Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior Podcast
1) Olga Lautman on the Russian Mafia
If you are on Twitter, you know that there is no one more deeply versed on the Russian mafia’s incursion into American business and politics than New York’s Olga Lautman, a freelance researcher and an...Show More
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This amazing conversation could have gone on for fifteen more hours. Olga Lautman is a longtime researcher of the Russian mafia’s presence i...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) 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 years, capturing American elite, unleashing a nat...Show More
3) 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’ll get into all that in this week’s bonus show out...Show More
4) 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. Wannabe Trump and eager student of Steve Bannon’s dark ar...Show More
5) 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. Because when authoritarians kill the jokes, they kill th...Show More
6) Power, Profits, and Protest: Trump, Russia, and the Middle
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—a secret meeting that reportedly triggered a highl...Show More
7) Who Killed Charlie Kirk? Follow the Epstein Trail.
Charlie Kirk is dead—taken out by an extremely skilled sniper in deep-red Utah. The MAGA Nazi built an empire scapegoating Black people, trans folks, and women, and cheered on Trump’s authoritarian de...Show More
8) Time for a New American Revolution
America has always had a sadistic streak. From the very beginning, this so-called land of liberty was built on slavery and genocide. Yes, the Founding Fathers were less “philosopher kings” and more “s...Show More
9) Rebel Women of the Gilded Age
What do theme parties, abortion rights, and feminist rebellion have in common? Historian Jennifer Wright unearths women who, in their own subtle and not so subtle ways, defied the patriarchy, mocking ...Show More
10) “Pace yourself.” – TEASER
Our opening clip was the 1989 trailer for Roger & Me, the breakthrough Michael Moore documentary and a favorite of Erica Smiley, Executive Director of Jobs With Justice and one of the most powerful vo...Show More