Putin's Potemkin Military

In this episode of Gaslit Nation, we revisit some familiar terrain – you know, like Putin did when he decided to invade Ukraine yet again. In Monday’s bonus episode, available to Gaslit Nation listeners at the Truth-Teller level or higher, we answered questions about particular issues in Putin’s war on Ukraine: nukes, Israel, UK sanctions, and so on. In today’s episode, we revisit the history of the current conflict – since many people still do not grasp that the defense pact of NATO is not what prompted Putin’s invasion – and of the USSR itself.

We discuss the illusion of Russian military might and how Ukrainians have punctured that myth, while also analyzing the successful hybrid warfare – cyberattacks, propaganda, Western useful idiots and oligarch partners – that was put in its place. We speculate on where Putin may strike if he decides to withdraw from Ukraine and temporarily focus on other territories that were once forced to be part of the Soviet colonial empire. Andrea also breaks down the latest in the ongoing war, including new war crimes in Ukraine and arrests of journalists and protesters in Russia.

This has been an absolutely exhausting few months for us at Gaslit Nation, and lucky you, for a mere ten dollars you can see us looking exhausted in person! On March 22 at 4:00 EST/3:00 CST, you can join Sarah and Andrea at the first ever live Gaslit Nation chat for subscribers at the Democracy Defender level or higher. We will be answering your questions and thanking you for being part of the supportive and engaged community that has kept us going for all these years! If you’re interested in participating, sign up on Patreon.

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Warnings from Syria on How to Stop Putin in Ukraine

Putin’s brutal escalated invasion of Ukraine was predictable – not only because he announced it in advance, but because Russia has carried out extreme military violence in other regions for decades, most notably Chechnya in the 2000s and Syria over the last decade. As Ukraine continues to fight back, Syria suffers due to the partnership of Putin and Assad and the war crimes they carried out on Syrian civilians, which killed hundreds of thousands and displaced several million. To understand what may be in store for Ukraine, we need to understand Syria, so we invited an expert on Syria for an urgent discussion with Gaslit Nation.

Our guest today is Mouaz Moustafa who is featured in the must-watch documentary about Syria called Red Lines. Mouaz was born and raised in Damascus, Syria before moving to the US as a teenager. He is the current Executive Director for The Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF). As a former staffer for Congressman Vic Snyder and Senator Blanche Lincoln, Mouaz spent a few years on Capitol Hill before joining SETF in the fall of 2011 to help advocate on behalf of the pro-democracy movement in his native Syria. He regularly travels to Turkey, Syria, and Jordan. He has organized many staff and congressional delegations to the region including Senator McCain's trip to northern Syria in 2013. He worked closely with the Defector Caesar, bringing him to testify in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the US House of Representatives. Mouaz has also worked closely with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to bring awareness to the atrocities taking place in Syria including a continuing exhibit of the Caesar photos currently at the Museum.

Mouaz discusses what Ukrainians can do to fight against Russian military aggression, what the West should do and should have done to protect Syria, what the West should do to protect Ukraine, the online disinformation warfare that Russia has been carrying out globally for decades, and how to sustain resilience and defiance in the midst of such horror. Mouaz reminds us that we must never give up the fight and we must never give up on each other.

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Freedom Square

This week, we review the chaotic and horrific developments in Putin’s war against Ukraine. We cover the West finally sanctioning Russia and beginning to isolate it from positions of geopolitical power; Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons; the protests in support of Ukraine that broke out all over the world, in particular in independent states that were once colonized by the Soviet Union; the shameful and unforgivable role Kremlin media lackeys played in abetting Kremlin violence in Ukraine and Syria; and what NATO and the West should do to protect Ukrainians trying to flee to the border.

Most of all, we discuss the toll this war has taken on the people of Ukraine. While their resilience is inspiring, it is also tragic. Putin’s escalated invasion was predictable and therefore preventable. The West owes Ukraine every bit of support it can give them after decades of looking the other way while taking Russian oligarch blood money.

Our bonus episode this week, available to Patreon subscribers at the Truth-Teller level or higher, is the full interview with Gustav Gressel, a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Gressel is an expert on Russia, Eastern Europe, and defense policy. He discusses Germany’s termination of the Nordstream 2 project, the need for anti-corruption laws and sanctions, and how energy policy is used as political leverage in Europe. He also discusses parallels between Putin and Hitler.

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Can the World Stop the Next Hitler?

Putin’s pre-announced escalated invasion and occupation of Ukraine has commenced, and it happened when we said it would: on the anniversary week of Ukraine’s 2014 uprising and the eight year anniversary of Putin’s annexation of Crimea. 2-22-22 is set to go down in history – should the future be lucky enough to have history – much as 8-08-08 did when Putin invaded Georgia fourteen years ago. The escalated invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation for over thirty years, is a humanitarian disaster and a profound violation of international law.

Perhaps world leaders should have been more assertive in battling the Kremlin’s multiple invasions of sovereign countries, oligarch infiltration of Western institutions and partnerships with the most corrupt Western actors, and Putin’s general disintegration into madman status! Perhaps if they had listened to the many warning signs that this situation would get extraordinarily dangerous unless action was taken – if you would like a recent list of them, please consult our archives – Ukraine would not be in a terrifying and tragic position and the entire world would not be dealing with a nuke-bearing dictator who will stop at nothing to get his way.

In this episode, we discuss Putin’s desire to rebuild the Soviet Union even if it brings mass death, Zelensky’s fierce opposition to the assault on Ukraine, the insufficient sanctions passed by the UK and the promising curtailing of Nordstream 2. We speculate on which countries may be in danger from Kremlin invasion in the future. We debunk Putin’s bullshit blatherings and analyze them in the context of the generation gap between Putin and the citizens of the countries he seeks to conquer.

We conclude our episode with an interview with Gustav Gressel, a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Gressel is an expert on Russia, Eastern Europe, and defense policy. He discusses Germany’s termination of the Nordstream 2 project, the need for anti-corruption laws and sanctions, and how energy policy is used as political leverage in Europe. He also describes the chilling similarities between Putin, Mussolini, and Hitler.

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Dispatch From Ukraine: Malcolm Nance and Terrell Starr on Putin’s War

We have two special guests reporting from L'viv, Ukraine! Gaslit Nation welcomes back intelligence expert Malcolm Nance, the author of several bestsellers on Trump’s ties to the Kremlin as well as the aptly titled upcoming book on Trump’s insurgency, THEY WANT TO KILL AMERICANS. (Listen to our previous interview with Malcom here.) We also welcome back journalist Terrell Starr, host of the must-listen podcast Black Diplomats which decolonizes foreign policy by amplifying historically marginalized voices and providing crucial perspectives on the crises the world faces. (Listen to our previous interview with Terrell here.)

Malcolm and Terrell are traveling Ukraine, where the country is bracing for an escalated invasion of Putin's war. They answered our questions on a variety of topics including: * Why did the Kremlin choose this month to escalate its invasion? * What are some indicators that Putin will go all in? * What are the real reasons Putin wants to occupy Ukraine? * What is the state of the Western alliance? What should NATO members be doing now? * What should the Biden administration be doing? * What role does the threat of nuclear weapons play? * What does Ukraine need from the West to succeed against Russia? * How does Russia’s history of imperialism and colonialism shape its actions in Ukraine today? * What are some ways the West can fend off Kremlin aggression without using military force?

This is an in-depth conversation about a complex and horrifying conflict by people who have been studying Ukraine and Kremlin aggression for decades. If you’re trying to figure out what’s going on and what may happen next, this is the conversation for you.

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NATO is a Red Herring

Welcome back to another week of us anxiously anticipating a European land war while contending with rising autocracy at home! We start out by analyzing the Trump crime cult’s destruction of federal records, contemplate who in the admin may have been responsible, and put it in the context of the nationwide book bannings and assault on collective memory. Sarah also gives the backstory into the strange circumstances that launched career criminal coverup guy Bill Barr into the Attorney General position in 1991.

Andrea then answers the questions that are on everyone’s mind: Are we headed for World War III thanks to Putin escalating his invasion of Ukraine? What does Putin really want? Why do certain political pundits not understand that the Soviet Union no longer exists and why do those pundits still have jobs? This episode is a Gaslit Nation History Lesson on Russian colonialism, the origins of NATO, the relationship between the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact states, the infiltration of Western Europe by oligarchs during the Iraq War era, the struggles of dissidents from post-Soviet dictatorships, and the propaganda tactics that people use to distort information about all this and more!

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Andrea Chalupa
Putin's Terrorism and What to Do About it

Congratulations, you survived January 2022! Now it’s time for another disaster -- Putin’s scheduled escalation of his ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which he announced months ago, thus giving his oligarchs plenty of time to get their dirty financial affairs in order. We dig deep into this complex conflict, examining the humanitarian toll it takes on Ukraine, Putin’s ambitions for other regions of the world (more on that in our Patreon bonus!), the American exploitation of the conflict for partisan purposes and the way the West can force Putin’s hand and clean its own house at the same time: sanction the oligarchs!

Sanctions on the international band of oligarchs propelling the Kremlin are long overdue, and it is time for the West to quit taking dirty money and instead strip the Kremlin and its mafia partners of their power. We speculate as to the oligarchs’ backup plans and what will happen in the months to come should the sanctions actually be enacted. We also discuss Trump’s ongoing coup attempt and his dream of Putin-style rule – a dream that may come true since the DOJ refuses to act.

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Insurrectionist Election Playbook

In June 2021, we did a Gaslit Nation episode called “Voter Suppression Emergency” where we interviewed election integrity expert Ari Berman. Guess what? We’re still in a Voter Suppression Emergency so Ari is back to share his thoughts with us again! Ari Berman is a writer for Mother Jones who closely documents dark money, voter suppression, and the ever-changing laws that GOP legislatures are using and abusing to hijack our democracy. He has long followed the power struggle for progressive values and democracy in Washington, and his books include Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America and Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics.

This week we catch up with Ari and discuss how the voter suppression emergency has turned into a voter suppression apocalypse. We get his thoughts about what’s really behind Manchin and Sinema’s obstructionism, whether the Democratic leadership’s inaction has alienated their grassroots base, why Merrick Garland has not cracked down on insurrectionists, the GOP strategy for the midterms and their dangerous placement of insurrectionists into elected offices, the new voter suppression laws enacted since 2020, the culture of threat toward poll workers and public officials, the role of dark money in shaping elections, what ordinary citizens can do to combat this threat, what tools the Democratic Party has left at their disposal, and much more!

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Karen of the Senate

This week we examine what drove Koched-up Karen of the Senate Kyrsten Sinema to destroy voting rights on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. We dig into Sinema’s questionable past and shady backers and debate rumors about her political future. We also discuss the fact that unless Congress nukes the filibuster and passes voting rights protections, it doesn’t matter who runs in 2024, because the election will be determined not by candidate popularity but by the most extreme voter suppression laws since the era before the VRA. We praise the Black activists who continue to fight for voting rights despite contending with a white supremacist death cult in one party and cowardly corporate enablers in the other.

We then discuss Merrick Garland’s valiant arrest of career criminal Donald Trump and his mafia syndicate coup plotters…wait just kidding he arrested a guy who posted as “oathkeeper4lyfe” while announcing his January 6 insurrection plans on Reddit. (Seriously.) We review the career of Yale law graduate Stewart Rhodes, the indicted Oath Keepers leader, and explain that arresting him and ten others is not sufficient to protect our country from coup-plotting militants backed by powerful billionaire networks and a sociopathic cult leader currently on tour doing his best Charlie Manson imitation in an attempt to incite a race war.

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Merrick Garland Both-Sides the Coup

It has now been over a year since the worst attack on the Capitol since 1812, and Attorney General Merrick Garland has responded to the ongoing threat of bloody sequel coups and the rapid erosion of our democracy with…a tepid speech. We break down his weasel words and analyze his “probe” that consists of rounding up minor participants and giving them sentences so light or slow that they can commit vehicular manslaughter while they wait, and discuss why he continues to ignore the criminal elites at the helm: Trump, Stone, Flynn, Bannon, Wood, and more.

We break down Merrick Garland’s hollow words and false promises, and also note his failure – and the Biden administration’s failure – to protect voting rights, which are still being eviscerated. We examine the DOJ troll bot farm that spits platitudes and propaganda at anyone who even mildly criticizes Garland, and note the identical phrasing to the troll bot farm that emerged during the Mueller probe. We go on to destroy the bot farm-peddled talking point that Garland was a key player in solving the Oklahoma City bombing plot and in fact shows how he screwed up the investigation in a dangerously similar manner to the way he is handling the January 6 attack. We return to our study of Garland’s corrupt mentor, Jamie Gorelick, and her shadowy history at the DOJ. A broken institution can only be protected by a broken institutionalist, and that is who Merrick Garland is.

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Mob Mentality

Welcome to the first Gaslit Nation episode of 2022! Just think, one year ago we were all sitting around in a plague waiting for an attempted coup to happen, and now we are…sitting around in a plague waiting for an attempted coup to happen. And by the same coup plotters, too because mafia state enabler Merrick Garland refuses to hold criminal elites accountable!

While Merrick Garland stays the same failure as always, there have been meaningful developments elsewhere in court cases involving criminal elites. We discuss the guilty verdict for child rape trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, partner of Jeffrey Epstein and daughter of Mossad operative and Russian mafia liaison Robert Maxwell. We do a deep dive on the international relations aspects of the case and discuss why the media is whitewashing her crimes and treating complicit actors like Epstein’s lawyer/client Alan Dershowitz as “objective sources”.

We also discuss Giuliani lackey/convicted felon/coup plotter/9-11 villain Bernard Kerik, his long history of criminality, and the documents he provided to the Jan 6 committee. We then turn to the failure of Cy Vance to hold the Trump crime cult accountable (we warned you!) and what the investigations by Tish James and Vance replacement Alvin Bragg may bring. And we pay tribute to Harry Reid, the only official in office in 2016 who was brave enough to tell the American public the truth about Trump and Russia in real time and try to stop our current horrors from happening. RIP.

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Andrea Chalupa
The Save Democracy Challenge

Meet the patriots of the Gaslit Nation 2020 Save Democracy Challenge! We speak to superheroes who organized, stayed engaged, and did what they could wherever they were, often facing threats and other pressures, to help save our democracy in 2020. Their efforts matter, made a difference, and planted powerful seeds for protecting their communities, and therefore our country.

We're going to get through the difficult years ahead by fighting for our communities, and that security on the local level helps secure our democracy on a national level. So never forget that we need you, our communities need you, our country needs you, and if you don't know where to start, listen to the inspiring people in this discussion to learn how to help wherever you are.

We're going to hold another Gaslit Nation Save Democracy Challenge where we call on our listeners to stay engaged and do what they can where they can to help get out the vote in the 2022 midterms. Look out for that as we get closer to yet another make-it-or-break-it election in our lifetimes. No matter how dark things get, refuse to abandon each other, and stay and fight to ensure that a new America rises from the ashes of this time of rapid change and uncertainty.

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Andrea Chalupa
Countdown to a Coup

Since the start of Gaslit Nation in 2018, we've warned of Trump's determination to use violence to consolidate power and stay in power. The earth-shaking 2016 election was the culmination of a coup, and the rampant corruption, purging, threats, harassment of investigators, whistleblowers, and law enforcement that followed was done to ensure that coup successfully entrenched a dictatorship. January 6, 2021 was inevitable, and yes, we even announced a special episode about it in advance. Our democracy cannot survive another coup.

In this special episode, we provide a montage of Gaslit Nation episodes going back to the beginning, counting down to the violent coup attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The countdown continues, and that our democracy currently cannot handle a third coup attempt by Trump and his white supremacist army currently harassing and threatening school boards over the teaching of Black history and vaccine and mask mandates, harassing and threatening election officials over Trump's Big Lie and to ensure their efforts to overturn our democracy are successful next time, and running for office at all levels using disinformation and white rage. This episode is an SOS for our democracy, calling on our public servants and law enforcement to clean up corruption (especially among law enforcement), secure our democracy, and ensure there will be no third coup, one our democracy will not survive.

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Andrea Chalupa
Tis the Season to Prosecute Treason

It’s that special time of the season again – the time where we commemorate the anniversary of an unpunished coup attempt! This is really an unceasing, round-the-clock kind of occasion here at Gaslit Nation, and we cannot believe we are still discussing the need to prosecute the masterminds of this seditious attack because you losers are too complicit or complacent to protect our country, but here we are. AGAIN. Like a sleigh ride on a mobius strip through hell, this week’s Gaslit Nation takes you on a journey back in time to the many acts of treason committed over the years and the utter lack of accountability for any of them!

Today’s Evidence of Obvious Crimes includes the Mark Meadows’ coup PowerPoint, Trump’s latest televised confession of obstruction of justice, and a bunch of texts from three Fox News propagandists and the most pathetic Trump family member. We debate whether the texts are even real, and both come up with compelling arguments for why you should stop treating this like a game and actually do something about the violent seditionists actively plotting “Coup 2: Now With More Bloodbath” oh my God. We also share important items on our Christmas wish lists -- like voting rights and abolishing the filibuster! -- and explain why you cannot cosplay Succession as a substitute for real justice.

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Andrea Chalupa
Time to Clean House

This week we look at Biden’s big anti-corruption plan – and wonder if anyone will actually implement it! The Biden admin has put out a kleptocracy battle missive that reads like Gaslit Nation’s greatest hits, but will it be another “Iron Triangles” fiasco? (For those who don’t have brains bursting with bureaucratic betrayal, the “Iron Triangles” speech is the one Robert Mueller made in 2011 vowing to crack down on transnational organized crime, which he followed up by spending the rest of the decade enabling transnational organized crime.)

We don’t know what will happen, but we do know that Congress needs to clean House – at home and abroad! Sarah launches into a long story about Paul Gosar, the January 6 Capitol attacks, the unindicted conspirators, the bipartisan obsession with harming AOC, the strangeness of Congress not wanting to defend itself from people who want to murder them, and the donation record of a shady Russian oligarch associate who is funding not only the DCCC, but Nancy Pelosi individually, and keeps upping the donations! Wow, way to battle the kleptocracy, Dems!

Andrea takes on the Biden-Putin video call and looks at the looming Russia war on Ukraine and the humanitarian disaster it will bring for the region, particularly for human rights activists and journalists who are already fighting a brave fight. As always, we implore the Biden administration to abandon Nordstream 2 if they actually want to clean up global corruption.

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Andrea Chalupa
Tyranny and Mutation

This month's song is "Precision Grooming" by Scary Hours. If you have a song you would like to submit for the Art Matters Gaslit Nation Song Series, submit it here!

We’ve got a brand-new coup plot and a brand-new plague variant – and a brand-new Gaslit Nation to examine the nexus of the crisis and the origin of the storm! We start by discussing the coup that the Kremlin is allegedly preparing against Ukraine and review Paul Manafort’s career of evil. Manafort, best known for plotting coups with Kremlin-affiliated actors, has been MIA since being pardoned by Trump in December 2020, and our guess is that he is…plotting a coup with Kremlin-affiliated actors. Just going out on a limb here!

We also explain the differences between various agents of fortune like Rinat Akhmetov and Rinat Akhmetshin, both of whom are oligarch Manafort cronies, but only one of whom was at the June 2016 Trump Tower criminal meeting! (Remember when this kind of information wasn’t eating up your brain?) We also discuss the dire humanitarian situation at the border of Belarus and Poland, where the Kremlin is weaponizing a refugee crisis, and the failure of the West to adequately respond. Andrea provides firsthand updates from Russian and Belarusian activists who have an insider view of Kremlin aggression and advice on how to stop it.

Then we move onto the omicron variant! History has shown again and again how nature points out the folly of man, so it is no surprise that the refusal of Big Pharma to make the covid vaccine free and accessible everywhere has led to tyranny and mutation. We discuss the explosive new Financial Times expose about Pfizer exec Albert Bourla and his shady deals with Western leaders at the expense of much of the world, as well as the Biden admin’s empty promises from the last days of May to get the vaccine patent waived, whereas in reality they’re just going through the motions.

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DeJoy of Crooking

How do you sell yourself as “the infrastructure president” while allowing a vital piece of infrastructure such as the US postal service to be destroyed?! Turns out you can’t! After a year of Gaslit Nation imploring Joe Biden to remove USPS Board of Governors chairman Ron Bloom so that postal service wrecking ball Louis DeJoy could be fired– and a trollbot farm relentlessly hounding Gaslit Nation for our controversial belief that everyone should get their mail on time -- he has FINALLY announced that he plans to do so in December. Bloom, a sleazeball DeJoy Defender who works for the company that helped bail out Jared Kushner’s debt in a dirty deal under congressional investigation, will be replaced by Daniel Tangherlini, and another USPS member will be replaced by Derek Kan. We do not know much about these guys yet but we are going to vet them, so stay tuned!

We also discuss the fallout of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and how it is part of a broader streamlining of political violence. Rittenhouse has become a favorite of right-wing elites who like to cloak their own lust for power under the veneer of vigilante justice. Like the January 6 Capitol attackers lured into action with promises of protection, he is a pawn in a broader authoritarian play. This broader play includes threats to public servants and election officials and new laws that allow protesters to be run down in the road. All of this is meant to suppress protest, dissent, and voting. It is imperative that officials protect our public servants and voters and push initiatives like voting by mail, which prevents people from being put in the terrible position of making a choice between their safety and their vote.

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The Infrastructure of Autocracy

Welcome to month ten of post-Capitol attack America in which no elite operatives have been punished for the worst attack on the Capitol since 1812! This includes fascist felon Steve Bannon, who turned his surrender for subpoena dodging into a reality TV show starring himself. We discuss Bannon’s brazen criminality and why the lack of urgency from agencies tasked with accountability is so dangerous. In times of extreme threat, complacency is complicity. It is not a victory for democracy that a coup architect who has expressly declared his intent to destroy a government he once served – and whose state secrets he now possesses – gets a slap on the wrist. It is not a victory for democracy that Bannon still faces NO consequences for the original crime of violent insurrection: a crime that continues today. We also discuss Bannon’s ties to transnational organized crime, exemplified by his choice of mobster lawyer David Schoen to represent him.

Then we turn to Russia’s increasing aggression in Ukraine and Poland, the latter via its proxy state, Belarus, all of which is taking place while US pundits blather about the threat of “woke culture” and other nonsense. Andrea breaks down the disaster of the Nordstream 2 deal and the history of global kleptocracy underlying it, and we ponder the strange phenomenon of professional asshole Ted Cruz being on the right side of an issue. We also discuss the MIA status of NATO and what should be done to defend vulnerable European countries from Kremlin aggression, which has moved from digital warfare to on the ground operations and even into outer space! Andrea concludes the show with her best Andy Rooney imitation as she contemplates the infrastructure plan, climate change, and American materialism.

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"Yes, Virginia, There Is a Transnational Crime Syndicate!"

Welcome to the Gaslit Nation election aftermath hellhole special! We break down last week’s results and the dire situation in Virginia, where Posh Trump Glenn Youngkin became the governor after a campaign exploiting bigotry and predicated on lies. We look at two big factors in Youngkin’s win: 1) how the GOP’s elite criminal impunity draws white voters to backing raw power, in the hope that this power will protect them and in fear that it will not 2) how the canard of “critical race theory” was weaponized by propagandists and the Dems did little to combat it, despite GOP operatives spelling out the strategy very clearly in March! We also note how Terry McAuliffe fell short and give credit where credit is due for the good Dem campaigns that did win in states like Georgia and New Jersey.

Then we discuss the ongoing witch hunt being conducted by John Durham with the approval of Merrick Garland’s corrupt DOJ. Much like Bill Barr, Durham is flipping the script and investigating the investigators, targeting people who contributed to the Steele dossier and reaffirmed what the FBI already knew: that Donald Trump was a mobbed-up Kremlin asset and had been for years. We have been telling you all year that Merrick Garland is a Trump crime cult enabler who stands in the way of justice and accountability, and his approval of his witch hunt and refusal to take the most rudimentary steps to protect our national security – like enforcing Steve Bannon’s subpoena – shows us to be sadly correct yet again. The reason for the Democratic “enthusiasm gap” is that Biden’s administration gives us little about which to be enthusiastic. Instead, they break promises on the most momentous and existential of crises, including voting rights, civil rights, and the protection of US sovereignty and safety.

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Sorry Not Sorry: The Alyssa Milano Interview

We know there’s a lot going on, but Sarah isn't feeling well and lost her voice. We plan to cover the major news events next week, like the elections and what they can tell us about the midterms, and Joe Manchin’s latest betrayal of the American people. This week, having recently spoken at Congress about the urgent importance of adding the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, and getting arrested in Washington, DC in a protest demanding voting rights legislation, Alyssa Milano stops by Gaslit Nation to discuss this and more, including her new book Sorry Not Sorry.

For more on Alyssa, here’s a condensed version of her biography from her website: Alyssa Milano currently stars in ‘Insatiable’ for Netflix as ‘Coralee,’ the social climbing wife of a disgraced lawyer/beauty pageant coach. Prior to that, she was seen in their hit series, ‘Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later,’ with Amy Poehler, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Ian Black, and Judah Friedlander. Milano also served as the host and a judge on Lifetime’s ‘Project Runway All Stars.’ She entered the world of graphic novels with ‘Hacktivist,’ a fast-paced cyber-thriller that follows the young founders of an innovative social media company who moonlight as a secret black-hat hacker team. Milano starred on the hit series ‘Charmed’ for nine years. She began her career on ABC’s ‘Who’s the Boss,’ and has appeared in over 20 films.

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