kill and confront the extremist movement of which J.D. Vance, unfortunately, is a part of, right?

Who says that the president of the United States is intentionally trying to kill people with fentanyl?

Who says that the election was stolen? J.D. Vance does. Who runs around with Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida,

who wants to ban books? You're running around with Lindsey Graham, who wants a national abortion

ban. You're running around with Marjorie Taylor Green, who's the absolute luneiest politician

in America. This is a dangerous group, and we do need to confront it.

I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the bestsellers, The View from Flyover Country and Hiding in Plain Sight,

and of the new book, They Knew,

How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps keeps America complacent, which is 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.

It's the film The Kremlin does not want you to see. They keep

shutting down screenings. And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United

States and rising autocracy around the world. We're going to start this week's show with an

overview of the Make It or Break It, 2022 midterms. If you feel at any time a

sense of ominous storm clouds during this conversation, head on over to Gaslit Nation's

2022 Survival Guide, which you can find on the homepage of our website,

Gaslit Nationpod.com. It is your one-stop shop for all things, 22 midterms, where to get in

to help get out the vote. Events that we, the Gaslit Nation podcast, are co-hosting with a lot

of wonderful groups like Sister District and Indivisible.

And so it's really, really, really a critical time.

So much is at stake.

Kevin McCarthy just came out and said that if Republicans take over the House, that they're

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