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Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation provides a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs. Hosted by journalist and filmmaker Andrea Chalupa, an expert on authoritarian states who warned America about Russia and election hacking before the 2016 election.
Episodes
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Welcome to the New American Revolution
Don't call it a blue wave. It was a rage wave. Americans are united against oligarchy. The status quo is finished. A new, better America is rising from the…
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Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner's Massive Debt to Oligarchy Riches
Trump, Kushner, and Netanyahu's war with Iran began with a shadowy alliance that formed in late 2016, following the US election that turned the world upside…
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Vote for Abdul or You're Voting for Kushner's Oligarchy
The choice is simple, Michigan. If you don't vote for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Rhodes Scholar, a public servant on the frontlines of healthcare for Michiganders…
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Putin's Trojan Horse in Alaska
Trump has his personal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, whom he met through longtime Kremlin operative Paul Manafort, investigating Democrats in Alaska for two…
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Anti-Fascist Economics: How to Defeat the Oligarchy
How do we take our democracy back from the oligarchs and build a livable future? When we're up against all the money in the world, what is our leverage? And…
Gaslit NationPrinces and Thieves: Jared Kushner Must Be Stopped
We're opening today's Gaslit Nation Salon at 4pm ET with a sneak peak at Matthew Cole's damning new book on Dutch intelligence hacking Jared Kushner and…
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Corruption Breeds Chaos
Welcome to the future! It's a lot like today: looting sprees at the top–by hedge funds; looting sprees by protesters in the streets. It will take all of us in…
Gaslit NationStealing Elections, American Style
Voting rights legend David Walbert joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the long history of bloodless coups in America. His new book, Stealing Elections, American…
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They're Trying to Sabotage the Election. Here's the Plan to Stop Them
The GOP/MAGA's policies are so unpopular that they depend on stealing elections to stay in power. This week, Andrea is joined by Leah Greenberg, co-founder and…
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The Billionaires and Frat Boys Should Be Raised to Fear Us
An empowerment book for women and girls shouldn't have to include how to survive sexual assault, domestic violence, and being drugged. But in a society that…
Gaslit NationTrump Can Still Be Prosecuted: Jack Smith and the 2028 Attorney General Test
There's hopium, and then there's the law. Republicans slipped on their own banana peel when they had Jack Smith testify in MAGA's lawless quest to punish law…
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Fascism, Toxic Masculinity, and Raising an Army of Women and Girls
Fascism is toxic masculinity, and the cure starts at home. Comedian, recovering Catholic and proud girl dad Pete Dominick, host of Stand Up! with Pete…
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The Rage Wave is Coming: Help Build It
Don't call it a blue wave. It's a rage wave. The Trump family crime spree has destroyted countless lives. People are fighting back. As MLK warned: don't sleep…
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David Corn on How Russia Won in the US and the Decade of Denial That Let Putin In
Congratulations Russiagate skeptics! The US is now on its way to becoming a Russian-style oligarchy, with the help of traitors and useful idiots across the…
Gaslit NationRussian Intelligence Basically Funded Don Jr. Wedding
One of the Kremlin's greatest skills is plausible deniability. That's how they got away with paying MAGA influencers for so long: they used shell companies…
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Gen Z vs. Nihilism
Joining Gaslit Nation this week, Jack Cocchiarella—the Gen Z political commentator, host of The Jack Cocchiarella Show, and future ambassador to Italy under…
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Meet Mrs. Orwell at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Mrs. Orwell will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 27 at 12pm ET. Details here and in the show notes. I would love to meet Gaslit Nation…
Gaslit NationAllison Guerriero Exposed a Traitor. Now She's Dead [TEASER]
Allison Guerriero helped expose a traitor inside the FBI. Now she's dead in Florida, cause unknown. Guerriero tipped off the feds about Charles McGonigal, the…
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Unmasking "Mar-a-Lago Face"
"Mar-a-Lago face" is what happens to white women when they try to secure proximity to power by joining a death cult. Feminist icon Soraya Chemaly, author of…
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Welcome to the United States of Corporations [TEASER]
Joining us for this week's bonus show is the tenacious genius Michele Hornish, Executive Director of Every State Blue, a Missouri-based organization supporting…
Gaslit NationHey EU, Sanction Jared and Ivanka
Like Ukraine can't defeat fascism alone, neither can America. We need the world to stand up to MAGA's lawlessness. Making the case on Gaslit Nation is Elie…
Gaslit NationWhy Isn't Jared Kushner in Prison for Corruption, and Why Is Hakeem Jeffries Meeting with Him?
Gaslit Nation has long warned that the test for our democracy is whether Jared and Ivanka will be investigated, and whether they will face any charges…
Gaslit NationWhy Isn't Jared Kushner in Prison for Corruption, and Why Is Hakeem Jeffries Meeting with Him?
Gaslit Nation has long warned that the test for our democracy is whether Jared and Ivanka will be investigated, and whether they will face any charges…
Gaslit NationTrump is Trying to Steal the 2026 Vote: Maya Wiley on Fighting Back
We are in the fight of our lives against a neofascist transnational crime syndicate obsessed with gutting your voting rights and turning the DOJ into a petty…
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Trump Can't Hide in a Bunker from Us [TEASER]
Donald Trump and Eva Braun Natalie Harp are trying to escape us in his ballroom bunker while Kremlin operative Paul Manafort's former lawyer, Todd Blanche…
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Nerd Reich: Why JD Vance is Scarier Than Trump
Who's scarier than Donald Trump? J.D. Vance, a true believer in America's tech-dystopian future, and he's one heartbeat away from the presidency. This week…
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A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women
The brilliant Wajahat Ali, author of Go Back to Where You Came From, and playwright of The Domestic Crusaders, had me on The LeftHook to share my new book A…
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A Manufactured Invasion? Inside the Mystery at the Spain/Morocco Border
Once again, desperate people are being weaponized by fascist regimes. Why did over 60,000 immigrants from the authoritarian regime of Morocco, a regime aligned…
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How Oligarchs Bought America—and How We Take It Back
America's oligarchs are selling the country for parts. What happens when the people finally reach a breaking point? This week, Gaslit Nation is joined by Casey…
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Beware the Congressional Staffers in the Shadows
Wear your Sunday best and hang out at the U.S. Capitol building for your chance to chat with a member of Congress. It's a realistic way to meet the people who…
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Mock Him Relentlessly: Mary Trump on How to Defeat MAGA and Heal
Are we sleepwalking into autocracy? Dr. Mary Trump joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the terrifying psychology of her convicted-felon, traitor uncle and why…
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Follow the Money: Why MAGA is Suddenly Flocking to Ukraine [TEASER]
In this week's bonus show, exclusive for our Patreon and Substack subscribers, we take a second look at the sudden death of Lindsey Graham. But first: what's…
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Trump's Secret Weapon to Steal the Midterms? A Frat Boy FBI Director in Moscow
Sending FBI Director Kash Patel to Moscow right before the Midterms is like sending a coked-up frat boy into a whorehouse in hell, and the FSB will eat him…
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Ignore Trump's Speech. Watch the Gaslit Nation Salon Instead [TEASER]
Instead of watching Trump's speech tonight, watch Monday's Gaslit Nation Salon on July 14 - Bastille Day! Here's an excerpt. You can watch the full recording…
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Gaza: Journalists Under Fire
Legendary filmmaker Robert Greenwald joins Gaslit Nation to talk about his powerful documentary from Brave New Films, Gaza: Journalists Under Fire. We break…
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Normalization is the Enemy
Dictatorship doesn't always look like tanks and troops in your city. It's the everyday lawlessness and looting spree in the White House, the draconian…
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We, the People, vs. The Russian Mafia
Happy birthday, America! Our democracy has been hijacked by a convicted criminal, sexual predator, Russian mafia goon. We are fighting back like Ukrainians: by…
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Free the Prairieland Defendants and All Political Prisoners
Benjamin "Champagne" Song, a U.S. marine reservist, got 100 years in prison in Texas–no air-conditioning, sweltering heat–for saving a protester's life. So why…
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A Resistance History of the United States
How do we fight back? This week on Gaslit Nation, Tad Stoermer, author of A Resistance History of the United States, explains how true resistance is built by…
Gaslit NationVoters Want Fighters, Not Complicity
Today is Orwell's birthday. We're celebrating with the recording of the Mrs. Orwell live-taping – available in full this Sunday, only on Patreon and Substack…
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Ukraine is Turning Crimea into a Russian POW Camp. So Why is Nigel Farage Winning in the UK?!
Ten years after the Kremlin helped tip the very close Brexit vote, Nigel Farage is shockingly leading UK polls. The Putin fanboy, bankrolled by a crypto-king…
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Wake up! Trump's UFC Cagefight is Illegal - TEASER
Americans have been so beaten down by corruption, ramped up since the Reagan Revolution, that many act like they forgot their rights. Gaslit Nation is here to…
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January 6 Shadow on Trump's 250 Rallies
The barbarians are inside the gates and throwing a toxic masculinity pageant on the front lawn. While the United States should be preparing to honor the 250th…
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What is Up with Ivanka and Jared's Albanian Island? - TEASER
We dive into Ivanka and Jared's Albanian nightmare. What were they really up to while trying to develop a private island in Albania on protected land, and what…
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Trump/Musk Try to Help Russia Invade America via Alaska Tunnel
Think of the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a marriage between the Russian mafia in the West and the Russian mafia in the East. Now, there's talk out of…
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All Media is Mar-a-Lago Face: The Beauty of Authoritarianism - TEASER
We need to talk about the "creator economy" and the stylish influencers pushing disinformation and misinformation directly into our feeds. The more glossy you…
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A New American Revolution
Trump is what happens when a bunch of slave owners set up a government to protect their wealth by establishing elite rule through the Senate, Electoral…
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Hey Epstein Enablers, We See You, And We Are Coming For You [TEASER - AUDIO ONLY]
In this week's Gaslit Nation bonus show, we dive deeper into the "Iron Triangles" of corruption that enabled Epstein's network, with a special focus on the…
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Ghislaine Maxwell and the Intelligence Pipeline
Who were the women who worked with Jeffrey Epstein? In Part I of this series, we look at Ghislaine Maxwell, transnational crime royalty as the daughter of…
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The New American Revolution - TEASER
With convicted felon, six-time bankrupt trust fund kid Donald Trump illegally looting $1.8 billion of our tax-payer dollars for violent traitors who tried to…
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Hey JD Vance, Ukraine is Winning (And Putin is Petrified)
Ukraine is winning, and a botox-bloated Putin looks like a dead-man walking. While the spineless MAGA right still tries to block aid, Ukrainian innovation has…
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The People vs. The Autocrats: How to Fight Back - TEASER
Convicted felon Trump went to China and brought his son Eric along on the nepo-baby express. Eric runs the family business. And by "family business," we mean a…
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Corporatocracy
Gaslit Nation unmasks the real villain: the corporations hijacking our democracy, using Trump as a distraction as they loot and destroy our country. Ciara…
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Who Goes Nazi?
Today is Andrea's birthday. Gaslit Nation is celebrating the only way we know how: by re-reading Dorothy Thompson's 1941 essay, "Who Goes Nazi?", on how to…
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Hitler and Trump - TEASER
In this special bonus show, Gaslit Nation reminds you that Hitler and Trump rose to power in very similar ways, and why we must stay grounded in that…
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How to Be a Dissident
On this hopeful Gaslit Nation, we confront the MAGA fascist takeover with a look at the ultimate antidote: how to be a dissident. Andrea talks with The…
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Trump's Russian Unreality
Here's what you missed at last week's Gaslit Nation Salon: a lively debate among our listeners over whether Trump, or his allies, somehow staged the WHCD…
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End the Epstein Class with Better Laws, Leaders, and Ban Homeschooling - TEASER
In this week's Gaslit Nation Bonus Show, Daniella Mestyanek Young, The Knitting Cult Lady, author of the new book The Culting of America, explains how to get…
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The Culting of America: From Children of God to the MAGA Playbook
Is America a cult? How can we help those trapped in cult-like thinking? Discussing her new book The Culting of America, Daniella Mestyanik Young, a US Army…
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Did Trump Fake Another Assassination Attempt?
We've received questions and comments from Gaslit Nation listeners about the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner over the weekend…