The Democratic Party is in denial. Democrats need to start dealing with Republicans the way they would deal with the Klan.

Trump dumped his blog because he has nothing to say that anyone wants to hear beyond one single message.

He’s not thinking deep thoughts about the economy, or the state of the nation’s infrastructure, or offering insights into the Middle East. There’s literally no philosophy Trump holds — other than one single idea — that truly matters to the vast majority of the Republicans who support him.

He’s not Richard Nixon, who could be actually thoughtful on foreign policy. He’s not Ronald Reagan, who completely bought into the idea of supply side economics. He’s not George W. Bush, who had a story to tell us about why it was so important to attack the second-most oil-rich country in the world and hand their natural resources over to Dick Cheney’s company.

The only thing Trump has to offer his followers is open and blatant racism, and that is the core and foundational base of his support.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Grand Dragon of Today’s Ku Klux Kaucus? Donald Trump" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: “When the KKK marched on Washington, 1926“.

Article: “The Psychic Toll of Night Rides“ by Kidada E. Williams.

Article: “Manafort Out, Someone Worse Is In“ by Martin Longman.

Article: “Report: Scalise’s Pitch 20 Years Ago: I’m ‘David Duke Without The Baggage’“ by Matthew Boyle.

Article: “International Study Finds US Republican Party Heading Towards Becoming One of World's Most Authoritarian Factions“ by Brett Wilkins.

Article: “What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?“ by Stephen Sawchuk.

Article: “America still struggles to resolve the challenges of race and justice“ by Chris Jackson, Mallory Newall.

Article: “Election bills surge nationwide as 47 states consider restrictions“ by Jane C. Timm.

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

Article: “Publicly, she organizes MAGA truck caravans in California -- but her wedding photo is on a Nazi Telegram channel“ by Jordan Green.

Article: “Memphis is digging up the remains of a Confederate general who led the early KKK“ by Brittany Shammas.

Article: "Donald Trump killed his recently created blog and honestly that's a very blogger move" by Tim Marcin.

Movie: "The Birth of a Nation (1915)".

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.", April 4, 1968 by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Time to start pulling committee assignments from Democratic senators who won’t vote to end or radically modify the filibuster.
Enough of the carrot. Time for the stick" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "What is ALEC" by ALEC Exposed.

Article: "Joe Manchin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "West Virginia ALEC Politicians" by sourcewatch.

Article: "Jim Jeffords" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Parliamentarian guidance deals blow to reconciliation strategy" by Paul M. Krawzak.

Article: "Parliamentarian of the United States Senate" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rules Keeper Is Dismissed By Senate, Official Says" by David E. Rosenbaum.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Sinema defends filibuster, sparking progressive fury" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "John C. Calhoun" by Wikipedia.

Book: White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement by Allan J. Lichtman.

Article: "Activist fund expected to win third seat on ExxonMobil board" by Jasper Jolly.

Article: "Republicans want to make it harder to pass ballot initiatives. That should alarm us" by David Daley.

Tweet: "Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn't how it works but simply sharing the information)." by Maggie Haberman.

Article: "'I was there': C-SPAN caller outs himself as Jan. 6 participant who wants to 'take our country back' " by David Edwards.

Article: "Oath Keepers Leader Poised For Trump To Make Gang His 'Militia': Capitol Riot Indictment" by Mary Papenfuss.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Article: "January 5 Meeting at Trump International Hotel Could Hold the Key to the January 6 Insurrection" by Seth Abramson.

Article: "Texas Democrats leave House floor, effectively blocking passage of restrictive voting bill for now" by Eric Bradner and Dianne Gallagher.

Article: "No, Covid Vaccine Mandates Don’t Violate the Nuremberg Code" by Noah Feldman.

Article: "Josef Mengele" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tucker Carlson under fire for calling workplace vaccine requirement ‘medical Jim Crow’" by Louise Hall.

Article: "Tucker Carlson, Chief COVID Vaccine Skeptic, Still Won’t Say If He Got One" by Caleb Ecarma.

Article: "70% of adults in 12 states have received at least 1 COVID vaccine dose: CDC" by Ivan Pereira and Arielle Mitropoulos.

Article: "Coronavirus New York City: Zero new COVID deaths in NYC, lowest positivity since start of testing" by Eyewitness News.

Movie: "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".

Article: "Jim Jones" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coalition to Protect American Workers" by Sourcewatch.

Law: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 5. "...Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member...

Law: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 3. "...The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided....

Article: "Speech on the Dred Scott Decision" by Abraham Lincoln.

Article: "Andrew Jackson" (Old Hickory).

Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.

Article: "Tampa man pleads guilty to felony in Jan. 6 Capitol riot; his recommended prison sentence could set bar for other cases" by Spencer S. Hsu.

Article: "Figures Show Stark Difference Between Arrests At D.C. Black Lives Matter Protest And Arrests At Capitol Hill" by Robert Hart.

Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Eerie And Unsolved Case Of The Jan. 6 Pipe Bombs At The RNC And DNC" by Katherine Miller.

Article: "D.C riot – MAGA fanatics erect GALLOWS outside US Capitol as building is overrun and lawmakers trapped inside" by Jessica Kwong.

Article: "Capitol ‘rioter who wanted to shoot Nancy Pelosi’s noggin’ arrested" by Gino Spocchia.

Article: "A GOP congressman compared Capitol rioters to tourists. Photos show him barricading a door" by Brittany Shammas.

Hour Three: The Texas Winter Storm Was Far Worse and Killed Many More
- Peter Aldhous, Science Reporter - BuzzFeed News @paldhous @BuzzFeed

Article: "The Texas Winter Storm And Power Outages Killed Hundreds More People Than The State Says" by Peter Aldhous, Stephanie M. Lee, Zahra Hirji.

Article: "COVID-19 Data Misrepresented by Florida Governor" by Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

Article: "‘DeSantis sent the Gestapo’: Fired Florida Covid data scientist films home being raided by police" by Graeme Massie.

Article: "Texas leaders failed to heed warnings that left the state's power grid vulnerable to winter extremes, experts say" by Erin Douglas, Kate McGee and Jolie McCullough.

Article: "Texas lawmakers pass power grid reform bill, as experts warn it falls short" by Jeremy Blackman.

Article: "Biden lowers price tag and proposes no immediate changes to GOP tax law in effort to strike bipartisan deal" by Manu Raju, Maegan Vazquez, Phil Mattingly and Kaitlan Collins.

Tweet: "It's a mistake for Joe Biden and the Dems to wait until July or August to try to get the For the People Act through the Senate.
I've been in too many Democratic administrations to know that momentum is lost during the summer when the country stops paying attention.
Act now." by Robert Reich.

Site: "White House Contact".

Law: "52 USC 20701: Retention and preservation of records and papers by officers of elections; deposit with custodian; penalty for violation".

Site: Indivisible

Article: "March for Our Lives" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "A Fish Called Wanda".

Article: "Keystone Pipeline" (KXL) by Wikipedia.

Article: "OPEC+ sticks to plan to ease supply cuts through July" by Alex Lawler, Ahmad Ghaddar.

Article: "A "Jimmy Stewart Filibuster" Would Pass HR 1 & Save American Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Kyrsten Sinema" by Open Secrets.

Article: "Kyrsten Sinema" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Filibuster Was Grounded in Slavery and Now Threatens All Life on Earth" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Article: "Mississippi civil rights workers' murders" by Wikipedia.

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