What most vividly shows the difference between Ron DeSantis and Xavier Becerra? The crusade, and then the failure of that crusade, to make America into a fully authoritarian nation, and the return to democracy.

Donald Trump is a full-blown authoritarian; anyone who's ever read a decent history of Germany, Italy, or Spain in the 1930s, or knows the history of Pinochet in Chile, knows this is an irrefutable truth.

But authoritarians don't come to power by themselves; they have helpers. Ron DeSantis, a helper, bet that if he could cover up Covid deaths and misery in Florida, it would keep Trump in the White House and solidify DeSantis' authoritarian political future as a "made man."

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Tweet: "GA Voters, Check Your Reg NOW!!! link Pass it on…" (deadline today, Early voting starts Dec 14) by Greg Palast.

Site: I Will Vote.

Article: "Pearl Harbor Day: Photos of damage still resonate, almost eight decades later" by Keith Dunlap.

Article: "Exposé: How FL Gov. Ron DeSantis Deliberately Misled Residents About Covid" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "Xavier Becerra, Biden Nominee to Lead HHS, Said in 2017 That He 'Absolutely' Supports Medicare for All" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Joe Biden to nominate Medicare For All proponent Xavier Becerra to be next HHS secretary" by Walter Einenkel.

Article: "Ron DeSantis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Xavier Becerra" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Augusto Pinochet" (Chile) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden picks Xavier Becerra to lead HHS, coronavirus response" by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Michael Balsamo, Jonathan Lemire.

Quote: "Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - Theodore Parker.

Article: "Fascism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Loeffler Cosponsors Resolution Designating Antifa as Domestic Terrorist Organization" by Kelly Loeffler.

Article: "Colombia Is Considering Legalizing Its Massive Cocaine Industry" by Wes Michael Tomaselli.

Article: "John Dillinger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Prohibition in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Drug policy of the United Kingdom" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Portugal decriminalised drugs 14 years ago - and now hardly anyone dies from overdosing" by Chris Ingraham.

Article: "The Addictive History Of Medicine: The Curious Case Of The 7 Percent Solution" by Kristin Hussey.

Article: "Sedition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sedition" by FindLaw.

Article: "Armed protesters alleging voter fraud surrounded the home of Michigan's secretary of state" by Katie Shepherd.

Site: Free Speech TV

Speech: "Farewell Address", by Dwight David Eisenhower, January 17, 1961 (transcript). "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex."

Article: "Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tommy Douglas" (father of Canadian Healthcare) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Spanish Civil War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thomas Merton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Eisenhower's farewell address" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States" by John Eligon, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.

Article: "The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate" by Reis Thebault, Andrew Ba Tran and Vanessa Williams.

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "Isoroku Yamamoto" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - attributed to in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), in reference to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Article: "Russian hypersonic missile expert is detained on suspicion of passing top secret data to the West" by Will Stewart.

Hour Two: The Fiction of Voter Fraud Revealed!
- Howard Polskin, President - The Righting

Article: "Expert Identifies 200,000 Votes Hi-Jacked from Trump to Biden in Georgia at the Precinct Level" by Joe Hoft.

Article: "Rudy Giuliani is So Powerful, He Just Sucked The Wind Out of Dems Sails From His Hospital Bed and With COVID!" by Sophie O'Hara.

Article: "November 2020 Right-Wing Headlines About So-Called Election Fraud " by The Righting.

Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alarm over voter purges as 17m Americans removed from rolls in two years" by Tom McCarthy.

Site: Greg Palast.

Book: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump CALLS Georgia Gov. Kemp to pressure him to overturn Biden's win" by Rachel Sharp.

Article: "Trump Won the Election, But the Democrats Won't Accept It - What's Next?" by Andrew Anglin.

Article: "Is Ballotgate the Single Greatest Crime in Modern American History?" by William Sullivan.

Article: "What Three Contentious Presidential Elections from U.S. History Tell Us about How 2020 May End" (How About an Election Do-Over?) by Rick Green.

Article: "Is Trump lawyer Sidney Powell our own Joan of Arc?" by Teresa Blazewicz.

Article: "Pfizer Announces Big Vaccine News, and It Sure Looks Like They Purposely Waited Until After the Election" by Bonchie.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Article: "Yellow vests movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "French security bill proposes to outlaw dissemination of 'malicious' images of police" by France 24.

Article: "French protesters decry bill outlawing use of police images" by Thomas Adamson, Angela Charlton.

Article: "Hong Kong national security law" by Wikipedia.

Book: Rage by Bob Woodward.

Article: "US nears daily Covid cases record amid warning of 500,000 deaths by February" by Oliver Milman, Joan E Greve.

Movie: "The Social Dilemma".

Is America Starting to Look More Like a Theocracy with Religious Freedom Reformation Act?
- Ani Zonneveld, Muslims For Progressive Values

Article: "Majority Of Muslims Voted For Biden, But Trump Got More Support Than He Did In 2016" by Leila Fadel.

Article: "Donald Trump, Who Routinely Demonized Muslims, Tries To Soften Rhetoric On Islam" by Igor Bobic, Amanda Terkel.

Article: "History of SCOTUS and Rise of Religious Right" by Nomi Stolzenberg.

Article: "US Supreme Court votes to block New York Governor Cuomo's capacity caps at Catholic churches and synagogues" by Reuters.

Article: "1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America's Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology" by Joshua Kendall.

Article: "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Detroit's female genital mutilation case takes a big legal hit" by Tresa Baldas.

Article: "These Toyota trucks are popular with terrorists - here's why" by Pamela Engel.

Article: "Texas 'Trump Train' of flag-bearing pickups ambushes Biden-Harris campaign bus" by David Neiwert.

Article: "France teacher attack: Four pupils held over beheading" by BBC.

Event: December 10 3:00pm PST: "Celebration Of Life".

Documentary: Before the Flood.

Twitter: "Greg Palast".

Site: Warnock for Georgia.

Article: "Trump Lost the 2020 Election. He Has Raised $207.5 Million Since." by Shane Goldmacher.

Article: "Chris Christie: Jared Kushner's father committed 'one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes' I prosecuted" by Devan Cole.

Article: "Newspaper. Office Tower. Marry Ivanka. Did PR Maven Give Jared A Checklist?" by Daniel J. Solomon.

Article: "Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?" by Juan Cole.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'No Friends But the Mountains.' What Life Looks Like for the Kurds of Syria, Now That the U.S. Has Pulled Back" by Karl Vick.

Article: "Trump once figured he'd be the first person to make money running for president. He didn't." by Philip Bump.

Article: "Trump says Giuliani 'doing well' fighting COVID-19, continues to contest election" by Ben Gittleson and Libby Cathey.

Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Climate letter writing to Georgia voters" by Sierra Club.

Tweet: "Freedom never kneels except for God [WTPC Calls for President to Invoke Limited Martial Law to Hold New Election and Protect our Vote, in Full Page Washington Times Ad, if Legislators, Courts and Congress Do Not Follow the Constitution]" by Michael Flynn.

Article: "Trump administration removes senior defense officials and installs loyalists, triggering alarm at Pentagon" by Barbara Starr, Zachary Cohen and Ryan Browne.

Article: "'The people have spoken': Federal judge rejects ex-Trump attorney Sidney Powell's Michigan election lawsuit" by Dave Boucher. "In fact, this lawsuit seems to be less about achieving the relief Plaintiffs seek - as much of that relief is beyond the power of this Court - and more about the impact of their allegations on People's faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government"

Tweet: "Freedom is losing ground to tyranny very quickly... what's truly scary though is how many are willing to allow it to happen." by Donald Trump Jr.

Article: "When Will the Eviction Moratorium End?" by Aly Yale.

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

Article: "House passes $2.2 trillion Democratic coronavirus stimulus bill" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "@Thom_Hartmann in regards to rw propaganda. I believe it's the tail wagging the dog. Trump is heavily susceptible to believing conspiracy and memes coming from the machine. His algorithms have to be loaded one sided only. And we know he has no thought for himself." by L Elmes.

Article: "Kuehn family" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump reportedly wants to hold a 2024 campaign event during Biden's inauguration" by Yelena Dzhanova.

Article: "Faithless elector" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federalist 68: The Mode of Electing the President" by Alexander Hamilton.

Article: "The Electoral College Will Meet December 14, 2020. Here's what you should know now." by Angelina Clapp.

Article: "How Congress certifies who is president - regardless of potential legal challenges" by Chad Pergram.

Article: "Trump star witness slurs words, interrupts legislators during bizarre testimony" by Nick Pearson.

Quote: "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers.

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

I'll be talking with Laura Packard, Health care advocate & founder - Health Care Voices (a non-profit grassroots organization for adults with serious medical conditions) / co-chair-Health Care Voter & runs the pharma accountability campaign for Hero Action Fund - Laura is a cancer survivor

Plus, Dr. Michael Greger, Physician, author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, & public health issues. / Author-How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and The How Not to Die Cookbook / Dr. Greger also runs NutritionFacts.org, the first science-based, non-commercial website providing free daily videos & articles on latest nutrition discoveries.

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