The GOP is at a crossroads & their crisis threatens the American experiment

Ever since Nixon took over the Republican Party in the 1960s, they've had to add fringe group after fringe group to get enough voters to win elections. Today, their Marjorie Taylor Green dilemma shows the severity of Nixon's party's crisis.

The direction they choose to go heading forward - embracing or rejecting treason, violence, conspiracy theories and open racism and antisemitism - may well determine the fate of the American experiment.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Event: Feb 4, 6pm PT: "Town Hall Seattle virtual event".

Event: Feb 9, 4pm PT: "Books & Books virtual event, in conversation with David Korten".

Article: "Rosa Parks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why the Fate and Future of America Hangs on Marjorie Taylor Greene" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "Pat Robertson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jerry Falwell Jr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "Franklin Graham" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Phyllis Schlafly" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Proposals to Divest the Supreme Court of Appellate Jurisdiction: An Analysis in Light of Recent Developments" by John Roberts.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Voter roll purge in the 2000 Florida election" by Election Protection Wiki.

Article: "'Promises kept'? Not entirely. Here are five pocketbook pledges Trump broke." by Sahil Kapur.

Article: "House Republicans pick their battle - and it's not against Greene" by Chuck Todd and Mark Murray and Carrie Dann and Melissa Holzberg.

Article: "What Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said about conspiracy theories | PolitiFact" by Daniel Funke.

Article: "House to vote to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees" by Grace Segers.

Article: "ACLU history: taking a stand for free speech in Skokie" by ACLU.

Article: "GAO report slams Trump administration response to the coronavirus pandemic" by Joe Davidson.

Article: "Lindsey Graham makes odd threat against Kamala Harris as he demands short impeachment trial" by Gustaf Kilander.

Article: "Kamala Harris tweeted support for a bail fund, but the money didn't just assist protesters" by Glenn Kessler.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution"

Article: "AOC claims Kevin McCarthy 'answers to QAnon members of Congress and extremists' - as Democrats prepare resolution calling for expulsion of believer Marjorie Taylor Greene" by Harriet Alexander.

Article: "Tim Ryan, a Top Democrat in Ohio, Is Said to Plan Senate Bid" by Jonathan Martin.

Article: "Research Databases" (incl. Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA)) by DeKalb County Public Library.

Article: "Georgia Senate Republicans Unveil Bills To Make Voting Harder" by Stephen Fowler.

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

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 875 - Interstate communications".

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 876 - Mailing threatening communications".

Article: "The Capitol Rioters Aren't Like Other Extremists" by Robert A. Pape, Keven Ruby.

Article: "One of QAnon's Biggest Influencers Is a Failed Hollywood Screenwriter" by David Gilbert.

Article: "Woman arrested over Capitol riot asks court to approve her trip to Mexico" by WFTL.

Article: "United States Congress elections, 2022" by Ballotpedia.

Hour Two: How have times of economic despair changed history over the last thousand years?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID" by Lynn Parramore.

Site: "The Equality Trust".

Book: "The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger" by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Book: The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone's Well-Being by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Article: "Means test" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 Section 1. "...Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector...."

Article: "Chris Hayes Pleads With Tim Kaine: 'Just Give Everybody A Check!'" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "US to cut off support for Saudi-led operations in Yemen amid humanitarian crisis" by Julian Borger.

Video: Explainer: Why is Yemen Still at War? (w/ Medea Benjamin).

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden to name special Yemen envoy, end support for Saudi-led coalition, aide says" by Jonathan Landay, Jarrett Renshaw.

Book: On Liberty by John Stuart Mill.

Article: "Fox News almost completely ignored slain officer Brian Sicknick lying in honor at the Capitol" by Katherine Abughazaleh.

Article: "After election losses, Republicans pin all their hopes on a new round of voter suppression laws" by Hunter.

Article: "The Capitol Rioters Aren't Like Other Extremists" by Robert A. Pape, Keven Ruby.

Article: "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defends not wearing mask during Capitol attack lockdown" by CBS News.

Article: "Trump 2024 Poll Numbers Plummet By 20% Among Republicans" by Caleb Newton.

Book: Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz.

Article: "Getaway driver convicted of murder over carjacking at mall" by AP.

Article: "Federal conspiracy charges for 2 Proud Boys in Capitol riot" by Jennifer Peltz.

Law: "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act", 1970 (RICO).

Article: "Exclusive: U.S. mulls using law designed to prosecute Mafia against Capitol rioters" by Mark Hosenball, Sarah N. Lynch.

Article: "GOP House member who voted to impeach Trump says his family sent around a signed petition disowning him for crossing the former president" by Anthony L. Fisher.

Hour Three: Science revolution: Are we investigating dangerous GMO products? Why don't we use the precautionary principle?
- Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst - Center for Food Safety

Article: "Lawsuit Challenging FDA Approval of Novel Genetically Engineered Color Additive That Makes Impossible Burger "Bleed" Moves Forward" by Center for Food Safety.

Article: "Guidance for Industry and Other Stakeholders: Redbook 2000" by Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

Article: "Key Ingredients" by Beyond Meat.

Article: "Long-concealed Records Show Trump's Chronic Losses And Years Of Tax Avoidance" by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire.

Letter: "to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, November 8, 1954" by Dwight Eisenhower. "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security ... Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Trump's expected Supreme Court nominee believes all Civil Rights legislation is 'illegitimate'" by Mark Sumner.

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: "Reconstruction era" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Article: "President Debuts With 56% Approval Rating; Plurality Wants Former President Trump Convicted 49%-41%" by John Zogby.

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Article: "Mississippi civil rights workers' murders" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David Brinkley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joe Pyne" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Firing Line (TV program)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

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