Orbán's speeches this week raise the question: Is he teaching the American GOP through his example, or is the GOP teaching him through their "replacement theory" & new laws banning books.

Republicans believe that Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán has figured out the "secret sauce" to turn a republic into a hard-right oligarchy, and today they're in Budapest drinking deep from his insights on the fine points of destroying democracy.

In two speeches this week, Orbán laid out his Hungarian version of the racist American "Great Replacement Theory," trashed Jewish financier George Soros as a proxy for Jews around the world, reiterated the importance of having friendly rightwing billionaires seize control of a nation's media, and attacked societies that allow gay marriage and tolerate trans people as engaging in "gender madness."

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Friday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "Full List of 192 House Republicans Who Voted Against FDA Baby Formula Bill" by Khaleda Rahman.

Article: "High-profile candidates endorsed by Trump lost their primaries, showing the limits of his power over the party" by Tom Porter.

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

Article: "COVID-19 Is a Threat to National Security. Let's Start Treating It as Such. " by Colin P. Clarke and Louis Klarevas.

Article: "US lawmakers urge binding vote on Puerto Rico statehood" by Dánica Coto.

Article: "GOP chair crosses line with attack against the left in lie-filled rant " by David Badash.

Site: Jessica Cisneros for Congress.

Article: "Jessica Cisneros" by Wikipedia.

Article: "AOC brings more heat on Maloney" by Erin Durkin, Anna Gronewol, Deanna Garcia.

Article: "MSNBC's Chris Hayes slams DCCC chair for 'most egregious political malpractice I've ever seen'" by Gabriel Hays.

Article: "Madison Cawthorn threatens "Dark MAGA" revenge and end of "gentile politics" after election loss" by Igor Derysh.

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

Article: "4 things we know, and one big thing we don't, on the draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Why We Ask to See Candidates' Tax Returns" by Mitchell Zuckoff.

Article: "Congresswoman Shontel Brown and Nina Turner's rematch heats up ahead of Ohio primary election" by Gerren Keith Gaynor.

Site: Nina Turner for Congress.

Article: "Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC Endorses Rep. Shontel Brown For Congress" by Shontel Brown.

Site: Democracy Summer Program.

Article: "Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2020" by Census.

Article: "GOP Sexual Predators".

Article: "Americans say economy, Roe v. Wade decision top voting motivations as midterms approach" by Ethan Barton,Megan Myers.

Article: "Why Is Inflation Rising Right Now?" by Taylor Tepper.

Article: "McCarthy: 'I haven't put any real thought' into Jan. 6 committee subpoena" by Nicholas Ballasy.

Site: New Georgia.

Site: Fair Fight.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "H.R.2301 - Automatic Voter Registration Act" by Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1].

Article: "Oklahoma governor warns tribes not to create abortion havens" by Brad Dress.

Book: Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller.

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

Article: "Supper club" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republicans Learn to Promote Fascism at the Feet of a Master (Hint: It's Not Trump)" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump adviser: Orbán aims to 'make Hungary great again'" by Christian Keszthelyi.

Article: "Immigration threatens Christianity" by Catholic News Agency.

Article: "Pro-Orban media moguls who destroyed Hungary's media now targeting European outlets" by Alison Mutler.

Article: "The Gruevski affair and how Viktor Orbán turned Hungary into a criminal state" by Christopher Adam.

Article: "Viktor Orbán and women in politics" by Hungarian Spectrum.

Article: "Orbán's dirty little trick: Conflating pedophilia with homosexuality" by Hungarian Spectrum.

Article: "What is behind Viktor Orbán's climate change doublethink?" by Fábián Tamás.

Article: "Wall Street stocks flirt with bear market as growth concerns mount" by .

Article: "The Gruevski affair and how Viktor Orbán turned Hungary into a criminal state" by Christopher Adam.

Article: "Orbán's Next Victim: the Hungarian Science Academy" by Edit Zgut.

Book: Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright.

Article: "Hungary's Orbán: Christian Persecution Is 'Organized Attack on an Entire Culture'" by Thomas D. Williams.

Article: "Trump placed hold on military aid to Ukraine well before he called its president" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "EU Parliament votes to trigger Article 7 sanctions procedure against Hungary" by Rebecca Staudenmaier.

Article: "The Great Wall of Europe: Hungary splits continent in two with huge fence to stop migrants" by Nick Gutteridge.

Article: "Viktor Orban Pushed Replacement Theory, Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric Ahead of 'CPAC Hungary' Opening Featuring Tucker Carlson" by Alex Griffing.

Article: "Connecting Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Hungary — and Trump" by Casey Michel.

Article: "How Viktor Orban Bends Hungarian Society to His Will" by Patrick Kingsley.

Article: "Hungary's Judges Warn of Threats to Judicial Independence" by Benjamin Novak and Patrick Kingsley.

Article: "Orban and His Allies Cement Control of Hungary's News Media" by Patrick Kingsley.

Article: "The Roma people's Hungarian hell" by Barbora Černušáková.

Article: "Govt to detain migrants in container camps" by Pulse.

Article: "Tens of thousands join rally for Hungary's Orban before April vote" by Krisztina Than.

Article: "Hungary's anti-Soros posters recall 'Europe's darkest hours': Soros' spokesman" by Krisztina Than.

Article: "Who Is Viktor Orban, Really?" by Rod Dreher.

Article: "'The Most Dangerous Man in the European Union'" by Paul Lendvai.

Article: "Viktor Orbán's War On Intellect" by Franklin Foer.

Article: "Heather Heyer, victim of Charlottesville car attack, was civil rights activist" by Maev Kennedy.

Article: "Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to 'have your own media'" by Flora Garamvolgyi.

Article: "'A useful punching bag': why Hungary's Viktor Orbán has turned on George Soros" by Shaun Walker.

Article: "'We won't keep quiet again': the women taking on Viktor Orbán" by Shaun Walker.

Article: "Orbán deploys Christianity with a twist to tighten grip in Hungary" by Shaun Walker.

Article: "Hungary passes law banning LGBT content in schools or kids' TV" by Jennifer Rankin.

Article: "Could a New Far-Right Party Grouping Take Europe by Storm?" by Mihailo S. Zekic.

Article: "https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bxm8/cpac-hungary-us-journalists-blocked" by David Gilbert.

Article: "The American right's favorite strongman" by Zach Beauchamp.

Article: "'He's a tough man': Trump shrugs off concerns about Hungary's hard-right leader during White House visit" by Anne Gearan.

Article: "United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"

Article: "Jan. 6 committee says it has evidence that 'directly contradicts' GOP denials of 'reconnaissance tours' " by Bob Brigham.

Letter: "Bennie G. Tompson & Liz Cheney to Barry Loudermilk", May 19, 2022.

Article: "Conservative Charlie Sykes identifies a 'weak spot' in the GOP that Democrats should exploit " by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: Bumper stickers .

Article: "1973 oil crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chris Hayes: If Democrats Are Doing Anything Right, Billionaires Should Be Voting Republican" by Tyler Stone.

Quote: "As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters." - Grover Cleveland.

Speech: "Grover Cleveland's Fourth State of the Union Address", 3 December 1888.

Article: "Supreme Court gives Ohio right to purge thousands of voters from its rolls" by Pete Williams.

Article: "Soros University Leaves Budapest in Favor of Vienna" by Vindobona.

Article: "Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thousands of Syrian refugees stranded in Budapest" by Rick Jones.

Article: "Orbán reveals radical family support package".

Book: "The Illustrious Dunderheads" by Rex Stout.

Article: "Donald Trump invites mass murderer to the White House for a nice talk" by Mark Sumner .

Article: "The Abramoff-DeLay-Mariana Islands Connection" by John Ydstie.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "US Federal revenue" by Christopher Chantrill.

Article: "Civilian unemployment rate" by BLS.

Article: "Size of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet since quantitative easing (QE) measures were introduced from March 2020 to May 2022" by Statista.

Article: "Freedom of speech is under attack in public schools, U.S. House panel told" by Ariana Figueroa.

Article: "Two-thirds of Americans back Roe, less likely to vote for abortion foes | Thursday Coffee".

Article: "Roe the last straw? 63% of Americans already believe the Supreme Court is politically motivated" by Jon Skolnik.

Article: "Cuellar-Cisneros in District 28 battle" by Abby Livingston.

Article: "Tyson Foods wrote draft of Trump order keeping meatpacking plants open during pandemic" by Madison McVan.

Video: SSRIs & Antidepressants: Breaking Off My Chemical Romance Featuring P.E. Moskowitz.

Article: "Nearly 60 percent of Wisconsin school kids can't read or write at grade level".

Article: "Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production" by Clifford Krauss.

Article: "'Everything is halted': Shanghai shutdowns are worsening shortages" by Abha Bhattarai.

Article: "Biden announces historic oil reserve release and presses oil companies to do their part to reduce gas prices" by Kevin Liptak and Kate Sullivan.

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

Book: Escaping the Arroyo by Joyce Nance.

Book: Reel to Real: The Video Store Murders by Joyce Nance.

Video: Does The News Romanticize Crime? Featuring True Crime Author Joyce The Hammer Nance.

Article: "Powell Memo".

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

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

Article: "Supreme Court Rules for Ted Cruz in Campaign Finance Case" by Adam Liptak.

Quote: "Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them" - Edward Filene.

Article: "Edward Filene" by Wikipedia.

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: "Steve Bannon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hungary's Soccer Team Sanctioned by FIFA Over Fans' anti-Semitism " by JTA, Reuters.

Article: "Saving Bosnia: Looking Back at George Soros's $50 Million Intervention After 25 Years" by Open Society Foundations.

Article: "Donald Trump: 'I love the poorly educated'" by Dylan Stableford.

Article: "How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed a Million Americans" by Damien Cave.

Article: "Tardive Dyskinesia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Feldenkrais Method" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "The Sermon on the Mount".

Bible: "Matthew 25".

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