Gaslit Nation

We make the case yet again for all the criminal actors in the Trump camp to be held accountable. We demand thorough and transparent investigations of the crimes that have occurred and indictments where merited. Unity without justice is hollow. Important Note: Hang out with Gaslit Nation at a letter writing party for Georgia hosted by SwiftLeft on Wednesday December 2nd at 6pm. RSVP here: https://w...

Welcome to week two of the attempted Trump coup! As Trump refuses to concede, his cronies are using mafia tactics to attempt an illegal second term, including threatening secretaries of state and other officials with violence, pressuring bureaucrats to deny Biden's win and thus prevent Americans from getting needed resources, entering drawn-out court battles designed to reach courts packed with Tr...

We have a winner, and it's Joe Biden! And we have a coup, and it's ongoing! We break down one of the most tumultuous weeks in US history, including Biden's electoral college win and the nationwide celebrations that followed; the launch of the long-held plan of the Trump crime cult to stage a coup (which we warned about incessantly for four years only to be dismissed until it began to happen).

Our long national nightmare is finally over – and a brand-new national nightmare has begun! We pick up where we left off after our Election Night Bonus Special, taped on Tuesday night when the initial results were scaring the shit out of us, and discuss the promising developments that had occurred by the time we recorded this episode Wednesday morning.

Gaslit Nation Presents the winner of our radioplay contest for 2020: "BabaVanka" by Jane Willis, starring the great J. Smith-Cameron , star of HBO's Succession. On Succession, J. plays Gerri , the lawyer for the family and corporation based on the Murdochs and News Corp .  So it's fitting that she stars as BabaVanka, the monster next-in-line to inherit the Trump Crime Family from her mob boss fath...

In the last Gaslit Nation episode before the election, we discuss the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's blatant desire to have the election decided by courts instead of by the American people, and the role SCOTUS may play in who will be our next president. The dark tactics of court packing, institutional purges, and demoralization are coming to a head this week as the GOP attempts to fulfi...

With just two weeks left to go before the election, we break down the big threats to democracy and national security – and Hunter Biden phony laptop is not among them! We review the Trump crime cult's attempts at election sabotage and encourage you to form a plan for what to do if his reinstallation attempt is successful.

Gaslit Nation is excited to welcome to our show Congressional candidate Pam Keith, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer, litigator, and environmentalist. Her Congressional district is right next door to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago. She explains how Democrats can win Florida in 2020 and beyond.

There's just three weeks until our long national nightmare ends and a brand-new national nightmare begins! We continue to document the decimation of democracy, focusing on the SCOTUS hearings and the potential appointment of Amy Coney Barrett. We review how the judiciary is usually the last bulwark against autocracy but how in the US, the GOP has structured their autocratic coup around court-packi...

In Our Malady , historian Timothy Snyder shares his personal journey of struggling to navigate America's healthcare system during a serious illness, providing shocking insights into racial and income inequality that continue to plague Americans. This book serves as a warning to citizens everywhere that greed can corrupt medicine and produce a decline in life expectancy. Don't think of this as an A...

In this extra-long and extra sleep-deprived episode of Gaslit Nation, we spend 70 minutes discussing the non-revelation of Trump's tax fraud and the broader ramifications of a career criminal occupying the White House.

If you've always wanted to know how Putin could get away with highjacking our democracy in 2016, the book Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Electoral Interference will provide much-needed answers and insights. Historian David Shimer spoke to dozens of officials, from the intelligence community to the Obama administration, who share what happened in 2016, what they wish they would h...

This is possibly the angriest episode of Gaslit Nation ever, and that's saying something. What a nightmare week. We open with a discussion of the ongoing abuse of migrants in concentration camps at the US border, particularly women and children. We call for new Nuremberg trials to bring these criminals to justice and we will refuse to accept anything less if Biden manages to win the White House.

There's no blue wave unless we build it. Every District and Crush 2020 show us how to take back our country starting now. This is not a drill. 

The phrase "good Germans" refers to the Germans living in the Third Reich who enabled Hitler and his Nazi regime yet remained in denial that they were doing so. Or they did know, but they put on a show of respectability. They were "just following orders," they'll say, or they'll claim they didn't have a choice. The good Germans were liars: you always have a choice. And the "good Germans" of Trump'...

We're thrilled to welcome tenacious election security advocate Jennifer Cohn , who was an early and brave voice in documenting the attacks on the 2016 election and the broader threat of vulnerable election infrastructure. We ran an excerpt last week for Patreon subscribers -- here is the full interview where we ask Cohn what happened in 2016 and what safeguards have been taken since then to secure...

America 2020 is a land of cults – personality cults, death cults, conspiratory cults, and a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government that binds them all together! We examine how the GOP has abandoned even the pretense of a platform in favor of blind worship of Dear Leader, Donald Trump and a dynastic kleptocracy run by Ivanka and Jared. We delve into Jared's latest dirty deals ar...

We look at signs of hope in the midst of this darkness, including young Democratic representatives who understand the severity of the American crisis and have the potential to rebuild our country – if complicit and complacent elites would get out of their way.

After a two-week break, Gaslit Nation is back! This week we continue our documentation of the ongoing shitshow we call 2020, starting with the dismantling of the US Postal Service by newly appointed postmaster general Louis DeJoy. And then we discuss Tom Cotton's dream come true in Belarus. 

We're excited to welcome two very special guests to Gaslit Nation to bring some much needed light: Raquel Willis, a leading Black transgender activist and Director of Communications for the Ms. Foundation, and Lindsay 'Lindz' Amer, the creator and co-host of the YouTube channel Queer Kid Stuff. As the summer rages on, and so does the pandemic and corruption in the White House, it's never been more...

Welcome back to the weekly authoritarian weather report in the longest year in human history, 2020! This week we discuss death threats against judges, secret police kidnapping critics of the government and stuffing them in vans, a bank that is really a front for money-launderers and child traffickers, an aspiring authoritarian who refuses to concede, and the refusal of the officials tasked with ac...

In this Gaslit Nation Resistance Cinema Special, Andrea looks back on making Mr. Jones and the film's lessons for today with director Agnieszka Holland and stars James Norton and Peter Sarsgaard. 

This week we discuss the capture of child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and what comes next. We move on to Trump's traitorous countenance of the Kremlin-Taliban bounty on U.S. troops, and what Putin's ultimate goals are for his puppet in the White House.

This week, Gaslit Nation brings you a special episode on the making of Mr. Jones , the journalistic thriller exploring Stalin's crimes in Ukraine that Andrea wrote and produced! This movie about a Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, whose attempts to bring the truth about Russian terror to light made him not only a threat to the Soviets but a target of sneering reporters at The New York Times is all t...

We interview special guest Dr. Timothy Snyder, the historian of fascism whose warnings about American authoritarianism under Trump were prescient yet unheeded by officials. Dr. Snyder is the author of the recent bestsellers On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, and was a historical consultant on Andrea's film, Mr. Jones, a journal...