Nixon Ran so Trump Could Fly - TEASER
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In Part II of our conversation, Nick Schwellenbach, a Senior Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight, shares his insights from his time in the U.S. Office of Special Counsel–a government agency set up after Watergate, meant to protect us from the next Nixon. So, what happened?
In this week's bonus show, we're looking for checks-and-balances. With a grifter-in-chief enriching himself and his family, following in the footsteps of overthrown Kremlin-backed kleptocrat Viktor Yanukovych, we're especially curious about the Hatch Act–whatever happened to that?
This Thanksgiving, we're grateful for our Gaslit Nation listeners with us in the fight of our lives, for a livable future for our families and the world. We wish you all a restful holiday season, as we charge up for battle in the 2026 Midterms–building another blue tsunami together.
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Art is a big source of our power. We're proud to share with you a Kickstarter by longtime Gaslit Nation listener Leslie Nuss to help her release her next album, Ride at Dawn. Check out and support her work here!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leslienuss/ride-at-dawn-the-new-12-track-vinyl-lp-cd-by-leslie-nuss/posts
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| 0:00.0 | Won't be peace for a long time. |
| 0:02.0 | Won't be peace for a long time. |
| 0:16.0 | Children are crying |
| 0:21.9 | I feel enraged |
| 0:24.4 | because I couldn't stop it |
| 0:27.5 | Are we going back in time |
| 0:30.4 | Are we going back in time |
| 0:34.7 | Rich men are lying |
| 0:40.3 | It's always the same |
| 0:42.3 | Who's gonna stop it |
| 0:46.3 | Right at dawn |
| 0:50.3 | We won't go down |
| 0:53.3 | alone We're right on |
| 0:59.0 | We won't be free for a long time. |
| 1:17.6 | We won't be free for a long time. |
| 1:22.6 | Women are dying. |
| 1:26.6 | This isn't a game |
| 1:28.9 | Because they wouldn't stop it |
| 1:32.1 | With every peace in our lifetime |
| 1:35.0 | With every piece in our lifetime |
| 1:39.0 | That beautiful haunting music you heard is Ride at Dawn from the new album Right at Dawn by longtime Gaslight Nation listener Leslie Nuss. Leslie is a regular at the Gaslit Nation salons on Mondays at 4 p.m. Eastern, where she regularly helps soothe our nerves by closing out our vent |
| 2:02.4 | sessions by performing her music live. We are so lucky to have amazing people like Leslie and our |
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