Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the Influence Continuum, and I'm particularly

grateful to Anne Nelson for all of her incredible research and writing and trying to educate

the public about what's happening politically.

Her awesome book, Shadow Network is a must read if you're listening to this and you're an

activist and you want to understand the forces that have brought us to this moment in 2023.

You're a prize-winning writer, many books, contributor to New Republic, Washington Spectator,

Times Literary Supplement, Research Scholar at Columbia's University School of International

and Public Affairs.

And before I, forgive me for flattering you, but I just want to read a little, some things

about Shadow Network. And the subtitle is media, money, and the secret hub of the radical

right. Publishers Weekly said, an absolutely momentary. money, and the secret hub of the radical right,

Publishers Weekly said,

an absolutely momentous piece of investigative journalism.

NPR.org said, you can't convert anxiety into votes without cash, and Nelson does an excellent job following the money.

Readers curious about how the American right gets its message out will find much to admire

in it. And then Timothy Snyder, who is a historian professor at Yale, wrote on tyranny,

wrote to unfriedom, he's interviewed all the

time, said, quote, Ann Nelson's work on Middle America in Shadow Network reveals a political

trend that threatens both our form of government and our species, unquote. Wow. And then I'll just finish reading, if you don't

mind the end. Shadow Network shines a light on the secretive network of right-wing fundamentalists,

oil barons, and other interests who have waged a 40-year, 40-plus-year campaign to take over Washington.

It coordinates the political activism of many member organizations, including the NRA, the

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