Gaslit Nation
410 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsGaslit 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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Teaser - Silicon Valley's Fascist Kleptocrats
November 22, 2022 11:05 - 3 minutes - 3.88 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Election Breakdown
November 16, 2022 04:11 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBImportant announcement! We’re phone banking with our friends at Indivisible for Reverend Raphael Warnock who we need to keep in the Senate, because he’s a good person; Dems need a 51 majority in the Senate to have a stronger hand negotiating with the ruthless GOP/Manchin/Sinema; and we cannot normalize bonkers Herschel Walker in the Senate for six years. And finally, the Senate map is abysmal for Dems in 2024 so we must ensure Warnock wins the December 6th Georgia runoff to stand a chance of...
Teaser - Where Do We Go From Here?
November 15, 2022 15:39 - 3 minutes - 3.43 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
America's Cry for Help
November 09, 2022 09:54 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBBy the time you read this, the polls will have closed, but the election will not have ended – and our battle for a free and sovereign United States of America goes on. In this episode, Andrea and Sarah blow off steam that has accumulated over the very difficult year of 2022, in which we lost our bodily autonomy, contended with a relentless pandemic, and saw ever more clearly the complicity of our institutions as the US became the first country in history to memory-hole a coup and let a car...
Will the Youth Vote Save Us?
November 07, 2022 18:39 - 12 minutes - 14.5 MBIf you have a young person in your life, take them to vote, and if they're voting for the first time do something special to mark the big occasion. That's the advice of this week's special guest. Here is an excerpt of our interview with Dakota Hall, the executive director of the Alliance for Youth Action—the first Black and Indigenous leader of the organization—and former executive director of the Alliance’s Wisconsin-based affiliate Leaders Igniting Transformation. The Alliance for Youth A...
A Message to Our Community About Twitter
November 06, 2022 20:15 - 14 minutes - 16.6 MBImportant reminder! Come join our phone bank Monday November 7th -- election eve! -- at 4pm EST with Indisvible for Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin and to re-elect Lauren Underwood to the U.S. House in Illinois. One volunteer who attends Monday's phone bank will be selected to receive a signed copy of Sarah's new book They Knew and a Mr. Jones poster. Mandela Barnes will join the Zoom meeting at the start of the phone bank so don't miss it! Sarah and Andrea were on MSNBC Sunday...
Join Gaslit Nation and Mandela Barnes
November 03, 2022 20:06 - 7 minutes - 8.58 MBWe're very excited to announce that Mandela Barnes is going to speak at our phone bank for his U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin on Monday November 7th -- election eve! -- at 4pm EST. Join us and our friends at Indivisible Illinois as we make calls to get out the vote in Wisconsin and also for U.S. House super-star Lauren Underwood in Illinois. Every phone call we make matters, because every vote matters. And remember: at the event, we're selecting a volunteer to receive a signed copy of Sarah's...
We've Been Through This Such a Long, Long Time
November 02, 2022 03:11 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MBIt’s November – the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning. We at Gaslit Nation have been through this such a long long time, just trying to kill the pain, and we have mitigated it somewhat together. And now we enter a new phase, where the key digital platform that allowed documentation of the crimes of the powerful and literally made our show possible – Twitter – is being steamrolled by a billionaire shitposter. (We are refusing to cede our ground and will remain on Twitter despit...
Teaser - Elon Musk Owns Twitter. What's Next?
November 01, 2022 22:39 - 12 minutes - 14.4 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Join Gaslit Nation and Christy Smith
October 28, 2022 19:59 - 15 minutes - 18 MBIn the spirit of Ted Lasso, we're leaving it all on the field this make it or break it election for our democracy. The polls are within the Margin of Effort: every single outreach we make to voters matters, because every single vote matters. In this interview with CA-27 U.S. House candidate Christy Smith, a longtime advocate for education who began her public service career as P.T.A. mom, we discuss how things are different in 2022 compared to when she ran for office against far-right extr...
Radio Play - You Are Who We've Been Waiting For
October 26, 2022 19:24 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MBWelcome to the Gaslit Nation 2022 Halloween Extravaganza! Thank you to all who entered our radio play contest. For future consideration, we're keeping your plays on file, in the dusty old filing cabinet in the haunted basement of our creepy old mansion on a hill surrounded by a graveyard of Ted Cruz's self-respect. So there's always a chance your play may be produced next election cycle! And keep your entries coming! We always love peering into the brains of our listeners. [Insert evi...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
October 26, 2022 03:11 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBJoin Gaslit Nation to Get Out the Vote (GOTV)! Trainings included, helping democracy guaranteed! Let’s plant seeds of hope together! At each event, we're picking a volunteer to receive a signed copy of Sarah's book They Knew and a signed Mr. Jones poster. October 28th Friday 4pm to 6pm Eastern Time — Phonebank with Indivisible for U.S. Senate Candidate John Fetterman in Pennsylvania. RSVP here! October 30th Sunday 2pm to 5pm Eeastern Time — Phonebank with Swing Left for Christy Smith fo...
Teaser - It's Go Time!
October 25, 2022 15:40 - 5 minutes - 6.1 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
North Carolina and the Fate of Our Democracy
October 20, 2022 21:21 - 41 minutes - 47.5 MBIn this special interview with Gaby Goldstein, a co-founder of Sister District, we discuss the Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper, which the court agreed to hear December 7th. Just like Citizens United empowered dark money groups to turbo-charge America's descent into far-right fascism, Moore vs. Harper will unleash a far great danger: the end of our democracy as we know it -- state governments will essentially be allowed to override the will of voters. The story of how we got here is...
Kanye. Elon. Trump.
October 19, 2022 03:11 - 52 minutes - 71.8 MBImagine: the year is 2005. The Apprentice dominates the airwaves, Kanye West dominates the charts, and you are told that in seventeen years, you will be comparing the antisemitic rants of former presidential candidate West to the antisemitic rants of former president Trump as you analyze the descent of the United States into full-fledged authoritarian kleptocracy. Where is a Tesla time machine when you need one?! Surely transporting us back to an era in which we could alter our current timel...
Teaser - The Useful Idiots Strike Back
October 18, 2022 14:04 - 4 minutes - 5.33 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Putin’s Nuclear War Tourist Trap
October 12, 2022 03:55 - 48 minutes - 66 MBPutin relies on making subtle and not so subtle nuclear war threats and has done so for years. Currently, it’s his way of making his war crimes and ethnic cleansing seem not so bad in comparison, and trying to deter meaningful response from Ukraine’s allies to try to hold him accountable. We debate whether Russia would actually use a nuclear weapon, what the repercussions would be for Russia and the world if they were to do that, and discuss the strategies on dealing with nuclear threats t...
Teaser - Elon Musk, Putin's Little Helper
October 12, 2022 01:44 - 4 minutes - 5.14 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Laboratories of Autocracy: The David Pepper Interview
October 05, 2022 03:11 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBDavid Pepper has witnessed Ohio devolve into an electoral autocracy where extreme Republican gerrymandering ensures that the results of the state elections are pre-determined. This is happening across the country in so-called red states, which are in reality voter suppression states or Republican hostage states. Pepper explains how we got here, what can still be done about it, and his list of reasons and strategies to fight like hell. For more on Pepper's work, check out his book Laboratori...
Teaser - Trump is Kompromat
October 04, 2022 14:00 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Defiance
September 28, 2022 03:11 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBThis week we kick off by examining a country that is technically a democracy on paper but is actually ruled by an unelected supreme court of theocrats who strip women of their basic rights! Is it the United States? Iran? Does the fact that we have to ask not speak to a broader global attack on women’s bodily autonomy?! We look at the brave protests of Iranian women and prepare for a horrific month of rulings on the Supreme Court here in the US. We also note that a woman will become prime min...
Teaser - What's Influencing Putin?
September 27, 2022 14:21 - 4 minutes - 4.99 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Special Master of Puppets
September 21, 2022 03:11 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBHey remember when Trump stole a bunch of classified documents related to nuclear material and stored them in his Florida golf compound and the legal pundits said “he can’t do that” and Trump summoned the ghost of Roy Cohn who said “it doesn’t matter what the law is, only who the judge is” and a Trump-appointed judge ruled in favor of Trump and then another throwback from Trump’s mafia glory days in NYC was appointed “Special Master”?
Teaser - How Do We Get Through the Day?
September 20, 2022 13:44 - 4 minutes - 5.09 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
THEY KNEW – The Gaslit Nation Interview
September 13, 2022 19:06 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBSarah's latest book "They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps Americans Complacent", is available in stores, as an ebook, and as an audiobook, so please go out and get it! In this special episode, Andrea interviews Sarah in what turned out to be an unusually personal conversation about the book and more.
Semi-Fascist Kind of Life
September 07, 2022 03:11 - 56 minutes - 130 MBGaslit Nation is back with breaking news: Joe Biden calls out fascism, and Merrick Garland has still not discovered obvious crimes! This week we break down Biden’s comments on “semi-fascism” (he’s right!) and his September 1 speech, which was notable not only for the Dario Argento production design but for finally confronting the threat of autocracy in stark terms. But where was this speech eighteen months ago? And more importantly, where is the action to match his words?
Teaser - What is Going on at CNN?
September 07, 2022 00:15 - 4 minutes - 5.34 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Heading for the Light
August 31, 2022 03:11 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBMissouri has long been the bellwether of American politics, predicting presidents and anticipating trends – and lately, it’s been the bellwether of American decline. This week Gaslit Nation welcomes Jason Kander, a former Missouri Secretary of State, Missouri Democratic Senate candidate, voting and veterans’ rights advocate, and bestselling author. Kander’s new book, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and Ptsd, is a raw and moving account of his battle with PTSD as well as a t...
Teaser - Trump's "Beer Hall Putsch"
August 30, 2022 14:10 - 4 minutes - 5.49 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
CORRECTION: Fundraiser for Pennsylvania with J. Smith-Cameron
August 29, 2022 21:44 - 2 minutes - 2.59 MBCORRECTION: This event is *this Thursdsay* -- not Friday, as originally posted. Hope to see you Thursday September 1st at 8pm EST for an important fundraiser to help protect Pennsylvania in the midterms and beyond! Hi All, It's Andrea here, again, issuing a correction: the Pennsylvania fundraiser is this Thursday, not Friday. If you're not doing anything this coming Thursday night -- September 1st at 8pm EST -- join me and other activists for a fundraiser to protect Pennsylvania fro...
Fundraiser for Pennsylvania with J. Smith-Cameron
August 29, 2022 02:22 - 6 minutes - 5.48 MBHi All, It's Andrea here. If you're not doing anything this coming Thursday night -- September 1st at 8pm EST -- join me and other activists for a fundraiser to protect Pennsylvania from Trump's fascist movement by electing Democrats at the all important state level where crucial quality of life policies are determined, including the integrity of our elections. By protecting Pennsylvania this November, we help protect the electoral college in 2024. It's one of the most important states we...
Under the Red Sky
August 24, 2022 03:11 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MBIn this episode, we take a break from our ongoing analysis of why the DOJ won’t prosecute a coup-plotting career criminal nuke fetishist who has confessed to his crimes dozens of times to turn our attention to the ongoing genocide of Ukraine by Russia. August 22 marked the six-month anniversary of Russia’s escalated invasion, and the body count is immense – not only among Ukrainians murdered by Russian imperialists and Russian soldiers sacrificed by their own government, but in the mysteriou...
Teaser - How to Un-Gaslit the Gaslit
August 23, 2022 14:10 - 3 minutes - 4.23 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Devil's Been Busy
August 17, 2022 03:11 - 58 minutes - 51 MBIt’s been over a week since the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago to retrieve highly sensitive classified documents concerning nuclear materials and we’re so glad that career criminal Kremlin asset Trump is finally behind bars – just kidding, they’re still letting him run around and do whatever! This week we review the criminal investigation into Trump and his crime cult, which is once against faltering, whether in NYC in the pseudo “plea deal” granted to Alan Weisselberg, or in the refusal to stop the...
Live Q&A!
August 16, 2022 21:00 - 3 minutes - 4.47 MBHere's an excerpt of our live Q&A with our audience at the recent live taping of Gaslit Nation. Subscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Last Night
August 10, 2022 03:11 - 50 minutes - 42.7 MBThe road to Mar-a-Lago has always been riddled with crime – and now, finally, the FBI has decided to take it. Eighteen months after Trump illegally took classified material from the White House, spurring urgent demands for their return from the National Archives, the DOJ decided it was time to retrieve them, and noted correctly that Trump would not surrender the materials voluntarily.
Teaser - Taiwan and Putin's War in Ukraine
August 08, 2022 20:06 - 4 minutes - 5.46 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Mr. Jones will be Blasted at the Russians
August 06, 2022 18:29 - 3 minutes - 3.21 MBTonight! August 6 at 7:30pm ET you can watch live as the film Mr. Jones, written and produced by Gaslit Nation's very own Andrea Chalupa, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, will be blasted at the Russian Embassy Press Office (a.k.a. the Russian Propaganda Office) in Washington, DC, at 1706 18th Street NW. Anyone anywhere in the world can watch the event -- it will be recorded and livestreamed. Here is the YouTube link where you can watch live or at a later time. The screening...
Tweeter and the Monkey Man
August 03, 2022 03:11 - 1 hour - 105 MBWelcome to a Gaslit Nation special episode that wil bury you with stone cold facts! Over the past eighteen months, we have faced incredulity and even threats when detailing the shady background of Merrick Garland and his ineffectiveness as Biden’s attorney general. But unlike the DOJ, we welcome requests for proof and have provided it here!
Teaser - Russia is a Terrorist State
August 02, 2022 13:45 - 2 minutes - 2.94 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Handle With Care
July 27, 2022 03:11 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBThe January 6th Hearings are a ratings bonanza. It’s a shame Democrats didn’t do more prime time hearings into Trump corruption sooner, following the Blue Wave of 2018. We told them then that the American people demand long overdue justice, and hearings are a great way of building public outcry to insist on accountability. Unfortunately, hearings can also be a way to rewrite history and rehabilitate reputations. Sarah breaks down the disturbing parallels between the 9/11 hearings and the Jan...
Teaser - Reasons to VOTE in the Midterms
July 26, 2022 14:17 - 4 minutes - 5.54 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Dirty World
July 20, 2022 03:11 - 56 minutes - 77.4 MBThis week we take on shady internal affairs (the enormous number of people in the Trump crime cult circle who died violent or mysterious deaths) and burning external affairs (the horrors of climate change and Joe Manchin’s role in destroying the planet). But before we get to that, we examine yet more confirmation of what we already knew – that Merrick Garland is a mafia state enabler. We discuss the leaked DOJ memo that Rachel Maddow discussed on her show Monday night, Bill Barr’s influence ...
Teaser - The Supreme Court Case That Could Kill Democracy
July 19, 2022 21:25 - 3 minutes - 4.17 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
Rattled
July 13, 2022 03:11 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBThis week we catch up on developments in two of the main stories we cover on Gaslit Nation: the January 6 Committee hearings, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sarah breaks down the hits and misses of the hearings thus far, and warns of the hearings being used for reputational rehab for dirty Republicans both in the Trump administration (Barr, Kushner) and outside of it (Liz “Democrats kill live babies” Cheney.) Don’t fall for it! We also address the continued refusal of Merrick Garland’s DO...
Teaser - Witches! Jan 6! And More!
July 12, 2022 18:32 - 4 minutes - 4.86 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
End of the Line
July 06, 2022 03:11 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBWe’re ba-a-a-ack! Like a poltergeist of civic conscience, Gaslit Nation has returned to tell you all the things you do not want to know but need to hear. We were off for three months while Andrea had a baby (welcome to the family Chloe!) and Sarah had her bodily autonomy signed away by the Attorney General of Missouri. An eventful spring for all!
Teaser - The Gaslit Nation Early Show is Back!
July 05, 2022 14:36 - 3 minutes - 4.39 MBSubscribe today to access all episodes of Gaslit Nation by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher. You won’t hear every weekly episode unless you subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit
The War on History Teachers: The Sari Beth Rosenberg Interview
June 29, 2022 02:10 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBPublic school teachers have one of the hardest jobs in America right now. For two years, they have contended with a politicized pandemic, a manufactured culture war over “critical race theory”, and violent threats aimed at school board members and other officials. This is all in addition to the low pay and budget cuts that they’ve dealt with for decades! So show your teachers some support and respect! This week Sari Beth Rosenberg, a high school history teacher in New York and activist on ...
Fight Back with The States Project - Part II
June 22, 2022 02:10 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBIn a two-part discussion, this week we’re joined by two experts on the frontlines of fighting for our democracy on the all critical state level. If you want to fight for our democracy and prevent the slide into authoritarianism, clean up your local state government! How to proceed? Two experts from The States Project – Melissa Walker, a widely read author for teen novels turned democracy defender, and the Head of Giving Circles, and Aaron Kleinman, the Director of Research – are here to tell...