A Message to Our Community About Twitter
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
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🗓️ 6 November 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Important reminder! Come join our phone bank Monday November 7th -- election eve! -- at 4pm EST with Indisvible for Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin and to re-elect Lauren Underwood to the U.S. House in Illinois. One volunteer who attends Monday's phone bank will be selected to receive a signed copy of Sarah's new book They Knew and a Mr. Jones poster. Mandela Barnes will join the Zoom meeting at the start of the phone bank so don't miss it!
Sarah and Andrea were on MSNBC Sunday morning talking to host Ali Velshi about the far-right threats to our democracy and what must be done to protect our country from sliding into autocracy. You can watch the clip here, and RSVP to Monday's phone bank here!
And now, for an important message to our community about our decision to stay on Twitter and why we think you should, too. For those subscribed to our show on Patreon, we're working on a way to add Discord on Patreon just for our community of listeners and will keep you updated on that shortly!
Where else would you like to connect with Gaslit Nation online? Let us know in the comments on this Patreon post! Thank you!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everyone. Welcome to this incredibly important check-in with our Gaslit Nation community. |
| 0:11.9 | We know things are extremely tense and about to get even more tense as we head into the |
| 0:18.9 | midterm elections. And on top of that, oligarch, Elon Musk, |
| 0:24.4 | backed by dark money in his ownership of Twitter, is peddle to the metal, firing people and trying |
| 0:33.8 | to remake the site based on his own idiotic ideas. It's incredibly frightening because |
| 0:40.6 | Twitter is a place that we've all been organizing. On Twitter, I united with strangers around |
| 0:48.3 | the world to launch Digital Maidan, a hashtag of the revolution in Ukraine. We saw digital Maidan make a real-time impact. |
| 0:57.0 | It started trending globally within a matter of minutes because so many people united to draw |
| 1:02.0 | attention to Yanukovych's riot cops beating and killing protesters in Kiev. And it became this |
| 1:08.5 | SOS hashtag. And we organized so many fundraisers and so many events |
| 1:14.2 | fact-checking the Kremlin disinformation war against Ukraine during Euro-Maidon, the revolution. |
| 1:19.4 | And not only that, on top of that, when the Kremlin's war finally came to America in a really |
| 1:25.4 | big way in 2016, I met Sarah. We've been in the trenches |
| 1:30.4 | ever since in the war of democracy versus fascism, which is the war of our lifetime right now. |
| 1:36.5 | And it touches everyone, whether you want it to or not. It's coming for everyone, |
| 1:40.9 | whether you want it to or not. And so here we are. So who knows what Elon Musk is going to do to it. |
| 1:45.9 | And we know people are anxious because a lot of our listeners engage with us over Twitter. |
| 1:50.3 | But we're here to tell you, we're not going. |
| 1:53.5 | We are not going. |
| 1:54.8 | This is our place. |
| 1:56.0 | We were there first. |
| 1:56.8 | We're going to be defiant to the very end. |
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