Welcome to Gaslit Nation, a show about corruption in America and rising autocracy worldwide.

I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of Mr. Jones,

a journalistic thriller about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

The film The Kremlin doesn't want you to see, so be sure to watch it.

As we close out this year and look ahead to the next, we here at Gaslit Nation wanted to take a moment to reflect on where our hope still lives. This

episode is a montage of voices from the past year. Organizers, journalists, writers, activists,

people who refuse to give into despair, even when the stakes feel overwhelming. They remind us that

history isn't finished. That power is built from the

ground up and that change has always come from the people who choose to show up. We're heading

into a new year with our eyes wide open and with real hope, hope for accountability, hope for

solidarity, and hope for a blue tsunami in the midterms

powered by organizing, turnout, and collective action in every community.

No matter what comes next, Gaslit Nation will be here with you.

Every step of the way will keep telling the truth, amplifying resistance, and building toward a

future that's more just, more free, and more democratic than the one we were handed.

Thank you for being part of this community. Let's take this hope and turn it into real power.

I want to start with a dose of hope from Erica Smiley, Executive Director of Jobs

with Justice.

And then Catherine Stewart, author of Money, Lies, and God.

They remind us to take lessons from history, draw inspiration from our ancestors,

and build power through collective force. Well, first of all, the first steps in winning a war

is recognizing that you're in one. And while the violence and the canons of the U.S. Civil

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