Rebuilding trust in democracy and our American government requires both holding seditious Republicans accountable and restoring the protective functions of government. Here's what Democrats must do and why.

The reason tens of millions of Americans don't believe Joe Biden won the election is a 40-year betrayal of the American public's trust by Republican politicians, grifters, and con artists exploiting the once-good name of Lincoln's Party.

Science, religion, and conspiracy theories are all, essentially the same thing: systems or attempts to explain the unknown, to make sense out of things beyond our senses or immediate, touchable reality. Thus, our vulnerability to con artists like Trump.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Site: "The Equality Trust".

Article: "Rep. Pascrell: Don't Seat The 126 Republicans Trying To Overturn Election" by NewsHound Ellen.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Nayirah testimony" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.

Article: "The 126 Republicans who signed on for 'an act of cynical, unpatriotic, undemocratic hypocrisy'" by John Avlon.

Article: "Stephen Miller: 'Alternate' electors will keep Trump election challenge alive" by Brett Samuels.

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

Article: "Mike Pence Celebrates Texas Lawsuit to Overturn Election, Encourages Absentee Voting in GA" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "House Surprise Billing Deal Gets Bipartisan Support in Senate" by Allison Bell.

Article: "In one of the worst pandemics to hit the U.S., tens of millions of people are still without health insurance" by Meera Jagannathan.

Article: "MAGA protestors attack Historic Black churches in D.C." by Renee G.

Article: "US defense bill challenges Trump's Germany troop withdrawal" by DW.

Article: "Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Prometheus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Laboratories of democracy" by Wikipedia.

Site: OpEdNews

Article: "Pelosi accuses Republicans of 'subverting the Constitution' as more GOP lawmakers backed failed attempt to undo Biden's win in the Supreme Court" by Mike DeBonis and John Wagner.

Article: "George Wallace" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Article: "The Crown (TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US treasury hacked by foreign government group – report" by Reuters.

Article: "US Government hacked by Russia — Trump mum" by Sarah K. Burris.

Hour Two: "Take Off Your Mask So I Know How Much To Tip You..."
- Saru Jayaraman, President - One Fair Wage / Director- Food Labor Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

Article: "Take Off Your Mask So I Know How Much to Tip You" by One Fair Wage.

Press Release: "Take Off Your Mask So I Know How Much to Tip You" by One Fair Wage.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George Washington" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Violence flares in Washington as far-right Trump supporters clash with counter-protesters" by Martin Farrer.

Article: "Man arrested in Olympia, Wash., after pro-Trump demonstrations turn violent" by Craig Timberg.

Audio: "Jacobin Radio: The Science and Politics of COVID Vaccines" by Suzi Weissman.

Article: "There's Rich, And Then There's Jeff Bezos Rich: Meet The World's Centibillionaires" by Jim Zarroli.

Article: "The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (Continued)" (Federalist 10) by James Madison.

Article: "Fired director of U.S. cyber agency Chris Krebs explains why President Trump's claims of election interference are false" by Scott Pelley.

Article: "US treasury and commerce departments targeted in cyber-attack" by BBC.

Article: "Speculation swirls over Ivanka Trump's potential run for US Senate in Florida" by The Guardian.

Article: "Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner earned at least $36 million in outside income in 2019" by Tom Porter.

Article: "Ivanka Trump Says She Was Deposed for 5 Hours in Inaugural Spend Probe. Here's What She Failed to Mention" by Dan Mangan.

Trump's Last Minute Attack on Social Security
- Alex Lawson, Executive Director - Social Security Works

Article: "Trump Launches 'Despicable' Last-Minute Attack on Social Security With Rule Aiming to Restrict Disability Benefits" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Social Security Transition Report For The Biden Administration" by Social Security Works.

Article: "Jill Biden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wall Street Journal denounced after 'sexist' article calls Jill Biden 'kiddo'" by Ed Pilkington.

Tweet: "Canceled my WSJ subscription...
Looking forward to Dr. Biden and her husband in the White House." by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "We spent four years ignoring the fact that Melania Trump posed nude — rather salaciously, in fact — while Biden isn't even president yet and they're going after his wife for being too educated." by John Aravosis.

Hour Three: The Future of Politics
- Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Lawyer & Director of Democracy Policy - Indivisible

Article: "The Original 2016 Indivisible Guide" by Leah Greenberg & Ezra Levin.

Article: "Memo to centrist Democrats: Stop blaming progressives for House losses" by Paul Waldman.

Article: "Progressive Rep. Katie Porter Wins Reelection" by Igor Bobic.

Article: "Jon Ossoff: Georgia opponent Sen. David Perdue embodies "Trumpism in a nutshell"" by Margaret Talev.

Article: "House passes bill to make DC the 51st state, but GOP opposition means bill unlikely to advance further" by Nicholas Wu.

Article: "Blue Dog Coalition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Democrats" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Karine Jean-Pierre" by Wikipedia.

Video: Mitch McConnell: Top Priority, Make Obama a One Term President.

Article: "Mitch McConnell, an Emperor Without Clothes?" (role of vice president in Senate) by Nicolas Carteron.

Article: "How the Vice President Limits the Power of Senate Majorities" by James Wallner.

Article: "How the U.S. Vice President Works" by Josh Clark.

Article: "Independent Media Sites Seeing Decline in Traffic After Change in Google's Algorithm" by Evan Popp.

Article: "Trump hosted Mark Zuckerberg for private White House dinner" by Adam Gabbatt.

Article: "How key Republicans inside Facebook are shifting its politics to the right" by David Smith.

Tweet: "Fox News Exit Poll
Change to a government-run health care plan
Favor 72% Oppose 29%" by Political Polls.

Article: "The forgotten history of how Abraham Lincoln helped rig the Senate for Republicans" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Early Settlement of North Dakota: Statehood" by State Historical Society Of North Dakota.

Article: "2020 Puerto Rican status referendum" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.51 - Washington, D.C. Admission Act" by Rep. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large].

Article: "List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America Needs a Bigger House" by New York Times.

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

The European leader who created a template for Trump's 2024 plans: Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History & Italian Studies-New York University (NYU) / Historian & cultural critic / scholar on fascism & authoritarian leaders / Author of seven books including her latest, From Mussolini to the Present

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