They offer nothing to improve schools, support families, help small businesses, lower drug prices, rebuild America's crumbling infrastructure, or heal the racial divide - just performance art.

Today's Republican Party has stopped even pretending to have "ideas." Instead, they've become the party of performance art, and it's hurting America.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "New Report: The global decline in democracy has accelerated" by Freedom House.

Article: "NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard" by Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton.

Tweet: "My office is now getting calls from folks who say they watch Tucker Carlson and are upset that we're not siding with Russia in its threats to invade Ukraine, and who want me to support Russia's "reasonable" positions." by Tom Malinowski.

Book: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State by Peter Farb.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Murdoch Becomes U.S. Citizen, Can Buy TV Network" by UPI.

Article: "The Rus – the Vikings of the East " by Medieval Histories.

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

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

Article: "Why Vladimir Putin is so confident in his Ukraine strategy – he has a trump card in China" by Alexey D Muraviev.

Article: "Putin announces creation of two new countries — that had been part of Ukraine" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "The U.S. won't send troops to Ukraine: Here's what it might do" by Joshua Keating.

Article: "United Nations Security Council" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Presidency of the United Nations Security Council" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States sanctions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Arbery defendants convicted of hate crimes, lesser charges" by Russ Bynum.

Article: "Moldova" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russia's Putin Meets Hungary PM Viktor Orban; Duo Discuss Europe's Security Situation" by Aparna Shandilya.

Article: "Serbia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US delivers 300 Javelin missiles to Ukraine as EU announces further military deployments" by Clara Weiss.

Article: "Turkey, a Sometimes Wavering NATO Ally, Backs Ukraine" by Andrew E. Kramer.

Article: "CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central role if Russia invades" by Zach Dorfman.

Article: "Pentagon puts 8,500 troops on 'heightened alert' as U.S. weighs military action against Russia" by Courtney Kube and Kelly O'Donnell.

Article: "Lawmakers press Biden for 'harsh' response to Putin's troop deployment" by Mark Moore.

Article: "Performance Art Is All the GOP Has Left" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Hillary schools Democrats on messaging. Two important views on Ukraine-Russia. Steve Schmidt slams GOP" by Egberto Willies.

Tweet: "Your entire time in military leadership we won zero wars. You drank fine wine at bullshit security conferences while thousands of working class kids died on the battlefield. Oh, by the way, how much do you stand to gain financially from a war with Russia, Barry?" by J.D. Vance.

Tweet: "Replying to @JDVance1 You piece of shit. He nearly lost his arm in Vietnam. He led the 24th ID in our massive assault into Iraq in Desert Storm. You…were briefly a fucking PAO in an air wing. I can't wait to see your loser ass absolutely shamed on election day. Coward." by Fred Wellman.

Article: "Senate Republicans Stall Crucial Vote on Fed Nominees" by Jeanna Smialek and Emily Cochrane.

Article: "Uproar Over 'Crack Pipes' Puts Biden Drug Strategy at Risk" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Says Ukraine Isn't Important. These Key GOP Voters Beg to Differ" by Kathy Gilsinan.

Article: "Wheat and corn prices could jump if Russia invades Ukraine" by Julia Horowitz.

Article: "Arab Spring" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Sanctions Against Russia Could Make It Even Harder For Americans To Buy A Car" by Lauren Debter.

Article: "Supreme court rejects Trump's request to block access to January 6 records" by Joan E Greve.

Article: "Trump took multiple boxes of White House documents, including letters from Kim Jong Un and Barack Obama, to Mar-a-Lago: report" by Grace Panetta.

Article: "Trump held up and waved classified documents around in front of reporters at the Oval Office, says former Homeland Security aide" by Alia Shoaib.

Article: "Fiona Hill says that Trump emboldened Putin to invade Ukraine by treating the country like a 'playground'" by Tom Porter.

Article: "Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say" by Brian Ross, James Gordon Meek, Randy Kreider.

Article: "Bob Dylan, Masters of War, and the Ukraine Crisis" by Norman Solomon.

Article: "A Path Out of the Ukraine Crisis" by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Article: "NATO agrees 2022 civil and military budgets" by NATO.

Article: "Military budget of Russia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black History Month" by history.com.

Article: "Malcolm X" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent" - Martin Luther King Jr.

Article: "NATO broke its "promise" not to expand but there must be no war, says Medvedev" by Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Jack Guy and Ed Upright.

Video: Meet the Press: Feb. 20 — Sec. Blinken, Fmr Amb. Taylor, Mayor Breed.

Article: "Trump met Putin without staff or note takers present — again" by Alex Ward.

Article: "Nord Stream 2: The Russian pipeline that everybody's talking about" by Silvia Amaro.

Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Is It True We Won't Need a 4th Booster?
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists

Article: "Got a Covid Booster? You Probably Won't Need Another for a Long Time" by Apoorva Mandavilli.

Article: "Five months post-covid, Nicole Murphy's heart rate is still doing strange things" by Ariana Eunjung Cha.

Article: "More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries" by Rob Stein.

Article: ""Living With Covid" Will Be One of the Biggest Mistakes of the 21st Century" by umair haque.

Article: "Israel study: 4th vaccine shows limited results with omicron" by Josef Federman.

Article: "Boosters Work" by CDC.

Article: "New air purifiers filter at least 90% of COVID-carrying particles, researchers say" by Jon LaPook.

Article: "Ukraine's war-torn Donbas region is on the verge of environmental disaster" by Veronika Melkozerova.

Article: "Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)" by Wikipedia.

Book: Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power by Noam Chomsky.

Site: Richard Wolff.

Site: Noam Chomsky.

Site: Robert Reich.

Site: Democracy Now!.

Article: "Democrats tune out national news during Biden era" by Sara Fischer.

Article: "Vichy France" by Wikipedia.

Article: "1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Volodymyr Zelenskyy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump pardon promise for Capitol rioters 'stuff of dictators' – Nixon aide" by Martin Pengelly.

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

Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Belarus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Stand your ground' laws linked to 11% rise in U.S. firearm homicides, study says" by Hannah Knowles.

Article: "Shooting of Trayvon Martin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three-strikes law" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP officer in NC busted leading a door-to-door harassment effort targeting Black voters" by CarolinaForward.

Article: "Rick Scott: The Ultimate Medicare Thief" by Florida Dems.

Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says" by PolitiFact.

Article: "Death by Dogma: Charlene Dill Didn't Have to Die" by Alan Grayson.

Tweet: "The proposed 25 percent cut in the federal workforce will not be popular with anyone who visits national parks, relies on federal law enforcement, has an issue with Social Security, needs a tax refund or thinks we need a strong national defense. [link]" by Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin.

Article: "Rick Scott just laid out a Republican agenda. He has done his party no favors." by Jennifer Rubin.

Article: "Russian Orthodox Church" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vladimir Putin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Russian Quest for Warm Water Ports" by GlobalSecurity.org.

Article: "Fiddler on the Roof" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A Ship of Jewish Refugees Was Refused US Landing in 1939. This Was Their Fate" by Erin Blakemore.

Article: "Biden announces new sanctions against Russia, says Ukraine is seeing 'beginning of a Russian invasion'" by Lauren Egan.

Article: "Allies of World War II" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Issue of Ukraine's membership in NATO not on agenda now - Scholz" by Ukrinform.

Article: "The Castle Doctrine And Stand-your-ground Law" by Mark Randall, Hendrik DeBoer.

Site: OpEdNews - Rohn Kenyatta.

Article: "In 2018, Why Did 8-Republican U.S. Senators Spend July 4th In Moscow?" by Jake Thomas.

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

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

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And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...

"Pandemic Far From Over" Will You Need 4th Booster? (w/Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding)

Is Ukraine a Tipping Point For Anti-Democracy Movement?

Why Is Franklin Graham Praying for Putin?

Can Trump Race War be Stopped? (w/ Rep. Joe Walsh)

Is Trump REALLY Going to Jail? (w/ David Cay Johnston)