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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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Make Art Workshop: The Business Side of Things [TEASER]
The recording of the Gaslit Nation Make Art Workshop: The Business Side of Things is here along with the transcript in the show notes for our subscribers at…
Gaslit NationWhat Does Russia Want with Puerto Rico?
Russia's transnational crime syndicate uses our own weaknesses against us, to entrench their weaponized corruption. Take, for instance, the Act 22 tax loophole…
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Campus Protests & Radical Self-Care [TEASER]
With growing campus protests against the U.S. backing Netanyahu's genocidal war to cling to power and the Democratic National Convention returning to Chicago…
Gaslit NationMinority Rule
How do we protect ourselves from a corrupt Supreme Court? How can the gerrymandering crisis be stopped? What were the Founding Fathers thinking? Can the…
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The Chilling Reason Why Iran Attacked Israel [TEASER]
House Speaker Mike Johnson, self-proclaimed champion for human rights and freedom, and enemy of dictators everywhere, inched closer to getting Ukraine aid…
Gaslit NationBad Faith
Every dictator or wannabe dictator relies on a base of support to stay in power. For Putin, Orban, and Trump, their base is Christian nationalism – claiming…
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Israel and Evangelicals [TEASER]
In this week's bonus show, we dig into Israel and evangelicals, two fellow travelers that shaped U.S. politics and the world together. Many evangelicals…
Gaslit NationChristian Taliban
Reminder! This Thursday, fight for your mind! To get inspired to make art and bring your projects across the finish line, join us for the Gaslit Nation LIVE…
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How to Unblock Ukraine Aid in Congress [TEASER]
This is an excerpt of this week's bonus show. To hear the full episode subscribe at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit. If you're already…
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MAGA, ISIS, and the U.S. Election
If there's one thing fascists love it's using the threat of terrorism to rile up their base. The largest terrorist attack in Moscow in decades signals a…
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Will the "Christian Vote" Help Trump Win? [TEASER]
For decades in its war on terror following 9/11 the U.S. government poured resources, including its own terror tactics, in combating Islamic radicalism during…
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All We Can Save: The Katharine Wilkinson Interview
Gaslit Nation is recharging our batteries for the big election ahead so we're re-running a popular episode this week: Andrea's interview with Dr. Katharine…
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How to Contain MAGA (And Why the New York Times Wants Trump to Win) [TEASER]
Congratulations, New York Times! Trump is the GOP nominee. Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and Monique Camarra of the Kremlin File podcast join Andrea to…
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Art Matters: The Nelson George Interview
Gaslit Nation is recharging our batteries for the big election ahead so we're re-running a popular episode this week: Andrea's interview with her longtime…
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Who is the Kremlin Caucus? [TEASER]
Welcome to Gaslit Nation where we name and shame! This week, meet the Kremlin Caucus and their financial backers. What started off with Putin groupie Dana…
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The State of Our Union and How to Fix It
Welcome to the Gaslit Nation State of the Union Super Special! This episode has everything! Suge Knight dissing Diddy at the 1995 Source Awards! World War II…
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Killers of the Flower Moon: A Mirror for America Today [TEASER]
Warning: If you prefer to watch a film with a blank slate, don't listen to this episode if you haven't seen or read Killers of the Flower Moon. While it…
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Trump's Shadow Foreign Policy
Remember when Jared Kushner tried in late 2016 to establish a secret back channel to talk to Russia? Jared and Ivanka ran the Trump transition team, with Paul…
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Radical Self-Reliance: Demand Accountability [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation launched in 2018 to help build the Blue Wave, which set up progressive infrastructure that expands today, including in states like Kansas. In…
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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
American taxpayers bailed out Citigroup, owners of Citibank, to the tune of $476.2 billion. This was the highest bailout by far for any bank during the 2008…
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Prison Incarceration Rates: The U.S. vs. Russia [TEASER]
This week's bonus show answers questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender-level and higher, starting with incarceration rates in the U.S. vs…
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Trump Backers Kill Navalny
February 20 marks two years since Putin launched his total war in Ukraine. February also marks the assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov…
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Listener Q&A: Exposing Epstein's Network, Pressuring Garland, and More! [TEASER]
This week's bonus episode, for our subscribers at the Truth-tell level and higher on Patreon, features our audience Q&A at the live taping with Tristan Snell…
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Will Trump Ever Go to Prison? (A Roy Cohn Horror Story)
"Don't tell me what the law is, tell me who the judge is." Those are the haunting words of Roy Cohn, Trump's former longtime mentor and Henry Kissinger's…
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Is Tucker Carlson an Unregistered Foreign Agent? [TEASER]
Welcome to this Gaslit Nation Emergency Bonus Episode, to cover Walter Duranty's latest interview with Stalin, as he carries out a genocide. That was over…
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Team Human on Gaslit Nation
The great Douglas Rushkoff is back on Gaslit Nation! This time we're featuring Andrea's interview on Rushkoff's excellent podcast Team Human, recorded late…
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Gaslit Nation Social Media Workshop - Part I [TEASER]
This week's bonus episode for our supporters at the Truth-teller level and higher on Patreon is Part I of the Gaslit Nation Social Media Workshop, designed for…
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Terrell Starr on Fani Willis vs. Trump
Terrell Starr from the Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack joins the chat. As a follow-up to Andrea's recent debate with Olga Lautman of the Kremlin Files…
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Queen of Auschwitz
In this week's episode, Andrea and Terrell Starr from the Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack discuss Jonathan Glazer's chilling Holocaust drama, The Zone of…
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The Kremlin Owns Mike Johnson [TEASER]
Remember this shocking story from the 2016 election? The Trump campaign gutted Ukraine aid in the official RNC platform. Today this is mainstream for the GOP…
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Fani Willis vs. Trump: The Nazis Strike Back
Mark your calendars! Tristan Snell, the prosecutor who led New York State's case against Trump and Trump University and the author of "Taking Down Trump: 12…
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Economies of the Civil War: Then & Now [TEASER]
Thank you to everyone who joined the Gaslit Nation Social Media Workshop last week. What was supposed to be a one hour event lasted two hours! We look forward…
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2016 Redux
Hate social media? Miss the old Twitter? Want to raise your voice in 2024 for those who don't have one? Join our social media workshop this Thursday, January…
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Is China About to Invade Taiwan? [TEASER]
Coming soon for our Patreon community! Look out for a group chat feature for supporters to more easily connect with each other, and also a pinned post of…
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The West Must Prepare for a Post-Putin Russia
Every dictator dreams of living to a ripe old age and dying in power, leaving behind a worshipful cult to ensure their immortality. Putin's disastrous war in…
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Another World is Possible [TEASER]
Dictators want us to think that the future is hopeless, that their cult of personality will last forever. Gaslit Nation exists to remind us that another world…
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What Do We Do If Trump Wins?
On a hot afternoon in the middle of summer in New York City, people gathered together at Caveat on the Lower East Side for a special live taping of Gaslit…
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Peter Kurth Takes the Self Care Q&A [TEASER]
Author Peter Kurth takes the Gaslit Nation Self Care Q&A! In the second part of this special interview, Andrea interviews Peter Kurth, author of American…
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American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson was the leading journalist of the 1930s and 1940s, considered as influential as Eleanor Roosevelt. After becoming the first foreign…
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Zelensky vs. Orban [TEASER]
In a year of hellfire, there were some signs of hope, including Ukraine moving closer to joining the European Union. Countless Ukrainians gave their lives for…
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No Constraint
While this news broke after we recorded this week's episode, Gaslit Nation would like to congratulate the Colorado Supreme Court for being on the right side of…
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Gareth Jones Reports from Nazi Germany [TEASER]
Sixteen year old Kalief Browder spent 700 days in solitary confinement over a backpack he didn't steal, and traitor to his country, former FBI agent Charles…
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Can the Reagan Revolution Be Undone?
The Reagan Revolution and "greed is good" remain in full swing, ushering in a level of wealth inequality that surpasses the Gilded Age. "Progressives…
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Weapons of Mass Distraction [TEASER]
This experiment brings to mind more recent ones in Russia, where there were deliberate efforts to breed both aggressive and docile rats. One Gaslit Nation…
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Who Will Protect Us From the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court is at it again! This current season of the American Hunger Games, also known as a Supreme Court session, could be as disastrous for the…
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Kissinger Kaput: A Gaslit Nation Celebration [TEASER]
Putin lost a longtime friend and confidant, the only American statesman he respected and admired. Why might these two have hit if off? War criminal Henry…
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American Civil War: Then and Now
Trump and McConnell, turbo-charged by the war chest of the Federalist Society, packed the Supreme Court, and put in place far-right idealogues across…
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MAKE ART Workshop [TEASER]
As a special THANK YOU to our Patreon community that keeps the showing going through these tough times, Andrea shares her "hot sauce" for making art. The core…
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What Comes After Putin?
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum is back on Gaslit Nation in Part II of a discussion that spans what comes after Putin, why it seems like Russia…
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Missing in Brooks County
This important interview features Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss, the filmmakers behind the extraordinary must-watch Peabody Award-winning film Missing in Brooks…
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Len Blavatnik's Dangerous A.I. Film [TEASER]
Welcome to the George Santos Tribute Episode, lasting as long as his tenure in Congress.The Russian-linked Ponzi Scheme is on his way out. He lavishly spent…
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The Authoritarian Voter Next Door
Authoritarian voters cosplay Rambo on the U.S. Southern border, literally hunting refugees and denying them basic human rights. Our interview this week…
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Election 2023 Super Special [TEASER]
This Election 2023 Super Special opens with a discussion on building unions, because the big takeaway is grassroots power is the most reliable power we have…
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End the Era of Human Sacrifice
Congratulations to everyone who pitched in to help get out the vote! This night belongs to you and all those who voted to protect abortion in Ohio, protect…
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Netanyahu Needed a War. So Does Xi [TEASER]
This is an excerpt of this week's bonus show. To access the full show, receive all episodes ad free, submit questions to our regular Q&As, access our back…
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Russia and Hamas: What You Need to Know
In this special discussion, Andrea is joined by experts from the Kremlin File podcast: Russian mafia specialist Olga Lautman and Monique Camarra, an instructor…
Gaslit NationThe Bump in the Night [Halloween Radio Play]
Gaslit Nation Presents: The Bump in the Night by Jane Willis. Inspired by The Golden Arm. Produced by Eliza Smith. Starring Rachael Small and Darius Johnson…
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Trump's Latest Coup
Despite his best efforts threatening the lives of Congressional colleagues and their families, Jim Jordan didn't get to become Speaker of the House. Instead…
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Warnings from the Iraq War
After a five month absence from Gaslit Nation due to a family situation, Sarah has decided to leave the show. You can read her regular writing over at her new…
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Youngkin's Voter Purge
This is an excerpt of this week's bonus show. To access this, all bonus shows, get episodes ad free, exclusive invites, submit questions to regular Q&As, and…