Kanye. Elon. Trump.
Imagine: the year is 2005. The Apprentice dominates the airwaves, Kanye West dominates the charts, and you are told that in seventeen years, you will be comparing the antisemitic rants of former presidential candidate West to the antisemitic rants of former president Trump as you analyze the descent of the United States into full-fledged authoritarian kleptocracy. Where is a Tesla time machine when you need one?! Surely transporting us back to an era in which we could alter our current timeline this would be a better endeavor for shit-talker Elon Musk than taking over Twitter while bonding with the extremist right.
This week we look at the vicious antisemitic posts dropped by Trump and West as well as the attempts of the far right to dominate the digital public sphere through control of Twitter, Parler, and other social media platforms. We track the recent rise in antisemitism and the streamlining of political violence, revisit the mainstreaming of fascism in the US during the 1930s, and analyze the relationship between Kanye and the Trump camp, in particular, Jared Kushner and his backers abroad. We ask why the GOP and most of the Democrats remain silent in the face of a threat to liberal Jewish Americans from a rabid demagogue ex-president, and look at the role of AIPAC in backing bigots and insurrectionists.
We also take a look at the midterm elections and discuss how the results could affect domestic and foreign policy, particularly in Ukraine and Russia. We are reaping the harvest of seeds of fascism planted long ago, whether with the extremist Supreme Court or with the axis of autocracy that has solidified its hold since 2016. This is a fairly dark episode, so stay for the advice on how to survive these times psychologically and also practical things you can do in terms of the upcoming election. This is a multifaceted fight and we are in it together.
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Putin’s Nuclear War Tourist Trap
Putin relies on making subtle and not so subtle nuclear war threats and has done so for years. Currently, it’s his way of making his war crimes and ethnic cleansing seem not so bad in comparison, and trying to deter a meaningful response from Ukraine’s allies to try to hold him accountable. We debate whether Russia would actually use a nuclear weapon, what the repercussions would be for Russia and the world if they were to do that, and discuss the strategies on dealing with nuclear threats that do not give in to Russian blackmail.
We also discuss the important historical context to today’s war and crisis with Russian fascism–the unfinished business of World War II. We go through the ways world leaders have fallen for Putin’s mind games, including Germany ensuring greater dependence on Russian gas, something we’ve long warned against, even though they knew they were leaving themselves vulnerable to Russia's energy weaponization, according to a stunning admission by Chancellor Scholz. While our bonus episode looks at Putin’s little helper – Elon Musk – we provide a peace plan of our own: get Ukraine what it needs to end the war quickly, because the Munich Agreement – giving Hitler land in exchange for peace – didn’t work in 1938, and the Minsk I and II negotiations with Russia promising essentially the same thing in recent years hasn’t worked either. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not just a war; it’s ethnic cleansing. And it’s impossible to negotiate with a fascist state that doesn’t think you should exist.
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Laboratories of Autocracy: The David Pepper Interview
David Pepper has witnessed Ohio devolve into an electoral autocracy where extreme Republican gerrymandering ensures that the results of the state elections are pre-determined. This is happening across the country in so-called red states, which are in reality voter suppression states or Republican hostage states. Pepper explains how we got here, what can still be done about it, and his list of reasons and strategies to fight like hell. For more on Pepper's work, check out his book Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines and his website LaboratoriesOfAutocracy.com.
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Defiance
This week we kick off by examining a country that is technically a democracy on paper but is actually ruled by an unelected supreme court of theocrats who strip women of their basic rights! Is it the United States? Iran? Does the fact that we have to ask not speak to a broader global attack on women’s bodily autonomy?! We look at the brave protests of Iranian women and prepare for a horrific month of rulings on the Supreme Court here in the US. We also note that a woman will become prime minister of Italy for the first time, but of course she is a fascist groomed by Steve Bannon, because it is 2022 and we are in hell.
SPEAKING OF HELL…how’s that war going, Russia? The Kremlin continues its desperate attempt to recruit unwilling colonial subjects in the hope of forcing them to invade Russia’s former colonial subject, Ukraine, which is still winning the war. We discuss the conscription efforts and the internal resistance to them in Dagestan and other non-ethnically Russian republics of the Russian Federation, and also discuss the reaction from surrounding states in Central Asia and the Caucasus. We delve into Russia’s imperialist history and its lack of mass protests, and Andrea gives a shout-out to its latest recruit, newly minted Russian citizen Edward Snowden, whose brain was colonized by the Kremlin long ago.
For our bonus episode, we continue to answer the many questions sent in by our Patreon listeners subscribing at the Democracy Defender tier and higher! We recorded two bonuses today and one of them will air next week. The discussions this week and next include Sarah’s extremely long theory of What Really May Have Happened on 9/11, so if you would like to blackmail Sarah you can pony up five dollars for some valuable kompromat at the Truth-Teller level or higher.
Speaking of Sarah and her many theories (based on *evidence*!) -- the THEY KNEW tour continues at the BookFest in German Village in Columbus Ohio on 9/28, at WordFest in Calgary on October 1-2, and at the Iowa City Book Festival October 8. It has been an absolute pleasure to see so many Gaslit Nation listeners at these events so please stop by!
We thank everyone for supporting Gaslit Nation, particularly during this chaotic time, and we will be back with more Q&As and special features (including the results of our Halloween storytelling contest) to come! Thank you for subscribing, we could not make this show without you.
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Special Master of Puppets
Hey remember when Trump stole a bunch of classified documents related to nuclear material and stored them in his Florida golf compound and the legal pundits said “he can’t do that” and Trump summoned the ghost of Roy Cohn who said “it doesn’t matter what the law is, only who the judge is” and a Trump-appointed judge ruled in favor of Trump and then another throwback from Trump’s mafia glory days in NYC was appointed “Special Master”?
Masters of puppets are pulling the strings, twisting your mind and smashing your dreams! Welcome to a new Gaslit Nation where we discuss the Special MASTER! MASTER! RAYMOND DEARIE! and the LAUGHTER! LAUGHTER! at our cries that yet another legalese cover-up debacle is being run so that Americans forget we have an active traitor running wild and trying to destroy our democracy.
In addition to diving into Dearie’s background (he nearly indicted Charles Schumer!) we discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth and the possible end of the British monarchy, and the latest developments in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a war which Russia is losing in a humiliating way and which may finally spell the end of Putin’s dictatorial reign. COME CRAWLING FASTER (FASTER!), loser!
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THEY KNEW — The Gaslit Nation Interview
Finally, it’s out! Sarah’s latest book They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps Americans Complacent, is available in stores, as an ebook, and as an audiobook, so please go out and get it. If you like it, please tell your friends! Sarah lacks a crime cult PAC to bulk buy her works for money laundering purposes, and she is also not an access journalist withholding state secrets for political profit, so she needs all the grassroots support she can get!
In this special episode, Andrea interviewed Sarah in what turned out to be an unusually personal conversation. We discussed the topics of THEY KNEW – conspiracies, corruption, and chaos in America – but also the creative process and how to stay resilient while dealing with existential threats and personal trauma. If that’s not enough for you, we also discussed the Unabomber, Route 66 road trips, MK Ultra, 1980s Don Henley, and a number of other esoteric topics which quite honestly captures the strange spirit of THEY KNEW, a book that we can assure you will not resemble any other book on politics out this fall.
For our weekly bonus episode, our Patreon subscribers will get an exclusive 40-minute excerpt of the THEY KNEW audiobook. This is the only place where you can get a sample excerpt, so please consider signing up for the Gaslit Nation Patreon at the Truth-Teller level or higher! You will also get access to hundreds of episodes in our archives and to weekly Q & As. (And we will be back with a new Q & A next week, so if you’re subscribed at the Democracy Defender level or higher, keep those questions coming!)
You can learn more about THEY KNEW and get Sarah’s book tour information at www.sarahkendziorbooks.com.
Thank you very much for supporting our show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! We will be back with a regular episode next week.
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Semi-Fascist Kind of Life
Gaslit Nation is back with breaking news: Joe Biden calls out fascism, and Merrick Garland has still not discovered obvious crimes! This week we break down Biden’s comments on “semi-fascism” (he’s right!) and his September 1 speech, which was notable not only for the Dario Argento production design but for finally confronting the threat of autocracy in stark terms. But where was this speech eighteen months ago? And more importantly, where is the action to match his words?
Once again, the urgency of Biden’s message was sucked away into the vortex of Merrick Garland’s DOJ, the place where crime sprees go to die, or at least to hide out until they’ve had enough reputational rehab to reinsert the prime players back into the public sphere. We review the latest in the Mar-a-Lago raid and the dangerous proposal of indicting no one who could potentially influence an election. (That said, Andrea and Sarah would like to declare ourselves Permanently Immune From Prosecution under the new Garland Doctrine. If it’s happening, we want the perks!)
For our bonus episode, we answer more questions from our listeners, and they are great ones. Why isn’t the FBI searching Trump Tower? What else did Trump steal and what did he do with it? How did the Capitol attack actually end? Why did Mitch McConnel block Garland from SCOTUS? All your answers (and some speculation) and more in the new Gaslit Nation bonus episode! This is a good one so you should sign up. Gaslit Nation is made possible by Patreon listeners like you and we are grateful for your support!
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Heading for the Light
Missouri has long been the bellwether of American politics, predicting presidents and anticipating trends – and lately, it’s been the bellwether of American decline. This week Gaslit Nation welcomes Jason Kander, a former Missouri Secretary of State, Missouri Democratic Senate candidate, voting and veterans’ rights advocate, and bestselling author. Kander’s new book, Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD, is a raw and moving account of his battle with PTSD as well as a thoughtful overview of US politics and media. This is an unusual book for a politician to write, but Kander is not your average politician, which is one reason we were excited to welcome him to the show. (Also you should buy his book: all royalties go to the Veterans Community Project, a nonprofit organization serving homeless and at-risk veterans.)
Sarah and Jason discuss the problems plaguing Missouri and how they are a microcosm of problems facing the nation; the false binary politics of “red” and “blue” states; how the Democrats can win in states like Missouri that are often written off as lost causes; the perils of media fame and social media depersonalization; the mass trauma of the pandemic and climate catastrophes and how it affects Americans; and what folks struggling with PTSD or depression need to know.
For our bonus episode this week, we continue our Q&A with our Patreon subscribers. To ask a question, subscribe at the Democracy Defender level or higher; to get access to bonus episodes every week (and the hundreds in our archive), subscribe at the Truth-Teller level or higher. Patreon subscribers are what keep Gaslit Nation going! They allow us to keep the show free and accessible to all, and we thank you for your support!
We will be back in September with our regular shows analyzing the latest corruption in the news as well as an interview and excerpt from Sarah’s new book, THEY KNEW, which comes out September 13. To preorder the book and see tour dates and more, check out this website: www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
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Under the Red Sky
In this episode, we take a break from our ongoing analysis of why the DOJ won’t prosecute a coup-plotting career criminal nuke fetishist who has confessed to his crimes dozens of times to turn our attention to the ongoing genocide of Ukraine by Russia. August 22 marked the six-month anniversary of Russia’s escalated invasion, and the body count is immense – not only among Ukrainians murdered by Russian imperialists and Russian soldiers sacrificed by their own government, but in the mysterious deaths of those caught up in the middle.
We begin the show with an examination of Dan Rapoport, an American businessman who worked in Ukraine and who supported its fight for sovereignty, who was found dead under strange circumstances this month. We run through the long list of “suicides” and murders among people who interacted with Russia and the Trump Crime Cult (previously discussed in our episode Dirty World) and comment on the culture of political violence that has risen in the US over the past decade.
We then review the career of Aleksandr Dugin, who is a “controversial philosopher” much in the way Jeffrey Epstein was a “disgraced financier.”Dugin is a fascist whose goals align with the brutal imperialist ambitions of Putin’s Kremlin. While overrated as an influence, he is still an important figure both symbolically and pragmatically, bolstering a far-right movement worldwide. The assassination of his daughter Darya Dugina in a manner reminiscent of Russia’s car bomb 1990s has spurred numerous theories about who was responsible. (Russia, unsurprisingly, has blamed Ukraine on baseless grounds.) We speculate about the repercussions of the murder as well as the broader direction of this deadly war.
Our bonus episode is another Q&A with our listeners! We do these every week and it’s a great opportunity to ask your own questions and make sure the topics you’re interested in get covered. Bonus episodes are available to listeners at the Truth-Teller level or higher. Please consider signing up and keeping Gaslit Nation going!
Also – get ready, Sarah’s new book THEY KNEW is coming out in less than a month! You can preorder a signed version and check out book tour information at this website. We will also be doing a Gaslit Nation episode on the book and playing an audiobook excerpt as a bonus episode, so stay tuned!
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Devil's Been Busy
It’s been over a week since the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago to retrieve highly sensitive classified documents concerning nuclear materials and we’re so glad that career criminal Kremlin asset Trump is finally behind bars – just kidding, they’re still letting him run around and do whatever! This week we review the criminal investigation into Trump and his crime cult, which is once against faltering, whether in NYC in the pseudo “plea deal” granted to Alan Weisselberg, or in the refusal to stop the immediate threat Trump, Kushner, Ivanka, and the rest pose not only to the United States, but to the entire world.
We review new details of the raid, warn about Trump’s successful manipulation of the media narrative, and focus on two key players – Ivanka and Jared, who were installed in the White House thanks to Merrick Garland’s BFF Jamie Gorelick. Kushner has since made illicit two billion dollar deals with Saudi Arabia and had fallen under House investigation for illicit nuclear deals in 2019. (Remember when the Oversight Committee investigated things?!) We warn that the classified information that has been stolen and weaponized is not limited to the physical documents that the DOJ took its sweet time retrieving from Mar-a-Lago. We dig deep into the dirty dealings of the Trump spawn and their partners, and also look at Trump’s own obsession with nuclear weapons, which dates back over forty years. This is a very dangerous situation!
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Last Night
The road to Mar-a-Lago has always been riddled with crime – and now, finally, the FBI has decided to take it. Eighteen months after Trump illegally took classified material from the White House, spurring urgent demands for their return from the National Archives, the DOJ decided it was time to retrieve them, and noted correctly that Trump would not surrender the materials voluntarily.
This uncharacteristically bold action from the DOJ prompts a number of questions, like: why not do this sooner? Will the state secrets stolen and crimes committed by the rest of the Trump Crime Cult also be addressed? Why did Trump make a mysterious social media post in July about August 8, the day of the raid? What are the right-wing fanatics and militants going to do in response to this move? Will this raid be any different than the previous ones Garland’s DOJ did on Giuliani, Deripaska, DiGenova, and others who are still running around committing or enabling crimes?
After hashing out the raid, Andrea gives a special report on Amnesty International’s turn as Kremlin propaganda outlet, and delves into the shady realm of NGOs and media outlets who justify Russian war crimes while feigning neutrality. The demonization of independent Ukraine in the West has a long history, and we’re going to explore it more (especially CBS, who piggy-backed on the Amnesty report with its own propaganda) in an upcoming episode.
This episode was the first *LIVE* Gaslit Nation ever! We thank our Patreon supporters at the Democracy Defender level or higher who joined us and spent an hour asking us questions after. Those questions will be aired in a bonus episode next week for subscribers at the Truth-Teller level or higher. We also have a new bonus episode out this week in which we discuss the recent primary elections and Kansas’s vote for protecting reproductive rights, Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, and more. We thank you for your support!
For those who want to know what transpired that night Andrea's film Mr. Jones was set to be blasted at the Russian Embassy Press Office in Washington, DC, check out the recorded livestream here.
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Tweeter and the Monkey Man
Welcome to a Gaslit Nation special episode that wil bury you with stone cold facts! Over the past eighteen months, we have faced incredulity and even threats when detailing the shady background of Merrick Garland and his ineffectiveness as Biden’s attorney general. But unlike the DOJ, we welcome requests for proof and have provided it here!
This episode puts all our Merrick Garland exposes in one place, including segments on 1) his failures to bring justice in Biden’s DOJ 2) his decades-long history with corrupt operative Jamie Gorelick, the lawyer for Ivanka and Jared and a protégé of Alan Dershowitz 3) the decades-long propaganda campaign to present him as a stalwart crusader who solved the Oklahoma City bombing 4) his refusal to use the Mueller Report to indict Trump and members of his cohort for obstruction of justice 5) his lackluster pursuit of white supremacist militants 5) why certain GOP operatives, including those in the Trump Crime Cult, want him in charge.
It’s been a long eighteen months, and Americans have found out the hard way that nobody gives a damn. Officials have feigned shock to avoid accountability: when the walls came down, all the way to hell, the reaction of the DOJ was: “Never saw them when they’re standing, never saw them when they fell.” Here at Gaslit Nation, we would like to respond that everyone of you’s a liar, and if you don’t surrender now, it’s going to go down to the wire. We do not abide a system in which anything is legal as long as you don’t get caught (and apparently, even if you do get caught!)
Gaslit Nation will be back with a new episode next week, but be sure to check out our recent episodes including “Handle With Care”, “Rattled”, “End of the Line” and “Dirty World”!
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Handle With Care
The January 6th Hearings are a ratings bonanza. It’s a shame Democrats didn’t do more prime time hearings into Trump corruption sooner, following the Blue Wave of 2018. We told them then that the American people demand long overdue justice, and hearings are a great way of building public outcry to insist on accountability. Unfortunately, hearings can also be a way to rewrite history and rehabilitate reputations. Sarah breaks down the disturbing parallels between the 9/11 hearings and the January 6 hearings to provide warning signs of justice being denied. Another reminder of why we must handle our democracy with care.
We also discuss American patriot and veteran Reality Winner who must be unconditionally pardoned by President Biden. Reality Winner sacrificed her career and freedom to leak a classified report on Russia’s attack on our election in 2016, a report that should never have been classified in the first place as the information had to be acted upon by election officials and vendors across the country. Vulnerabilities needed to be fixed. Reality Winner made sure the information got out, and she paid a high price for doing so. Her whistleblowing led to long overdue security measures that helped protect our elections in 2018. We need more patriots like her. President Biden must do the right thing by pardoning Reality Winner, a veteran who risked all to protect us in a time of chaos, growing autocracy, and dysfunction.
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Dirty World
This week we take on shady internal affairs (the enormous number of people in the Trump crime cult circle who died violent or mysterious deaths) and burning external affairs (the horrors of climate change and Joe Manchin’s role in destroying the planet). But before we get to that, we examine yet more confirmation of what we already knew – that Merrick Garland is a mafia state enabler. We discuss the leaked DOJ memo that Rachel Maddow discussed on her show Monday night, Bill Barr’s influence over the DOJ, and shadow mentor Jamie Gorelick, who is still molding both Garland and the January 6 committee.
Then we review the life of Ivana Trump, who was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell last week. We discuss Donald’s abuse of Ivana during their marriage, the ramifications of it on the Trump children, and how Donald Trump reacted to others who died mysteriously in his midst. (He reacted to Ivana’s death by fundraising off of it.) Then Andrea turns to climate change and things you do can do now to alleviate the damage, as well as advice on what to do politically to encourage reform and a changing of the guard. Make your voices heard and keep the pressure up!
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Rattled
This week we catch up on developments in two of the main stories we cover on Gaslit Nation: the January 6 Committee hearings, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sarah breaks down the hits and misses of the hearings thus far, and warns of the hearings being used for reputational rehab for dirty Republicans both in the Trump administration (Barr, Kushner) and outside of it (Liz “Democrats kill live babies” Cheney.) Don’t fall for it! We also address the continued refusal of Merrick Garland’s DOJ to bring perpetrators to justice and how it’s torpedoing Joe Biden’s approval rating. The hearings have done a great job reminding Americans what happened eighteen months ago – and left them wondering why it took eighteen months to address crimes that still go unpunished.
Because we're not dead-soul drones in a deranged lack-of-personality cult, we have a friendly debate over how Biden is doing in office, with each expressing different opinions while still remaining friends. Amazing! We highly recommend randos on the internet pursue this pastime instead of accusing Sarah of murdering Shinzo Abe. We both warn that lack of accountability for the mafia syndicate that infiltrated our country will be kind of a drag on the midterms. We urge people to not only vote, but protest, pressure officials about terrible policies, and plan for survival!
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End of the Line
We’re ba-a-a-ack! Like a poltergeist of civic conscience, Gaslit Nation has returned to tell you all the things you do not want to know but need to hear. We were off for three months while Andrea had a baby (welcome to the family Chloe!) and Sarah had her bodily autonomy signed away by the Attorney General of Missouri. An eventful spring for all!
During this “break” which was not a break thanks to the News Cycle of Constant Doom, we ran an interview series we called the Cassandra series in tribute to all the amazing experts we interviewed whose warnings were not heeded. If you missed it, we urge you to check it out, especially the episodes on reproductive rights. This week, we take stock of the illegitimate SCOTUS, its individual members’ histories of corruption, and its horrific new rulings, in particular the repeal of Roe v Wade. We discuss how this attack on privacy and bodily autonomy is being weaponized by operatives to stoke secessionist movements and civil war, and how destructive it would be to fall for these dark ploys. We review the attack on the citizens of hostage states by GOP state legislatures who throw away the votes of the people and consider what that means for 2022 and 2024. Remember, folks, America is purple despite what the propagandists tell you. It's all right, even if they say you're wrong -- it's all right, sometimes you gotta be strong!
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The War on History Teachers: The Sari Beth Rosenberg Interview
Public school teachers have one of the hardest jobs in America right now. For two years, they have contended with a politicized pandemic, a manufactured culture war over “critical race theory”, and violent threats aimed at school board members and other officials. This is all in addition to the low pay and budget cuts that they’ve dealt with for decades! So show your teachers some support and respect!
This week Sari Beth Rosenberg, a high school history teacher in New York and activist on the democracy frontlines, shares her thoughts on the past two chaotic years and the current challenges America’s schools face. Sari and Andrea discuss book banning and the “anti-CRT” attacks on accurate history as well as the role teachers can play in educating students about authoritarianism. In addition to being an educator, Rosenberg is the host of the PBS Newshour Extra Educator Series and a curriculum consultant on history and social studies. She holds a B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University and a M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Fight Back with The States Project - Part II
In a two-part discussion, this week we’re joined by two experts on the frontlines of fighting for our democracy on the all critical state level. If you want to fight for our democracy and prevent the slide into authoritarianism, clean up your local state government! How to proceed? Two experts from The States Project – Melissa Walker, a widely read author for teen novels turned democracy defender, and the Head of Giving Circles, and Aaron Kleinman, the Director of Research – are here to tell you. Walker and Kleinman address structural impediments to democracy – including gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the composition of the Senate – as well as challenges from dark money shadow networks and astroturf protests. They also give advice on navigating state politics and staying strong in the midst of this onslaught on our rights. We need all hands on deck for 2022, and an informed public is a powerful public!
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Fight Back with The States Project - Part I
In a two-part discussion, this week we’re joined by two experts on the frontlines of fighting for our democracy on the all critical state level. If you want to fight for our democracy and prevent the slide into authoritarianism, clean up your local state government! How to proceed? Two experts from The States Project – Melissa Walker, a widely read author for teen novels turned democracy defender, and the Head of Giving Circles, and Aaron Kleinman, the Director of Research – are here to tell you. Walker and Kleinman address structural impediments to democracy – including gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the composition of the Senate – as well as challenges from dark money shadow networks and astroturf protests. They also give advice on navigating state politics and staying strong in the midst of this onslaught on our rights. We need all hands on deck for 2022, and an informed public is a powerful public!
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Democracy in Chains: The Nancy MacLean Interview - Part II
This is Part II of our interview. In this two-part interview, we take a deep dive into a right-wing hellhole with acclaimed scholar Nancy MacLean, the author of the bestseller Democracy in Chains, which discusses how anti-democratic networks run by powerful plutocrats came to hold the United States hostage. MacLean discusses the Koch dark money network and its shadowy political partners, the decades-long libertarian takeover of the Republican Party by far-right mercenaries, the infrastructure of this extremist network and how it has sustained itself for so long, the rise of the neo-confederacy, and the dystopian plans billionaires have for the American future. We also get MacLean’s opinions on recent crises like the pandemic, the Trump Crime Cult’s Capitol attack, and the assault on voting rights. And of course we ask her how we best battle these insidious adversaries, break America’s Koch addiction, and get our country back!
Dr. Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century United States, a distinguished professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, and the author of the modern-day classic, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Booklist called it “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.” MacLean is the author of four other books, including Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace, called by the Chicago Tribune "contemporary history at its best,” and Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan, named a New York Times "noteworthy" book of 1994. Her articles and review essays have appeared in American Quarterly, The Boston Review, Feminist Studies, Gender & History, In These Times, International Labor and Working Class History, and many edited collections.
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