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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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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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'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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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"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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…