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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 elect...
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Gaslit Nation's Predictions for 2026
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...
What Gives You Hope?
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, jo...
In a Time of Gaslighting, Pay Attention to Your Dreams
In this quick update, Andrea shares a dream she had about Ukrainian dissident poet Vasyl Stus, killed in a Russian labor camp in the 1980s, and whose...
Save Our Courts to Protect the Constituion - TEASER
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 wh...
Originalism is the Southern Strategy of Our Courts
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 The Originalism Trap: How...
American Media in Crisis: How to Fight Back
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 CB...
Susie Wiles is Wrong: Trump Will Try to Stay in Power in 2028 - TEASER
Gaslit Nation reads through the ego and lies of Enabler-in-Chief Susie Wiles' interview with Vanity Fair, where she pulls the Nuremberg defense: I wa...
The Oleksandra Matviichuk Interview
In this high-stakes episode, Andrea is joined by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk as Putin openly claims alignment with the U.S., and...
The Kremlin's Long Game: Wake Up Before It's Too Late - TEASER
Donald Trump's kleptocracy didn't happen overnight–it was part of the Kremlin's long game. With reports of Russia trying to explode planes headed to t...
Crypto Traitors
On this extremely cursed episode of Gaslit Nation, we take a break from gas station dictatorships to talk about their emo tech cousin: crypto, the sha...
Andrea Will Be in Washington, DC Thursday!
Looking for a festive holiday gathering that plants seeds of hope to rebuild our democracy? Andrea was invited to the Courage>Cowardice event hosted b...
Will America Have a Woman President Soon? - TEASER
Is America ready for a woman president? Andrea and independent journalist Terrell Starr debate, and we want to hear where you stand. Let us know in th...
Genocide by Corporate Oligarchy
In this week's Gaslit Nation, Andrea and Kyiv-based journalist Terrell Starr discuss how American corporate oligarchs act like authoritarian regimes....
Nixon Ran so Trump Could Fly - TEASER
In Part II of our conversation, Nick Schwellenbach, a Senior Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight, shares his insights from his time in...
American Gestapo: Gregory Bovino's Border Patrol
This week we go into the dark heart of American Gestapo: Gregory Bovino's Border Patrol, which pushes ICE to become even more aggressive in his fascis...
The Holodomor: Stalin's Deadliest Weapon
November is a month when communities around the world commemorate the Holodomor–Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine that, in 1933, starved millions to...
Elect Better Democrats
Here'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...
Trump's Crypto Scheme to Sell Ukraine to Russia - TEASER
In this extremely enraged episode of Follow the Money, we ask the only question that actually matters in Trump's second crime spree through history: w...
"I Never Had Sex Again.": The E. Jean Carroll Interview
As the House finally votes to demand the release of the Epstein files, Gaslit Nation talks to journalist E. Jean Carroll about her new book Not My Ty...
Epstein and Trump: Follow the Money, Follow the Monsters - TEASER
Two weeks ago, Gaslit Nation pointed out that Vance is grooming the Christian nationalist movement to accept him as Trump's replacement. Turns out Van...
World War III Mind Games
Convicted felon Donald Trump got booed at an NFL game after our euphoric election. So the elites in Congress hit the panic button. This is World War I...
Election Special: All You Fascists Bound to Lose - TEASER
To listen to the full bonus show, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit for ad free shows, all bonus shows, exclusive events, support independent journalism...
Is Donald Trump Dying? JD Vance Seems to Think So
Is Donald Trump dying, or just decomposing in real time? He's slurring words, disappearing for days, and bragging that he "aced" an IQ test that was a...
Trump-Epstein Super Special [TEASER]
Welcome to the Gaslit Nation Trump-Epstein Super Special, where we dig into the 15-year friendship between convicted felon, traitor, and alleged pedop...
Unbearable: The War on Women
If you or someone you know needs extra support to survive Trump's economic warfare on the American people, to find help near you, enter your zip code...
The Bushra Amiwala Interview
Gaslit Nation is excited to announce a new show, for our subscribers, featuring Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman, a researcher on investigative journ...
TEASER - Cold War History Behind Trump’s White House Destruction
Like Putin, Donald Trump is determined to hide from the people. He's promising that a taxpayer-funded FBI–run by MAGA troll Kash Patel–will "secure" t...
Antifa Uprising
What do Stalin, Trump, and Viktor Orbán have in common? They're all fragile men terrified of truth, artists, and of anyone with a moral compass.
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Palantir: Peter Thiel’s Big Brother and Ways to Resist - TEASER
While Peter Thiel obsesses over the Anti-Christ, his company Palantir has been busy building America's Orwellian Big Brother, which began under Trump'...
Peter Thiel and The Anti-Christ
With Trump's health visibly in decline, attention is shifting to Peter Thiel's invention, JD Vance, who may soon be president. Which means Thiel, a bi...
Trump is Scared - TEASER
The first movie ever screened in the White House wasn't Casablanca or Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It was The Birth of a Nation: a Ku Klux Klan recru...
Abolish ICE
America has long been on a path toward authoritarianism, as Gaslit Nation warned for years. We also warned the only way out is accountability: abolish...
TEASER - Harriet Tubman Was Clairvoyant
As Trump declares a highly illegal "war on drug cartels" to distract from the Epstein Files, let's turn instead to a much-needed source of inspiratio...
Trump is the Enemy Within
Trump once said he wanted generals like the Nazis. Today, at his limp MAGA rally, he made his pitch. Photos show military leaders looking stunned, con...
One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another isn't just a film: it's a manifesto. Paul Thomas Anderson's cinematic masterpiece–a three hour long adventure that flies by t...
Epstein, Trump, and Russia [TEASER]
What's worse than a conspiracy theory? When the actual conspiracy is even worse than the theory. Jeffrey Epstein carried out a kompromat operation for...
The Midterms Start Now: Virginia Is a Bellwether
Listen, we heard Trump today at the U.N. talking crazy, but also saying Ukraine can get its territories back, and then some. As in, occupy Russia? We'...
Bolsonaro Blitz (Zoom Link for Today’s Salon - 4pm ET!)
A quick reminder to our community of supporters that the Zoom link for today's salon at 4pm ET was posted on Friday. You can find that here.
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KPop Demon Hunters Antifa
A Gaslit Nation listener once asked me: What's the canary in the coal mine for American democracy? My answer: when they come for the comedians. Becaus...
Power, Profits, and Protest: Trump, Russia, and the Middle East
This September marks eight years since Donald Trump cozied up to pariah dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt on the sidelines of the United Nations—...