Happy New Year, everyone -- the hellscape of 2020 is finally over and we’ve got a whole new hellscape to explore! We take stock of Trump’s ongoing coup attempt and his recorded shakedown efforts against Georgia Republican officials, the prospect of violence as the GOP Sedition Caucus and the Proud Boys try to destroy democracy from within, the Trump admin’s plans to use Iran for a planned “national emergency” to illegally extend Trump’s power, the ongoing massive Russian cyberattack and much, much more!

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In the second part of this interview with Jennifer Taub, the author of Big Dirty Money, we talk about the legal liability of Trump, Ivanka and Jared, Manafort, Stone, and other walking national security threats from the most corrupt administration of all time. We ask what advice she has for Biden and his administration, and what his new attorney general should do about all these dangerous actors running around with state secrets.

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In the first of this two-part interview with Jennifer Taub, author of Big Dirty Money, she breaks down definitions – “dirty money”, “dark money”, “white-collar crime” – and fields questions about why no one in power is doing much to remedy these crises. Taub explains the devastating impact of white-collar crime on ordinary Americans, and discusses the Sacklers and other corporate criminals who have caused mass death.

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We are halfway through the attempted coup – formerly known as the presidential transition process – and the United States has not completely collapsed (yet) so, yay? What a way to end 2020! We also discuss the vaccines and Biden’s electoral college win, so it’s not all bad news, we promise.

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As Trump continues to threaten public officials and attempt to overturn the election results, he puts at stake not only our nation’s political future, but the literal survival of its citizens. More Americans are projected to die from the Covid-19 pandemic than died during World War II. The majority of those deaths were preventable. Americans are not dying: they are being killed by the malice and failures of their own government.

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Welcome to attempted coup week four! Trump still refuses to concede and meanwhile he is gutting every department in sight. We discuss the new executive order that aims to fire 88% of civil servants and possibly replace them with Trump lackeys (or lead the positions unfilled altogether) and how this reflects the broader goal of Trump and the GOP to destroy the US government from within.

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We make the case yet again for all the criminal actors in the Trump camp to be held accountable. We demand thorough and transparent investigations of the crimes that have occurred and indictments where merited. Unity without justice is hollow.

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Welcome to week two of the attempted Trump coup! As Trump refuses to concede, his cronies are using mafia tactics to attempt an illegal second term, including threatening secretaries of state and other officials with violence, pressuring bureaucrats to deny Biden’s win and thus prevent Americans from getting needed resources, entering drawn-out court battles designed to reach courts packed with Trump lackeys, and if all else fails, war with Iran!

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We have a winner, and it’s Joe Biden! And we have a coup, and it’s ongoing! We break down one of the most tumultuous weeks in US history, including Biden’s electoral college win and the nationwide celebrations that followed; the launch of the long-held plan of the Trump crime cult to stage a coup (which we warned about incessantly for four years only to be dismissed until it began to happen).

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Our long national nightmare is finally over – and a brand-new national nightmare has begun! We pick up where we left off after our Election Night Bonus Special, taped on Tuesday night when the initial results were scaring the shit out of us, and discuss the promising developments that had occurred by the time we recorded this episode Wednesday morning.

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In the last Gaslit Nation episode before the election, we discuss the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s blatant desire to have the election decided by courts instead of by the American people, and the role SCOTUS may play in who will be our next president. The dark tactics of court packing, institutional purges, and demoralization are coming to a head this week as the GOP attempts to fulfill its goal of a one-party autocratic state.

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With just two weeks left to go before the election, we break down the big threats to democracy and national security – and Hunter Biden phony laptop is not among them! We review the Trump crime cult’s attempts at election sabotage and encourage you to form a plan for what to do if his reinstallation attempt is successful.

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Gaslit Nation is excited to welcome to our show Congressional candidate Pam Keith, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer, litigator, and environmentalist. Her Congressional district is right next door to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago. She explains how Democrats can win Florida in 2020 and beyond.

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There’s just three weeks until our long national nightmare ends and a brand-new national nightmare begins! We continue to document the decimation of democracy, focusing on the SCOTUS hearings and the potential appointment of Amy Coney Barrett. We review how the judiciary is usually the last bulwark against autocracy but how in the US, the GOP has structured their autocratic coup around court-packing, putting the rights we rely on to fight autocracy in jeopardy.

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In Our Malady, historian Timothy Snyder shares his personal journey of struggling to navigate America’s healthcare system during a serious illness, providing shocking insights into racial and income inequality that continue to plague Americans. This book serves as a warning to citizens everywhere that greed can corrupt medicine and produce a decline in life expectancy. Don’t think of this as an American crisis; think of it as a greed crisis that can happen anywhere.

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In this extra-long and extra sleep-deprived episode of Gaslit Nation, we spend 70 minutes discussing the non-revelation of Trump’s tax fraud and the broader ramifications of a career criminal occupying the White House.

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If you've always wanted to know how Putin could get away with highjacking our democracy in 2016, the book Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Electoral Interference will provide much-needed answers and insights. Historian David Shimer spoke to dozens of officials, from the intelligence community to the Obama administration, who share what happened in 2016, what they wish they would have done differently, and the vulnerabilities that plague our elections to this day.

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This is possibly the angriest episode of Gaslit Nation ever, and that’s saying something. What a nightmare week. We open with a discussion of the ongoing abuse of migrants in concentration camps at the US border, particularly women and children. We call for new Nuremberg trials to bring these criminals to justice and we will refuse to accept anything less if Biden manages to win the White House.

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There's no blue wave unless we build it. Every District and Crush 2020 show us how to take back our country starting now. This is not a drill.

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There's no blue wave unless we build it. Every District and Crush 2020 show us how to take back our country starting now. This is not a drill.

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