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Support LGBTQ Youth: The Raquel Willis and Lindsay Amer Interview Jul 29, 2020

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We're excited to welcome two very special guests to Gaslit Nation to bring some much needed light: Raquel Willis, a leading Black transgender activist and Director of Communications for the Ms. Foundation, and Lindsay 'Lindz' Amer, the creator and co-host of the YouTube channel Queer Kid Stuff. As the summer rages on, and so does the pandemic and corruption in the White House, it's never been more important to support the next generation of light-makers -- LGBTQ youth. Here's how.

American Gestapo Jul 22, 2020

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Welcome back to the weekly authoritarian weather report in the longest year in human history, 2020! This week we discuss death threats against judges, secret police kidnapping critics of the government and stuffing them in vans, a bank that is really a front for money-launderers and child traffickers, an aspiring authoritarian who refuses to concede, and the refusal of the officials tasked with accountability to do anything to stop it!

Silence is Poison: Agnieszka Holland, James Norton, and Peter Sarsgaard on "Mr. Jones" Jul 15, 2020

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In this Gaslit Nation Resistance Cinema Special, Andrea looks back on making Mr. Jones and the film's lessons for today with director Agnieszka Holland and stars James Norton and Peter Sarsgaard.

Trump Lets Putin Kill U.S. Troops Jul 08, 2020

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This week we discuss the capture of child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and what comes next. We move on to Trump's traitorous countenance of the Kremlin-Taliban bounty on U.S. troops, and what Putin's ultimate goals are for his puppet in the White House.

Corruption Kills: The Warnings of Orwell and Mr. Jones Jul 01, 2020

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This week, Gaslit Nation brings you a special episode on the making of Mr. Jones, the journalistic thriller exploring Stalin's crimes in Ukraine that Andrea wrote and produced! This movie about a Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, whose attempts to bring the truth about Russian terror to light made him not only a threat to the Soviets but a target of sneering reporters at The New York Times is all too relevant to our era.

'Oligarchy Won the Cold War': The Timothy Snyder Interview Jun 24, 2020

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We interview special guest Dr. Timothy Snyder, the historian of fascism whose warnings about American authoritarianism under Trump were prescient yet unheeded by officials. Dr. Snyder is the author of the recent bestsellers On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, and was a historical consultant on Andrea's film, Mr. Jones, a journalistic thriller set during Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, available now on streaming services like Amazon.

Protect the Election: Impeach Barr Jun 17, 2020

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This week on Gaslit Nation, we flip through the deck of white supremacist kleptocrat playing cards that comprises the Trump administration and deal out a hand of doom! We start with Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, who is currently refusing to disclose the corporate recipients of a taxpayer-funded $600 billion-plus coronavirus aid program, and detail his long history of looting.

Protest Season Jun 10, 2020

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This week Gaslit Nation discusses the protests against racism, imperialism, and police brutality that have rocked the world this week – and caused debate about where to go from here.

Reichstag Fire Jun 03, 2020

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We are in a horrific time and it's not going to be easy, but we are grateful for the brave Americans who continue to embrace free speech and free assembly despite a pandemic and a vicious regime.

Walter Duranty: "Resistance Journalist" May 27, 2020

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Gaslit Nation is back trying to save the 2020 election! This week we discuss Trump and the GOP's attempt to illicitly influence the election, using old tactics from 2016 along with a new assault on the vote-by-mail policies that are being recommended due to the coronavirus pandemic. We go on to examine the media debate between Ben Smith of the New York Times and investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, whose book Catch and Kill describes how the brutal Israeli private intelligence agency group Black Cube tried to kill the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault story.

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