Before you say that what the GOP is doing won't work or can't end democracy in America, you may want to make a trip to Budapest.

The GOP seems to have gone nuts. But, in reality, they're following a plan. And it's not even a new plan; it's worked elsewhere.

Seventeen Republican-controlled states have now passed 28 voter suppression laws, in most cases even asserting that if elections don't turn out the way the Party likes they can simply change or ignore the results. It's driven Texas legislators, faced with another law like that, to flee the state in a desperate effort to preserve their voting rights.

Meanwhile, the GOP has gone all-in on embracing white supremacy and demonizing nonwhite people while rejecting basic science about everything from the climate emergency to vaccines to teaching science and history in our schools.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "The GOP's Shameless Plot Against Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump adviser: Orbán aims to 'make Hungary great again' " by Christian Keszthelyi.

Article: "Immigration threatens Christianity" by CathNews.

Article: "Pro-Orban media moguls who destroyed Hungary's media now targeting European outlets" by Alison Mutler.

Article: "Conservative Groups to Oppose IRS Funding Boost" by Michael Rainey.

Article: "Orbán's dirty little trick: Conflating pedophilia with homosexuality" by Hungarian Spectrum.

Article: "What is behind Viktor Orbán's climate change doublethink?" by Fábián Tamás.

Article: "The Gruevski affair and how Viktor Orbán turned Hungary into a criminal state" by Christopher Adam.

Article: "Orbán's Next Victim: the Hungarian Science Academy" by Edit Zgut.

Book: "Fascism: A Warning" by Madeleine Albright.

Article: "Hungary's Orbán: Christian Persecution Is 'Organized Attack on an Entire Culture'" by .

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

Article: "Trump placed hold on military aid to Ukraine well before he called its president" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "EU Parliament votes to trigger Article 7 sanctions procedure against Hungary" by DW.

Article: "The Great Wall of Europe: Hungary splits continent in two with huge fence to stop migrants" by Nick Gutteridge.

Article: "Corporations Are People, And They Have More Rights Than You" by Adam Winkler.

Article: "How Viktor Orban Bends Hungarian Society to His Will" by Patrick Kingsley.

Article: "Hungary's Judges Warn of Threats to Judicial Independence" by Benjamin Novak and Patrick Kingsley.

Article: "Orban and His Allies Cement Control of Hungary's News Media" by Patrick Kingsley.

Article: "The Roma people's Hungarian hell" by Barbora Černušáková.

Article: "Viktor Orbán's anti-Semitism problem" by William Echikson.

Article: "Govt to detain migrants in container camps" by pulse.

Article: "Parliament approves detention of all asylum-seekers" by pulse.

Article: "Tens of thousands join rally for Hungary's Orban before April vote" by Krisztina Than.

Article: "Hungary's anti-Soros posters recall 'Europe's darkest hours': Soros' spokesman" by Reuters.

Article: "Hungary's Orban tells Israel that Jews in his country can feel safe" by Jeffrey Heller.

Article: "Who Is Viktor Orban, Really?" by Rod Dreher.

Article: "'The Most Dangerous Man in the European Union': The metamorphosis of Viktor Orbán" by Paul Lendvai.

Article: "Viktor Orbán's War on Intellect" by Franklin Foer.

Article: "Heather Heyer, victim of Charlottesville car attack, was civil rights activist" by Maev Kennedy.

Article: "'A useful punching bag': why Hungary's Viktor Orbán has turned on George Soros" by Shaun Walker.

Article: "Orbán deploys Christianity with a twist to tighten grip in Hungary" by Shaun Walker.

Article: "Hungary passes law banning LGBT content in schools or kids' TV" by Jennifer Rankin.

Article: "Could a New Far-Right Party Grouping Take Europe by Storm?" by Mihailo S. Zekic.

Article: "'He's a tough man': Trump shrugs off concerns about Hungary's hard-right leader during White House visit" by Anne Gearan.

Article: "'Have you no shame?' Biden frames voting rights as a moral reckoning." by Katie Rogers.

Article: "Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated" by Carla K. Johnson, Mike Stobbe.

Article: "Toward One-Party Rule" by Paul Krugman.

Book: We the People: A Call to Take Back America by Thom Hartmann, illustrated by Neil Cohn

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

Article: "Top Tennessee Vaccine Official Says She Was Fired Over Shots for Teens " by Rick Rojas.

Article: "Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to minors — not just for COVID-19" by Brett Kelman.

Article: "10 children on life support as Mississippi sees surge in delta variant cases" by WAPT.

Crazy Alert: "Tucker Carlson's first grade teacher busts him for lying about her: 'That's the most embellished thing I ever heard' " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Governor vows to arrest Democrats who fled Texas to block voting restrictions" by Guardian.

Article: "Trump Organization, CFO indicted on tax fraud charges" by Michael R. Sisak, Tom Hays.

Article: "The Stormy Daniels Hush-Money Case May Be Dead, But Trump Still Faces Legal Peril" by Russ Choma.

Article: "Bush calls Afghanistan withdrawal a mistake, says consequences will be 'unbelievably bad'" by Kylie Atwood.

Article: "Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over" by Guardian.

Quote: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.

Article: "Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million in the White House " by Jordan Libowitz and Caitlin Moniz.

Article: "Monopoly (game)" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Oregon Dems and Republicans see Texas statehouse walkout quite differently" by Dirk VanderHart.

Article: "'Glorifying traitors': Trump hammered for turning an 'avatar of white supremacy' into a right-wing martyr" by John Wright.

Article: "Trump makes Ashli Babbitt, killed in the Capitol riot, into a martyr. Why that's so dangerous." by Max Burns.

Article: "Rioter planned attack, wanted to trap lawmakers and 'turn on gas': Prosecutors" by Luke Barr.

Article: "Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt wasn't assigned to any Congress member's security detail, police say" by Samantha Putterman.

Article: "Emmett Till", 1955 by Wikipedia

Article: "Tulsa race massacre" (1921) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mike Lindell set August 13 as the date in his bonkers theory that Trump will be reinstated as president" by Mia Jankowicz.

Article: "Capitol fencing comes down six months after Jan. 6 attack" by Jasmine Hilton, Ellie Silverman.

Article: "Intelligence report: Capitol riot has emboldened domestic extremists who now pose 'greatest domestic terrorism threats in 2021'" by Crystal Hill.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District) on the Ultra Millionaire Tax Act of 2021
- Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District / Chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus @RepJayapal

Bill: "H.R.1459 - Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act of 2021" by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].

Bill: "S.510 - Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act of 2021" by Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA].

Article: "'Tax. The. Rich.' After Pentagon Cancels Contract, Bezos' Wealth Hits Record $211 Billion" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Jeff Bezos added $13 billion to his net worth in one day—and that's a record" by Tom Huddleston Jr.

Article: "Gini coefficient" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Income inequality in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Site: Sirius XM - Progress

Article: "Powell Memo".

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

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

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Bill: "H.R.4 - Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019" by Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7].

Article: "Governor vows to arrest Democrats who fled Texas to block voting restrictions" by Guardian.

Article: "What it means to break quorum and what you need to know about the Texas House Democrats' dramatic departure" by Farah Eltohamy.

Article: "Texas House committee advances bill that would make it a crime for election officials to send unsolicited vote-by-mail applications" by Alexa Ura.

Article: "Explainer: What's in the Texas GOP's voting bills?" by Nicholas Riccardi.

Law: "National Voter Registration Act of 1993".

Article: "Texas upholds sentence for woman who didn't know she was ineligible to vote" by Sam Levine.

Article: "Texas man who waited 'over six hours' last Super Tuesday to vote now faces illegal voting charges" by Ed Lavandera, Chris Boyette and Veronica Stracqualursi.

Article: "Samuel Alito's Boundless Contempt for Democracy " by Matt Ford.

Article: "Biden signs sweeping executive order to crack down on corporate monopolies" by Nandita Bose, Jarrett Renshaw and Diane Bartz.

Article: "Fact Sheet: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy " by White House.

Article: "There's a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming" by David Frum.

Hour Three: The Obscure Foundation Funding Critical Race Theory Hysteria
- Journalist Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org) @JuddLegum

Article: "The obscure foundation funding "Critical Race Theory" hysteria" by Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria.

Article: "Fox News' obsession with critical race theory, by the numbers" by Lis Power.

Article: "Red herring" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Critical Race Theory" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Syllabus: Introduction to Critical Race Theory" by Adrienne Keene.

Article: "Fair Sentencing Act" by Wikipedia.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 1. "... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish...."

Angela Merkel, Lone Hold-Out On TRIPS Waiver...Why?
- Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Trade Watch @PCGTW @WallachLori

Article: "Biden-Merkel Summit Will Be a Failure Unless Pres. Biden Convinces Merkel to Stop Blocking Emergency COVID WTO Waiver to Save Millions of Lives" by Derrick Robinson.

Article: "Legacy and Policy Mix as Merkel Takes a Bow in Washington" by Melissa Eddy.

Article: "The TRIPS Waiver as a recognition of public health concerns in the WTO" by Andrew D. Mitchell, Tania Voon.

Article: "More than 85 poor countries will not have widespread access to coronavirus vaccines before 2023" by EIU.

Event: July 9-16: "#TRIPSWaiver Week Of Action".

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

Article: "Serum Institute of India" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vaccine Manufacturing in Africa" by William Ampofo.

Article: "Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Further Details on Collaboration to Accelerate Global COVID-19 Vaccine Development" by Pfizer.

Article: "Covid: The vaccine patent row explained" by Dharshini David.

Article: "Pfizer Executive Confident in COVID-19 Vaccine Price Increase, $175 per Dose Possible" by Swikar Oli.

Article: "Recent African origin of modern humans" ("Out of Africa" theory) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cradle of civilization" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Beto O'Rourke" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rachel Bitecofer" by Wikipedia.

Site: Strike Pac.

Video: Preventing Democrats From Losing (w/ Rachel Bitecofer).

Article: "William Barber II" by Wikipedia.

Article: Air America (radio network) by Wikipedia

Article: "Talking Back To Talk Radio - Fairness, Democracy, and Profits" by Thom Hartmann, December 03, 2002.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

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