In a special edition of Pax Americana with Julie Roginsky and Olga Laotian, David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones and bestselling author joins The Mayday Network to discuss his new book, How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America.

They cover the decade-long Russian shadow war on American elections, Trump's relationship with Putin, the Alaska summit, the Kushner and Witkoff talks with Kirill Dmitriev, and how the media and the Democrats let Russia become a partisan issue. They also take audience questions on Putin's hybrid warfare in Europe and reports of an outbreak at a Russian lab in Siberia.

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Andrea is a journalist, filmmaker, and writer-producer of Mr. Jones. She walks through the Holodomor, Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, and how her own family survived it. We also get into how Russia uses dehumanization as a political tool, and how to keep going when the news cycle is built to wear you down.

📖 Pre-order the book (out Nov. 10): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/9798217179855/ Also at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local bookstore. Pre-orders matter for charts and for showing publishers this book matters.

🎁 Signed copy giveaway: Forward your pre-order receipt to gaslitnation@gmail.com and Andrea will send a signed bookplate. Paid subscribers to Julie's and Olga's Substacks can also win signed copies.

🎶 Razom for Ukraine speakeasy benefit (NYC and virtual): A live taping of Gaslit Nation, a French jazz singer, and a tax-deductible ticket supporting Razom's frontline humanitarian work. https://razomforukraine.org

Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:50 Andrea Chalupa joins us 2:35 Why this book, why now 5:53 Raising an army of women and girls 7:58 Mr. Jones and the Russian embassy screening 9:14 Stalin's resurgence in Russia 10:47 The Holodomor, then and now 15:50 Gareth Jones, Orwell, and the truth that can't be killed 17:41 March for Truth and Digital Maidan 18:34 Turning despair into action 20:20 The siege of Leningrad and Russia's playbook 23:27 How dehumanization works 25:29 What surprised Andrea while writing 29:48 Exhaustion and the war of attrition 32:46 Self-care and the long view 35:02 Why the French needed five republics 37:35 Book giveaway and pre-order info 40:31 Razom for Ukraine benefit

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Journalist and Navy veteran Ken Harbaugh joins fresh off another trip to Ukraine's front lines to talk about his new Atlantic piece on the armored evacuation vehicles medics use to pull wounded soldiers out of the war's most dangerous ground — and what the brutal casualty math (Russia losing roughly ten soldiers for every Ukrainian) says about where this war actually stands.

They also cover a week most American media buried: NATO shooting down a drone over Lithuania for the first time ever, Germany bracing hospitals for mass casualties, Switzerland abandoning decades of neutrality, a strike on Luxembourg's NATO/EU nerve center, and Emmanuel Macron summoning every French presidential candidate for a classified briefing before telling the country, bluntly, "no one is safe." Plus: Trump's G20 invitation to Putin, Zelensky's read on a possible three-way meeting, and Olga's investigation into a Virginia company tied to Russian intelligence that held contracts with the Pentagon, FBI, and ICE.

Has Pax Americana come to an end? Tune in for the harsh truths legacy media won't touch until it's too late.

Follow Ken Harbaugh's reporting and his show Burn the Boats.

Read his Atlantic piece — https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/09/ukraine-frontline-medical-evacuations/688638/

00:00 Intro 0:00:41 Ken Harbaugh joins, armored evacuation vehicle clip 0:03:23 The casualty math: ~10 Russians killed for every Ukrainian 0:07:09 Putin's targeting of civilian infrastructure 0:11:47 The Kievskaya subway station and Russia's "this was always ours" messaging 0:21:43 NATO shoots down a drone over Lithuania — a first 0:24:13 Macron's classified briefing to 2027 candidates: "no one is safe" 0:24:39 Switzerland abandons neutrality 0:24:54 Russia strikes Luxembourg's NATO/EU nerve center 0:35:05 Zelensky on a possible three-way G20 meeting 0:48:34 Ken: "a clash of civilizations" 0:49:54 Olga's investigation: the Virginia company tied to Russian intelligence