TEASER - God, Guns, and Blood Money: Inside the Kremlin Church Running a Psy-Op on America

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Russian Orthodox Church, a longtime arm of the Kremlin, is running an intelligence operation targeting MAGA's Christian nationalism, to help turn America into a dictatorship.

This week's bonus show continues our conversation with Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman. She exposes a sweeping op by the Kremlin's church. You can read her investigation in the show notes. Russians, being white and Christian, get a pass that other terrorist regimes, like Iran, don't. We fact check their mind-hacking op, and also answer questions from Gaslit Nation listeners–like if Putin and Trump got in a fight, who would win?

Whether it's MAGA, the Kremlin, or the regime in Iran that looks on the verge of collapse, it's the same mind-hack everywhere: confuse, divide, and exhaust. The antidote is clarity, which can only be maintained through self-care. This weekend, be sure to find some time in nature, and be gentle on yourselves and others. We're all in this together, and we will overcome.

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Show Notes:

Be sure to read Amanda Gorman's poem for Renee Good. It's here for those who don't have Instagram, where she originally posted it: https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethjacobs.bsky.social/post/3mbximyqaos23

Gil Duran on Thiel and Greenland: https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3mbx2lvjrec2h

Russia's Orthodox Church and the Weaponization of Religion https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/insights-from-chapter-2-russias-orthodox?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to this week's bonus show of Gaslit Nation. I know that this has been an extraordinarily, even worse than ever, time in the apocalypse that we're all living. So please be extra gentle to yourselves and those around you.
0:23.0	Everyone is scared. Everyone is mourning. But I assure you, because I've met my far right trolls in person,
0:30.0	I've met some of the Kremlin agents who have stalked me over the years in person. I've looked
0:35.0	into their eyes. And they are just as scared and as exhausted as we are.
0:41.7	I promise you they are. So please take care of yourselves because we need your light. The world
0:49.0	needs your light more than ever. So whatever you need to do, nature walk, spend time with animals, like, do
0:56.8	something to get out there and reach your higher mind, go to a museum, feel like, like, admire the
1:03.5	extraordinary beauty of trees on your street. Trees are infinitely interesting to me. I love, love, love our trees. So something
1:13.9	as simple like that, that's what we all need for greater healing, for greater clarity, for strengthening
1:19.5	our intuition muscle, which is what we all depend on in this time of gaslighting. And then when we
1:27.4	come back together at Monday's salon, this
1:30.3	Monday, 4 p.m. Eastern, we will let it rip. And who knows what will happen before then. In Iran,
1:38.1	the regime looks like it's on the verge of collapse. So there's a lot going on, a lot to process.
1:43.4	And no matter what happens, keep demanding
1:47.7	justice for Renee Good. Keep demanding that killer, murderer, Jonathan Ross, be arrested for murder,
1:58.5	be put on trial, prosecuted, never, ever, ever let up on that until
2:03.8	justice is done. And for those who haven't read it yet, poet Amanda Gorman, she posted a beautiful
2:11.4	tribute to Renee Good on her Instagram. I will link to it in the show notes. It is now a piece of history that is going to be
2:21.3	read generations from now when people look back on this time and go, how did those Americans
2:30.1	get through that? How do they get through that? We had artists like Amanda who found a voice for
2:36.5	our pain, and that is now a tribute to all of the extraordinary heroes and heroines out there,
2:44.8	like Renee Good, like so many across this country who are slowing down and stopping ice. And we will get, we will stop
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