Gaslit Nation
Gaslit 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.
Episodes
How do we take our democracy back from the oligarchs and build a livable future? When we're up against all the money in the world, what is our leverage? And what does an economy based on human dignity look like? Economist Isabella Weber joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the urgent answers in her new book, Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy.
Weber grew up in Nuremberg, Germany, an anc...
We're opening today's Gaslit Nation Salon at 4pm ET with a sneak peak at Matthew Cole's damning new book on Dutch intelligence hacking Jared Kushner and discovery that the corruption is so much worse than even we thought. Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East is explosive. Kushner and the whole Kremlin Klown Kar used illegal means to come to power and stay in power--th...
Welcome to the future! It's a lot like today: looting sprees at the top–by hedge funds; looting sprees by protesters in the streets. It will take all of us in a popular uprising, led by real leaders, like AOC, not self-serving politicians like Ro Khanna, to get us out of this. Gaslit Nation is here to help you stay grounded in this week's bonus show looking at why you can't trust Ro, the Paris protests, Trump's lifeline to Pu...
Voting rights legend David Walbert joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the long history of bloodless coups in America. His new book, Stealing Elections, American Style, opens in 1876, when Louisiana threw out enough votes to steal the White House for Rutherford B. Hayes, the white supremacist who, as president, stopped Reconstruction.
How do we stop today's MAGA coup, which – given January 6 – is hardly bloodless? How can we...
The GOP/MAGA's policies are so unpopular that they depend on stealing elections to stay in power. This week, Andrea is joined by Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, to discuss ways to safeguard our vote in a time of Jim Crow 2.0.
Gaslit Nation opens this week's show with Ukraine's response to Trump/Putin trying to force Ukraine to surrender and blaming Zelensky for all of America'...
An empowerment book for women and girls shouldn't have to include how to survive sexual assault, domestic violence, and being drugged. But in a society that protects the Epstein class and the Cornell 7, it's an infuriating necessity.
In this week's bonus episode, Andrea shares a sobering reading from her upcoming book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women. Alongside chapters on fundraising, mar...
There's hopium, and then there's the law. Republicans slipped on their own banana peel when they had Jack Smith testify in MAGA's lawless quest to punish law enforcement and other investigators for rightfully trying to contain corrupt career criminal, trust fund nepo baby, convicted felon, and p*d*ph*le Donald Trump.
Gaslit Nation and Mueller, She Wrote have had our disagreements over the years. But ...
Fascism is toxic masculinity, and the cure starts at home. Comedian, recovering Catholic and proud girl dad Pete Dominick, host of Stand Up! with Pete Dominick, turns the mic on Andrea to talk about her new book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire, and how her family's Ukrainian immigrant wisdom holds the key for how we overcome a patriarchal nightmare...
Don't call it a blue wave. It's a rage wave. The Trump family crime spree has destroyted countless lives. People are fighting back. As MLK warned: don't sleep through a revolution. Join one of the many events from Gaslit Nation as we countdown to the midterms and plants seeds of hope and change beyond.
Events at Gaslit Nation:
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October 5th 1pm ET: Substack Live with Leah Greenberg of Indivisible to answer your questions about ...
Congratulations Russiagate skeptics! The US is now on its way to becoming a Russian-style oligarchy, with the help of traitors and useful idiots across the political spectrum. (Not to mention giant evil corporations and complicit politicians, like Gavin Newsom, who let the Ellisons consolidate even more power and disinformation weapons). This week, investigative journalist David Corn of Mother Jones joins Gaslit Nation...
One of the Kremlin's greatest skills is plausible deniability. That's how they got away with paying MAGA influencers for so long: they used shell companies. Putin's oligarchs are walking, talking Kremlin bribes. And one just bankrolled large parts of Don Jr.'s wedding to the daughter of Epstein's banker who enabled Epstein's crimes for decades. It's one big tansnational crime syndicate wedding from hell, and Gaslit Nation was not i...
Joining Gaslit Nation this week, Jack Cocchiarella—the Gen Z political commentator, host of The Jack Cocchiarella Show, and future ambassador to Italy under the most progressive White House the world has ever seen—argues that despair, not ideology, is the true driving force behind America's Gen Z vs. nihilism crisis.
Andrea and Jack discuss the radicalization of young men who feel they lack a s...
Mrs. Orwell will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 27 at 12pm ET. Details here and in the show notes. I would love to meet Gaslit Nation listeners! So if you can, come by and say hi. In the meantime, above is the April 13 book launch of Mrs. Orwell at PowerHouse Arena. Thank you to the listeners who came out–it was a joy to see you!
There would have been no George Orwell wit...
Allison Guerriero helped expose a traitor inside the FBI. Now she's dead in Florida, cause unknown.
Guerriero tipped off the feds about Charles McGonigal, the traitor inside the New York FBI who ran counterintelligence, pretending to hunt Russian, while being on the payroll of loyal Putin oligarch, Oleg Deripaska. McGonigal got 50 months in prison. Guerriero was found dead, hours after posting about McGoni...
"Mar-a-Lago face" is what happens to white women when they try to secure proximity to power by joining a death cult. Feminist icon Soraya Chemaly, author of All We Want is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy and Rage Becomes Her, joins Gaslit Nation to discuss why MAGA women want to look like the plastic morphing faces in Soundgarden's cinematic masterpiece for "Black Hole Sun."
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Joining us for this week's bonus show is the tenacious genius Michele Hornish, Executive Director of Every State Blue, a Missouri-based organization supporting the overlooked races in rural areas, building progressive infrastructure on the ground, election after election. We discuss the frontline strategies for defeating Republican autocracy.
In our exclusive bonus episode, available in full for our P...
Like Ukraine can't defeat fascism alone, neither can America. We need the world to stand up to MAGA's lawlessness. Making the case on Gaslit Nation is Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation and author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America.
If Democrats win back power, they must use it maximally. Mystal, a prophetic voice in the fight for democracy, breaks down how, including by showing what Bid...
Gaslit Nation has long warned that the test for our democracy is whether Jared and Ivanka will be investigated, and whether they will face any charges. Instead, they follow a long family tradition of using their immense illicit wealth to live above the law.
In this week's bonus show, we respond to reports that New York Congressman and House Speaker hopeful Hakeem Jeffries secretly met with Kushner, the pre...
We are in the fight of our lives against a neofascist transnational crime syndicate obsessed with gutting your voting rights and turning the DOJ into a petty MAGA HOA. But if you think it's time to curl up and surrender in despair, here to wake you up is Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the daughter of relentless Civil R...
Donald Trump and Eva Braun Natalie Harp are trying to escape us in his ballroom bunker while Kremlin operative Paul Manafort's former lawyer, Todd Blanche, destroys lives. Blanche's DOJ illegally persecuted the Prairie Land defendants Soviet-style, condemning them to sweltering Texas prisons for protesting ICE, which is their Constitutionally protected right.
In this week's bonus show Gaslit Nation provides a step-by-step guide on ...
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