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The world is waiting to see if just enough Americans in a handful of states love democracy more than misogyny. Playing their role in this real-life horror show are white women—the majority have voted Republican since 2000, with more white women voters leaving Biden than leaving Trump. Why? The mental slavery of patriarchy gets internalized, just like mind-warped Russians openly embracing totalitarianism and being fed into the meat grinder in Ukraine.

In this special Gaslit Nation, Terrell Starr reports from the country of Georgia, which operates like a Republican-hostage state thanks to the Kremlin’s capture of just enough political and business elites. Sound familiar? Terrell shares the resistance strategies on the ground, how they might apply to the U.S., and why he thinks the people of Georgia will overthrow their own Kremlin-backed nightmare, called Georgia Dream, this weekend at the polls.

Time to dust off your Facebook friend list! Reecie Colbert, political analyst and host of The Reecie Colbert Show on Sirius XM, shares her insights into how to persuade white women in swing states not to vote for fascism. This important discussion, recorded over the summer and saved for prime get-out-the-vote season as we hit the final homestretch of Gaslit Nation’s phone banks with Sister District and Indivisible (check the show notes to RSVP for those events!), will help you reach out to the white women swing voters in your life!

Listeners in our Patreon community have asked about podcasting. So this week’s bonus show will be our special How to Make a Podcast Workshop to help you raise your voice. We don’t need another “Trump is bad” podcast. But we do need more independent voices keeping a watchful eye on local corruption eclipsed by Trump’s Kremlin Klown Kar, which the media can’t get enough of, especially when it comes to normalizing Russian state capture. To hear that workshop, out this Thursday, subscribe at the Democracy Defender ($10/month) level or higher—discounted annual memberships available! Thank you to everyone who supports our independent journalism—we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

See you Wednesday for our phone bank party with Sister District at 6pm ET. Never phone banked before? It’s easy! Quick trainings are provided! RSVP here to join us: https://www.mobilize.us/sisterdistrictnyc/event/642096/

Want help with the MAGA cultists in your life? Join our live-taping about the psychology of Trump and his MAGA cult with Dr. Bandy Lee, author of The Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Danger to American Democracy and All Humankind, October 29 at 12pm ET! A zoom link will be shared on Patreon the morning of the show!

This week’s opening song was “Change Happens (One Conversation at a Time) by Ellen Schwartz and Roger Bruno of the Band Too Human. Check out their work here: http://toohumanonline.com and Submit your own music here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-d_DWNnDQFYUMXueYcX5ZVsA5t2RN09N8PYUQQ8koq0/edit?ts=5fee07f6&gxids=7628.

Show Notes:

Elon Musk’s daily $1 million giveaway to registered voters could be illegal, experts say https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/20/politics/elon-musk-voter-giveaway-legal-questions/index.html

Harris, Trump and shifting demographics in the US election: In the US presidential election in November, roughly 244 million people are eligible to vote. What demographic groups make up the country's voting population? And how have they voted in the past? https://www.dw.com/en/harris-trump-and-shifting-demographics-in-the-us-election/a-69477852

When will DeSantis listen to his own voters on ex-felons' voting rights? At a time of bitter, partisan division, a supermajority of ordinary Democrats and Republicans joined forces to pass the most significant expansion of voting rights since 1965. https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/when-will-desantis-listen-to-his-own-voters-on-ex-felons-voting-rights

Massive Pro-Europe Rally Held In Georgia Ahead Of Key Parliamentary Vote https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-election-dream-zurabishvili-saakashvili-russia-kobakhidze/33165650.html

Moldova President Hails EU Referendum Win After Russia Meddling Claims The referendum on joining the EU passed with a razor-thin majority in the key electoral test for the former Soviet republic bordering war-torn Ukraine. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/40860

Craig Unger: Trump rose on Russian money. It was all legal. https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/04/01/craig-unger-trump-rose/

Donald Trump Accused of Committing 'Massive Crime' With Reported Phone Call https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accused-crime-benjamin-netanyahu-call-ceasefire-hamas-1942248