Today is the anniversary of the Chinese government crushing popular dissent at Tiananmen Square.

This anniversary is happening in the midst of a week in which the President of the United States has militarized Washington DC and is calling for the crushing of dissent here in the United States.

This must be a wake up call to all Americans.

Fox News and Senator Tom Cotton are openly promoting fascism in the United States and, while there are a few dissenting voices, the White House, Republicans in the United States Senate, and "Conservative" judges in the federal judiciary all seem to have no problem with this.

America has arrived at a crisis point, and the next six months will determine whether our democratic republic survives or goes the way of so many other authoritarian regimes in recent years, a frightening echo of early 20th century Europe.

Will our votes be counted this fall, or will Trump succeed in crushing democracy?

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November - but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "1989 Tiananmen Square protests" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hong Kong Protest Movement Left Reeling by China's Power Grab" by Vivian Wang and Austin Ramzy.

Article: "Hong Kong protesters hold banned Tiananmen vigil as anthem law is passed" by Verna Yu.

Article: "The Trump Regime Has Announced Its Intent to Crush Peaceful Protests With Military Force" by Jack Holmes.

Article: "Trump Campaign Announces Launch Of 'army For Trump' Website Ahead Of The 2020 Election".

Article: "New York Times staffers denounce newspaper for Tom Cotton's op-ed urging military incursion into U.S. cities" by Elahe Izadi.

Article: "Send In the Troops" by Tom Cotton.

Article: "America is an oligarchy, not a democracy or republic, university study finds" by Cheryl K. Chumley.

Article: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Benito Mussolini" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'We need a government as good as its people': Jimmy Carter calls for racial justice in aftermath of Floyd killing" by Yelena Dzhanova.

Tweet: "Every Soldier and Department of the Army Civilian swears an oath to support and defend the Constitution. That includes the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. @USArmy @USNationalGuard" by SecArmy.

Tweet: "If you watch Fake News @CNN or MSDNC, you would think that the killers, terrorists, arsonists, anarchists, thugs, hoodlums, looters, ANTIFA & others, would be the nicest, kindest most wonderful people in the Whole Wide World. No, they are what they are - very bad for our Country!" by Donald J. Trump.

Quote: "We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law." - James Madison.

Video: Will Trump, GOP collaborate to steal 2020 election?.

Video: 'Trump is showing us what he thinks power looks like and sounds like' (Gail Helt, Masha Gessen, Anne Applebaum).

Article: "Here Are Some of the Republican Senators Twisting Themselves in Knots to Avoid Comment on Trump's Bible Stunt" by Ken Meyer.

Tweet: "A thread on why I'm so concerned about Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officers being sent to do public policing in DC and other cities.
I've spent a career litigating prisoner rights. The contours of Constitutional rights are very different in prison than in the outside." by Deborah Golden.

Tweet: "We cannot tolerate an American secret police. I will be introducing legislation to require uniformed federal officers performing any domestic security duties to clearly identify what military branch or agency they represent." by Chris Murphy.

Article: "A dangerous new factor in an uneasy moment: Unidentified law enforcement officers" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Federal police with no badges or name plates are patrolling Washington, D.C. Some are prison riot guards." by The Week.

Article: "Calling violent protests 'acts of domestic terror,' Trump says he'll send in military if they aren't controlled" by David Jackson and Michael Collins.

Quote: "This is an awful man, waving a book he hasn't read, in front of a church he doesn't attend, invoking laws he doesn't understand, against fellow Americans he sees as enemies, wielding a military he dodged serving, to protect power he gained via accepting foreign interference, exploiting fear and anger he loves to stoke, after failing to address a pandemic he was warned about, and building it all on a bed of constant lies and childish inanity." - Robert Hendrickson, Rector, Saint Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church.

Article: "3 men tied to 'boogaloo' movement plotted to terrorize Las Vegas protests, officials say" by Michelle L. Price and Scott Sonner.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Article: "'All roads lead to Putin': Pelosi questions Trump's loyalty in White House clash" by Mike DeBonis and Seung Min Kim.

Article: "Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin" by Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous and Greg Miller.

Video: Malcolm Nance: Trump makes Benedict Arnold look good..

Article: "Does congress have the courage to impeach Trump again?" by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Two: How Does Fascism Help the Stock Market?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Tweet: "1/2 This is my friend Armin Lehman (& our friend Jodi); he was the courier who delivered the news to Hitler that all was lost & was there when Hitler died.
He told me that Hitler wanted to take Germany down with him; destroy everyone.
Cornered rats are the most dangerous." by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "2/2 Armin passed away a few years ago; I helped him get his book done and published.
I fear that we're looking right now at another megalomaniac psychopath who may take his country down if he is defeated.
Mattis' letter particularly alarms me.
https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Bunker-Soldiers-Eyewitness-Account/dp/1592285783/" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Economy of Nazi Germany" by Wikipedia.

Video: President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents' Dinner! (2011).

Article: "US warship challenges Beijing's South China Sea claims with latest show of military might" by Richard Percival.

Article: "Trump: US to deploy anti-drug Navy ships near Venezuela" by Joshua Goodman.

Article: "Death of Sandra Bland", 2015 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Scientist behind Sweden's covid-19 strategy suggests it allowed too many deaths" by Michael Birnbaum.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

What Is the Historic Role of Right Christianity in the Rise of Fascism
- Jeff Sharlet, Journalist & Author of 6 books including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power & his latest This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers / Executive Producer-The Family, a 5 part mini-series for Netflix (available now) / Associate Professor of English-Dartmouth College

Article: "Peaceful Protesters Gassed So Trump Can Do a Sacrilegious Bible Photo Op" by Ed Kilgore.

Article: "Cyrus the Great in the Bible" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cyrus the Great" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Porn star Stormy Daniels is taking a victory lap after Michael Cohen's guilty plea. Here's a timeline of Trump's many marriages and rumored affairs." by Kate Taylor.

Article: "The Trump Campaign Has Quietly Settled Millions In Lawsuits" by Tina Nguyen.

Article: "Sermon on the Mount" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Matthew 25".

Bible: ""Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34.

Bible: "Isaiah 45: God Calls Cyrus".

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Article: "Ludwig Müller" (Nazi Reichsbischof) by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Barr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mike Pompeo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Opus Dei" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court's Lack of Religious Diversity" by Chris Weigant.

Article: "Trump Declares a National Emergency, and Provokes a Constitutional Clash" by Peter Baker.

Article: "National Emergencies Act" (1976).

Article: "National Emergency Powers" by Congressional Research Service.

Article: "Trump declares a national emergency, freeing up $50 billion" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Martial Law: United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Is the Insurrection Act, the Law Behind Trump's Threat to Deploy the Military?" by Christine Hauser.

Article: "Insurrection Act of 1807" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP Georgia Governor Candidate Purged Voter Rolls" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Rick Scott's voter purge was illegal: Court" by Zachary Roth.

Article: "George Floyd reportedly died over a counterfeit $20 at a deli" by Sarah Taylor.

Article: "Video appears to show Ahmaud Arbery at building site just before death" by Lee Brown.

Article: "Shooting of Tamir Rice" by Wikipedia.

Article: "County medical examiner autopsy report states George Floyd died of heart attack, had COVID-19" by Justin Boggs.

Article: "Arizona's Jeff Flake announces he will not seek re-election to U.S. Senate" by Dan Nowicki.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November - but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Three: The Bigger Picture of Why Trump Held Up the Bible at the Church
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127/Columnist - The Daily Beast

Article: "Sharia" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power." - Michael Cohen.

Site: SiriusXM Progress (Friday is "A Call For Change" day).

Article: "Trump DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Let Religious Adoption Agencies Discriminate Against LGBTQ Families" by David Badash.

Article: "Habeas corpus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (1863)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "22nd Amendment" (two term limit on president)

Article: "Another black man died in a police restraint while yelling 'I can't breathe': Washington medical examiner rules father-of-two Manuel Ellis's death was a homicide after he was handcuffed during his arrest in March" by Leah Simpson.

Article: "Lynching" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Four fired Minneapolis police officers charged, booked in killing of George Floyd" by Stephen Montemayor and Chao Xiong.

Article: "US House passes anti-lynching law over 100 years after first attempt" by BBC.

Article: "Paul clashes with Booker, Harris over anti-lynching bill" by Jordain Carney.

Site: The Joe Madison Show.

Tweet: "Does anybody know why @RandPaul has put a hold on the Emmett Till Anti-lynching legislation that the House sent over to the Senate? @MadisonSiriusXM" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "2019 TALKERS Heavy Hundred" by Talkers Magazine.

Article: "Trump: Mail-In Voting Is "Horrible" Except When I Do It" by Eric Lutz.

Article: "Fact Check: Is Mail Ballot Fraud As Rampant As President Trump Says It Is?" by Miles Parks.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Article: "Salting a Bird's Tail - Fact or Folklore?" by Farmers' Almanac.

Article: "Seattle mayor, police chief sit down with protest leaders as 10,000 more march" by Deedee Sun.

Site: The Legacy Museum & The National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

Site: National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Site: Ronald Reagan Legacy Project.

Article: "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?" (1980 Libertarian Party platform) by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "300 (film)" by Wikipedia.

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

We'll be participating in the SiriusXM Progress broadcast marathon, #ACallForChange

Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about Police Brutality & a Plan for Change

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