If we're committed to reaching zero emissions, we must return to that goal of local self-sufficiency, this time with free power from the sun & wind instead of clear-cutting forests or burning fossils.

Electric vehicle (EV) sales are booming in Oregon: we've gone from around 300 sold a decade ago to over 12,000 sold in our tiny state last year. And EV owners are saving a ton of money on their daily commutes — as much as half the cost of gasoline — by just plugging into their homes every night to recharge.

But what if that home's electricity wasn't generated by a faraway dam or power plant, but from each car owner's own home's roof? The savings and convenience would be revolutionary.

And there's a way to get there, as the technology is already mature and in use in other countries like Germany: we simply shift from a central-power-plant system to a locally-generated-rooftop-system where the utilities, rather than just supplying power, are instead using "smart grids" to keep the entire community up and running even when individual homes have system failures.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Iroquois Confederacy had a "law" that every decision had to be made in the context of its impact on the seventh subsequent generation... Imagine if scientists succeeded at genetically modifying a bacteria that's found on the roots of almost all plants on Earth — and it was modified in a way that caused it to kill those plants. At the most extreme, if it got loose it could wipe out most plant life on Earth — and that almost happened just a few decades ago!

At their core, all these crises and near-misses are really cultural as much as technological problems. That assertion runs through this book, Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— Good News: We may be on the edge of the end of the pandemic crisis.
— More Good News: Congress has passed the largest infrastructure bill in decades.
— January 6th was worse than we knew.
— A thousand unionized nurses in Huntington, West Virginia have adopted "Build Back Better" for some of their signage as they strike against a huge hospital chain.
— Meet the House's versions of Manchin and Sinema. Representatives Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), Ed Case (D-Hawaii), Jared Golden (D-Maine), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.).
— Seven Republicans who participated in the January 6th treason attempt were elected to public office last Tuesday.
— Some within the Qanon movement/religion are saying that their ultimate goal is to kill Democrats and liberals.
— In Science News: Could the Supreme Court Destroy the Planet?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Ted Cruz labels Big Bird's vaccination tweet 'propaganda'" by Mychael Schnell.

Article: "Muppets encourage children to get COVID-19 vaccine" by Kelli Dugan.

Article: "'Barely concealed bloodlust': Claremont Institute laid out detailed plan for using cops to overturn Trump's election loss " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

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

Article: "John C. Eastman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Eastman memo shows how close Georgia GOP chair came to enabling Trump coup" by Jay Bookman.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Democrats can win the critical race theory war: Call out the Christian right behind the movement" by Amanda Marcotte.

Article: "What If Every American's Home Was a Power Plant?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Infographics" by German Energiewende.

Article: "The Acceleration Of PV And The Role Of The German Programme" by Dr. Herman Scheer.

Article: "North America – Western Europe equivalent latitude maps" by mathowie.

Article: "Emergence of Electrical Utilities in America" by The National Museum of American History.

Article: "Private versus public electricity distribution utilities: Are outcomes different for end-users?" by Ahmad F. AlKhuzam, Jean Arlet, Silvia Lopez Rocha.

Article: "Speeches of Hermann Scheer Series, Speech 1: "Lipservice, Excuses, And The Lack of Courage"" by Thomas Gerke.

Article: "13 Charts On Solar Panel Cost & Growth Trends" by Zachary Shahan.

Article: "German legislators fight over policy rollback on renewables" by Craig Morris.

Site: "Centre de Cultura Contemporà nia de Barcelona" (CCCB).

Article: "CCB09 Annual Report" by CCCB.

Article: "Rural Electrification Administration (REA)" by The Living New Deal.

Article: "Germany Flirts With Power Crunch in Nuclear and Coal Exit" by Vanessa Dezem and Josefine Fokuhl.

Article: "Building New Renewables Is Cheaper Than Burning Fossil Fuels" by Will Mathis.

Article: "Davis says Enron execs should go to jail" by Reuters.

Bill: "H.R.3684 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act"(BIF) by Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4].

Article: "The price of solar electricity has dropped 89% in 10 years" by Kristin Toussaint.

Article: "These are the most popular electric vehicles in Oregon, your neighborhood" by Ted Sickinger.

Article: "Public vs. Private: What's Best for Power Customers?" by Aaron Larson.

Article: "Analysing the feasibility of powering the Americas with renewable energy and inter-regional grid interconnections by 2030" by Arman Aghahosseinia, Dmitrii Bogdanova, Larissa S.N.S.Barbosab, Christian Breyera.

Article: "The German Experiment" by Evan I. Schwartz.

Article: "At least 111 people died in Texas during winter storm, most from hypothermia" by Shawn Mulcahy.

Article: "Tapes reveal Enron's secret role in California's power blackouts" by Julian Borger.

Article: "Franklin Stove" by UShistory.org.

Article: "FACT SHEET: Historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal" (BIF) by White House.

Video: AG Garland announces charges against Ukrainian man for ransomware attacks targeting U.S..

Article: "CDC reports 70% of U.S. adults are fully vaccinated" by Cole Johnson.

Article: "Autoclaved aerated concrete" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian analyst who was source for Steele dossier arrested and charged with lying to FBI" by Zachary Cohen, Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz.

Site: Sunrun.

Article: "How pushing water uphill can solve our renewable energy issues" by Andrew Blakers.

Article: "The Only Way to Solve Our Supply Chain Crisis Is to Rethink Trade" by Josh Hawley.

Article: "Hawley Introduces New Bill to Curb Supply Crisis, Revitalize American Manufacturing" (Make in America to Sell in America Act) by Josh Hawley.

Article: "Josh Hawley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tom Cotton" by Wikipedia.

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO)

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "Ross Perot 1992 presidential campaign" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Virginia elects first Hispanic AG and first black Lt. Governor, both Republican".

Hour Two: Joe Madison is on a hunger strike for the John Lewis Voting Act
- Joe Madison, The Black Eagle, Host-The Joe Madison Show (weekdays 6-10am on SiriusXM ch. 126 Urban View) @MadisonSiriusXM

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "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 race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Article: "Compromise of 1877" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Suffragette" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Women's suffrage in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dick Gregory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tim Scott" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Dixiecrat" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Los Angeles Marathon returns with COVID-19 protocols" by Xinhua.

Article: "McConnell Cancels August Senate Recess To Push Through More Trump Appointees" by Cameron Joseph.

Thom Asks Republican Former Speaker of the House What No-One Else In the Media Has...
- Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-GA) / Co-Author, Contract With America / former 2012 presidential candidate / Fox News Contributor / Author of 41 books including his latest, Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love

Article: "Newt Gingrich" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. Budget Deficit by Year Compared to GDP, the National Debt, and Events" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "The Budget and Deficit Under Clinton" by Brooks Jackson.

Article: "California officials say unemployment fraud now totals more than $11 billion" by Patrick McGreevy.

Article: "State of the Union Address of 1935" by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "Impeachment: American Crime Story" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "CPAC is going to Budapest. Mike Pence was just in Budapest talking about his hopes for the Supreme Court outlawing abortion. Tucker Carlson embraced Orban and his anti Semitic fascist state on Fox prime time. Why are they all going to Hungary? What magnetic force is drawing" by Steve Schmidt.

Article: "George Soros and Viktor Orbán: From friend to enemy" by Hungarian Spectrum.

Article: "Viktor Orban's campaign against George Soros 'mercenaries'" by Keno Verseck.

Article: "Orbán: EU Maintained Unity and Won, Soros Lost" by MTI-Hungary Today.

Article: "Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 406" (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993).

Article: "Lawsuit says Alabama blocking solar power with unfair fees" by Kim Chandler.

Article: "Alabama Power" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: We're Screwed Without the John Lewis Voting Act
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker & Puffin Writing Fellow, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters

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

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

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).

Article: "Georgia Closes Black Polling Stations" by Zach D. Roberts and Greg Palast.

Article: "What Does Georgia's New Voting Law SB 202 Do?" by Stephen Fowler.

Site: The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).

Article: "It's now illegal in Georgia to give food and water to voters in line" by Faith Karimi.

Article: "One Republican Official Challenged Thousands Of Voter Registrations In His County. It Could Happen Elsewhere." by Dana Liebelson.

Article: "CNN town hall with President Biden" by Meg Wagner and Mike Hayes.

Site: Save Standard Time.

Article: "Daylight saving time linked to rise in health risks for weeks, months after time change" by Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.

Article: "Are You Enjoying Daylight Saving? You Can Thank The Golf Industry (Sort Of)" by Sam Weinman.

Article: "Ben Franklin & Daylight Saving Time" by UShistory.org.

Article: "Daylight Saving Time - State Legislation" by NCSL.

Article: "To Steer China's Future, Xi Is Rewriting Its Past" by Chris Buckley.

Article: "China triggers growing fears for US military" by Ellen Mitchell and Jordan Williams.

Article: "Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [5 December 1791]" by Alexander Hamilton.

Article: "Solar Panels and the White House" by Oliver Carpenter.

Article: "United States budget sequestration in 2013" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"

Article: "The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (Continued)" (Federalist 10) by James Madison.

Site: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Youtube Channel.

Site: AltE (solar).

Article: "John Maynard Keynes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bancor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nixon shock" by Wikipedia.

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 Ahmaud Arbery murder trial

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