Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode and restart the scam they've been running since Reagan.

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Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The rookie congresswoman challenging the Democratic establishment" by Anderson Cooper.

Article: "Ocasio-Cortez's 70 Percent Top Tax Rate Is a Moderate, Evidence-Based Policy" by Eric Levitz.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Elizabeth Warren has hit the road for Iowa
- Art Cullen, The Storm Lake Times, "STORM LAKE: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper"

Event: "Storm Lake Roundtable with Elizabeth Warren" January 5 2019 by Elizabeth Warren.

Article: "Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test" by Jennifer Bendery.

Video: "Voter confronts Warren on DNA test decision".

Article: "Warren wows in first campaign swing but electability questions follow her" by Alex Seitz-Wald.

Video: "I Was Going to Fire Comey Anyway, Trump Tells Lester Holt in Interview".

Site: "Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting".

Site: Media Matters for America

Site: Media Matters for America

Quote: "To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner" by Huey P. Newton.

Article: "Fox News viewers literally have no idea how bad things are under Trump: historian" by History News Network.

Article: "Kevin Rudd smashes media tycoon Rupert Murdoch as 'the great cancer on Australian democracy' - as he calls for a Royal Commission into his influence" by Australian Associated Press and Kate Darvall.

Transcript: "Meet the Press - January 6, 2019" (Mick Mulvaney).

Site: NPR

Site: PBS

Article: "Fox's Chris Wallace challenges Sarah Sanders on claim terrorists enter at southern border" by Avery Anapol.

Article: "Gov. Bill Haslam grants full clemency to Cyntoia Brown, sets Aug. 7 release from prison" by Adam Tamburin and Anita Wadhwani.

Article: "Alan Berg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg not on bench for Supreme Court's first day of arguments in 2019, court says" by Eli Watkins and Ariane de Vogue.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Article: "President Trump to address nation, visit southern border Thursday to tout wall" by David Jackson and John Fritze.

Law: Posse Comitatus Act (1878).

Article: "Habeas corpus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency" by Elizabeth Goitein.

Article: "Trump: 'May declare a national emergency' to build wall" by Eli Watkins, Manu Raju and Elizabeth Landers.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Hour Three: Washington Trained Guatemala's Mass Murderers - and the Border Patrol Played a Role
- Professor Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall

Article: "Girl who died in Border Patrol custody fled impoverished Guatemala village" by Sonia Perez D..

Article: "8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies in US custody on Christmas Eve" by Eliott C. McLaughlin.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "Plan Colombia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fox News Viewers Uninformed, NPR Listeners Not, Poll Suggests" by Kenneth Rapoza.

Article: "Ahmed Ressam" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Could the French “Yellow Vests” Teach Us about Ourselves?" by Frances Moore Lappé.

Book: Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe.

Article: "Thom Hartmann: The GOP Is Reviving One of Its Favorite Scams" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "B Corporation (certification)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Billionaire Activist Tom Steyer: You Want Trump Out? Buy Clear Channel." by Thom Hartmann.

Site: Pacifica.

Site: Sirius XM - Progress

Quote: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being at the essence of getting the nominations for president or elected president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and Congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over'." - President Jimmy Carter on unlimited money in politics on the Thom Hartmann Program, 28 July 2015.

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