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Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Video: Trump's full speech from Oval Office on shutdown and border wall (Full national address), Jan 8, 2019.

Tweet: "Trump just launched his 2020 re-election campaign with, essentially, the same speech he used at Trump Tower in 2015, when he first ranted about Mexican rapists and murderers. And the media paid for it. #Suckers" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: The Democratic rebuttal to President Trump's speech on the wall.

Video: Bernie Sanders' Rebuttal To President Trump's State Of The Union Address.

Article: "Donald Trump's Border Speech Gets A Savage Instant Fact-Check On Fox News" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "House Democrats officially unveil their first bill in the majority: a sweeping anti-corruption proposal" (HR 1) by Ella Nilsen.

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "List of foreign-born United States politicians" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" (BDS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "PAYGO" by Wikipedia.

Article: "All of Robert Mueller’s indictments and plea deals in the Russia investigation so far" by Andrew Prokop.

Video: Pay those dealing with the border: Rep. Hurd.

Article: "Cuban missile crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Analysis: Unredacted Paul Manafort filing hints at collusion" by Marshall Cohen.

Article: "Global Extinction Within 18 - 34 Months" by Malcolm Light.

Book: Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee.

Article: "Trump claims fed workers support shutdown, but at a Pelosi/Schumer presser, no fed workers said they supported it".

Article: "Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue" by Oliver Laughland.

Article: "Donald Trump's Racism: The Definitive List" by David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick Jan. 15, 2018.

Article: "Trump says he would have made a 'good general' while trashing Mattis' service and claiming he really fired him" by Ryan Pickrell.

Article: "Trump’s ‘s---hole’ remark draws sharp response from African countries, Haiti, former Canadian governor general" by Cara Anna.

Article: "Donald Trump blasts NFL anthem protesters: 'Get that son of a bitch off the field'" by Bryan Armen Graham.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Woman says her son couldn't afford his insulin – now he's dead" by CBS News.

Article: "7 people have died in national parks since the shutdown began. But that's not unusual." by Eric Levenson.

Article: "Yosemite National Park Death Went Unreported For a Week During Government Shutdown" by Sarah Emerson.

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

Article: "Segregation academy" by Wikipedia.

Video: Bull Connor says whites and blacks must be kept separate, 1963. Archive film 99231.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

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

Book: Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security by Todd Miller.

Article: "Jose Andres invites Trump to visit shelters at border, says there's no national emergency" by Brett Samuels.

Article: "Trump Tower Meeting Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya Charged With Lying About Secret Work with Russian Officials" by Victoria Bekiempis, Nico Hines.

Article: "Ex-felons can now sign up to vote in Florida" by German Lopez.

Video: Luis Gutiérrez on Cuomo Prime Time 1/7/2019.

Article: "Rosenstein, who picked Mueller, plans to leave Justice Dept. shortly after Barr confirmed" by Laura Jarrett and Evan Perez.

Movie: "Fahrenheit 9/11" - Michael Moore.

Article: "White Americans in California" by Wikipedia.

Video: Trump says US should rake like Finland to avoid fires.

Tweet: "Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen. Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Newsom, Harris condemn Trump threat to withhold fire management funding" by Bay City News.

Quote: "It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it." - Donald Trump.

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

Article: "Shutdown Hampers Federal Firefighting Agency’s Preparations for Wildfire Season" by Tim Ellis.

Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Book: The Authoritarians by Robert Altemeyer (free online).

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.

Site: Free Speech TV

Site: Sirius XM - Progress

Site: Pacifica.

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

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

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