I'm Sarah Kensir, the author of the bestsellers, the view for flyover country and hiding in plain sight, and of the upcoming book they knew out in 2022.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer

and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

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

the world. We are excited to introduce you to the winners of the Gaslit Nation 2020 Save Democracy

Challenge. We called on our listeners to join us in doing whatever we could, wherever we were,

to stay engaged and help get out the vote in the 2020 election. We made calls. We organized.

We helped support each other through a hellish year. And guess what? We're going to do it all again in

2022 for the midterms because we must hold the line. We have no choice. This next big election and the one

after it are make it or break it elections for our democracy. The outcome of the midterms,

less than one year from now, will help determine whether we'll have a free and fair election in

2024 or yet another coup. Republicans are gearing up for that coup, so we must stop them as we

always do by staying engaged, refusing to abandon each other,

and do what we can, where we can, to help get out the vote. You can start now by checking

out the Gaslit Nation Action Guide on Gaslit Nationpod.com to join communities and or donate

to help protect our democracy. There's plenty of organizations there that need your support.

Every little bit helps, and we need you.

So without further ado, here are the winners of the Gaslit Nation 2020 Save Democracy Challenge,

chosen at random from all the entries we received across the country of people tweeting at us

about the ways they were working to help save our democracy.

You can be on this show if you join us next year.

And keep in mind when you listen to this conversation, we recorded it about a decade ago

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