When Trump ordered Pence to overturn the 2020 election, he was trying to repeat what Republicans did in 1876. There are things we can do to prevent a third attempt in 2024 and we need to do them now.

Today's January 6th Committee's hearings are about the pressure campaign on Mike Pence to hand the election of 2020 to Trump. Official Washington and the media are shocked — "Shocked, I tell you!" — that John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump had come up with the "bizarre" idea that Vice President Pence could toss the election to the House, thus keeping Trump in office.

They're amazed when they reference five states having submitted two slates of electors each, the "real" Biden ones and the "phony" Trump ones that Giuliani and Eastman conspired with Republicans to create.

But this was neither bizarre nor new.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump's Secret Plan Was No Secret" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Partisan composition of state legislatures" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Electoral College Fast Facts" by House.

Article: "Trump Falsely Warns of Multistate Voter-Fraud Conspiracy" by Chas Danner.

Article: "Trump Brings Up Debunked Claim of Democratic Voter Fraud at New Hampshire Rally" by Matt Stieb.

Article: "Split Electoral Votes in Maine and Nebraska" by 270toWin.

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

Article: "Debunking Donald Trump's latest voter fraud claim about New Hampshire" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "More Voter Fraud Misinformation from Trump" by Robert Farley.

Law: "Bush v. Gore".

Law: "3 U.S. Code § 15 - Counting electoral votes in Congress".

Site: "National Popular Vote".

Article: "Vote fraud fact check: Trump's bogus (so far) claims about Florida" by Jane C. Timm.

Article: "Fact Check: Trump Repeats Voter Fraud Claim About California".

Article: "Contesting The Vote: The Florida Legislature; Jeb Bush Is Said to Be Willing to Sign Bill Ensuring Republican Victory in Florida" by David Barstow and Somini Sengupta.

Article: "Examining The Vote: The Overview; Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder.

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

Article: "Fact check: Trump claims massive voter fraud; here's the truth" by Robert Farley.

Article: "Trump’s voter fraud commission, explained" by German Lopez.

Article: "‘It’s insanity!’: How the ‘Brooks Brothers Riot’ killed the 2000 recount in Miami" by Michael E. Miller.

Article: "Torture Memo's John Yoo Devises Theory for Stealing Presidential Elections" by Marjorie Cohn.

Article: "What did Pence know and when did he know it? Here's what you should expect at the J6 committee's third day of hearings" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Video shows GOP congressman leading tour of Capitol complex the day before Jan. 6 attack" by Kathryn Watson.

Article: "Poll: Half of Americans now predict U.S. may 'cease to be a democracy' someday" by Andrew Romano.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republican party withdraws from US Commission on Presidential Debates" by Reuters.

Article: "About CPAC Hungary".

Article: "January 6 Hearing Ratings: How Many People Watched?" by Alyssa Choiniere.

GOP Commission Won't Certify NM Primary - What?!
- Greg Palast, Investigative Journalist/Author - latest, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters & previously, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Article: "Republican commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote " by AP.

Article: "County’s refusal to certify the vote hints at election chaos" by Christina A. Cassidy.

Article: "Convicted ‘Cowboys for Trump’ founder threatening to throw out 7,123 primary votes in New Mexico: report" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Man who went on GOP lawmaker's Capitol tour caught on camera threatening lawmakers on Jan. 6: report" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Nullification (U.S. Constitution)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Compromise of 1877" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Does Georgia's New Voting Law SB 202 Do?" by Stephen Fowler.

Article: "How Brian Kemp STOLE The Georgia Election" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Raphael Warnock" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herschel Walker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Election 2022 - Georgia Senate - Walker vs. Warnock" by RealClearPolitics.

Site: Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda.

Article: "Georgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards" by James Oliphant and Nathan Layne.

Article: "Kemp Loses Vote Purge Suit Brought by Reporter Palast" by Greg Palast.

Article: "2,000 Mules: Belly Laughs, Belly Aches from Film's "Proof" that Trump Won" by Greg Palast and Zach D. Roberts.

Article: "It's a Lot: Georgia Eyes More Than 250 Investigations of 'Credible Claims of Illegal Voting and Violation of State Election Law'" by Alex Parker.

Article: "Here's every word of the second Jan. 6 committee hearing on its investigation".

Case: "Bush v. Gore".

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "The “mind-boggling” hidden threat in Georgia’s restrictive new voting law" by Greg Palast.

Article: "DOJ suit misses Georgia’s worst new vote suppression tactic" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Warrior on two fronts" by Greg Palast.

Site: The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).

Article: "Texas Joins Electronic Registration Information Center" by Texas Secretary of State.

Article: "Florida Joins Electronic Registration Information Center" by Patrick Groves.

Article: "Secretary Raffensperger Announces Major Partnership to Enhance Voter Registration Systems" by Metro Atlanta CEO.

Article: "5 More States Join ERIC to Better Manage Voter Rolls" by Keara Castaldo.

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "Donald Trump's 2012 Election Tweetstorm Resurfaces as Popular and Electoral Vote Appear Divided" by Adam Kelsey.

Article: "Was Trump mobbed up? He used S&A Concrete, Inc. repeatedly. A mob enterprise. And that's not all" by Hudsagger.

Article: "Release of FBI Documents Resurrects Past Racial Controversies at Trump Housing" by Adam Howard.

Article: "1796 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hamilton (musical)" by Wikipedia.

Book: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.

Article: "A Phony ‘Phocion’: Alexander Hamilton and the election of 1796" by Phillip W. Magness.

Article: "Jan 6 hearings live: White House officials thought idea of Pence overturning election was ‘crazy’" (16 June 2022) by Chris Stein.

Article: "Electoral Count Act of 1887" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Senate salvages Electoral College ballots before rioters break into the chamber" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "Sen. Grassley confuses DC over whether he will handle electoral certification " by Steven Nelson.

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

It's Anything Goes Friday!

Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District / Vice Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus) will be here to talk issues of the day and take your calls.

And, Who Is Bankrolling White Nationalist Hate Groups? I'll ask Alex Kotch, Investigative reporter with the Media and Democracy / Campaign finance expert - helped launch the money-in-politics website Sludge / Contributor to The American Prospect, The Nation, and Vice.com

Plus, Today is the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (June 17, 1972). I'll be talking with Lamar Waldron, Political Commentator / JFK Historian & Author of numerous books, including Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"

And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...

Trump's Secret Plan Was No Secret

Will America's Democracy Collapse?

Fascist President Bolsonaro May Lose Election To Leftist? Featuring Guillaume Long

Climate Change Inaction Is Causing Mental Health Nightmare