The New American Revolution - TEASER
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
With convicted felon, six-time bankrupt trust fund kid Donald Trump illegally looting $1.8 billion of our tax-payer dollars for violent traitors who tried to overturn our democracy on January 6, it's time to dream big for our country. All ideas are on the table, including a Maidan-style revolution, as we must rebuild from the ashes. Gaslit Nation is here to tell you that a better world is possible.
This week's bonus show, available for Gaslit Nation supporters at the Truth-teller level and higher, continues our discussion with veteran war correspondent James Verini. He is the author of the powerful new book The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War. In Part II of our discussion we discuss Palantir, owned by staunchly anti-democratic Peter Thiel, operating in Ukraine–the vanguard of democracy.
See you at the Gaslit Nation Salon Monday at 4pm ET – look out for the Zoom link to join the discussion then, and also the recording of this week's salon – on the AI-acapolyse trying to thrust millions of Americans into poverty, while the self-appointed tech gods hoard wealth and power, using our stolen copyrighted work. To join the salons, get bonus shows, all shows ad free, and more, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit – discounted annual memberships are available, and you can give the gift of membership. Thank you to everyone who supports the show.
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Show Notes:
The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War By James Verini https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Theater/James-Verini/9781668062203
'Dancing on bones': Mariupol theatre to reopen with staging of Russian fairytale https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/25/mariupol-bombed-theatre-reopen-russification-ukraine
Trump Wants a Repeat of Bush v. Gore. Amy Coney Barrett Might Make It Happen. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/trump-wants-a-repeat-of-bush-v-gore-amy-coney-barrett-might-make-it-happen/
The Pro-Money Court: How the Roberts Supreme Court Dismantled Campaign Finance Law https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/pro-money-court-how-roberts-supreme-court-dismantled-campaign-finance-law
Gaslit Nation Read and Resist Book Club Featuring Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning: https://www.patreon.com/posts/read-and-resist-132804210?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Matt Taibbi's past comes back to haunt him https://www.cascadepbs.org/all/2017/10/matt-taibbis-past-comes-back-to-haunt-him/
Matt Taibbi filed a Trumpian, free speech-chilling lawsuit against me. A judge just threw it out https://www.ms.now/opinion/matt-taibbi-free-speech-defamation-lawsuit
Opening clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMrNO6VjqiA&list=RDrMrNO6VjqiA&start_radio=1
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, Bruce Springsteen. |
| 0:12.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:14.5 | Stephen. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm here in support tonight for Stephen because you're the first guy in America who's lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke. |
| 0:28.6 | And because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. |
| 0:36.0 | So these are... |
| 0:37.1 | Anyway, Stephen. and feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. So these are, uh, |
| 0:42.9 | anyway, Stephen, these are small-minded people. |
| 0:48.1 | They've got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about. |
| 0:49.0 | This is for you. |
| 0:51.7 | Welcome to this week's bonus show. |
| 0:54.9 | I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, and this is Gaslit Nation, |
| 1:00.5 | a show about corruption in America and rising autocracy worldwide. Our opening clip, of course, was Bruce Springsteen saying goodbye to our beloved Stephen Colbert. This is obviously a dark day in America, |
| 1:08.1 | and it is a reminder that when Vladimir Putin was coming to power, |
| 1:13.9 | one of the first things he did was have a beloved comedy show in Russia, widely watched |
| 1:20.5 | across the country, canceled. And over time, you had Russian TV taken over by Putin's allies, and now today, there is no |
| 1:32.6 | free press inside Russia. It is a totalitarian state. That is how it begins with the thin-skinned |
| 1:40.1 | little man, the wannabe dictator, who eventually becomes the dictator because he has consolidated |
| 1:46.2 | power through taking over the information space, polluting it, and endangering the lives |
| 1:53.9 | and livelihood of journalists and all the truth tellers of society that keep a society healthy |
| 1:59.8 | and functioning. And so that is what Donald Trump |
| 2:03.3 | and his MAGA death cult are set after here in America. Believe your eyes and ears. As we have long |
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