Something Wicked This Way Comes

Gaslit Nation

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Join Gaslit Nation to Get Out the Vote (GOTV)! Trainings included, helping democracy guaranteed! Let's plant seeds of hope together! At each event, we're picking a volunteer to receive a signed copy of Sarah's book They Knew and a signed Mr. Jones poster.

October 28th Friday 4pm to 6pm Eastern Time — Phonebank with Indivisible for U.S. Senate Candidate John Fetterman in Pennsylvania. RSVP here!
October 30th Sunday 2pm to 5pm Eeastern Time — Phonebank with Swing Left for Christy Smith for California's 27th Congressional District. She lost last time around by only 333 votes! RSVP here!
November 7th Monday 4pm to 6pm Eastern Time — Phonebank with Indivisible for U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin and U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood in Illinois. RSVP here!

The 2022 midterms are coming soon, but we at Gaslit Nation are still dealing with the unresolved business of 2016! That includes Brexit, which has produced yet another wanker in the revolving door prime minister shambles that has been going on for the last six years. We share our doubts that a guy worth more than King Charles has the interests of the common man in mind and extend our sympathy to our British listeners.

Back in the states, the midterms are heating up – and "heating up", in modern American parlance, means new coup plots are being hatched, new insurrectionists are volunteering to be vote counters, and new upstanding citizens are being threatened with death or prison for the crime of…voting. And what is Merrick Garland, who vowed to protect the elections, doing about it? As usual, nothing! His free pass to the January 6 attackers have left us wary of more post-election violence to come, and the admin's refusal to protect voting rights leaves us concerned about the ability of our fellow Americans to cast their ballot. That said, we encourage you to vote! We are disillusioned but yes we are voting, and we are having several GOTV events and get-togethers this week.

Then special guests drop by Gaslit Nation: Chloe Maxmin, a state senator in Maine, the youngest woman ever elected, in 2018, to Maine's House of Representatives, and her campaign manager Canyon Woodward. Together, Maxmin and Woodward are the authors of Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends On It. They walk us through their battle-hardened lessons on winning in a rural conservative district, and how to build progressive infrastructure in rural America to protect our democracy election cycle after election cycle. Join their community work at DirtRoadRevival.com.

For our Patreon bonus, available to subscribers at the Truth-Teller level or higher, we continue to answer questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher about corruption, freedom, and the fight to carry on in tough times. We will likely be doing extra bonus episodes in the weeks following the midterms, so if you're not signed up at the $5/month level already, please do so! Our regular weekly episode is and will always be free, and that is because of listeners like you. We know these are tough economic times, and we are feeling the pinch as well, so we are particularly grateful for your support!

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0:00.0	The U.S. midterm elections cavalry arrived early in London.
0:05.5	What do I mean by that?
0:07.2	Well, the new British Prime Minister Liz Truss has laid out a terrific supply-side economic growth plan,
0:13.8	which looks a lot like the basic thrust of Kevin McCarthy's commitment to America plan.
0:19.1	Let's start with Truss.
0:20.6	She is slashing tax rates
0:22.3	and deregulating energy.
0:24.6	I just love it.
0:25.5	That's the liberal business media.
0:27.7	This is wonderful.
0:28.6	The liberal business media,
0:29.8	you know what I'm talking about
0:30.8	is now trashing her plan.
0:33.1	That tells me Truss has it exactly right.
0:43.2	I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the bestsellers, the view from flyover country, and hiding in plain sight, and of the book, They New,
0:51.4	how a culture of conspiracy keepsacent, out now.
0:56.1	I am Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic
1:01.7	thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, a film the Kremlin does not want
1:08.5	you to see.
1:09.0	And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising
1:14.5	autocracy around the world.
1:16.9	And our opening clip was The Idiot Brigade at Fox News praising Liz Truss's economic plan, which
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