Welcome to the "great" America that Trump and his MAGA followers want us to become again: a racist, sexist, repressive and dangerous apartheid state.

They're convinced that there's an international conspiracy, funded by Jews, to "replace" European-ancestry whites with people of color whose ancestors came from outside of Europe.

They're frightened by the new census data showing that whites are a decreasing majority in America, and terrified by the prospect that Afghans who risked their lives for America might move here.

They're all over Twitter with the hashtag #remigration (essentially: "Send Black and other people of color 'back where they came from' and don't let more in"), and have a huge presence on Facebook and other social media.

The source of their terror is their totally wrong and unscientific belief that skin color is a reliable indicator of intelligence, temperament and trustworthiness. Therefore, they believe, skin color must always determine who has political, cultural and economic power in American society.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Pocan Introduces The "COVID Defense Act" to Direct Just Over 1 Percent of Pentagon Spending Towards Vaccinating 30% of the World's Poorest Populations" by Mark Pocan.

Article: "COVAX" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House Moderates Say They Won't Back Budget Vote Until Infrastructure Bill Passes" by Jonathan Weisman.

Article: "Senate passes $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, sending key part of Biden's economic agenda to the House" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "What's in Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget plan? Here's what we know so far" by Lisa Desjardins.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Eugene V. Debs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supply chains in the grip of congestion virus" by Declan Bush.

Article: "Barbara Lee's Lone Vote on Sept. 14, 2001, Was as Prescient as It Was Brave and Heroic" by Glenn Greenwald.

Article: "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists" (AUMF, 2001) by Wikipedia.

Article: "House Moderates Say They Won't Back Budget Vote Until Infrastructure Bill Passes" by Jonathan Weisman.

Article: "President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan" by White House.

Article: "Dianne Feinstein" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McCain defends '100 years in Iraq' statement" by CNN.

Article: "CDC recommends third Covid-19 vaccine dose for certain immunocompromised people" (12+) by Maggie Fox and Jacqueline Howard.

Article: "COVID-19 Vaccines for Children and Teens" by CDC.

Article: "Covid vaccine: US plans to offer booster Covid jabs in September" by Laura Foster.

Article: "Children hospitalized with COVID-19 in U.S. hits record number" by Gabriella Borter.

Article: "One in 12 unvaccinated Americans say $100 would change their mind about the COVID-19 vaccine" by Kathy Frankovic.

Hour Two: How Do Conservatives Plan Plan to Protect Children Who Can't Get Vaccinated, the Elderly and Other Vulnerable People?
- Jennifer Stefano, Vice President & Chief Strategist - Commonwealth Foundation / Fellow - Independent Women's Forum

Article: "'It's just scary': A Slidell mom's 4 kids test positive for COVID-19, youngest 2 hospitalized" by WDSU.

Article: "More "Covid Suicides" than Covid Deaths in Kids" by Micha Gartz.

Article: "CDC approves Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 12 to 15" by Natalie O'Neill.

Article: "Florida will offer school vouchers in cases of "COVID-19 harassment"" by Shawna Chen.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren's Position on Vouchers: A Review" by Andrew Ujifusa.

Article: "Wealthy L.A. Schools' Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan's" by Olga Khazan.

Article: "Lost on the Frontline" by The Guardian and KHN.

Article: "The Case Against Masks for Children" by Marty Makary and H. Cody Meissner.

Article: "The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program" by Human Rights First.

Article: "Trump Administration Has Drastically Dropped Visas For Afghan And Iraqi Interpreters" by Quil Lawrence.

Article: "The United States has closed at least 10 bases around Afghanistan. But drawdown details remain murky" by Susannah George and Dan Lamothe, November 27, 2020.

Article: "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices" by Ken Klippenstein, Sara Sirota.

Article: "The Brutal Endpoint for "White Replacement Theory" Promoted on Conservative Media: Apartheid America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "New Poll: Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists" by UVA Center for Politics.

Article: "Watch: Commuter Abuses NJ Train Conductor With Racial, Sexual Epithets" by Jerry DeMarco.

Tweet: "Tucker: "If history is any guide, and it's always a guide, we'll see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in coming months, probably in your neighborhood. And over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions. So first we invade & then we're invaded."" - The Columbia Bugle.

Tweet: "Charlie Kirk says Biden intentionally let Afghanistan fall because he "wants a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars to come into America to change the body politic permanently"" - Jason Campbell.

Tweet: "After the disastrous events in Afghanistan, we must confront a serious question: Is Joe Biden capable of discharging the duties of his office or has time come to exercise the provisions of the 25th Amendment?" - Rick Scott.

Tweet: "It is becoming increasingly clear that Biden & his radical deputies will use their catastrophic debacle in Afghanistan as a pretext for doing to America what Angela Merkel did to Germany & Europe" - Stephen Miller.

Article: "How the Immigration Act of 1965 Changed the Face of America" by History Channel.

Article: "Lachlan Murdoch gave Tucker Carlson the green light to spread "replacement theory," and he took it" by Matt Gertz.

Article: "Tucker Carlson gives passionate defense of "white replacement theory"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Laura Ingraham: Vote Republican or you will be replaced by immigrants" by Media Matters.

Article: "Tucker Carlson defends his support and promotion of white supremacist "replacement" theory: "Demographic change is the key"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Tucker Carlson says the "abrupt change" we're seeing in America is reminiscent of how "Germany got Hitler"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Angela Merkel defends open border migration policy" by Maïa de La Baume.

Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says" by Amy Sherman.

Article: "Watch: Florida teacher caught 'terrorizing' neighborhood with racist rant against 'half-breed' kids" by John Wright.

Article: "'Jews will not replace us': Why white supremacists go after Jews" by Yair Rosenberg.

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

Book: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.

Article: "U.S. to begin offering COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in September" by Carl O'Donnell and Ahmed Aboulenein.

Article: "Jennifer Stefano" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David Karesh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charles Manson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Montana law signed by Gov. Gianforte nullifies mask mandates" by Arren Kimbel-Sannit.

Article: "Cruz calls for 'zero' Covid mandates as his kids safely attend school requiring masks" by MSNBC.

Article: "Texas Education Code: Sec. 38.031: Notice of Lice" by Texas.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Site: National Education Association.

Site: American Federation of Teachers.

Article: "We'll Have Herd Immunity by April" by Marty Makary.

Article: "Marty Makary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "H. Cody Meissner" by FDA.

Article: "The Latest: Alabama gov issues state of emergency amid surge" by AP.

Article: "Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson Regrets Signing A Law Banning Mask Mandates Now That His State Is Being Decimated By COVID" by Jessica Toomer.

Article: "Dismal Creek" by MapCarta.

Hour Three: The Impending Water Crisis Facing America
- Dr. Jay Famiglietti, Executive Director & Professor, Global Institute for Water Security - University of Saskatchewan

Article: "A Crisis Of Water And Power On The Colorado River" by Inside Climate News.

Article: "First-ever water shortage on the Colorado River will bring cuts for Arizona farmers " by Ian James and Zayna Syed.

Article: "California enacted a groundwater law 7 years ago. But wells are still drying up — and the threat is spreading " by Rachel Becker.

Article: "Major California hydroelectric plant forced to shut down as severe drought continues " by Andrew Jeong.

Article: "Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'" by Matt McGrath.

Article: "Agriculture is 80 percent of water use in California. Why aren't farmers being forced to cut back?" (2015) by Jeff Guo.

Crazy Alert: "American Qanon 'patriots' are following orders from phony Canadian 'queen' to harass health clinics and Walmarts" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "LAUSD orders all teachers and staff to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 15" by Howard Blume, Melissa Gomez.

Quote: "Figures Don't Lie, But Liars Do Figure" - anon.

Article: "Afghan conflict: Trump hails deal with Taliban to end 18-year war" by BBC.

Article: "Trump's deal with the Taliban set the stage for the Afghan collapse" by David Schanzer.

Article: "UK troops in Afghanistan: Timeline of key events" by BBC.

Article: "French forces in Afghanistan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Osama bin Laden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "German and Italian troops fully withdraw from Afghanistan as US forces continue to leave" by J.P. Lawrence.

Article: "Republicans are pretending there's a cure for COVID-19 so they can justify their monstrous acts" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Regeneron's Antibody Drug Cuts Risk of Death in Some Covid-19 Patients" by Denise Roland.

Quote: "There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families." - Maggie Thatcher.

Article: "Texas school board finds a loophole in Gov. Greg Abbott's order banning mask mandates " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?" by Juan Cole.

Article: "Smithfield Foods" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "This Is How Much Water It Takes To Make Your Favorite Foods" by Katherine Boehrer.

Article: "Bellowing anti-vaxxers terrify Walmart workers with execution threats -- and it's all caught on video" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Kabul" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Afghanistan" by Wikipedia.

Video: Maddow: Vanishing Afghan Army Disproves Premise Of U.S. Presence In Afghanistan.

Article: "Vietnam" by Wikipedia.

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

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