TEASER - God, Guns, and Blood Money: Inside the Kremlin Church Running a Psy-Op on America
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The Russian Orthodox Church, a longtime arm of the Kremlin, is running an intelligence operation targeting MAGA’s Christian nationalism, to help turn America into a dictatorship. This week’s bonus show continues our conversation with Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman. She exposes a sweeping op by the Kremlin’s church. Russians, being white and Christian, get a pass that other terrorist regimes, like Iran, don’t. We fact check their mind-hacking op, and also answer questions from Gaslit Nation listeners–like if Putin and Trump got in a fight, who would win? Whether it's...
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Mourning in America and Real Resistance
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A statement from Gaslit Nation listener Annie in Minneapolis, Minnesota: Real Resistance I live in Minneapolis, 6 minutes from where Renee Good was shot and killed today by an ICE agent. I am 39, a white woman, with a 6 year old like Renee. I am on my neighborhood rapid response thread and on another morning it could easily have been me who was shot and killed. I feel grief, I feel rage, but I am also hopeful that her death will crack open something that needs to see the light of day. On Tuesday, dozens of people were brutally kidnapped and taken from their families, but there were no...
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The "New Alcatraz": The Darkest Threat of the Venezuela Looting Spree
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Andrea joins Russian mafia expert to expose the transnational looting spree and warn Stephen Miller will turn Venezuela into a new Alcatraz. First, we look at who stands to get rich off Trump’s illegal invasion. Devin Nunes and a squad of Trump Media cronies just took over a company that tried to bid $10 billion for Citgo, Venezuela’s oil crown jewel, right as their boss plotted a secret invasion. So who won Citgo? Why, MAGA billionaire Paul Singer, a vulture capitalist who serves as Trump’s ATM and hand-picked Marco Rubio for Secretary of State. Who else is a big winner? The...
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Trump’s January 6 Coup Ushered in the New World Order
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With Trump’s unpunished coup, we officially entered a New World Order. And it’s a lot like the car-bomb 1990s in Russia–a lawless era where the biggest oligarch wins. But the crisis is bigger than Trump. It also comes down to the American elite hitting the panic button on China. While China secures global influence through infrastructure and green tech, the U.S. has reverted to the Monroe Doctrine. We are seeing this with the illegal invasion of Venezuela and the impending invasions of Greenland and Mexico. The objective is resource acquisition: oil from the south and rare earth minerals...
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Gaslit Nation's Predictions for 2026
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Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome to the very first Gaslit Nation episode of 2026, one of the most consequential years for humanity, because the world is about to find out whether American democracy survives Donald Trump and his MAGA crime cult. Will they try to steal the midterms? Will Trump attempt another January 6-style power grab as 2028 approaches? Stick with Gaslit Nation as we fight back and build a new American revolution, one act of hope and defiance at a time. This special bonus show, made for our Patreon community, highlights a thoughtful question from Ken B., a listener and...
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What Gives You Hope?
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We close out this year from hell with a grounded kind of hope, not wishful thinking. Ushering us into a better new year is a montage of organizers, journalists, and activists reminding us that history isn’t finished, and that power has always been built from the ground up. We end with a simple reminder: convert hope into power through solidarity, defiance, and showing up, again and again. Be relentless, like water eroding rock. That is how we win. As we face the year ahead together, what’s giving you hope right now? Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, Q&A...
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In a Time of Gaslighting, Pay Attention to Your Dreams
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In this quick update, Andrea shares a dream she had about Ukrainian dissident poet , killed in a Russian labor camp in the 1980s, and whose poetry and human rights campaigns helped lay the groundwork for a free Ukraine. In a time of rampant gaslighting, it’s never been more important to believe our eyes and ears, and honor our intuition. Pay attention to your dreams; it will help you endure and overcome. If you’re finding moments to rest and binge this holiday season, here are two documentary recommendations: First, , a haunting intimate tribute to the late musician whose voice...
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Save Our Courts to Protect the Constituion - TEASER
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This holiday season, we wish you peace, joy, and a new Supreme Court. In Part 1 of our discussion, we pulled the mask off originalism and called it what it is: the Southern Strategy of our courts, a legal laundering scheme for white terrorism. In Part 2, we discuss how to take our courts back from GOP extremism to protect our Constitution–before it rips apart our country. To hear this week's full bonus show, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit and support our independent journalism. According to legal scholar Madiba Dennie, author of , the answer is finally taking the Constitution at its...
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Originalism is the Southern Strategy of Our Courts
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All we want for Christmas is a new Supreme Court. Here to tell us how we get there is legal scholar Madiba Dennie, author of What’s “originalism”? It’s white supremacy’s answer to the Civil Rights Movement, every bit as sneaky and immoral as Republican operative Lee Atwater’s “Southern Strategy,” which mobilized racist voters through racist dog whistles instead of open slurs. Originalism sounds fancy by design, but it’s pure fascist gaslighting, now wielded by the trash MAGA majority on the Supreme Court. Gaslit Nation’s holiday gift to our listeners this year is to...
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American Media in Crisis: How to Fight Back
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We’re seeing the same far-right media consolidation in America as during Putin’s rise to power. Bari Weiss is the new Roger Ailes, hired to destroy CBS News. The far-right Ellisons are aggressively going after Warner Bros. to build a media monopoly to dumb down more Americans so that we’re easier to control. That’s why Andrea spoke at Courage & Cowardice event in Washington, DC on December 11. Courier, the team that built the searchable Epstein files database released by Congress, brought together independent journalists and creators who still believe journalism is a public...
info_outlineHere’s a clip from last week’s Gaslit Nation Salon, where I lay out what it will take for us to stop reactionary elections that punish whichever party is in power: the political pendulum swinging between Christian nationalists to establishment Democrats back to Christian nationalists. If we’re serious about defeating fascism and overcoming the many crises we face, we need real political stability built from the ground up, not another cycle of rage-voting whiplash. Because if we don’t confront these systemic issues, the voters will continue to punish whichever party is in power, and, as we saw in 2016 and 2024, this just makes everything worse, for everyone.
The clip also unpacks my conversation with the great E. Jean Carroll, an interview that sparked a lot of questions and debate among our listeners. You can listen to the full interview here on Patreon, here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Last week’s full salon discussion will be available on Monday morning for our Patreon members, along with a Zoom link for Monday’s salon at 4pm ET. Come vent or tell us what’s happening in your corner of the country.
EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:
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December 1st 4pm ET Book Club Discussion – Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky + Total Resistance by H. Von Dach – Poetry and guerrilla strategy: tools for survival and defiance.
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Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other: available on Patreon.
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Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other: available on Patreon.
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Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect: available on Patreon.
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Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join: available on Patreon.
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Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group: available on Patreon.
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Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community
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Coming soon! Patreon members at the Democracy Defender ($10/month) tier and higher will receive a PDF of Andrea’s book Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm.
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Coming soon! Patreon members at the Fact Checker ($25/month) tier and higher will receive a new behind-the-scenes look of Mr. Jones, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland.
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Mrs. Orwell – Andrea’s new graphic novel on Eileen O’Shaughnessy Blair, the Irish-English poet, wife, and muse of George Orwell who made him into the artist he always longed to be, is out in April. Pre-order your copy here. Patreon supporters at the Freedom Fighter ($50/month) tier and higher will receive signed copies.
Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you.