“Trust your instincts.” – TEASER
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
We opened with the legendary James Baldwin, because this week, we’re passing the mic to someone walking boldly in Baldwin’s footsteps: Amber Wallin, Executive Director of the State Revenue Alliance and a fearless fighter for tax justice, equity, and economic power from the ground up.
Whether she’s calling out lawmakers, organizing communities, or reshaping policy, Amber is part of a new generation of leaders who refuse to back down. Here she shares the thinkers, art, and music that inspires her in the fight as she takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A. Because self-care is an act of resistance.
Want more fierce, unfiltered conversations like this? Join the Gaslit Nation Salon, live every Monday at 4pm ET. It’s our weekly dose of truth, strategy, and righteous rage with listeners from around the world. Sign up now at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Annual memberships are discounted, and your support keeps us going.
Hitting the beach or binging podcasts from the couch this summer? Take along our graphic novel: Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think! Follow our corrupt narrator, Judge Lackey, as he bungles his way through authoritarianism, dodging activists and desperately clinging to power.Grab it at your local library or at BookShop.org.
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NEW DATE! Thursday July 31 4pm ET – the Gaslit Nation Book Club discusses Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s The Little Prince written in the U.S. during America First.
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Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
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Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other, available on Patreon.
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Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect, available on Patreon.
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Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
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Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
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Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
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Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community
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| 0:00.0 | They discovered enough finally to discover that I might have a reason for being in the streets. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, you can hardly expect me to pick up my time when I saw dancing because they finally figured that much out. |
| 0:15.0 | I think it comes as news to a great many of my co-citizens that the reason that black people are in the streets |
| 0:25.6 | has to do with the lives they are forced to lead in this country. |
| 0:30.6 | And they're forced to lead these lives by the indifference and the apathy |
| 0:41.3 | and a certain kind of ignorance, a very willful ignorance |
| 0:44.3 | on the part of their co-citizens. |
| 0:49.3 | Everybody knows, no matter what they do not know, |
| 0:55.0 | that they wouldn't like to be a black man in this country. |
| 0:58.0 | They know that, and they shut their minds against the rest of it, |
| 1:02.0 | all the implications of being a black father or a black woman or a black son. |
| 1:08.0 | And all of the implications involved in a human being's endeavor |
| 1:14.2 | to take care of his wife, to take care of his children, |
| 1:19.0 | to raise his children to be men and women, |
| 1:23.0 | in the teeth of a structure which is built to deny |
| 1:30.3 | that I can be a human being or that my child can be. |
| 1:35.3 | The great question in the country has been all the years |
| 1:39.3 | that I've been living here and I was born here |
| 1:42.3 | 43 years ago is what does the Negro want? |
| 1:49.0 | And this question masks a terrible knowledge. I want exactly what you want. And you know what you want and you know what you want. |
| 2:05.6 | I want to be left alone. |
| 2:06.6 | I don't want any other things that people accuse me glows of wanting, |
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