Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior

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DAME Magazine presents Gaslit Nation, a bi-monthly news podcast that slows down and explains the chaotic news cycle. Writers and civic leaders Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior take a deep dive on the news that skips the outrage and delivers analysis, history, and context.

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Dynasty Alert!

01.15.2020

This week Gaslit Nation takes a look at two dynasties – the Trump Crime Family’s attempt to build a dynastic kleptocracy in the White House, and Meghan and Harry’s flight to Canadian freedom. Yes, like a dystopian US Weekly, Gaslit ...

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01.15.2020 Dynasty Alert! This week Gaslit Nation takes a look at two dynasties – the Trump Crime Family’s attempt to build a dynastic kleptocracy in the White House, and Meghan and Harry’s flight to Canadian freedom. Yes, like a dystopian US Weekly, Gaslit ...
01.08.2020 Human Sacrifice It’s a grim start to 2020, and we’re here to break it down for you – the impending war with Iran, the hypocritical entreaties of John Bolton, the rapture fiends guiding our foreign policy into the abyss of hell, and ...
01.01.2020 The Barbara Lee Interview Congresswoman Barbara Lee is a vital voice in demanding that the Trump administration be held accountable. Lee has long shown foresight in evaluating threats to our freedom and security. In 2001, she was the only member of Congress to vote ...
12.25.2019 A New Era of Cyberwar: Wired's Andy Greenberg on the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers It's the holidays! That means it's time to light the fire, pour yourself some eggnog, and crack open a riveting real-life thriller like the latest book by Andy Greenberg of WIRED -- Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the ...
12.18.2019 We're More United Than We Are Divided We debunk the media myths surrounding the British election – no, the loss of Jeremy Corbyn is not an omen of what will happen to Warren or Sanders! – while looking at the way the US and UK situations are ...
12.11.2019 Christopher Steele and Ivanka Trump In this action-packed Gaslit Nation episode, we discuss the two articles of impeachment that were introduced by the House Democrats as Trump’s Kremlin pal Sergei Lavrov sat in the White House getting ready to help Trump steal yet another election. ...
12.04.2019 The Endgame Never take democracy for granted! This week we discuss the last two weeks of impeachment hearings and the witnesses, among them several immigrant Americans who are experts on the former USSR and know all too well how fragile our freedom ...
11.27.2019 Election Hacking: Help Protect Our Democracy We discuss the lack of integrity in the 2016 election and potentially in the 2020 election, and Andrea interviews community organizer Deborah Porder of Indivisible Scarsdale about an initiative created in New York state to help secure our elections. Like ...
11.20.2019 Brexit and Bannon Propaganda researcher Dr. Emma Briant discusses the role of far-right extremism, including Steve Bannon, in the alleged corruption that drove the Brexit vote.
11.13.2019 Mafia State U.S.A. For the entire duration of the Trump-Russia crime spree, the people who spoke out hardest – and paid the worst price – have been women. That trend continued this week with the testimony of national security advisor Fiona Hill, who ...
11.06.2019 Robert Mueller Will Not Save You (The Remix) There aren’t really words to describe the feeling of your worst suspicions being ceaselessly confirmed as your country crumbles around you, but we try to find them nonetheless on this week’s Gaslit Nation. In October 2018, we did an episode ...
10.30.2019 Lock Him Up, Because He’s an Actual Criminal Gaslit Nation is back and we are disregarding your fatuous calls for civility! This week we discuss Trump getting booed at the World Series in an inverted Trump rally of sorts, and what it means for the reality TV president ...
10.23.2019 The Tulsi Gabbard Episode Tulsi Gabbard is a long-time supporter of dictators--including Assad, Sisi, and Modi--and has backed a number of horrible policies, like making it harder for Muslim refugees to enter the U.S., tolerating Russian war crimes in Syria, voting against the Magnitsky ...
10.16.2019 Fraud Guarantee: Ukraine, Syria, and the Trump Crime Catastrophe This week we discuss Rudy Giuliani, his goons Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, their mafia master Dmytro Firtash, and their connections to the Trump/Kremlin mafia states. We discuss the welcome testimony of former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and ...
10.09.2019 The GOP Is an Unregistered Foreign Agent: Part II This was our first new episode since June and we had so much to discuss that it ended up being a two-parter. This week our conversation continues on impeachment, the attacks on “the Squad,” the strategy of Bill Barr, the ...
10.02.2019 The GOP Is an Unregistered Foreign Agent: Part I Gaslit Nation is back with an exciting new addition! We are thrilled to announce that Andrea had a baby girl while you were all listening to our prerecorded Get Un-Gaslit Reading Series over the summer. We celebrate the new arrival ...
09.25.2019 The Gold Standard of Voting We interview Nicole Hobbs of Every District, a grassroots organization working to flip states blue. Hobbs shares their report called Blue States: A Voting Rights Action Plan that provides a scorecard of states where there’s already political will to expand ...
09.18.2019 Gaslit Nation Climate Crisis Special This week on Gaslit Nation we devote a whole episode to the climate crisis, featuring an interview with climate change expert Daniel Zarrilli. No major issue is unconnected to the climate crisis. Climate change impacts the economy, immigration, infrastructure, health ...
09.11.2019 Olga Lautman on the Russian Mafia If you are on Twitter, you know that there is no one more deeply versed on the Russian mafia’s incursion into American business and politics than New York’s Olga Lautman, a freelance researcher and analyst who worked on Craig Unger’s ...
08.21.2019 Craig Unger on Kleptocracy We interview Vanity Fair contributor Craig Unger, the author of the New York Times-bestselling book House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia, a must-read and deeply researched book that reminds us ...
08.14.2019 Crystal Fleming on White Supremacy This week marks the two-year anniversary of the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville where anti-racist activist Heather Heyer was murdered. In this episode of Gaslit Nation, Sarah speaks briefly about the legacy of Charlottesville before Andrea continues our Get ...
08.07.2019 Dear Graduates: The Gaslit Nation Anniversary Special Our little podcast is 1-year-old. We cannot express our gratitude enough to our Patreon donors and all our listeners who helped turn a fledgling biweekly show that we thought only our moms and our far-right stalkers would listen to into ...
07.24.2019 Malcolm Nance on Asymmetric Warfare - Part II Here is Part II of our interview with the counter-terrorism and intelligence expert Malcolm Nance. Nance is an MSNBC commentator and author who is today best known for being the first person to write THE book about Russia’s attack on ...
07.17.2019 Malcolm Nance on Asymmetric Warfare - Part I Our Get Un-Gaslit Summer Reading Series continues with this two-part interview with the counter-terrorism and intelligence expert Malcolm Nance. Nance is an MSNBC commentator and author who is today best known for being the first person to write THE book ...
07.10.2019 Greg Sargent on American Authoritarianism This week we kick off our Get Un-Gaslit Summer Reading Series with Greg Sargent, the author of the 2018 book An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics. Sargent is also known ...
07.03.2019 A Republic, and How to Keep It: The Gaslit Nation July 4th Special Happy Fourth of July! In 1787, Benjamin Franklin famously declared “A republic – if you can keep it.” In these compiled interviews, experienced grassroots leaders tell us how we can keep our republic.
06.26.2019 Movie Night: Clue with Mueller, She Wrote We join the women of the great podcast Mueller, She Wrote to debate a matter of vast geopolitical importance – the 1985 black comedy Clue! (In case you are counting, that’s one plus two plus one plus one people appearing ...
06.19.2019 Reality Winner is in Prison While the Traitors Walk Free This week, we interview Billie Winner-Davis, a social worker and the mother of Reality Winner, an air force veteran and the former NSA contractor who provided The Intercept with an NSA report on the Kremlin’s hacking of US voting systems ...
06.12.2019 Will Giuliani be the Manafort of 2020? We are back with Part II of our discussion of the 2020 battleground state Ukraine. Our special focus again is on Rudy Giuliani who multiple experts have said should register for the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) given his many ...
06.05.2019 The Alexandra Chalupa Interview We continue our interview with Andrea’s sister Alexandra Chalupa, the former DNC contractor who was one of the first people in the US to warn officials about Russia’s attack on the 2016 election. For the first time, Alexandra tells her ...
05.30.2019 Mueller Speaks! Hey, it can talk! In this episode of Gaslit Nation, we break down Mueller’s surprise press conference on Thursday with a special guest – Alexandra Chalupa, the independent researcher who was one of the first people in the US to ...
05.22.2019 Dirty Dirty Giuliani Now that Manafort is in prison, Giuliani seems to have taken his place, especially in trying to drum up Democratic scandals to distract from Trump’s many investigations. We examine one of Giuliani's longtime moneymakers: Ukraine.
05.17.2019 Elizabeth Warren: Nazi Hunter We start off by looking at The Week The Mueller Probe Died in light of new information that’s been revealed since March. We go on to discuss the 2020 race, threats to election integrity, and the novelty of Elizabeth Warren.
05.08.2019 The Constitution is Clear: Impeachment Hearings Now Constitutional law and voting rights attorney John Bonifaz answers our questions about one of the most contentious topics today – whether, when, and how to impeach Donald Trump. Bonifaz is the president and co-founder of Free Speech for People, a ...
04.29.2019 Roy Cohn White House: The Mueller Report Special, Part II This episode picks up where we left off last week in our breakdown of the Mueller Report, in particular the role of Paul Manafort who flagrantly announced his crimes and no one did anything to stop him; the constant underestimation ...
04.23.2019 Roy Cohn White House: The Mueller Report Special, Part I At long last, the Mueller Report is here, and we are…underwhelmed. In the first episode of a two-part Mueller Report Special, we do an overview of the bizarre sequence of events that led to the Barr Report and the Mueller ...
04.10.2019 Impeach the Nazi-in-Chief We lay out, yet again, the urgent arguments for impeachment, and fact-check those we often hear against it. We also interview Alexandra Flores-Quilty of the grassroots group By the People that works with Rep. Rashida Tlaib and other Congressional leaders ...
04.04.2019 Lisa Page We discuss the Barr memo fallout, the insipid media coverage, the unchecked assassins of Russia and Saudi Arabia, Ukraine's election, FBI purges, and more.
03.27.2019 The Barr Report As we’ve said repeatedly at Gaslit Nation, the crisis in the US was never about Trump vs Mueller, but about corruption and exploitation – about massive institutional failure that worsened over multiple decades, culminating in a kleptocracy backed by a ...
03.20.2019 Oleg Sentsov Directs a Film from a Siberian Prison March 2019 marks the five-year anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. We explain why the fake referendum is called a "referendum by gun point" and provide background on Russia's annexation which had been in the works since the mid-2000s. We ...
03.14.2019 Impeach Normalization Impeachment sends a message about who we are as a country and what we will accept and abide. The rule of law demands action. Refusing to take action is normalizing atrocity. Lawlessness must be confronted regardless of the outcome, as ...
03.06.2019 Rotting Monuments Like Trump Tower Moscow, which was supposed to be the tallest building in Europe with a penthouse for mass-murderer Putin and an Ivanka Trump branded spa, the White House was another monument for Trump, in a long list of monuments ...
02.27.2019 Brexit and Trump are the Same Crime: The Carole Cadwalladr Interview We are thrilled to welcome Carole Cadwalladr to Gaslit Nation. Carole is an investigative journalist who breaks major stories on the Kremlin and Mercer-backed Brexit vote, revealing a cast of nefarious characters that were also behind the election of Donald ...
02.20.2019 Transnational Emergency We break down decades of intertwined corruption in both the US and the UK and urge officials to seek actual accountability, because time is running out. Kleptocracy anywhere is kleptocracy everywhere, and it is ordinary citizens who pay the most ...
02.13.2019 Lessons from Ukraine Five Years After the Revolution Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk, the head of the independent media network Hromadske TV, co-founded by a journalist - Mustafa Nayyem - that launched the EuroMaidan revolution with a Facebook post, looks back on lessons from Ukraine for the West. The ...
02.06.2019 The Trump Brand of Death This week we discuss the Mueller probe; the ongoing economic, environmental, and psychological fallout of the government shutdown; and plutocracy - the new Manifest Destiny. We also talk about the Trump's ultimate branding legacy.
01.30.2019 Roger Stone: Democracy's Undertaker The government may be back open, but the US is not out of danger–we are merely in the eye of the hurricane as damage from the shutdown mounts and Trump threatens both another shutdown and a scheduled “national emergency.” We ...
01.24.2019 Coalition of Corruption We breakdown Trump's war on America in the form of the longest government shutdown in our nation's history, the urgent case for #ImpeachmentNow, and examine Deripaska's very sweet sanctions deal.
01.16.2019 The Comey Effect This isn’t just a shutdown – it’s a hostile restructuring. Sarah and Andrea discuss the incredible toll it’s taken on workers, the economy and national security. We discuss the apocalyptic vision of much of the GOP elite, including rapture-fiend Mike ...
01.09.2019 American Carnage This week we discuss the cornered panicked criminal in the White House, the dangerous vulnerabilities of Trump's shutdown and his American carnage TV ratings grab, Ukraine's big Christmas victory over the Kremlin, and more!

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