When LBJ signed the Civil & Voting Rights Acts the white Racists were homeless - so Nixon prepared one, Reagan fluffed up the pillows, & Trump stood out front with a bullhorn & a "Whites Only" sign.

Yesterday all but 2 Republicans in the House of Representatives went on record saying it's okay to openly encourage the assassination of one of their own, a person of color and elected Member of the House.

That last part about Representative Ocasio-Cortez not being white was no coincidence, by the way. It was really at the core of the issue: Republicans now openly refer to her and the women of color who call themselves "the Squad" as the "Jihad caucus." As in "Muslim terrorists," as in "the Other."

Earlier in the day, known antisemite and racist Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene called for her followers to prepare for war because "Joe Biden didn't win the 2020 election" and "the only way you get freedom back after you've lost it is with the price of blood."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "More Prefer Republicans To Win Control Of The House And Senate, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 68% Say Higher Prices Are Changing Spending Habits" by Quinnipiac.

Article: "Infrastructure Bill Passed: Joe Biden's Big Win?" by Trevor Filseth.

Article: "Manchin urges House to pass infrastructure bill but does not endorse $1.75tn framework – as it happened" by Joan E Greve and Lois Beckett.

Article: "House votes to censure Congressman Paul Gosar for violent video" by Melissa Quinn.

Article: "The Build Back Better Framework" by White House.

Article: "Ahead of Planned Votes, Democratic Rep. Sums Up Hours of Negotiation for Reporters: 'Well, the Whole Day Was a Clusterf*ck, Right?'" by Josh Feldman.

Article: "17 Nobel Prize–winning economists back Biden's $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan" by Nicole Goodkind.

Article: "State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction" by Tax Foundation.

Article: "The Math Didn't Add Up: The Reason President Biden Asked The FTC To Investigate Gas Gouging!" by Rule of Claw.

Article: "Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rep. Takano Introduces Legislation to Reduce the Standard Workweek to 32 Hours" by Mark Takano.

Article: "Could Iceland's shorter working week work around the world?" by JJ O'Donoghue.

Bill: "H.R.4803 - Acupuncture for Our Seniors Act of 2021" by Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27].

Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

Article: "Every House Member Who Aided the January 6 Rioters Must Be Expelled" by John Nichols.

Site: Gay and Lesbian Pages.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is the New GOP "Southern Strategy" Civil War & Bloodshed...and a Return to "Leave It To Beaver"?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "American Schools Are More Segregated Now Than They Were In 1968, And The Supreme Court Doesn't Care" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "81 Famous American Civil War Quotes To Make You Think" by Kidadl.

Article: "South Carolina's Declaration of the Causes of Secession", December 24, 1860.

Book: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Southern Stalemate: Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia by Christopher Bonastia.

Case: "Loving V. Virginia".

Article: "Republican congressional candidate caught on video making series of racist and Islamophobic remarks" by James Crump.

Case: "Loving V. Virginia".

Article: "New Marquette Law School Poll finds majority of Republicans across the nation favor a Trump run for president in 2024, while majority of voters overall are opposed" by Marquette.

Article: "E Pluribus Unum" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "Who Is The White Vote?" by Gene Demby.

Article: "Their Own Private Idaho: Five Oregon Counties Back a Plan to Secede" by Kirk Johnson.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene warns of 'civil war' over Biden's agenda: People will pay 'the price of blood'" by David Edwards.

Article: "Bannon Surrenders On Contempt Charges: "Focus On Signal, This Is All Noise"" by Tim Hains.

Site: "Southern Poverty Law Center".

Video: Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo).

Article: "National Voter Registration Act of 1993" (Motor Voter Act) by Wikipedia. "The Congress finds that -
(1) the right of citizens of the United States to vote is a fundamental right;"

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Article: "The Courts Won't End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them" by Ari Berman.

Site: National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

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

Article: "MapLab: How Republicans Are Dominating the Redistricting Process So Far" by Laura Bliss.

Article: "Gosar (briefly) retweets the same murder-fantasy video that got him censured by the House" by Laura Clawson.

Site: MoveOn.org

Site: Indivisible

Site: Our Revolution

Quote: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana.

Article: "What Is the PRO Act?" by AFL-CIO.

Article: "Democrats Shouldn't Panic. They Should Go Into Shock." by Thomas B. Edsall.

Article: "Pharma Dems Saved The Drug Industry Half A Trillion Dollars" by Andrew Perez, Julia Rock.

Article: "What's Really Driving Inflation? Corporate Power" by Robert Reich.

Hour Three: Conversations with Great Minds:
- Dr. Priya Fielding-Singh, Ph.D, Assistant Professor-University of Utah, Department of Family & Consumer Studies America / Ph.D. in Sociology-Stanford University / completed her postdoctoral training as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford School of Medicine / Author of the new book, HOW THE OTHER HALF EATS: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

Article: "Food desert" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Acclaimed Talk Show Host and Human Rights Activist, Joe Madison, "Starving for Voting Rights"" by Joe Madison.

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

Bill: "S.2747 - Freedom to Vote Act" by Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN].

Documentary: "They're Trying to Kill Us".

Article: "Diabetes and African Americans" by OMH.

Article: "Live updates: Jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial haven't reached a verdict, will deliberate for a fourth day" by Rebecca Cohen.

Article: "Defense attorneys rest their cases at Ahmaud Arbery trial" by Russ Bynum.

Article: "Mitt Romney says 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax" by Molly Moorhead.

Article: "Corporate minimum tax proposal unveiled by key Senate Democrats as Biden social bill comes together" by Christina Wilkie, Thomas Franck.

Article: "Hamilton vs. Jefferson: Polar Opposites".

Article: "Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [5 December 1791]" by Alexander Hamilton.

Case: "Dodge v. Ford Motor Co." by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Antitrust was defined by Robert Bork. I cannot overstate his influence.'" by Dylan Matthews.

Article: "Robert Bork" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Quote: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" - Karl Marx.

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