Read and Resist: The Gaslit Nation Book Club

Gaslit Nation

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

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

After Trump’s return to power in January 2025, Gaslit Nation launched a book club not just to inform, but to fortify. Each selection is a lifeline offering strategy, moral clarity, and community in an age of disinformation and despair.

This isn’t just a book club. It’s a survival toolkit for our time.

Read with us. Build with us. Let’s overcome the chaos together.

Join us on the last Monday of every month at 4 PM ET at the Gaslit Nation Salon for a live discussion of that month’s book or film. Recordings are available on Patreon, along with bonus shows, ad-free episodes, and more, at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Discounted annual and gift memberships available.

Check out our schedule below:

February – Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl and The Stranger by Albert Camus
Survival and absurdity under totalitarianism: one man finds purpose in a concentration camp, another questions meaning under occupation. (Book club recording here).

March – From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
A handbook of nonviolent action, this foundational text offers strategic tools for dismantling authoritarian regimes. (Book club recording here).

April – Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
A near-future America unravels. A young Black woman builds a new belief system—and a movement—amid societal collapse. (Book club recording here).

May – Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King Jr.
How the Montgomery Bus Boycott was won. MLK’s essential guide to grassroots organizing. (Book club recording here).

June – The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman
The LGBTQ+ rights movement through the stories of those who led it, showing small groups of people make the difference. Book club this coming Monday June 30 4pm ET.

July – Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A wartime allegory on wonder, loss, and resistance. Book club: July 28 4pm ET

August – The Lives of Others and I’m Still Here
Two films where art challenges dictatorship—from East Germany to Brazil. Book club: August 25 4pm ET

September – Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah Hopkins Bradford
Harriet Tubman’s story, in her own words based on interviews with The General herself. Book club: September 29 4pm ET

October – Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky + Total Resistance by H. Von Dach
Poetry and guerrilla strategy: tools for survival and defiance. Book club: October 27 4pm ET

November – Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous wisdom and science for reconnection and gratitude. Book club: November 24 4pm ET

December – The Forest Song by Lesya Ukrainka
An eco-feminist Ukrainian play that sings of love, rebellion, and resilience. Book club: January 29

Transcript

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0:00.0	We shall overcome.
0:02.3	Sometimes we've had tears in our eyes when we join together to sing it, but we still decided to sing it.
0:08.8	We shall overcome.
0:10.6	No, before this victory is won, some will have to get thrown in jail some more, but we shall overcome.
0:18.0	Don't worry about us before the victory is won.
0:25.6	Some of us will lose jobs, but we shall overcome. Don't worry about us. Before the victory is won, some of us will lose jobs, but we shall overcome. Before the victory is won, even some will have to face physical death.
0:29.6	But if physical death is the price that some must pay to free their children from a
0:35.6	permanent psychological death, then nothing shall be more redemptive.
0:40.0	We shall overcome.
0:41.6	Before the victory is won, some will be misunderstood and called bad names and dismissed as rabble-rousers and agitators, but we shall overcome.
0:50.7	And I tell you why, we shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long,
0:57.2	but it bends toward justice. We shall overcome because Carlisle is right. No lie can live
1:04.3	forever. We shall overcome because William Col. Bryant is right. Truth crushed the earth will rise again.
1:12.2	We shall overcome because James Russell Lawel is right.
1:16.0	Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
1:20.4	Yet that scaffold sways the future.
1:23.4	Behind the dim unknown standeth God within the shadow,
1:26.8	keeping watch above his own.
1:28.7	We shall overcome, because the Bible is right, you shall reap what's the soul.
1:34.5	We shall overcome.
1:36.8	Deep in my heart, I do believe we shall overcome.
1:40.4	And with this faith, we will go out and adjourn the counsels of despair and bring new
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