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, journalists, and activists reminding us that history isn’t finished, and that power has always been built from the ground up.

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Andrea Chalupa
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. It’s a lot like Trump, Kushner, and their real estate buddy Steve Witkoff’s plan to sell out Ukraine to Russia. Once again we’re reminding you that the war against oligarchy here at home is global. 

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Andrea Chalupa
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 III in America: oligarchy, Big Tech, and Democratic Senators obeying in advance. 

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Andrea Chalupa
Unbearable: The War on Women

For decades, Christian nationalists have insisted that controlling women’s bodies is a moral crusade. What Irin Carmon shows in her blistering new book, Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America, is that this crusade doesn’t just target abortion, it poisons every aspect of pregnancy care in America and forces authoritarianism into our homes and doctor visits.

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Andrea Chalupa
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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Andrea Chalupa
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 billionaire doomsday prepper who thinks the Anti-Christ is Greta Thunberg, could effectively rule the world. What does Thiel’s obsession with the Anti-Christ reveal about how we can resist him?

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Andrea Chalupa
Abolish ICE

In this week’s Gaslit Nation, we examine the normalcy bias that many in white America, especially within the mainstream media, cling to. We also celebrate the defiant voices on the frontlines in MAGA-besieged cities like Portland and Chicago, who are calling this what it is: fascism.

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Andrea Chalupa
Trump is the Enemy Within

Andrea talks to Matthew Boedy, author of “The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy,” about the right’s 50-year plan to capture the government.

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Andrea Chalupa
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 “sweaty men in wigs who owned human beings and thought democracy was something best kept away from women, the poor, and anyone who wasn’t them.”

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Andrea Chalupa