I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the best-selling books, the view for fly of our country, and hiding in plain sight.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a filmmaker and journalist, 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.

And we're thrilled to be joined by Amanda Littman.

Amanda is the co-founder of Run for Something and the author of the must-read book, Run for

Something, a real talk guide to fixing the system yourself.

When we first launched the Gaslit Nation Action Guide, we made sure to include Run for Something

as an important bullet point in that action guide.

It is a must read book to understand our government and how it functions and how the good people

in this nation must get into the system in order to flesh out the system and protect our democracy

and our future.

From Amanda's bio on the website, Run for Something.net,

which lists her incredible experience helping run campaigns.

Amanda was Hillary Clinton's email director,

Charlie Chris Digital Director when he ran for Governor in 2014,

one of the first employees at Organizing for Action as Deputy Email Director, email writer for Barack Obama's reelection.

Amanda's book and Twitter feed, just search her name Amanda Littman on Twitter to find her.

I do that from time to time when I need to be inspired.

We'll energize you and give you a sense of hope again.

I first met Amanda in 2017 and was blown away

with her plain spoken optimism and how she essentially predicted to me the blue wave that fall in

Virginia and other states that held elections that year. I learned from her what to look out for.

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