Wednesday night as bombs were falling on Ukraine, Sen. Cruz was partying hard with Trump at Mar-a-Lago along with other GOP senators, having already sabotaged Biden's efforts against Putin.

About a month ago, Senator Bob Menendez introduced legislation in the Senate that would have both strengthened Ukraine's ability to fight back against an invasion and given President Biden some truly powerful sanction tools to use should it happen.

Much of it turned on the Lend-Lease Act that FDR got pushed through Congress in 1941 to help England at the height of "the Blitz," the German bombardment of London, in a way that avoided his having to declare war on Germany.

It also would have freed up billions to make up for the money Congress authorized but Donald Trump froze when President Zelensky refused to make up lies about candidate Joe Biden, an extortion attempt that got Trump impeached the first time.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Republicans Siding with Putin Loathe Democracy & Honest Elections" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Here's What Happened When 3 White People Committed Voter Fraud Vs. A Black Texas Woman" by Tanasia Kenney.

Article: "National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)" by BallotPedia.

Article: "Democracy under Siege" by Freedom House.

Article: "Black woman sentenced to six years in prison for registering to vote" by Ny Magee.

Article: "Rick Scott's Company Committed Historic Medicare Fraud. He Will Now Lead Trump's Health-Care Push" by Matt Stieb.

Article: "Blackburn's role in opioid crisis overshadows her crack pipe concerns" by Holly McCall.

Article: "Trump holds GOP candidate forum at Mar-a-Lago" by Lexi Lonas.

Article: "Rick Scott's 11-Point Plan Is a Haunted-House Version of Newt Gingrich's 'Contract With America'" by Charles P. Pierce.

Article: "The Blitz begins as Germany bombs London" by History.com.

Article: "Lend-Lease Act" by History.com.

Article: "League Refuses to "Help Perpetrate a Fraud"" by League of Women Voters.

Article: "Fighting Voter Suppression" by League of Women Voters.

Article: "14 GOP-Controlled States Have Passed Laws to Impede Free Elections" by Ari Berman.

Article: "Texas woman sentenced to five years for trying to vote gets new appeal" by Jane C. Timm.

Article: "Officials Struggled With Trump's Ukraine Aid Freeze, Emails Show" by Charlie Savage.

Article: "Unable to Agree on Russia Sanctions Bill, Senate Settles for a Statement" by Catie Edmondson.

Article: "Konstantin Buynichev, head of RU tactical unit surrendered together with his comrades." by Nevilledog.

Article: "Ukrainian ambassador says Russian platoon surrendered to Ukrainian forces" by Joseph Choi.

Article: "Soldiers' mothers say Putin's men beat and tricked their sons into war with Ukraine: report" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "More than 150 senior Russian officials sign open letter condemning Putin's invasion of Ukraine as 'an unprecedented atrocity' and warn of 'catastrophic consequences' while urging citizens 'not to participate'" by Lauren Lewis.

Article: "Ukrainian Soldier Blew Up Bridge and Himself to Stop Advance of Russian Troops, Kyiv Says" by Allison Quinn.

Article: "Caught on Tape: Defiant Ukrainian Soldiers Tell Russians 'Go F*ck Yourself' Before Being Killed" by Jackson Richman.

Article: "Russia's extraordinary protests could be best Putin opposition as thousands rally despite harsh crackdown" by Emma Reynolds.

Article: "Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration" by Greg Miller.

Article: "GOP Senator Ben Sasse Rails Against Oligarch 'A**holes' Enabling Putin: 'They Should Go Back and Live in Moscow's Hellholes'" by Jackson Richman.

Article: "Russia deploys mobile crematoriums to follow its troops into battle" by Sam Elliott-Gibbs.

Article: "Protests resume as Russia seeks to quash invasion critics" by Dasha Litvinova.

Article: "Ukrainian soldier blew himself up on bridge to block advancement of Russian tanks" by Megan Sheets.

Article: "2 prosecutors leading Manhattan DA's Trump probe resign, leaving charges in doubt" by Aaron Katersky.

Article: "Why would Russia want to take Chernobyl?" by Alex Seitz-Wald.

Article: "As Russia Seizes Chernobyl Site, Ukraine's 15 Nuclear Reactors Pose Unprecedented Risk in War Zone" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Chernobyl radiation spike probably from Russian tanks disturbing dust" by Matthew Sparkes.

Article: "Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to deliver Republican response to SOTU" by Daniel Uria.

Article: "United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 2022" by BallotPedia.

Article: "Ukraine update: Russian soldiers enter capital as mysterious 'ghost of Kyiv' becomes symbol of hope" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "European Union agrees to freeze assets of Putin and minister" by Raf Casert, Foster Klug.

Article: "Russia says it will limit access to Facebook, a major platform for dissent." by Anton Troianovski.

Article: "Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?" by Ian Millhiser.

Video: Hillary Clinton: We've got to go after the oligarchs who are supporting Putin financially.

Article: "Fighting erupts between Armenia, Azerbaijan over disputed region" by Al Jazeera.

Article: "SNAP Benefits - COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond" by USDA.

Article: "CDC changes approach to covid: Most Americans can go without masks" by Lena H. Sun and Dan Keating.

Article: "BRIC" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia.

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO).

Article: "Russia threatens 'military and political consequences' if Finland, Sweden try joining NATO" by Lexi Lonas.

Article: "Gulf of Tonkin incident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Secretary Antony J. Blinken on Russia's Threat to Peace and Security at the UN Security Council , February 17, 2022.

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: "Venezuela Can Bring Putin to his Knees" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Ketanji Brown Jackson" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Michael Kurland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian space chief says he could let International Space Station crash into US if sanctions proceed" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Florida House approves CRT, 'don't say gay' bills" by Jeffrey S. Solochek.

Article: "Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia" by Joel Schectman and Christopher Bing.

Article: "Conti ransomware gang: You attack Russia, we'll hack you back" by Graham Cluley.

Site: KrebsOnSecurity.

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: "Jet stream" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Is the Coriolis Effect?" by NOAA.

Quote: "A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come." - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.

Book: Be Here Now by Ram Dass.

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sudetenland" by Britannica.

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

Article: "Eight sobering realities about Putin's invasion of Ukraine" by Robert Reich.

Site: HamExam.org Amateur Radio Practice Exams.

Article: "Faraday cage" by Wikipedia.

Site: American Radio Relay League.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

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: "Election Surprises – FDR's 1936 Re-Election" by John S. Cooper.

Article: "Venezuela's Kids Are Dying. Are We Responsible?" by Nicholas Kristof.

Article: "Ahead of SOTU, 1,000+ Groups Demand Biden 'Build Back Fossil Free'" by Jessica Corbett.

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