America can't let them get away with it.

The 21st-century version of the Confederacy is fixing to repeat the Big Lie strategy of its 19th century forebearers. And this one goes beyond the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Now they're trying to sanitize treason as well.

George Orwell famously pointed out that, "Those who control the past control the future," and the GOP is furiously trying to rewrite the history of January 6th to hide their participation in a heinous crime and promote their authoritarian agenda for the future.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "What is 4/20? And why is it on April 20? Here are some answers." by German Lopez.

Article: "A New GOP "Big Lie" Plot is in the Works" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "War of Northern Aggression" by Uncyclopedia.

Article: "Trump's acting secretary of defense is working to install a Trump loyalist as the top lawyer for the NSA just days before the president leaves office" by Sarah Al-Arshani.

Article: "Rewriting January 6th: Republicans push false and misleading accounts of Capitol riot" by Mike DeBonis and Jeremy Barr.

Article: "List of things named after Ronald Reagan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Steve Scalise reportedly said he was 'like David Duke without the baggage'" by The Week.

Article: "Steve Scalise: Maxine Waters encouraging protests is worse than Trump 'peacefully' inciting an insurrection " by David Edwards.

Article: "What Trump said before his supporters stormed the Capitol, annotated" by Aaron Blake.

Article: "Republican Congressman Legitimizes Violence as Response to Election Dispute" by .

Article: "Anti-vaxxer hysteria hits new heights: Covid vaccine turns you into a different race" by Travis Gettys.

Article: ""Mask up to keep it up": Preliminary evidence of the association between erectile dysfunction and COVID-19 " by Andrea Sansone et al.

Article: "Covid-19: Vaccines and vaccine passports being sold on darknet" by Joe Tidy.

Article: "Trump appointee put Tuberville in Jan. 5 meeting at White House before editing post" by Eddie Burkhalter.

Article: "Transcript: The Rachel Maddow Show, 4/16/21".

Article: "The military would put down Michael Flynn's proposed insurrection" by Jim Golby and Peter Feaver.

Article: "Michael Flynn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Police Investigating Whether Lawmakers Gave Rioters Tour of Capitol Before Siege".

Article: "Franz von Papen" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Ivanka Trump questioned over inauguration funds 'misuse'" by BBC.

Article: "Trump Moved $2.7 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Business Before Election Day" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle Buy Florida Mansion for $9.7M" by Claudine Zap.

Article: "'Billionaire Bunker': Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner buy $30m lot on high-security Miami island" by Graeme Massie.

Bible: " Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'[a] 31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[b] There is no commandment greater than these" - Mark 12:30-31".

Article: "A Trump security chief acknowledges role of white supremacist extremists in U.S. urban violence" by Mark Hosenball.

Article: "Occupy movement" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Thom vs John Vecchione - Why Do You Object to Undoing Mitch McConnell's Court Packing?
- John Vecchione, Senior Attorney - New Civil Liberties Alliance

Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Judiciary Act of 1869" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rushing to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, McConnell shows power trumps principle" by Robert Reich.

Article: "It's Time To Unpack The Court" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "White House Withholds 100,000 Pages of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Records" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg.

Article: "John Roberts" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Virginia Thomas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antonin Scalia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Eugene Scalia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is This the Most Incendiary COVID Conspiracy Freakout of All?" by Mark Hay.

Article: "President George W. Bush pursues Social Security reform, May 2, 2001" by Andrew Glass.

Article: "Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

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

Article: "Supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett reportedly signs $2m book deal" by Martin Pengelly.

Article: "The Many Mysteries of Brett Kavanaugh's Finances" by Stephanie Mencimer.

Article: "Federalist Society's Leonard Leo is helping Trump make courts more conservative" by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg.

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

Article: "Chief Justice Roberts's lifelong crusade against voting rights, explained" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Chief Justice John Roberts and the Affordable Care Act" by Healthcare Navigation.

Article: "Trump Holds Some JFK Assassination Files Back, Sets New 3-Year Deadline" by Sarah Pruitt.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David Pecker" by Wikipedia.

Book: Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine.

Article: "Thomas Paine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Steve Scalise" by Wikipedia.

Chauvin Trial Jury Deliberations Continue
- Debbie Hines, Trial lawyer, former prosecutor and legal/political commentator

Article: "Explainer: What are charges against Chauvin in Floyd death?" by AP.

Article: "Here's what we know about the jury in Derek Chauvin's trial" by Eric Levenson and Aaron Cooper.

Article: "Chauvin Trial Judge Denies Request For Jury Sequestration After Police Shooting" by Laurel Wamsley.

Article: "Judge in Derek Chauvin trial says Rep. Maxine Waters' comments may be grounds for appeal" by Caroline Kelly.

Hour Three: Was Deepwater Horizon a Corporate Homicide?
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters @Greg_Palast

Article: "Deepwater Horizon: Corporate Homicide" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Deepwater Horizon: The Untold Story" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Deepwater Horizon oil spill" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shell's Kulluk Rig Grounding Proves Folly of Arctic Oil Drilling, Again" by Farron Cousins.

Article: "Oklahoma Legislature OKs bill to crack down on protesters" by Sean Murphy.

Geeky Science: "Study strengthens links between red meat and heart disease" by European Society of Cardiology.

Article: "Alan Dershowitz Compares Maxine Waters to the Ku Klux Klan" by Colby Hall.

Article: "'Do What We Say or We'll Kill You!' Tucker Carlson Plays Translator for Maxine Waters, Says She Has 'No Use for Anglo-Saxon' Traditions" by Colby Hall.

Article: "Daunte Wright shooting: 24 arrests as demonstrators demand justice, accountability on fourth night of Brooklyn Center protests" by Elinor Aspegren, Dennis Wagner.

Article: "Caldwell Esselstyn" by Wikipedia.

Site: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Site: Forks Over Knives.

Documentary: Forks Over Knives.

Article: "Mens rea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Likely Is the Risk of Being Shot in America? It Depends" by Melissa Chan.

Article: "J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low" by Denise Grady and Carl Zimmer.

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

Article: "America's gun culture in charts" by BBC.

Article: "Rich Americans more likely to live longer than those lower down the ladder" by Kate Gibson.

Article: "A Black Officer, a White Woman, a Rare Murder Conviction. Is It 'Hypocrisy,' or Justice?" by John Eligon.

Article: "Rodney King" by Wikipedia.

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