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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Craig Unger on Kleptocracy

08.21.2019

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 ...

Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior episodes:

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!
01.04.2019 Cabinet of Horrors There is treason in the treasury, nepotism in the government, and corruption everywhere – it may be a new year, but it’s the same sad story for the US! This week Sarah and Andrea discuss the cabinet shakeups that have ...
12.19.2018 Festivus Special: Mueller's Low Hanging Fruit At Gaslit Nation, every week is Festivus because we have so manygrievances to air! The Airing of Grievances includes an in-depth look at Russian spy Maria Butina and her NRA “lover” Paul Erickson; a recap of the many criminal acts ...
12.12.2018 Individual One: The New Name of the GOP It’s another wild week in the United States of America, where any child can grow up to be Individual One! Actually, that’s not true, you have to choose a life of crime and complicity, and this week’s Gaslit Nation discusses ...
12.05.2018 Kleptocracy World Order In this week’s Gaslit Nation, Sarah and Andrea express their ongoing frustration about last week’s deja news avalanche of stories about corruption that remains unpunished. As America, the land of collective amnesia, realizes yet again that Trump is a Russian ...
11.28.2018 Gaslit Nation Featurette: Pass a Law In this special episode of Gaslit Nation, Andrea interviews her mother Tanya Chalupa who championed the child carseat law and the seatbelt law in California, as well as working on other child safety bills. She explains how to get a ...
11.21.2018 Happy Thanksgiving: We're Grateful for Canvassers Happy Thanksgiving, Gaslit Nation listeners! Sarah and Andrea are hosting a feast of interesting (and terrifying) commentary from folks around the US as they welcome winners of the Gaslit Nation Get Out the Vote contest onto the show.
11.14.2018 The Blue Wave Continues: Kansas Rising In this episode of Gaslit Nation, Sarah and Andrea are still way too excited about the midterm elections! The Blue Wave turned out to be a slow motion river flowing through the country and reshaping the political map in the ...
11.08.2018 Midterms Special: The Blue Wave Has Begun The midterms are over and the results are…decidedly mixed! Sarah and Andrea discuss the historical night from their perspectives in Andrea’s blue trifecta of New York and Sarah’s red nightmare hellhole – er, trifecta – of Missouri. If you are ...
11.03.2018 Gaslit Nation Featurette: Every District We're excited to share this important discussion with Every District, a grassroots fundraising and data-driven effort to turn state governments blue. Regardless of the results of the 2018 midterms, we have a long way to go to rebuild our democracy. ...
10.31.2018 Halloween Special: The Kathy Griffin Interview This week’s guest is comedian Kathy Griffin who has been a target of the Trump administration ever since she posed for a photo holding up a Trump mask covered in ketchup, leading to her being labeled a terrorist by the ...
10.25.2018 A Foreign Policy for the Left: Put Gas Station Dictatorships Out of Business We call on a strong foreign policy for the left, one that's driven by turning America into a world leader of renewable energy to finally put gas station dictatorships like Putin's oil-rich Russia and MSB's Saudi Arabia out of business. ...
10.17.2018 The Media Industry Is Complicit, and Good Journalists Pay the Price This week on Gaslit Nation we discuss the media: the systemic failures of an economically and morally bankrupt industry dominated by rich white men, and the bravery and creativity of journalists who struggle not only within this system, but with ...
10.10.2018 Robert Mueller Will Not Save You Goodbye checks and balances, hello authoritarian shitshow! In the latest Gaslit Nation, Sarah and Andrea discuss the demolishment of checks and balances now that the independence and integrity of the judiciary are gone – joining a legislature that has been, ...
10.03.2018 Kavanaugh Catastrophe and the Death of Checks and Balances In this week’s episode of Gaslit Nation, Sarah and Andrea discuss the Kavanaugh hearings, the pathological lying and enabling of the GOP, Trump’s attacks on the FBI and its investigation of Kavanaugh, and the continuing erosion of our republic’s checks ...
09.19.2018 The American Crisis: The View from Flyover Country, Part 2 In episode 6, Gaslit Nation continues its look at the decades of American crises that gave rise to Trumpism and paved the way for Russian interference in our democracy.
09.03.2018 The American Crisis: The View from Flyover Country, Part 1 In part one of a two-part interview, Andrea talks to Sarah about income inequality, the loss of the "American dream," and the inspiration for her NYT bestseller The View from Flyover Country. This episode is sponsored by: Audible -- Go ...
08.21.2018 Computer Scientist Barbara Simons on Hacking, Paper Ballots, and Securing U.S. Elections Sarah and Andrea interview Barbara Simons PhD, a computer scientist who specializes in election security, to answer the question on everyone’s mind: can our voting machines be attacked? Were they attacked in 2016? What’s in store for the midterms, and ...
08.07.2018 Robert Mueller and the Iron Triangles In the final installment of our three-part series looking back at the 2016 election, we get into the hacking, the recount, the trail of dead Russians, and Robert Mueller's prescient Iron Triangles report, which predicted something like the Trump administration ...
07.23.2018 Harry Reid, Access Hollywood, and the Comey Chameleon Amid the arrests of Maria Butina and other Russian agents for influencing the U.S. election, here we are with the second in a three-part series in which Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa look back at what was going on during ...

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