White supremacy promoted as pseudo-science is a lie, and the racist politics that flow from it are poison in the bloodstream of our republic.

In the 2020 election, the Republican Party chose not to even publish a party platform. They literally had no list of things they'd like to accomplish or do for the American people.

As Axios recently reported after attending a meeting between Mitch McConnell and wealthy donors: "Republicans should be 100% focused on Democrats and all the 'terrible' things they're doing to the country, McConnell said." We'll find out what Republicans support, we're told, only after they regain power.

In a bizarre parody of Seinfeld, the GOP appears to have become the Party of Nothing.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "All the GOP Has Left is Racism & That's a Lie, Too" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "William Bennett Defends Comment on Abortion and Crime" by Jake Tapper.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms" by Jonathan Swan, Alayna Treene.

Article: "A controversial author finds a powerful audience" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Discrimination Against Whites Needs More Attention, Say About Half of White Republicans in 3 Southern States" by Benjamin Fearnow.

Article: "Much of David Duke's '91 Campaign Is Now in Louisiana Mainstream" by Jeremy Alford.

Article: "Mississippi Senator Trent Lott and Georgia Congressman Bob Barr Have Connections to White Supremacist Group Council of Conservative Citizens" by Heidi Beirich and Bob Moser.

Article: "What Is the Council of Conservative Citizens, the White-Supremacist Group That Inspired a Racist Manifesto?" by David A. Graham.

Article: "The 2 Degrees of Separation Between Dylann Roof and the Republican Party" by Michelle Goldberg.

Article: "Dylann Roof's racist manifesto: 'I have no choice'" by Lenny Bernstein, Sari Horwitz and Peter Holley.

Article: "Republicans, your racism is showing" by Jennifer Rubin.

Article: "Steve Scalise reportedly said he was 'like David Duke without the baggage'" by The Week.

Article: "'Drug dealers, criminals, rapists': What Trump thinks of Mexicans" by BBC.

Book: The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein.

Article: "Congress has tough words on Putin and Russia's aggression in Ukraine, but can't agree on sanctions" by Ledyard King and Dylan Wells.

Article: "Surprise! Russia cancels Kentucky aluminum plant after Moscow Mitch fails to throw election" by DeposuitPotentes.

Article: "'The fear is the point': Former GOP operative lashes out at Florida Republicans' 'Don't Say Gay' bill" by Brad Reed.

Article: "No, the federal government isn't spending $30 million on 'crack pipes'" by Meryl Kornfield and Mariana Alfaro.

Article: "Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as 'shithole' countries" by Ali Vitali, Kasie Hunt and Frank Thorp V.

Article: "Trump: Caravans Forming on the Border in Anticipation of a Biden Presidency " by Melanie Arter.

Article: "Critical Race Theory" (CRT) by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Two: The Economic Impact Of a War in Ukraine or Taiwan?
- 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: "Ukraine-Russia crisis: What to know as NATO eyes Russia move" by Jill Lawless.

Article: "What's behind the China-Taiwan divide?" by BBC.

Article: "How a Russian invasion in Ukraine could disrupt life in America" by Paul R. La Monica.

Article: "China's Control of Rare Earth Metals" by Kristin Vekasi.

Article: "Taiwan chip industry emerges as battlefront in U.S.-China showdown" by Yimou Lee, Norihiko Shirouzu, David Lague.

Article: "Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria" by Wikipedia.

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

Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.

Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Time for Merrick Garland to flush Donald Trump" by Bill Press.

Article: "Orrin Hatch once said there was "no question" Merrick Garland could be confirmed to the Supreme Court." by Alex Shephard.

Article: "Leader of Oath Keepers and 10 Other Individuals Indicted in Federal Court for Seditious Conspiracy and Other Offenses Related to U.S. Capitol Breach" by DoJ.

Article: "The Supreme Court, Weaponized" by Linda Greenhouse.

Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federalist Society's Leonard Leo is helping Trump make courts more conservative" by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg.

Article: "'Wake-Up Call': NOAA Predicts One-Foot Sea-Level Rise by 2050" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' protesters block 2 more bridges to the U.S. in defiance of Trudeau's new Emergencies Act powers" by Jen Skerritt, Robert Tuttle and Bloomberg.

Video: How Can America Move To a More Diverse Society? (w/ Ben Jealous).

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

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

Article: "GOP Law Blamed as Nearly 40% of Mail-In Ballots Rejected in Houston Area" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "Trump alumni launch America First Policy Institute" by Lexi Lonas.

Article: "Trump's Big China Flop and Other Failures" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "The Southeast Asia War: Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia" by National Museum of the United States Air Force.

Article: "Netherlands in World War II" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stephen E. Ambrose" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lawmaker Sues Anti-Abortion Group After They Sent KKK Image: 'Guess Who Decided to Take a Stand?'" by Virginia Chamlee.

Article: "Blue Angels" by Wikipedia.

Book: Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine.

Site: Patriotic Millionaires.

Article: "Billionaire Warren Buffet on Raising Taxes on the Rich: "I'm Fine with It"" by Sergei Klebnikov.

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

Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.

Plus, I'll be talking with Bishop William J. Barber, II, Pastor-Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina / President & Senior Lecturer-Repairers of the Breach and the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement about the Mobilization Tour heading for DC.

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...

Are Americans Willing To Pay High Cost Of War In Ukraine? (w/ Richard Wolff)

Is America's Militia Problem Growing?

How Much Government is Too Much? DEBATE! (w/ Charles Sauer)

Is GOP Addicted To Crack Pipe Lies?