Hey Folks,

Thom here writing again to ask for your help. Free Speech TV is nearing the end of its year-end campaign and your support could make the difference in whether or not we meet our goal.

Please consider chipping in $60, $120, or $240 to help Free Speech TV reach its critical year-end fundraising goal.

You know, the more I watch network news, the more thankful I am to have my program on Free Speech TV, to be part of a team with folks like Amy Goodman and Bill Press.

You won't see anyone on Free Speech TV spinning lies and convincing hardworking Americans to blame their economic hardships on immigrants and Obama's Islamic socialism.

It’s unreal! Half of what you hear on network news coming out of the mouths of Republicans doesn't even make sense.

On Free Speech TV, you'll hear the truth. Our economy has been growing despite a Republican-controlled congress that's held our political system and national budget hostage that continues to fight for the kinds of lax banking regulations that caused the worst financial crisis in our history.

If we're going to point fingers, let's point them in the right direction. Let's hold our leaders accountable. You can help by making sure people are empowered with the information they need by donating to Free Speech TV.

Please give $60, $120, or $240 to help Free Speech TV meet their critical year end goal. Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it!

With your help, we can fight for what matters.

With thanks,

Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... What Do We Do About Our Climate Crisis? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Community Square

"Video: Super Amigos (2007), 1 hr 15 min"

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Will Trump's Sexual Hypocrisy Work Against the Clinton's This Time?
- Scottie Nell Hughes, USA Radio Network/ROAR: The New Conservative Woman Speaks Out

Article: "Ex-Ally Donald Trump Now Heaps Scorn on Bill Clinton" by Amy Chozick.

Article: "Donald Trump Again Steps Up Attacks on Bill Clinton" by Carrie Dann.

Site: FYI Nation.

Article: "Why Is It Illegal to Research the Impact of Gun Control on Public Health?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ex-Rep. Dickey Regrets Restrictive Law On Gun Violence Research" by Steve Inskeep.

Video: Richard Nixon - "I'm not a crook" .

Article: "KING: Senators from Harlem, Queens endorse Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton — EXCLUSIVE" by New York Daily News.

Site: MoveOn.org

Article: "Affluenza teen' and mother traced in Mexico after ordering takeaway pizza" by Jana Kasperkevic.

Article: "Massive Methane Leak Displaces Thousands in Southern California" by Matthew DeLuca.

Hour Two: Tamir Rice Would Be Alive if He Were White
- Joe Madison, The Joe Madison Show/SiriusXM Urban View (ch.126)

Article: "Bernie Sanders is too extreme for America" by Scuba.

Article: "How the Koch network rivals the GOP" by Kenneth P. Vogel.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Fund failure exacerbates liquidity fears" by Robin Wigglesworth.

Article: "Cleveland’s Terrible Stain" by NY Times.

Article: "No evidence for Hillary Clinton's claim that ISIS is using videos of Donald Trump as recruiting tool" by Louis Jacobson.

Article: "Fact-checking Bernie Sanders' comments on climate change and terrorism" by Linda Qiu.

Article: "Infotainment" by Wikipedia.

Site: Talkers.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Akron barbershop owner confronts man openly carrying gun" by Bob Sandrick.

Article: "John Crawford: Police Gun Down Ohio Man Holding Toy Rifle In Store [VIDEO]" by NewsOne.

Article: "A year of reckoning: Police fatally shoot nearly 1,000" by Kimberly Kindy, Marc Fisher, Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins.

Article: "2015: the top news stories of the year in numbers: 1,125 people killed by police" by Mona Chalabi.

Article: "New Study Confirms Insidious GOP Racism in 2008 Presidential Race" by Janet Allon.

Quote: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting people to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Video: November 27, 1996 Joe Madison Show (with Larry King, Oliver North. From the Palm Restaurant).

Article: "Gary Webb" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad."

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann. Get "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann!

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

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred"

Article: "Maxine Waters" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Walter Pincus" by Wikipedia.

Video: Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam".

Speech: "Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York".

Article: "Rosa Parks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Killer Mike interviews Democrat Bernie Sanders on YouTube".

Quote: "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. " Lyndon B. Johnson.

Article: "O'Reilly surprised "there was no difference" between Harlem restaurant and other New York restaurants " by Andrew Ironside, September 21, 2007.

Article: "Manifest destiny" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Louisiana Purchase" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "Scalia: Black Students Don’t Need Affirmative Action Because They Benefit From A ‘Slower Track’" by Casey Quinlan.

Article: "Argument Transcript: Fisher v. University of Tex. at Austin", 9 December 2015.

Article: "Scalia channels his colleague Clarence Thomas in saying minorities might need ‘slower track’ schools" by Reuters.

Article: "Race, Class, and William Julius Wilson’ s World of Opportunity" by Eric Sorensen.

Book: What Does it Mean to be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo.

Book: How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev.

Article: "‘Boom boom boom’: White woman points BB gun at cops, tells them to ‘shoot me’ " by RT.

Article: "FBI Investigates Cliven Bundy Supporters Who Allegedly Pointed Guns At Federal Officers" by AP.

Article: "1991: David Duke and Edwin Edwards in runoff for governor".

Do you have all the info you need to vote for @BernieSanders? Find it here.

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

Happy New Year's Eve 2015 From Everyone At The Thom Hartmann Program

Hour One: Were There Any Real Winners In the Last GOP Debate?

Hour Two: Rand Paul and the Future of the GOP - Brian Darling, Conservative Review

Hour Three: The Last Word on the Final GOP Debate of 2015

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Politics Panel: Why Isn’t the Press Confronting Trump on Affairs?

Who Is To Blame For The Death Of Tamir Rice?

Politics Panel: Is The DNC Stealing the Election?

The Big Lie On the War Against Drugs

How To Get Past Powerlessness?

Full Show 12/29/15: No Charges Against Tamir Rice’s Killer Cop

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Caller: I Have a Different View of the Democratic Debate Issue

Caller: I'm Not Surprised by Outcome of Tamir Rice Case...

Caller: How will Hillary be Different than Bill?

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Caller: I'm Not a Hillary Supporter, but She says I Am!

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