I'm Sarah Kenzier, the author of the best sellers, the view from

five or country and hiding in plain sight.

And of the book, they knew how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent out now.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the Journalistic

Thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

The film, The Cremlin, does not want you to see, so make sure to watch it.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising autocracy around the world.

We are recording on my mom's birthday, December 6th. Happy birthday, mom.

She's UBCO2 on Twitter, so feel free to say happy birthday to her.

We did an interview with her early when the show launched about her lessons for the rest of us on how to be a grassroots champion and get bills past laws past in your state.

See, she championed the child car seat law and the seatbelt law in California, including when she was pregnant with me.

So that's where I get it from in case you're wondering.

We want to thank everyone who came out to our three phone banks for Reverend Warnock and Georgia with indivisible.

They were so much fun, incredibly energizing.

And now we all wait to see if our efforts combined with all of the incredible volunteers on the ground could overcome GOP voter suppression.

Republicans in Georgia deliberately moved up the date of a runoff, giving less time to get the word out about the runoff for the very reason one would expect.

So there's less time, so people are aware of a runoff and less time to reach voters and all sort of shenanigans and chaos can ensue.

For instance, in our phone bank last night for Warnock, we had to change plans last minute where half of our phone bank had to be dedicated to reaching people who asked for absentee ballots and didn't receive one or may not have received one.

And we had to help them learn about that and go vote. So I hope to God that all of our efforts combined.

Overcame Republican voter suppression in Georgia and that Warnock is reelected at the Senate where we need him.

Because again, he's wonderful. And also the Senate map for Dems is not that great in 2024. So we need as many senators now.

So we'll talk about the Georgia election in our upcoming bonus episode, which will be available later in the week for our Patreon subscribers who keep our show going. Thank you so much guys for that.

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