Republicans and "white nationalists" are playing with fire in their efforts to end democracy

It's no coincidence that Trump supporters, including those who attacked our republic on January 6 at the US capital, love to wave and display the Confederate flag. Somehow, they think, their whiteness will protect them from the consequences of ending democracy in America.

They're wrong. The Confederacy was an ethno-nationalist police state, run by a small number of plantation-owning oligarch families like Robert E. Lee's, and being white was no protection from the Confederacy's brutality.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The GOP and Trumpsters are willing to sicken more Americans to regain political power

Well, it's all out in the open now. Donald Trump and his homicidal cronies actively worked to damage America's public health infrastructure, so 500,000 Americans ended up dying unnecessarily. All to push America deeper into authoritarianism.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Oligarchs Con White Bois" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of American Oligarchy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Newton Knight - abolitionist guerilla leader in Mississippi A hidden history of the anti-slavery struggle" by Paul Wilcox.

Article: "Sen Tom Cotton's statement that US has 'under-incarceration problem' sparks backlash" by Anagha Srikanth.

Book: "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" by Keri Leigh Merritt.

Book: "Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas" by Sally Hadden.

Article: "Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" by Lee Ballinger.

Article: "Black Army Lt. pulled over, terrorized, and beaten even though police knew he'd done nothing wrong" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "'White Lives Matter' rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up" by Brandy Zadrozny.

Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.

Article: "The Republican Party is an authoritarian outlier" by Zack Beauchamp.

Article: "Minneapolis: Daunte Wright killing by police near city sparks unrest" by BBC.

Article: "Chief: Officer meant to use Taser, not firearm, on Daunte Wright" by Liz Navratil and Andy Mannix.

Article: "Caron Nazario: Windsor police officer fired over pepper-spray traffic stop" by AP.

Article: "Cotton gin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did LBJ Advocate: 'Convince the Lowest White Man He's Better Than the Best Colored Man'?" by David Emery.

Article: "Derek Chauvin trial: doctor says George Floyd's death 'absolutely preventable' - live" by Victoria Bekiempis.

Article: "Boogaloo movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Proud Boys" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Emmett Till", 1955 by Wikipedia

Site: OpEdNews - Rohn Kenyatta.

Article: "White Lives Matter rally ends with large counterprotest, 12 arrests in Huntington Beach" by Hayley Smith, Ruben Vives, Priscella Vega, Hannah Fry, Matt Szabo.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Will justice finally be done for Emmett Till? Family hope a 65-year wait may soon be over" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "The Republican Plot to Stop Herd Immunity & Flip America Into Authoritarianism" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Is the Republican Party fascist? An expert explains the 7 themes that dominate fascism movements" by Kevin Matthews.

Article: "America may be close to hitting a vaccine wall" by Caitlin Owens.

Article: "GOP pushes conspiracy" by Danny Westneat.

Article: "Michigan is fighting both a spike in COVID-19 cases, and a continued resistance to effective action" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Fox News sabotages COVID-19 vaccination with Tucker Carlson's mendacious interview of Alex Berenson" by Eric Kleefeld.

Article: "Melania & Donald Trump Got the COVID-19 Vaccine in Secret, Unlike President Biden" by Louisa Ballhaus.

Article: "Trump's racism kills 1 in 1,000 Americans" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: ""That's Their Problem": How Jared Kushner Let the Markets Decide America's COVID-19 Fate" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "The Republican Party is an authoritarian outlier" by Zack Beauchamp.

Article: "Trump officials celebrated efforts to change CDC reports on coronavirus, emails show" by Dan Diamond.

Article: "How the Republican Party became a death cult" by Jennifer Rubin.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Psychological projection" by Wikipedia.

Book: One Hundred Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg.

Book: Understanding special operations and their impact on the Vietnam War era: 1989 interview with L. Fletcher Prouty Colonel USAF by L. Fletcher Prouty.

Article: "Vaccine is piling up in red states, as Republican anti-science threatens national health" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Politics Changed the Reading of the Second Amendment—and Can Change It Again" by Jeffrey Toobin.

Movie: " (film)".

Book: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.

Article: "White Man's Burden (film)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "South African variant can 'break through' Pfizer vaccine: Study".

Article: "Poor People's Campaign" (Poor People's March on Washington) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Greenwood, Mississippi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leflore County, Mississippi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leflore County Massacre" by Mississippi Civil Rights Project.

Article: "Medgar Evers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did Medgar Evers' Killer Go Free Because of Jury Tampering?" by Jerry Mitchell.

Book: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.

Article: "US Navy admiral issues warning that China plans to invade Taiwan in the next six years and will wrestle control of America's global leader status as Biden administration prepares to meet with officials in person next week" by Brian P. D. Hannon.

Article: "U.S. And Chinese Carrier Groups Mass In The South China Sea" by Adam Kehoe.

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

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

Documentary: Exterminate All the Brutes.

Article: "Minneapolis: Daunte Wright shooting by police 'accidental'" by BBC.

Book: Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare by Peter Gotzsche.

Book: Code Blue: Inside America's Medical Industrial Complex by Mike Magee.

Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.

Hour Three: Japan to release treated Fukushima water into sea: reports
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "Japan to release treated Fukushima water into sea: reports " by AFP.

Article: "Bioaccumulation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Caesium 137" by radioactivity.eu.com.

Article: "Strontium-90" by radioactivity.eu.com.

Article: "Iodine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tritium" by Wikipedia.

Article: "S. Korea Asks IAEA to Ensure Transparency, Safety in Fukushima Water Disposal".

Article: "Tepco adviser says treated Fukushima water safe for release into Pacific" by Bloomberg.

Article: "International Court of Justice" (World Court, the Hague) by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States and the International Criminal Court" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Florida governor bans vaccine passports to avoid 'two classes of citizens'" by Louise Hall.

Article: "Gov. Greg Abbott bans use of vaccine passports in Texas" by Jacob Knutson.

Article: "How Facebook Became a Tool of the Far-Right" by Stuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel.

Article: "George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation" by Amy Lynn Filsinger, Raymond Dwek.

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

Debbie Hines, Trial lawyer, former prosecutor and legal/political commentator, will be here to talk about the George Floyd murder/Chauvin trial

Plus, Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Lawyer & Director of Democracy Policy - Indivisible will be here to talk about DC Statehood

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Why Did Floyd's Autopsy Leave Out Asphyxiation? (w/Debbie Hines)

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