Justice Stevens and his fellow "liberals" on the Court warned us Citizens United could doom our republic, something that's now within our sight.

When Bobby Kennedy went after organized crime in the early 1960s, one of the things he learned was that the Mafia had a series of rituals new members went through to declare their loyalty and promise they'd never turn away from their new benefactors. Once in, they'd be showered with money and protection, but they could never leave and even faced serious problems if they betrayed the syndicate.

Which brings us to the story of Kyrsten Sinema.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— 2020 Election: How close was America to having Trump declare himself president-for-life?
— Trump's people are trying to run out the clock or outright defy the January 6th Select Committee
— The Founders and Framers put the Emoluments Clause into the Constitution to prevent a president who was in financial trouble or beholden to a particular patron or interest from holding office.
— What the hell is Joe Manchin talking about when he says, "I cannot accept our economy, or basically our society, moving towards an entitlement mentality"?
— It's the Algorithm, Stupid!
— Morbidly rich people around the world are hiding hundreds of billions of dollars in South Dakota.
— Crazy Alert! New Orleans Republicans dump their leader for praising slavery and she's spittin' mad.
— In Good News: A historic vote for a clean environment.
— As 1 in 500 children in America have lost a caregiver to Covid, an Oregon group is now calling out corrupt Republican politicians for spreading lies about vaccines, masks and the disease.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Debate: Why Should America Take the GOP Seriously?
- Jennifer Stefano, Vice President & Chief Strategist - Commonwealth Foundation / Fellow - Independent Women's Forum

Article: "Santa Claus Is About To Drop a Bomb On Biden" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Jude Wanniski: Taxes and a Two-Santa Theory" by Bruce Bartlett.

Article: "Supply-side economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "History of the United States public debt" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Today, we are ending welfare as we know it" - Bill Clinton.

Article: "What You Need to Know About 'Chained CPI'" by Sho Chandra.

Article: "Obama drops controversial Social Security proposal" by Jeanne Sahadi.

Article: "While progressive leaders eat cake, their constituents suffer" by Jennifer Stefano.

Article: "Jerry T. Jordan" by AFT.

Article: "Horace Mann" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Are Birds Actually Government-Issued Drones? So Says a New Conspiracy Theory Making Waves (and Money)" by Fernando Alfonso III.

Article: "Fox News defends 'brutal' Christopher Columbus: His holiday 'is celebrating the ethnicity of America'" by David Edwards.

Article: "'What he wants is simply chaos': NYT report exposes Mitch McConnell's insidious debt ceiling game" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Stockholm syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden Wants To Reengage With The World, But His Ambassadors Are Mostly Absent" by Franco Ordoñez.

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred"

Article: "Indigenous Peoples' Day, Explained" by Melina Delkic.

Article: "A Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples' Day, 2021" by Joe Biden.

Article: "Sinema's Reign Shows How Political Corruption Can Destroy America Like Metastasized Cancer" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Rosselli Called A Victim Of Mafia Because Of His Senate Testimony" by Nicholas Gage.

Article: "Spoils system" by Young American Republic Project.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "dHow Kyrsten Sinema Went from Lefty Activist to Proud Neoliberal Democrat" by Branko Marcetic.

Article: "How the Mafia Works" by Ed Grabianowski & John Donovan.

Article: "Political Participation and Citizenship: Aristotelian Perspectives on Democracy" by UKDiss.

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

Video: How to help reverse 'democratic decline': Michael Abramowitz talks with Brian Stelter.

Article: "'Cruel and Unfathomable': Sinema Pushing $100 Billion in Climate Cuts From Reconciliation Bill" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "No Labels and the 'Problem Solvers' are Wolves of Wall Street in Sheep's Clothing" by Porter McConnell, Rion Dennis.

Article: "Report of the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities" (The Watergate Committee).

Article: "Mission and history" by Federal Elections Commission.

Article: "Bobby Kennedy went after organized crime" by .

Article: "Citizens United V. Federal Election Comm'n: Justice Stevens' dissent".

Article: "How the Tea Party Is Causing Big Business to Back Democrats" by Erika Eichelberger.

Article: "How They Voted 2013 - House" by U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Article: "Jimmy Carter calls for return to publicly financed elections" by Marilyn W. Thompson.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

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].

Article: "Contempt of Congress" (inherent contempt, criminal contempt, civil contempt) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Raskin: Those Defying January 6 Committee Subpoenas Could 'Be Jailed'" by Pam Key.

Article: "Aristotle on Wealth".

Article: "Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Racks Up $8 Trillion In National Debt Throughout Presidency" by Jake Dima.

Article: "Build Back Better: Joe Biden's Jobs And Economic Recovery Plan For Working Families" by Joe Biden.

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

Article: "Charter school" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Two: Growing Nuclear Risk In the Northwest
- Tom Carpenter, Executive Director - Hanford Challenge

Article: "Hanford nuclear site's contamination, growing risks to entire Northwest region detailed in new journal article" by Douglas Perry.

Article: "Hanford Site" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Caesium 137" by radioactivity.eu.com.

Article: "Radioactive Cesium and Heart Chapter 4: Pathophysiological Characteristics of Effects of Radioactive Cesium on Heart " by Yury Bandazhevsky.

Article: "Strontium-90" by radioactivity.eu.com.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Curie (unit)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "WA state Democrat, GOP lawmakers agree. Both sides protest appeal of Hanford worker law" by Annette Cary.

Article: "Columbia River" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US records highest-ever increase in nation's homicide rate in modern history, CDC says " by Jacqueline Howard.

Article: "War on Drugs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Purdue Pharma Is Dissolved and Sacklers Pay $4.5 Billion to Settle Opioid Claims" by Jan Hoffman.

Article: "grift" by Lexico.

Article: "Illinois State Lottery" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We Shouldn't Honor Genocidal Colonialists-End Columbus Day Now" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "President George W. Bush pursues Social Security reform, May 2, 2001" by Andrew Glass.

Article: "Here's what Trump means when he says 'drain the swamp' — even though it's not an accurate metaphor" by Rebecca Harrington.

Article: "New Details About Wilbur Ross' Business Point To Pattern Of Grifting" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Cooling-Canal System at the FPL Turkey Point Power Station" by David A. Chin.

Article: "Evidence of salt plume under Turkey Point nuclear plant goes back years" by Jenny Staletovich.

Article: "Tritium" by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Proxmire" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Air Force's $10,000 toilet seat covers now 3-D printed for much less" by Elizabeth McLaughlin.

Article: "Elizabeth Dole's Skeleton Closet" by Real People For Real Change.

Hour Three: Conversations with Great Minds: Jen Senko, Conversations with Great Minds: Jen Senko
- Conversations with Great Minds: Jen Senko, Director/Writer/Producer - The Brainwashing Of My Dad (documentary) / Media Activist

Book: The Brainwashing of My Dad by Jen Senko.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Campaign dinner address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the Fala speech)", 9/23/1944 "Remember, a number of years ago, there was a book, Mein Kampf, written by Hitler himself. The technique was all set out in Hitler's book - and it was copied by the aggressors of Italy and Japan. According to that technique, you should never use a small falsehood; always a big one, for its very fantastic nature would make it more credible - if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again.".

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Was the Fox News Channel Banned in Canada?" by David Mikkelson.

Book: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.

Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954.

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "James M. Buchanan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Accuracy in Media" (AIM) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Roger Ailes career timeline: from trusted Nixon ally to Fox News kingpin" by Mark Sweney.

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

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Amygdala" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jim Jones" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Rwandan genocide" by Wikipedia.

Site: Sue Wilson Reports .

Site: DDAD (Defenders of Democracy Against Disinformation).

Site: Change The Channel Campaign.

Site: Fix FOX Now Campaign.

Site: $2 For Truth Campaign.

Event: NY, 12 Oct 14:00-15:00 UTC+01: "Truth Tuesdays At Fox "News"".

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

Conversations with Great Minds: Dr. Keisha N. Blain, Historian/Writer & Columnist-MSNBC / Associate Professor of History-University of Pittsburgh & President-African American Intellectual History Society / 2022 New America National Fellow & Carr Center Fellow-Harvard University and a member of the School of Social Science-Institute For Advanced Study / Author of 2 books including her latest, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America (previous book: Set the World On Fire) and editor/co-editor of numerous books, including Four Hundred Souls - edited w/Ibram X. Kendi.

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