One Battle After Another

Gaslit Nation

Trump, Politics, Left, Democracy, Resistance, News, Society & Culture, Progressive, Liberal, Kendzior, Chalupa, Resist

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

One Battle After Another isn’t just a film: it’s a manifesto. Paul Thomas Anderson’s cinematic masterpiece–a three hour long adventure that flies by thanks to dark humor and insane action set pieces–reimagines Harriet Tubman’s legacy in a near future, turning Trump’s “bad hombre” slur into a rallying cry. It dives into the raw debates: violence versus resistance, the power of holding space inside broken systems to shield and change them.

Make time in your busy schedule to see it at the theater–don’t wait for streaming. This film is a cultural event that celebrates America’s long tradition of hard-fought antifascism, otherwise known as antifa. You’re a bad hambre is the new May the Force Be With You.

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0:00.0	All right, everyone, it's Andrea here, and we need to talk. We have been through a lot on this show,
0:09.5	especially longtime listeners, no, but this, this conversation is one of the most important we're ever going to have.
0:19.3	If this show has meant anything for you, if this show has helped you
0:25.6	in this time of darkness brought greater light, then you need to pay close attention to what I'm
0:34.4	about to tell you because it is extremely important for the sake of your very
0:41.3	fight in this moment for our country, you need to clear your schedule this week. If you have kids,
0:51.4	invest the money in a babysitter because I am telling you you need to run to the movie theater to see one battle after another.
1:02.1	And if you think, well, how will a film change anything in this moment?
1:06.9	I am telling you right now, one battle after another is not just a film, even though it is a
1:14.9	cinematic masterpiece that everyone is about to start talking about because it's spreading
1:19.5	like wildfire through word of mouth. It is a film that cannot be ruined by the hype because
1:24.8	it surpasses the hype. It's going to sweep the Oscars, but who the
1:28.4	fuck cares about the Oscars? No one should. It is an extraordinary achievement. I'm telling you,
1:35.1	this is a movie that celebrates Antifa, meaning being anti-fascist, and reminds us why we must be
1:43.6	Antifa. I'm telling you, you need to see it,
1:48.1	because what's going to happen is all of the mouth-breathing MAGA out there are going to take
1:54.1	to the online review boards and downvote this film. Because who are the bad guys in the film ice fascists ice fascists and who are
2:05.4	putting their lives on a line to stand up to ice fascists black women and white men who are
2:12.1	comfortable with themselves and love black women but that's also a weird story thread in the film that I don't want to spoil,
2:18.9	and you'll see what I'm talking about. Maya Rudolph's husband, Maya Rudolph, the comedian,
2:26.0	who of course was Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live. She got us through many an election,
2:31.2	because she's hilarious. Maya Rudolph's husband is the filmmaker,
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