A New American Revolution
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Trump is what happens when a bunch of slave owners set up a government to protect their wealth by establishing elite rule through the Senate, Electoral College, and no one fixing it for 250 years. We can and will build a better country from the ashes of MAGA's dumpster fire. We return to our summer 2025 conversation with Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor for The New Republic, a columnist for The Guardian, and the author of the new book The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
Look out for an all new episode of Gaslit Nation this Thursday on Trump starting to pull the U.S. out of NATO, the moral stain on America of Delaney Hall where there is an ongoing hunger strike over inhumane conditions and a cover-up by the Department of Homeland Security. We're up against the same forces that carried out the genocide of the Native Americans and the authoritarian terror of slavery. But this time, millions of Americans are standing up, fighting back. Look out for Thursday's bonus show, available in full for our Patreon subscribers who make Gaslit Nation possible.
At this Monday's salon at 4pm ET get ready for some big announcements about the future of the show as we dig in our heels to rebuild our democracy and demand accountability. More soon!
EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:
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June 22nd Songwriting Workshop with Leslie Nuss. Come explore the power of art at our Monday June 22nd Gaslit Nation Salon at 4pm ET opened with a songwriting workshop by Leslie.
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Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community
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Join the California Signal Group for Gaslit Nation listeners to find each other and connect in that state - available on Patreon.com.
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The Gaslit Nation Outreach Committee discusses how to talk to the MAGA cult - available on Patreon.com.
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Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other - available on Patreon.com.
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Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other - available on Patreon.com.
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Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect - available on Patreon.com.
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Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join - available on Patreon.com.
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Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group - available on Patreon.com.
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As always, keep it kind in our chat groups, extend grace and assume good faith. A culture of care is how we build a better world.
Show Notes:
Listen to Andrea's recent interview with Jonathan Fink on his YouTube show Silicone Curtain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbUFEGX03Q
The Right of the People Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding By Osita Nwanevu https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704686/the-right-of-the-people-by-osita-nwanevu/
Russia slams key Ukrainian cities in one of deadliest offensives in months https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/01/europe/russia-attack-kyiv-building-damage-intl-hnk
New Jersey sues Delaney Hall operators for access after allegations of inhumane conditions https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/us/delaney-hall-new-jersey-ice-protests-tuesday
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And staying defiant and shining our light and joining together, working together, being in the trenches with our kindred spirits, that is how we win and build that better future. |
| 0:10.4 | That sounds like the most Ukrainian thing I've heard all day. |
| 0:14.4 | That's a very Ukrainian trait. |
| 0:16.7 | No matter how miserable things are, you're poking ahead and looking towards the horizon and |
| 0:22.4 | thinking, well, how do we get there? What solution and tool do we need to create to actually |
| 0:27.0 | get to that point, no matter how improbable it might seem? That seems to be the story of Ukrainian |
| 0:33.0 | defense tech and what's going on here. Our opening clip was my interview on the Silicon Curtin YouTube show. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm talking to host Jonathan Fink, one of the world's leading analysts in on Ukraine, |
| 0:57.1 | who happened to be in Odessa, Ukraine at the time. Jonathan insisted on grabbing an interview |
| 1:03.0 | for his show before he had to rush to a bomb shelter that night. All week, Russia has been |
| 1:09.6 | promising an overwhelming attack on Ukraine. There have been |
| 1:13.1 | sirens going off all week. People have barely been sleeping. Then finally, they emerged from the |
| 1:20.0 | bomb shelters in Kiev on Tuesday morning to head to work, to take the kids to school. And that's when |
| 1:26.0 | Russia unloaded more than 600 drones and missiles, |
| 1:30.4 | including advanced hypersonics, killing at least 23 people, including two children, and |
| 1:37.0 | injuring over 100. I texted with a friend in Kiev who confirmed that Russia deliberately |
| 1:43.3 | tortured Ukrainians by building up |
| 1:45.8 | the threat of a massive attack only to unleash at a time when they could be sure people were |
| 1:51.2 | emerging from bomb shelters after yet another sleepless night. I want to make clear for everyone |
| 1:57.8 | that this is a war crime, deliberate sadistic cruelty, |
| 2:01.8 | the kind that my grandfather suffered during Stalin's purges in Ukraine when he was arrested |
| 2:06.4 | and tortured by sadists in the 1930s. |
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