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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The Middle East Crisis Fact...

04.07.2021

Gaslit Nation welcomes a special guest whose incredible life story captures the complex, often misunderstood region of the Middle East, the topic of this week’s discussion. Iyad el-Baghdadi, whom some of you may know from his must-read Twitter account, is ...

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04.07.2021 The Middle East Crisis Factory: The Iyad El-Baghdadi Interview Gaslit Nation welcomes a special guest whose incredible life story captures the complex, often misunderstood region of the Middle East, the topic of this week’s discussion. Iyad el-Baghdadi, whom some of you may know from his must-read Twitter account, is ...
03.31.2021 Sleeper Cells We describe the uneasy interim period of the early Biden era and what’s to come when the covid crisis ends – and predict that it’s going to look a lot like what happened after the end of the 1918 Spanish ...
03.24.2021 The Siege Revisited: The Rep. Gwen Moore Interview This week Gaslit Nation welcomes Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) who gives us an inside view on the Capitol attack, what steps need to be taken to hold the perpetrators accountable, how the Biden administration can ensure a more just and ...
03.17.2021 Electoral Autocracy: The Ruth Ben-Ghiat Interview Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present, explains all the ways Trump and Republican leaders rely on the dictator's playbook to weaken our democracy and consolidate power. A Professor of History and Italian Studies at New ...
03.10.2021 Why Does the GOP Vote to Hurt Their Own Base? Wow, something good happened! This week on Gaslit Nation we give credit to (and criticism of!) the American Rescue Plan Act, which begins the process of digging this country out of the giant hellhole we’ve been plunging into for several ...
03.03.2021 Kill the Filibuster: The Adam Jentleson Interview The Democrats hold Congress and the Presidency yet can’t pass policies Americans desperately need. What’s stopping them? The filibuster – a reactionary white supremacy weapon used by Southern states to block progress on civil rights. Sound familiar? In this interview ...
02.24.2021 Texas Republican Massacre This year we've already had a plague, a violent insurrectionist attack, and an unrepentant mafioso president running free. Apparently that wasn’t enough so last week the U.S. got a once-in-a-century Texas storm (but sadly probably not once in this century) ...
02.17.2021 Where's Christopher Wray? In this episode, we tackle some of the remaining questions left over from the violent attack on the Capitol and the Senate hearings. Why were Trump’s elite criminal backers – in particular, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani ...
02.10.2021 TRAITORS It’s Impeachment Week on Gaslit Nation – again! We are covering the (second) Senate impeachment trial of ex-president and eternal traitor Donald Trump both in this episode and in upcoming Patreon-only episodes during the week. If you haven’t signed up ...
02.03.2021 Fight for the Vulnerable: The Eliza Orlins Interview We look forward to bringing you our coverage of the Second Trump Impeachment Trial which starts next week, including discussing the most vulnerable Republican Senators up for re-election in 2022. This week we highlight the urgent importance of fighting for ...
01.27.2021 Investigations Now! Welcome to the first Gaslit Nation episode held in the Biden eras! The Trump administration is no longer a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government – but unfortunately there is still a transnational crime syndicate at large. While it’s ...
01.20.2021 Moral Courage Welcome to the final Gaslit Nation episode recorded during the Trump administration! Wow, does that feel good to write. Unfortunately, the conclusion of the most treasonous and sadistic administration in US history is accompanied by a host of other threats ...
01.13.2021 Clear Intent This two-hour special is the longest Gaslit Nation episode we have ever done, and the most serious. We break down the attack on the Capitol by domestic terrorists, showing how this was orchestrated at the highest levels of power and ...
01.06.2021 Traitors and Patriots Happy New Year, everyone -- the hellscape of 2020 is finally over and we’ve got a whole new hellscape to explore! We take stock of Trump’s ongoing coup attempt and his recorded shakedown efforts against Georgia Republican officials, the prospect ...
12.30.2020 All the President’s Crimes: The Jennifer Taub Interview In the second part of this interview with Jennifer Taub, the author of Big Dirty Money, we talk about the legal liability of Trump, Ivanka and Jared, Manafort, Stone, and other walking national security threats from the most corrupt administration ...
12.22.2020 Big Dirty Money: The Jennifer Taub Interview In the first of this two-part interview with Jennifer Taub, author of Big Dirty Money, she breaks down definitions – “dirty money”, “dark money”, “white-collar crime” – and fields questions about why no one in power is doing much to ...
12.16.2020 Barr and Other Hacks We are halfway through the attempted coup – formerly known as the presidential transition process – and the United States has not completely collapsed (yet) so, yay? What a way to end 2020! We also discuss the vaccines and Biden’s ...
12.09.2020 Donald Trump Is a Terrorist Attack on America As Trump continues to threaten public officials and attempt to overturn the election results, he puts at stake not only our nation’s political future, but the literal survival of its citizens. More Americans are projected to die from the Covid-19 ...
12.02.2020 The Purge, Accelerated Welcome to attempted coup week four! Trump still refuses to concede and meanwhile he is gutting every department in sight. We discuss the new executive order that aims to fire 88% of civil servants and possibly replace them with Trump ...
11.25.2020 The Breitbart Senate We make the case yet again for all the criminal actors in the Trump camp to be held accountable. We demand thorough and transparent investigations of the crimes that have occurred and indictments where merited. Unity without justice is hollow. ...
11.18.2020 Actual Nazis Welcome to week two of the attempted Trump coup! As Trump refuses to concede, his cronies are using mafia tactics to attempt an illegal second term, including threatening secretaries of state and other officials with violence, pressuring bureaucrats to deny ...
11.11.2020 Klown Kar Koup We have a winner, and it’s Joe Biden! And we have a coup, and it’s ongoing! We break down one of the most tumultuous weeks in US history, including Biden’s electoral college win and the nationwide celebrations that followed; the ...
11.05.2020 The Final Countdown Our long national nightmare is finally over – and a brand-new national nightmare has begun! We pick up where we left off after our Election Night Bonus Special, taped on Tuesday night when the initial results were scaring the shit ...
10.30.2020 BabaVanka Gaslit Nation Presents the winner of our radioplay contest for 2020: "BabaVanka" by Jane Willis, starring the great J. Smith-Cameron, star of HBO's Succession. On Succession, J. plays Gerri, the lawyer for the family and corporation based on the Murdochs ...
10.28.2020 Mitch McConnell's Black Hand In the last Gaslit Nation episode before the election, we discuss the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s blatant desire to have the election decided by courts instead of by the American people, and the role SCOTUS may play in ...
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 ...

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