What's unique now is one of our political parties — the Republican Party — has fully embraced autocratic governance and is doing everything it can to stop "will of the majority" Democracy.

Ted Cruz has compared President Biden and the people in his administration working to stop Covid to "Nazi stormtroopers." Republicans in his state are trying to ban any mention of Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. from their schools' textbooks and give Republicans the power to challenge and even reject votes they don't like in future elections. What is going on here?

There are a lot of words thrown around these days, from democracy and republic to fascist, socialist, communist, theocrat, oligarchy, white supremacist, liberal, conservative, autocracy and dozens of others. But they all fall into one of two buckets.

Those two buckets are democracy and autocracy.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The best of the rest of the news this week.

— On January 6th, Mike Pence refused to get in the Secret Service car. He appears to have realized that Donald Trump just tried to kill him to hang onto power. This is how close we came to a total coup overthrowing the government of the United States and replacing it with a neofascist Trumpist dictatorship…and most of the GOP is doing its best to set it up again for 2024. New laws have been passed in 17 states that let Republicans decide which votes to count and which to throw away; these laws are taking us closer and closer to that possible reality of an unelected (and, thus, dictatorial) government...

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Only Two Buckets are Democracy & Autocracy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Biden addresses the economy and pushes for further spending" by Jim Tankersley.

Article: "Kamikaze" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fauci Says It's 'Horrifying' To See CPAC Crowd Cheering Anti-Vaccine Remarks" by Josephine Harvey.

Article: "Death is Their Election Strategy " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back" by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America.

Article: "Texas GOP Vote To 'Cancel' Teaching Women's Suffrage And Civil Rights" by Heather.

Article: "Thomas Paine publishes "The American Crisis"" by .

Article: "such familiar names" by History.com.

Article: "Ted Cruz compares Joe Biden to Nazi 'stormtroopers' for fighting COVID lies on social media" by David Edwards.

Article: "Zombie History: Timothy Snyder's bleak vision of the past and present" by Sophie Pinkham.

Article: "We are living in a new social democratic moment" by E.J. Dionne Jr.

Article: "Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in." by Lee Fang.

Article: "Seventeen states have enacted 28 new laws making it harder to vote" by Janie Boschma.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Powell Memo".

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Article: "Tucker Carlson Condemned After Urging Viewers To Harass Strangers Wearing Masks" by Josephine Harvey.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Hyped These Fringe COVID Theories. The Science Just Fell Apart" by Corbin Bolies.

Article: "Notice of Retraction. Walach H, et al. Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks in Healthy Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. Published online June 30, 2021." by Dimitri Christakis, Phil B. Fontanarosa.

Article: "Harald Walach" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon" by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Paul Lewis, David Pegg, Sam Cutler, Nina Lakhani and Michael Safi.

Article: "Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide" by Dana Priest, Craig Timberg and Souad Mekhennet.

Article: "Study Finds More COVID-19 Cases Among Viewers Of Fox News Host Who Downplayed Pandemic" by Natalie Moore.

Article: "Talpiot program" by Wikipedia.

Article: "NSO Group" by Wikipedia.

Article: "19th Amendment "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 sex."

Article: "Minnie Fisher Cunningham" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: Citizens at Last (Minnie Fisher Cunningham, etc.).

Quote: "Did Mark Twain Say 'It's Easier to Fool People Than to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled'?" - attributed to Mark Twain.

Article: "Stephanie Kelton" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton.

Article: "Modern Monetary Theory" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: How Do We Stop the Ron #deathsantis Death Cult?
- Rachel Bitecofer, Founder - Strike Pac / Contributor - The Cycle - On Substack & Pod Host - The Election Whisperer @RachelBitecofer

Tweet: "I wonder if Ron #deathsantis will be laughing when @StrikePac puts him on public trial for killing thousands of Floridians via cruel indifference & copious greed" by Rachel Bitecofer.

Article: "Florida media coverage shows why DeSantis should not be the COVID-19 role model national outlets are making him out to be" by Zachary Pleat.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Florida" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump says 'don't be afraid of Covid'. That's easy for him to say" by Nathan Robinson.

Article: "Swing Country: Rural Dems run from party" by Alexi McCammond.

Event: "Voting-rights vigil, Seattle, July 17".

Site: Blue Future.

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

Article: "How Trumpist terrorism is becoming normalized" by Michael Signorile.

Site: FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System.

Article: "2 million people—and some dead ones—were impersonated in net neutrality comments" by Jon Brodkin.

Article: "Bootleg fire: crews battle largest US blaze amid dangerous winds and lightning" by AP.

Article: "Covid has claimed more than 600,000 lives in the U.S" by Dan Levin.

Article: "Medical debt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Der Stürmer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Julius Streicher" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tamarack Fire Grows to Over 23,000 Acres; Firefighters Make Stand Outside Markleeville" by CBS SF.

Video: Verify: No, Antifa did not start wildfires in Oregon.

Article: "Americans bought guns in record numbers in 2020 during a year of unrest -- and the surge is continuing " by Martin Savidge and Maria Cartaya.

Article: "2 dead, 7 injured in separate shootings in Portland, Oregon" by Gillian Flaccus.

Article: "'Horrific' scene as gunman opens fire on emergency crews and neighbors battling house fire " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Boy, 15, accidently shoots, kills 13-year-old friend in Utah" by AP.

Article: "Gun violence in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Port Arthur massacre (Australia)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tough gun laws in Australia eliminate mass shootings" by Meghan Rosen.

Article: "How Australia Restricted Guns After a 1996 Massacre" by Krishnadev Calamur.

Article: "2011 Tucson shooting" (Gabby Giffords and others) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count" by NY Times.

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

Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Masks 'will be needed indoors in autumn', says German Health Minister" by DPA/The Local.

Article: "France restores mask rule in south as COVID cases soar" by Medical Xpress.

Article: "Lyndon LaRouche" by Wikipedia.

Article: "MAP: Covid-19 vaccination tracker across the U.S." by Elliott Ramos.

Article: "Texas should consider adopting full-time Legislature" by Daniel Hung.

Article: "Five Texas Democrats who fled state in protest test positive for Covid" by Vivian Ho.

Video: 2 maps that tell the story of Covid-19 in America.

Article: "Daniel Boone" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Subliminal stimuli" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government" - Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Thomas Jefferson" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Angela Merkel rejects US move to waive patents on vaccines" by Guy Chazan, Erika Solomon, Hannah Kuchler and Jim Brunsden.

Article: "Donald and Melania Trump quietly got Covid vaccines last month, reports say" by Gabrielle Canon.

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

I'll be talking with Lala Wu, Co-Founder & Executive Director - Sister District (Former enviro & clean energy lawyer)

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