THREAD: Here's a running list of things to consider doing now, during these quiet weeks before the storm. Add your own in the comments and share with anyone who needs help right now. Have faith in a higher power: whatever that may be for you. Have faith in your inner light. You are not alone. Ideas, like democracy, are powerful, and cannot be killed.

Russia wants you to think sanctions aren't working. In this week's @gaslitnation, I talk to investigative journalist @StephaniBaker on her powerful new book Punishing Putin—how we can go even further to dismantle Russia's war machine and fight kleptocracy gaslitnation.libsyn.com/punishing-putin Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a staggering 20,000 sanctions have been imposed, making it the most sanctioned nation on earth. These sanctions have cost Russia hundreds of billions, worsening its economy

Trump and MAGA are trying to steal the 2024 election. Their Big Lie conspiracy already laid the groundwork. Here's what you need to know about how to stop them🧵 Remember: Mueller said under oath to Congress Trump could be indicted after leaving office. The fact that he wasn't indicted by the DOJ as president or after for RussiaGate is institutional failure pbs.org/newshour/polit…

We are in the fight of our lives, and the media normalizes Trump like they did in 2016. Listen to this week's @gaslitnation, The Kremlin Convention, on the #RNC2024 and the "both-sidesing" of America's far-right driven political violence crisis🧵gaslitnation.libsyn.com/kremlin-conven… "The ridiculous drone of bleating sheep from Animal Farm in the mainstream media call on 'both sides' to turn the temperature down." --@gaslitnation

Eighty years after countless people gave their lives liberating Europe, fascism makes a comeback in European elections. @terrelljstarr and I discuss the MAGA virus, its devastating impact on Ukraine, and how to resist it in this week's @gaslitnation gaslitnation.libsyn.com/why-is-fascism… I asked @terrelljstarr, who's in Ukraine, the impact of MAGA deliberately delaying aid for 6 critical months, giving Russia the advantage. It's bad.

Project 2025 is 900 pages long, because they don't want you to read it. Anne Nelson read every creepy page and breaks it down in the Gaslit Nation Project 2025 Super Special.🧵 Project 2025 is the radical right's blueprint for dismantling American democracy. They want to eliminate the Dept of Education, turn the FBI/DOJ into the president's personal security forces to crush his enemies. It's straight out of an authoritarian playbook. #Project25

What's Russia's greatest weapon in its genocide of Ukraine and fascist global war on democracy? Western corruption. Here's a thread of urgent solutions of how to fix this and ensure Ukraine wins🧵 It cannot be overstated Trump/MAGA through Mike Johnson successfully delayed aid to Ukraine for six critical months, helping Russia’s military advance. This is treason. Trump and all MAGAs in Congress are traitors to our country and undermined our allies nytimes.com/2024/05/14/us/…

The threat to democracy is greater than Trump. Our Founding Father's made painful compromises to establish the Constitution🧵 James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, feared two Senators for every state would give too much power to smaller states, thwarting the will of the majority. He was right.

Russia uses our own weaknesses against us, to entrench their weaponized corruption. That's how they build power and take over countries from within, like in Georgia🧵 Corruption is America's biggest weakness and threatens our national security. Take, for instance, the Act 22 tax loophole that lets rich Americans buy up land in Puerto Rico to avoid paying federal taxes.

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Meet Paul Weyrich, one of the architects that turned the Republican Party into a Christian nationalist battering ram attempting to overthrow our democracy Weyrich is a co-founder of several far-right groups, including The Heritage Foundation that leads Project 2025, a plan to mass-purge the government, destroy all checks and balances, turn the FBI/DOJ into Trump's personal security forces, and much, much more

Digging into Speaker Johnson--a staunch evangelical, and the other MAGA Christian nationalists blocking aid to Ukraine in the House, I discovered that Ukraine plays a role in their demented "end times" world view 🧵 Mike Johnson is a staunch evangelical. He was featured in a German documentary on taking his daughter to a purity ball where she signed a pledge to never have sex before marriage. Purity balls are seen as dehumanizing to young girls and women abcnews.go.com/US/speaker-mik…

What's life like in Orban's Hungary, the most corrupt country in the EU? Miserable, especially if you're a child (high malnutrition rates), a young adult, a woman, LGBTQ+ person and ally, a refugee, and anyone with an open mind🧵 According to a recent study, Hungary is the most corrupt country in the EU, a trend that accelerated under Orban politico.eu/article/hungar…

Remember this shocking story from the 2016 election? The Trump campaign gutted Ukraine aid in the official RNC platform. Today this is mainstream for the GOP, with McConnell folding on Ukraine aid. This is catastrophic for the US and the world🧵 npr.org/2017/12/04/568… The recent transformation of the GOP into the Party of Putin began gradually, with only a few in Congress, like former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who the Kremlin considered an asset, according to the FBI nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/…

We need to talk about the Reagan Revolution. In many ways, we're still living in it, with wealth inequality worse than in the Gilded Age and elite criminal impunity🧵 According to French economist Gabriel Zucman, who studied under Thomas Piketty, author of the bestselling book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the 1% in America hold more wealth than the Carnegies and Fricks of the Gilded Age finance.yahoo.com/news/super-ric…

Let's look at a Russian-linked financial backer of George Santos. Did they get their money’s worth with George Santos in Congress? The answer is yes. 🧵 It starts with Viktor Vekselberg, a notorious sanctioned "Putin's wallet", otherwise known as the Russian oligarchs tasked by the Kremlin to spread Russian influence (corruption) by making major investments and donations in democratic countries cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/n…

🧵Fox News needs to be sued out of existence. Catch up with the latest @gaslitnation to see how Fox News threatens our democracy and national security "Discord Traitor Bro Jack Teixeira's use of the bear vs. pig meme shows that he's staunchly anti-Ukrainian. What likely made him that way? Tucker Carlson and the cult of Trump." - @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/discord-…

The latest episode of @gaslitnation is out tonight. Catch up with last week's episode "Trump Lost, But the Coup Won"
patreon.com/posts/trump-lo… "The only part of Trump's coup that was truly defeated was Trump himself. Damage, infiltration and elite criminal impunity and cruelty live on."
- @sarahkendzior patreon.com/posts/trump-lo…

This is a thread of the latest episode of @gaslitnation where @sarahkendzior and I discuss why we're likely not going to see a Trump indictment, only more book deals for prosecutors who failed to get any accountability
patreon.com/posts/book-dea… "Trump and the FBI and his relationship with not only Russia but other countries is a multi-decade operation and a very complex topic."
- @sarahkendzior patreon.com/posts/book-dea…

It's the weekend! Catch up with the latest episode of @gaslitnation: The Reality TV Congress patreon.com/posts/reality-… "I'm interested in Katie Porter's campaign for Senate, because she's anti corruption and the antithesis of Dianne Feinstein."
- @sarahkendzior patreon.com/posts/reality-…

Catch up with the latest episode of @gaslitnation where @sarahkendzior and I discuss the latest news on the Kremlin's war on democracy and Kremlin dark money in Congress patreon.com/posts/follow-m… "It will take a decade for Russia to rebuild all that it lost in its suicidal war in Ukraine. Now is the time to give Ukraine everything it needs to win the war."
- @AndreaChalupa patreon.com/posts/follow-m…

To cut through the noise on Ukraine, listen to our interview with @TimothyDSnyder who brilliantly explains what's at stake in Putin's war, how the war ends, and he shares insights from his own meeting with Zelensky patreon.com/posts/on-tyran… "Zelensky told me that the deprivation of security is unfreedom and the deprivation of freedom is unsecurity. I think he's right." - @TimothyDSnyder patreon.com/posts/on-tyran…