This move toward autocracy in the Republican Party is the biggest threat our democracy faces today.

The Republican Party is committed to tearing America apart by pitting us against each other. Why would they do this?

Here's a clue: 63 Republicans voted this week against a resolution in support of NATO.

Yes, they voted for Putin's side of the war. Seriously. Although it's been largely ignored by American TV media, you can read all about it over at The Washington Post in an article by Aaron Blake titled: "Why 30 percent of the House GOP voted against reaffirming NATO support."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "Media critic Eric Boehlert dies in bike collision at 57" by Caroline Vakil.

Tweet: "I see a lot of division being pushed when I watch CNN and MSNBC. There's no such thing as one party being angelic and the other one is evil. They're both evil." by Kory Carlton.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "The Morning Briefing: Democrats All-in on Being the Pervert Option for November" by Stephen Kruiser.

Article: "How the Schools Got Queered" by Sally Zelikovsky.

Article: "Media Go Wild for Child-Porn Friendly Judge" by Ann Coulter.

Article: "Weirdos Who Want To Sexualize Your Children Should Absolutely Be Stigmatized As Groomers" by Kylee Zempel.

Article: "Destroy Disney" by Kurt Schlichter.

Article: "Why Does Disney Hire So Many Pedophiles?" by Emerald Robinson.

Article: "Disney's Demographic Fantasia and the 'Underrepresentation' Con" by Adam Ellwanger.

Article: "Woke Disney Hates America. It Wasn't Always This Way." by Douglas Blair.

Law: "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Congress passes $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, delivering major win for Biden" by Annie Grayer, Manu Raju and Clare Foran.

Article: "Governor Abbott threatens to bus migrants from Texas to US Capitol" by CBSDFW.

Video: Sen. Whitehouse Questions Judge Jackson on Day Two of Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings.

Article: "Fake Feds Who Gave Pricey Apartments To Secret Service Arrested" by Susie Madrak.

Article: "US: 2 posed as agents, gave gifts to Secret Service officers".

Article: "The post office arrested Steve Bannon. Yes, the post office can arrest people." by Nicole Narea.

Article: "Supremacy Clause" by Wikipedia.

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

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

Article: "The National Desk" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Biggest fraud in a generation': The looting of the Covid relief plan known as PPP" by Ken Dilanian and Laura Strickler.

Article: "Forbes calls Wilbur Ross a 'grifter'" by KNews.

Article: "Democrats Should "Take On the Swamp" and Mean It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Veteran suicide prevention" by VA.

Article: "2021 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report" by Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.

Article: "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Pete Buttigieg and his husband should 'stay out of girls' bathrooms'" by Alia Shoaib.

Article: "Rachel Bitecofer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Martin Luther King's Cousin Blocked by Kemp from Casting a Ballot" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Why Is the GOP Siding With Putin?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Treasury Escalates Sanctions Against the Russian Government's Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections" by U.S. Treasury Department.

Quote: "It is a party built on fraud, fear and fascism"" - DNC chair Jaime Harrison.

Article: "Exclusive: Koch group says U.S. should deliver partial "victory" to Russia in Ukraine" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan.

Article: "Trump pardons Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Charles Kushner" by BBC.

Article: "Trump campaign chief Manafort's associate Kilimnik gave Russia 2016 election strategy, polling, U.S. says" by Dan Mangan.

Article: "One dead as Belarus police clash with protesters in Minsk, after Lukashenko win" by DW.

Article: "Confronting Russia's Role in Transnational White Supremacist Extremism" by Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault and Joseph Stabile.

Article: "Florida Law Now Grants Immunity To Drivers Who Plow Into Crowds Of Protesters" by Erin Marquis.

Article: "Manafort convicted on 8 counts; mistrial declared on 10 other charges" by Ken Dilanian.

Article: "NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals" by Tim Mak.

Article: "Putin's Long War Against American Science" by William J. Broad.

Article: "Manafort-Gates Indictment" by US DC Court.

Article: "Did Manafort Use Trump to Curry Favor With a Putin Ally?" by Julia Ioffe and Franklin Foer.

Article: "Trump campaign guts GOP's anti-Russia stance on Ukraine" by Josh Rogin.

Article: "Why 30 percent of the House GOP voted against reaffirming NATO support" by Aaron Blake.

Tweet: "I am retweeting this without comment for your information." by Ted Lieu.

Tweet: "Six GOP House members voted against a bill that would require the State Dept to report and preserve evidence of war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
Tom Massie (KY)
Scott Perry (PA)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA)
Warren Davidson (OH)
Andy Biggs (AZ)
Paul Gosar (AZ)" by Kristin Wilson.

Article: "Days after school shooting, Rep. Thomas Massie posts family photo with guns, asks Santa for ammo for Christmas" by Theresa Waldrop.

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

Article: "Far-right French candidate slammed for backing Putin: 'a full-time cast member of the Kremlin's horror show'" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Shanghai Covid lockdown 'will have a global effect on almost every trade'" by Harry Dempsey.

Article: "Shanghai's 'grim' Covid outbreak threatens more global supply chain disruption" by Martin Farrer.

Article: "Global shipping giant Maersk says the Shanghai lockdown will cause delays and drive up transport costs in a fresh blow to the supply chain" by Abby Wallace.

Site: Indivisible.

Article: "Nixon shock" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alaska Permanent Fund" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bannon vows a daily fight for 'deconstruction of the administrative state'" by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.

Article: "Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?" by David Cay Johnston.

Article: "GOP senators visited Moscow on July 4, warned Russia against meddling in 2018 election: report" by Emily Birnbaum.

Article: "Trump brazenly asks Putin to release dirt about Biden's family" by Marshall Cohen.

Article: "Meet Marina Gross, the interpreter who was the only other American in the room for Trump and Putin's 1-on-1 meeting in Helsinki" by John Haltiwanger.

Site: Randi Rhodes Show.

Article: "America's Largest and Smallest Voting Districts" by Hristina Byrnes.

Article: "Former President Donald Trump will headline for-profit Austin event in May" by Edward McKinley.

Article: "Ukraine-Russia: Germany suspends Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline" by Frank Jordans.

Article: "GOP introduces bill forbidding Biden from potentially declaring climate change the threat that it is" by April Siese.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hungary begins building second portion of its border wall" by Chris Perez.

Article: "Romani people in Hungary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pandora (streaming service)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rachel Maddow To Return From Hiatus On April 11" by Ted Johnson.

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

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

Could Solar Geoengineering Reduce Human Suffering?
- Dave Levitan, Climate Reporter - Grid.News / Science Journalist & Author-"Not A Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science"

Article: "Stopping Climate Change Is Doable, but Time Is Short, U.N. Panel Warns" by Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong.

Article: "IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change" by IPCC.

Article: "This incredibly potent planet-warming gas just set another record for the second year in a row" by Rachel Ramirez.

Article: "Carbon capture and storage plant becomes operational in Iceland" by UNESCO.

Documentary: Ice on Fire.

Article: "Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes first Black woman confirmed to Supreme Court" by Maureen Chowdhury, Ji Min Lee, Meg Wagner and Melissa Macaya.

Article: "This incredibly potent planet-warming gas just set another record for the second year in a row" by Rachel Ramirez.

Article: "President Obama's Supreme Court Nomination".

Article: "Secretary Antony J. Blinken Press Availability at the Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers, April 7, 2022" by State Dept.

Article: "'Follow the facts wherever they lead': Garland vows to pursue Jan. 6 'perpetrators, at any level'" by Kevin Johnson, Josh Meyer.

Video: Last Hours.

Article: "President Biden claimed that there are 9,000 unused oil drilling permits. That's mostly true." by Yacob Reyes and Amy Sherman.

Article: "Still Not Getting Energy Prices Right: A Global and Country Update of Fossil Fuel Subsidies" by Ian Parry, Simon Black, Nate Vernon.

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