I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the bestsellers, the view from flyover country and hiding in plain sight, and of the upcoming book they knew out in 2022.

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.

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

autocracy around the world.

What you're about to hear is a montage of clips of Gaslit Nation taking from the very

start of our show when we warned of Trump inciting political violence to overthrow our democracy.

It concludes, of course, with Sarah and I announcing in advance our special episode to cover the January 6th coup,

which we saw coming, and so did the FBI, which could have stopped it but didn't,

which means we need a cultural and structural overhaul of the FBI,

starting with the firing of Christopher Ray to ensure President Biden completes his pledge of making the

fight of corruption a national security priority.

All right?

Consider this episode an urgent reminder that 2016 was the culmination of a coup, not the

start of one.

And those same coup plotters inevitably tried to plan another coup to stay in power

and install a dictatorship. This coup was centrally planned and coordinated. The same perpetrators

are the ones who were investigated and many indicted as part of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

And if they're not brought to justice for both the 2016 coup as well as the 2021 coup,

well, with no accountability, you know what they say, the third time's the charm.

If what you hear in this episode makes you angry, then go check out the Gaslit Nation

Action Guide on Gaslit Nationpod.com and join a community or donate to organizations on the

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