The old Confederacy, like Freddy Krueger, is trying to rise from the dead and slash our nation with its "superstition, ambition and ignorance."

Prior to 1965, the only American president to have both promoted and presided over a multiracial democracy was Ulysses Grant, the former general in Lincoln's army who became president when impeached Southern slaveowner Andrew Johnson's term expired on March 4, 1869.

Grant (and Johnson, but grudgingly) saw freed African Americans not only voting but taking political office by the hundreds. It lasted until the day Grant left office, when the Tilden/Hayes election "compromise" of 1876 ended the period known as Radical Reconstruction the following year.

During this brief time, more than 600 African Americans were elected to state legislatures (the majority in South Carolina and Louisiana) and 16 served in the US House of Representatives.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Kremlin papers appear to show Putin's plot to put Trump in White House" by Luke Harding, Julian Borger and Dan Sabbagh.

Article: "Putin Plotted to Put 'Mentally Unstable' Trump in White House According to Report on Leaked Kremlin Papers" by Colby Hall.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "Manafort shared polling data on 2016 election with elusive Russian – Mueller" by Jon Swaine.

Article: "A blockbuster document purportedly from the Kremlin raises lots of questions — about itself" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Manchurian Candidate" by Dictionary.com.

Article: "Top U.S. General Said Trump Preached 'Gospel of the Führer'" by Ben Jacobs.

Article: "'They're not going to f**king succeed': Top generals feared Trump would attempt a coup after election, according to new book" by Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb, Marshall Cohen and Elizabeth Stuart.

Article: "Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley feared Trump would attempt a COUP after losing the election, warned of a 'Reichstag moment' and said the then-president was preaching 'the gospel of the Führer', new book claims" by Ariel Zilber, Nikki Schwab.

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

Book: I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker.

Article: "Revealed: Fake Chinese 'embassy' is home to right-wing media and nonprofits manufacturing bogus conspiracy theories" by John Wright.

Article: "'I saved his a--': Trump boasted that he protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder, Woodward's new book says" by Sonam Sheth and John Haltiwanger.

Article: "Trump in Moscow: what happened at Miss Universe in 2013" by Jon Swaine, Shaun Walker.

Article: "Marco Rubio backer's money initially funded anti-Trump research" by Alex Leary.

Article: "Trump donor named next postmaster general" by Matthew Choi, Daniel Lippman.

Article: "Why Trump is suddenly replacing Pentagon officials with loyalists" by Alex Ward.

Article: "Steve Bannon Is Charged With Fraud in We Build the Wall Campaign" by Alan Feuer, William K. Rashbaum and Maggie Haberman.

Article: "Trump pardons Steve Bannon in 'We Build The Wall' fraud case".

Article: "Democrats Roll Out $3.5 Trillion Budget to Fulfill Biden's Broad Agenda" by Jonathan Weisman, Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley.

Article: "The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election" by Nate Silver.

Article: "Richard A. Clarke" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's decision to eliminate role of cybersecurity czar rattles experts. Here's why" by Daniel Arkin.

Article: "Biden taps intelligence veteran for new White House cybersecurity role" by Natasha Bertrand.

Book: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth.

Article: "Want to bring bipartisanship back? End the filibuster now" by Amanda Marcotte.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Critical Race Theory Is a Hustle" by Jason L. Riley.

Article: "Teaching Critical Race Theory Devalues College Education Even Further" by Ron Hart.

Article: "Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House" by Daniel Lippman.

Article: "Stingray phone tracker" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Does America Risk Having Too Little Inflation?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book) @profwolff @democracyatwrk

Article: "Inflation? Not in Japan. And That Could Hold a Warning for the U.S." by Ben Dooley.

Article: "Families Are Receiving A Child Tax Credit. Janet Yellen Says It Should Be Permanent" by Noel King, Scott Horsley.

Article: "Inflation might well keep rising in 2021 - but what happens after that?" by Brigitte Granville.

Article: "1967 Oil Embargo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Xinjiang's New Slavery" by Adrian Zenz.

Article: "Will The Price Of Oil Keep Rising If Demand Declines: OPEC+ And Other Deliberations" by Ian Palmer.

Article: "Risk-limiting audit" by Wikipedia.

Site: BradBlog

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).

Book: CODE RED: Computerized Elections and The War on American Democracy: Election 2020 Edition by Jonathan David Simon.

Site: Black Box Voting.

Video: Howard Dean and Bev Harris hack the vote.

Article: "The Multiracial Democracy Ulysses Grant Was Willing to Die For is in Danger" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump Constitutionally Could Remain President Even if He Loses 2020 Popular and Electoral Votes, and He Knows It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "President Grant's Des Moines Address" by L. F. Parker.

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: "H.R.4 - Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019" by Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7].

Article: "What Georgia's Voting Law Really Does" by Nick Corasaniti and Reid J. Epstein.

Article: "2022 United States Senate election in Alabama" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reconstruction era" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Voting Rights Roundup: Supreme Court guts the last critical protections of the Voting Rights Act" by Stephen Wolf.

Case: "Shelby County v. Holder", 2013.

Article: "Out of Touch: Shelby v. Holder and the Callous Effects of Chief Justice Roberts's Equal State Sovereignty" by Adam Bolotin.

Article: "Epic of Gilgamesh".

TV: "Vikings".

Article: "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants" (WASPs) by Wikipedia.

Article: "SHOCK POLL: Two in Three Southern Republicans Want to Secede From the United States" by Colby Hall.

Site: "Convention of States".

Article: "Alan Greenspan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'It's all fake': Trump's manufacturing jobs promises ring hollow in midwest" by Michael Sainato.

Geeky Science: "J&J recalls Aveeno, Neutrogena sunscreens over cancer-causing chemical " by Will Feuer.

Article: "'She's not my type,' Trump says of E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexual assault" by AP.

Article: "Trump denies coup attempt in latest attack on Milley" by Quint Forgey. "If I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley"

Tweet: "Let me be 100 clear:
Over 6M votes cast, there's exactly 2 cases of criminal voter fraud in PA.
- Luzerne Republican voting for a dead mom
- Chester Republican voting for a live democrat son.
10 days of every Republican frenetically searching: TWO CASES." by John Fetterman.

Article: "By numbers: how the US voted in 2020" by Christine Zhang, John Burn-Murdoch.

Article: "1991 Louisiana gubernatorial election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's tariff war threatens to erode support of farmers" by Mark Weinraub.

Article: "The Trump, Harley-Davidson Feud Explained" by Deborah D'Souza.

Article: "Texas border wall project receives over $450K in donations, a week after Gov. Greg Abbott announced plans" by Reese Oxner.

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