There's apparently no depth to which they won't go.

Authoritarian Trump followers within the GOP are actively promoting death and disease among Americans to win elections. The brutality and cynicism is breathtaking.

As we saw yesterday, Rand Paul and several of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, grilling Dr. Fauci, did their best to advance one of the GOP's two major 2022/2024 election strategies.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "GOP ousts Cheney from leadership over her criticism of Trump" by Barbara Sprunt.

Article: "Trump's acting secretary of defense is working to install a Trump loyalist as the top lawyer for the NSA just days before the president leaves office" by Sarah Al-Arshani.

Article: "Trump's acting secretary of defense disarmed D.C. National Guard 48 hours before the fascist assault" by Jacob Crosse.

Article: "Former acting defense secretary to say he worried about appearance of 'military coup' at US Capitol on January 6" by Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb.

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Article: "More than 100 Republican former officials to seek reforms, threaten new party" by Hallie Jackson and Dartunorro Clark.

Article: "Our Freedom Only Survives If We Protect It" by Liz Cheney.

Article: "We Must Go Forward Based On Truth" by Liz Cheney.

Article: "Over 100 Republicans, including former officials, threaten to split from G.O.P." by Zach Montague.

Article: "Who is Miles Taylor? 'Anonymous' author was known for working on Donald Trump's immigration policies." by Joel Shannon.

Article: "'Rationals' vs. 'radicals': Anti-Trump Republicans threaten third party" by Tim Reid.

Article: "Michigan GOP lawmaker floats bill to register, fine 'fact checkers'" by Beth Leblanc, Craig Mauger.

Article: "'Disturbing and reckless': Retired brass spread election lie in attack on Biden, Democrats" by Bryan Bender.

Secret Political Spending Exposed
- Journalist Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org) @JuddLegum

Article: "EXCLUSIVE: How corporate PACs are plotting to "move beyond" January 6" by Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria.

Article: "Three Companies That Cut Political Donations After Jan. 6 Capitol Riots May Be Funding GOP Objectors" by Jemima McEvoy.

Book: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson.

Article: "Colorado Lawmaker Calls Colleague 'buckwheat' ... Gets Heated When Called Out" by TMZ.

Article: "Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters' Towns, Study Finds" by Alan Feuer.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

Article: "George Floyd Justice in Policing Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "WATCH: Video shows Capitol 'mob calling for the death of the vice president,' Plaskett says" by AP.

Article: "WATCH: Democrats say Capitol mob sought to kill Pelosi" by AP.

Article: "The GOP's Dark Death Plot to Win Elections" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Democrats' "Killer App" Against Voter Suppression Unveiled" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Dr Fauci once again schools Rand Paul after GOP senator peddles Covid misinformation" by Gino Spocchia.

Article: "145 House Republicans refuse to say whether they've been vaccinated against COVID-19" by Dartagnan.

Article: "'This is wrong': Ron Johnson's anti-vaccination lies ripped apart by fact-checker" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "When Anthrax-Laced Letters Terrorized the Nation" by Sarah Pruitt.

Article: "Rand Paul Gets Schooled On Coronavirus Variants After Calling Fauci's Masks 'Theater'" by Nina Golgowski.

Article: "Tucker Carlson's 'Sickening' Vaccine Question Turned Right Back At Him" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "The Anthrax Attacks and the Costs of 9/11" by Tom Engelhardt.

Article: "Coronavirus variants are spreading in India — what scientists know so far" by Gayathri Vaidyanathan.

Article: "Republicans Aim to Seize More Power Over How Elections Are Run" by Nick Corasaniti.

Article: "Arizona GOP Gov. Ducey waits just one hour to sign voter suppression bill that will purge 140,000 people from list" by David Badash.

Article: "GOP's Ron Johnson demolished in fact check for 'unscientific' conspiracy theories about COVID vaccine deaths" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Trump Got Vaccinated Secretly, Because Otherwise He Might Have Helped the Country" by Ryan Bort.

Article: "Malicious Bots and Trolls Spread Vaccine Misinformation" by The Conversation.

Article: "Daily New Cases in the United States" by worldometer.

Article: "Daily New Deaths in the United States" by worldometer.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "Five Covid-19 vaccine false theories - debunked" by BBC.

Article: "Rand Paul clashes with Fauci over coronavirus origins" by Nathaniel Weixel.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.

Article: "Turnbull unloads on 'lying' News Corp" by Andrew Tillett.

Article: "With "Midnight" Executive Order, Meatpacking Slaughterhouses Become Trump's Forced-Labor Camps of Human Sacrifice" by Mark Karlin.

Article: "US could have avoided almost 400,000 Covid deaths with better response, report claims" by Gino Spocchia.

Article: "Here's Why Trump And Cuomo Are Feuding Over A Coronavirus Vaccine" by Andrew Solender.

Article: "Republican Presidents' Impact on the Economy" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.

Site: The International Fact-Checking Network.

Article: "State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction" by Tax Foundation.

Video: The Rachel Maddow Show 5/10/21 | MSNBC News Today May 10, 2021.

Article: "Biden's Supreme Court reform commission won't fix anything" by Ian Millhiser.

Hour Three: Conversations with Great Minds: Homegrown Hate
- Sara Kamali PhD, Holistic Justice Activist & Scholar of systemic inequities and White nationalism - University of Michigan / Author of the new book, HOMEGROWN HATE: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists are Waging War against the United States @SaraKamali

Article: "US-led wars have displaced 37m people. America should accept responsibility" by David Vine.

Article: "List of wars involving the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis" by BBC.

Article: "Guantanamo Bay detention camp" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. calls Xinjiang an 'open-air prison,' decries religious persecution by China" by Reuters.

Article: "Tucker Carlson sneers at critics as he doubles down on 'replacement theory' remarks" by Oliver Darcy.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Camp of the Saints" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black Panther Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Malcolm X" by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Luther Pierce" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lafayette Square, Capitol rallies met starkly different policing response" by Rachel Chason and Samantha Schmidt.

Article: "Eugenics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Stand back and stand by': how Trumpism led to the Capitol siege" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "Le Pen family" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Christian Identity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.

Article: "9/11 Commission" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hideki Tojo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dixiecrat" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Segregation today! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" - George Wallace.

Article: "President Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War" by History.com.

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857

Article: "Japanese Internment Camps" by History.com.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Orbán killed a radio station" by Jamie Wiseman.

Article: "Hungary: 'Critics silenced' in social media arrests as EU debates Orban's powers" by Alasdair Sandford.

Article: "The Deep Delusions of The GOP Stripped Down" by Thom Hartmann.

Movie: "Capitalism: A Love Story".

Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Memorial Day" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.

Article: "'The perfect target': Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy" by David Smith.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Biden to go one-on-one with Manchin" by Morgan Chalfant.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

Plus, Professor Noam Chomsky, Laureate Professor-Department of Linguistics, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences-University of Arizona (since 2017 when he departed MIT) / Author, over 100 books, including Chomsky For Activists

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