Unless we soon hold them accountable for their damage to America and the Constitution in a way they will understand and take seriously, this will continue and get worse. If we fail, G-d help us.

Trickle-down authoritarianism is both making life miserable for and killing Americans, and it needs to stop.

America has always had a dark undercurrent of authoritarianism, stretching from the slave owners going to war with the North over their right to own and control other human beings to Joe McCarthy's demented (and false) rants about "communists in the State Department" to Nixon's "War On Drugs."

But Donald Trump and his acolytes have taken it farther than ever before in this country, and the result is over 660,000 dead Americans — most of whom would still be alive today if Trump had simply listened to scientists — and now everyday Americans from schoolboard members to election volunteers to retail clerks are quitting in droves to avoid having to deal with Trump-inspired authoritarian bullies.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trickle-Down Authoritarianism Must Stop" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Georgia Republicans Make Move Toward Fulton County Election Takeover" by Josephine Harvey.

Article: " Kent Co. health director tells commissioners after almost being run off the road: 'I need help'".

Article: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.

Article: "Bathroom Bill 3.0: A coordinated attack against trans kids and their families" by Equality Texas.

Article: "Neo-Nazi and Proud Boys groups push Trump campaign poll watching online: Reports" by ABC News.

Article: "Let's all be honest about hydroxychloroquine" by Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, Dr. Harvey A. Risch.

Article: "DeSantis just hired a surgeon general with a history of questioning COVID vaccines and mandates" by Sky Palma.

Article: "Court allows Ken Paxton's criminal case to move forward in his home county, but prosecutors say they'll appeal" by James Barragán.

Article: "Hundreds clash in Portland as Proud Boys rally descends into violence" by Jason Wilson.

Article: "Autumnal equinox" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 Bill" by Sarah Kliff.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "California has the lowest coronavirus rate in the nation. Here's what we know" by Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money.

Article: "Oregon Coronavirus at a glance".

Article: "Wisconsin to remove up to 188,000 from voter rolls because they have not voted in 4 years" by Patrick Marley.

Article: "Wisconsin Deactivates 200,000+ 'Ghosted' Voters" by Human Events.

Article: "Michigan GOP launches not-so-secret plan to undo Whitmer's veto on voting bill" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "The Scheme: Sheldon's Court Capture Speeches".

Article: "Cyber Ninjas Now Aims To Pound On Arizona Voters' Doors To Grill Them Over 2020 Ballots" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Lott to Oust Senate Parliamentarian Who Ruled Against GOP" by Nick Anderson, Janet Hook.

Article: "United Airlines CEO Says Resignations in "Single Digits" After Vaccine Mandate" by Scott Olson.

Article: "Only one out of every 500 healthcare workers in Maine has quit their job over statewide vaccine mandate, analysis finds" by Mansur Shaheen.

Article: "The way we were: Denmark lifts all Covid curbs" by AFP.

Article: "Special prosecutor" (independent counsel) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ken Starr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Durham" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming" by Max Fisher.

Article: "Election expert warns 2024 may be corrupted – but there's still an 'ultimate safeguard of American democracy'" by David Badash.

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

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "Reconstruction era" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Memo shows Trump lawyer's six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election" by Jamie Gangel and Jeremy Herb.

Article: "Christchurch mosque shootings" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lawyer Accused of Flashing 'White Power' Hand Gesture During Kavanaugh Hearing" by .

Article: "Illinois becomes the first state to require media literacy courses for high school students" by Global Media Literacy.

Article: "Inoculating against misinformation: Finland's efforts to bring media literacy to the classroom" by Nada Zohdy.

Article: "Trump's Proud Boys 'stand back and stand by' debate moment was more than a dog whistle" by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "Samuel Dash" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John N. Mitchell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Janet Reno" by Wikipedia.

The Kavanaugh Scheme & the Capture of the Supreme Court
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

Youtube: "Senator Sheldon Whitehouse".

Video: The Scheme Speech 1: The Powell Report - Sheldon Whitehouse.

Video: The Scheme Speech 2: Powell Groundwork - Sheldon Whitehouse.

Video: The Scheme Speech 3: The Latent Virus - Sheldon Whitehouse.

Video: The Scheme Speech 4: A New Constitutional Right for Dark Money - Sheldon Whitehouse.

Video: The Scheme Speech 5: The Federalist Society - Sheldon Whitehouse.

Video: The Scheme Speech 6: The Judicial Crisis Network - Sheldon Whitehouse.

Article: "Christine Blasey Ford" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Christopher A. Wray" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Happened With Merrick Garland In 2016 And Why It Matters Now" by Ron Elving.

Article: "Brett Kavanaugh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Where Did Brett Kavanaugh's Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Credit Card Debt Go?" by Luke Darby.

Article: "Federalist society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federalist Society's Leonard Leo is helping Trump make courts more conservative" by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg.

Article: "What Brett Kavanaugh Must Be Asked About Torture, Guantánamo, and Mass Surveillance" by Amy Davidson Sorkin.

Article: "Neil Gorsuch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In Central York, kids rose up to save books on MLK, Rosa Parks from their parents | Will Bunch Newsletter" by Will Bunch.

Article: "As G.O.P. Digs In on Debt Ceiling, Democrats Try Shaming McConnell" by Jonathan Weisman.

Article: "The debt-ceiling debate is out of control. Here's how to stop the madness" by Allan Sloan.

Article: "Janet Yellen: Congress, Raise the Debt Limit" by Janet Yellen.

Article: "US Librarians See 'Big Brother' in Monitoring of Library Patrons Under 'USA Patriot Act'" by David B. Caruso.

Article: "Religious debates over the Harry Potter series" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Ron DeSantis' new anti-'indoctrination' scheme is so absurd" by Steve Benen.

Article: "If The Supreme Court Says Racism Is Pretty Much Over, Why Are So Many People Still Being So Racist?" by Nick Wing & Shadee Ashtari.

Article: "USS Maine (ACR-1)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Propaganda of the Spanish-American War" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war" - William Randolph Hearst.

Article: "San Simeon, California" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: The Chinese property group, Evergrande, is Causing A Crisis in America. How and Why?
- 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)

Article: "Evergrande crisis triggers this short-term stock market sell signal" by Brian Sozzi.

Article: "Beyond Evergrande's Troubles, a Slowing Chinese Economy" by Keith Bradsher and Alexandra Stevenson.

Article: "Evergrande domestic debt deal calms immediate contagion concern" by Anshuman Daga, Andrew Galbraith.

Article: "Mixed economy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Historical GDP of China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Economy of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "History of United States debt ceiling" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Cross of Iron" - Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

Article: "Supreme Court is about to have 3 Bush v. Gore alumni sitting on the bench " by Joan Biskupic.

Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Article: "When The Shoeshine Boys Talk Stocks It Was A Great Sell Signal In 1929. So What Are The Shoeshine Boys Talking About Now?" by John Rothchild.

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

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gov. Ron DeSantis Wins Mask Mandate Ban For Florida Schools After Filing Appeal" by Cortney Drakeford.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

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