Barack Obama's election in 2008 was the tipping point for millions of racist Republicans trying to maintain over 200 years of legal white supremacy…

America today is in the midst of our second attempt at creating a truly pluralistic, multiracial democracy. The GOP is doing everything they can to sabotage the effort: can we pull it off despite their treachery?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Can America Pull Off a Second Reconstruction?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Map: Where anti-critical race theory efforts have reached" by Kiara Alfonseca.

Article: "African American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A Political Party With an Armed Paramilitary Wing Is Not Consistent with Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "Will Trump End Up In Prison?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Fact Sheet: The Supreme Court’s ACA Decision and Its Implications for Medicaid"(NFIB v Sibelius) by Jane Perkins.

Article: "Criminalizing the vote: GOP-led states enacted 102 new election penalties after 2020" by Kira Lerner.

Article: "Militia alliance in Georgia signals new phase for extremist paramilitaries" by Chris Joyner.

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

Article: "Voting Laws Roundup: May 2021" by Brennan Center.

Article: "Led by Trump, GOP increasingly casts White people as racism's victims" by John Harwood.

Bill: "H.R.9 - Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006" by Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5].

Article: "Reconstruction: A Timeline of the Post-Civil War Era" by Farrell Evans.

Article: "Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions: Interactive Map" by KFF.

Article: "‘Its Own Domestic Army’: How the G.O.P. Allied Itself With Militants" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Mike McIntire.

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

Article: "Portland Republicans to use militia for security as far-right rallies continue" by Jason Wilson.

Article: "Two-Thirds of Republicans Believe Great Replacement Theory, New Poll Shows" by Cameron Joseph.

Video: Can Manufacturing Jobs Fight Against Oligarchy Featuring Bernie Sanders.

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

Article: "Compromise of 1877" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Law: "Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965".

Article: "White Students are Now the Minority in U.S. Public Schools" by Grace Chen.

Site: Sam Lawrence for Ohio.

Site: Sam Cao for Ohio.

Article: "Republican attorneys general to host private retreat for corporate donors at swanky Palm Beach resort" by Brian Schwartz.

Article: "Republican AGs group sent robocalls urging march to the Capitol" by Laura Strickler and Lisa Cavazuti.

Video: Right-wing militias were a ready weapon for Trump on January 6th.

Article: "Bongbong Marcos" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sara Duterte" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thousand people dead in Europe due to heatwave, England citizens feeling the need for AC, fans" by Timesofindia.com.

Article: "Heat wave scorches Europe as UK reaches record-breaking temperatures" by Sana Noor Haq, Hafsa Khalil, Angela Dewan, Aditi Sangal, Mike Hayes and Elise Hammond.

Article: "Dante's inferno-like fires erupt over Europe; death toll tops 1000; France warns of heat apocalypse." by Pakalolo.

Article: "Biden said to be pondering a climate emergency declaration soon, along with executive actions" by Meteor Blades.

Video: Manchin crushes Biden’s economic policy ambitions.

Article: "Biden eyes climate emergency declaration as Democrats demand swift action" by Tony Romm, Jeff Stein and Ashley Parker.

Article: "Democrats Want Biden To Go 'Beast Mode' And Fight Climate Change Via Executive Action" by Igor Bobic.

Article: "A Guide to Emergency Powers and Their Use" by Brennan Center.

Article: "Biden said to be pondering a climate emergency declaration soon, along with executive actions" by Meteor Blades.

Article: "Canada's House of Commons has declared a national climate emergency" by Rachel Aiello.

Are Trump & Trumpsters Willing Kill Americans?
- Malcolm Nance, U.S. Intelligence expert / Author or several books including his latest, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency (previous: The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West)

Article: "International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Podcast: "Real Time with Bill Maher: Ep. #548: Tristan Harris, Malcolm Nance".

Article: "Insurgency" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ku Klux Klan Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Proud Boys" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three Percenters" by Wikipedia.

Site: Oath Keepers.

Article: "DeSantis’s Education Department Bans 54 Math Books Over Supposed "CRT" Content" by Chris Walker.

Article: "Malcolm X" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House Republicans Vote AGAINST Lowering Gas Prices" by .

Article: "Full List of 192 House Republicans Who Voted Against FDA Baby Formula Bill" by Khaleda Rahman.

Site: Media Matters for America.

Article: "Plastic particles found in bottled water" by David Shukman.

Hour Two: How Austin Is Fighting Back Against the TX Abortion Ban
- José "Chito" Vela, Austin City Council District 4 Council Member / prior to his election, he worked as an immigration & criminal defense lawyer / law degree from University of Texas at Austin

Article: "Austin pushing to effectively decriminalize abortion ahead of ruling on Roe" by Megan Messerly.

Article: "4 things we know, and one big thing we don't, on the draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Beto Outraises Abbott As the Race Tightens" by Fernando Ramirez.

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Forty acres and a mule" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Idaho GOP rejects platform change allowing abortion to save person’s life " by Brad Dress.

Article: "Who Killed the Electric Car?" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Secret Service reportedly determined that it is unable to provide deleted texts messages from Jan" by Summer Concepcion.

Article: "Anthony ‘Tony’ Ornato: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" by Jessica McBride.

Article: "Anthony Ornato" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Merrick Garland's 'election year' memo actually means for investigating Donald Trump" by C. Ryan Barber.

Article: "Why that Merrick Garland memo that has people so angry is actually a good thing" by Mark Sumner.

Podcast: "Intelligence Expert Malcolm Nance Makes the Convincing Case that Trump is a Russian Asset" by Al Franken.

Article: "Republicans should drop efforts to change Idaho’s Redistricting Commission" by Gary Moncrief.

Article: "Far-right groups who planned insurrection are commonplace in Idaho, and close to power" by Idaho Statesman.

Article: "Charlie Kirk Denounces Man Asking About Killing People He Says Stole Election" by Ewan Palmer.

Article: "Balkanization" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The limitations of Joe Biden’s executive order on abortion" by Li Zhou.

Site: NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Hour Three: Why Biden Is Letting the Saudis Win?
- Dr. Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft @tparsi @QuincyInst @RStatecraft

Article: "It Was a Game of Hardball and Biden Just Handed It to the Saudi Prince" by Trita Parsi.

Article: "Iran nuclear deal framework" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (Iran Nuclear Deal) by Wikipedia.

Article: "CIA Operative Gina Haspel Who Tortured, Ordered CIA Torture Tapes Destroyed, and Now Wants To Lead CIA Did Nothing Wrong, Says CIA" by Jon Queally.

Article: "Randy Weaver" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Waco siege", 1993 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11" by Joanna Walters and Alvin Chang.

Article: "Flint water crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Scopes Trial" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Army–McCarthy hearings" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States Senate Watergate Committee" (Watergate hearings) by Wikipedia.

Article: "January 6 committee chairman has Covid-19 but Thursday's hearing not impacted" by Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer.

Movie: "Don't Look Up".

Article: "These 10 states are America’s worst places to live in 2022" by Scott Cohn.

Article: "Monica Lewinsky" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is it time for Democrats to kick Joe Manchin out of the party?" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Jim Justice" (WV governor) by Wikipedia.

Book: Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer.

Article: "Under the Banner of Heaven (TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hoover Dam Explosion Cause Determined to Be Blown Transformer" by Thomas Kika.

Article: "Mitt Romney’s Pregnancy Problem" by Geoffrey Dunn.

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

Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.

Plus, I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

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...

GOP Policy Wants Women To Die

Inside The Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency Featuring Malcolm Nance

Is It Time for Democrats to Kick Joe Manchin Out?