Latest Kendzior Podcast Episodes
MAGA, ISIS, and the U.S. Election
Gaslit Nation - April 03, 2024 03:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsIf 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 resurgent ISIS, one that Trump and his MAGA cult will no doubt campaign off of, to “scare out” the vote. (The independent voter needed to win c...
Will the “Christian Vote” Help Trump Win? [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - March 31, 2024 20:38 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsFor 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 the rise of ISIS. Meanwhile, white domestic terrorism, fueled by extreme religious groups like white evangelicals, increasingly went unch...
All We Can Save: The Katharine Wilkinson Interview
Gaslit Nation - March 27, 2024 03:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsGaslit 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 Wilkinson, the co-author of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. Exclusively for our Patreon community ...
How to Contain MAGA (And Why the New York Times Wants Trump to Win) [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - March 23, 2024 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsCongratulations, New York Times! Trump is the GOP nominee. Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and Monique Camarra of the Kremlin File podcast join Andrea to discuss why the New York Times wants Trump to win, with coverage and an editorial board that normalizes his fascism. The conversation...
Art Matters: The Nelson George Interview
Gaslit Nation - March 20, 2024 03:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsGaslit 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 friend and mentor, the journalist, filmmaker, and author Nelson George. Exclusively for our Patreon community we're publishing an all new b...
Who is the Kremlin Caucus? [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - March 16, 2024 12:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsWelcome 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 Rohrabacher, a former Congressman from Orange County, has grown into a proud fascist movement threatening our democracy and Ukraine’s very su...
The State of Our Union and How to Fix It
Gaslit Nation - March 13, 2024 03:11 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsWelcome 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 era journalist Dorothy Thompson’s warnings about Katie Britt! A dictator loving pope! George W. Bush’s pandora’s box of evil! A smirking R...
Killers of the Flower Moon: A Mirror for America Today [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - March 09, 2024 15:38 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsWarning: 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 doesn’t give away spoilers or information that isn’t widely known, and the film itself will be a powerful discovery given the stunning directin...
Trump’s Shadow Foreign Policy
Gaslit Nation - March 06, 2024 04:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsRemember 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 Manafort operating from the shadows, where he blooms like mold, pretending to have taken a step back to avoid the heat of, well, having b...
Radical Self-Reliance: Demand Accountability [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - March 03, 2024 22:35 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsGaslit Nation launched in 2018 to help build the Blue Wave, which set up progressive infrastructure that expands today, including in states like Kansas. In Virginia in 2023, our community produced one of the largest phone banks for Sister District, helping to get out the vote, flipping the Senat...
The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
Gaslit Nation - February 28, 2024 04:11 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsAmerican 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 Wall Street Crash, caused by Wall Street. Given the immense federal aid that saved Citibank, it should be no problem then for Citibank, bui...
Prison Incarceration Rates: The U.S. vs. Russia [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - February 24, 2024 13:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsThis 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. Russia. Spoiler alert: GOP-led states and swing states are as bad or worse than Russia, starting with Mike Johnson’s Louisiana. We look at pri...
Trump Backers Kill Navalny
Gaslit Nation - February 21, 2024 04:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsFebruary 20 marks two years since Putin launched his total war in Ukraine. February also marks the assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, gunned down in the shadow of the Kremlin in 2015, on the eve of his anti-war march. And now Alexei Navalny, killed in a Siberian gulag, his...
Listener Q&A: Exposing Epstein’s Network, Pressuring Garland, and More! [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - February 17, 2024 13:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsThis 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, a former New York state prosecutor who won the Trump University case, and author of the new book Taking Down Trump. Our discussion includ...
Will Trump Ever Go to Prison? (A Roy Cohn Horror Story)
Gaslit Nation - February 14, 2024 04:11 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings“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 current roommate in hell. Take Trump's classified Mar-a-Lago case. According to this week’s guest, Tristan Snell, a former New York state pros...
Is Tucker Carlson an Unregistered Foreign Agent? [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - February 10, 2024 15:31 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsWelcome 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 ninety years ago. Today history repeats, with Tucker Carlson releasing a two-hour rant by Putin, presenting what Kellyanne Conway once loving...
Team Human on Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation - February 07, 2024 04:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsThe 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 September, but timely as ever. A filmmaker and observer of techno-fascist bros and their billionaire bunkers they’re building to hide from u...
Gaslit Nation Social Media Workshop - Part I [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - February 04, 2024 13:03 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsThis 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 those who hate social media and miss the old Twitter. Organizer Rachel Brody, who works with various campaigns to help get out the vote ...
Terrell Starr on Fani Willis vs. Trump
Gaslit Nation - February 01, 2024 13:03 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsTerrell 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 podcast on the accusations against Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, Terrell gives his take. For the previous discussion...
Queen of Auschwitz
Gaslit Nation - January 31, 2024 04:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsIn 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 Interest. They break down the gender politics of the "Queen of Auschwitz," past and present. They also fact check Donald Trump’s latest f...
The Kremlin Owns Mike Johnson [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - January 26, 2024 15:56 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsRemember 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, with McConnell folding on Ukraine aid. This is catastrophic for the US and the world. The recent transformation of the GOP into the Pa...
Fani Willis vs. Trump: The Nazis Strike Back
Gaslit Nation - January 24, 2024 04:11 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsMark 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 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did It Successfully," will join Andrea for a live-taping of Gaslit Nation for our communi...
Economies of the Civil War: Then & Now [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - January 22, 2024 11:39 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsThank 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 to publishing a recording of that soon, as Part I and Part II in early February. So if you missed the live event, you’ll soon have the re...
2016 Redux
Gaslit Nation - January 17, 2024 04:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsHate 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 18th, at 8 pm ET! This virtual event will feature the tenacious Rachel Brody, an organizer working on social media strategy for various vo...
Is China About to Invade Taiwan? [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - January 13, 2024 17:17 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsComing 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 recommended books from our listeners! Thank you to everyone who supports the show! There was a crucial presidential election in Taiwan toda...
The West Must Prepare for a Post-Putin Russia
Gaslit Nation - January 10, 2024 04:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsEvery 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 Ukraine, which was supposed to take Kyiv in three days, may bring his end sooner than he thinks. There was already one violent coup attemp...
Another World is Possible [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - January 06, 2024 11:05 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsDictators 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 is possible. The experts we’ve brought on the show over the years have shown us how. In this special episode, we’re starting 2024 right, ...
What Do We Do If Trump Wins?
Gaslit Nation - January 03, 2024 04:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsOn 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 Nation with the RISK! Storytelling Podcast. This is Part II of Andrea’s discussion with comedian Kevin Allison, host and producer of RISK!, a...
Peter Kurth Takes the Self Care Q&A [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation - December 30, 2023 11:05 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsAuthor 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 Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson, which helped inspire Andrea’s latest screenplay based on Thompson and her urgent lessons for us toda...
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson
Gaslit Nation - December 27, 2023 04:11 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsDorothy Thompson was the leading journalist of the 1930s and 1940s, considered as influential as Eleanor Roosevelt. After becoming the first foreign correspondent to be expelled from Germany by Hitler, Thompson advised President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, testified to Congress, and des...
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