TEASER - Harriet Tubman Was Clairvoyant

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As Trump declares a highly illegal “war on drug cartels” to distract from the Epstein Files, let’s turn instead to a much-needed source of inspiration: Harriet Tubman. Described by her first biographer and friend Sarah Hopkins Bradford as “clairvoyant,” Tubman offers timeless lessons in resilience, strategy, and hope under brutal oppression.

If you’re looking for concrete ways to resist life under a chaos-weapon Russian asset, this week’s bonus episode of Gaslit Nation is for you! We share an excerpt from our Book Club discussion of Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Bradford, a children’s author who helped preserve Tubman’s legacy. We also examine the asymmetrical warfare waged by today’s nihilists–and no, we don’t mean the ones in Congress–but the “lone shooters” who are actually working together to stage “performance shootings” for one another for a growing outlet for their despair and rage. Trump’s government shutdown certainly doesn’t help.

Look for the full recording of this week’s salon and Read & Resist book club discussion on Monday morning, along with the Zoom link for Monday’s salon at 4pm ET. Our salons are a place to sharpen strategy, share solidarity, and to remember that you’re not losing your mind: things really are that bad.

And because despair is what the nihilists want, we’re throwing a Gaslit Nation Halloween Party with Sister District. Costumes optional, democracy mandatory. We’ll be fighting for must-win Virginia races, and yes, you should RSVP. Because if Harriet Tubman can face down the unimaginable, you can probably survive a Zoom party. Join us here: https://www.mobilize.us/sisterdistrict/event/847185/

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Show Notes:

Harriet, the Moses of Her People https://uncpress.org/9781469607818/harriet-the-moses-of-her-people/

October Books:

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic
Total resistance by Hans von Dach https://archive.org/details/totalresistance0000dach

Read and Resist: Gaslit Nation’s Book Club https://www.patreon.com/posts/read-and-resist-132804210?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-drug-cartels-war.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251002&instance_id=163691&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=48614702&segment_id=207041&user_id=097a378032011d6e8be1570cdce0a176

Was Trump’s strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat legal?https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/was-trumps-strike-on-an-alleged-venezuelan-drug-boat-legal/

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0:00.0	The president is unhinged. He is unwell. What do you do? If a lot of folks on your side are too, I don't control. Oh my God, please. That performance in front of the generals, that is so dangerous. You know I serve on foreign affairs and appropriations. This is a collision of those two things. Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. I just left the speaker.
0:21.6	You have a president who is unwell.
0:24.2	Our opening clip was Congresswoman Madeline Dean of Pennsylvania saying to Mike Johnson's
0:31.6	face what needs to be said, but obviously being very polite about it.
0:40.1	You and I would maybe say it a little differently. I would probably be like John Cusack in that one movie and hold up a boom box
0:48.1	over my head, just blasting Gaslit Nation episodes one through infinity. Because what is happening to America, as they always say,
0:57.9	if Trump is not a Russian asset installed with the help of Russia to destroy America from within,
1:06.7	he's certainly doing what a Russian asset, what a foreign enemy would be doing.
1:12.6	So this is basically World War III, but this time it's on our soil and we are under Russian occupation.
1:18.4	And I know I've gotten a lot of heat from the very beginning to point that out.
1:23.0	And people are still resistant to seeing things that way.
1:26.1	But once you see things that way, it makes a lot of sense.
1:30.3	And the sooner everyone can work through the stages of grief and acceptance,
1:35.5	the sooner we can build together for a solution.
1:40.0	America has homegrown fascism that the fascist over in Russia took advantage of through
1:47.6	bot farms, through being active on pumping out disinformation at us across every single available
1:54.6	social media platform. Golden handcuffs, buying off for politicians and so on. And yes,
2:03.2	Putin's Kremlin is aligned with Netanyahu's Israel, his ruling coalition of terrorists. Yes, we're working with a transnational
2:10.0	crime syndicate, the dictatorship network, pretending to be governments when they're really just
2:17.2	crime sprees.
2:18.5	If you look at what Orban has done, Victor Orban, who is the far right American far
2:25.0	rights icon, Orban destroyed Hungary from within.
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