Donald Trump's treason extends far beyond his efforts to damage Americans belief in our form of government, our elected democratic republic, that Trump's oligarch buddies in Saudi Arabia, Russia and China also regularly disparage.

Trump's also actively damaging the ability of the incoming Biden administration to aid Americans during the Trump Depression, and to get the virus in check. In this, he has help from Steve Mnuchin and Mitch McConnell.

While McConnell is refusing to even allow a conversation in the Senate about the HEROES Act that already passed the House and would put money in unemployed Americans' pockets, Mnuchin wants the Fed to return the CARES Act money that they're leveraging to sustain the stock market.

Read more here.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "Israeli military instructed to prepare for Trump strike on Iran: report" by Ellen Mitchell.

Article: "First on CNN: Key government agency acknowledges Biden's win and begins formal transition" by Kristen Holmes and Jeremy Herb.

Article: "Cabinet of Joe Biden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2 more House members test COVID-19 positive" by Darryl Coote.

Article: "Trump Signs Continuing Resolution To Fund The Government Through Dec. 11" by Andrew Taylor.

Article: "$2.2 Trillion CARES Act Provides A Lifeline To Small Businesses" (signed March 27, 2020) by Rohit Arora.

Article: "What's in the House Democrats' $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill?" (Heroes act, passed House May 15, 2020) by Grace Segers.

Book: Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World by Charles G. Koch.

Article: "'Gerrymandering On Steroids': How Republicans Stacked The Nation's Statehouses"(REDMAP) by David Daley.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "Mandamus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Grim Reaper' Mitch McConnell Admits There Are 395 House Bills Sitting in the Senate: 'We're Not Going to Pass Those'" by James Crowley.

Article: "Trump quits treaty allowing US to fly reconnaissance missions over Russia - will destroy planes" by David Badash.

Article: "Trump Administration Confirms U.S. Is Leaving Open Skies Surveillance Treaty" by Bill Chappell.

Article: "Treaty on Open Skies" by Wikipedia.

Article: "As recount continues, group sues to stop Wisconsin from certifying its results and 386 unopened absentee ballots are found" by Mary Spicuzza, Alison Dirr, Patrick Marley, Bill Glauber.

Article: "Manual of Procedure" (Senate) by Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787: July 20, 1787" by James Madison.

Article: "Mitch McConnell, an Emperor Without Clothes?" by Nicolas Carteron.

Article: "Why January 6th is a key date in the US election - a look at the next steps" by Stephen Mcilkenny.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stacey Abrams: The woman behind Biden's biggest surprise" by Chelsea Bailey.

Article: "United States Postmaster General" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Darrell Issa to return to Congress after victory in California's 50th Congressional District" by Kerry Picket.

Article: "Postal Enemy #1: Darrell Issa and His Quest to Privatize the USPS…with Help from Congressional Colleagues" by Elaine Magliaro.

Article: "Fireside chats" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2020 United States House of Representatives elections" by Wikipedia.

Video: Watch Full Video: Biden and Harris Introduce Cabinet Picks.

Article: "Formal NDAA talks to begin under shadow of Confederate renaming issue" by Joe Gould.

Hour Two: What Lessons Can We Learn From Other Countries About How to Salvage An Economy During a Pandemic? And, If Trump Attacks Iran, What Impact Will That Have On the World's Economy?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "UK extends 80% wage subsidies as England goes back into lockdown" by Reuters.

Article: "Netanyahu met Saudi crown prince, Pompeo in Saudi Arabia: Israeli minister" by Dan Williams.

Article: "Trump sends B-52 nuke bombers to Middle East in warning to Iran after being 'talked out' of blitzing nuclear plant" by Henry Holloway.

Article: "Assassination of Qasem Soleimani" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Operation Martyr Soleimani" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump to decertify Iran nuclear deal" by Ellen Mitchell.

Article: "Iran nuclear deal: European nations 'siding with ayatollahs' - Pompeo" by BBC.

Article: "UK cuts overseas aid after worst recession in over 300 years" by Pan Pylas.

Article: "John, King of England" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Melania Trump Won't Show Off White House Christmas Decorations This Year" by Lindsey Ellefson.

Article: "John, King of England" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump hints at assassination of Hillary Clinton by gun rights supporters" by David Smith.

Article: "What does it mean to call someone a "Benedict Arnold"?" by Laura Schumm.

Quote: "the Vice Presidency is not worth a pail of warm spit." - John Nance Garner.

Article: "President pro tempore of the United States Senate" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Trump lawyer details far-fetched strategy to reverse Pennsylvania win for Biden" (12th amendment) by Dan Mangan.

Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.

Article: "'Flat-Out Sabotage' Already Underway as Mnuchin Tries to Put $455 Billion in Covid Funds Out of Biden Team's Reach" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Salting the earth" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden calls for coronavirus relief bill 'right now' but Mitch McConnell blasts 'unserious' plan" by Israel Salas-Rodriguez.

Article: "Trump's Executive Order Would Diminish Civil Service Employment Protections" by Tom Spiggle.

Article: "Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work" by Brad Plumer and Coral Davenport.

Article: "EPA lost more than 1,500 workers in first 18 months of Trump administration: report" by John Bowden.

Article: "Trump administration facing new investigation over political interference at the CDC and FDA" by Sarah Toce.

Article: "McConnell Pushes to Pack Courts With Trump's Judges While Neglecting Pandemic" by Andrea Germanos.

Article: "Trump's White House could destroy records to 'cover its own tracks' - and 'sabotage' Biden" by Kathryn Krawczyk.

Article: "US records quarter of a million deaths from coronavirus" by BBC.

Video: Trump bails on surveillance treaty used to monitor Russia, guts program of resources.

Article: "Trump Is Racing to Bring Back Firing-Squad Executions Before He Leaves Office, Says" by Jamie Ross.

Article: "Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20" by Isaac Arnsdorf.

Article: "US aims to put pressure on banks to keep up fossil fuel lending" by Patrick Temple-West.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Site: Blue Georgia Senate.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Communications Act of 1934", of which Title II regulates Common carriers.

Article: "Net neutrality" by Wikipedia.

Article: "WATCH: Joe Scarborough Tells The View Hosts That Trump Won't Help McConnell Because He Doesn't Care About the GOP" by Todd Neikirk.

Book: Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization by Joe Scarborough.

Article: "From Marijuana To Minimum Wage, Progressives Won Policy Fights On Election Night" by Emily Peck.

Tweet: ""The jerk who broke into our house with help from our adversaries, stole our money, got us sick w/plague that killed Grandma, caged children, poisoned the environment, gaslighted, subjected us to abuse, & held us hostage for 4 years should not be investigated," said no one, ever." by Greg Olear.

Article: "Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips - Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary" by S.V. Date.

Article: "Trump Organization charged taxpayers $3 to serve the president a glass of tap water: report" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Who Is Emily Murphy? Trump Official Delaying Transfer Of Power To Biden" by Dan Graeber.

Article: "Trump Intervened In FBI HQ Project To Protect His Hotel, Democrats Allege" by Philip Ewing, Peter Overby.

Article: "Deutsche Bank staff flagged suspicious Trump and Kushner transactions, report claims" by Ben Chapman.

Article: "Jobless claims: Another 778,000 workers filed for unemployment as 'pandemic purgatory' worsens" by Javier E. David.

Article: "If Congress doesn't act, 12 million Americans could lose unemployment aid after Christmas" by Eli Rosenberg.

Article: "Trump Paying Ivanka "Consultant Fees" Is Tax Fraud, Says Watergate Prosecutor" by Chris Walker.

Article: "University model predicts US could nearly double COVID-19 cases by Jan. 20" by Jordan Williams.

Video: 'Former Texas Nurse Shares Experiences Of Working On The Front Line'.

Article: "COVID In Colorado: 5 More Counties Move To Level Red On COVID-19 Dial" by Jennifer McRae.

Article: "Weld County commissioners say they won't enforce state Level Red restrictions as COVID-19 surges: Governor says county is running out of hospital beds" by Sam Tabachnik.

Article: "How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest" by Brittany Shammas and Lena H. Sun.

Article: "Trump Rallies Are Often Followed by Increases in Local COVID-19 Cases" by Thomas Waldrop and Emily Gee.

Article: "JBS meatpacking plant has top COVID-19 infection total in Colorado with 287 cases, 7 deaths" by Robert Garrison.

Article: "Putting the Coronavirus Mortality Rate in Perspective" (2%) by Rush Limbaugh.

Article: "Covid-19: What do we know about "long covid"?" by Elisabeth Mahase.

Article: "Three-quarters of adults with COVID-19 have heart damage after recovery" by Brian P. Dunleavy.

Video: No Car = No Vote in Georgia Senate Run-off 2021 (w/ Greg Palast).

Article: "Georgia State Election Board to consider emergency election rules for Jan. runoff" by WJCL.

Site: Greg Palast.

Article: "Georgia Election Board Extends Emergency Rules For Absentee Voting" by Stephen Fowler.

Video: Thom Hartmann, Gregg Palast & Jonathan Simon Update on Trump's & The Republican Vote Theft Attempt.

Site: Jon Ossoff for Senate.

Site: Warnock for Georgia.

Article: "This week in history: Hitler orders the destruction of Germany" by Deseret News.

Article: "Donald Trump reminds Holocaust survivors of Adolf Hitler" by Niall O'Dowd.

Article: "Armin D. Lehmann" by Wikipedia.

Book: In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days by Armin D. Lehmann.

Article: "Founder's syndrome" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Georgia secretary of state: My family voted for Trump. He threw us under the bus anyway." by Brad Raffensperger.

Tweet: "Lol!! And after watching Trump* for the past four years, he expected something different?" by Mark Judson For Congress - Scorched Earth Dem 2022.

Article: "Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch may "buy Trump off" to avoid losing fans to rival network: report" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Republicans say 'death tax' while Democrats say 'estate tax' - and there's a fascinating reason why" by Mark Abadi.

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "On radio, the right wing is swamping progressives" by Messaging Matters.

Site: Sirius XM - Progress

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "Monsanto Forced Fox TV to Censor Coverage of Dangerous Milk Drug" by Jeffrey Smith.

Article: "Trump wall" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A barrier to Trump's border wall: Texas landowners who have to be coaxed or coerced to sell - whether they want to or not" by Zolan Kanno-Youngs.

Article: "'National tragedy': Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve" by Samuel Gilbert.

Article: "Socialism" by Merriam-Webster.

Book: Das Kapital by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels.

Article: "The Communist Manifesto" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "1944 State of the Union Address" (Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech) by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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

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