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Progressive Town Hall - Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) / Author of 2 books, his latest Dignity In A Digital Age: Making Tech Work For All Of Us
How Republicans Conspire with Churches for Political & Social Control
Most Men Can't Really Imagine Equality - And - This Is Also True of White Racists
Experts Continue to Sound the Alarm About America's Authoritarianism and Violence...
Compromise In Ukraine? Either You Support a Democracy Against an Authoritarian State Or You Don't. Authoritarians (much Like Trump) Take a Mile When You Give Them an Inch
Top fed Official Claims Corporate Price Hikes Are Fueling Inflation

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How Republicans Conspire with Churches for Political & Social Control

Shameless radical religious leaders are breaking the law while living off you and me - It's time to cut them off from the "free lunch" of tax exemption. For Republicans, the purpose of religion is — as it has been for authoritarians since Old Testament days — political and social control. It's not about spirituality: it's all about raw, naked, taxpayer-subsidized power and the wealth associated with it.

A Michigan county Republican Party just posted a video showing picture after picture of that state's Democratic politicians, starting with Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who rightwing terrorists have already tried to kidnap and murder.

Under each picture — including a picture of George Soros representing, presumably, the "International Jews" who Republican politicians suggest wield space lasers and secretly are trying to control the world — reads the death threat, in bold, all-caps:

"GOD'S GONNA CUT YOU DOWN!"

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) / Author of 2 books, his latest Dignity In A Digital Age: Making Tech Work For All Of Us

Article: "Russia and Saudi Arabia agree to massive cuts to oil output. Here's why it matters" by Jackie Northam.

Article: "Saudis take 100% control of America's largest oil refinery" by Matt Egan.

Article: "Ohio Senate debate: Tim Ryan and JD Vance attack each other over jobs and too much party loyalty" by AP.

Article: "Tim Ryan (Ohio politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mandela Barnes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Fetterman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Raphael Warnock" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Maggie Hassan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Gas Prices Are Going Back Up and What You Can Do to Save Money at the Pump" by NBC, AP.

Article: "Sallie Mae" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.

Article: "2 New Omicron Subvariants Gain Momentum as BA.5 Cases Decline" by NBC.

Article: "Dr Fauci predicts new Covid variant could lead to winter surge" by Josh Marcus.

Article: "$25 Billion to Vaccinate the World" by Public Citizen.

Petition: "No Big Pharma Monopolies on COVID Vaccines or Treatments: WTO TRIPS Waiver Now!" by Public Citizen.

Article: "Biden's Marijuana Pardons Don't Apply to Service Members" by Thomas Novelly.

Article: "Fact check: J.D. Vance falsely claims dozens of jailed Capitol protesters haven't been charged with a crime " by Daniel Dale and Hannah Rabinowitz.

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

Article: "Medicare's annual fall enrollment period starts Oct. 15. Here's what you need to know" by Sarah O'Brien.

Article: "Saudis take 100% control of America's largest oil refinery" by Matt Egan.

Article: "Biden administration seeks delay over Prince Mohammed immunity decision " by Stephanie Kirchgaessner.

Article: "Opioid epidemic" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Senator Rick Scott wants to "sunset" Social Security and Medicare" by Michael Meeropol.

Article: "The Social Security 2100 Act" by John Larson.

Bill: "H.R.5723 - Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust" by Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1].

Article: "Some Medicare Advantage Organization Denials of Prior Authorization Requests Raise Concerns About Beneficiary Access to Medically Necessary Care" by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tulsi Gabbard quits Democratic party, attacking 'elitist cabal of warmongers'" by Erum Salam.

Hour Two: How Republicans Conspire with Churches for Political & Social Control

Article: "How Republicans Conspire with Churches for Political & Social Control" by Thom Hartmann.

Image: "Save our Republic! Impeach Earl Warren".

Article: "Not-So-Peachy Race in Georgia" by Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood.

Video: This Is Your Year | Fast 2022 | Pastor Jentezen Franklin & Herschel Walker.

Article: "Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker questions evolution" by Danielle Kurtzleben.

Video: Triple A Discipleship - Full Worship Experience.

Video: Herschel Walker Interview | Mar. 13, 2022 | Chuck Allen | 11:00.

Video: Hillsdale County Republican Party VOTE CONSERVATIVE 2022.

Article: "The Restriction of Political Campaign Intervention by Section 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Organizations" by IRS.

Article: "A Future President's Rebirth" by Janet Hook.

Article: "Establishment Clause (Separation of Church and State)" by Hana M. Ryman and J. Mark Alcorn.

Article: "Franklin Graham Compares 10 Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump to Betrayal of Christ" by Jeffery Martin.

Article: "The Johnson Amendment In 5 Questions And Answers" by Tom Gjelten.

Article: "The Real Origins of the Religious Right" by Randall Balmer.

Article: "Trump is wrong. Pulpit freedom already exists" by Washington Post.

Article: "Johnson Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954 (integrated schools).

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bombing Kyiv Into Submission? History Says It Won't Work" by Max Fisher.

Article: "The Blitz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)" by Wikipedia.

Most Men Can't Really Imagine Equality - And - This Is Also True of White Racists

Article: ""most men can't really imagine equality"" by kpete.

Quote: "When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women." - Sally Kempton.

Quote: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry.

Article: "Speech Before Virginia Ratifying Convention", June 05, 1788 by Patrick Henry.

Article: "Patrick Henry" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Countries Where Women Are in Charge" by Katherine Gallagher.

Quote: "There are only two kinds of politics. They are not radical or reactionary, or conservative and liberal, or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust" - Ed Muskie.

Article: "Edmund Muskie" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Democrat who cried (maybe) in New Hampshire and lost the presidential nomination" by Robert Mitchell.

Experts Continue to Sound the Alarm About America's Authoritarianism and Violence...

Article: "Experts sound alarm over violent speech ahead of US midterms" by Agence France-Presse.

Article: "FBI Source in Mar-a-Lago Investigation Shot and Left for Dead at Canadian Resort" by Andrea Jefferson.

Article: "Exclusive: DeSantis education board trying to quietly add severe punishments to "Don't Say Gay" and CRT laws" by Jordan Zakarin.

Article: "Veterans can now teach in Florida with no degree. School leaders say it 'lowers the bar'" by Gershon Harrell.

Article: "Sens. Rick Scott and Tom Cotton to campaign for Herschel Walker in Georgia" by Summer Concepcion and Allie Raffa.

Article: "Russian filtration camps for Ukrainians" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Anti-government protests grow in Iran as oil workers strike outside refineries" by ABC News.

Article: "Iranian Revolution" (1978 - 1979) by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. Supreme Court Backs Republican in Pennsylvania Ballots Case" by Andrew Chung.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

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

Video: "President Jimmy Carter: The United States is an Oligarchy...".

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "Marshall Plan" by History.com.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Gorbachev says revive Russian social democratic party" by Timothy Heritage.

Article: "Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Did Russia's Oligarchs Get Rich From the Fall of the Soviet Union?" by Harry Atkins.

Article: "Carpetbagger" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Philadelphia".

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

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: "CMS Redesigns Accountable Care Organization Model to Provide Better Care for People with Traditional Medicare " by CMS.

Site: Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).

Book: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee.

Hour Three: Compromise In Ukraine? Either You Support a Democracy Against an Authoritarian State Or You Don't. Authoritarians (much Like Trump) Take a Mile When You Give Them an Inch

Article: "Taiwanese diplomat trashes Elon Musk's proposed 'compromise' with China: Freedom is 'not for sale' " by Brad Reed.

Article: "Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad: U.S. must stop undermining negotiations with Russia to end Ukraine war " by Amy Goodman.

Article: "US airport websites hit by suspected pro-Russian cyberattacks" by Agence France-Presse.

Article: "Reality Winner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Neville Chamberlain" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: The U.S. and the Holocaust.

Movie: "Schindler's List".

Article: "MAGA monster running for Senate claims the power to choose abortion 'belongs' to GOP 'gentlemen'" by Rebekah Sager.

Top fed Official Claims Corporate Price Hikes Are Fueling Inflation

Article: "Top Fed Official Says Corporate Price Hikes Are Fueling Inflation" by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "Fed Chief Sets Monetary Policy By Seat-of-the-Pants Approach" by David Wessel.

Article: "Iran–Iraq–Syria pipeline" (Friendship Pipeline) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 Section 3. "No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen."

Article: "Critical race theory" (CRT) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Justice Official Hits New Black Panther Party Voting-Rights Probe" by Frank James.

Article: "Far right preparing army of 'poll watchers' eager to find proof of conspiracy theories in '22 vote" by David Neiwert.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Black Panther Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mulford Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Number of graduates from public colleges and universities in China between 2010 and 2020" by Statista.

Article: "Riane Eisler" by Wikipedia.

Site: Riane Eisler.

Book: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler.

Article: "David Elliot Loye" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herbert Spencer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Social Darwinism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reimagining Power and Revaluing Care: Actualizing the Potentials of Partnership Systems" by Riane Eisler.

Article: "What nuclear secrets could Trump have possibly taken?" by Christian Paz.

Article: "NAACP denounces 'flat out racist' remarks by GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville at Trump rally" by Rebecca Shabad.

Article: "Biden signals rethink over Saudi ties amid anger at cuts in oil output" by Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Julian Borger.

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