It's about time the last one, Trump, is held accountable

Trump's impeachment trial is coming up in the Senate, and already his allies are trying to throw up procedural roadblocks to exhaust the effort to hold him accountable. Should America "move beyond" Trump? No friggin' way.

It's time to stop giving criminal Republican presidents a pass. Every GOP president since Dwight Eisenhower used treason or deception to come to office, and it needs to end. Here's the story.

Read more here.

-Thom

It's time to cut them off from the "free lunch" of tax exemption

It's time for average Americans to stop being forced to subsidize politically radical religious leaders.

Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and heir to the multimillion-dollar Graham fortune, just publicly said that the 10 Republicans voting to impeach Donald Trump and the US House of Representatives were like Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.

Read more here.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "How Much Better Off would America be If 6 Republican Presidents Hadn't Stolen The White House?" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: "This is Treason!" Lyndon Johnson Everett Dirksen Phone Call November 2 1968.

Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy" by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.

Article: "Can Bani-Sadr fight back?" by Geoffrey Godsell.

Case: "Bush v. Gore".

Article: "Examining The Vote: The Overview; Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder.

Article: "Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program" by Gregory Palast.

Article: "The Election Was Stolen - Here's How..." by Greg Palast.

Article: "The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists" by Akhil Reed Amar.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "'I was duped by Trump!' QAnon Shaman 'regrets' participating in Capitol riot as his lawyer says ex-president's failure to issue a pardon was a 'betrayal' by the man who 'led him down the primrose path'" by Keith Griffith .

Article: "Meet Your Local Republican Insurrectionist" by Christopher Mathias.

Article: "Filibuster face-off: Schumer, McConnell at loggerheads over U.S. Senate power sharing" by Susan Cornwell.

Article: "Trump on accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell: "I wish her well"" by Christopher Brito.

Article: ""He's A Lot Of Fun To Be With": Inside Jeffrey Epstein And Donald Trump's Epic Bromance" by Craig Unger.

Article: "Women would live with both Trump and Epstein — at the same time: report" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Thaddeus Stevens" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Radical Republicans" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Article: "John C. Calhoun" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Will Biden Follow GOP Advice and Shoot Santa Claus?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "New UK variant 'may be more deadly'" by James Gallagher.

Article: "America is dying: three steps to bring us back from the brink" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "History of Federal Income Tax Rates: 1913 - 2019" by Bradford Tax Institute.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Death squad" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Daniel Ortega" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann. Get "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann!

Article: "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dynasty (1981 TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op: 'I Should Not Have Been There'" by Helene Cooper.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

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

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iraq War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2021 storming of the United States Capitol" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stormy Daniels-Donald Trump scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "E. Jean Carroll" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump has spent 1/3 of his time in office at his own properties" by Erica Pandey.

Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start 'from scratch,' sources say" by CNN.

Book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D..

Article: "Justin A. Frank" by Wikipedia.

Book: Trump on the Couch by Justin A. Frank.

Article: "Executive Order 13769" (Muslim Ban) by Wikipedia.

Article: "DOJ: Trump's Early Businesses Blocked Blacks" by Gideon Resnick.

Hour Two: Issues of the Day
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 Section 2. "The President ... shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment."

Article: "Biden lays out $1.9 trillion Covid relief package with $1,400 stimulus checks" by Dartunorro Clark and Marianna Sotomayor.

Article: "From Paul Ryan to Nikki Haley: GOP Nightmare of Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders About to Come True" by Jon Queally.

Article: "Pelosi To Fine House Members Up To $10,000 For Evading Metal Detectors" by Andrew Solender.

Article: "Freshman Democrat presses JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon over pay disparity" (Katie Porter) by Caroline Kelly.

Tweet: "To set the record straight, what I support is a $15 federal minimum wage that adjusts for inflation. What I said is that workers would be making $23 an hour if the min wage had kept up with productivity increases. That's an economic fact, not a proposal." by Ro Khanna.

Article: "Bailout" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'We're In A War With This Virus': Biden Lays Out COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan" by Pien Huang, Carmel Wroth.

Article: "Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna introduce legislation to bolster production of PPE" by Grace Segers.

Article: "Ron Klain" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kirstjen Nielsen" by Wikipedia.

Law: "H.R.5010 - State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2019" by Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17].

Article: "How Finland is fighting fake news - in the classroom" by Emma Charlton.

Article: "Biden unveils $2 trillion climate plan" by Bo Erickson.

Article: "Federal Financing Bank" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Impeachment article to be delivered Monday, Trump will be tried, Schumer says" by MarketWatch.

Article: "Right on schedule, Republicans pretend to care about deficits again" by Catherine Rampell.

Article: "Army now acknowledges the brother of Michael Flynn was a part of Army response to Capitol riot" by Oren Liebermann and Barbara Starr.

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

Article: "Investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attack" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Greenhouse gas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ag-gag" by Wikipedia.

Article: "UK chief scientist says new COVID-19 variant may be more deadly, more research needed" by Jill Lawless.

Article: "Trump Administration To Hospitals: Don't Send Covid-19 Coronavirus Data To CDC" by Bruce Y. Lee.

Video: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (February 23, 1985) (Adnan Khashoggi).

Article: "Captured on film: Melania snubs Trump after Biden's inauguration" by Zona Black.

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "The Game Changers".

Article: "How Many Were at the MAGA Trump March & Protest in DC? Crowd Size Photos" by Stephanie Dube Dwilson.

Article: "Under Donald Trump's Watch, the National Debt Increased by $7.8 Trillion" by Jason Lemon.

Article: "Tax inversion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rioters left feces, urine in hallways and offices during mobbing of US Capitol" by Carl Campanile and Yaron Steinbuch.

Article: "Democrat Party (epithet)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mr. Potter" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Addams Family" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Munsters" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Beverly Hillbillies" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gilligan's Island" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mason bee" by Wikipedia.

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