The GOP has embraced the oligarchic strong-man police-state & the Democratic Party is returning to its progressive & populist roots -- we face a moment of great danger & one of great opportunity.

Do we stand on the edge of a grand new progressive era, with good wages for all, racial and gender equality and justice, and a reduction of the political power of reactionary forces in America? Or will the next president gleefully overthrow American democracy, shutter the free press, and imprison those who object?

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-Thom

The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It Introduction

How Did We Get Screwed?

The Story of Carl

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-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— Justice Sonia Sotomayor attached a scathing commentary to the Supreme Court's majority decision to allow a challenge to the "Texas Vigilante Antiabortion law."
— You'd think that even Republicans would look at the way Trump ran the White House for his own profit and to the benefit of foreign autocrats, who then recycled money into Trump properties, as a bad thing. Apparently not.
— Labor is making a comeback, and it's young workers who've taken the lead.
— Thanks to John Roberts and the Supreme Court gutting the unanimously-passed Civil Rights Act in their disgusting and racist Shelby County decision, Georgia Republicans are pulling Black Democrats off elections boards in that state and replacing them with white Republicans
— Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows prepared a Powerpoint presentation about how to overturn a legitimate election and keep Trump in power.
— Normally when a country is hit with an attack from outside or a natural disaster, people pull together regardless of their political affiliation. Think of America after Pearl Harbor or 9/11. Now, however, Republicans are openly refusing to cooperate with (and even openly sabotaging) President Biden's efforts to get a once-in-a-century pandemic under control.
— In the name of fighting inflation, will the Fed repeat what it did to Jimmy Carter back in the day, raising interest rates and crashing the economy just before an election?
— Do We Ignore Or Engage Rural Voters?
— Eric Boehlert and Michael Moore are offering insights into why the media is so obsessed with the "Biden is failing" and "the economy is a wreck" narratives when both of those memes are exactly, completely 180-degrees out of sync with the truth.
— Geeky Science: Now we know why overweight people get worse cases of Covid!
— Geeky Science: It's not just for rats — exercise protects the brains of elderly humans, too.

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-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Are We Standing On the Edge Of a Grand New Progressive Era?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Prison Notebooks" by Antonio Gramsci.

Article: "The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born" by .

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk.

Book: Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris.

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

Book: The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond by Nancy Fraser.

Article: "Why the Biden Presidency Feels Like Such a Disappointment" by Professor Corey Robin.

Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss & Neil Howe.

Book: "Politics Presidents Make Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton" by Stephen Skowronek.

Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The American Civil War (1861-1865): Death and Casualties".

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

Article: "World War II" (1939 - 1945) by Wikipedia.

Bill: "Texas SB4".

Article: "Texas law restricting access to abortion pills goes into effect: What to know" by Katie Kindelan.

Article: "Texas Senate Bill 8: Medical and Legal Implications" by Kari White, Gracia Sierra, Laura Dixon, Elizabeth Sepper, Ghazaleh Moayedi.

Article: "Covid: Boris Johnson sets new booster target over 'Omicron tidal wave'" by Francesca Gillett.

Article: "Jan. 6 panel: Meadows said Guard would "protect pro Trump people"" by Rebecca Falconer.

Memo: "Employment Guidance for the District of Columbia National Guard" by Chistopher C Miller, 4 January 2021.

Article: "Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun" by Barton Gellman.

Article: "Why they fight: It's not just about Trump -- the insurrectionists believe 'their version of America is under threat'" by Jordan Green.

Article: "2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America First Committee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'In vivid color': Liz Cheney says weeks of Jan. 6 hearings are coming" by Jon Ward.

Article: "Bannon Recruits QAnon Supporters As GOP Precinct Chairs" by Isaac Arnsdorf.

Article: "GDP by Country" by Worldometer.

Article: "How the West invited China to eat its lunch" by Faisal Islam.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "Reconstruction era" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Equal Protection Clause" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: How Do We Stop the Trumpters From By-Passing the Governor and Imposing New Voting Restrictions?
- Journalist Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org)

Article: "Trump's Michigan allies are plotting to bypass the governor and impose new voting restrictions" by Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Tesnim Zekeria.

Article: "Bannon's Jan. 6 role walks the thin line between revolutionary rhetoric and revolution" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Chuck Grassley Claims Mike Pence Will Not Proceed Over Electoral College Certification Tomorrow...Then Backtracks?" by Shane Trejo.

Article: "Michigan Election Results and Maps 2020" by CNN.

Article: "Corey Robin" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin.

Book: The Enigma of Clarence Thomas by Corey Robin.

Article: "As U.S. Nears 800,000 Virus Deaths, 1 of Every 100 Older Americans Has Perished" by Julie Bosman, Amy Harmon and Albert Sun.

Article: "UK launches 'national mission' to get COVID-19 boosters out ahead of omicron 'tidal wave'" by AP.

Article: "Energy crisis: 3 in 5 Americans more exhausted now than ever in their lives" by Chris Melore.

Site: Trump Death Toll.

Article: "Trump officials hired 'under suspicious circumstances' still hold key positions in Merrick Garland's DOJ: report" by Tom Boggioni.

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

Article: ""This Isn't a Natural Disaster": Climate Scientist Michael Mann on Deadly Tornadoes in 8 States" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Solar Panels and the White House" by Oliver Carpenter.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Article: "W. Edwards Deming" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The curious case of a map and a disappearing Taiwan minister at U.S. democracy summit " by Reuters.

Article: "Alien and Sedition Acts of the United States". "old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams."

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy". "If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."

Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

Article: "Invisible hand" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith, 1759.

Hour Three: Conversations with Great Minds - The Plot to Destroy Real Medicare
- Dr. Ana Malinow Professor of Pediatrics - University of California-San Francisco & former President - Physicians for a National Health Program

Article: "Medicare (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "An Obscure Agency Is Threatening to Hand Medicare Over to Wall Street" by Ana Malinow.

Article: "Docs Come to D.C. to Protest Medicare's Direct Contracting Program" by Joyce Frieden.

Article: "Direct Contracting Model: Professional and Global Options Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO)-based Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) Fact Sheet" by CMS.

Article: "Understanding the Direct Contracting (DC) Payment Model" by Joe Mercado.

Article: "Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Accountable Care Organization" (ACO) by Wikipedia.

Law: "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act", 2003.

Article: "The biggest threat to Medicare you've never even heard of" by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Susan Rogers, M.D.

Article: "Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot.

Book: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass.

Book: The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron.

Book: "Ultimate Sacrifice" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann

Book: "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann

Quote: "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Jefferson Davis" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.

Article: "Trump on Birtherism: Wrong, and Wrong" by Robert Farley.

Article: "'Drug dealers, criminals, rapists': What Trump thinks of Mexicans" by BBC.

Quote: "[Democrats] have lost the South for a generation" - Lyndon Johnson.

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

Sotomayor's warning on marriage equality: They will destroy it: Michelangelo Signorile Journalist/Commentator & Host - Michelangelo Signorile Show - SXMProgress ch. 127 3-6 ET M-F (immediately following The Thom Hartmann Program)

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