If the fake news wins and neofascist politicians like Trump again gain serious national power, America will be on a fast track down the same road as Russia.

Over on Fox "News," a recent segment with Tucker Carlson suggested that vaccines are more dangerous than getting Covid. Why do conservatives fall for this kind of BS?

Multiple recent studies show that Republicans are as much as 8.5 times more likely to both believe and share fake or false "news" with others than are Democrats. The phenomenon is obvious, actually: while as many as half of Republicans believe the 2020 election was "stolen" from Trump, there's no similarly disprovable "big lie" embraced by Democrats.

And it's not limited to things like elections that are overtly political: Republicans are more likely than Democrats to reject basic science about Covid, and thus die of the disease at much higher rates than Democrats.

Even when their lives and their families' lives are at stake, Republicans let themselves be suckered into believing things that are easily proven false.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

How Corporations Became 'People' - and How You Can Fight Back.

The Boston Tea Party Revealed.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— Have "The Birchers" Won?
— There's a debate dividing the Jan 6 committee - Should Trump be referred to the DOJ for prosecution? Or would that backfire?
— How the corporate media whittles away at democracy.
— Why isn't the media asking if the Saudi sweetheart deal is really just a payout or bribe to Kushner for his services during the Trump presidency?
— Why the GOP refuses to do debates with Commission of Presidential Debates.
— Why Is It not OK to be a unicorn if you are a child?
— Racism Alert! Penn Law professor Amy Wax tells Tucker Carlson that "Blacks" and other "non-western" groups harbor "resentment, shame, and envy" against western people for their "outsized achievements and contributions." But wait...there's more...
— Crazy Alert! Are human sacrifices the logical conclusion of deflated tires?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Deadly Reason Republicans are Suckers for Fake News?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Examining Partisan Asymmetries in Fake News Sharing and the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompt Interventions" by Brian Guay, Adam Berinsky, Gordon Pennycook, David Rand.

Article: "Daughters Don't Let Their Mothers Watch Fox News" by Catherine Piner.

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: "Fox News guest spreads lie that the COVID vaccine is more dangerous than COVID" by Media Matters.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum.

Article: "Chilling video shows Putin's Tu-95 nuclear bombers flying near Ukrainian border as Russian rockets kill at least six in Lviv" by Chris Jewers and Will Stewart.

Article: "Ukrainians do not heed Russian deadline to surrender in Mariupol or die" by Adam Schreck and Mstyslav Chernov.

Article: "For the first time, wind power eclipsed both coal and nuclear in the U.S." by Deepa Shivaram.

Article: "Did Ralph Nader Spoil a Gore Presidency? A Ballot-Level Study of Green and Reform Party Voters in the 2000 Presidential Election" by Michael C. Herron, Jeffrey B. Lewis.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Expert on Autocrats Says We Need to Prosecute and Convict Trump" by Dan K.

Book: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

Article: "The One Way History Shows Trump's Personality Cult Will End " by Michael Kruse.

Article: "Most Republicans Think Capitol Riot Was Patriotic" by Taegan Goddard.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".

Article: "US Prison Population By Race" by WorldAtlas.

Article: "Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled" by Laura Strickler, Ken Dilanian and Peter Alexander.

Article: "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly.

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973).

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Hour Two: No pray to play - Will These Guys Succeed In Turning America Into a Theocracy?
- Rachel Laser, President & CEO - Americans United for Separation of Church and State (the legal team legal team representing the Bremerton School District)

Article: "No Pray to Play" by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Article: "The Supreme Court's "praying coach" case, explained" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Can a public high school coach pray publicly on the job?" by Mark Silk.

Article: "Broad And Diverse Coalition Supporting Students' Religious Freedom Represented In Supreme Court Amicus Briefs In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District" by Americans United.

Article: "Establishment Clause" by Wikipedia.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Bible: "Matthew 6:6-8". "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray..."

Article: "Is there any justification for Putin's war?" by Mark Rice-Oxley.

Article: "We Regret to Inform You That Tucker Carlson's New Special Does In Fact Promote 'Testicle Tanning'" by Sarah Rumpf.

Article: "Ron DeSantis transforms Florida's Education Department into his Ministry of Propaganda in stunning move" by Ray Hartmann.

Article: "U.S. conservative conference with Hungary's hardline leader reflects Republican divide" (CPAC) by Peter Eisler, Alexandra Ulmer, Anita Komuves and Andrew R.c. Marshall.

Article: "6 GOP House members opposed a bill meant to document and preserve evidence of war crimes during Russia's invasion of Ukraine" by Taiyler Simone Mitchell.

Article: "Florida approves ballot measure restoring felons' voting rights" by Dan Whitcomb.

Article: "Gov. DeSantis signs Florida initiative process restrictions into law" by Josh Altic.

Article: "Report: DOJ Grand Jury Has Been Secretly Targeting Trump World For Months" by Susie Madrak.

Video: What Biden Has Done That You Don't Know!.

Article: "Year One What Biden Has Done Mega Thread" by whatbidenhasdone.

Article: "Dennis Hastert" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine to probe after videos show alleged Russian POWs shot, abused" by Yaron Steinbuch.

Quote: "Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British Army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren who have fallen into their hands" - George Washington.

Book: Death in the Pines: An Oakley Tyler Novel by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Three: Can a lake in Florida be saved by giving it rights?
- Thomas Linzey. Senior Counsel - Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER)

Article: "A Lake in Florida Suing to Protect Itself" by Elizabeth Kolbert.

Article: "Rights of Nature Timeline" by CDER.

Article: "Flying Spaghetti Monster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Satanists want statue next to 10 Commandments" by Daniel Burke.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "'Stain on Democracy': Tax Day Study Shows US Billionaires Now Own $4.7 Trillion" by Jake Johnson.

Quote: "Taxes, after all are the dues we pay for the privilege of membership in an organized society. And as society becomes more civilized government, national and state and local, is called on to assume more obligations to its citizens. The privileges of membership in a civilized society are vastly increased in modern times. But I am afraid we still have many who still do not recognize their advantages and want to avoid paying their dues" - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad."

Quote: "You would think, to hear some people talk, that those good people who live at the top of our economic pyramid are being taxed into rags and tatters. What is the fact? The fact is that they are much farther away from the poorhouse than they were in 1932. You and I know that as a matter of personal observation." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Address at Worcester, Mass.," October 21, 1936.

Quote: "A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Address at Worcester, Mass.," October 21, 1936.

Article: "History of Federal Income Tax Rates: 1913 - 2019" by Bradford Tax Institute.

Article: "National Health Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Calvinism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Calvinism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

Article: "The Scary Thing Those Four Republicans Revealed" by AndySchmookler.

Article: "Alex Jones' Infowars files for bankruptcy following Sandy Hook lawsuits" by Reuters.

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

As Earth Day approaches, I'll be talking with Dr. Sylvia A. Earle, President & Chairman - Mission Blue / National Geographic Explorer at Large, / former Chief Scientist of NOAA / Author of the new book National Geographic Ocean: A Global Odyssey

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Will SCOTUS Turn America Into A Theocracy? (w/ Rachel Laser)

The Deadly Reason Republicans Are Suckers for Fake News

Do Only Democrats Get Arrested for Voter Fraud?

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