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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.
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Brexit and Bannon
Propaganda researcher Dr. Emma Briant discusses the role of far-right extremism, including Steve Bannon, in the alleged corruption that drove the Brexit vote.
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Mafia State U.S.A.
For the entire duration of the Trump-Russia crime spree, the people who spoke out hardest – and paid the worst price – have been women. That trend continued…
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Robert Mueller Will Not Save You (The Remix)
There aren't really words to describe the feeling of your worst suspicions being ceaselessly confirmed as your country crumbles around you, but we try to find…
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Lock Him Up, Because He's an Actual Criminal
Gaslit Nation is back and we are disregarding your fatuous calls for civility! This week we discuss Trump getting booed at the World Series in an inverted…
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The Tulsi Gabbard Episode
Tulsi Gabbard is a long-time supporter of dictators--including Assad, Sisi, and Modi--and has backed a number of horrible policies, like making it harder for…
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Fraud Guarantee: Ukraine, Syria, and the Trump Crime Catastrophe
This week we discuss Rudy Giuliani, his goons Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, their mafia master Dmytro Firtash, and their connections to the Trump/Kremlin mafia…
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The GOP Is an Unregistered Foreign Agent: Part II
This was our first new episode since June and we had so much to discuss that it ended up being a two-parter. This week our conversation continues on…
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The GOP Is an Unregistered Foreign Agent: Part I
Gaslit Nation is back with an exciting new addition! We are thrilled to announce that Andrea had a baby girl while you were all listening to our prerecorded…
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The Gold Standard of Voting
We interview Nicole Hobbs of Every District, a grassroots organization working to flip states blue. Hobbs shares their report called Blue States: A Voting…
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Gaslit Nation Climate Crisis Special
This week on Gaslit Nation we devote a whole episode to the climate crisis, featuring an interview with climate change expert Daniel Zarrilli. No major issue…
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Olga Lautman on the Russian Mafia
If you are on Twitter, you know that there is no one more deeply versed on the Russian mafia's incursion into American business and politics than New York's…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 (@AFQ_92)…
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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.
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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…
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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 in Crimea is called a "referendum by gun point"…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Trump Brand of Death
This week, we discuss the continued economic, environmental, and psychological fallout of the government shutdown, and speculate on what's in store later this…
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Roger Stone: Democracy's Undertaker
Welcome to a very angry episode of Gaslit Nation! The government may be back open, but the US is not out of danger – we are merely in the eye of the hurricane…
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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…
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The Comey Effect
This isn't just a shutdown – it's a hostile restructuring. As the longest shutdown in US history drags on, Sarah and Andrea discuss the incredible toll it's…
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American Carnage
We continue examining the diastrous fallout of the government shutdown and the toll it's taken on unpaid federal workers, national parks, and public safety. We…
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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…
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Festivus Special: Mueller's Low Hanging Fruit
At Gaslit Nation, every week is Festivus because we have so manygrievances to air! Our Feat of Strength is that we survived 2018. This week, Sarah and Andrea's…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Halloween Special: The Kathy Griffin Interview
Welcome to the Gaslit Nation Halloween Special, which is not so different than a regular Gaslit Nation episode due to the 24-7 horror show we call the Trump…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…