Ukraine Beyond the Headlines: The Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon Interview

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Important reminder! We're phone banking with our friends at Indivisible for Reverend Raphael Warnock who we need to keep in the Senate, because he's a good person; Dems need a 51 majority in the Senate to have a stronger hand negotiating with the ruthless GOP/Manchin/Sinema; and we cannot normalize bonkers Herschel Walker in the Senate for six years. And finally, the Senate map is abysmal for Dems in 2024 so we must ensure Warnock wins the December 6th Georgia runoff to stand a chance of keeping the Senate majority. Join us at any or all of the below phone banks. We're selecting one volunteer at each event to receive a signed copy of Sarah's new book They Knew and a Mr. Jones film poster! Sign up here:

Historian Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon's voice is an important one in the frontlines of fact-checking the Kremlin's disinformation war against the West. Her research spans the Black experience in the Soviet Union as well as the Holodomor, Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. As you can tell in this interview, Andrea is really excited to finally talk to her for the show.

In the interview, Kimberly makes connections between the Russian far-right and American far-right, the genocidal history that led to Russia's current war, and why should people around the world care about Ukraine. This year marks the start of the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, an urgent reminder to stay vigilant of Russian aggression. As Kimberly points out, looking away, especially as we enter winter, will only embolden a terrorist state that is waging war not just on Ukraine but democracies worldwide.

In this week's bonus episode, available to subscribers at the Truth-teller level and higher, Sarah and Andrea discuss Trump running for president again after a long history of committing crimes out in the open, the dreaded Moore vs. Harper case the Supreme Court theocrats agreed to hear on December 7th which may be a wreckingball against our democracy and what to do about it should the worst come to pass, and Sarah's must-hear reaction to Merrick Garland's decision to appoint a special counsel instead of indicting Trump for no shortage of crimes. Thank you to everyone who helps keep Gaslit Nation going by subscribing to the show on Patreon. We couldn't make Gaslit Nation without you!

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0:00.0	All right, everyone. It's all hands on deck. We absolutely must win the Senate race in Georgia
0:09.3	for Raphael Warnock for a long list of reasons. Number one, Reverend Warnock is a good human
0:16.3	being and we need more people like him in the Senate to set the standard of the type of public officials we want.
0:22.7	He's a decent, empathetic, wonderful person.
0:26.0	Number two, a clean 51% majority in the Senate gives democracy, gives the Democrats,
0:33.7	the closest thing we have to people actually fighting for good governance at the moment.
0:38.4	A stronger hand in negotiating with ruthless Mitch McConnell, ruthless mansion and cinema.
0:43.5	The Dems don't have to power share on this committee.
0:46.0	And it streamlines the whole process of pushing in these judges that we need to balance out the court packing by McConnell and Trump,
0:53.9	which saw 30% of our courts taken over by
0:57.2	these ideologue Federalist Society judges. The third reason why we need Reverend Warnock to be
1:04.2	elected, and this is extremely urgent, the Senate map for Democrats in 2024 is going to be extremely tough. That is why we need a bank as many
1:16.0	Democratic senators as we can now this year. So we absolutely must get Reverend Warnock in there.
1:22.3	And obviously the final reason is who wants to deal with six years of Herschel Walker.
1:28.3	So join us for these two extremely urgent, all hands on deck phone banks for Georgia.
1:35.3	Thursday, December 1st, 6 p.m. Eastern.
1:38.3	That's Thursday, December 1st, 6 p.m. Eastern.
1:42.3	And then the final one is election eve, Monday, December 5 p.m. Eastern. And then the final one is election eve. Monday, December 5th, 5 p.m. Eastern.
1:48.2	Monday, December 5 p.m. Eastern. You can RSP for each of these events. Come join us, hang out on Zoom.
1:55.7	At each one, we're going to select a volunteer to get a signed copy of Sarah's latest book
2:00.6	they knew and a Mr.
2:02.1	Jones film poster.
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