Welcome to the racist, misogynous, anti-democracy faction that has seized control of today's GOP and their media cheerleaders: How long will they hold onto their power over the entire party?

The Republican Party has lost all its legitimacy because, in the past few decades, it has become a white supremacist version of what Father of the Constitution James Madison called a "faction."

Loosely, a "faction" is a "special interest"group of people who are willing to damage the interests of other people just to gain their own benefit.

And, as Madison warned us, factions destroy democracies.

Here's how it's playing out right now, as a Trump-inspired faction continues to consolidate their control over the larger Republican Party, dragging it deeper and deeper into the swamp of racism and misogyny.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "As the GOP Drowns Deeper in Factional Racism & Sexism, America is Sinking, too" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Tomi Lahren: No Black Women On SCOTUS Because Kamala Harris" by David.

Article: "The Federalist Number 10" by James Madison.

Article: "Black Americans 117th Congress" by House.

Tweet: "Would be nice if Pres Biden chose a Supreme Court nominee who was best qualified without a race/gender litmus test. That's what I did when I picked Tim Scott as Senator of South Carolina" by Nikki Haley.

Book: "The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction - and What This Means Today" by Dan Sisson with Thom Hartmann

Case: "Shelby County v Holder".

Article: "Tucker Carlson: "Every other possible ethnic voting bloc" will view a Black Supreme Court nominee as America "giving up the spoils"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Dr. Bernice King to GOP: Do not take excerpts from my father, Dr. Martin Luther King" by Joy Reid.

Article: "Trump has never shied away from identity politics, despite his allies' loathing of it" by Eugene Scott.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Anita Hill" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tucker Carlson: A Black Female SCOTUS Nominee Doesn't Look Like Real America" by John Amato.

Article: "What Is All This Isolation Doing to Us?" by Emily Goddard.

Article: "GOP Senator Susan Collins tries to pump the brakes on swift confirmation of Biden's Supreme Court pick" by Tom Fenton.

Article: "What is the process for Supreme Court nominations? Here's what's next and how long it could take." by Rick Rouan.

Law: "Patriot Act", 2001.

Article: "California's 12th Congressional District election, 2022" by BallotPedia.

Site: Shahid Butta for Congress.

Article: "House passes bill that would grant DC statehood" by Clare Foran.

Article: "Statehood movement in Puerto Rico" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Grand Theft Auto" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The History Of Video Games And The Military" by Christian Beekman.

Article: "Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department Seek to Strengthen Enforcement Against Illegal Mergers" by FTC.

Article: "Request for Information on Merger Enforcement" by FTC (comments by March 21, 2022).

Article: "America's Concentration Crisis" by Open Markets Institute.

Article: "Did LBJ Advocate: 'Convince the Lowest White Man He's Better Than the Best Colored Man'?" by David Emery.

Article: "Candace Owens" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Healthcare in Germany" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Heimat" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Max Weber" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Calvinism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Calvinism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "East India Company" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Predestination in Calvinism" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Electoral Count Act of 1887" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The fight to oust Louis DeJoy and his 'disastrous' austerity plan" by Michael Sainato.

Article: "Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device" by Microsoft .

Article: "Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and its game publisher Bethesda Softworks" by Microsoft.

Article: "Senator Klobuchar Introduces Sweeping Bill to Promote Competition and Improve Antitrust Enforcement" by Amy Klobuchar.

Article: "Direct Contracting Model: Professional and Global Options Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO)-based Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) Fact Sheet" by CMS.

Article: "The biggest threat to Medicare you've never even heard of" by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Susan Rogers, M.D.

Article: "Chinese FM debunks US media report claiming Beijing requested Moscow not to invade Ukraine during Winter Olympics" by Global Times .

Article: "Blinken says U.S. has delivered response to Moscow's demands regarding Ukraine" by Kathryn Watson.

Article: "Biden to target banks and imports, not oil and gas, for potential Russia sanctions: report" by Callie Patteson.

Article: "U.S. Security Cooperation With Saudi Arabia" by Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.

Article: "War Powers Resolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fiscal stimulus powered US economy in 2021 to its best performance since 1984" by Lucia Mutikani.

Article: "President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan" by White House.

Article: "James Carville assails 'emotional' Democrats for wasting money on unwinnable Senate races: 'Stupid s—'".

Article: "Tom Tiffany" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Electoral Count Act of 1887" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Susan Rice's Viagra Hoax: The New Incubator Babies" by Eric Garris.

Article: "Afghanistan: Parents sell children and kidneys to feed starving families" by Alex Crawford.

Article: "" by .

Article: "Trump signed Bibles. Heresy? Many religious leaders say no" by Jennifer McDermott.

Article: "Professional Bull Riders get millions from Border Patrol for patriotism and plugs" by Josh Peter.

Article: "Professional Bull Riders" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is the Anti-Democracy Movement Reaching a Tipping Point in the US and Around the World?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "White House Pushes Social Security Staff Cuts" by Sarah Okeson.

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A rocket booster could crash into the moon in the next few weeks" by Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland.

Article: "Heeding Steve Bannon's Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America's Elections" by Isaac Arnsdorf, Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Anjeanette Damon.

Article: "Run for Something" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions" by Alexandra S. Levine.

Site: Trump Death Toll.

Article: "Will he or won't he? Daryl Campbell still awaiting word on his swearing-in to represent HD 94" by Anne Geggis.

Article: "DeSantis secretary of state reverses course, paving way for new Democratic lawmaker Daryl Campbell's swearing in" by Anthony Man.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Georgia voters 45 times more likely to have vote-by-mail applications rejected after new GOP law: report " by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions. It's Staggering." by Ryan Little, Ari Berman.

Article: "Russia adds jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny to list of 'terrorists and extremists'" by AFP.

Article: "Pussy Riot" by Wikipedia.

Book: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.

Article: "Inside Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Unlikely Rise and Precipitous Fall" by Taegan Goddard.

Article: "Jim Bakker" by Wikipedia.

Book: Civil War Volumes 1-3 Box Set by Shelby Foote.

Article: "Text of Biden's first address to joint session of Congress".

Article: "Chris Hayes: The Right's Take On Biden's SCOTUS Shows That They Believe That White People Are The Best" by Tyler Stone.

Article: "Richard Bandler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Robert Anton Wilson" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Braveheart".

Quote: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Article: "Carter Agrees To A Plan On 55-m.p.h. Speed Limit" by UPI.

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