You can write a thousand love songs in the spring

Take the next one hundred years to range down

At my feet while my head's buried I'm sorry.

I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the best-selling book The View for Flyover Country, and Hiding in Plain Sight.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones.

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

And since we are the newscasters of the apocalypse, we always have too much news to cover.

On this week's bonus episode, we're going to run early for our Patreon subscribers at the truth telleller level and higher. So get in on that.

And this week we're going to be discussing Florida governor Ron Dexantis and his presidential

ambitions, his recent fundraising trip to New Jersey as COVID ravages Florida, and how white

supremacy is responsible for the low vaccination rates throughout the deep south,

exploding the number of cases. So tune in to that. And since times are very Armagedony,

we implore you to turn to art because art shifts our energy. Art is a oxygen mask in these times of fire and Republican

pollution disinformation. So a wonderful artist we want to share with you, a song submitted by him,

is the opening song you heard, which is Holy Ghost by Good Morning Midnight.

And this is from the artist. The whole wonderful mess of Good Morning Midnight is a cacophony

and hushed tones. Soul member and mastermind of the project, Iowa City based Charlie Kachitori,

works with a revolving cast of Iowa City and Midwestern musicians to create songs that

are tinged with bits of country twang, dreamy and melodic pop, indie rock guitar magic, and

precocious lyricism that could only come from the natural earthiness of a Midwesterner.

Listen to their brand new fourth album, Songs of Violence at their band

camp or wherever you stream your music. Charlie submitted the following statement. I chose to submit

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