Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa are experts on authoritarian states who warned America about election hacking years before 2016. Here, they take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.
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Lessons from Ukraine Five Years After the Revolution
February 13th, 2019
Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk, the head of the independent media network Hromadske TV, co-founded by a journalist - Mustafa Nayyem - that …
The Trump Brand of Death
February 6th, 2019
This week, we discuss the continued economic, environmental, and psychological fallout of the government shutdown, and speculate on what’s in store …
Roger Stone: Democracy's Undertaker
January 30th, 2019
Welcome to a very angry episode of Gaslit Nation! The government may be back open, but the US is not out of danger – we are merely in the eye of the hurricane as damage from the shutdown mounts and Trump threatens both …
Coalition of Corruption
January 24th, 2019
We breakdown Trump's war on America in the form of the longest government shutdown in our nation's history, the urgent case for #ImpeachmentNow, and examine Deripaska's very sweet sanctions deal.
The Comey Effect
January 16th, 2019
This isn’t just a shutdown – it’s a hostile restructuring. As the longest shutdown in US history drags on, Sarah and Andrea discuss the incredible …
American Carnage
January 9th, 2019
We continue examining the diastrous fallout of the government shutdown and the toll it’s taken on unpaid federal workers, national parks, and public …
Cabinet of Horrors
January 4th, 2019
Festivus Special: Mueller's Low Hanging Fruit
December 19th, 2018
At Gaslit Nation, every week is Festivus because we have so manygrievances to air! Our Feat of Strength is that we survived 2018. This week, Sarah and Andrea’s Airing of Grievances includes an in-depth look at Russian …
Individual One: The New Name of the GOP
December 12th, 2018
It’s another wild week in the United States of America, where any child can grow up to be Individual One! Actually, that’s not true, you have to choose a life of crime and complicity, and this week’s Gaslit Nation …
Kleptocracy World Order
December 5th, 2018
In this week’s Gaslit Nation, Sarah and Andrea express their ongoing frustration about last week’s deja news avalanche of stories about corruption …
Gaslit Nation Featurette: Pass a Law
November 28th, 2018
In this special episode of Gaslit Nation, Andrea interviews her mother Tanya Chalupa who championed the child carseat law and the seatbelt law in California, as well as working on other child safety bills. She explains …
Happy Thanksgiving: We're Grateful for Canvassers
November 21st, 2018
The Blue Wave Continues: Kansas Rising
November 14th, 2018
In this episode of Gaslit Nation, Sarah and Andrea are still way too excited about the midterm elections! The Blue Wave turned out to be a slow …
Midterms Special: The Blue Wave Has Begun
November 8th, 2018
The midterms are over and the results are…decidedly mixed! Sarah and Andrea discuss the historical night from their perspectives in Andrea’s blue …
Gaslit Nation Featurette: Every District
November 3rd, 2018
Halloween Special: The Kathy Griffin Interview
October 31st, 2018
Welcome to the Gaslit Nation Halloween Special, which is not so different than a regular Gaslit Nation episode due to the 24-7 horror show we call …
A Foreign Policy for the Left: Put Gas Station Dictatorships Out of Business
October 25th, 2018
We call on a strong foreign policy for the left, one that's driven by turning America into a world leader of renewable energy to finally put gas …
The Media Industry Is Complicit, and Good Journalists Pay the Price
October 17th, 2018
This week on Gaslit Nation we discuss the media: the systemic failures of an economically and morally bankrupt industry dominated by rich white men, and the bravery and creativity of journalists who struggle not only …
Robert Mueller Will Not Save You
October 10th, 2018
Goodbye checks and balances, hello authoritarian shitshow! In the latest Gaslit Nation, Sarah and Andrea discuss the demolishment of checks and …
Kavanaugh Catastrophe and the Death of Checks and Balances
October 3rd, 2018
In this week’s episode of Gaslit Nation, Sarah and Andrea discuss the Kavanaugh hearings, the pathological lying and enabling of the GOP, Trump’s …
The American Crisis: The View from Flyover Country, Part 2
September 19th, 2018
In episode 6, Gaslit Nation continues its look at the decades of American crises that gave rise to Trumpism and paved the way for Russian interference in our democracy.
The American Crisis: The View from Flyover Country, Part 1
September 3rd, 2018
In part one of a two-part interview, Andrea talks to Sarah about income inequality, the loss of the "American dream," and the inspiration for her NYT bestseller The View from Flyover Country.
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Computer Scientist Barbara Simons on Hacking, Paper Ballots, and Securing U.S. Elections
August 21st, 2018
Sarah and Andrea interview Barbara Simons PhD, a computer scientist who specializes in election security, to answer the question on everyone’s mind: can our voting machines be attacked? Were they attacked in 2016? …
Robert Mueller and the Iron Triangles
August 7th, 2018
In the final installment of our three-part series looking back at the 2016 election, we get into the hacking, the recount, the trail of dead Russians, and Robert Mueller's prescient Iron Triangles report, which …
Harry Reid, Access Hollywood, and the Comey Chameleon
July 23rd, 2018
What a week to be talking about the 2016 election! Amid the arrests of various Russian agents for hacking or otherwise influencing the U.S. election, here we are with the second in a three-part series in which Sarah …
Manafort, Wikileaks, and Trump's Long Bromance with Putin
July 9th, 2018
Welcome to Gaslit Nation, a podcast to help cut through the noise in the most important midterm election year of our lives. The last most important election year of our lives was 2016, a gaslit election. In the first …
Welcome to Gaslit Nation
June 19th, 2018
Gaslit Nation is a bi-monthly podcast from DAME magazine that cuts through the noise of the news cycle to help listeners gain a sense of control in …
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