Who on Earth would want to send thousands of desperate people to our Southern border just in time for every midterm facing a Democratic president? Who would be that crass and cynical? Just a month ago we finished President Biden's first midterm election and, as predictably as the sun rises in the east, right around election time and for the months afterward a wave of refugees and immigrants have shown up at our southern border.

This happens every two years when a Democratic President is in office. And finally the US news media seems to be getting a clue as to why. More about that in a moment.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Dirty Game Republicans are Playing with Desperate People's Lives" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: ABC host blames Greg Abbott for open border statements.

Article: "Mo Brooks blasts Socialist Democrats' open border policies for helping kill Americans" by Elizabeth Patton.

Article: "Bilirakis Denounces Biden's Dangerous Open Border Policies on House Floor" by Gus Bilirakis.

Article: "Biden's Open Border America" by Tom Cole.

Article: "Biden's Border Blunders" by Tom Cole.

Article: "Gaetz Torches Mayorkas On Deceitful Agenda At The Border" by Kari Donovan.

Article: "Congressman Good Introduces the Close Biden's Open Border Act" by Bob Good.

Article: "Joe Biden is Destroying America with His Open Border Policies" by Paul A. Gosar.

Article: "Congressman John Rose calls out Biden Administration's open border policies" by John Rose.

Article: "A Brief Legislative History of the Last 50 Years on the U.S.-Mexico Border" by University of Arizona.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene BLASTS Open Border Hypocrites In Congress" by Dinesh D'Souza.

Article: "Border Patrol Strategic Plan 1994 and Beyond" by Doris Meissner.

Tweet: "Border Funding Bill Vote" by Rhonda Harbison.

Article: "Democrats' Open Border Problem" by Roger Williams.

Article: "Border Safety Initiative of 1998" by Rachel Dunlap.

Article: "Cruz: Biden Open Border Policy ‘a Very Craven Political Decision'" by Trent Baker.

Article: "Marco Rubio: ‘Nothing Compassionate' About Joe Biden's Open Borders Policies" by John Binder.

Article: "Rep. Jim Jordan: Biden's Deliberate Support of Illegal Immigration Could Lead to Impeachment" by Robert Kraychik.

Article: "1998" by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Article: "Rick Scott blasts Biden immigration policies: 'Americans don't want open borders'" by Fox News.

Article: "Hawley Says Biden's Open Borders Policies Have Created A "Moral Crisis"" by Josh Hawley.

Article: "Rep. Lauren Boebert to Newsmax: Border Crisis 'Root Cause' is in White House" by Eric Mack.

Article: "Rand Paul said that Marco Rubio is for an 'open border'" by Amy Sherman.

Quote: "The Biden administration's failure to secure our southern border puts every American's security at risk, biden's open border policies have been a complete disaster, causing the worst border crisis we've seen in over 20 years. As the number of encounters continues to rise, drugs and weapons are flooding across our southern border, and Democrats have turned their backs on our Border Patrol agents and law enforcement." - Elise Stefanik.

Article: "Our National Security is at Risk Because Democrats have Turned Border Security into a Partisan Issue" by Ron Johnson.

Article: "Border Crisis" by Ken Paxton.

Article: "Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)" by USCIS.

Article: "Here are the Democrats who have called the border situation a 'crisis'" by Carly Roman.

Article: "McCarthy heads to border as GOP puts Mayorkas on notice: 'He's utterly failed'" by Anna Giaritelli.

Article: "Obama calls wave of children across U.S.-Mexican border ‘urgent humanitarian situation'" by Katie Zezima and Ed O'Keefe.

Article: "Sen. Tom Cotton insists ‘the border is wide open' after Mayorkas claims border is secure" by Valerie Richardson.

Article: "Massive ‘bomb cyclone' expected to put damper on holiday travel across US" by Jessica Goodman.

Site: Neeva.

Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "US border: Who decided to separate families?" by BBC.

Article: "Biden administration task force reunites 400 migrant families separated under Trump" by Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff.

Article: "News Sites Took Nearly $1 Million From Consultant Pushing Power Companies' Agenda: Report" by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "WH claims it's ‘misinformation' to say U.S. border ‘open' after Title 42 ends " by Steven Nelson.

Article: "Key facts about Title 42, the pandemic policy that has reshaped immigration enforcement at U.S.-Mexico border" by John Gramlich.

Quote: "A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes" - various.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Video: 5G: An Undeniable Risk.

Article: "Misinformation related to 5G technology" by Wikipedia.

Article: "FCC says there's no evidence 5G is a health risk" by Oscar Gonzalez.

Article: "Children's Health Defense" by Wikipedia.

Book: If God is Love, Don't Be a Jerk by John Pavlovitz.

Article: "Real America's Voice" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Drain the swamp" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. immigration/migration - statistics & facts" by Statista.

Article: "Evidence Shows That Most Immigrants Appear for Immigration Court Hearings" by Vera Institute of Justice.

Article: "In the first half of 2022, Fox News feverishly pushed debunked, racist, and inflammatory narratives about immigration and migrants " by Chloe Simon.

Article: "Winter solstice" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sámi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Santa Claus" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: I donate to this charity and you should too - one of the best to help the children of Ukraine. Dr. Irwin Redlener is on about their good works....
- Dr. Irwin Redlener, Pediatrician & Child Advocate / Sr. Research Scholar-Columbia University - National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) / Author, The Future of Us and Americans at Risk

Site: Ukraine Children's Action Project.

Article: "2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation", 2014 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joan Baez paints Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy" by Sacks and Company.

Article: "In Subfreezing Cold, Waves of Russian Missiles Batter Ukraine" by Andrew E. Kramer and Marc Santora.

Article: "DOJ grants immunity to compel Trump adviser Kash Patel's grand jury testimony in Mar-a-Lago case" by Ken Dilanian and Rebecca Shabad.

Article: "Ethics gone awry: Jan. 6 probe calls for ethics probe of GOP leader McCarthy, 3 fellow GOP lawmakers" by Brandi Buchman.

Article: "Senate readies debate on $1.7 trillion deal to fund government, avert shutdown" by Tony Romm.

Article: "Russia, China to hold joint naval drills" by AP.

Site: Black Veterans Project (BVP).

Article: "BVP Sues the Department of Veterans Affairs" by BVP.

Article: "Nuclear Fusion Energy Breakthrough: Ignition Confirmed in Record 1.3 Megajoule Shot" by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Article: "Livermore National Laboratory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Explore nuclear fusion with the IOP" by IOP.

Article: "Nuclear fusion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Women of the Deer Mother's Solstice" by Genevieve Gluck.

Article: "Stephen Larsen" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joseph Campbell" by Joseph Campbell.

Book: Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind by Stephen Larsen.

Article: "Geeky Science: The Hidden History of Santa Claus" by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Three: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Member & Former Co-Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Appropriations / Also, Education & Labor)

Article: "Wisconsin US Rep. Mark Pocan comes away from four-day visit to Cuba with hope despite acknowledging existing concerns" by Lawrence Andrea.

Article: "McConnell Ignores Threat, Breaks With McCarthy By Praising Spending Bill: Senate Republicans Achieved ‘Essentially All Our Priorities'" by Alex Griffing.

Article: "Democrats vote to release six years of Trump's tax returns " by Tobias Burns.

Article: "Public Service Loan Forgiveness" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.7305 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a deduction for attorney fees awarded with respect to certain wildfire damages and to exclude from gross income settlement funds received with respect to such damages" by Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5].

Article: "The Continued Survival of Louis DeJoy" by David Dayen.

Article: "Two Outgoing Lawmakers Are Jockeying for Slots on the USPS Board" by Eric Katz.

Article: "New US Navy aircraft carrier toilet flaw costs $400,000 a flush" by Bloomberg.

Article: "Grassley Says Pence Will Skip Electoral Vote Certification" by Taegan Goddard.

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

Article: "Sen. Johnson suggests ending Medicare, Social Security as mandatory spending programs" by Amy B Wang.

Law: "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986".

Article: "Annotated Guide to the For the People Act of 2021" by Brennan Center.

Article: "Wisconsin Gov. Walker rejected high speed rail but wants the money anyway" by Jess Zimmerman.

Article: "Maxwell Frost" by Wikipedia.

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

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