Billionaires & racists who killed the GOP are now turning it into an anti-American insurgency, along the lines of the Confederacy.

Congressman Steve Scalise, the #2 Republican in the House of Representatives and the guy who ran for office as "David Duke without the baggage," has announced that he's whipping Republican votes today to block a criminal contempt referral from the Jan 6 Select Committee against Steve Bannon to the DOJ.

My father's Republican Party is now the modern-day Confederacy, and Republicans' defense of Steve Bannon defying subpoenas this week pretty much proves it. If it keeps moving in the same direction, our American republic may soon be fully transformed into a racist, strongman oligarchy.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Senate to vote on Freedom to Vote Act next week, Schumer says" by Sommer Brokaw.

Bill: "S.2747 - Freedom to Vote Act" by Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN].

Article: "Steve Bannon: GOP to oppose in Thursday vote on contempt against Trump's ex-aide " by Andrew Feinberg.

Article: "Joe Biden tells House progressives tuition-free community college is likely to be AXED from scaled-down $2 trillion spending plan" by AP & Ronny Reyes.

Article: "Build Back Better" by White House.

Article: "Democrats propose $3.5 trillion safety net and climate spending plan as infrastructure bill heads toward Senate passage" by Christopher Wilson.

Bill: "H.R.6800 - Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act or the HEROES Act" by Nita Lowey [D-NY-17].

Article: "Senate Committee Aims To Boost Pentagon's Budget By $24B With Eyes On China" by Justin Katz.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reps. Lee, Pocan Announce Defense Spending Reduction Caucus" by Barbara Lee.

Article: "Biden to participate in CNN town hall in Baltimore on Thursday" by Maegan Vazquez.

Article: "Nearly 40 million households eligible for increased monthly child tax credit payments" by Mike Brest.

Article: "Addressing the Risk of Medicare Trust Fund Insolvency" by Richard G. Frank, Tricia Neuman.

Article: "Miners' union and Sen. Manchin back shift from coal in exchange for renewable energy and tech jobs" by AP.

Article: "May 2020 State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates: West Virginia" by BLS.

Article: "The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby's" by Christopher Ingraham.

Article: "We still blow up mountains to mine coal: Time to end the war on Appalachia" by Jeff Biggers.

Article: "Josh Hawley is branded a traitor for giving clinched-fist salute to Trump rabble before they stormed Capitol - and then persisting in trying to overthrow Biden's election victory" by Nikki Schwab.

Video: Mo Brooks gives FIERY speech against anti-Trump Republicans, socialist.

Article: "Cawthorn calls jailed Jan. 6 rioters 'political hostages'" by Cristina Marcos.

Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

Article: "History of United States debt ceiling" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Understanding Marxism 2021
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Book: Understanding Marxism by Richard Wolff.

Article: "Marxism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Karl Marx" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Adam Smith" by Wikipedia.

Article: "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, 1776.

Book: Theories of Surplus Value : Volume I by Karl Marx.

Book: Theories of Surplus Value : Volume 2 by Karl Marx.

Book: Theories of Surplus Value : Volume 3 by Karl Marx.

Article: "Invisible hand" by Wikipedia.

Book: Das Kapital by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels.

Article: "The Communist Manifesto" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chicago police union takes fight against vaccine mandate to court as some hold-out cops sent home without pay" by Bill Hutchinson.

Article: "New York City requiring COVID vaccine for police officers, firefighters and other city workers: "Privilege comes with a responsibility"" by CBS/AP.

Article: "Chicago" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Folks need to know this—#ColinPowell had multiple myeloma—a cancer of plasma cells that **makes antibodies**. Thus, vaccines are weaker in myeloma patients because we kill the cells that make antibodies with our myeloma treatments. Please vax to protect others." (thread) by Eric Feigl-Ding.

Article: "Delta Air Lines CEO ditches 'divisive' COVID vaccine mandate; marks 90% employee vaccination rate" by Angelica Stabile.

Article: "Is The Final Stage for the GOP & Democracy the 2022 election?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Why The South Must Prevail" by William F. Buckley.

Site: "Popular.info".

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.

Article: "19 states passed this year laws to restrict voting, new tally finds" by Fredreka Schouten.

Site: "DailyPoster.com".

Site: "Freedomworks".

Article: "David Duke says he 'might' challenge Rep. Scalise" by Kendall Breitman.

Article: "Sidney Powell suggests Jan. 6 attack was designed to give Supreme Court time to stop Biden's win" by David Edwards.

Article: "Legal expert blasts GOP as 'a pathetic and dangerous cult' for whipping votes against Bannon criminal referral" by Bob Brigham.

Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Law: "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act", 2003.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Morning Digest: New Texas gerrymander cements GOP rule at the expense of Blacks, Latinos, and Asians" by Daily Kos.

Case: "Shelby County v. Holder", 2013.

Article: "Republicans File Challenge to Oregon's Redistricting of Congressional Map" by Rachel Monahan.

Article: "Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."" by David Emery.

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Report says UnitedHealth Group was top recipient of questionable Medicare payments" by Christopher Snowbeck.

Article: "McGuire's payday is a shame, if not a crime" by Neal St. Anthony.

Article: "Meet UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley: Rich, Powerful, Not Yet Famous" by Peter Dreier.

Article: "Joe Namath" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Josh Gottheimer" by Wikipedia.

Video: Rep. Gottheimer says he's 'optimistic' both infrastructure packages pass.

Hour Three: Qualified Immunity...What You Need to Know Now
- Christopher Brown, Principal attorney of The Brown Firm PLLC

Article: "Qualified immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Family of man fatally shot by police reaches $3.5 million settlement" by Emily Davies.

Law: "42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights".

Article: "Supreme Court sides with police officers seeking 'qualified immunity' in two use-of-force cases" by Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Colorado Blocks Qualified Immunity for Police" by Amanda Pampuro.

Article: "Maryland Legislators Override a Veto to Usher in Sweeping Police Reform" by Madison Pauly.

Article: "Lawsuit alleges Denver police destroyed woman's house with flammable grenade during SWAT standoff" by Kirk Mitchell.

Article: "" by .

Article: "Shooting of Breonna Taylor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Eric Garner dies in NYPD chokehold" by History.com.

Article: "Shooting of Tamir Rice", 2014 by Wikipedia

Article: "Death of Sandra Bland", 2015 by Wikipedia

Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Montana SB 319".

Article: "Montana lawsuits challenge broad ban on campus political activities" by Jordan Howell.

Article: "Revealed: Wisconsin clerk limits voting near campus because 'students lean more toward the Democrats'" by Travis Gettys.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Article: "White House Solar Panels: What Ever Happened To Carter's Solar Thermal Water Heater? (VIDEO)" by Dave Burdick.

Article: "Solar is now 'cheapest electricity in history', confirms IEA" by Simon Evans.

Article: "SCOOP: Manchin Tells Associates He's Considering Leaving the Democratic Party and Has an Exit Plan" by David Corn.

Article: "Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump 'knew they were lying' over ploy to sell condos, book claims" by David Smith.

Site: Richie Floyd for St. Pete City Council.

Video: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: West Virginia's Country Roads Will Soon Be Underwater.

Article: "Why Do Politicians Revere Coal Miners and Farmers?" by George Dillard.

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

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Plus, Conversations with Great Minds: Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry-Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic / Author of the new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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