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
March 17 4pm ET – Dr. Lisa Corrigan joins our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss America’s private prison crisis in an age of fascist scapegoating
NEW! Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon
ONGOING! Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon
NEW! Climate Crisis Committee launched in the Patreon Chat thanks to a Gaslit Nation listener who holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences
NEW! Caretaker Committee launched in the Patreon Chat for our listeners who are caretakers and want to share resources, vent, and find community
NEW! Public Safety page added to GaslitNationPod.com to help you better protect yourself from this lunacy (i.e. track recalls, virus threats, and more!) https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/public-safety
ONGOING! Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet? It’s available on GaslitNationPod.com https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/survey-reject-hypernormalization
ONGOING! Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community
Thank you to everyone who supports the show!

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

TEASER – Trump Ushers in the Chinese Century

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:30:00 +0000

What’s the easiest way for dictator Xi Jinping of China to invade Taiwan? Bribe the President of the United States! Trump’s loyalty lies in enriching himself and his family, all thanks to the highest bidder – including China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and others. As China shows more signs of preparing to invade Taiwan, Musk’s Twitter is normalizing this very idea. Andrea and Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman discuss this and more, including Trump and Melania’s meme coin cash grab, in this week’s Gaslit Nation bonus show. We also cover ways to fight back, even if things seem to spiral out of control.

Olga Lautman will join the Gaslit Nation Salon on February 10 at 4pm ET! And don’t miss our Gaslit Nation Game Night on Friday, February 7 at 8:30pm ET—we’ll be playing Codenames! For game night, make sure to create a free account on BoardGameArena.com. Zoom links will be shared the morning of the events on Patreon.com/Gaslit, so be sure to subscribe and help support the show!

Show Notes:

Check out Olga Lautman’s Substack! https://substack.com/@olgalautman?utm_source=profile-page

Opening Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xvJYrSsXPA

Excellent thread on Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan’s lawsuits holding corporate giants accountable: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1880370418932150623.html

Trump’s Crypto Meme Coin Is His Most Lucrative Get-Rich Scheme Yet https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-just-happened-with-usdtrump-and-usdmelania-meme-coins.html

China Suddenly Building Fleet Of Special Barges Suitable For Taiwan Landings https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/01/china-suddenly-building-fleet-of-special-barges-suitable-for-taiwan-landings/

Man says his binned Bitcoin fortune now worth £500m https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr0dyy152jo

ICYMI: Here are previous documents the Security Committee has shared:

• Tech Travel Tips : https://web.tresorit.com/l/hmKP6#FFHiLuu45pSJtMo_Z9Zp9Q

• Why defending your right to privacy is important: https://web.tresorit.com/l/73FHq#ip5_zE6hhWkuaDMBAAhpYw

• Introduction to VPN https://web.tresorit.com/l/WHdqz#-zI5O7Q2zHznO_NG7aZWPQ

• Three Security Steps to Take Today: https://web.tresorit.com/l/417K9#CaDJOcOrEOta4T5oDlNsYw

• Practice Safe Data Security: https://web.tresorit.com/l/hiw9s#wOykkL6Lh_Hz_TbRsiCiEQ

Read all the details in the PDF here: https://web.tresorit.com/l/W6ots#IydZ2pnTmE1MLPJLkLZ73A

For the Gaslit Nation Book Club – First Meeting at the Gaslit Nation Salon on February 24 at 4pm ET:

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl https://bookshop.org/p/books/man-s-search-for-meaning-viktor-e-frankl/8996943?ean=9780807014271

The Stranger: Introduction by Keith Gore Albert Camus (Author) Matthew Ward (Translator) https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-stranger-introduction-by-keith-gore-albert-camus/18890716?ean=9780679420262

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

JAKARTA JAKARTA! (official teaser)

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:01:27 +0000

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TEASER – Ben Wikler for DNC Chair

Andrea Chalupa — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:08:00 +0000

Announcement! If you’re a Gaslit Nation supporter on Patreon, join us for the first ever Gaslit Nation Game Night this Friday at 8:30pm ET, organized by Gaslit Nation listeners. The game of the night will either be Codenames or Chameleon. The Zoom link is posted in the Victory Chat as well as this episode page on Patreon!

When it comes to the DNC Chair election on February 1st, the only choice is Ben Wikler, chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin since July 2019. None of the other candidates, except for Ken Martin, the state chair of the Democratic Party in Minnesota, even come close. Why? Because, unlike Martin, Wikler has faced off with the worst of our national demons in Wisconsin—a state that’s long been a laboratory for GOP autocracy, as detailed in Ari Berman’s must-read book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It.

In this week’s bonus show Q&A, shaped by our Democracy Defender-level supporters and higher, we make the case for Wikler and break down the dynamics of a race that could shape not only the future of the Democratic Party but the soul of America.

We also dive into the People’s March, formerly the Women’s March, and announce the Gaslit Nation sign contest for the best protest sign! Join Andrea at the march in New York City at 10 AM on Saturday, January 18th—details to come! To find a People’s March near you, or to help organize one if there isn’t already one in your area, check out this handy guide: https://map.peoplesmarch.com/local

If you didn’t hear your question answered this week, keep an eye out for it soon as the Gaslit Nation Q&A continues! To our Democracy Defender-level folks and higher, submit your questions in a private message for the next Q&A!

Thank you to everyone who supports the show—we couldn’t make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Books:

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures By Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, the marine biologist behind the Blue New Deal: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645855/what-if-we-get-it-right-by-ayana-elizabeth-johnson/
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by journalist David Wallace-Wells https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-uninhabitable-earth-life-after-warming-david-wallace-wells/12097261?ean=9780525576716
The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, two of the architects of the Paris Climate Agreement https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-future-we-choose-the-stubborn-optimist-s-guide-to-the-climate-crisis-christiana-figueres/13156367?aid=1676&ean=9780593080931&listref=caring-for-the-earth-each-other-practicing-sustainable-living

Reading:

Researcher Jenny Cohn wrote a disturbing thread about Sillicon Valley bro-fascists setting their sights on Greenland: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1877052010559844478.html?utm_campaign=topunroll
Historian Timothy Snyder on why the U.S. needs a Shadow Cabinet, like the U.K.: https://snyder.substack.com/p/shadow-cabinet
A bombshell report confirming that Russian intelligence paid tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban to target American coalition forces in Afghanistan. What is Trump going to do about this as president? https://theins.ru/en/politics/277723

The Gerrymander Has Been Slayed: Wisconsinites Get Fair Maps for 2024 Election https://campaignlegal.org/update/gerrymander-has-been-slayed-wisconsinites-get-fair-maps-2024-election

As Democrats Reel, Two Front-Runners Emerge in a Leadership Battle The race to lead the Democratic National Committee centers on the favorites, Ken Martin and Ben Wikler, but the party’s infighting over them looks nothing like a broad reckoning with its 2024 defeats. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/politics/dnc-race-ben-wikler-ken-martin.html

The People’s March Website: https://www.peoplesmarch.com/

Trump’s inauguration coincides with an unprecedented string of high-stakes security events in DC https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-security-a3df8ed878f2c0587f7038d68a0447f6

FTC antitrust case against Meta can move to trial, court rules. The decision marks a victory for the agency and its Democratic chair, Lina Khan, after early legal setbacks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/13/meta-ftc-antitrust/

Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It https://bookshop.org/p/books/minority-rule-ari-berman/19994801?ean=9780374600211

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VINCENT MOON’S LIVE CINÉMA (official teaser)

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:00:06 +0000

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TEASER – Dr. Emma Briant on Combating Disinformation

Andrea Chalupa — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:56:00 +0000

Good news! Staying off social media is good for your mental health and countering disinformation. In this week's Gaslit Nation bonus show, listen to an excerpt of our inspiring live interview with Dr. Emma Briant, one of the world’s foremost experts on disinformation warfare and propaganda. Dr. Briant, co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on the Influence Industry and author of Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change, shares invaluable insights into the weapons of global propaganda. Check out her latest article in the Index on Censorship on how disinformation warfare is being waged on academia.

Our discussion was recorded at Monday's Gaslit Nation political salon with our Patreon community. Thank you to all who attended and asked great questions! To hear the full discussion, be sure to subscribe at the Truth-teller ($5/month) tier or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit!

Gaslit Nation returns with all-new episodes on January 7th! We’re excited to continue this fight for truth and justice with you—together, we can plant the seeds of meaningful change. Democracy Defender ($10/month) and higher supporters, don’t forget to submit your questions for our upcoming bonus show Q&A!

Thank you to everyone who supports the show–we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Meet Dr. Emma Briant: https://emma-briant.co.uk/

Can academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control? The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally By Emma Briant https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/academic-freedom-survive-donald-trump-plans-thought-control-universities-colleges-education/

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TEASER – Art is Survival: Churchill the Artist

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Great Britain was woefully unprepared when Hitler's Nazis invaded nearly half of Europe. As the country faced the relentless terror of the Blitz—where cities were bombed like Ukraine is being bombed today by Putin—Churchill was tasked with turning the tide. In the midst of this devastation, he turned to his favorite act of self-care: creating art.

In our ongoing discussion, Robert Schmuhl, author of Mr. Churchill in the White House, explores how painting was a profound source of solace and strength for Churchill. This personal outlet helped shape his leadership during Europe's darkest hour, influencing the fate of the free world. As we always say on Gaslit Nation, art is survival. If you have artwork you’d like to share with our community, we’d love to feature it on our socials. Email us at GaslitNation@gmail.com! For music, we’re happy to play your song on the show—just submit your work using the link in our show notes!

This Monday, during our Gaslit Nation salon on Zoom with our Patreon community, we’re thrilled to welcome disinformation researcher Dr. Emma Briant. Dr. Briant played a pivotal role in exposing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal and is a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry, which includes a chapter on lawfare by Andrea’s sister, Alexandra Chalupa. Dr. Briant will walk us through the mechanics of influence campaigns—how they work, their effects, and, most importantly, how we can fight back. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the leading experts in the field!

Show Notes:

The song featured in this week’s episode is “Free” by Aaron Espe: https://open.spotify.com/track/3M7xHMsoIeNKLkrJ2wY4i6

Submit your song to be featured on Gaslit Nation: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeS7TftV6Vfnw-iasFLepL6FpIj_KFORDLrAlZGH3nLg7i8lA/viewform

Mr. Churchill in the White House The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093428

Clip: The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exABCiPBAVE

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TEASER – Celebrating Syria, Voting and Homelessness, and How to Protect Trans People

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:11:00 +0000

“Ukrainian intelligence sent about 20 experienced drone operators and about 150 first-person-view drones to the rebel headquarters in Idlib, Syria, four to five weeks ago to help Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the leading rebel group based there, the knowledgeable sources said.

The aid from Kyiv played only a modest role in overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Western intelligence sources believe. But it was notable as part of a broader Ukrainian effort to strike covertly at Russian operations in the Middle East, Africa and inside Russia itself.”

–From the Washington Post

In this week's bonus episode, we present a recording from our special Gaslit Nation political salon on Monday, where we honored Syria. This episode offers crucial insights on navigating the complex landscape of Syria's future, highlighting who to trust—and who to be wary of—when it comes to information about the country. We also delve into the disinformation campaigns surrounding Syria and how to prepare for the challenges ahead. Additionally, this week's bonus show features answers to questions from our Democracy Defender-level members and above on voting and homelessness as well as how to protect trans people. Thank you to our Democracy Defender level supporters who help shape the show!

For a good overview of why Assad’s regime collapsed so quickly, read this great analysis by Charles Lister, a senior fellow and director of the Syria and Counterterrorism and Extremism programs at the Middle East Institute: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/05/syria-assad-regime-collapsing-quickly/

For a look at how many “anti-imperialists” on the Left are pro-Assad, read this 2018 piece by Leila Al Shami, co-author of ‘Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War: https://www.madamasr.com/en/2018/04/15/opinion/u/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/

Show Notes:

Syria clip: Clarissa Ward of CNN reports from liberted Syria https://x.com/cnnipr/status/1866471510678135162

An estimated 2.5 million people were forced from their homes in the United States by weather-related disasters in 2023, according to new data from the Census Bureau. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/climate/climate-disasters-survivors-displacement.html

Voting and Homelessness https://www.nonprofitvote.org/voting-and-homelessness/

When Britain and France Almost Merged Into One Country An extraordinary near-miss of history helps explain Brexit. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/08/dunkirk-brexit/536106/

People to Follow for Syria & Other World News:

Michael Weiss (Bluesky)
Oz Katerji (Bluesky)
Eliot Higgins (Bluesky)
Fared Al Mahlool (Bluesky)
Leila Al-Shami (Bluesky)
Olga Lautman (Bluesky)
Philip Obaji Jr. (Bluesky)
Shashank Joshi (Bluesky)

Support Trans People

Erin in the Morning (Substack)
Protect the LGBTQ Community: An Interview with Chase Strangio of the ACLU https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2022/5/26/chase-strangio-interview
Moral Panic: Fact-Checking the War on Trans Kids https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2024/9/10/moral-panic-fact-checking-the-war-on-trans-kids

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ENTRE OS DOIS – 13 films from Brazil (official teaser)

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:41:46 +0000

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EL ANTISOL NEGRO • 10 music films in Barcelona • official teaser

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:45:41 +0000

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TEASER – The Jill Stein Voter Guide

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:39:00 +0000

This week’s bonus show features Part II of our conversation with psychiatrist and bestselling author Dr. Bandy Lee. We dive into the phenomenon of “Trump contagion,” strategies for handling MAGA cultists in your life (including how to respond if harassed in public), whether Trump is the Antichrist (spoiler: he is!), and whether Trump staged the recent assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

This week's show also answers a pressing question from a listener. Democracy Defender Patreon supporter Melissa asks: “If you or anyone else has any good reads to recommend on the Green Party and its origins, would love to read it as they are clearly now a Kremlin owned and operated effort to divide and conquer the left.” Melissa, we’ve got you covered! Check out our Jill Stein Voter Guide Super Special.

If you know someone considering a vote for Jill Stein, share this special episode highlighting her troubling track record of hypocrisy. Despite being labeled a “peace candidate,” Jill Stein is a multimillionaire profiting from investments in the military-industrial complexand fossil fuels.

Interestingly, the European Green Party has called for Jill Stein to withdraw from the race and endorse Kamala Harris, stating: “With wars raging and authoritarianism on the rise, Europe needs Kamala Harris as President of the United States—a reliable partner who can take urgent action on the climate crisis and foster a just, sustainable peace in the Middle East.”

The European Green family, which consists of Green parties across Europe, has emphasized that their values starkly contrast with those of Jill Stein’s (fake) Green Party. In their statement, they criticized the US Greens for their connections to authoritarian leaders and diverging policies, particularly regarding Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine.

To catch the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Thank you to all our supporters for making this show possible!

Show Notes:

Meet the Working Families Party on Gaslit Nation: https://gaslitnation.libsyn.com/stop-eric-adams-power-grab

Vatnik Soup: Meet Spoiler Candidate Jill Stein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0GFCPsXusI

Bernie Sanders on Gaza and the 2024 Election: https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1851040553745432775

“Zelensky’s frustration is clear—painfully sad, even— after the White House leaked secrets of his victory plan. But should we be surprised? Since 1991, Joe Biden and other Washington elites have been against Ukrainian freedom. Watch:” https://x.com/JPLindsley/status/1851921386513514734

US elections: European Greens call for Jill Stein to step down https://europeangreens.eu/news/us-elections-european-greens-call-for-jill-stein-to-step-down/

I’m an Environmentalist. That’s Why I Can’t Vote Green. Award-winning filmmaker and director of Gasland Josh Fox on why he will never vote for Jill Stein. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/jill-stein-green-party-hypocrite/

Former Green Party presidential candidate cooperates in Russia probe into 2016 election

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/former-green-party-presidential-candidate-cooperates-in-russia-probe-into-2016-election

Jill Stein Will Hand Over Russia-Related Communications to the Senate Investigation https://theintercept.com/2017/12/18/jill-stein-will-hand-over-russia-related-communications-to-senate-commmittee/

Jill Stein's Green Party campaign will be turning down some congressional requests for documentation, calling them “overbroad.” https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/russia-jill-stein-senate-intelligence/

Jill Stein Won’t Stop. No Matter Who Asks. People in Stein’s life have implored her to abandon her bid for president, lest she throw the election to Donald Trump. She’s on the ballot in almost every critical state. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/jill-stein-harris-trump.html

Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party With membership at new lows and no electoral wins to their name, it’s time for the Greens to ditch the malignant narcissist who’s presided over its decline. https://newrepublic.com/article/186004/green-jill-stein-2024-election

Jill Stein pushing Kremlin talking points that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is NATO’s fault: https://www.instagram.com/drjillstein/reel/C-qXXvet419/?hl=en

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TEASER – Gaslit Nation’s Guide: How to Start a Podcast

Andrea Chalupa — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:07:00 +0000

You asked, we delivered! Welcome to Gaslit Nation's Guide: How to Start a Podcast. We’d love to hear about your ideas, progress, and any questions that come up along the way. If there’s enough interest, we’ll host a follow-up workshop to dive deeper and answer everyone’s questions in one place.

Want to hear the full bonus show? Join the conversation with a community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit and get bonus shows, all episodes ad free, submit questions to our regular Q&As, exclusive invites to live events, and more! Annual subscriptions are available! Subscribe today at Patreon.com/Gaslit!

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TEASER – Trump is Terrible for Smal Business Owners: A Guide

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 12:49:00 +0000

A Gaslit Nation listener at the Democracy Defender level asked for a handy guide to help a small business owner considering voting for Trump to reconsider. If you need help convincing the small business owners in your life not to vote against their interests, Gaslit Nation has you covered! This special episode breaks down all the reasons Trump will be disastrous for small business owners, including the bribes they’ll have to pay after Trump finishes turning our country into lawless Russia, which has been the plan all along, as Gaslit Nation first warned.

This week’s bonus show also covers the VP debate. Why didn’t Walz dogwalk Vance like Harris dogwalked Trump? Walz is the guy who coined “weird,” so we know he could have destroyed Vance, listing all the ways he’s a Peter Thiel tool. Why didn’t he? The answer may be in Walz’s closing words. His warnings at the very end gave us important insight and guidance into what to expect in the tense months ahead, as discussed in this week’s bonus show. Our discussion with investigative journalist Greg Palast, about his new must-watch film Vigilantes, Inc., and the audience Q&A at our live-taping, is included in this week’s bonus show. Look out for more live-tapings soon!

To our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher, keep your questions coming as the Gaslit Nation Q&A continues! If you didn’t hear your question answered this week, look out for it soon. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

To hear this full bonus episode, get all shows ad-free, invites to exclusive events, join other listeners in our Victory group chat, and more, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Discounted annual subscriptions available!

Come As You Are Weekly Political Salons! Join us every Monday at 4 PM ET via Zoom! Let’s share frustrations, ask burning questions, seek support, and help shape Gaslit Nation. Everyone’s voice matters—whether you’re a political junkie or just finding your voice, you belong here! Recordings available exclusively on Patreon.

Upcoming Virtual Live Tapings:

October 22 12pm ET: Dr. Bandy Lee, author of The Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Danger to American Democracy and All Humankind
October 24 7pm ET: How to Make a Podcast workshop – we need your voice!

Show Notes:

How to Effectively Communicate in a Time of Polarization: Digital Defenders - Freedom Over Fascism with Anat Shenker-Osorio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8vyp45sEw

Biden’s small-business boom may undercut Trump’s polling edge on economy A record 18.1 million new small businesses have sought to launch since the Democratic president’s inauguration https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bidens-small-business-boom-may-undercut-trumps-economic-edge-41030fa3

Small Business Growth Rising Faster Under Biden and Democrats Than Trump https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/6/small-business-growth-rising-faster-under-biden-and-democrats-than-trump

Biden’s Budget Proposes a New Direct Lending Program for the SBA https://www.inc.com/melissa-angell/bidens-budget-proposes-new-direct-lending-program-for-sba.html

Lawmakers Push Bill to Block the SBA From Expanding Further Into Direct Loans https://www.inc.com/melissa-angell/lawmakers-push-bill-to-block-sba-from-expanding-further-into-direct-loans.html

Biden won't put his name on aid checks (unlike you know who) Last year, Trump prioritized putting his name directly onto COVID relief checks. This year, Joe Biden is more interested in governance than self-promotion. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/biden-won-t-put-his-name-aid-checks-unlike-you-n1260398

The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted https://apnews.com/article/pandemic-fraud-waste-billions-small-business-labor-fb1d9a9eb24857efbe4611344311ae78

Trump Erased Millions of Possible PPP Fraud Flags in Last Days in Office Officials cleared nearly all potential fraud flags given to loans above $2 million just days before Trump left office. https://truthout.org/articles/trump-erased-millions-of-possible-ppp-fraud-flags-in-last-days-in-office/

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TEASER – Gaslit Nation’s Review of “From Russia with Lev”

Andrea Chalupa — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Our hearts are with everyone affected by the devastation of Hurricane Helene. To support those in need, GoFundMe has created a page of verified mutual aid campaigns where you can make a difference: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/hurricane-helene.

In our latest Gaslit Nation 'Come As You Are' Political Salon, we explored the MSNBC documentary From Russia with Lev, diving into its revelations and the critical context it missed. This is an excerpt from Andrea's review, which then goes deeper, highlighting what to watch for in the film and what’s conspicuously absent. In the documentary, Lev Parnas apologizes to Hunter Biden for his role in the scheme to fabricate a scandal aimed at derailing Biden’s 2020 campaign to help keep Trump in power. Andrea also shares a list of others to whom Parnas owes an apology—starting with her sister, Alexandra Chalupa, the former DNC consultant who risked her life to sound the alarm to both Democratic and Republican leaders, as well as the media and public, about Russia’s interference in our democracy to install Trump in 2016, part of a Kremlin-led campaign of state capture.

Join us every Monday at 4 p.m. ET for our Gaslit Nation political salons on Zoom, exclusively for Truth-teller level patrons and higher. It’s a chance to vent, ask questions, and connect with fellow listeners. We’re also hosting a special VP debate night watch party in our Victory group chat. Don’t miss out—discounted annual subscriptions are available! To join, visit us at Patreon.com/Gaslit.

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

TEASER – Who Should Be the Next Attorney General?

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:00:00 +0000

Our hearts go out to the people impacted by Hurricane Helene and their anti-government governments, who will be replaced one day with public servants, which is what this conversation is about. To help those who are impacted, there’s a resource on where to donate in the show notes. (Do not choose the Red Cross, for reasons explained in the show notes). Thank you.

Thank you to everyone who joined our live taping with Laboratories of Autocracy and Saving Democracy author David Pepper, who is not just a democracy warrior, but also the mastermind behind the new podcast series Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Picture this: short, terrifying vignettes with a cast so star-studded, you'd think it was Hollywood's last gasp before a fascist takeover—J. Smith-Cameron, Fisher Stevens, Richard Schiff, Morgan Fairchild, Omid Abtahi, and many more! We previewed "Chapter 2" of the series–it’s the audio equivalent of a cold sweat. You can listen to it [here].

Democrats have been playing defense for so long, they've forgotten what offense looks like. "There are two million uncontested races out there," David pointed out, which is about as comforting as knowing JD Vance’s particular brand of weird fills the halls of power in Republican hostage states. David also shared the story of how he got a call out of the blue from Vice President Kamala Harris last spring, to discuss ways to fight back. Thanks to the audience Q&A, he shared who he thinks should be her Attorney General—should she win, of course.

Want to make that dream a reality? Join the fight! Gaslit Nation hosts phonebanks with Sister District every Wednesday at 6 p.m. RSVP [here]. Join our next live taping on Tuesday October 1st at 12pm ET with Greg Palast, discussing his new film Vigilantes Inc: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen. Bring your questions on all the ways Russian-backed MAGA is trying to steal the election, their plans if they lose, and ways to protect the vote.

Upcoming Virtual Live Tapings:

October 1 at 12 PM ET: Join investigative journalist Greg Palast to discuss his new film Vigilantes Inc: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen
October 24 7pm ET: How to Make a Podcast workshop – we need your voice!

All these events, access to our Victory Chat and Art is Survival Chat, ad-free shows, bonus episodes, Q&As, and more await at Patreon.com/Gaslit at the Truth-Teller level and higher. Annual discounts available!

Show Notes:

How To Help After Hurricane Helene https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2024-09-26-how-to-help-hurricane-helene-victims-where-to-donate

The Red Cross Won’t Save Houston It has proven itself unequal to the task of massive disaster relief. We need a new kind of humanitarian response. https://slate.com/business/2017/08/dont-give-money-to-the-red-cross-we-need-a-new-way.html

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Kamala vs. Trump: How to Stand Up to a Bully [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

At Tuesday night’s debate, Kamala Harris showed exactly how to stand up to a bully, forcing Trump to back down from a second debate. Watch our recent video on the debate and the dread many of us were feeling, in the show notes. Don't miss our next debate party in the Victory Chat on Patreon, where Tim Walz will take the stage against Kremlin shill and Thiel puppet JD Vance. Join us on October 1 at 9pm ET.

This week's bonus show includes the scandal of "Russians at War," a Western-funded Russian propaganda film that shamelessly leans on the Nuremberg Defense: “We were just following orders.” We also cover Republican pollster Frank Luntz’s visible agony as he admits the debate cost Trump the election, who's actually the greatest danger to our pets, the MAGA/Kremlin nexus fueling anti-American terrorism, and Biden’s latest effort to combat Kremlin disinformation ahead of the 2024 election.

Plus, we feature insights from Michael Podhorzer, hailed by TIME magazine as a key architect of the movement that safeguarded the 2020 election. (The Gaslit Nation community also helped!) This week’s bonus show, available to Truth-teller level subscribers ($5/month) and higher, includes his take on protecting the 2024 election. An excerpt is available for all. To hear the full episode, get all shows ad free, invites to exclusive events like our October 1st VP debate watch party in our Victory Group Chat, and more, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit to support our independent journalism! Annual discounts available! Thank you to everyone who supports Gaslit Nation – we could not make our show without you!

Show Notes:

VIDEO: Election Dread and New Events at Gaslit Nation https://www.patreon.com/posts/111991000

Statement by Award-winning Estonian filmmaker Anna Hints, a member of the European Film Academy: https://x.com/RitornellaNYC/status/1834441325631939042

Thread: Alejandra Caraballo, a well-known civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ activist, has highlighted a range of foreign disinformation and harassment campaigns aimed at deepening divisions within the United States. https://x.com/Esqueer_/status/1834615931152003295

Opening Clip: GOP Polster Frank Luntz: https://x.com/harris_wins/status/1834014050218393849

Opening Clip: Conservative Chris Wallace: https://x.com/harris_wins/status/1833701778874920970

Opening Clip: Brit Hume on Fox News Saying Kamala Harris Won the Debate: https://x.com/ALT_uscis/status/1833703048339669232

Democratic Strategist Simon Rosenberg on the GOP’s Weaponized Polls: https://x.com/Acyn/status/1834411436413780445

The Kiffness x Donald Trump - Eating the Cats https://x.com/TheKiffness/status/1834585071875158502

They’re Eating the Dogs, They’re Eating the Cats – The Remix https://x.com/ArtCandee/status/1834294453369991367

Andrea’s RomneyMobile Video with MoveOn.org: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0vaTJgdEt8

NEW Weekly Political Salon! Ready for meaningful discussions and community building? Join us every Monday at 4 PM ET via Zoom! Let’s share frustrations, ask burning questions, seek support, and help shape Gaslit Nation. Everyone’s voice matters—whether you’re a political junkie or just finding your voice, you belong here! Our salons start back up again on September 16 at 4 PM ET and will continue through the election. Recordings available exclusively on Patreon.

EXCITING EVENTS THIS SEPTEMBER:

Ft. Myers, Florida (Get out the vote + Mr. Jones Fundraiser!):

Canvassing Party: Saturday, Sept. 28 Link to RSVP
Mr. Jones Fundraiser Screening Tickets here
Phonebank Party: Sunday, Sept. 29 Link to RSVP

New York City Live Events:

September 16 at 7:00 PM ET: Join us at the Ukrainian Institute of America for a live taping celebrating the release of In the Shadow of Stalin. Patreon members get in FREE! Journalist Terrell Starr joins us to discuss Ukraine. Message us for guest list access! Patreon supporters get commemorative tote bags at the event!

Upcoming Virtual Live Tapings:

September 17 at 12 PM ET: Join investigative journalist Stephanie Baker, author of Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War.
September 18 at 4 PM ET: Politics Girl Leigh McGowan talks about her new book, A Return to Common Sense.
September 24 at 12 PM ET: David Pepper talks Saving Democracy and his Project 2025 art project!
October 24 7pm ET: How to Make a Podcast workshop – we need your voice!

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Kremlin Klown Kar: Meet “Project Good Old USA” [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 21:48:00 +0000

Guess who finally decided to do their job! The Department of Justice dropped indictments on a sweeping Russian disinformation criminal ring, funding MAGA social media-stormtroops calling for the violent overthrow of our democracy to establish a Russian-style dictatorship and abandoning Ukraine to Russia, where it would be genocided. As Gaslit Nation has long warned: If it sounds like a Kremlin shill, it’s a Kremlin shill. Fortunately for the DOJ, Russian-backed MAGA traitors in Congress confessed to being unregistered foreign agents by deliberately blocking Ukraine aid for six months, giving Russia the advantage in a dangerous invasion threatening all of Europe. Follow the money! Lock the traitors up!

In this week’s bonus show, exclusive to subscribers at the Truth-teller level ($5/month) and higher on Patreon, Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman of the Kremlin File podcast joins Gaslit Nation to break down the sweeping charges by the Feds, exposing Russian active measures trying to steal the election for Trump like they did in 2016, with help from MAGA/Russia shills like Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Lauren Chen, and Lauren Southern, among others. Longtime Trump/Russia connector, Kremlin propagandist, and Senator Rand Paul advisor Dimitri Simes was also indicted, along with his Russian-born wife. We also discuss what’s next: Who else might have their home raided by the FBI? We’re looking at you, David Sacks!

To hear the full bonus show, get all episodes ad-free, invites to exclusive events, and support our independent journalism during these tough times, be sure to subscribe at the Truth-teller ($5/month) level or higher, or Democracy Defender ($10/month) to submit questions for our regular Q&As! Discounted annual subscriptions are available. Thank you for supporting the show—we couldn’t make Gaslit Nation without you!

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Show Notes:

Telegram CEO's Detention In France Extended As Moscow Cries Foul https://www.rferl.org/a/durov-telegram-paris/33093898.html

Mystery blonde traveling with secretive Telegram CEO was posting trip on social media before he was arrested — and now she’s missing https://nypost.com/2024/08/26/world-news/telegram-ceo-pavel-durovs-mystery-blonde-companion-raises-questions/

Attack on train system highlights broad array of security threats to Paris Olympics Russian-backed sabotage and cyberattacks, street protests and an attack directed or inspired by a terrorist group could disrupt events across France. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/attack-train-system-highlights-broad-array-security-threats-paris-olym-rcna163921

DOJ: Russia aimed propaganda at Gamers to swing 2024 election https://www.wired.com/story/project-good-old-usa-russia-2024-election/

Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia Even some of the right-wing stars hired by the group last year wondered why it existed. Now, a new federal indictment claims it was a propaganda front. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool/

Flora Garamvolgyi on Twitter: One of the US Company founders listed in the DOJ indictment is Lauren Chen, who recently visited Budapest, to speak at MCC Feszt. story for @RFERL https://x.com/floragaramvolgy/status/1831596824836358482

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Trump, Egypt, and Russia: A Nuclear Power Horror Story [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Remember when Trump was impeached for holding up Ukraine aid to pressure Zelensky into fabricating a scandal about Biden? That’s how Trump famously operates—pushing for a quid pro quo. That brings us to Egypt, a dictatorship with a track record of bribing Americans, including disgraced Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, who was found guilty on all counts of being a paid foreign agent of Egypt.

In 2016, Trump met with Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi behind closed doors at the U.N. General Assembly weeks before the election, likely breaking the Logan Act at a time when President Obama’s foreign policy shunned el-Sisi for his human rights abuses and overthrowing Egypt’s first democratically elected leader.

But it gets worse. Trump’s relationship with Egypt isn’t just about money; it’s about power—nuclear power. El-Sisi’s regime is closely aligned with the Kremlin. Experts raised alarms about Russia’s nuclear ambitions in the Middle East, where earlier this year Russia began building a nuclear power station in Egypt. Trump’s ties to these dangerous players demands that the Biden administration, or potentially a Harris/Walz administration, appoint a special prosecutor to continue the investigation into Trump and Egypt, killed by Trump’s attorney general William Barr, the GOP cover-up king.

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Show Notes:

Washington Post: $10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/

Video: Trump meets with Egypt's president at White House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_WRgSZEgqc

Trump’s Conflicts of Interest in Egypt https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-conflicts-interest-egypt/

Kushner, Bannon, Flynn Pushed Huge Nuclear Power Deal in Middle East for Profit, In Secret https://billmoyers.com/story/kushner-bannon-flynn-pushed-huge-nuclear-power-deal-middle-east-profit-secret/

What does the Sisi-Putin latest nuclear plant deal mean for Egypt, Russia? Egypt is hoping nuclear energy will help meet its substantial power needs as Russia eyes a greater nuclear foothold in the region. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/01/what-does-sisi-putin-latest-nuclear-plant-deal-mean-egypt-russia

Trump welcomes Egypt’s Sissi to White House in reversal of U.S. policy https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-welcomes-egypts-sissi-to-white-house-in-reversal-of-us-policy/2017/04/03/36b5e312-188b-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html

Sen. Bob Menendez guilty of taking bribes in cash and gold and acting as Egypt’s foreign agent https://apnews.com/article/menendez-bribery-trial-jury-deliberations-bab89b99a77fc6ce95531c88ab26cc4d

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TEASER – Rule of Two Walls

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

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August 24th is Ukraine’s Independence Day. To celebrate, this week’s bonus show highlights an innovative new documentary on the war, Rule of Two Walls. A Tribeca Film Festival Award-winner, Rule of Two Walls tells the story of Ukrainian artists on the frontlines, transforming horror into hope and defiance into inspiring art. Their stories serve as a powerful reminder that art is survival.

In the full episode, exclusively for Patreon supporters at the Truth-teller ($5/month) tier and higher, Andrea shares why she declined an invitation to the Democratic National Convention and what that decision taught her about processing trauma during our global struggle of democracy vs. fascism.

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Show Notes

Rule of Two Walls https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rule_of_two_walls

Artist: Palindrom Song: “Sparkle” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE_-BlVgjKg

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Merrick Garland Lets MAGA Steal the Election [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 13:05:00 +0000

In 2000, Republicans stole Florida by scrubbing voter rolls and stopping the recount. In 2004, Republicans stole Ohio by suppressing the vote through deliberately engineered long voting lines and other election day chaos. In 2024, Republicans are throwing everything they can at Georgia. Republican officials in the state are helping them, even those harassed by Trump’s Big Lie.

If MAGA can’t steal the Electoral College outright, their fallback plan is to get close, drawing a tie. This would send the election to the House of Representatives. There, MAGA loyalist Mike Johnson, who blocked urgently needed Ukraine aid for six critical months, giving Russia the advantage on the battlefield, would likely pick Trump.The Senate, in control of Democrats, would pick the Vice President, likely Kamala Harris, who would then very likely be replaced by Trump’s White House as the Heritage Foundation massacres the government with Project 2025, Christian nationalism’s decades long plan to establish a dictatorship. They have 10,000 Trump loyalists already in place, ready to carry this out, according to a recent report by ProPublica.

In March, the U.S. sanctioned two PR firms in Russia hired by the Kremlin to manipulate Americans into spreading disinformation to “divide and conquer” Trump’s opposition in the 2024 election. So it begs the question, why isn’t the DOJ, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and Secretaries of State stepping up to stop homegrown threats?:

Why is the Christian nationalist group Ziklag allowed to fund EagleAI, which empowers MAGA activists to challenge voter registrations, including 10,000 voters in Georgia? (Remember, Trump only needed 11k votes to win Georgia in 2020).

Why is the Department of Homeland Security allowing voting machines in Georgia or anywhere in the country whose data was breached by MAGA loyalist Sidney Powell, with that data already spread among MAGA and possibly to foreign adversaries, like Russia?
Why is the DOJ letting Elon Musk fund a new version of Cambridge Analytica, targeting voters in swing states?
Why are the Secretaries of State allowing around 70 MAGA loyalists with histories of refusing to certify elections to remain in positions of power in 16 counties in six swing states, including Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, especially given the history of such loyalists to break the law, as they did in Georgia, helping Sidney Powell steal sensitive voting machine data?

This week’s bonus show also looks at J.D. Vance’s war on people who don’t birth children. That brings us to this viral quote from a recent article published on the site of The Heritage Foundation, architects of Project 2025: “Joseph Stalin had an utter disregard for human life, and his regime claimed the lives of 9,000,000-20,000,000 of its own subjects. Yet even Stalin understood that society depended on strong, intact families.” This is an actual quote from Heritage Foundation Senior Research Associate Emma Waters. Her piece was taken down after it went viral, but you can read an archived version in the show notes. All that and more is discussed in this week’s Q&A shaped by listeners’ questions subscribed at the Democracy Defender ($10/month) and higher on Patreon. To join the conversation, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Discounted annual memberships are available! Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

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Show Notes:

These Swing State Election Officials Are Pro-Trump Election Deniers At least 70 pro-Trump conspiracists are election officials in key battleground counties — and they are poised to make a giant mess on Election Day https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/

Russia is relying on unwitting Americans to spread election disinformation, US officials say https://apnews.com/article/russia-trump-biden-harris-china-election-disinformation-54d7e44de370f016e87ab7df33fd11c8

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election

Politics How an Elon Musk PAC is using voter data to help Trump beat Harris in 2024 election https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

Web Archive: The Heritage Foundation took down this piece really handing it to Stalin https://web.archive.org/web/20240306073726/https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/crushing-societys-building-block

Democrats Should Remember that They Won Florida in 2000 https://theintercept.com/2018/11/10/democrats-should-remember-al-gore-won-florida-in-2000-but-lost-the-presidency-with-a-preemptive-surrender/

Ohio in 2004: None Dare Call It Stolen https://harpers.org/archive/2005/08/none-dare-call-it-stolen/

Reform the Electoral College – Learn More About the National Vote Pact https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2024/5/28/reform-the-electoral-college

“The work of Project 2025 is largely done. Under Paul Dans, the project has assembled a database of more than 10,000 names — job candidates vetted for loyalty to Trump’s cause — who will be ready to deploy into federal agencies after the 2024 election.” https://x.com/AlisonKodjak/status/1819335000434548958

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TEASER – The Prosecutor vs. Putin: Is Kamala Harris Better for Ukraine?

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:41:00 +0000

As Secretary of State for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton pressed the Russian reset button with a laughing Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s thuggish foreign minister who just endorsed JD Vance. In the early months of his administration, Joe Biden held a press conference with Vladimir Putin and gifted him a pair of aviator glasses while smiling European officials looked on. Will Kamala Harris, as President, surround herself with a national security team that convinces her to make the same mistakes?

In this special episode, Gaslit Nation examines Kamala Harris’s foreign policy experience over the years to see what kind of Commander-in-Chief she would be. What’s clear is that she’s a heavyweight, the most experienced in global affairs running for office since Hillary Clinton and George H. W. Bush, who used to run the C.I.A. What will her foreign policy be on Ukraine, Gaza, and who will be her national security advisor to replace the feckless Jake Sullivan?

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Show Notes:

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/07/kamala-harris-would-bring-greater-foreign-policy-experience-most-new-us-presidents

I worked to elect Kamala Harris. She must break with Biden on Israel and Palestine Lily Greenberg Call https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/23/kamala-harris-israel-palestine-policy-election

National Security Action on Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy Compared to Trump’s https://nationalsecurityaction.org/kamala-harris-is-the-strong-experienced-foreign-policy-leader-america-needs

The Department of the Navy Hosts Climate Tabletop Exercise with Caribbean Partners https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/3816482/the-department-of-the-navy-hosts-climate-tabletop-exercise-with-caribbean-partn/

Third Anniversary of the U.S. Strategy for Addressing the Root Causes of Migration in Central America https://www.state.gov/third-anniversary-of-the-u-s-strategy-for-addressing-the-root-causes-of-migration-in-central-america/

Maya Harris on Twitter: “Yes!!! Jake Sullivan is one of the sweetest, smartest people I know. We shared an office for almost 2 yrs as Hillary’s senior policy advisors for the 2016 campaign. Quite the whirlwind of emotion running into each other backstage in DE the night we finally declared victory…” https://x.com/mayaharris_/status/1330923543987695616

Losing the Long Game The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East https://www.cfr.org/book/losing-long-game

An Open World How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order https://www.cfr.org/book/open-world

Kamala Harris would bring greater foreign policy experience than most new US presidents Were she elected president in November, the vice president would likely oversee significant continuity with Biden’s foreign policy – except, perhaps, on Gaza. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/07/kamala-harris-would-bring-greater-foreign-policy-experience-most-new-us-presidents

Here are the world leaders Harris has on speed dial Vice President Kamala Harris would enter the White House with working ties with some allied heads of state — others she’d have to build. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-world-leaders-00170676

Harris Candidacy Gives Democrats a Chance to Pivot on Gaza What she can do to right U.S. foreign policy and bring back voters. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/07/24/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-democrats-united-states-presidential-race/

VP Harris' Flight Delayed After Possible 'Havana Syndrome' Incident In Hanoi https://www.npr.org/2021/08/24/1030663913/kamala-harris-havana-syndrome-vietnam-delay-embassy

Who is Ella Emhoff? How Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter could affect her run for president https://forward.com/fast-forward/636240/ella-emhoff-kamala-harris-stepdaughter-gaza-palestine/

Clip: Kamala Harris speaks at the Summit for Peace in Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcShf-Pe8UE&t=967s

Clip: USA Today on the history of the migrant crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jswmlDUhGuk

Clip: Kamala Harris met with war criminal Netanyahu and he's reportedly fuming after she called for a permanent ceasefire and end to the war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIitFvZjeBw

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Dewey Defeats Truman [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:54:00 +0000

From the genius who brought you Sarah Palin: Longtime Republican operative Steve Schmidt launched the Pass the Torch USA super PAC to replace Joe Biden on the ballot with anyone else. When they couldn’t find anyone else, they ran businessman and Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips. Is that why so many centrist Democrats who call for an open convention, bypassing Black progressive Kamala Harris, use the rallying cry, “Pass the torch”?

One thing is clear: the energy and organization used by Democratic Party elites and their megadonors to push Biden off the ballot at this late stage and bypass Kamala has never been seen before to address our nation’s most pressing crises, from the climate crisis to kleptocracy. And the mainstream media won’t tell you this because they’re owned by conservatives working with, you guessed it, Democratic Party elites. Just take former Obama White House official Robert Gibbs, who was hired as an image-maker for David Zaslav, the anti-Biden CEO and president of Warner Bros. Discovery, who called for a new president and boasted about Republicans (the MAGA far-right) being welcomed on CNN. He also defended the disturbing CNN Trump town hall. So if you’re wondering why CNN has become Trump propaganda, it’s because of Zaslav.

Given how wrong the polls were in 2022 and 2016, and the disifnormation that can pollute them, Biden/Harris have a strong chance to win this November. In this special bonus show, Gaslit Nation listeners share their questions and concerns for our nation. It includes a recap of the Oscars of Kleptocracy – the Republican National Convention. To listen to the full episode, be sure to subscribe at the Truth-teller level and higher. And to submit your questions to our regular Q&As, subscribe to the show at the Democracy Defender level and higher. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Pass the Torch USA https://www.factcheck.org/2024/01/pass-the-torch-usa/

David Zaslav Hires Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs as Warner Bros. Discovery Comms Chief (Exclusive) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/david-zaslav-hires-robert-gibbs-warner-bros-discovery-comms-chief-1235925399/

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav would like a new president, too https://www.businessinsider.com/wbd-david-zaslav-biden-trump-election-regulation-sun-valley-2024-7

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells reporters this morning in Brooklyn that he's team Biden/Harris https://x.com/Bogs4NY/status/1814301077082087505

Clip from AOC Instagram Live on the effort to replace Biden/Harris https://x.com/claycane/status/1814287730215457266

"It's A Man's Man's Man's World" plays as Donald Trump walks into RNC Night 3. https://x.com/therecount/status/1813745920787517860

Ramaswamy: And our message to Gen Z is this. You want to be a rebel? You want to be a hippie? You want to stick it to the man? Show up on your college campus and try calling yourself a conservative. https://x.com/Acyn/status/1813373723271135741

Election Polls Are Only 60 Percent Accurate, Which Is 0 Percent Surprising. https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/online/election-polls-are-only-60-percent-accurate-which-0-percent/

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Did the Biden Panic Help Biden? [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:47:00 +0000

Over two million people tuned in to see if an 81-year-old man would fall on his face at Thursday night’s press conference. Instead, they received a deep-dive lecture on foreign policy. That’s more than the TV audience for the Oscars. Now, Democrats are finally pushing back against Trump’s fascist blueprint, Project 2025, with their own 100-day plan for 2025, most of which can only be passed if Democrats win control of both chambers of Congress. Still, Biden voicing these solutions while the world scrutinizes his every step and gaffe promotes a culture of change we desperately need to rebuild our democracy. Much of Biden’s plan can also be implemented on the state level, where Democrats have increasingly expanded their power, thanks to grassroots efforts.

These next four weeks, as we head into the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, will be the last window of opportunity to replace Biden. Expect a continued bloodbath in the press as centrist Democrats, allegedly paid off by megadonors, continue their sabotage of Biden’s campaign and pro-labor agenda to rebuild the middle class. As Minnesota House candidate Will Stencil wrote on Twitter: “What makes this so depressing is that if you stop doing theater criticism on the strength of his voice or whatever, this is a clip of a US president strongly defending a working-class economic boom he successfully fought to create. And no one wants to hear that or seems to care.” Meanwhile, leading Black women voices, like Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project, and Stacey Abrams, continue to push back. Jones wrote on Twitter: “This is what I am hearing from so many Black Americans and especially Black women who feel 1) that their vote, decision, and concerns are being undermined by non-Black people in the Democratic Party, 2) that too many people reporting and commenting do not seem to understand the stakes, and 3) that perhaps the polling is reflecting a Democratic Party that is attacking its own candidate rather than the opposing one.” Several new polls show Biden ahead of Trump, and reports say that his press conference reassured jittery megadonors. Was the Biden panic ultimately good for Biden?

Terrell Starr of the essential Black Diplomats Podcast & Substack joins Gaslit Nation, days after returning home from Ukraine, to help us make sense of this sh*tshow and where we go from here. Questions from Gaslit Nation listeners subscribed at the Democracy Defender level and higher are shared on the show, along with comments and questions in the chat of this special live-taping. Stay tuned for more live-taping announcements soon! And see everyone at Gaslit Nation’s phonebank with Indivisible this Thursday, July 18th at 7 PM, hot off the heels of the MAGA cult rally in Wisconsin! RSVP here to join us: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/628701/

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Show Notes:

The Cult Age: Interview with Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2022/4/13/cults-dr-janja-lalich

Sahil Kapur, Senior National Political Reporter, for NBC News: “In Detroit, Biden pitches his 100-day plan for 2025: Restore Roe v. Wade. Pass the John Lewis voting rights bill and Freedom To Vote Act. Eliminate medical debt. Raise minimum wage. Pass the PRO Act. Ban assault weapons. "Keep leading the world" on climate change & clean energy.” https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1811912368944799946

Will Stancil on Twitter: “What makes this so depressing is that if you stop doing theater criticism on the strength of his voice or whatever, this is a clip of a US president strongly defending a working-class economic boom he successfully fought to create. And no one wants to hear that or seems to care.” https://x.com/whstancil/status/1811552005678072008

Nikole Hannah-Jones on Twitter: “This is what I am hearing from so many Black Americans and especially Black women who feel 1) That their vote, decision and concerns are being undermined by non-Black people in the Democratic Party 2) That too many people reporting and commenting do not seem to understand the stakes. 3) That perhaps the polling is reflecting a Democratic Party that is attacking its own candidate rather than the opposing one.” https://x.com/nhannahjones/status/1811737786099335524

Jake Sherman of Punch Bowl News: “NEW -- A source tells me a group of NY donors have committed $2M to HMP, the House Dem super PAC, to help the Dems who came out early against/criticizing Biden -- Angie Craig, Marie Glusenkamp Perez, Jared Golden and Pat Ryan Donors include @novogratz , Nancy and Andrew Jarecki, Gideon and Zoe Stein and 30+ other donors.” https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1811484709953683770

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Terminal 1 (Teaser) | Le meilleur de la French Touch sur le toit de Paris CDG 🚀

Blogothèque — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:08:04 +0000

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The Politics of Divide and Conquer [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 12:30:00 +0000

The 2024 US election is the People vs. the autocrats. Trump is supported by Putin and Netanyahu. They would love to see him back in power. As part of the dictator’s playbook, they want to divide and conquer, including weaponizing social movements so that we’re fighting each other rather than building power together. How can we tell fact from fiction if progressive social movements are infiltrated by bad actors?

For more on that, this week’s bonus show is a continuation of the inspiring conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, authors of Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. Hunt-Hendrix, who holds a PhD in Religion, Ethics, and Politics from Princeton University, and is a founder of the progressive organizations Solidaire and Way to Win, met Taylor, a co-founder of the Debt Collective (a union of debtors), a filmmaker, and the author of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, and The People’s Platform (winner of an American Book Award), among other works, at Occupy Wall Street. They share what they’ve learned since then on how to stay hopeful while building collective power.

To our subscribers at the Democracy Defender ($10/month) and higher, get your questions in by July 11th for our next Q&A bonus show, publishing Saturday July 13th. And be sure to tune into our next live-taping featuring cult expert Dr. Janja Lalich, author of the books Take Back Your Life and Bounded Choice. She is the founder of the nonprofit, the Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion. To get your ticket to the live-taping, be sure to subscribe at the Truth-teller level or higher. Thank you to everyone who supports the show!

Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich Live-Taping - July 11 8pm ET

July 15th kicks off the Republican National Convention/Hitler rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To help us cope with the mainstream media, especially the New York Times, continuing to normalize Trump and his MAGA cult, we’re producing a live taping with cult expert Dr. Janja Lalich. Bring your questions about how to navitage this perilous time of rampant disinformation and manipulation, learn the signs of cult grooming, and how to help loved ones who have fallen victim. This will be Dr. Lalich’s second time on the show. You can listen to the interview with her from April 2022 here.

In the Shadow of Stalin Book Launch - September 4 7pm ET

Gaslit Nation will host a live taping at a book launch in New York City for In the Shadow of Stalin, the graphic novel adaptation of Mr. Jones. It includes scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut of the film, or it would have been three hours long! The evening will include a special meet-up just for Patreon supporters. We look forward to sharing more details as we get closer. If you want a book event/live taping of Gaslit Nation in your town or city, let us know!

Indivisible x Gaslit Nation Phonebank Party! - July 18 at 7pm ET

Open to all, Gaslit Nation and Indivisible are kicking things off early this year, really early! When there’s such a thing as Project 2025, there’s no time to waste. Come join us for our first phone bank party of the season, as we make calls to our fellow citizens in Republican hostage states, to refuse to abandon those on the frontlines of American authoritarianism, and to plant seeds of change. We’re going in! RSVP here to join us! https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/628701/

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

CNN’s Crime Against Democracy [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:06:00 +0000

Let’s talk about that Black Mirror episode we all witnessed on Thursday known as CNN’s debate featuring a prolific liar, indicted criminal, and serial rapist, without any fact-checkers save for one overworked 81-year old man with the busiest job in the world. What were your thoughts on the debate? Leave a comment below or email us at GaslitNation@gmail.com!

This week’s bonus show, exclusive to our subscribers at the Truth-teller level ($5/month) or higher on Patreon is the audience Q&A at our live-taping with investigative journalist Craig Unger. He is the author of several internationally bestselling books on the far-right’s war on democracy, including House of Trump, House of Putin; House of Bush, House of Saud; and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery. Unger will return for another live taping in the fall to discuss his latest book, Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House.

This is an excerpt of this week's bonus show. To listen to the full episode subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit to join our community of listeners, get bonus shows, and all episodes ad free, invites to exclusive events, submit questions to our regular Q&As, and more!

Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich Live-Taping - July 11 8pm ET

July 15th kicks off the Republican National Convention/Hitler rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To help us cope with the mainstream media, especially the New York Times, continuing to normalize Trump and his MAGA cult, we’re producing a live taping with cult expert Dr. Janja Lalich. Bring your questions about how to navitage this perilous time of rampant disinformation and manipulation, learn the signs of cult grooming, and how to help loved ones who have fallen victim. This will be Dr. Lalich’s second time on the show. You can listen to the interview with her from April 2022 here.

In the Shadow of Stalin Book Launch - September 4 7pm ET

Gaslit Nation will host a live taping at a book launch in New York City for In the Shadow of Stalin, the graphic novel adaptation of Mr. Jones. It includes scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut of the film, or it would have been three hours long! The evening will include a special meet-up just for Patreon supporters. We look forward to sharing more details as we get closer. If you want a book event/live taping of Gaslit Nation in your town or city, let us know!

Indivisible x Gaslit Nation Phonebank Party! - July 18 at 7pm ET

Open to all, Gaslit Nation and Indivisible are kicking things off early this year, really early! When there’s such a thing as Project 2025, there’s no time to waste. Come join us for our first phone bank party of the season, as we make calls to our fellow citizens in Republican hostage states, to refuse to abandon those on the frontlines of American authoritarianism, and to plant seeds of change. We’re going in!

RSVP here to join us! https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/628701/

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes

Supreme Court Imperils an Array of Federal Rules

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/28/us/supreme-court-chevron?pvid=2dyuAaxnLrEFe73e9JTibfa7&smid=url-share

After Halting Debate Performance, Biden Tries to Reassure Democrats at Rally

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/28/us/trump-biden-debate?pvid=Njp7Xr2DGZ0y9XRXdMLzltkD&smid=url-share

Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud

https://www.propublica.org/article/ivanka-donald-trump-jr-close-to-being-charged-felony-fraud

Biden Signs Bill to Protect Same-Sex Marriage Rights

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/us/politics/biden-same-sex-marriage-bill.html

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Women’s Basketball: A Mirror for America [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0000

Reminder! Join us Tuesday for the live taping of Gaslit Nation at 12pm ET with investigative journalist Craig Unger, author of the bestselling books House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery. A Zoom link will go out the morning of the event to our subscribers at the Truth-teller level and higher! To our supporters at the Democracy Defender level and higher, message us your questions for our interview with Craig Unger!

In this week’s Gaslit Nation bonus show, Terrell Starr of the essential Black Diplomats Podcast & Substack joins Andrea to discuss the Caitlin Clark phenomenon, as well as the racism and misogyny targeting this golden age of women’s basketball. This isn't just about sports; it's a seismic shift in the way we discuss gender and race. We need better conversations—more nuanced, more empathetic—about these topics, and we need to recognize the lived experiences of those involved. The dialogue around women’s sports is riddled with misogyny and cultural clashes, and it’s high time we confront and dismantle these toxic narratives. So, let’s give Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers, Cameron Brink, and their peers the respect they deserve, and in doing so, make strides toward a more equitable future in sports.

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

A very special shout-out to Gaslit Nation listener Leslie Nuss, who’s running for state senate in Indiana! Learn more about her campaign here.

Here are some of the exciting events we have coming up for our Patreon community:

Investigative Journalist Craig Unger Live-Taping - June 25th 12pm ET:

June 25th is George Orwell’s birthday! Come celebrate with us at a live taping of Gaslit Nation, featuring another fearless journalist, Craig Unger, the author of several bestselling books: House of Trump, House of Putin; House of Bush, House of Saud; and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (which features his reporting on Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile global crime syndicate). Joining the live-taping will be Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and European analyst Monique Camarra of Kremlin File. Drop your questions in the chat! Be sure to subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit at the Truth-teller tier ($5/month) or higher to get your ticket. A zoom link will be sent out the morning of the event. Thank you to everyone who supports the show!

Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich Live-Taping - July 15 8pm ET

July 15th kicks off the Republican National Convention/Hitler rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To help us cope with the mainstream media, especially the New York Times, continuing to normalize Trump and his MAGA cult, we’re producing a live taping with cult expert Dr. Janja Lalich. Bring your questions about how to navitage this perilous time of rampant disinformation and manipulation, learn the signs of cult grooming, and how to help loved ones who have fallen victim. This will be Dr. Lalich’s second time on the show. You can listen to the interview with her from April 2022 here.

In the Shadow of Stalin Book Launch - September

Gaslit Nation will host a live taping at a book launch in New York City for In the Shadow of Stalin, the graphic novel adaptation of Mr. Jones. It includes scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut of the film, or it would have been three hours long! The evening will include a special meet-up just for Patreon supporters. We look forward to sharing more details as we get closer. If you want a book event/live taping of Gaslit Nation in your town or city, let us know!

Indivisible x Gaslit Nation Phonebank Party! - June 20th 7pm ET

Open to all, Gaslit Nation and Indivisible are kicking things off early this year, really early! When there’s such a thing as Project 2025, there’s no time to waste. Come join us for our first phone bank party of the season, as we make calls to our fellow citizens in Republican hostage states, to refuse to abandon those on the frontlines of American authoritarianism, and to plant seeds of change. We’re going in! RSVP here to join us! https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/628701/

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Black Diplomats Substack & Podcast: https://terrellstarr.substack.com/

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Where’s the Democrats’ 2025? [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0000

To get access to this and all bonus shows, hear all episodes ad free, receive invites to exclusive events, and more, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit!

Terrell Starr of the essential Black Diplomats Podcast & Substack is back on Gaslit Nation to join Andrea in debating why the Democrats don’t have their own Project 2025. So Gaslit Nation makes our own with a little help from Elizabeth Warren’s plans!

We also discuss the toxic industrial complex of far-right funded fake progressives who are paid trolls of dictatorships like Russia and Iran and wannabe dictators like American oligarch and dystopian tech Bond villain Peter Thiel. These “useful idiots” are bought off by powerful forces to divide and conquer the Left. The oligarchs we’re up against want the Left to fight each other rather than join together to build political power–the only way to ensure a livable future. It’s a divide and conquer strategy that, unfortunately, works.

There is no substitute for political power, or else our enemies wouldn’t work so hard to suppress the vote and mindhack people into voting against their interests or not voting at all. Every resistance movement and revolution that succeeded did so thanks to coalition building, not from ripping each other apart.

Here are some of the exciting events we have coming up for our Patreon community:

Investigative Journalist Craig Unger Live-Taping - June 25th 12pm ET:

June 25th is George Orwell’s birthday! Come celebrate with us at a live taping of Gaslit Nation, featuring another fearless journalist, Craig Unger, the author of several bestselling books: House of Trump, House of Putin; House of Bush, House of Saud; and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (which features his reporting on Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile global crime syndicate). Joining the live-taping will be Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and European analyst Monique Camarra of Kremlin File. Drop your questions in the chat! Be sure to subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit at the Truth-teller tier ($5/month) or higher to get your ticket. A zoom link will be sent out the morning of the event. Thank you to everyone who supports the show!

Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich Live-Taping - July 15 8pm ET

July 15th kicks off the Republican National Convention/Hitler rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To help us cope with the mainstream media, especially the New York Times, continuing to normalize Trump and his MAGA cult, we’re producing a live taping with cult expert Dr. Janja Lalich. Bring your questions about how to navitage this perilous time of rampant disinformation and manipulation, learn the signs of cult grooming, and how to help loved ones who have fallen victim. This will be Dr. Lalich’s second time on the show. You can listen to the interview with her from April 2022 here.

In the Shadow of Stalin Book Launch - September

Gaslit Nation will host a live taping at a book launch in New York City for In the Shadow of Stalin, the graphic novel adaptation of Mr. Jones. It includes scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut of the film, or it would have been three hours long! The evening will include a special meet-up just for Patreon supporters. We look forward to sharing more details as we get closer. If you want a book event/live taping of Gaslit Nation in your town or city, let us know!

Indivisible x Gaslit Nation Phonebank Party! - June 20th 7pm ET

Open to all, Gaslit Nation and Indivisible are kicking things off early this year, really early! When there’s such a thing as Project 2025, there’s no time to waste. Come join us for our first phone bank party of the season, as we make calls to our fellow citizens in Republican hostage states, to refuse to abandon those on the frontlines of American authoritarianism, and to plant seeds of change. We’re going in!

RSVP here to join us! https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/628701/

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

News site editor’s ties to Iran, Russia show misinformation’s complexity Experts say an overlap in funding underscores concern that the spread of falsehoods and propaganda online is entering a more complicated stage as the November election draws closer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/02/grayzone-russia-iran-support/

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Who Made Vladimir Putin? [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0000

"Russia has been an empire for so long, she doesn't know how to be a country." This line from Peter Morgan’s new play, Patriots, captures the story of Russian kingmaker Boris Berezovsky and his mysterious death in England. On the day Putin was inaugurated for his fifth term, Andrea attended a performance of Patriots with a former colleague of Paul Klebnikov, the American journalist and author of Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism. Klebnikov was gunned down in Moscow in 2004, likely on Berezovsky’s orders.

In this chilling episode of Gaslit Nation, Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and European analyst Monique Camarra of the Kremlin File podcast join Andrea to discuss the latest leadership shake-up in Russia’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine, the forces behind Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, and the latest threats from Russia’s mafia state, including against Olga and her fearless human rights work. Western leaders must wake-up and do more to protect those on the frontlines, fighting for our democracy, more than the institutions failing us.

The discussion with Kremlin File begins around the 18-minute mark and is exclusive to our subscribers at the Truth-teller tier and higher. In the opening segment, Andrea reads comments from Gaslit Nation subscribers at the Democracy Defender tier and higher on our recent coverage of Israel and Palestine. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! To join the conversation, submit questions to our regular Q&As, bonus shows, get all shows ad-free and invites to virtual events, and more, subscribe to Gaslit Nation at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit!

Here are some of the exciting events we have coming up for our Patreon community:

Investigative Journalist Craig Unger Live-Taping - June 25th 12pm ET:

June 25th is George Orwell’s birthday! Come celebrate with us at a live taping of Gaslit Nation, featuring another fearless journalist, Craig Unger, the author of several bestselling books: House of Trump, House of Putin; House of Bush, House of Saud; and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (which features his reporting on Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile global crime syndicate). Joining the live-taping will be Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and European analyst Monique Camarra of Kremlin File. Drop your questions in the chat! Be sure to subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit at the Truth-teller tier ($5/month) or higher to get your ticket. A zoom link will be sent out the morning of the event. Thank you to everyone who supports the show!

Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich Live-Taping - July 15 8pm ET

July 15th kicks off the Republican National Convention/Hitler rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To help us cope with the mainstream media, especially the New York Times, continuing to normalize Trump and his MAGA cult, we’re producing a live taping with cult expert Dr. Janja Lalich. Bring your questions about how to navitage this perilous time of rampant disinformation and manipulation, learn the signs of cult grooming, and how to help loved ones who have fallen victim. This will be Dr. Lalich’s second time on the show. You can listen to the interview with her from April 2022 here.

In the Shadow of Stalin Book Launch - September

Gaslit Nation will host a live taping at a book launch in New York City for In the Shadow of Stalin, the graphic novel adaptation of Mr. Jones. It includes scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut of the film, or it would have been three hours long! The evening will include a special meet-up just for Patreon supporters. We look forward to sharing more details as we get closer. If you want a book event/live taping of Gaslit Nation in your town or city, let us know!

Indivisible x Gaslit Nation Phonebank Party! - June 20th 8pm ET

Open to all, Gaslit Nation and Indivisible are kicking things off early this year, really early! When there’s such a thing as Project 2025, there’s no time to waste. Come join us for our first phone bank party of the season, as we make calls to our fellow citizens in Republican hostage states, to refuse to abandon those on the frontlines of American authoritarianism, and to plant seeds of change. We’re going in!

RSVP here to join us! https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/628701/

Show Notes:

Pre-Order In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones, out this September!

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/In-the-Shadow-of-Stalin-The-Story-of-Mr-Jones/Andrea-Chalupa/9781637152775

Paul Klebnikov: The Man Who Knew Too Much

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-man-who-knew-too-much/

Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/godfather-of-the-kremlin-the-decline-of-russia-in-the-age-of-gangster-capitalism_paul-klebnikov/297758/#edition=4484892&idiq=3909390

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

SÍLVIA PÉREZ CRUZ – A Cor Obert (official teaser)

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 04:24:56 +0000

This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.

Sílvia Pérez Cruz – A Cor Obert – (Official Teaser)

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:18:16 +0000

This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.

Why the Georgia Protests Matter to U.S. Voters [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:30:00 +0000

Mark your calendar! We're having a live taping of Gaslit Nation on June 25 (Orwell's birthday!) at 12pm ET for subscribers at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit!

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Are you tired of the nonstop coverage of the Trump trials? The mainstream media is setting Americans up for disappointment again, like they did with the nonstop “justice porn” coverage of the Mueller investigation. The only thing that will stop Trump in November is us. (It should not be that way, but it is). Progress in America has always come from the grassroots, and as MAGA’s Russian-backed coup against our democracy continues, grassroots power is the most reliable power we have left. To join the movement to strengthen American democracy from the ground up, be sure to check out the Gaslit Nation 2024 Survival Guide on the homepage of GaslitNationPod.com. As for the trial, Gaslit Nation predicts a hung jury: you just need one juror, likely a man, who wants to make a name for himself and cash-in with rewards from the Trump machine. What are your predictions of what will come from the Trump trial? Let us know in an email to GaslitNation@gmail.com and we may read your comment on the show!

In this week’s bonus show, Andrea answers questions from our subscribers at the Democracy Defender level ($10/month) and higher! The discussion includes the hypocrisy of Congress’s TikTok ban, the importance of stating one’s values and goals in the fight for our democracy, how the Israel-Palestine War impacts Ukraine coverage and why that matters, the boring ratings grab of nonstop Trump trial coverage, and more! Terrell Starr of the essential Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack joins the show to explain why the average American voter should care about the growing protests in Georgia against Russian-state capture. Is it a preview of the U.S. should Trump win?

Ready to see the President of the United States share the same stage as an unpunished coup-plotter and serial rapist who idolizes Hitler and Putin? To our Patreon community at the Truth-teller level and higher, we’re having a debate watch party on June 27th in our Victory Chat, to help us get through the media’s normalization of Trump and fact check the gaslighting. Hold on tight!

Subscribe to Gaslit Nation on Patreon at the Truth-teller level or higher, and for $5/month, get all shows ad-free, bonus shows, invites to exclusive events, join a like-minded community of listeners, and more! This excerpt is from this week’s bonus show. To hear the full discussion, make sure to subscribe at the Truth-teller level or higher at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Discounts are available when you sign up for an annual subscription!

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Pre-Order Andrea's Graphic Novel: In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/In-the-Shadow-of-Stalin-The-Story-of-Mr-Jones/Andrea-Chalupa/9781637152775

Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine vanishes from news coverage amid raging conflict in Gaza

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/17/media/gaza-ukraine-war-news-coverage/index.html

Polling data expert Tom Bonier https://twitter.com/tbonier

Shaun Walker of The Guardian on Russia’s Stalinist prisons https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/1789751355252396394

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Ivanka Wants You to Take Her Seriousy, Or Else [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sun, 12 May 2024 00:03:00 +0000

This week, porn star, filmmaker, business woman, and Trump survivor Stormy Daniels told the court in the Manhattan DA trial for Trump’s 2016 election interference that Trump said, that time he coerced her into sex, “You remind me of my daughter, she is smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well.” Ivanka, Trump’s favorite child, is his likely successor. He has reportedly said on multiple occasions that he would like to f*ck Ivanka, making comments about her body. According to a recent report from Puck, Ivanka is looking for a role in the Trump campaign, hoping to get back into the White House. The Kushners want their kleptocracy gravy train back!

Joining Gaslit Nation to discuss Ivanka’s latest power grab, reports of Jared Kushner wanting to be Secretary of State and how he promoted developing Gaza into beachfront property, is Terrell Starr from the essential Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack. Terrell is about to head back to Ukraine for a reporting trip. Make sure to follow his coverage by subscribing to Black Diplomats on YouTube, Substack, and more!

Want to submit a question for our regular Q&As? Be sure to subscribe at the Democracy Defender-level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit! To listen to the full episode, our recent Make Art Workshop: The Business Side of Things, get all bonus shows, all episodes ad free, invites to exclusive virtual events, and more, subscribe at the Truth-teller level or higher!

Thank you to everyone who supports the show! We could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Black Diplomats Substack & Podcast

https://terrellstarr.substack.com/

https://www.blackdiplomats.net/

The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-immortality-key-the-secret-history-of-the-religion-with-no-name-brian-c-muraresku/16724875?ean=9781250803986

Make Art Workshop: The Business Side of Things https://www.patreon.com/posts/make-art-side-of-103574554?l=es

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dghYqZQzPo6z_0gzxqLzA7YRcf2Tuxbr/edit

Trump’s lewd talk about daughter Ivanka in front of White House staff recalled in new book

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trumps-lewd-talk-about-daughter-ivanka-in-front-of-white-house-staff-recalled-in-new-book/

Ivanka, Interrupted Out of the spotlight but itching to return, the former first daughter has begun quietly surveying allies about how, and when, she might help the Trump campaign—and possibly find herself back in the White House. https://puck.news/ivanka-trump-reconsiders-a-return-to-west-wing/?_cio_id=f6c60601f153a2be02&utm_campaign=The+Best+%26+The+Brightest+-+SUBSCRIBERS+%285%2F2%2F24%29&utm_content=The+Best+%26+The+Brightest+-+SUBSCRIBERS+%285%2F1%2F24%29&utm_medium=email_action&utm_source=customer.io&utm_term=f6c60601f153a2be02

Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ This article is more than 1 month old Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev#:~:text=Jared%20Kushner%20has%20praised%20the,Harvard%20University%20on%2015%20February.

Trump’s lewd talk about daughter Ivanka in front of White House staff recalled in new book

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trumps-lewd-talk-about-daughter-ivanka-in-front-of-white-house-staff-recalled-in-new-book/

‘Do you worry about STDs?’: Stormy Daniels’s testimony on Trump affair off to lurid start The adult film star testifies in a hush-money trial that could land the ex-president and Republican frontrunner behind bars

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-testimony

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Make Art Workshop: The Business Side of Things [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 04 May 2024 12:03:00 +0000

The recording of the Gaslit Nation Make Art Workshop: The Business Side of Things is here along with the transcript in the show notes for our subscribers at the Truth-teller and higher. Not a subscriber? Sign up and join a community of listeners, get all shows ad free, bonus shows, exclusive invites, questions answered in our Q&As, and more by subscribing at the Truth-teller level and higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit!

In this special workshop, a follow-up to last fall’s Make Art Workshop, where Andrea shared her secret hot sauce for writing a first draft that reads like a third draft, she follows it up with her business checklist on how to navigate shark-infested waters with an open heart, knowing how to protect yourself, what to look out for in every contract and advice for working with lawyers, the often overlooked goals of fundraising that will make all the difference for your project, saving it from the brink.

The Q&A discussion became a freewheeling chat with our live audience from our community of Gaslit Nation listeners sharing their projects, questions, and responding to Andrea’s additional stories and insights for bringing your art out into the world. The Q&A portion is transcript only, to protect the privacy of the folks who participated, creating a lively and inspiring meeting of minds. To connect with other artists, and those who love artists, in our Gaslit Nation community, be sure to join the chat group on Patreon, exclusive to our subscribers at the Truth-teller level or higher, called Art is Survival.

Here are some of the references to help you on your journey:

For all artists of any medium, get inspiration from the essential YouTube series Every Frame a Painting https://www.youtube.com/@everyframeapainting
List of European film funds https://cineuropa.org/en/backings/
A paid subscription site for looking up contact info for producers, agents, and managers https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home
Best site for looking up literary agents to pitch and tips on pitching https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/

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Show Notes:

Make Art Workshop on writing a first draft that reads like a third draft, from November 2023

Audio only: https://www.patreon.com/posts/make-art-audio-93455868?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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A deep dive into Cuba's rich musical history, reported from Havana

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197955869

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Campus Protests & Radical Self-Care [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:30:00 +0000

With growing campus protests against the U.S. backing Netanyahu’s genocidal war to cling to power and the Democratic National Convention returning to Chicago this summer, it’s hard not to think of 1968. As this week’s guest, Ari Berman of Mother Jones, explains, the Founding Fathers of America set us up for cycles of fascism vs. democracy, cynicism vs. idealism.

It’s important to be aware of how social movements can be hijacked and weaponized. For that, read the essential 2017 piece in The Guardian by Micah White, a co-founder of Occupy Wall Street, on how Russia tried to co-opt him. While there’s a long history of the Left being weaponized by foreign adversaries, as the film Mr. Jones reminds us, the magnitude of campus protests across America is a morally clear line, like the Vietnam War and Iraq War protests before them.

As we head into the spring of the most important year for America, one where democracy must prevail, it’s important to take time to reflect on radical self-care. As empathy becomes the growing demand of our collective, activism must include self-care, one of the most important acts of resistance, as Angela Davis in our opening clip reminds us. This week’s bonus show reflects on that and urges our listeners to reach out to an old friend to reconnect and re-energize. You will be glad you did, as we get closer to the ticking clock of November 5th.

In this week’s bonus show, Ari Berman of Mother Jones, author of the must-read book Minority Rule, joins the long list of guests to take the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A, producing some surprising answers and a rallying call, for Ari, along the way.

Show Notes:

Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It https://bookshop.org/p/books/minority-rule-ari-berman/19994801?ean=9780374600211

I started Occupy Wall Street. Russia tried to co-opt me | Micah White https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/02/activist-russia-protest-occupy-black-lives-matter

Opening Clip: Radical Self Care by AfroPunk Featuring Angela Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cHoL4vaBs

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

The Chilling Reason Why Iran Attacked Israel [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:03:00 +0000

House Speaker Mike Johnson, self-proclaimed champion for human rights and freedom, and enemy of dictators everywhere, inched closer to getting Ukraine aid after eight months of successfully delaying it, empowering Russia’s genocide. Kremlin state TV repeatedly praised Johnson for assisting their brutal invasion, which, as discussed in this week’s bonus show, emboldened Iran to unleash a shocking swarm of drones and missiles against Israel.

The Ukraine aid package still faces delays, thanks to MAGA, and will have to go back to the Senate before it reaches President Biden’s desk. The Trump-proposed changes, of structuring some of the aid as a loan, can be forgiven by the President, including partial loan forgiveness by Biden on his way out, should he lose the election. If Trump wins, he could force Ukraine to repay what’s left of the loan and refuse to send ATACMS, the long-range missiles that have made Ukraine effective at blowing up Russian planes and other military targets that slaugher civilians. The compromise in this aid package, far less than what Ukraine actually needs to win the war, adds to the urgency to ensure Trump loses the electoral college. It’s going to be a nailbiter, for America and the world.

This week’s bonus show includes reports that Paul Manafort is back to help Trump (and Russia) win the 2024 election. Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and analyst Monique Camarra of the Kremlin File podcast join Andrea to discuss Manafort’s dark arts and how they may help Trump and Russia illegally hijack our democracy once again.

Ari Berman of Mother Jones stops by Gaslit Nation next week to discuss his new must-read book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It. Ari will share his insights on how we got here and what must be done to save our democracy.

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Show Notes:

Johnson’s plan to send aid to Ukraine moves closer to reality “Democrats will not be responsible for this bill failing,” one Democratic lawmaker pledged on Thursday morning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/18/johnson-plan-send-aid-ukraine-moves-closer-becoming-reality/

Putin Ally Declares Mike Johnson 'Our Johnson' https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-declares-mike-johnson-our-johnson-1890071

Europe is already planning for what happens if Ukraine loses. It’s ugly A newly energized Russia is already escalating grey-zone operations in Eastern Europe, says Estonia’s defense minister. https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/04/europe-already-planning-what-happens-if-ukraine-loses-its-ugly/395715/

Why Did U.S. Planes Defend Israel but Not Ukraine? There are lessons for other nations in the events of the past few days. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/ukraine-israel-war-comparison/678077/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zBTrwyTVOGzmWK5yps1Kck&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

U.S., NOT ISRAEL, SHOT DOWN MOST IRAN DRONES AND MISSILES American forces did most of the heavy lifting responding to Iran’s retaliation for the attack on its embassy in Damascus. https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/iran-attack-israel-drones-missiles/

How Israel and allied defenses intercepted more than 300 Iranian missiles and drones https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/14/middleeast/israel-air-missile-defense-iran-attack-intl-hnk-ml

To be clear, if someone does trigger a motion to vacate -- anyone, MTG or Massie -- it would be incredibly perilous for Johnson. But remember: the first step is a motion to table. And Democrats could vote to table, and that's that. https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1780240955196539137

Why Israel’s attack on Iranian consulate in Syria was a gamechanger Peter Beaumont and Emma Graham-Harrison A war long fought through proxies, assassinations and strikes outside Israel has spilled into the open https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/14/why-israel-attack-on-iranian-consulate-in-syria-was-a-gamechanger

Video Shows Ukrainian Plane Being Hit Over Iran The New York Times has obtained video of the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit minutes after takeoff from Tehran. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/video/iran-plane-missile.html

The Great Oligarchs Escape: ‘The Ground Is Trembling. They Will Stream Into Israel' As Ukraine war rages and the West tightens the screws on Russian oligarchs, many of them look to Israel to escape. Some hold Israeli citizenship, exactly for these kinds of circumstances. Billionaires will benefit from Israeli law, allowing them to hide sources of income for a 10-year period https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-03-10/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/the-great-oligarchs-escape-the-ground-is-trembling-they-will-stream-into-israel/0000017f-f2d9-df98-a5ff-f3fd182d0000

EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian President @ZelenskyyUa said he spoke to lawmakers and the president about Ukraine’s urgent need for wartime aid and stressed “please just make a decision,” during an interview with @IAmAmnaNawaz. Stream more tonight at 6 ET online: https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1779985953966219589

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Israel and Evangelicals [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:27:00 +0000

In this week’s bonus show, we dig into Israel and evangelicals, two fellow travelers that shaped U.S. politics and the world together. Many evangelicals believe God will protect Israel, as long as they accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior, or they'll burn in hell with other nonbelievers when Jesus returns. That means the destruction of Israel, a Jewish state. Digging into Speaker Mike Johnson, a staunch evangelical, and the other MAGA Christian nationalists blocking aid to Ukraine in the House, it turns out Ukraine also plays a role in evangelical “end times” prophecy. The path of the destruction of Israel goes through Ukraine, according to Pat Robertson and other evangelical leaders featured in the show notes. Does Johnson believe this?

Johnson proudly proclaimed his worldview is the bible, telling Fox News: "Someone asked me today in the media, they said, 'It's curious, people are curious: What does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?' I said, 'Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That's my worldview.” Johnson was featured in a German documentary about taking his daughter to a purity ball where she signed a pledge to never have sex before marriage. Purity balls are seen as dehumanizing to young girls and women

Pat Robertson, one of the most consequential evangelical leaders to build white Christian nationalists into a political force, taking over the GOP, claimed in a video featured in this week’s bonus show, the path to Israel's destruction begins with Russia's destruction of Ukraine. Ray Comfort, another evangelical minister with a large social media following, wrote the book Russia Will Attack Israel, and plays up Russia’s war in Ukraine as “end times” prophecy. David Jeremiah, the evangelical pastor of a megachurch, also promotes this idea in his work. The argument goes: Putin is a tool of God to raise the forces of evil against Ukraine on Russia’s path to waging war against Israel. In their logic, Ukraine must be destroyed so the final battle of good vs. evil can begin, ushering in the return of Jesus.

Obviously Christian nationalists like Johnson and others in the MAGA cult blocking aid to Ukraine are motivated by power and money. They align with strongmen like Trump to consolidate their support and enrich themselves. Both Putin and Orban used Christianian nationalism to entrench their regimes. Johnson was caught taking Kremlin-linked donations in 2018, as discussed in the recent bonus show for Patreon subscribers, The Kremlin Owns Mike Johnson.

Russia does its part to feed into these “end times” fever dreams. The philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, Russia’s Steve Bannon, recently said, "Jerusalem will be a Russian city or it will not exist at all.” As Trump’s white Christian nationalist base cheers on Putin’s genocide in Ukraine and Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, Russia oppresses and kills evangelicals in occupied Ukraine, according to a recent PBS Newshour report, and Christians are increasingly harassed and pushed out by ultra-Orthodox Israelis.

The persecution of fellow Christians may likely mean nothing to Johnson if he shares the belief that accelerating global conflicts will ultimately bring back Jesus. What he has made clear through his words and actions is that he takes the bible literally, like many evangelicals. With Ukraine increasingly in the crossfire of “end times” prophecies, spun in megachurches and their disinformation echo chambers, we have to come to terms that we’re up against a doomsday cult, not a political party. Biden cannot shame or reason with these people. He must work around them to save Ukraine.

Contact your rep today through this site by a Gaslit Nation listener and demand they ensure the discharge petitions are signed, successfully forcing a vote on Ukraine aid: https://helpukrainewin.com/

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Show Notes:

Watch the documentary Bad Faith, available everywhere April 26, pre-order it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WYseVO29ZU

Opening Clip: Vox Short Documentary: How a Bible prophecy shapes Trump's foreign policy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmWL0I3oytw

Clip: Here's Evidence That Russia Will Attack Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBvloYWyyms

Clip: Arizona State Senators Speaking in Tongues Before Banning Abortion https://twitter.com/tcani/status/1777829756400263618

Clip: Hundreds of Israelis told evangelical Christians who were praying at an archeological park bordering the Western Wall in occupied East Jerusalem to “go home”, underlining the strained relationship between them and religious Israeli nationalists. Jerusalem’s Christian community says there has been a rise in attacks from Israeli ultranationalists on its churches and practices.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vio53jUpJz0

David Jeremiah: Russia’s Role in End Times Prophecy: https://davidjeremiah.blog/what-does-the-bible-say-about-modern-russia/

Speaker Mike Johnson and daughter were profiled attending 'purity ball' in 2015 German TV news segment

https://abcnews.go.com/US/speaker-mike-johnson-daughter-profiled-attending-purity-ball/story?id=105785626

Pat Robertson Clip: 'God Is Getting Ready to Do Something Amazing': CBN Founder Pat Robertson on Russia and Prophecy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMEj52pYWq0&t=2s

How evangelicals set in motion today’s violence in the Middle East

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4548756-evangelicals-caused-todays-mess-in-the-middle-east/

How Christian Nationalists, Big Oil and the Big Lie Seized the Speaker’s Gavel

https://washingtonspectator.org/how-christian-nationalists-big-oil-and-the-big-lie-seized-the-speakers-gavel/

Putin and Doomsday: The Far Right’s Fascination With the Apocalypse Fox News, the evangelical fringe, and the right wing have been peddling “End Times” thinking for decades. Armageddon has become a backdrop now that Russia has invaded Ukraine.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/putin-and-doomsday-the-far-rights-fascination-with-the-apocalypse

Jay in Kyiv on Twitter: “Putin wheels out Dugin to let us know that Jerusalem is also on Putin's acquisition list.

"Jerusalem will be a Russian city or it will not exist at all".

Meanwhile, the west wants to "negotiate" with this creature.”

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1777051211654430842

Ukrainian Christian groups face violent crackdown from Russian forces

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ukrainian-christian-groups-face-violent-crackdown-from-russian-forces

Congress must let Ukraine win, say Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, Imagine Dragons, Timothy Snyder and other luminaries https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/10/opinions/sean-penn-barbra-streisand-imgaine-dragons-congress-ukraine-snyder/index.html

These Evangelicals Are Cheering the Gaza War as the End of the World Thousands have died in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Some far-right Christian leaders believe the bloodshed portends the second coming of Christ

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/gaza-war-evangelical-leaders-cheer-end-world-1234884151/

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How to Unblock Ukraine Aid in Congress [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:03:00 +0000

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Mike Johnson is Lucy playing football with Charlie Brown. The MAGA Ken doll delayed the vote for Ukraine aid by several more weeks, coming through for Donald Trump, his MAGA cult of violence, and their Kremlin backers. Call it what it is: treason. In this heated bonus show, Andrea is joined by Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and Italy-based analyst Monique Camarra of the Kremlin File podcast, debating whether Mike Johnson will ever hold his long promised Ukraine aid vote, and ways to overcome his existential threat to civilians in Russia’s ongoing genocide.

Our discussion was recorded on Tuesday, and includes a debate between Andrea and Olga on whether Mike Johnson will ever come through. We also discuss President Macron doubling down on sending NATO troops to Ukraine, and the long history of Russian terrorism and Western complacency. On Tuesday, Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the latest in the 2024 election and ways to overcome the threats to our democracy. Later in the month, Ari Berman of Mother Jones will be on the show to discuss his new book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It.

Want to help unblock Ukraine aid in Congress? Contact Joaquin Castro (D-TX) at (202) 225-3236 and Mark Pocan (D-WI) at (202) 225-2906 and demand that they sign the two bipartisan discharge petitions put forth by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), which would force a vote in the House to pass aid for Ukraine. For more on that effort, read this urgent statement from the humanitarian nonprofit Razom for Ukraine: https://www.razomforukraine.org/razom-for-ukraine-calls-on-house-democrats-to-sign-discharge-petition/

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Who is the Kremlin Caucus? [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Gaslit Nation where we name and shame! This week, meet the Kremlin Caucus and their financial backers. What started off with Putin groupie Dana Rohrabacher, a former Congressman from Orange County, has grown into a proud fascist movement threatening our democracy and Ukraine’s very survival.

Want to see the posh yearbook photos of the banality of evil? Check out the show notes below, listing the Kremlin Caucus members in the House and the Senate. Explore the many white faces from mostly Republican-hostage states like Florida and Texas that, like their ideological forbears before them that carried out slavery and the genocide of indigenous peoples, have no problem destroying innocent lives and raking in blood money to stay in power. Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and Monique Camarra of the Kremlin File podcast join Andrea to discuss these threats to our democracy and how to confront them, and remind the disillusioned once again–no, Biden and Trump are not the same, especially when one candidate enjoys Hitler cosplay.

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Show Notes

Get to Know the Kremlin Caucus and Their Financial Backers

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Brian Babin Representative (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/brian-babin/summary?cid=N00005736
Troy Balderson Representative (R - OH) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/troy-balderson/summary?cid=N00042194
Lauren Boebert Representative (R - CO) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/lauren-boebert/summary?cid=N00045974
Tim Burchett Representative (R - TN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/tim-burchett/summary?cid=N00041594
Jerry Carl Representative (R - AL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00044245&cycle=2022
Ben Cline Representative (R - VA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ben-cline/summary?cid=N00042296
Michael Cloud Representative (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/michael-cloud/summary?cid=N00041882
Burgess Owens Representative (R - UT) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/burgess-owens/summary?cid=N00045812&cycle=2022
Kat Cammack Representative (R - FL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kat-cammack/summary?cid=N00045978
James Comer Representative (R - KY) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/james-comer/summary?cid=N00038260
Jim Banks Representative (R - IN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jim-banks/summary?cid=N00037185
Gus Bilirakis Representative (R - FL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/gus-bilirakis/summary?cid=N00027462
Dan Bishop Representative (R - NC) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/dan-bishop/summary?cid=N00044335
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Representative (GA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/marjorie-taylor-greene/summary?cid=N00044701
Mike Johnson, Representative (LA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-johnson/summary?cid=N00039106
Matt Gaetz, Representative (FL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/matt-gaetz/summary?cid=N00039503
Andy Biggs Representative (R - AZ) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/andy-biggs/summary?cid=N00039293
Warren Davidson Representative (R - OH) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/warren-davidson/summary?cid=N00038767
Byron Donalds Representative (R - FL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/byron-donalds/summary?cid=N00034016
Jeff Duncan Representative (SC) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jeff-duncan/summary?cid=N00030752&cycle=CAREER
Patrick Fallon Representative (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/patrick-fallon/summary?cid=N00047264
Brad Finstad Representative (R - MN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00050649&cycle=2022
Michelle Fischbach Representative (R - MN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/michelle-fischbach/summary?cid=N00045251
Scott Franklin Representative (R - FL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/scott-franklin/summary?cid=N00046760
Russell Fry Representative (R - SC) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/industries?cid=N00049165&cycle=2022
Russ Fulcher Representative (R - ID) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/russ-fulcher/summary?cid=N00041335
Bob Good Representative (R - VA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/bob-good/summary?cid=N00045557&cycle=2022
Lance Gooden Representative (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/lance-gooden/summary?cid=N00042237
Paul Gosar Representative (R - AZ) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/paul-gosar/summary?cid=N00030771
Harriet Hageman Representative (R - WY) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/harriet-hageman/summary?cid=N00049197&cycle=2022
Diana Harshbarger Representative (R - TN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/diana-harshbarger/summary?cid=N00046688
Kevin Hern Representative (R - OK) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/kevin-hern/summary?cid=N00040829
Wesley Hunt Representative (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/wesley-hunt/summary?cid=N00044362&cycle=2020
Jim Jordan Representative (R - OH) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jim-jordan/summary?cid=N00027894
John Joyce Representative (R - PA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/john-joyce/summary?cid=N00043242
Doug LaMalfa Representative (R - CA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/doug-lamalfa/summary?cid=N00033987
Tracey Mann Representative (R - KS) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/tracey-mann/summary?cid=N00030743
Thomas Massie Representative (R - KY) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/thomas-massie/summary?cid=N00034041
Lisa McClain Representative (R - MI) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/lisa-mcclain/summary?cid=N00045730
Dan Meuser Representative (R - PA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/dan-meuser/summary?cid=N00029416
Carol Miller Representative (R - WV) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/carol-miller/summary?cid=N00041542
Mary Miller Representative (R - IL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mary-miller/summary?cid=N00045703
John Moolenaar Representative (R - MI) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/john-moolenaar/summary?cid=N00036275
Alex Mooney Representative (R - WV) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/alex-mooney/summary?cid=N00033814
Barry Moore Representative (R - AL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/barry-moore/summary?cid=N00041295
Troy Nehls Representative (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/troy-nehls/summary?cid=N00046067
Ralph Norman Representative (R - SC) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ralph-norman/summary?cid=N00027783
Andy Ogles Representative (R - TN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/andy-ogles/summary?cid=N00050943&cycle=2022
Scott Perry Representative (R - PA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/scott-perry/summary?cid=N00034120
Guy Reschenthaler Representative (R - PA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/guy-reschenthaler/summary?cid=N00041871
Matt Rosendale Representative (R - MT) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/matt-rosendale/summary?cid=N00035517
Chip Roy Representative (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/chip-roy/summary?cid=N00042268
Pete Stauber Representative (R - MN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/pete-stauber/summary?cid=N00041511
Greg Steube Representative (R - FL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/greg-steube/summary?cid=N00042808
Tom Tiffany Representative (R - WI) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/tom-tiffany/summary?cid=N00045307
Jeff Van Drew Representative (R - NJ) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jeff-van-drew/summary?cid=N00042164
Randy Weber Representative (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/randy-weber/summary?cid=N00033539
Roger Williams Representative (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/roger-williams/summary?cid=N00030602

THE SENATE

John Barrasso Senator (R - WY) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/john-barrasso/summary?cid=N00006236
Marsha Blackburn Senator (R - TN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/marsha-blackburn/summary?cid=N00003105
Mike Braun Senator (R - IN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-braun/summary?cid=N00041731
Katie Britt (R-Ala) https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-recipients-details?cycle=2022&id=N00048812
Ted Budd Representative (R - NC) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ted-budd/summary?cid=N00039551
Tom Cotton Senator (R - AR) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/tom-cotton/summary?cid=N00033363
Ted Cruz Senator (R - TX) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ted-cruz/summary?cid=N00033085
Steven Daines Senator (R - MT) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/steven-daines/summary?cid=N00033054
Deb Fischer Senator (R - NE) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/deb-fischer/summary?cid=N00033443
Lindsey Graham Senator (R - SC) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/lindsey-graham/summary?cid=N00009975
Bill Hagerty Senator (R - TN) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/bill-hagerty/summary?cid=N00045369
Josh Hawley Senator (R - MO) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/josh-hawley/summary?cid=N00041620
Cindy Hyde-Smith Senator (R - MS) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/cindy-hyde-smith/summary?cid=N00043298
Mike Johnson Representative (R - LA) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-johnson/summary?cid=N00039106
James Lankford Senator (R - OK) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/james-lankford/summary?cid=N00031129&cycle=2022
Mike Lee Senator (R - UT) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-lee/summary?cid=N00031696
Roger Marshall Senator (R - KS) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/roger-marshall/summary?cid=N00037034
Markwayne Mullin Representative (R - OK) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/markwayne-mullin/summary?cid=N00033410
Rand Paul Senator (R - KY) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/rand-paul/summary?cid=N00030836
Pete Rickets (R- NE) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cycle=2024&cid=N00027695
Marco Rubio Senator (R - FL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/marco-rubio/summary?cid=N00030612
Eric Schmitt Senator (R - MO) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00048414&cycle=2022
Rick Scott Senator (R - FL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/rick-scott/summary?cid=N00043290
Tim Scott Senator (R - SC) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/tim-scott/summary?cid=N00031782
Tommy Tuberville Senator (R - AL) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/tommy-tuberville/summary?cid=N00044434
J D Vance Senator (R - OH) https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/j-d-vance/summary?cid=N00048832

Here are the 70 House Republicans who voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/70-house-republicans-voted-to-cut-off-all-us-military-aid-to-ukraine/articleshow/101739996.cms

Full List of Senate Republicans Who Voted Against Military Aid to Ukraine

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-republicans-who-voted-against-military-aid-ukraine-1869372

Submit your song to be featured on Gaslit Nation here! https://tr.ee/BuEdw13Nw-

Introducing…The Gaslit Nation 2024 Survival Guide! https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/2024-survival-guide

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Your Daily Reminder https://open.substack.com/pub/trumptyrannytracker/p/trump-tyranny-tracker-your-daily-089?r=3gxpg3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Killers of the Flower Moon: A Mirror for America Today [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:38:00 +0000

Warning: If you prefer to watch a film with a blank slate, don’t listen to this episode if you haven’t seen or read Killers of the Flower Moon. While it doesn’t give away spoilers or information that isn’t widely known, and the film itself will be a powerful discovery given the stunning directing, acting, and musical score, it does prepare you for an unforgettable experience with a crash course on the brutal history.

Andrea and Terrell Starr of the essential Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack have been watching the rich offering of Best Picture Oscar contenders, and have a lot to say about Killers of the Flower Moon. While it was eclipsed by buzzier films like Oppenheimer and Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon is a monumental masterpiece that explains how America was founded and the forces we are up against today. No one should be surprised by Trump. Trumpism is what founded our country.

Killers of the Flower Moon reminds us of the urgent importance and power of art. To get inspired to make art and bring your projects across the finish line, join us for the Gaslit Nation LIVE Make Art Workshop on April 11 at 7pm EST – be sure to be subscribed at the Truth-teller level or higher to get your ticket to the event!

For more on the threats to our democracy and how to confront them, including the State of the Union and the GOP’s trad wife Handmaid Tale response, listen to this week’s episode, out Tuesday. In the meantime, watch the video in our show notes below of Alabama Senator and Gretchen from Mean Girls, Katie Britt, being interviewed by James Lipton of The Actors Studio.

Check out our new merch! Get your “You Can’t Make a Deal with the Guy Who Won the Aluminum Wars of the Car Bomb ‘90s. You Just Can’t” t-shirt or mug today! https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/57865157-you-cant-make-a-deal?store_id=3129329

Show Notes:

Killers of the Flower Moon trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0si5bSd6I

Gaslit Nation Make Art Workshop - Part I https://www.patreon.com/posts/make-art-video-93450936?cid=123025949

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI https://bookshop.org/p/books/killers-of-the-flower-moon-the-osage-murders-and-the-birth-of-the-fbi-david-grann/533951?ean=9780307742483

Listen to Terrell Starr’s podcast Black Diplomats https://terrellstarr.com/black-diplomats-podcast/

Subscribe to Terrell Starr’s Black Diplomats Substack: https://terrellstarr.substack.com/

Katie Britt: Inside the Actors Studio https://twitter.com/BowmanInc/status/1766019380310163785

European Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas Cooled Earth’s Climate https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjqnqq/european-genocide-of-indigenous-peoples-in-the-americas-cooled-earths-climate

Murdered and missing Native American women challenge police and courts

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/murdered-and-missing-native-american-women-challenge-police-and-courts/

Colorado Osages react to 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

https://www.kunc.org/news/2023-11-10/colorado-osages-react-to-killers-of-the-flower-moon

What to Know About ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: A Guide to the Osage Murders Martin Scorsese’s epic traces a real plot by white men to kill dozens of Native Americans who held oil rights in 1920s Oklahoma. Here is the back story.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/movies/killers-of-the-flower-moon-osage-murders-explained.html#:~:text=First%2C%20in%201918%2C%20a%20sister,off%20the%20Reign%20of%20Terror.

Take a look at the historical people depicted in 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

https://www.oklahoman.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/2023/10/23/killers-of-the-flower-moon-real-photos-from-the-osage-reign-of-terror/71288895007/

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Radical Self-Reliance: Demand Accountability [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 22:35:00 +0000

Gaslit Nation launched in 2018 to help build the Blue Wave, which set up progressive infrastructure that expands today, including in states like Kansas. In Virginia in 2023, our community produced one of the largest phone banks for Sister District, helping to get out the vote, flipping the Senate, and helping elect Danica Roem, the first transgender person to serve in the state Senate. We also protected abortion rights from Posh Trump Glenn Youngkin. An early September 2023 Gaslit Nation episode highlighted the work of the States Project, which raised more money for Virginia than the Democratic Party. Why? Because grassroots power is the most reliable power we have left. We are the answer to the decades-long mission of the corporate-backed far-right to dismantle our democracy. No one is coming to save us but us.

That’s why our listeners are the least likely to be demoralized by the news that the Supreme Court will drag out Trump’s January 6 insurrection case, the one Merrick Garland’s DOJ already waited out the clock on, losing valuable time as the coup plotters like Trump and Bannon continue to mobilize their genocidal far-right army. Ivanka and Jared dine with politicians from both parties and continue to serve as anonymous sources for the media that, in return, tries to rehabilitate their (banana republic grifter) reputations.

This week’s bonus show, answering questions from our listeners, features a special focus on the murder of Nex Benedict, a gender-fluid trans teen killed by the incitement of hate and violence driven by Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok and Oklahoma state school superintendent Ryan Walters, who appointed Raichik to terrorize vulnerable children and their allies. While the grief and anger over the lack of accountability are immense, there are solutions to what we can do, no matter if we live in a Republican-hostage state or a so-called blue state. Other questions from our listeners range from the latest news on the Havana Syndrome mystery and cover-up, must-see places to visit in New York, and whether George Santos will end up on Dancing with the Stars (he will!), and more.

If you didn’t hear your question answered this week, look out for it next week, as our Q&A continues. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Join Andrea at State Fair to help build our power in the states as a buffer against Russian-backed GOP fascism: https://linktr.ee/statefair

Human Rights Campaign President Asks for Full Investigations by DOJ and Department of Education into Brutal, Senseless Attacks Against Nex Benedict

https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-president-asks-for-full-investigations-by-doj-and-department-of-education-into-brutal-senseless-attacks-against-nex-benedict

Contact the DOJ Civil Rights Division and file a report – you do not have to Include your name and contact information. LINK: https://civilrights.justice.gov/report/

If it’s helpful, copy/paste and/or select the following information:

PRIMARY CONCERN: Discrimination at a school, educational program or service, or related to receiving education

WHERE: OWASSO PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1501 N Ash St., Owasso, OK 74055

WHEN: February 8, 2024

WHAT: Nex Benedict, a gender-fluid trans teen was killed by the incitement of hate and violence driven by Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok and Oklahoma state school superintendent Ryan Walters, who appointed Raichik to terrorize vulnerable children and their teachers. The DOJ must take over the investigation of Nex's murder. Local officials and school staff failed her, including failing to call an ambulance when she had trouble walking after suffering a hate crime attack. The DOJ must open an investigation now.

You can also send Kristen Clarke, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the DOJ, a message over Twitter: @KristenClarkeJD @CivilRights

How you can support queer and trans kids in Oklahoma after Nex Benedict’s death – The Advocate Link: https://www.advocate.com/news/how-to-help-trans-kids?fbclid=IwAR1KDpTCrqpohhRicaDP0cYQkGUZy9mj_zT7E0ZH30Yz282DmvgSGFylC7s_aem_AZIcTG7MHSnhJT6CkblIS6Y9nAQ3krE-taqnVCJswjJS2TJmpkTmq210J81PK3GrGJI&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#toggle-gdpr

Erin Reed on Substack – Erin in the Morning: Chaya Raichik Was Appointed To "Make Schools Safer" In Oklahoma; Now A Trans Teen Is Dead. Nex, a gender fluid trans teen is dead in Oklahoma. Their death comes after a year of transphobic bullying, in a school targeted by the biggest anti-trans influencers. When will it end? Link: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/chaya-raichik-was-appointed-to-make?utm_source=substack&publication_id=994764&post_id=141878010&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1xosvv

How LGBTQ Parents Can Protect Their Families After Dobbs – Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms and Other LGBTQ Parents: Know your legal rights including emergency hotlines to call. Link: https://mombian.com/2022/07/15/how-lgbtq-parents-can-protect-their-families-after-dobbs/

Moving Forward After Tragedy and Loss – Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms and Other LGBTQ Parents. Link: https://mombian.com/2024/02/23/moving-forward-after-a-week-of-tragedy-and-loss/

Davis Hammet’s 2018 Twitter Thread on How Building the Rainbow House in Topeka, Kansas Led to Political Change – Twitter link: https://twitter.com/Davis_Hammet/status/1060958025731715072

Activist Davis Hammet speaks on the Topeka Equality House – Washburn Review. Link: https://washburnreview.org/48906/news/news-campus-news/activist-and-loud-light-founder-davis-hammet-speaks-on-the-topeka-equality-house/

“1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture is a feature documentary that follows the story of tireless researchers who trace the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslation of the Bible in 1946. It chronicles the discovery of never-before-seen archives at Yale University which unveil astonishing new revelations, and casts significant doubt on any biblical basis for LGBTQIA+ prejudice. Featuring commentary from prominent scholars as well as opposing pastors, including the personal stories of the film’s creators, 1946 is at once challenging, enlightening, and inspiring. While other documentaries have been successful in their attempt to treat the symptom of homophobia in the church, 1946 is working to diagnose and treat the disease - Biblical Literalism” – 1946themovie.com

Summary of Vice News Investigation Into Sadist Groups Online Driven by Children, Targeting Children – Twitter link: https://twitter.com/VICENews/status/1759959890770956502

Keeping teens safe on social media: What parents should know to protect their kids A multipronged approach to social media management, including time limits, parental monitoring and supervision, and ongoing discussions about social media can help parents protect teens’ brain development – APA.org. Link: https://www.apa.org/topics/social-media-internet/social-media-parent-tips

Congress to Examine U.S. Spy Agencies’ Work on Havana Syndrome The C.I.A. and other agencies concluded that no hostile power was responsible for the mysterious ailments, a finding some whistle-blowers have challenged. – New York Times link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/congress-to-examine-cias-work-on-havana-syndrome.html

Want to join us in pressuring Congress to pass aid to Ukraine? This easy new site helps you send a message to your reps in Congress. Be sure to make your voice heard through helpukrainewin.com

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Prison Incarceration Rates: The U.S. vs. Russia [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:30:00 +0000

This week’s bonus show answers questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender-level and higher, starting with incarceration rates in the U.S. vs. Russia. Spoiler alert: GOP-led states and swing states are as bad or worse than Russia, starting with Mike Johnson’s Louisiana. We look at prison incarceration rates and what they can tell us about the struggle for democracy in America, what we’re up against, and how to overcome it, and more, in this week’s bonus show.

There’s a lot to discuss given the recent news, with new sweeping sanctions against Russia; new DOJ indictments against Russia; Libs of TikTok killing Nex, a trans teen in Oklahoma; Alabama going full Taliban by banning IVF, and more. Join Gaslit Nation and Kremlin File for a live Q&A this Wednesday February 28 at 12pm ET. To our subscribers at the Truth-teller level and higher, look out for a Zoom link on the morning of the Q&A on Wednesday. We hope to see you there!

A special message to our Gaslit Nation community: Several listeners sent messages about the hate crime that killed Nex, a trans teen in Oklahoma. Nex was targeted and killed by the genocidal far-right echo chamber led by Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok, which, in any functional society, would have been banned by now. Erin Reed has written an essential, must-read piece on Nex’s murder, featured in the show notes of this episode. What happened to Nex is authoritarian scapegoating 101. Genocidal movements consolidate around violence to rally the sadists who will serve as the trusted lackeys to carry out a mass purge once in power, turning a former democracy into a prison. Chaya Raichik will undoubtedly be included in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 plan to mass purge our government should Trump win the Electoral College in 2024. Nex’s murder is a tragedy that must be recognized for what it is: a hate crime. It is also an urgent warning as Trump and his supporters consolidate with the desire to carry out genocide against the most vulnerable among us, especially LGBTQ+ people and their families, friends, doctors, teachers, and others in their support networks.

Our hearts go out to all those who feel unsafe due to this heinous crime. The Gaslit Nation community is here for you. Look out for an upcoming episode on ways to fight back and protect each other. In the meantime, listen to our spring 2022 interview with Chase Strangio, Deputy Director for Transgender Justice with the ACLU's LGBT & HIV Project, included in our show notes.

If you didn’t hear your question answered this week, look out for it next week as our Gaslit Nation Q&A continues! Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Event: Thursday February 29 at 1pm – Russian-diaspora led roundtable on Russian anti-war activities

https://www.facebook.com/events/439307928421886

Chaya Raichik Was Appointed To "Make Schools Safer" In Oklahoma; Now A Trans Teen Is Dead. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/chaya-raichik-was-appointed-to-make?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Protect the LGBTQ Community: An Interview with Chase Strangio of the ACLU

https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2022/5/26/chase-strangio-interview

The Sentencing Project: U.S. Continues to be the World Leader in Rate in Incarceration https://static.prisonpolicy.org/scans/sp/usno1.pdf

Prison Policy Initiative: States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2021

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html

Justice Department indicts more Russian businessmen, their aides, vowing to keep pressure on Putin

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/02/22/justice-department-arrests-russia-businessmen-putin

Fani Willis calls out Nathan Wade, earning the women vote in her upcoming election: https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1758247461993283909

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

TRACES OF CRIMEA (official teaser)

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:51:42 +0000

This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.

Listener Q&A: Exposing Epstein’s Network, Pressuring Garland, and More! [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This week’s bonus episode, for our subscribers at the Truth-tell level and higher on Patreon, features our audience Q&A at the live taping with Tristan Snell, a former New York state prosecutor who won the Trump University case, and author of the new book Taking Down Trump. Our discussion includes exposing Jeffery Epstein’s full network, how Trump back in the White House would impact our listeners in Canada, whether it’s time to launch an underground resistance, ways to put pressure on Merrick Garland, and more!

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

An urgent request: the Senate passed aid to Ukraine. To put pressure on MAGA, contact your reps in the House with this easy-to-use site made by a Gaslit Nation listener: helpukrainewin.com. Stay tuned as Gaslit Nation & Friends name and shame members of the Kremlin Kaucus, their staff, and their largest donors. We can’t wait until November – we must stop MAGA now!

Show Notes:

The Cases Against Trump: A Guide Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/donald-trump-legal-cases-charges/675531/

Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did It Successfully by Tristan Snell https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/756546/taking-down-trump-by-tristan-snell/

Merrick Garland Must Go https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/merrick-garland-must-go/

Trump gets access to sealed documents on witness threats in Mar-a-Lago case Prosecutors turn over exhibit on threats made against potential witness to Trump’s lawyers following judge’s order, sources say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/trump-mar-a-lago-case-witness-threats-sealed-exhibit

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Fifth-Risk/

Be sure to check out helpukrainewin.com, made by a Gaslit Nation listener!

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Is Tucker Carlson an Unregistered Foreign Agent? [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:31:00 +0000

Welcome to this Gaslit Nation Emergency Bonus Episode, to cover Walter Duranty’s latest interview with Stalin, as he carries out a genocide. That was over ninety years ago. Today history repeats, with Tucker Carlson releasing a two-hour rant by Putin, presenting what Kellyanne Conway once lovingly referred to as “alternative facts.” Gaslit Nation has the fact-check for you here, and explains why Tucker Carlson, in his traitors paradise in Moscow, visiting Tara Reade, should be investigated for being an unregistered foreign agent. The Dominion lawsuit against Fox News essentially established that Tucker Carlson is not a journalist, and therefore must be investigated for furthering the Kremlin’s agenda.

Like longtime Kremlin operative Paul Manafort who he tried to rehabilitate on his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson reeks of FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act). According to Anton Gerashchenko, a former member of Ukraine’s parliament who has served in various government roles, Russian telegram channels expressed frustration in the Kremlin over Putin and Tucker’s love-in. (Putin sounded like one of those rambling email forwards about Barack HUSSEIN Obama, but the anti-Ukrainian version.) Those reports mention that Tucker was paid a fee. If that’s the case, then he needs to report that and any other perks he received from a foreign adversary. If he doesn’t disclose if and what he was paid for his Kremlin interview, he should face a FARA investigation by the DOJ (Wake up, Merrick Garland!), and an investigation by Democrats in the Senate.

Amazingly, this week the Mr. Jones' graphic novel adaptation, In the Shadow of Stalin, was announced by Oni Press – read more about that in the show notes below. The graphic novel includes deleted scenes from the film. A sneak peak of the pages can be seen here: https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/07/in-the-shadow-of-stalin-the-story-of-mr-jones/ For historical context of Tucker Carlson’s dangerous Putin interview, watch Mr. Jones or read In the Shadow of Stalin, out September 4th, and available for pre-order now.

We look forward to seeing you at the special live taping of Gaslit Nation featuring former New York state prosecutor Tristan Snell, author of the new book, Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did It Successfully. To our supporters at the Truth-teller level or higher, look out for a Zoom link sent to your inboxes Monday morning. Ask questions in the chat or in the recorded post-interview audience Q&A.To make sure you have your ticket, sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Opening Clip: https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1755757290953515479

Historical Thriller In the Shadow Of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones Out September 4th https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/07/in-the-shadow-of-stalin-the-story-of-mr-jones/

Tucker Carlson Releases Putin Interview: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3HTMYXtfQt/

Congress Removes Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA”)-Related Provisions from Final NDAA https://www.insidepoliticallaw.com/2023/12/07/congress-removes-foreign-agents-registration-act-fara-related-provisions-from-final-ndaa/

Berlin Murder Raises Suspicions of Russian Involvement https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/europe/berlin-murder-russia.html

Ukraine's Zelenskyy replaces top general in major shake-up at pivotal moment in war with Russia https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-zelenskyy-replacing-top-general-valerii-zaluzhnyi-to-lead-army/

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Gaslit Nation Social Media Workshop – Part I [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 13:03:00 +0000

This week’s bonus episode for our supporters at the Truth-teller level and higher on Patreon is Part I of the Gaslit Nation Social Media Workshop, designed for those who hate social media and miss the old Twitter. Organizer Rachel Brody, who works with various campaigns to help get out the vote and leading brands, joins us to share the landscape of social media today and how to leverage the power of your voice in a world that needs you.

Got questions about the investigations and prosecutions of the Traitor-in-Chief? Join Gaslit Nation for a special live taping on Monday, February 12, at 12 pm ET, featuring Tristan Snell—the prosecutor who led New York State's case against Trump and Trump University, and the author of the new book Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did It Successfully. An event link will be sent to our Patreon community at the Truth-teller level or higher on the day of the event. To join us, sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit!

Our regular Q&As will return in February, so be sure to send in your questions! Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Replace Jay Jacobs: https://replacejayjacobs.com/

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Economies of the Civil War: Then & Now [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:39:00 +0000

Thank you to everyone who joined the Gaslit Nation Social Media Workshop last week. What was supposed to be a one hour event lasted two hours! We look forward to publishing a recording of that soon, as Part I and Part II in early February. So if you missed the live event, you’ll soon have the recording and a helpful one-pager with an overview of social media strategies from Rachel Brody, the organizer who led the workshop.

To help connect our community in this hellfire year, we've introduced Community Chats for our Patreon listeners. Currently only on the Patreon app, it will soon be available on the web. Community Chats is a private group chat exclusively for our listeners on Patreon, another reason to join and support the show. Find more details at the top of our show notes!

This week's bonus show was inspired by a listener's question on our recent interview with historian Heather Cox Richard, author of "Democracy Rising." It builds on Heather's explanation of the economic conditions of the North and South on the eve of the Civil War, taking it a step further to look at the “Blue State” vs. “Red State” economic divide today, and what that may tell us about where our country is headed. Then Andrea and Terrell Starr from the Black Diplomats podcast and Substack discuss the recent non-scandal hospitalization "scandal" involving Lloyd Austin, comparing it to Hillary Clinton's non-scandal email "scandal,” highlighting how the media and Republican Party are determined to dehumanize and terrorize women and nonwhite people.

Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! To get this and every bonus show, all episodes ad free, invites to exclusive events, and more, subscribe to the show at Patreon.com/Gaslit for as little as $5 a month!

Show Notes:

Check Out Community Chats from Patreon: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/18855680408589-Join-community-chats

“American Civil War: Then and Now” https://www.patreon.com/posts/american-civil-93719050

Transcript of Heather Cox Richardson interview – Part I: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be3e193506fbe475c2856f7/t/65672e9144317d4e6c728ef0/1701260945235/GaslitNation_20231129_Transcript_American-Civil-War_Then-and-Now.docx.pdf

PBS: The Civil War and Emancipation https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html

The Civil War - An Introduction https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/overview.htm

CHRONOLOGY-Who banned slavery when? https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL15614649/

Red States and Blue States Are Becoming Different Countries https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/opinion/red-blue-states-politics.html

2007 Study: Rich State, Poor State, Red State, Blue State: What’s the Matter with Connecticut? http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/redblue11.pdf

In almost every industry, red states have higher turnover https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/26/hiring-red-blue-states/

Washington Post Analysis - 2023: In almost every industry, red states have higher turnover https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/26/hiring-red-blue-states/

Which states gained the most high-income families, and which lost the most during the pandemic https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/10/12/us-high-income-family-migration/71148162007/

Chinese Mom Buys $6.5 Million New York City Apartment for 2-Year-Old

https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/28/chinese-mom-buys-6-5-million-new-york-city-apartment-for-two-year-old/

Dear Black Americans: Please Move to the South. An argument for consolidating Black political power.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/reverse-migration-black-majority-states.html

A ‘New Great Migration’ is bringing Black Americans back to the South

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-new-great-migration-is-bringing-black-americans-back-to-the-south/

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Impressions from Konya, 2023 ✦ official teaser

Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:46:39 +0000

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Is China About to Invade Taiwan? [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:17:00 +0000

Coming soon for our Patreon community! Look out for a group chat feature for supporters to more easily connect with each other, and also a pinned post of recommended books from our listeners! Thank you to everyone who supports the show!

There was a crucial presidential election in Taiwan today as the fairly young democracy elected Vice President Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party to stand up to China’s threats. (Check our show notes: The Guardian has a colorful overview of the most consequential election since Taiwan’s first in 1996). No matter who won, China will continue to seek to annex Taiwan, dictator Xi having told Biden in their meeting in September that China and Taiwan will unify.

A troubling sign backs up his threat: Xi discovered that his military is as comically corrupt as Russia’s, with reports of missiles in China full of water instead of fuel. Xi is clearly learning from Putin's mistakes in Ukraine. China may be preparing to take advantage of a West stretched thin by conflicts in Ukraine, Israel, and with Iran-backed Houthis. Olga Lautman, a Russian mafia researcher and co-host of the Kremlin Files podcast, joins Andrea to discuss whether China is about to invade Taiwan.

The conversation includes the grievance politics of authoritarian movements, featuring a look at MAGA lapdog Elise Stefanik's dangerous appearance on Meet the Press. In that clip, featured in our show notes, Stefanik refers to the violent white supremacist terrorists who attempted to overthrow our democracy on January 6th as "hostages." Andrea and Olga discuss the dangers of this and the history of a Nazi camp on Stefanik’s Long Island. If Trump regains power, expect over 1,000 violent traitors to be pardoned on day one as he launches Project 2025 (his carefully planned mass purge of our government), making the world, not just our country, even more dangerous.

This week’s bonus show includes Andrea answering questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. That discussion includes novels to read right now, how art by school children can help Ukraine, and more! If you didn’t hear your question answered this week, look out for it next week, as our Q&A continues. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Hate social media? Miss the old Twitter? Want to raise your voice for 2024 for those who don’t have one? Join our social media workshop this Thursday, January 18th, at 8 pm ET! This virtual event will feature the tenacious Rachel Brody, an organizer working on social media strategy for various campaigns, from Congressional to Latino voter outreach. Rachel also spearheads the diverse grassroots movement in New York to replace disastrous party chair Jay Jaycobs and will provide a quick update on that important effort to prevent New York from losing us the House again!

To sign up for our bonus episodes, attend our virtual events, submit questions for our regular Q&As, and more, support Gaslit Nation on Patreon.com/Gaslit

Show Notes:

Clip: Elise Stefanik refers to the "January 6 hostages" on Meet the Press: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1744014556416905223

Nazis on Long Island: The Story of Camp Siegfried https://mjhnyc.org/events/nazis-on-long-island-the-story-of-camp-siegfried/

The Guardian: Inflatables, hip-hop rallies, and a missile alarm: Taiwan to vote in election that’s too close to call https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/taiwan-general-presidential-election-2024-voting-polls-results-dpp-kmt-tpp

In a Setback for Beijing, Taiwan Elects Lai Ching-te as President Taiwan’s vice president, whose party has emphasized the island’s sovereignty, defeated an opposition party that favors reviving engagement with China. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/asia/taiwan-election-china-us.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20240113&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=48614702&segment_id=155235&user_id=097a378032011d6e8be1570cdce0a176

Xi told Biden at summit that China plans to reunify with Taiwan https://abcnews.go.com/International/xi-warns-biden-china-plans-back-taiwan/story?id=105815520

Why Taiwan is 2024’s first big election to watch https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2024/1/6/24026992/taiwan-china-president-war-xi-jinping-asia-semiconductors-chips

US Intelligence Shows Flawed China Missiles Led Xi to Purge Army China missiles filled with water, not fuel: US intelligence Xi seeking to root out corruption, prepare military for combat https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-06/us-intelligence-shows-flawed-china-missiles-led-xi-jinping-to-purge-military?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter

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Peter Kurth Takes the Self Care Q&A [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 11:05:00 +0000

Author Peter Kurth takes the Gaslit Nation Self Care Q&A! In the second part of this special interview, Andrea interviews Peter Kurth, author of American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson, which helped inspire Andrea’s latest screenplay based on Thompson and her urgent lessons for us today. Gaslit Nation has always been a show that combines the power of art with fighting fascism, and this interview captures that call-to-arms.

To our Patreon community at the Truth-teller level and higher, save the date for our January 18th 8 pm ET Quit Twitter Social Media Workshop. If you hate social media, if you miss Old Twitter before Apartheid Barbie Musk deliberately destroyed it, if you want to elevate your voice for those who need your solidarity and support, then this is the workshop for you! We’ll be joined by organizer Rachel Brody who helps various campaigns with their social media strategy and helps lead the statewide coalition to replace Jay Jacobs, the useless chair of the New York state Democratic Party who, from George Santos to Republican control of the House running through New York, has cost this country so much. This is an event not to miss! To get access, subscribe to the show at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit

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Zelensky vs. Orban [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:05:00 +0000

In a year of hellfire, there were some signs of hope, including Ukraine moving closer to joining the European Union. Countless Ukrainians gave their lives for this, beginning with around 100 pro-democracy protesters killed by the riot police of Viktor Yanukovych, the Ukrainian Trump brought to power by longtime Kremlin operative Paul Manafort.

Even Viktor Orban, the wannabe strongman of Hungary, couldn’t stop Ukraine from moving closer to its long held and long sacrificed for European dreams. This special bonus show is a roast of Orban by Andrea and Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats podcast. Zelensky recently got into Orban’s face, reminding us again that he’s a streetfighter showing the world how to stand up to bullies. Watch the infamous video clip of that here. This international humiliation of Orban was followed by even more humiliation as EU leaders asked Orban to leave the room so they could unanimously vote on Ukraine moving forward in the process for membership. Orban left the room, and the vote passed. This lively discussion is a reminder that bullies can be contained.

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Gareth Jones Reports from Nazi Germany [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 16:27:00 +0000

Sixteen year old Kalief Browder spent 700 days in solitary confinement over a backpack he didn’t steal, and traitor to his country, former FBI agent Charles McGonigal, only got four years in prison for being on the payroll of the Russian mafia. That and Putin’s end-of-the-year speech to Russians, promising to destroy and occupy all of Ukraine, are discussed in this week’s bonus episode.

Joining us for urgent insights into how to navigate this all-to-familiar time of growing fascism is media historian Ray Gamache, a leading biographer of Gareth Jones, the hero of Mr. Jones, the film inspired by Jones’ groundbreaking reporting on Stalin. Jones also reported from Hitler’s Germany, where he warned that Hitler and his “primitive” mobs of supporters were going to transform not just Germany, but the fate of Europe. Gamache is the author of Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor and Gareth Jones: On Assignment in Nazi Germany 1933-34

To our supporters at the Democracy Defender level and higher, send in your questions for our Q&As. We always look forward to hearing from you. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Join the conversation and get episodes ad free, invites to special events, and more by subscribing at Patreon.com/Gaslit!

Show Notes:

Remembering Kalief Browder a Year After his Suicide and Why Rikers Island Should be Shut Down https://innocenceproject.org/remembering-kalief-browder-year-suicide-rikers-island-shutdown/

Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief sentenced to over four years in prison for work with Russian oligarch https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/politics/ex-fbi-counterintelligence-chief-sentenced-to-sentenced-to-over-four-years-in-prison/index.html

US Senate report uncovers Louis Freeh's connections with Russia authorities https://news.err.ee/1125367/us-senate-report-uncovers-louis-freeh-s-connections-with-russia-authorities

Putin says no peace in Ukraine until his goals are achieved https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/putin-year-end-news-conference-ukraine-1.7058841

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Weapons of Mass Distraction [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

This experiment brings to mind more recent ones in Russia, where there were deliberate efforts to breed both aggressive and docile rats. One Gaslit Nation listener wondered if Russian botfarms are deliberately "engineering" (inciting) aggressive Americans and also docile ones in their disinformation warfare to further divide us. The theory suggests that docile and distracted Americans would be less likely to resist against the aggressive ones. Research into hybrid warfare points to distraction as a powerful tool of disinformation waged by foreign adversaries. (The West has its own history of this, using CIA-funded art and culture to directly challenge Soviet ideology. There's a great book that captures that time called The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters.)

All that and more, including Venezuela’s threats to annex an oil-rich region of Guyana, which would worsen the refugee crisis on our southern border, is discussed in this week’s bonus episode. If you didn’t hear your question answered this week, look out for it next week as the Gaslit Nation Q&A continues! Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Under Stalin, in their quest to build a Soviet utopia, the Bolsheviks turned to eugenics. With the goal of breeding humans with apes, they aimed to successfully prove Darwin was right and that religion was indeed the "opium of the masses." Their human-ape hybrids would be engineered to be a super species—communally driven, designed with positive traits to build a flourishing communist society. Needless to say, the experiment failed, and many chimpanzees kidnapped from Africa died in the process.

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Show Notes:

Get your ‘Tis the Season to Prosecute Treason T-shirt featuring an original design by Hamish Smyth! http://tee.pub/lic/_vLBHBoWkeg

Nice Rats, Nasty Rats: Maybe It’s All in the Genes https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/nice-rats-nasty-rats-maybe-its-all-in-the-genes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Israel and Palestine: A Political Solution https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2023/10/18/israel-palestine-political-solution

Kremlin says Putin is healthy, laughs off body double rumours https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-rejects-speculation-that-putin-is-ill-uses-body-doubles-2023-10-24/

The Russian Government Once Funded a Scientist’s Quest To Make an Ape-Human Hybrid In 1926, a famed Russian biologist was “hell-bent” on creating an ape-human hybrid https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-russian-government-once-funded-a-scientists-quest-to-make-an-ape-human-hybrid-5043859/

Venezuela’s threats to annex most of Guyana draw international concern https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/07/venezuela-guyana-esequibo-map-border-dispute/

Distraction Helps Misinformation Spread. Thinking About Accuracy Can Reduce it. https://medium.com/jigsaw/distraction-helps-misinformation-spread-thinking-about-accuracy-can-reduce-it-a4e5d8371a85

Weapons of Mass Distraction https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Weapons-of-Mass-Distraction-Foreign-State-Sponsored-Disinformation-in-the-Digital-Age.pdf

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Kissinger Kaput: A Gaslit Nation Celebration [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 12:40:00 +0000

Putin lost a longtime friend and confidant, the only American statesman he respected and admired. Why might these two have hit if off? War criminal Henry Kissinger, like Putin, was responsible for millions of deaths and backing some of the most brutal regimes in the world. The foreign policy establishment here in the U.S. and in Europe have blood on their hands for normalizing Kissinger, like Putin, for far too long.

For a refresher on Kissinger’s legacy, which was revealed to be even worse than previously known, listen to the Gaslit Nation spring 2023 interview with investigative journalist Nick Turse on his reporting for The Intercept into the generational trauma of Kissinger in Cambodia. Not content to prolong the Vietnam war, Kissinger spread the conflict to formally neutral Cambodia, helping bring to power the repressive Khmer Rouge. Add to that his enabling of genocides in East Timor and Bangladesh, as well as backing dictators and murder squads in Latin America. It’s obvious why he was also a fan of Trump. All this is to say, where were you when you first heard the news that Kissinger will no longer be advising other war criminals, and how did you celebrate?

Andrea shares a story of spotting Kissinger at a party while holding a throwable glass of wine in her hand, and why it’s important to celebrate the demise of war criminals–that’s how you build a culture to prevent future war criminals. The Patreon-only portion of this week’s bonus episode features comments and questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. Topics range from turning our current rollercoaster of living history into the next Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating our acts of civil resistance, books to read to find your voice in the world, and more! To join the conversation, sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit.

Show Notes:

Henry Kissinger, responsible for millions of deaths, dies at 100 https://theintercept.com/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-death/

Henry Kissinger: ‘If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic.’ https://forward.com/culture/470300/kissinger-at-100-if-it-were-not-for-the-accident-of-my-birth-i-would-be/

Alex Gibney Documentary: The Trials of Henry Kissinger https://www.amazon.com/Trials-Henry-Kissinger-Eugene-Jarecki/dp/B00A9IFSBY

Kissinger on the Nixon tapes https://youtu.be/OKoqIqQ0E08?si=vV7uM8nNwyPiHoMI

Kissinger, a longtime Putin confidant, sidles up to Trump https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-kissinger-russia-putin-232925

Andrea’s celebratory tweet: What is the first thing Satan said to Kissinger? https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/1730055040985874722?t=UftX3tgzsaT9HQzlkzYbMw&s=19

Monty Python song “Henry Kissinger”: https://youtu.be/ABeGhyAD_DM?si=3t1FR3jsar78sqKv

Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ck0.uBQX.Rdb-cCaQzu18&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share

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Collateral Damage: Stories of Innocent Lives Lost to the Drug War (Teaser)

The Intercept — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:44:19 +0000

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MAKE ART Workshop [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:03:00 +0000

As a special THANK YOU to our Patreon community that keeps the showing going through these tough times, Andrea shares her “hot sauce” for making art. The core spice is this: Don’t be afraid to be interesting. Sometimes there might be a temptation to self-censor, to play it safe, to adhere to external pressures real or imagined. Instead, go within and create based on what’s true for you. That’s what the world needs from you now.

To use this guide, watch the video of the workshop, then read through the worksheet that outlines the step-by-step process: for Patreon subscribers you can find that worksheet linked here. Or you can listen to the guide as you would any podcast. Whatever works for you is what works!

As a follow-up to this workshop, we’ll gather in the new year for a live virtual event to talk through our projects, share ideas and insights, and support each other in our creative process. The goal is to protect our mental hygiene, enhance our intuition, and stay creative in a time of rampant gaslighting by idiotic destructive forces determined to demoralize us. We obviously won’t let that happen.

For any questions or to share notes on your own process, leave a comment below or write to Andrea at GaslitNation@gmail.com. To check out the first ever Gaslit Nation Make Art workshop, subscribe to the show at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon by signing up at Patreon.com/Gaslit. You’ll receive all episodes ad free, special invites, and more!

Show Notes:

The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-modern-myths-adventures-in-the-machinery-of-the-popular-imagination-philip-ball/18335535?ean=9780226823843

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma [Includes insights on art therapy] https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-body-keeps-the-score-brain-mind-and-body-in-the-healing-of-trauma-bessel-van-der-kolk/6679040?ean=9780143127741

Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling https://bookshop.org/p/books/storyworthy-engage-teach-persuade-and-change-your-life-through-the-power-of-storytelling-matthew-dicks/10952996?ean=9781608685486

Making Movies https://bookshop.org/p/books/making-movies-sidney-lumet/6730532?ean=9780679756606

The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-anatomy-of-story-22-steps-to-becoming-a-master-storyteller-john-truby/8050558?ean=9780865479937

101 Things to Learn in Art School https://bookshop.org/p/books/101-things-to-learn-in-art-school-kit-white/10523037?ean=9780262016216

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative https://bookshop.org/p/books/steal-like-an-artist-10-things-nobody-told-you-about-being-creative-austin-kleon/6862462?ean=9780761169253

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art https://bookshop.org/p/books/understanding-comics-the-invisible-art-scott-mccloud/228758?ean=9780060976255

A Map for Wild Hearts: How to Make Art Even When You're Lost https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-map-for-wild-hearts-how-to-make-art-even-when-you-re-lost-andrea-hannah/12045947?ean=9780578521725

Watch the documentary “Brooklyn Boheme” made by Gaslit Nation guest and Andrea’s mentor Nelson George: https://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-Boheme-Spike-Branford-Marsalis/dp/B007JRTVH0/ref=sr_1_1?crid=13DQ10MMZPBVU&keywords=brooklyn+boheme&qid=1700830612&s=instant-video&sprefix=brooklyn+boh%2Cinstant-video%2C336&sr=1-1

10 Must-Read Native American Authors https://bookriot.com/must-read-native-american-authors/

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Len Blavatnik’s Dangerous A.I. Film [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 13:32:00 +0000

Welcome to the George Santos Tribute Episode, lasting as long as his tenure in Congress.The Russian-linked Ponzi Scheme is on his way out. He lavishly spent campaign cash on his honeymoon in Las Vegas, spa treatments, luxury shopping sprees, Botox (he’s 35!), and the naughty fun time site OnlyFans. We have questions, mostly: Did his Russian-linked backers get their money’s worth by having major American embarrassment Santos in Congress? The answer is yes.

On an oddly related note, super mogul Len Blavatnik, whom you're not allowed to call a Russian oligarch (or else he might sue you), owns Warner Music Group. The industry giant is developing a creepy and dangerous A.I.-generated Edith Piaf biopic. Blavatnik, whose cousin Andrea got into a screaming match with at the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, throws his money around, including to the Democratic Party and the Council on Foreign Relations. As explained in this episode, this is reputation laundering and influence peddling, given Blavatnik's well-documented ties to Putin’s court of oligarchs.

Are you ready for this? Blavatnik is a longtime friend and business partner of notorious sanctioned “Putin wallet” Viktor Vekselberg in various oligarchy-type ventures like Rusal, Russia’s largest aluminum company owned by Oleg Deripaska, that thug who won the aluminum wars during the car bomb 1990s in Russia. (Paul Manafort was on the hook to Deripaska for a bunch of money in a media venture gone wrong, and made it up to him by running Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016…for free). Blavatnik’s friend/business partner Vekselberg has a seemingly unlucky cousin named Andrew Intrater, a financier who gave George Soros $625,000 to invest in a Florida based fund that turned out to be a Ponzi scheme. Despite losing all that money, Intrater went on to put his full trust in Santos by pumping his Congressional campaign full of cash. A campaign that turned out to be…you guessed it, a Ponzi scheme. It should be noted that longtime friends and associates Intrater, Vekselberg, and Blavatnik all gave heavily to Trump’s inaugural committee–otherwise known as a Russian victory lap.

This week’s bonus episode includes questions from listeners on topics ranging from white rage extremism and who’s tracking it, to how to stay hopeful during these dark times. If you didn’t hear your question answered this week, look out for it soon! Next week’s bonus episode will be the Make Art Workshop–a thank you to our community and a way for us to build up our resilience and fight back with joy. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Get your ‘Tis the Season to Prosecute Treason T-shirt featuring an original design by Hamish Smyth here: http://tee.pub/lic/_vLBHBoWkeg

68-percent of Americans support a ceasefire in Gaza https://www.reuters.com/world/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15/

Israeli opposition leader says time has come to replace Netanyahu https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-opposition-leader-says-time-has-come-replace-netanyahu-2023-11-16/

Hamas leader being grilled on live TV and lying https://twitter.com/arash_tehran/status/1715354932595847322

Santos Won’t Seek Re-election After House Panel Finds Evidence of Crimes The findings, which were referred to prosecutors, are likely to prompt another attempt to expel the embattled congressman from the House. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/nyregion/george-santos-ethics-committee.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20231116&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=48614702&segment_id=150214&user_id=097a378032011d6e8be1570cdce0a176

A Soviet-Born Billionaire Is Buying Influence at US Institutions. Anti-Corruption Activists Are Worried. The Council on Foreign Relations is under fire for accepting Len Blavatnik’s gifts thanks to his tie to oligarchs and Russian corruption. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/council-on-foreign-relations-leonard-blavatnik-russia/

Music’s Mystery Mogul: Len Blavatnik, Trump and Their Russian Friends Len Blavatnik is not only a backer of films and potential buyer of a Hollywood studio but also reportedly on the fringe of the Russia probe thanks to GOP giving and links to oligarchs with ties to Putin. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/why-is-warner-music-group-owner-len-blavatnik-russia-probe-1150550/

How an Investor Lost $625,000 and His Faith in George Santos Andrew Intrater, a wealthy businessman, has been in touch with the S.E.C. about Mr. Santos’s dealings on behalf of a company accused in a Ponzi scheme. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/nyregion/george-santos-sec-intrater.html

NY Fund Manager Linked to Russian Oligarch Invested Big With Santos. Now He Claims He Was Conned. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/george-santos-andrew-intrater/

A Putin-Friendly Oligarch’s Top US Executive Donated $285,000 to Trump The head of Viktor Vekselberg’s American affiliate helped finance Trump’s inauguration. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/a-putin-friendly-oligarchs-top-us-executive-donated-285000-to-trump/

‘It’s shameful’: Russian-linked billionaires have given enormous sums of money to the West’s leading educational and cultural institutions https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/us/russian-oligarchs-philanthropy-ukraine-war-invs/index.html

Oleg Deripaska: Putin ‘favourite’ with strong ties to UK politics https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/oleg-deripaska-profile-putin-britain

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Election 2023 Super Special [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 13:21:00 +0000

This Election 2023 Super Special opens with a discussion on building unions, because the big takeaway is grassroots power is the most reliable power we have left. In a time of historic income inequality, which furthers the flames of fascism, we need to extend the Big Blue Wave energy into the growing rebirth of unions. Political and economic justice go hand-in-hand. For our Patreon community, there’s a deep dive on the election, and a special call to action for those who support the show and make Gaslit Nation possible. Thank you all so much! If you would like to hear the full episode, get all episodes ad free, join our community of listeners, and so much more, subscribe to support our independent journalism at Patreon.com/Gaslit.

With all the important races this year, we strategically set our sights on one goal: denying Youngkin a Republican majority in Virginia. Together we exceeded our expectations: we held the Senate, flipped the House, and helped elect the first trans woman to the Virginia state senate, and put Youngkin’s political future in doubt. There were headlines like this one from Politico following his major election night losses: “Glenn Youngkin’s white knight era is over.”

We supported grassroots infrastructure that could lead to Virginia being called early again on election night like it was in 2020. Sister District, the grassroots group we partnered with, made 43-percent of its candidates phone calls, and our Gaslit Nation phone bank with them was their largest to date of this election. Thank you to everyone who did whatever you could wherever you are. We're going to get through this dangerous crossroads together.

What's clear is that the grassroots communities that formed in the original 2018 Blue Wave are still active. Now we need to help expand that energy into economic justice. That’s why this Election 2023 Special opens with an interview featuring longtime Gaslit Nation listener Brock Madden speaking with Jasmine Leli, the Buffalo, N.Y.-based Starbucks barista and member of Starbucks Workers United. Based in Seattle, Brock is looking to organize other restaurant workers like him to unionize. If you want to start a union and don’t know how or where to start, this discussion will inspire you to take action, no matter how small at first.

Thank you to Jasmine and Brock for this important conversation. If you’re in the Seattle area and would like to build with Brock, email him at huckleberry_98226@yahoo.com

SHOW NOTES:

CLIP: “Fraud Family!” Ivanka Kushner greeted by protesters at a New York courthouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5LMNFfEmLo

Nikki Haley Praises Ivanka Kushner https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1049681209553547266?t=ziSGT40B4wIDx0mtDVEMWg&s=19

Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html

“After GOP donors threatened to stop funding him for being unmarried, Tim Scott is now appearing publicly with who he says is his girlfriend named Mindy. He says they have been dating for ‘about a year or so.’” https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1722466341838369122

“NEW from @CAPAction 's @citizenwillis : Since Sunday, cable networks are airing 10x more coverage of Biden's polling than this story detailing Trump’s MAGA plot to weaponize the government against his political enemies. @CNN : 29x as much @FoxNews : 38x as much @MSNBC : 3x as much” https://twitter.com/CMSeeberger/status/1722380856520491467

“This may be the most important result tonight that most people have no idea about: solidifies D majority on the court that decided more Trump 2020 lawsuits than any other in the country, and that is very likely to hear major cases in 2024 related to voting rights and elections.” https://twitter.com/alex_burness/status/1722107803920204047

“Exit polling on Ohio issue 1 is showing broad support for abortion rights across demographics. More from @nbcnews here: https://nbcnews.com/politics/2023-elections/ohio-ballot-measures#exit-polls” https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/1722054516399395073

Mitch McConnell Will Not Go Gently Into the Senate Goodnight Even if the senator wanted to retire, there’s no way he’ll let Kentucky’s Democratic governor choose his replacement, even temporarily. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/why-mitch-mcconnell-wont-retire/

“The anti-trans stuff is unpopular even in large swaths of Trump country (let alone purple and blue states). The fact popularists wanted to compromise on this is further evidence of their preference to follow their own political preferences rather than attend to the evidence.” https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1722050682700566942

“Glenn Youngkin’s white knight era is over. What will the next one be? Republicans want to see him become a proud dispenser of vetos. Others say it might be wise to chart a more conciliatory path.” https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/10/youngkin-political-future-virginia-election-losses-00126481

Brock Madden – Call to Action: https://www.tiktok.com/@broccoli618/video/7288050878915824938?_r=1&_t=8gP1kSODd8A

Email Brock: huckleberry_98226@yahoo.com

This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Netanyahu Needed a War. So Does Xi [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 13:35:00 +0000

This is an excerpt of this week's bonus show. To access the full show, receive all episodes ad free, submit questions to our regular Q&As, access our back catalogue of bonus shows, join the conversation with our community of listeners, support our independent journalism, and more, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit

In this coming week’s episode, expect a full deep dive into the latest devastation and expected fallout of the Israel-Hamas War, including the growing protests and polling against Netanyahu and why he must go now. And an important voice will join the show to explain how to build a union, especially when you’re up against corporate gaslighting and intimidation tactics. Today’s bonus episode is shaped by questions and comments from listeners subscribed at the Democracy Defender level and higher, including how opportunistic China benefits from the Israel-Hamas War and the nefarious Chinese connections to American protest group Code Pink, revealing a vast pro-China network on the global Left. China, Code Pink, and the sex trafficking network of Hefner-Epstein-Trump, and more are discussed in this week’s bonus show. If you didn’t hear your question answered this week, look out for it next week, as the Gaslit Nation Q&A continues.

Dictators are dangerous for many reasons, especially because, as the social ills grow, they need a war to cling to power. Putin needed a war to maintain the status quo, and so did Netanyahu. In China, it’s increasingly dangerous for social media users to expose poverty or other crises, like youth unemployment or how difficult it can be for many to put food on the table. With US foreign policy stretched thin by the war in Ukraine and Israel-Hamas, now would be an opportune time for China, which has been aggressively building up its nuclear program and A.I. arsenal, to annex Taiwan, something Xi has been outspoken about since consolidating power in 2017. Technologically dominant groups get away with carrying out genocides. So a technologically dominant China would be a danger to the world.

Chatham House, the independent British think tank where in 1933 Gareth Jones shared his eye-witness account of the Holodomor, Stalin’s genocide-famine in Ukraine, invited Andrea to join a Twitter Live discussion this coming Wednesday November 8 at 10:30am EST. Catch that discussion by going to the Chatham House Twitter account at that time. And to help protect democracy in the US and reproductive healthcare in Virginia, join Andrea in making phone calls with Sister District now through Tuesday, election day. Sign up using the link at the top of the show notes. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Show Notes:

Sister District & Partners National Phonebank! https://www.mobilize.us/sisterdistrict/event/387377/

Chatham House Twitter Live Space with Andrea Wednesday November 8 10:30am ET https://twitter.com/ChathamHouse

China and US reportedly agree to rare nuclear arms control talks Talks expected on Monday would be first since Obama administration and follow visit to Washington by Wang Yi, Chinese foreign minister https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/02/china-and-us-reportedly-agree-to-rare-nuclear-arms-control-talks

COVID might have come from a lab leak, says China’s former top scientist ‘Don’t rule out anything,’ former head of the Chinese CDC says. https://www.politico.eu/article/covid-mightve-come-from-a-lab-leak-chinas-former-top-scientist-says/

Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation https://www.wsj.com/articles/huawei-technicians-helped-african-governments-spy-on-political-opponents-11565793017

Why China’s Censors Are Deleting Videos About Poverty Xi Jinping says he has defeated poverty, but discussion of economic struggle is taboo, scrubbed from the internet and banished from the news. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/business/china-censorship-poverty.html

A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html

China hawk says Beijing could attack Taiwan by 2024, bringing ‘war to the West’ https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/china-hawk-says-beijing-to-bring-war-to-the-west-take-taiwan.html

Hugh Hefner Investigative Docuseries ‘Secrets of Playboy’ Gets More Episodes at A&E https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/secrets-of-playboy-hugh-hefner-1235197604/

What China wants from Israel-Hamas war https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67237146

China blocks entry to WHO team studying Covid's origins This article is more than 2 years old Officials say visas not yet approved for World Health Organization delegation due to visit Wuhan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/china-blocks-entry-to-who-team-studying-covids-origins

Nuclear Talks With China Are Essential and Long Overdue https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/opinion/sunday/china-nuclear-weapons-russia.html

New Pentagon report claims China now has over 500 operational nuclear warheads https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1207156597/new-pentagon-report-claims-china-now-has-over-500-operational-nuclear-warheads

China is working on a weapon the US decided was too dangerous to exist What's worse than a nuclear missile? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/02/china-us-non-nuclear-icbm-ballistic-missile-defence-taiwan/

Nazis on Long Island: The Story of Camp Siegfried https://mjhnyc.org/events/nazis-on-long-island-the-story-of-camp-siegfried/

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What You May Have Missed in the Merrick Garland Hearing [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000

This is an excerpt of Gaslit Nation's weekly bonus episode. To listen to the extended version, receive all episodes ad free, exclusive event invites, and join the conversation, support the show at Patreon.com/Gaslit. The average bedtime for children is around 8pm. Late into the night, well past that hour, angry mobs honk and scream into bullhorns outside a migrant shelter on Staten Island. Their rioutous harassment, meant to terrorize the newly arrived aslym seekers that include children, can be heard in homes far up the street. This goes on night after night. In this extra pissed off bonus episode of Gaslit Nation, Andrea explains how disinformation worsens the migrant crisis, why Republican crony Mayor Eric Adams with his Russian mobbed up pals is the worst person for this moment of crisis in New York City, and how Merrick Garland continues to empower corruption in America that profits off the demise of our democracy. Unfortunately, the Hunter Biden investigation makes it nearly impossible for President Biden to replace Merrick Garland (though he should immediately!). But that would be seen by the hand-wringers in the Democratic Party establishment as feeding the far-right’s echochamber. As the clip of the recent Garland hearing in this episode shows, the DOJ was called on by Democratic members of Congress to investigate Clarence Thomas for being on the payroll of Nazi memorabilia enthusiast and far-right mega-donor Harlan Crow. When pressed on that matter, you can hear and/or see for yourself in the clip how Garland sounds dismissive, almost annoyed, like he doesn’t grasp the urgency–because he doesn’t. The latest bombshell investigation by ProPublica, out yesterday, exposes how Thomas worked fundraisers for a group that regularly took cases before him at the Supreme Court. (Look out for our interview with ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger about their damning investigations into Thomas, Alito, and what can be done about elite criminal impunity. Eisinger led the investigation of former Manhattan DA Cy Vance, Jr. who prevented indictments of Ivanka and Don Jr. for felony fraud after receiving a campaign donation from a Trump family lawyer). Finally, the second half of this week’s bonus episode includes the live audience Q&A with Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats podcast reporting from Kyiv. The audio of the first question was removed by request due to the personal nature of the matter: overcoming workplace abuse. If you or someone you know is struggling with an abusive workplace or related issues – whether it's in a corporation, a small business, or a partnership – seek legal help immediately. Contact your state’s local bar association for lawyers willing to do pro bono work or a free consultation. In a time of great economic uncertainty, people are increasingly vulnerable to workplace abuse, whether financial, emotional, or both, and being exploited – so get the help and support you need by taking a meeting with a lawyer to know your rights. You will be glad you did. Question for our audience: Given the Nazi viper den of Twittrer, and the harmful abuse there targeting vulnerable communities, what are some other social media sites that you’re increasingly turning to and find helpful? Let us know in the comments! Show Notes: Everything you can do today to help asylum seekers in NYC https://nygroove.nyc/how-to-help-asylum-seekers-nyc/ Chaos in Staten Island: NYC protesters arrested trying to stop busses carrying migrants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4oCBycM0RY Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before House Judiciary Committee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83nn4uq2Teo Garland hears first real Democratic criticism from Rep. Cori Bush [Search article for Cori Bush’s name] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/merrick-garland-testimony-trump-hunter-biden-live-updates-rcna105680 Latest ProPublica Investigation: Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotu s AOC leads call for Federal ethics investigation: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/12/aoc-democrats-federal-investigation-clarence-thomas ‘So Much Suffering:’ What Migrant Children Carry to New York https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/nyregion/nyc-migrant-crisis-mental-health.html#:~:text=Of%20the%20more%20than%20110%2C000,towering%20in%20their%20emotional%20complexit Senate Finally Breaks Tommy Tuberville’s Blockade—Kind of https://www.thedailybeast.com/senate-finally-breaks-tommy-tubervilles-blockadekind-of Trump Nazi https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/NYPICHPDPICT000026871283.jpg?resize=1536,1063&quality=75&strip=all Neo-Nazis Gloat as Florida Becomes a Magnet for Hate https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/neo-nazis-thriving-florida-ron-desantis-1234824505/ Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court Merrick Garland’s Eyes Wide Shut https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2021/6/9/merrick-garlands-eyes-wide-shut

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Why Biden Must Declare a Climate Emergency [TEASER]

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 13:25:00 +0000

This is a free excerpt of this week's bonus show. To access the full discussion, our archives, receive all episodes ad free, invites to events like our live taping and audience Q&A with Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats podcast this Tuesday at 12pm ET, subscribe to the show at the Truth-teller level or higher and join our community of listeners who sustain much-needed independent journalism. Become a member today: www.Patreon.com/Gaslit Should we drop out of society and organize mass orgies given the state of the world? That and more are discussed in this week's bonus episode. This discussion was inspired by a question from our Patreon community and is an urgent argument for why Biden must declare a climate emergency, especially if he wants to boost his poll numbers. Gen Z is voting in larger numbers, running for office, building grassroots organizing machines, and they're demanding their elected leaders ensure a livable future. Biden will drive out the vote of an increasingly influential Gen Z by declaring a climate emergency, and at the same time energize a new generation of leaders to help strengthen and protect our democracy. It's not up to Gen Z to save us, but it is up to us to listen to Gen Z. Biden did just that by rolling back oil leases to protect pristine wilderness. Now it's time to hyper-speed a renewable energy revolution by declaring a climate emergency. The latest research by the Cassandras of the climate crisis like James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who testified to Congress in 1988 that we were headed towards collapse, warn that the heating of the planet is accelerating. Declaring a climate emergency is urgently needed national security and foreign policy. The sooner we achieve a post-oil world, the sooner we put gas station dictatorships like Russia and Iran out of business. China, another major producer, buys cheap oil from Russia, financing its genocide in Ukraine, while Iran provides killer drones slaughtering civilians. To defund these repressive mass-murdering regimes, expand the transition to renewable energy with executive emergency powers. The Department of Defense elevated climate change as a national security priority, because if we don't move faster the world will become ungovernable. The fascist far-right trying to overthrow our democracy is deeply embedded with Big Oil like the Koch political network, as discussed in our interviews with Anne Nelson, author of The Shadow Network, and historian Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains. Making fossil fuels obsolete defunds the shadowy backers of America's far-right threat, supported in a global fascist alliance by oil producer Russia. Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other Kremlin mouthpieces are just the lobbyist puppets of the fossil fuel industry. Even if the Supreme Court were to strike down or curb efforts by Biden to unlock executive emergency powers for meaningful climate action, the court's far-right Republican majority would be met with backlash at the voting booth, as we saw in the 2022 midterms. A Roe v. Wade blue wave ensured Democrats kept the Senate and that Republicans only got a fragile majority in the House, defying historical trends of the president's party losing badly in midterm elections. People left, right, and center are terrorized by the reality of extreme fires, hazardous smoke, and killer super storms. The horrifying new normal of the climate emergency breaks through far-right disinformation machines like Fox News, with young Republicans demanding action on climate change and traditionally conservative farmers working with the federal government on climate crisis projects. The very real fears and destruction of the existential threat we all live with now is a unifying moment that a president must meet by declaring a climate emergency. Morally it's the right thing to do and long past time. Leadership at the top and at all levels of government must speed up the renewable energy revolution. Biden has led on uniting the democratic alliance against Russia, and bold leadership bringing us closer to a post-carbon world will defund Russia's war machine. And his re-election will be guaranteed if he energizes Gen Z's grassroots base by giving civilization a fighting chance. There's still time, but only if we unite against "feel good" pledges and demand bold executive action now. You can contact the White House by sharing this essay or your own arguments, and raise your voice on social media demanding a climate emergency. Contact your local reps in your state government, too. Local changes can trickle up. There's more info and ways to take action below from the Sunrise Movement:

Millions of young people: @POTUS end fossil fuels Biden: *cancels all remaining oil and gas leases in the Arctic Refuge and protects 13 million acres in the Western Arctic* It's clear he's listening. Demand that he declare a climate emergency next https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1699888163467219004

Announcements:

Tuesday September 12 at 12pm ET – Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats podcast will join a special live taping of Gaslit Nation. A link to join that virtual event will go out to our Patreon community at the Truth-teller level and higher on the morning of the event. Join the conversation in our audience Q&A!
Monday September 18th at 7pm ET at P&T Knitwear – Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, and Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman will join me, Andrea, to discuss the new Gaslit Nation graphic novel Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! It’s free. There will be a special meet up at 6pm before the event for our Patreon community. I will have N95 masks for those who need one. Come say hi! Here's the event link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/andrea-chalupa-presents-gaslit-nation-a-live-podcast-recording-tickets-699829909097

Show Notes: James Hansen: There Is a Lot More Warming in the Pipeline (Summary of Report) https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/25/2143836/-James-Hansen-There-Is-a-Lot-More-Warming-in-the-Pipeline Peer & Public Review of James Hansen’s “Global Warming in the Pipeline” http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/Peer+PublicReview.21July2023.pdf MUST READ: James Hansen Op-Ed: President Biden’s Legacy http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2022/BidensLegacy.08August2022.pdf VIDEO: Global Warming in the Pipeline - Discussion by Climate Emergency Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-ArA_xYxfs ‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to com https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning Steve Bannon Saw the ‘Monster Power’ of Angry Gamers While Farming Gold in World of Warcraft https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/steve-bannon-world-of-warcraft-gold-farming.html Steve Bannon Targeted 'Incels' Because They Are 'Easy to Manipulate,' Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Says https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-targeted-incels-manipulate-cambridge-analytica-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-1468399?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter Climate change: More than 3bn could live in extreme heat by 2070 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52543589

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Teaser – Andrea Chalupa Takes the Self-Care Q&A

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:10:00 +0000

"To a life ideal. To the belief in loyalty, to the belief in comradeship, to the conviction that nothing comes of any relationship except through the sacrifice of the unimportant; to the belief that there is something in you greater than you – some passion for truth; some destiny to be the medium for that truth; some call to be the expression of the discontent and the aspiration of your country…To that I swear loyalty" --The journalist Dorothy Thompson in a letter to her soon-to-be husband Sinclair Lewis who would go on to write It Can't Happen Here inspired by her urgent reporting on the rise of the Nazis, both abroad and at home This is an excerpt of Andrea Chalupa taking the Gaslit Nation Self Care Q&A. To hear the entire bonus show and gain access to the archives of bonus epsiodes, never miss a show, receive every episode ad free straight to your inbox or RSS feed, join a community of listeners, and receive exclusive invites and more, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Thank you to everyone who supports the show -- we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

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Teaser – Cory Doctorow Takes the Self Care Q&A

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:10:00 +0000

In our bonus episode, acclaimed science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A. To hear the full bonus episode and get access to all bonus shows and more, support our independent journalism by joining our community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit -- thank you to everyone who supports the show! We invite you to share your own inspiration with our community! Take the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A by leaving your answers in the comments section or send them in an email to GaslitNation@gmail.com. We’ll read some of your responses on the show! Gaslit Nation Self-Care Questionnaire

What's a book you think everyone should read and why?
What's a documentary everyone should watch and why?
What's a dramatic film everyone should watch and why?
Who are some historical mentors who inspire you?
What's the best concert you've ever been to?
What are some songs on your playlist for battling the dark forces?
Who or what inspires you to stay engaged and stay in the fight?
What's the best advice you've ever gotten?
What's your favorite place you've ever visited?
What's your favorite work of art and why?

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Teaser – Josh Chin and Liza Lin Take the Self Care Q&A

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:10:00 +0000

In our bonus episode, Josh Chin and Liza Lin, authors of Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control, take the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A. To hear the full bonus episode and get access to all bonus shows and more, support our independent journalism by joining our community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit -- thank you to everyone who supports the show! We invite you to share your own inspiration with our community! Take the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A by leaving your answers in the comments section or email GaslitNation@gmail.com. We’ll read some of your responses on the show! Gaslit Nation Self-Care Questionnaire

What's a book you think everyone should read and why?
What's a documentary everyone should watch and why?
What's a dramatic film everyone should watch and why?
Who are some historical mentors who inspire you?
What's the best concert you've ever been to?
What are some songs on your playlist for battling the dark forces?
Who or what inspires you to stay engaged and stay in the fight?
What's the best advice you've ever gotten?
What's your favorite place you've ever visited?
What's your favorite work of art and why?

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Teaser – Cindy Cohn Takes the Self Care Q&A

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:10:00 +0000

Cindy Cohn, the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and host of the podcast How to Fix the Internet, takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A. To hear the full bonus episode and get access to all bonus shows and more, support our independent journalism by joining our community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit -- thank you to everyone who supports the show! We invite you to share your own inspiration with our community! Take the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A by leaving your answers in the comments section or send them in an email to GaslitNation@gmail.com. We’ll read some of your responses on the show! Gaslit Nation Self-Care Questionnaire

What's a book you think everyone should read and why?
What's a documentary everyone should watch and why?
What's a dramatic film everyone should watch and why?
Who are some historical mentors who inspire you?
What's the best concert you've ever been to?
What are some songs on your playlist for battling the dark forces?
Who or what inspires you to stay engaged and stay in the fight?
What's the best advice you've ever gotten?
What's your favorite place you've ever visited?
What's your favorite work of art and why?

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Teaser – Sarah Kendzior Takes the Self-Care Q&A

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:10:00 +0000

Sarah Kendzior, author of the bestselling books They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, The View from Flyover Country, and of course Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think!, takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Challenge. And don’t forget that Andrea will join comedian Kevin Allison of the RISK! Storytelling podcast for a special live event at Caveat in New York City on Saturday August 5th at 4pm to celebrate the launch of the new Gaslit Nation book Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! To get a ticket to that event in person or to watch the livestream, visit this website. Signed copies of the book can be ordered at the event! To submit your own answers and give inspiration for ways to recharge as we run our marathon together to protect our democracy, leave your answers in the comments section or send an email to GaslitNation@gmail.com. We’ll read some of the responses on the show! Gaslit Nation Self-Care Questionnaire

What's a book you think everyone should read and why?
What's a documentary everyone should watch and why?
What's a dramatic film everyone should watch and why?
Who are some historical mentors who inspire you?
What's the best concert you've ever been to?
What are some songs on your playlist for battling the dark forces?
Who or what inspires you to stay engaged and stay in the fight?
What's the best advice you've ever gotten?
What's your favorite place you've ever visited?
What's your favorite work of art and why?

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Teaser – Douglas Rushkoff Takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 14:10:00 +0000

Douglas Rushkoff, documentarian and author of the must-read books Team Human, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, and the Marshall McLuhan Award-winning book Coercion, takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A. Andrea will join comedian Kevin Allison of the RISK! Storytelling podcast for a special live event at Caveat in New York City on Saturday August 5th at 4pm to celebrate the launch of the new Gaslit Nation book Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! To get a ticket to that event in person or to watch the livestream, visit this website. Signed copies of the book can be ordered at the event! To submit your own answers and give inspiration for ways to recharge as we run our marathon together to protect our democracy, leave your answers in the comments section or send an email to GaslitNation@gmail.com. We’ll read some of the responses on the show! Gaslit Nation Self-Care Questionnaire

What's a book you think everyone should read and why?
What's a documentary everyone should watch and why?
What's a dramatic film everyone should watch and why?
Who are some historical mentors who inspire you?
What's the best concert you've ever been to?
What are some songs on your playlist for battling the dark forces?
Who or what inspires you to stay engaged and stay in the fight?
What's the best advice you've ever gotten?
What's your favorite place you've ever visited?
What's your favorite work of art and why?

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Teaser – Dave Pederson Takes the Self-Care Q&A

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:10:00 +0000

Dave Pederson, screenwriter-producer of Americonned, and the producer of the Oscar nominated film “Super Size Me”, and the Cannes Award winning “The Third Wave," takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A Here is the trailer of their powerful must-watch film. For our next Gaslit Nation live taping, join Andrea and comedian Kevin Allison of the RISK! Storytelling podcast for a show at Caveat in New York on Saturday August 5th at 4pm to celebrate the launch of the new Gaslit Nation graphic novel Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! To join in person or virtually, reserve your ticket here! Signed copies of the book can be ordered at the event! To submit your own answers and share inspiration for ways to recharge as we together run a marathon to protect our democracy, leave your answers in the comments section or send an email to GaslitNation@gmail.com. We’ll read some of the responses on the show! Gaslit Nation Self-Care Questionnaire

What's a book you think everyone should read and why?
What's a documentary everyone should watch and why?
What's a dramatic film everyone should watch and why?
Who are some historical mentors who inspire you?
What's the best concert you've ever been to?
What are some songs on your playlist for battling the dark forces?
Who or what inspires you to stay engaged and stay in the fight?
What's the best advice you've ever gotten?
What's your favorite place you've ever visited?
What's your favorite work of art and why?

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Teaser – David McRaney Takes the Self-Care Q&A

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:10:00 +0000

Science journalist and bestselling author David McRaney, author of the books How Minds Change and You Are Now Less Dumb, takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A.

For our next Gaslit Nation live taping, join Andrea and comedian Kevin Allison of the RISK! Storytelling podcast for a show at Caveat in New York on Saturday August 5th at 4pm to celebrate the launch of the new Gaslit Nation graphic novel Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! To join in person or virtually, reserve your ticket here! Signed copies of the book can be ordered at the event! To submit your own answers and share inspiration for ways to recharge as we together run a marathon to protect our democracy, leave your answers in the comments section or send an email to GaslitNation@gmail.com. We’ll read some of the responses on the show! Gaslit Nation Self-Care Questionnaire

What's a book you think everyone should read and why?
What's a documentary everyone should watch and why?
What's a dramatic film everyone should watch and why?
Who are some historical mentors who inspire you?
What's the best concert you've ever been to?
What are some songs on your playlist for battling the dark forces?
Who or what inspires you to stay engaged and stay in the fight?
What's the best advice you've ever gotten?
What's your favorite place you've ever visited?
What's your favorite work of art and why?

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Teaser – Hungary as a Warning

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:15:00 +0000

In this week's Gaslit Nation Bonus Q&A, Sarah answers questions from our listeners, including sharing a personal story about her impressions from her 2017 trip to Hungary as Orban, a hero of the Republican Party, tightened his grip on crushing democracy there. We'll be back with an all new Q&A next week, so if you didn't hear your question answered this week, look out for it next week, as our Q&As continue! To submit your questions, subscribe to the show at the Democracy Defender level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit, and to join our live-taping on Tuesday June 27 at 12pm EST with Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman, be sure to subscribe to the show at the Truth-teller level or higher to get access to the virtual show link on the morning of the event.

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Teaser – Trump Arrest Super Special

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:33:00 +0000

Welcome to another Gaslit Nation Greatest Hits! We remind you once again that Trump is a traitor to our country who built his Trump Family Ponzi scheme of a House of Cards with the help of Russian blood money, as the Idiot Sons Don Jr. and Eric have admitted. Which foreign adversaries profited off of Trump's stolen documents and when will Jared and Ivanka be investigated and indicted for their roles in obstruction justice, given that they ran the pardon operation that saw the Kremlin Klown Kar (Manafort, Bannon, Flynn) all pardoned? Giulani was allegedly selling pardons with Trump for $2 million each -- did Jared and Ivanka profit from that operation as well? The answer is likely yes! This is an excerpt of this week's bonus episode for Patreon subscribers at the Truth-teller level and higher. To listen to this and all bonus episodes, sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Gaslit Nation will be back with a new bonus episode next week answering questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. We could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

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Teaser – Trump Arrest Super Special

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:33:00 +0000

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Teaser – Trump’s First Federal Indictment!

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 20:20:00 +0000

This was recorded Thursday June 8 to react to the toxic smoke and what it means for our civilization. It also includes a discussion of the anticipated federal Trump indictment before the big news broke late Thursday. There will be more on that in next week's episode!

Did you celebrate the long awaited federal indictment of Trump? That's perfectly fine to do, even if history has shown Trump has gotten away with decades of corruption, and our legal system favors the rich. At the very least, Trump may be knocked out of the presidential race with the help of the indictments, and they're reportedly throwing him into a rage. But the long term outlook requires caution. That, Tucker Carlson's dark Twitter video, George Santos' bail woes, how to help a loved one sucked into a cult, and more are discussed in this week's bonus episode for our listeners subscribed at the Truth-teller level and higher on Patreon.

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Teaser – Is the Secret Service a Ticking Time Bomb?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:04:00 +0000

This is an excerpt of a Gaslit Nation bonus episode. To access this and the full back catalogue of bonus episodes, special event invites, and more, subscribe to the show on Patreon by signing up at Patreon.com/Gaslit The Gaslit Nation Q&A is back! But first, some announcements. We're having another live taping of Gaslit Nation with Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman on Tuesday June 27th at 12pm EST. For our Patreon subscribers at the Truth-teller level and higher, on the morning of the event, a link will be sent straight to your inbox from Patreon on how to join -- it's as easy as clicking on the link. We invite you to drop questions in the chat! And as a thank you to our community, running every month, all year long, we're selecting a Patreon subscriber every month to receive a copy of Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think! The listener chosen for May 2023 is Joel Farran. Thank you for all of your support for the show, Joel! Thank you to everyone who keeps Gaslit Nation going, especially during these uncertain times. There would be no Gaslit Nation without you! In this Q&A bonus episode, the discussion includes QAnon being a confession by the Republican Party that is riddled with pedophiles and other criminals, why we need to follow the findings of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, and why the Secret Service is a ticking time bomb. If you didn't hear your question answered this week, look out for it next week, as the Gaslit Nation Q&A continues! And apologies for the late night bleariness heard in this episode, it was a late night recording once the kids were asleep. :) Show Notes:

Secret Service under scrutiny ahead January 6 committee's final report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKuLOYlJQNk

The dangerous secrets inside the Secret Service, and how the agency has been shortchanged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO1W4JygWQc

Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service https://bookshop.org/p/books/zero-fail-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-secret-service-carol-leonnig/16898149?ean=9780399589034

The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1968-kerner-commission-got-it-right-nobody-listened-180968318/

Rep. Katie Porter in conversation with Larry Wilmore at Live Talks Los Angeles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8uRg7XqQ-I&t=1601s

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Teaser – The Truth is Out There

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:07:00 +0000

Ralph Blumenthal, the longtime New York Times reporter who got U.F.O.'s on the frontpage of the "Paper of Record" joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the government's secret X-Files. He is the author of several books, including The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack, the children's book UFOhs, as well as several books on the mafia and Nazis, making him the ideal Gaslit Nation guest! This is an excerpt of an upcoming special two-part episode with Blumenthal on the nature of U.F.O.'s, what the current and potential findings mean for humanity, and the corporations believed to be monitoring research into U.F.O.'s closely for potential profit opportunities and there doesn't seem much that the shadowy government sectors allowing this will do to protect against that. Look out for more of this interview soon! For now, we couldn't wait to share this excerpt as a bit of fun as we gear up for next week's two live tapings. This coming Tuesday May 23rd at 1:30pm EST, Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman joins Gaslit Nation for a live taping followed by an audience Q&A. The next day Wednesday May 24th at 2pm EST David Pepper, the author of Saving Democracy, joins Gaslit Nation for a live taping to answer questions about how to defeat the fascist threat, especially in so-called "red states." If you're subscribed to the show at the Truth-teller level or higher, check your inbox for details on how to join each event the morning of that event. Joining the live tapings will be as easy as clicking on a link! Gaslit Nation will be back with an all new Q&A next week answering questions from subscribers at the Democracy Defender level and higher. Keep your questions coming! We always enjoy hearing from you! Thank you to everyone who supports the show -- we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! If you would like to join our community of listeners and get access to all bonus episodes, including our back catalogue and event invites, sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit

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Teaser – CNN’s Snuff Film

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Sat, 13 May 2023 12:37:00 +0000

We discuss the fascist fantasy of CNN's Klan rally, what it means for our democracy, where things are headed, and what to do about it. This is an excerpt of this week's bonus show for our Patreon subscribers. To join our community of listeners and get access to weekly bonus episodes, events, and other fun perks, subscribe at Patreon.com/gaslit to help keep our show going. Thank you to everyone who supports Gaslit Nation -- we could not make this show without you.

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Teaser – Jeff Sharlet Takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 05 May 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Jeff Sharlet is the author of the new book Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, and the New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, which led to the must-watch Netflix docuseries The Family. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper’s; and VQR, for which he is an editor at large. He currently teaches the art of writing as a professor at Dartmouth College. In this week's bonus episode, Sharlet takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A to share what art, music, books, and documentaries and other things he recommends to help process the times we live in. We will be back with an all new bonus episode Q&A next week. For subscribers at the Democracy Defender level and higher, submit your questions to be answered in an upcoming episode! Thank you so much for your support of the show -- we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! To join our community on Patreon and help keep the show going, sign up here: Patreon.com/Gaslit

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Teaser – Preserving Free Speech in the Digital Sphere

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:20:00 +0000

Next week we're running an interview with Jeff Sharlet, the author or editor of several best-selling books, including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, which led to the must-watch Netflix docuseries The Family. Sharlet is out with a new book The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. This weeek's Q&A discussion includes updates on wannabe mass-shooter Discord Traitor Bro, otherwise known as Jack Teixeira; springtime for Putin -- all the things currently going wrong in Russia's ongoing genocidal invasion of Ukraine and what to look out for next; the consolidation of media under far-right ownership, and preserving our free speech in the digital sphere, and more! If you didn't hear your question answered this week, look out for it soon as the Gaslit Nation Q&A continues. And for our listeners at the Democracy Defender level or higher, keep your questions coming. We always enjoy hearing from you. Thank you all for your support of the show -- we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! To join our community on Patreon, sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit

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Teaser – A.I. and Fascism

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:44:00 +0000

This week's discussion includes recommendations for trusted sources on Ukraine and Russia; the slowdown in the Senate as Dianne Feinstein refuses to retire, endangering our democracy by not showing up for work which impairs Democrats' ability to confirm judges to balance out Trump and McConnell's court-packing; and how A.I. risks worsening our fascism crisis. We cover all this and more. If you want to hear the full episode and submit your questions for our regular Gaslit Nation Q&As, subscribe to the show on Patreon.com/Gaslit and never miss an episode! You will not have access to every episode of Gaslit Nation unless you subscribe! Join our community of listeners today!

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Teaser – The Fascists Are Fighting…Each Other

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 02:45:00 +0000

Need a laugh? American fascists Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi are fighting each other over on Twitter. Meanwhile, in Russia, the fascists are fighting each other, including the recent bombing of a Russian propagandist in a cafe owned by Prighozin, the founder of the Wagner Group, Russian mercenaries named after Hitler's favorite composer. We know there's a lot of horror to discuss in America right now -- the KKK political lynching in Tennessee, the Texas court ruling against the abortion pill, a possible Trump indictment out of Georgia, and more. We will discuss all of that and more in next week's episode. For now, we're tracking the escalating civil war among Russia's ruling elites and what it means for the war in Ukraine, Putin's fate, and how China may be playing a role. This episode was recorded Monday April 3rd. It's an excerpt of our bonus episode. To sign up to hear all of our shows and submit questions to our regular Q&As, join our community of listeners at Patreon.com/gaslit

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Teaser – Does the Mainstream Media Want a Civil War?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:43:00 +0000

Obviously we discuss the Trump indictment in this week's bonus episode. We also discuss whether the mainstream media wants and would profit from a civil war in America. Our discussion comes from questions submitted by listeners of our show. To submit your quesitons and to hear our bonus shows and never miss an episode of Gaslit Nation subscribe on Patreon.com/gaslit

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Teaser – Does Putin Have a Body Double?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:09:00 +0000

Does Putin have a body double? This debate matters as it reveals a growing civil war among Russia's elite. We answer this and more questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher on Patreon. To join our community of listeners and submit your own questions, subcribe to the show by signing up at Patreon.com/Gaslit

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Teaser – Putin Indicted…Trump Next?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:41:00 +0000

Mass-murdering genocidal maniac and proud Russian imperialist and cult of Stalin worshipper Vladimir Putin has been indicted by the International Criminal Court at The Hague. This means there are 123 countries, including every European Union nation, that is legally obligated to arrest Putin should he step foot on their soil. It also means there's no going back to business as usual with Russia as long as Putin is in power.

The ICC indictment and Putin's disasterous war put a big target on Putin's head. Fellow war criminal Igor Girkin who oversaw the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to openly critize Putin, telling him to "shut up" and accuses him of using a body double while the real Putin hides behind long tables. The in-fighting among Russian elite continues, threatening Putin's grip on power. He should stay away from windows and tea parties. Will an indictment of Trump, Putin's favorite asset -- a multi-decade investment via laundered dirty Russian money -- be next?

This week's bonus episode, excerpted here, opens with a discussion of the Putin indicment and the potential for a Trump indictment. We go on to answer questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. To submit questions to our regular Q&As, and join our community of listeners, subscribe and support our independent journalism by signing up at Patreon.com/Gaslit

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Teaser – Will Russia Invade Moldova to Seize Ukraine?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:53:00 +0000

This is an excerpt of our Gaslit Nation bonus episode where we answer questions submitted by our listeners. To submit your own questions and to get access to our bonus episodes and never miss a show, subscribe on Patreon. You won't hear every episode of Gaslit Nation unless you subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit

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Teaser – Russia and China: The Best of Frienemies

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:38:00 +0000

This is an excerpt of this week's bonus episode where we explain how there's no honor among thieves, especially when they're jointly furthering the imperialist ambitions of autocracy around the world and trying to steal land and steal rights. To hear every episode of Gaslit Nation, subscribe at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon by joining our community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit

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Teaser – Saving the DOJ

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:49:00 +0000

In this week's Gaslit Nation bonus episode, we answer questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher, including how to save the DOJ in a time of elite criminal impunity. To get access to this and every episode of Gaslit Nation, subscribe to the show on Patreon by signing up the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon. You will not hear every episode unless you subscribe. Join our community of listeners today: Patreon.com/Gaslit

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Teaser – Bad Actors Hijacking Legitimate Causes

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:35:00 +0000

Our Gaslit Nation Q&A is back! This week we answer questions from listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher about the Norfolk Southern train derailment and explosion in East Palestine, Ohio; what stood out to us in the State of the Union address in terms of what comes next; the GOP's ongoing scapegoating of LGBTQ people and what can be done about the far-right's law-warfare, and more. You won't get every episode of Gaslit Nation unless you subscribe to our show on Patreon. To sign up and get access to our bonus episodes, join our community at Patreon.com/gaslit

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Teaser – UFOs!

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:54:00 +0000

We discuss one of our favorite topics: UFOs! What are the mystery objects shot down by NORAD? We have some ideas...You can get access to this bonus and every episode of Gaslit Nation by supporting the show at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon by joining the community of listeners at Patreon.com/gaslit: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit

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Territoires | Teaser

Blogothèque — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:31:10 +0000

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Teaser – The State of the Union and What Comes Next

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:25:00 +0000

This is an excerpt of this week's bonus episode where we discuss Biden's State of the Union and the GOP troll factory in the House and what comes next for the civil war tremors driven by Trump's Kremlin Klown Kar, otherwise known as the January 6 insurrectionists. We also answer questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender tier and higher on Patreon about Havana Syndrome, how to organize deep dive research when uncovering corruption, FBI traitor Charles McGonigal, and more! To submit questions and listen to our bonus episodes, receiving every episode of Gaslit Nation straight to your inbox, join our Patreon community by signing up at Patreon.com/gaslit for this and more: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit Show Notes: The Curious Case of 'Havana Syndrome' https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151421770/the-curious-case-of-havana-syndrome

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Teaser – Elizabeth Warren’s Plan for DC Corruption

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:29:00 +0000

Welcome to the Gaslit Nation Q&A! We answer questions from our listeners subscribed at the Democracy Defender level and higher on Patreon. To access this and all episodes of Gaslit Nation, support the show at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe. Join our community here: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit

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Teaser – Mafia State Enablers

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:03:00 +0000

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Teaser – Florida Super Special (Part 1)

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 16:31:00 +0000

Welcome to a series we're now doing called the Florida Super Special. Since the state of Florida has had such a big impact on the hellscape we now find ourselves in, setting things off with helping bring George W. Bush and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to power in 2000, this may be our first Florida Super Special, but it won't be our last. In this bonus, you'll hear just some of the ways Russian intelligence is keeping the FBI busy in Florida, and what that might mean for the 2024 presidential election which might see Russian asset Trump anoint DeSantis as his successor. For those who want to buy a ticket to the Gaslit Nation Live Taping and Live Audience Q&A this coming Tuesday January 24 at 12pm ET, you can do so by supporting the show at the Democracy Defender level or higher on Patreon.com/gaslit -- you can always cancel or switch back to your current support tier once the taping is done. We'll send out the Zoom details Tuesday morning to subscribers on Patreon at the Democracy Defender level or higher. The Zoom link goes live at 11:45am ET where early birds can hear Sarah and Andrea plan that week's show before hitting the record button at noon ET. We'll post the video of the episode (but not the Q&A) for subscribers to the Truth-teller level and higher. We're not posting the video of the Q&A of the live taping since some participants prefer not to be shown and would like to protect their privacy, which we understand. So come join us, if you can, on Tuesday!

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Teaser – January 6 Anniversary Special

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000

This is an excerpt of our January 6 anniversary special. For the full discussion, which includes the GOP chaos in the House of Representatives and our usual Q&A where we answer questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher, and to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation, sign up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe. Thank you so much to everyone who supports the show. Join our community of listeners here: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit

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Another year around the sun and coup mastermind Donald Trump still walks around free in his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, a foreign adversary’s paradise of stolen state secrets. And yet he’s still allowed to run for president. Now Trump’s many accomplices in Congress who helped fuel the incitement to violence that nearly overthrew our democracy on January 6 are currently raking in fundraising dollars from their Trumpian cult base as they proudly prevent the House of Representatives from getting to work. The dysfunction of the far right extremists that now control the Republican Party is by design and decades in the making, as we discuss in our spring 2022 series with leading experts on confronting fascism. The Trump rally that deliberately killed people on January 6, 2021 can now hold up the House of Representatives, raising alarms about the US once again on the global stage, jeopardizing the essential functioning of a major branch of government, and showing our global allies, at a time when we’re at war with Russian facism determined to undermine democracies around the world, that the US is not a reliable ally, that the US is plagued by political instability. Putin’s greatest assets aren't just Tucker Carlson and the GOP. It’s the utter lack of accountability for the Kremlin Klown Kar that carried out their treasonous conspiracy on January 6 two years ago and continues to threaten our democracy once again from the House floor. Let January 6 now be known as Merrick Garland Day as he's the one condemning us to a ground hog's day of attempted coups as the ones tasked with protecting us remain scared of their shadows or paid off in the shadows. Show Notes: Our initial reaction to January 6, 2021 captured here: https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1610641793913159680 Matt Gaetz friend handed 11-year prison term in US sex trafficking case https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/02/matt-gaetz-friend-joel-greenberg-sex-trafficking Judge scolds Justice Department for its slow investigations at hearing for Rep. Matt Gaetz’s convicted associate https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/politics/joel-greenberg-matt-gaetz-investigation-hearing/index.html It’s Unclear Whether the Justice Dept. Will Take Up the Jan. 6 Panel’s Charges https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/us/politics/jan-6-trump-justice-dept.html The feds say they're in for the long haul in the Jan. 6 investigation. There is a time limit. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-say-long-haul-jan-6-investigation-rcna61728

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Teaser – TV on the Radio

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

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Teaser – How Do We Stop Book Banning?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

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Teaser – Alpha Males Are Gross

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:36:00 +0000

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Teaser – Merrick Garland’s Gangster Paradise

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:55:00 +0000

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afropollination I official teaser

Petites Planètes / Vincent Moon — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 09:07:23 +0000

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Teaser – Here Comes Moore v. Harper

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

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Teaser – Silicon Valley’s Fascist Kleptocrats

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:05:00 +0000

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Teaser – Where Do We Go From Here?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:39:00 +0000

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Teaser – Elon Musk Owns Twitter. What’s Next?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:39:00 +0000

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Teaser – It’s Go Time!

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:40:00 +0000

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Teaser – The Useful Idiots Strike Back

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:04:00 +0000

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Teaser – Elon Musk, Putin’s Little Helper

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 01:44:00 +0000

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Teaser – Trump is Kompromat

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:00:20 +0000

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Teaser – What’s Influencing Putin?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:21:10 +0000

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Teaser – What’s Influencing Putin?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:21:10 +0000

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Teaser – How Do We Get Through the Day?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:44:49 +0000

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Teaser – What is Going on at CNN?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:15:04 +0000

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Teaser – Trump’s “Beer Hall Putsch”

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:10:38 +0000

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Teaser – How to Un-Gaslit the Gaslit

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:10:20 +0000

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Teaser – Taiwan and Putin’s War in Ukraine

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 20:06:15 +0000

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La Symphonie de Ségriès (teaser)

Petites Planètes / Vincent Moon — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:10:53 +0000

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Teaser – Russia is a Terrorist State

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:45:58 +0000

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Teaser – Reasons to VOTE in the Midterms

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:17:31 +0000

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Teaser – The Supreme Court Case That Could Kill Democracy

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:25:27 +0000

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Teaser – Witches! Jan 6! And More!

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:32:56 +0000

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Teaser – The Gaslit Nation Early Show is Back!

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:36:47 +0000

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Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Teaser

CounterPunch Editors — Wed, 18 May 2022 18:04:49 +0000

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Teaser – Ending Fossil Fuel Dictatorships

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:35:56 +0000

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Teaser – Why Did Obama Pick Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:32:39 +0000

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Teaser – How to Stand Up to Putin

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:50:34 +0000

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Teaser – Gustav Gressel – Full Interview

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:10:06 +0000

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Teaser – Has Putin Lost His Mind?

Andrea Chalupa & Sarah Kendzior — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:00:06 +0000

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