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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John Roberts Gave Us Trump

10.21.2020

With just two weeks left to go before the election, we break down the big threats to democracy and national security – and Hunter Biden phony laptop is not among them! We review the Trump crime cult’s attempts at election ...

Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior episodes:

10.21.2020 John Roberts Gave Us Trump With just two weeks left to go before the election, we break down the big threats to democracy and national security – and Hunter Biden phony laptop is not among them! We review the Trump crime cult’s attempts at election ...
10.15.2020 Win Florida: The Pam Keith Interview Gaslit Nation is excited to welcome to our show Congressional candidate Pam Keith, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer, litigator, and environmentalist. Her Congressional district is right next door to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago. She explains how Democrats can win Florida ...
10.14.2020 Stay and Fight! There’s just three weeks until our long national nightmare ends and a brand-new national nightmare begins! We continue to document the decimation of democracy, focusing on the SCOTUS hearings and the potential appointment of Amy Coney Barrett. We review how ...
10.07.2020 Our Malady: Timothy Snyder on America’s Dystopian Healthcare In Our Malady, historian Timothy Snyder shares his personal journey of struggling to navigate America’s healthcare system during a serious illness, providing shocking insights into racial and income inequality that continue to plague Americans. This book serves as a warning ...
09.30.2020 Donald Trump is a Ponzi Scheme In this extra-long and extra sleep-deprived episode of Gaslit Nation, we spend 70 minutes discussing the non-revelation of Trump’s tax fraud and the broader ramifications of a career criminal occupying the White House.
09.23.2020 Rigged: The David Shimer Interview If you've always wanted to know how Putin could get away with highjacking our democracy in 2016, the book Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Electoral Interference will provide much-needed answers and insights. Historian David Shimer spoke to ...
09.16.2020 Critical Rage Theory This is possibly the angriest episode of Gaslit Nation ever, and that’s saying something. What a nightmare week. We open with a discussion of the ongoing abuse of migrants in concentration camps at the US border, particularly women and children. ...
09.10.2020 2020 Survival Guide Special There's no blue wave unless we build it. Every District and Crush 2020 show us how to take back our country starting now. This is not a drill.
09.09.2020 The Good Germans The phrase “good Germans” refers to the Germans living in the Third Reich who enabled Hitler and his Nazi regime yet remained in denial that they were doing so. Or they did know, but they put on a show of ...
09.02.2020 How to Hack an Election: The Jennifer Cohn Interview We're thrilled to welcome tenacious election security advocate Jennifer Cohn, who was an early and brave voice in documenting the attacks on the 2016 election and the broader threat of vulnerable election infrastructure. We ran an excerpt last week for ...
08.26.2020 So Many Cults, So Little Time America 2020 is a land of cults – personality cults, death cults, conspiratory cults, and a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government that binds them all together! We examine how the GOP has abandoned even the pretense of a ...
08.19.2020 Inherent Contempt We look at signs of hope in the midst of this darkness, including young Democratic representatives who understand the severity of the American crisis and have the potential to rebuild our country – if complicit and complacent elites would get ...
08.12.2020 Tom Cotton’s Dream Come True in Belarus After a two-week break, Gaslit Nation is back! This week we continue our documentation of the ongoing shitshow we call 2020, starting with the dismantling of the US Postal Service by newly appointed postmaster general Louis DeJoy. And then we ...
07.29.2020 Support LGBTQ Youth: The Raquel Willis and Lindsay Amer Interview We’re excited to welcome two very special guests to Gaslit Nation to bring some much needed light: Raquel Willis, a leading Black transgender activist and Director of Communications for the Ms. Foundation, and Lindsay 'Lindz' Amer, the creator and co-host ...
07.22.2020 American Gestapo Welcome back to the weekly authoritarian weather report in the longest year in human history, 2020! This week we discuss death threats against judges, secret police kidnapping critics of the government and stuffing them in vans, a bank that is ...
07.15.2020 Silence is Poison: Agnieszka Holland, James Norton, and Peter Sarsgaard on "Mr. Jones" In this Gaslit Nation Resistance Cinema Special, Andrea looks back on making Mr. Jones and the film's lessons for today with director Agnieszka Holland and stars James Norton and Peter Sarsgaard.
07.08.2020 Trump Lets Putin Kill U.S. Troops This week we discuss the capture of child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and what comes next. We move on to Trump’s traitorous countenance of the Kremlin-Taliban bounty on U.S. troops, and what Putin’s ultimate goals are for his puppet in the ...
07.01.2020 Corruption Kills: The Warnings of Orwell and Mr. Jones This week, Gaslit Nation brings you a special episode on the making of Mr. Jones, the journalistic thriller exploring Stalin’s crimes in Ukraine that Andrea wrote and produced! This movie about a Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, whose attempts to bring ...
06.24.2020 ‘Oligarchy Won the Cold War’: The Timothy Snyder Interview We interview special guest Dr. Timothy Snyder, the historian of fascism whose warnings about American authoritarianism under Trump were prescient yet unheeded by officials. Dr. Snyder is the author of the recent bestsellers On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth ...
06.17.2020 Protect the Election: Impeach Barr This week on Gaslit Nation, we flip through the deck of white supremacist kleptocrat playing cards that comprises the Trump administration and deal out a hand of doom! We start with Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, who is currently ...
06.10.2020 Protest Season This week Gaslit Nation discusses the protests against racism, imperialism, and police brutality that have rocked the world this week – and caused debate about where to go from here.
06.03.2020 Reichstag Fire We are in a horrific time and it’s not going to be easy, but we are grateful for the brave Americans who continue to embrace free speech and free assembly despite a pandemic and a vicious regime.
05.27.2020 Walter Duranty: "Resistance Journalist" Gaslit Nation is back trying to save the 2020 election! This week we discuss Trump and the GOP’s attempt to illicitly influence the election, using old tactics from 2016 along with a new assault on the vote-by-mail policies that are ...
05.20.2020 BONUS: Tori Amos Reads "Resistance'" For our weekly bonus episode, provided exclusively for our Patreon supporters at the Truth Teller level and higher, we're sharing this week's bonus with all listeners to celebrate Tori Amos's new book Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and ...
05.20.2020 Resistance: The Tori Amos Interview This week we welcome special guest Tori Amos, the iconic singer-songwriter whose new book Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage is a must-read! We discuss the value of creativity during times of chaos and crisis, processing grief ...
05.13.2020 Show Trials We examine the horrible and unprecedented decision of Bill Barr to let Michael Flynn walk free despite Flynn confessing his own guilt; how the failures of the Mueller probe enabled Barr to take this action; the relationship between Barr, Flynn, ...
05.06.2020 Hiding in Plain Sight: Sarah Kendzior Answers Your Questions In this Gaslit Nation special, Sarah answers your questions about her new best-selling book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America. In other words, it’s a fun break from our usual “how the ...
04.29.2020 Hiding in Plain Sight: How We Got Here In our latest episode, we have a special guest! Gaslit Nation co-host Sarah Kendzior stops by the studio (we don't have a studio) to talk about her latest book Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the ...
04.22.2020 Blood Money Brigade Welcome back to the Groundhog's Day of Gaslit Nation! We augment our pandemic coverage with a discussion of the peril of gas station dictatorships! We break down what the plunge in oil prices means for the US and for the ...
04.15.2020 Corporate Manslaughter On week ten billion of coronavirus self-quarantine, we examine being a captive audience to a reality TV autocrat. This week we discuss the danger of the newly created “Council to Reopen America” which features key members of the Trump Crime ...
04.08.2020 Dictators Die, Art Is Forever: The Oleg Sentsov Interview On our one billionth week in self-isolation, we discuss the trauma of the coronavirus crisis and how it’s reshaping our political landscape. We conclude with a special interview with Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker kidnapped from Crimea and imprisoned in ...
04.01.2020 The Trump Crime Cult Has Blood on Their Hands We discuss how Trump, a life-long mobster and aspiring autocrat, is trying to shake down individual states and deny medical workers and their patients life-saving equipment. While he is more overtly sadistic to so-called “blue” states, Trump is also endangering ...
03.25.2020 The United States of Enron We call out the disaster capitalists running this horror show, including Treasurer Steven Mnuchin, one of the only people who profited off of Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme and who currently serves as an oligarch lackey about to make yet another ...
03.18.2020 Jared Kushner is a National Emergency On the first Gaslit Nation recorded from self-quarantine from a pandemic, we discuss the terrible political, psychological, and economic toll of the coronavirus. The pandemic has exposed our nation’s hypocrisies and flaws, including income inequality and corruption. The coronavirus catastrophe ...
03.11.2020 Human Farm It’s the end of the world as we know it, and we’re feeling…not particularly great about that! In this special pre-quarantine Gaslit Nation, we discuss the coronavirus and its potential to revolutionize the world. This is a terrifying time in ...
03.04.2020 Gaslit Nation Coronavirus Special! We at Gaslit Nation have spent years covering fascism, transnational crime, white supremacist violence, climate change disasters, genocide, and the threat of WWIII, but apparently the universe thought this wasn’t depressing enough, so now we have a plague! We discuss ...
02.26.2020 How to Trump and Putin-Proof Our Democracy This week we give the authoritarianism weather report – packed courts, purged agencies, and a pandemic running rampant as the Trump administration lies – and then examine a potential solution: Elizabeth Warren’s binder full of plans! We run through her ...
02.19.2020 Impeach Barr Hey you guys, did you hear – we’re living in a burgeoning authoritarian state! Much like we have been for the last four years! This week we discuss the delayed revelations of the punditry, what’s behind their unwillingness to state ...
02.12.2020 This is How We Win We interview Steve Pierson and Mariah Craven of the progressive activist group Swing Left and hosts of the grassroots power podcast How We Win, about how Dems can prepare for 2020 – and win with Swing Left's Super State Strategy. ...
02.05.2020 Russian Propaganda as Judge and Jury In a week when the GOP Senate will likely take their criminal president and crown him criminal king, we look at the big picture – treason, disinformation, and how to resist. Much like the Senate trial itself, our conversation centers ...
01.29.2020 “Voldemort Putin” We discuss key figures in the impeachment process – including Adam Schiff, John Roberts, and John Bolton – and what they’re trying to accomplish and how. In the first social media impeachment, their words are parsed and received, leading, in ...
01.22.2020 The Republican Party is on Trial This week Gaslit Nation gives in-depth context to the ongoing shitshow of the Senate impeachment hearings. We discuss what’s behind the media blitz of Giuliani goon Lev Parnas and the incriminating texts indicating the Trump crew was planning an attack ...
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 ...

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