Gaslit Nation
415 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 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 - 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...
Fight Back with The States Project - Part I
June 15, 2022 02:10 - 38 minutes - 53.2 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...
Democracy in Chains: The Nancy MacLean Interview - Part II
June 08, 2022 02:10 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBThis is Part II of our interview. In this two-part interview, we take a deep dive into a right-wing hellhole with acclaimed scholar Nancy MacLean, the author of the bestseller Democracy in Chains, which discusses how anti-democratic networks run by powerful plutocrats came to hold the United States hostage. MacLean discusses the Koch dark money network and its shadowy political partners, the decades-long libertarian takeover of the Republican Party by far-right mercenaries, the infrastructu...
Democracy in Chains: The Nancy MacLean Interview - Part I
June 01, 2022 02:10 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBIn this two-part interview, we take a deep dive into a right-wing hellhole with acclaimed scholar Nancy MacLean, the author of the bestseller Democracy in Chains, which discusses how anti-democratic networks run by powerful plutocrats came to hold the United States hostage. MacLean discusses the Koch dark money network and its shadowy political partners, the decades-long libertarian takeover of the Republican Party by far-right mercenaries, the infrastructure of this extremist network and h...
Protect the LGBTQ Community: An Interview with Chase Strangio of the ACLU
May 25, 2022 02:10 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBDespite the Democrats holding the presidency, Senate and House, LGBTQ rights are in greater danger than they have been in over a decade. The revival of the right-wing culture wars along with sustained court packing by Republican radicals has put hard-won rights in jeopardy. Gaslit Nation welcomes Chase Strangio of the ACLU to break down the legal landscape of LGBTQ rights in the US today, including challenges to the legal right to gay marriage, the battle for transgender rights, and the reli...
Help Ukraine by Cleaning Up Western Corruption: The Maksym Eristavi Interview
May 18, 2022 02:10 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBIn this interview conducted a few weeks before Russia’s escalation of its invasion of Ukraine, Eastern European journalist and writer Maksym Eristavi explains the social and political crises that led the world to this point. Andrea and Maksym discuss corruption in Ukraine, how the Kremlin has weaponized that corruption, and how corruption in Ukraine is an enduring legacy of Russian genocidal colonialism, and how the West can help Ukraine by cleaning up its own corruption. They also discuss Uk...
Shadow Network: The Anne Nelson Interview - Part II
May 11, 2022 02:10 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MBThis is Part II of our discussion. Gaslit Nation is excited to welcome Anne Nelson, an expert on American right-wing aspiring autocrats who has been warning about the conditions that led to our present national crisis for our entire adult lives! Yes, you should have listened to Anne Nelson’s warnings earlier but it’s never too late to start. In this crash course in America’s secret history, Nelson describes a radical right-wing takeover that was decades in the making. She explains the nefari...
Shadow Network: The Anne Nelson Interview - Part I
May 04, 2022 02:10 - 52 minutes - 71.6 MBGaslit Nation is excited to welcome Anne Nelson, an expert on American right-wing aspiring autocrats who has been warning about the conditions that led to our present national crisis for our entire adult lives! Yes, you should have listened to Anne Nelson’s warnings earlier but it’s never too late to start. In this crash course in America’s secret history, Nelson describes a radical right-wing takeover that was decades in the making. She explains the nefarious financial and political allianc...
The Assault on Reproductive Rights: An Interview with Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo
April 27, 2022 02:10 - 59 minutes - 82.1 MBNext year, 2023, will mark the 50-year anniversary of the landmark Roe v Wade case…if it is not overturned by then. Gaslit Nation welcomes Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo, the cohosts of the podcast Boom! Lawyered, to explain the ongoing attack on reproductive rights, why prior warnings were not heeded, and what actions we can take to fight back now. We discuss the long-term Republican takeover of the courts, the questionable legitimacy of the Supreme Court, the connections between the ...
Targeted by the Mafia State: An Interview With Cheri Jacobus
April 20, 2022 02:10 - 1 hour - 84 MBBack in 2015 and 2016, as the GOP caved to the Trump crime cult and the mainstream media normalized their corrupt ambitions, a few voices from the right rose up in dissent. One of the leading lights in this regard was Cheri Jacobus, a political commentator and former Republican who was an early target of Trump’s vicious campaign and its propaganda machine. Currently a registered Independent, Cheri was the founder, President, and Executive Producer of “America Reads The Mueller Report” and th...
The Cult Age: Interview with Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich
April 13, 2022 02:10 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MBCountries undergoing extreme instability – like, say, a violent insurrectionist coup, a deadly plague, climate change catastrophes, and domestic and foreign information warfare – tend to breed cults, and America is no exception! This week Gaslit Nation welcomes cult and extremism expert Dr Janja Lalich to explain the rise of fringe movements in the US and how to deal with it.
Teaser - Ending Fossil Fuel Dictatorships
April 11, 2022 17:35 - 2 minutes - 3.4 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
Putin’s War on Ukraine: Democracy vs. Fascism
April 06, 2022 02:10 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MBAs we’ve been saying since the start of the show, Ukraine is on the frontlines of Putin’s global war against democracy. Ukraine has long been a testing ground of Kremlin aggression, including cyberattacks and disinformation warfare that helped tipped the scales in both the Brexit referendum and bringing Trump to power. In this special episode, we feature insights over the years from the many Ukraine experts who have been on Gaslit Nation to share urgent lessons of hope and resilience in the g...
Teaser - Why Did Obama Pick Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court?
April 04, 2022 17:32 - 4 minutes - 4.93 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
Corruption Is the Way of the Manhattan DA
March 30, 2022 02:10 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBWe’ve got a new District Attorney in New York City – but it’s the same old story of entrenched corruption and impunity for criminal elites! Last month, new DA Alvin Bragg decided not to pursue the prosecution of Trump for obvious crimes, and last week, lawyer Mark Pomerantz, who had come out of retirement to aid then-DA Cy Vance in the Trump Crime Cult investigation, published a blistering resignation letter in which he blamed Bragg for stopping the investigation in its tracks. What Pomerant...
How the West Can Help Protect Civilians in Ukraine
March 23, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBThis episode tackles the urgent need for accountability in both the United States and in Putin’s war on Ukraine. We start out with yet another deep dive into the cesspool that is Merrick Garland’s political career and in particular, his alliance with lifelong mentor and corruption queen Jamie Gorelick. We then turn again to the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine and the urgent need for Ukrainians to be protected from the brutal Russian air strikes and ongoing mounting genocide of Ukrainian civilians. ...
Putin’s Potemkin Military
March 16, 2022 02:10 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBIn this episode of Gaslit Nation, we revisit some familiar terrain – you know, like Putin did when he decided to invade Ukraine yet again. In Monday’s bonus episode, available to Gaslit Nation listeners at the Truth-Teller level or higher, we answered questions about particular issues in Putin’s war on Ukraine: nukes, Israel, UK sanctions, and so on. In today’s episode, we revisit the history of the current conflict – since many people still do not grasp that the defense pact of NATO is not ...
Teaser - How to Stand Up to Putin
March 14, 2022 19:50 - 4 minutes - 5.25 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
Warnings from Syria on How to Stop Putin in Ukraine
March 09, 2022 03:10 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBPutin’s brutal escalated invasion of Ukraine was predictable – not only because he announced it in advance, but because Russia has carried out extreme military violence in other regions for decades, most notably Chechnya in the 2000s and Syria over the last decade. As Ukraine continues to fight back, Syria suffers due to the partnership of Putin and Assad and the war crimes they carried out on Syrian civilians, which killed hundreds of thousands and displaced several million. To understand wh...
Meet Agnieszka Holland & James Norton!
March 07, 2022 23:08 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MBOn Friday March 11 at 1pm EST, we're holding a fundraiser with Agnieszka Holland, the director of Andrea's film Mr. Jones, and Mr. Jones himself, British actor James Norton, in support of The Kyiv Independent -- journalism on the frontlines of Putin's war -- and Proliska -- a humanitarian relief organization serving Donbas, a region in eastern Ukraine under Putin's invasion since 2014. Get access to the event by making a donation here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-agnieszka-holland-jame...
Freedom Square
March 02, 2022 02:55 - 59 minutes - 137 MBThis week, we review the chaotic and horrific developments in Putin’s war against Ukraine. We cover the West finally sanctioning Russia and beginning to isolate it from positions of geopolitical power; Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons; the protests in support of Ukraine that broke out all over the world, in particular in independent states that were once colonized by the Soviet Union; the shameful and unforgivable role Kremlin media lackeys played in abetting Kremlin violence in Ukraine...
Teaser - Gustav Gressel - Full Interview
February 28, 2022 21:10 - 2 minutes - 3.31 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
Can the World Stop the Next Hitler?
February 23, 2022 03:10 - 1 hour - 190 MBPutin’s pre-announced escalated invasion and occupation of Ukraine has commenced, and it happened when we said it would: on the anniversary week of Ukraine’s 2014 uprising and the eight year anniversary of Putin’s annexation of Crimea. 2-22-22 is set to go down in history – should the future be lucky enough to have history – much as 8-08-08 did when Putin invaded Georgia fourteen years ago. The escalated invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation for over thirty years, is a humanitarian disaster...
Teaser - Has Putin Lost His Mind?
February 21, 2022 22:00 - 5 minutes - 5.82 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
Dispatch From Ukraine: Malcolm Nance and Terrell Starr on Putin’s War
February 16, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 168 MBWe have two special guests reporting from L'viv, Ukraine! Gaslit Nation welcomes back intelligence expert Malcolm Nance, the author of several bestsellers on Trump’s ties to the Kremlin as well as the aptly titled upcoming book on Trump’s insurgency, THEY WANT TO KILL AMERICANS. (Listen to our previous interview with Malcom here.) We also welcome back journalist Terrell Starr, host of the must-listen podcast Black Diplomats which decolonizes foreign policy by amplifying historically margina...
Teaser - The Dangerous Lack of Urgency Around the Jan. 6 Investigations
February 14, 2022 21:15 - 4 minutes - 5.09 MBHappy Valentine's Day! 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
NATO is a Red Herring
February 09, 2022 04:11 - 1 hour - 158 MBWelcome back to another week of us anxiously anticipating a European land war while contending with rising autocracy at home! We start out by analyzing the Trump crime cult’s destruction of federal records, contemplate who in the admin may have been responsible, and put it in the context of the nationwide book bannings and assault on collective memory. Sarah also gives the backstory into the strange circumstances that launched career criminal coverup guy Bill Barr into the Attorney General po...
Teaser - World War III on Our Minds
February 08, 2022 20:30 - 5 minutes - 5.82 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 Terrorism and What to Do About It
February 02, 2022 03:10 - 1 hour - 157 MBCongratulations, you survived January 2022! Now it’s time for another disaster -- Putin’s scheduled escalation of his ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which he announced months ago, thus giving his oligarchs plenty of time to get their dirty financial affairs in order. We dig deep into this complex conflict, examining the humanitarian toll it takes on Ukraine, Putin’s ambitions for other regions of the world (more on that in our Patreon bonus!), the American exploitation of the conflict for part...
Insurrectionist Election Playbook
January 26, 2022 03:10 - 56 minutes - 129 MBIn June 2021, we did a Gaslit Nation episode called “Voter Suppression Emergency” where we interviewed election integrity expert Ari Berman. Guess what? We’re still in a Voter Suppression Emergency so Ari is back to share his thoughts with us again! Ari Berman is a writer for Mother Jones who closely documents dark money, voter suppression, and the ever-changing laws that GOP legislatures are using and abusing to hijack our democracy. He has long followed the power struggle for progressive v...
Karen of the Senate
January 19, 2022 03:10 - 55 minutes - 127 MBThis week we examine what drove Koched-up Karen of the Senate Kyrsten Sinema to destroy voting rights on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. We dig into Sinema’s questionable past and shady backers and debate rumors about her political future. We also discuss how unless Congress passes voting rights protections, it doesn’t matter who runs in 2024, because the election will be determined not by candidate popularity but by the most extreme voter suppression laws since the era before the VRA.
Merrick Garland Both-Sides The Coup
January 12, 2022 04:11 - 58 minutes - 135 MBIt has now been over a year since the worst attack on the Capitol since 1812, and Attorney General Merrick Garland has responded to the ongoing threat of bloody sequel coups and the rapid erosion of our democracy with…a tepid speech. We break down his weasel words and analyze his “probe” that consists of rounding up minor participants and giving them sentences so light or slow that they can commit vehicular manslaughter while they wait, and discuss why he continues to ignore the criminal eli...
Our January 6 Anniversary Special
January 06, 2022 18:10 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBWe'll discuss Merrick Garland's press conference in next week's episode. For today's somber one year anniversary of Trump's attempted coup, we're sharing with the public, along with some additional commentary, our pre-announced January 6th, 2020 special that ran on Patreon. We encourage you to share with us what your initial reaction was that day -- it's important to stay grounded in this time of chaos agents. So share your story with us on Twitter or by sending us a note at gaslitnation@gma...
Mob Mentality
January 05, 2022 03:10 - 58 minutes - 134 MBWelcome to the first Gaslit Nation episode of 2022! Just think, one year ago we were all sitting around in a plague waiting for an attempted coup to happen, and now we are…sitting around in a plague waiting for an attempted coup to happen. And by the same coup plotters, too because mafia state enabler Merrick Garland refuses to hold criminal elites accountable!
Countdown to a Coup
December 22, 2021 03:10 - 50 minutes - 115 MBSince the start of Gaslit Nation, we've warned of Trump's determination to use violence to consolidate power and stay in power. The 2016 election was the culmination of a coup, and the rampant corruption, purging, threats, harassment of investigators, whistleblowers, and law enforcement that followed was done to ensure that coup successfully entrenched a dictatorship. January 6, 2021 was inevitable. Our democracy cannot survive another coup.
Tis the Season to Prosecute Treason
December 15, 2021 03:16 - 55 minutes - 128 MBLike a sleigh ride on a mobius strip through hell, this week’s Gaslit Nation takes you on a journey back in time to the many acts of treason committed over the years and the utter lack of accountability for any of them! Today’s Evidence of Obvious Crimes includes the Mark Meadows’ coup PowerPoint, Trump’s latest televised confession of obstruction of justice, and a bunch of texts from three Fox News propagandists and the most pathetic Trump family member.
Time to Clean House
December 08, 2021 03:10 - 58 minutes - 135 MBThis week we look at Biden’s big anti-corruption plan – and wonder if anyone will actually implement it! The Biden admin has put out a kleptocracy battle missive that reads like Gaslit Nation’s greatest hits. But will the U.S. finally clean house this time?
Tyranny and Mutation
December 01, 2021 03:11 - 1 hour - 154 MBWe’ve got a brand-new coup plot and a brand-new plague variant – and a brand-new Gaslit Nation to examine the nexus of the crisis and the origin of the storm! We start by discussing the coup that the Kremlin is allegedly preparing against Ukraine and review Paul Manafort’s career of evil. Manafort, best known for plotting coups with Kremlin-affiliated actors, has been MIA since being pardoned by Trump in December 2020, and our guess is that he is…plotting a coup with Kremlin-affiliated actors.
DeJoy of Crooking
November 24, 2021 04:11 - 46 minutes - 107 MBRon Bloom, a sleazeball DeJoy Defender who works for the company that helped bail out Jared Kushner’s debt in a dirty deal under congressional investigation, will be replaced! Does this mean the corrupt Postmaster General who deliberately slowed down the mail will soon be fired? We also discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. Like the January 6 Capitol attackers lured into action with promises of protection, Rittenhouse is a pawn in a broader authoritarian play.
The Infrastructure of Autocracy
November 17, 2021 04:11 - 52 minutes - 120 MBWelcome to month ten of post-Capitol attack America in which no elite operatives have been punished for the worst attack on the Capitol since 1812! This includes fascist felon Steve Bannon, who turned his surrender for subpoena dodging into a reality TV show starring himself. We discuss Bannon’s brazen criminality and why the lack of urgency from agencies tasked with accountability is so dangerous. In times of extreme threat, complacency is complicity.
"Yes, Virginia, There Is a Transnational Crime Syndicate!"
November 10, 2021 04:11 - 51 minutes - 118 MBWelcome to the Gaslit Nation election aftermath hellhole special! We look at two big factors in Posh Trump Glenn Youngkin’s win: 1) how the GOP’s elite criminal impunity draws white voters to backing raw power, in the hope that this power will protect them and in fear that it will not 2) how the canard of “critical race theory” was weaponized by propagandists and the Dems did little to combat it, despite GOP operatives spelling out the strategy very clearly in March!
Sorry Not Sorry: The Alyssa Milano Interview
November 03, 2021 03:11 - 53 minutes - 122 MBThere’s a lot going on, but Sarah isn't feeling well and lost her voice. We plan to cover the major news events next week, like the elections and what they can tell us, and Joe Manchin’s latest betrayal of the American people. This week, after recently speaking at Congress about the Equal Rights Amendment, and getting arrested in Washington, DC in a protest demanding voting rights legislation, Alyssa Milano stops by Gaslit Nation to discuss this and more, including her new book Sorry Not Sor...
Virginia, We Have an Emergency
October 29, 2021 20:43 - 2 minutes - 1.46 MBThis is a special extra urgent Gaslit Nation news bulletin for anyone anywhere around the world who has friends, family, co-workers, acquaintances, old flames who can vote in Virginia. The governor’s race this Tuesday is extremely close. If Trumpist Glenn Youngkin wins, he can help steal Virginia for the Republican party in the 2024 election, ensuring Democrats lose the White House.
Beware the Savvy Set
October 27, 2021 03:11 - 1 hour - 140 MBWelcome to the Gaslit Nation Halloween Special! At Gaslit Nation, it is forever Halloween AND Groundhog’s Day, so we revisit some familiar villains – Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon – and look at the incredibly bad horror sequels they are plotting!
The Polonium Tea Party
October 20, 2021 03:11 - 55 minutes - 126 MBThis week’s Gaslit Nation explores narrative warfare, from Russia’s Stalinist revisionism (now including an attack on Andrea’s film Mr Jones!) to the “both-sidesing” of the Holocaust in US schools, to the memory-holing of the Capitol attack.
Running Out the Clock
October 13, 2021 03:11 - 1 hour - 139 MBIt has now been over nine months since the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and none of the key perpetrators – Trump, Bannon, Flynn, Stone, etc – have been held accountable. And now they are dodging and defying subpoenas! What the Democrats are showing is that you cannot fight hate speech with weasel words, and you cannot fight accelerationism with inertia. This whole gang is running out the clock – the GOP and the transnational crime syndicate that backs them.