Did Trump Fake Another Assassination Attempt?
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We've received questions and comments from Gaslit Nation listeners about the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner over the weekend. Here's our response. We can discuss at today's Gaslit Nation Salon at 4pm ET, along with whatever is happening in your neck of the woods. Sign up on Patreon.com/Gaslit to join the discussion: Join our community of listeners, get bonus shows, ad free listening, group chats, ways to shape the show, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more. Discounted annual memberships are available....
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Save the Date: May 11
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On Monday May 11 at 4pm ET at the Gaslit Nation Salon, get ready for a big peek behind the curtain. To celebrate Andrea's birthday, we're starting that day's salon with a production of the first 15 pages or so of one of her antifa screenplays. It's based on a story longtime Gaslit Nation listeners may recognize. And we'll leave it there. To get your ticket and support the show, join our community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit, get all episodes ad free, bonus shows, exclusive invites, and more. Thank you to everyone who supports the show!
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Hungarian Uprising
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While Orban’s gang of Kremlin-paid criminals burn proof of their crimes, the new leadership in Hungary goes after their propaganda machine and GOP allies who used Hungarian taxpayer money to fund CPAC. This is against U.S. law. If America had a real DOJ and functional Congress, all Republican officials would be investigated for being foreign agents of Hungary and therefore Russia. “Foreign governments are barred from spending money in American elections, and Americans are forbidden from soliciting or accepting it,” wrote Rep. Mike Levin on Twitter (we will never call it X). “If...
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The Wajahat Ali Interview
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Americans must fight a war on two fronts: against MAGA fascism and Democratic Party complacency. Wajahat Ali of the and author of joins Gaslit Nation to discuss how to actually build back better this time. Donald Trump is America’s karma of white supremacy, greed, and misogyny. But while the MAGA virus burns through our institutions, another danger is the "Big Club" in Washington, D.C. where Republicans and Democrats share the same donors, the same golf clubs, and the same refusal to tax the rich. The DNC thinks they can waltz into power by not being Trump, but voters want a...
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The Sounds of Mrs. Orwell
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To those who could not join our launch party for tonight, we've made you a play list from the event. It opens with a British Pathé newsreel of ; a popular war-time show Flanagan and Allen's and one of the most popular songs of the Spanish Civil War, which Eileen and Eric Blair would have heard throughout their time in Spain. We're going to play this audio at the start of tonight's event, to connect the global war of fascism vs. democracy back then to today, as Ukraine faces the same daily bombardment as Europe did under Hitler.
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The Brahm Revel Interview
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Gaslit Nation presents an Instagram Live discussion recorded over the weekend with the acclaimed illustrator , the artist of . Brahm is based in Barcelona, where Eileen and Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), spent their honeymoon fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Eileen was holed up in the Hotel Continental, which still exists, where Stalin’s agents searched her hotel room, stealing Orwell’s Spain diaries and other papers, which are believed to be somewhere in Moscow to this day. We’re celebrating freedom fighters, past and present, tonight at , for the launch...
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Virginia! Vote YES on Redistricting
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FDR had to take some bold swings to transform America for the better. He had his pearl-clutching critics who thought he was going too far. But that's what was needed to usher in the New Deal and strengthen democracy and improve people's lives. The "good guys" must not be passive. We must fight back. Virginia, the world's eyes are on you to vote YES on redistricting -- vote now through April 21. You will help restore balance to Republican authoritarian gerrymandering. Your YES vote in Virginia is an emergency stop-gap meant to save our national ship from sinking and take back the gavel from...
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The MAGA Virus: From Orban to the UK - TEASER
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Vice President JD Vance, a creation of the Peter Thiel dark-money machine, traveled to Hungary to openly threaten voters on behalf of the Kremlin’s favorite strongman, Viktor Orban. This is emotional blackmail on a global scale. Vance effectively told a post-Soviet nation that if they don't re-elect Orban this Sunday, they lose the protection of the U.S. military. It’s a "nice country you’ve got there, shame if something happened to it" mafia tactic. Why is MAGA obsessed with Hungary? Because the EU is a regulatory miracle that Big Money hates. To the Peter Thiels of the world, Orban is...
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The Untold, Inspiring History Behind Mrs. Orwell That Terrifies the Kremlin
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As Donald Trump holds the world hostage with his sloppy Iran War, and JD Vance campaigns for Orban, the Kremlin’s weapon in Hungary, Gaslit Nation returns to a shared family history of resistance. Andrea is joined this week by the brilliant artist to break down the story behind Andrea’s new graphic novel, . Born from a decade of research into the Holodomor, Stalin’s genocide famine in Ukraine, Mrs. Orwell is a monument to an unsung heroine of literature and the truth the Kremlin tried to bury. We also cover the horrifying reality of the current front lines of Russia’s invasion of...
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Make Pam Bondi Testify
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Congratulations to Pam Bondi for doing everything the fascist serial predator, convicted felon, and Russian asset wanted, only to be ritually humiliated by Trump anyway. The Epstein cover-up continues. So make Bondi testify–and get asked to leave every restaurant and bar she ever tries to enter, for protecting pedophiles. Come to the Gaslit Nation Salon today at 4pm ET to discuss this and more, including sharing what’s happening in your neck of the woods. Thanks to Patreon for the Mrs. Orwell tote bags, which we will be giving away to supporters at the April 13 book launch at...
info_outlineAs we navigate a world of "alternative facts" and corporate-state surveillance, George Orwell’s life, times, and pain, transformed into enduring art, like 1984, show us how to be defiant today. Resistance begins in the mind.
This week, we’re joined by British critic Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984, to trace the biography of a nightmare. The Orwellian slogan "2+2=5" was taken from Soviet propaganda. Orwell reviewed Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, an American reporter who confesses in the chapter “The Press Corps Conceals a Famine,” to joining with other influential foreign correspondents in Moscow to label Gareth Jones a liar in their articles in exchange for access to the Soviet regime. Lyons and Orwell are both characters in Andrea’s film Mr. Jones.
The trauma of 1984 started during the Spanish Civil War, alongside his wife, Eileen Blair, the unsung hero who saved his life and helped him find his voice as an artist, to break through the lies. In Catalonia, Eileen and Eric Blair watched Stalin-backed communists turn a socialist revolution into a paranoid police state. It was here, nearly killed by the "Soviet myth," that they realized nowhere is immune: lies and conformity keep people complacent as the sadists consolidate power.
Orwell’s message is clear for us today: in an era of state-sponsored lies, holding onto your humanity is the ultimate act of defiance.
Join us to celebrate the power of art and defiance at the book launch of Mrs. Orwell, Andrea’s inspiring new graphic novel, illustrated by the genius Brahm Revel.
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When: April 13
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Where: PowerHouse Books Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Details here: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa-in-conversation-with-nomiki-konst/
Patreon Supporters: You and your guests get in free and receive a complimentary book! Just message us through Patreon to claim yours.
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Our opening song was “Ride at Dawn” by Deena Marie. Check out her GoFundMe here to help her produce her next album: https://gofund.me/623a9c9b1
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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580453/the-ministry-of-truth-by-dorian-lynskey/
33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day https://www.harpercollins.com/products/33-revolutions-per-minute-dorian-lynskey?variant=32210443141154
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