Corporatocracy

Gaslit Nation

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Gaslit Nation unmasks the real villain: the corporations hijacking our democracy, using Trump as a distraction as they loot and destroy our country. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a Brennan Center fellow and professor of law at Stetson University College of Law, and author of Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians, explains how corporations funded Trump's violent coup attempt on January 6, 2021.

In Part I of our discussion, Torres-Spelliscy shows us the inner-workings of corporate greed, and why boardrooms are fine with Trump chaos. In Part II of our discussion, out Thursday in our bonus show for Patreon (get access to that for $5/month at the Truth-teller level), we discuss concrete ways to fight back, including as the corporate lobbyists on the Supreme Court kill what's left of the Voting Rights Act, which Americans gave their lives for.

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0:00.0	ICE, it's not just ice.
0:02.9	It's core civic.
0:04.5	It's geo-group.
0:06.0	These, those are corporations that run ICE detention centers.
0:11.0	That's right.
0:11.2	They are for profit.
0:12.6	They are traded on Wall Street.
0:16.1	And what happens is that those companies in this system is that it does not accept anything
0:25.8	but growth.
0:28.7	It's not even good enough to be profitable.
0:32.1	It's not even good enough to be profitable.
0:34.1	You have to be more profitable and more profitable and more profitable. It's not
0:38.6	enough to be a profitable business. You have to keep growing those profits. And so once they've
0:43.8	rounded up every person in this country, who do you think is next?
0:52.8	Welcome to Gaslit Nation. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones.
1:01.0	The film The Kremlin doesn't want you to see, so be sure to watch it.
1:04.1	Gaslit Nation, a show about corruption in America and rising autocracy worldwide.
1:08.1	And this week, I am honored to be joined by the great Chiara Torres Spelisi, a Brennan Center
1:15.9	Fellow and Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law.
1:19.6	And I have a lot of questions for her.
1:23.5	First and foremost, how do we survive and thrive in a corporatocracy?
1:27.9	No, rather, how do we overthrow one and take back our democracy from the corporations that are treating us, the people, as they say in Ukraine, like about the oligarchs there, like the shit they grow their money in.
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