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Gaslit Nation

Saving Democracy

Gaslit Nation

Gaslit Nation

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.74.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This conversation was recorded May 24, 2023 as a Gaslit Nation live taping and includes at the end a Q&A of questions dropped in the chat by our audience. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
 
Can Florida, and with it, the rest of our democracy be saved? Or is Florida destined to be an authoritarian cesspool under Brooks Brother Viktor Orbán – Ron DeSantis? In this special solution-rich episode of Gaslit Nation, author David Pepper discusses his latest book Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American.
 
David shares important lessons from the upset of Jacksonville's mayoral race; why Florida's Democratic Party State Chair Nikki Fried could give DeSantis a run for his money, and we discuss how Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota have their acts together while New York's Democratic Party remains stuck under Jay Jacobs who handed the House to Kevin McCarthy, bringing the American and therefore the global economy to the brink. (Elections have consequences, which is why Jay Jacobs must be replaced – join the movement here!)
 
If you're stuck in a so-called blue state like New York that's failing due to machine politics and complacency, or if you live in a fascist-gerrymandered hostage state known as a red state, this discussion has concrete steps you can take to empower your community. Local elections are the frontlines of our democracy, no matter where you live. And none of us are in this battle alone.
Thank you to everyone who joined our live taping with David Pepper. Be sure to check out his book Saving Democracy. If you would like to join a future live taping of Gaslit Nation, be sure to support the show at the Truth-teller level or higher. And to submit questions for our regular Q&As, sign up at the Democracy Defender level or higher. We'll be back with an all new Q&A this coming Friday so stay tuned! Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!
 
Show Notes:
 
Our May song feature is "Paper Thin" by Confusions. You can find more of Confusions' music on Bandcamp at confusions.bandcamp.com
 
To submit your song to the Gaslit Nation Make Art Challenge, send us your music here. Thank you!

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0:00.0

No, it's not how you want to do it.

0:03.0

No, it's not how you want it.

0:26.0

Don't be what you're not.

0:30.9

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the

0:35.9

journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's

0:39.1

genocide famine in Ukraine. The film The Kremlin doesn't want you to see, so make sure to watch it.

0:44.0

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising autocracy

0:48.8

around the world. The song you just heard at the top of the show was Paper Thin by Confusions.

0:55.8

Paper Thin is off Muck of Moral, the second album released by experimental pop artist Ben Turner.

1:03.1

Ben releases music under the name Confusions, the album and an accompanying experimental lecture on vulnerability through sound were recently performed

1:12.3

at the Pizzuti collection of the Columbus Museum of Art as part of the Columbus Printed Arts

1:18.5

Center's inaugural art book fair, where Confusions was a featured artist.

1:23.5

Interested in a spectrum of lo-fi and hi-fi sounds and approaching music as a space,

1:28.6

confusions values the process of creating songs and soundscapes through experimentation

1:33.4

and what that teaches them about their life and relationships.

1:38.3

Confusions have been described as genre bending with lyrics that could provide the subplot for short film.

1:45.8

Ben provided this statement about the song.

1:48.4

My partner and I are listeners of the podcast.

1:51.0

Thank you very much.

1:52.2

This song features audio samples from the 1940s film Gaslight.

1:57.6

And of Friend of the Pod, Jared Yates Sexton, sampled with permission from the muckrack political podcast i'm seeking

2:06.0

intersections between art and community thank you so much for doing that that is everything i make art to

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