Gaslit Nation

Important 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...

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By 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...

If 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...

Important 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...

We'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 matt...

It'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...

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In 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 discu...

Welcome 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 kee...

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In 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 w...

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Putin 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 t...

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David 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 reas...

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This 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...

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Hey 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 i...

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Sarah'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.

Gaslit 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 eighte...