If the DOJ and Congress don't prosecute Trump and change our laws, the next Republican to occupy the White House will probably also try to end our democracy. "Precedent" sounds boring and wonky. In reality, it's the way past criminal Republican presidents have taught those who followed them to break the law.

This is the shocking story of how Republican presidents taught each other to break the law, and how — if Trump isn't prosecuted — the next Republican president will try to end democracy in the USA.

Trump has broken multiple past presidential precedents and established entirely new ones that — unless they're punished and outlawed — provide a template for the next Republican president who wants to turn America into a strongman oligarchy like Hungary or Turkey.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "With Sen. Luján in the hospital after a stroke, Democrats have no Senate majority and can't pass anything without GOP help" by Tom Porter.

Article: "Democrats, GOP set to huddle on deal to fund government, avert shutdown" by Tony Romm.

Article: "House Democrats unveil major legislation on innovation, cybersecurity and the supply chain" by Derek B. Johnson.

Article: "Unprecedented inflation in 40 years surprises the US and becomes a meme" by Mercado.

Article: "Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests" by Medicare.

Article: "Wisconsin Bill To Lower Concealed Carry Age Passes Assembly" by Ethan Duran.

Article: "In freezing Afghanistan, aid workers rush to save millions" by Kathy Gannon.

Article: "William Barr's Memoir, One Damn Thing After Another , Is Coming — What Will It Say?" by Aaron Parsley.

Article: "What to know about the Trump 'fake electors' scheme" by Marshall Cohen.

Article: "Free N95 masks are arriving in stores for pickup. Learn how and where to get yours" by Dan Avery.

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden Nominates Two New Postal Service Board Members" by Madeleine Ngo.

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

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

Article: "Joe Manchin says Build Back Better 'dead' as talks stall on Biden agenda" by Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Ted Barrett.

Bill: "H.R.860 - Social Security 2100 Act" by Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1].

Article: "Three Random Mar-a-Lago Members Are Quietly Running the VA" by Kate Riga.

Article: "President Biden Hypes Ford & GM EVs, Ignores Tesla's Clear Leadership" by Johnna Crider.

Article: "2020 US Electric Vehicle Sales Report" by Zachary Shahan.

Article: "GM Sold Only 26 Electric Vehicles in Q4 of 2021, Elon Musk Reacts With Sarcastic Tweet" by Sissi Cao.

Article: "Enjoy your tax cuts while they last" by Jeanne Sahadi.

Article: "Ofcom" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: How The Lowdown on Rising Interest Rates & the Fed - How Housing & the Stock Market Will Be Affected
- 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)

Article: "Why the global chip shortage threatens the economy, national security and Americans' 'status quo'" by Catherine Thorbecke.

Article: "Federal Funds Rate - 62 Year Historical Chart" by Macrotrends.

Article: "Dot-com bubble" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2020 stock market crash" by Wikipedia.

Article: "UK inflation jumps to 30-year high of 5.4% as cost of living crisis deepens – as it happened" by Julia Kollewe.

Article: "Furry Panic Is the Latest Dumb GOP Attack on Public Schools" by Kelly Weill.

Article: "Cats (musical)" by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Article: "Fear of 'furries' in school grips conservative parents fooled by absurd Facebook rumors" by Brad Reed.

Article: "How Will America Deal with the Next GOP Wannabee Dictator?" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "USA v. Paul J. Manafort, Jr. and Richard W. Gates Iii".

Article: "Will Trump End Up In Prison?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Abraham Lincoln's Opposition to the Mexican War" by Worldhistory.us.

Article: "The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'" by David Taylor.

Article: "Read the charges and plea agreement for Michael Flynn" by CNN.

Article: "Comparing presidential administrations by arrests and convictions: A warning for Trump appointees" by RoyalScribe.

Article: "The Large Policy: How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire" by Brenda Wineapple.

Article: "The Physics of the N95 Face Mask" by Rhett Allain.

Article: "Nicaragua" by Wikipedia.

Article: "While TV Lawyers Wailed Impotently, DOJ Was Acquiring the Communications of Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and (Probably) Mark Meadows" by emptywheel.

Article: "Trump calls for 'the biggest protest we have ever had' in DC and other cities if prosecutors investigating him 'do anything illegal'" by Alia Shoaib.

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

Article: "The Medicare Part D Coverage Gap ("Donut Hole") Made Simple" by eHealthInsurance Services.

Article: "Negotiation of Drug Prices in Medicare Part D" by CRS.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

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

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: "Social Security Offers Nearly Its Entire Workforce Early Retirement" by Eric Katz.

Article: "The Absurdity of Protecting Kids From the Holocaust Narrative 'Maus'" by Steven Singer.

Article: "Tom Cotton Says Slavery Not About White Supremacy But Was A Necessary Evil. Some Facts." by KeithDB.

Article: "Banning, burning books becoming weekly affairs" by Charles Selle.

Article: "Cotton gin" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Clear and present danger" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Schenck v. United States", 1919.

Article: "Michigan Republican candidates advised a group to unplug voting machines if they suspect fraud and to 'lock and load' at the polls" by Madison Hall.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment" by Michael Waldman.

Article: "Trump PAC transferred $1 million to a Mark Meadows nonprofit as House coup probe got underway" by Hunter.

Article: "Alarm grows as Florida GOP advances plan to gut ballot initiative process" by Jake Johnson.

Documentary: "Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism In America".

Article: "The Day New York Tried to Secede" by Ron Soodalter.

Video: The Truth About the Confederacy in the United States - Jeffery Robinson.

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

Article: "More than 12 HBCU campuses targeted in new round of bomb threats" by Chantal Da Silva and Tat Bellamy-Walker and Courtney Brogle and Austin Mullen and Ken Dilanian.

Article: "New York's Slave Past: The History and Archaeology of the African Burial Grounds" by Myeashea Alexander.

Article: "History of Georgetown University" by Wikipedia.

Site: Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" .

Bible: "Ezekiel 23: Two Adulterous Sisters".

Article: "America First Committee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cornerstone Speech" by Alexander H. Stephens.

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

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