The poison that is racism has never made a nation better; every time it's been used for profit or power it's ended up destroying both its victims and, eventually, its promoters. Yesterday's elections show both a strong progressive drift across the Democratic Party, and an aggressive move toward fascism being driven by the base of the GOP and some of its billionaire donors.

But more urgently, the Republican Party has a terrorism problem, and the failure this week of the party's leadership and members to call it out after the terrorist attack in Buffalo suggests they're just fine with it.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Dem Voters Flip Off Party Leaders And Their Big Donors" by David Sirota, Matthew Cunningham-Cook & Andrew Perez.

Article: "Morning Digest: Primary Voters eject Madison Cawthorn, but Kurt Schrader's fate remains undecided" by Daily Kos Elections.

Article: "Redrawn New York Map Nullifies Democrats' Gamble to Gain House Seats" by Nicholas Fandos.

Article: "A timeline of Ohio's redistricting saga" by Andy Chow.

Article: "Ohio redistricting commissioners make their arguments against being held in contempt" by Andy Chow.

Article: "What Is the EndPoint for Republican Terrorism?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "National Tracking Poll #2107125 July 28-29, 2021" by Morning Consult.

Article: "Stalin killed millions. A Stanford historian answers the question, was it genocide?" by Cynthia Haven.

Audio: "Thom Hartmann and Tom Hayden at the Praxis Peace Conference", 2012.

Twitter: "@GOP".

Tweet: "The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them" by Liz Cheney.

Tweet: ".@TuckerCarlson is CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America. The ADL is a racist organization." by Matt Gaetz.

Twitter: "@TuckerCarlson".

Article: "A Dark and Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States" by ADL.

Article: "Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2021" by ADL.

Article: "Croatia accuses Serbia of 1990s genocide" by BBC.

Article: "What Is "Stochastic Terrorism," And Why Is It Trending?" by dictionary.com.

Article: "Bill O'Reilly Defends His Attacks On Dr. George Tiller, The Abortion Provider Who Was Later Assassinated" by Katie Sullivan.

Article: "Tucker Carlson gives passionate defense of "white replacement theory"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Tucker Carlson defends his support and promotion of white supremacist "replacement" theory: "Demographic change is the key"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Tucker Carlson says the "abrupt change" we're seeing in America is reminiscent of how "Germany got Hitler"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Breaking The Police: Mussolini's Use Of Terrorism" by R O Collin.

Article: "Nearly half of Republicans agree with 'great replacement theory'" by Philip Bump.

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kathy Barnette" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Clarence Thomas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herschel Walker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tim Scott" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Retailers Limit Sale Of Baby Formula As Shortage Intensifies" by Marita Vlachou.

Article: "Republicans Criticize Biden For Not Starving Undocumented Immigrant Babies" by Elise Foley.

Article: "Taking Formula From Immigrant Babies Won't Fix the Shortage" by Fiona Harrigan.

Article: "Moral panic" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Citizens United V. Federal Election Comm'n: Justice Stevens' dissent".

Article: "Remembering Samuel Alito's Infamous SOTU "Not True"" by The Black Sphere.

Hour Two: Does Inflation Lead Directly to Authoritarianism?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Tweet: "Learn from history or repeat it. Germany's capitalists drove it into WW1, 1914-'18; inflation, '23; Depression '29. Savaged its working class, enabled Hitler's fascism. Capitalists hit US working class: global wars, inflation, soon a recession. Descent of capitalism into fascism?" by Richard D. Wolff.

Article: "The Supreme Court is giving extreme new powers to increasingly autocratic state governments " by Peter Certo.

Article: "The Germany Economy Under Hitler" by GlobalSecurity.org.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s, Republican Great Depression) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Treaty of Versailles" by Wikipedia (28 June 1919, at the end of World War I).

Quote: "Those who sign this Treaty will sign the death sentence of many millions of German men, women and children" - John Maynard Keynes.

Article: "Lachlan Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "The January 6 Committee will prove a massive conspiracy. That conspiracy will likely involve @foxnews hosts and personalities. @rupertmurdoch is responsible for what happens on @foxnews, which has long claimed in Federal Court that is not news but entertainment." (thread) by Steve Schmidt.

Article: "GOP primary voters putting Trump in position to steal 2024 election: analysis" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "David McCormick" by Wikipedia.

Article: "J. D. Vance" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP recruits army of poll watchers to fight voter fraud no one can prove exists" by Jane C. Timm.

Article: "How Pa. GOP gov pick could turn election lies into action" by Steve Peoples, Marc Levy, Farnoush Amiri.

Article: "2017 Las Vegas shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bump stock" by Wikipedia.

Site: Robert R. Prechter (socionomics).

Article: "Shooting of Philando Castile" (2016) by Wikipedia.

Article: "News International phone hacking scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fox News" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joe Manchin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What the Justice Department should do to stop the Texas abortion law" by Laurence H. Tribe.

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

Hour Three: Is the Antidepressant Industry About to Hit a Reckoning?
- P.E. Moskowitz, Writer of Mental Hellth, a newsletter about your broken brain, author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood and The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent

Article: "Valium" by Philip Thornton.

Article: "OxyContin" by Sanjai Sinha.

Article: "Prozac Capsule - Uses, Side Effects, and More" by WebMD.

Article: "Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)" by Mayo Clinic.

Article: "In Long Run, Antidepressants Don't Improve Quality of Life: Study" by Alan Mozes.

Article: "The Placebo Effect: A Conversation With Dr Irving Kirsch" by William Scott.

Article: "Peter Breggin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Irving Kirsch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Supreme Court isn't well. The only hope for a cure is more justices." by Nancy Gertner and Laurence H. Tribe.

Article: "See The Maps: NYS congressional district plan eliminates Jacobs seat" by Jessica Cain.

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stoneman Douglas High School shooting" (Parkland) by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Average Cost of Adoption in the U.S." by Rebecca Lake.

Article: "Private Prisons Spend Millions On Lobbying To Put More People In Jail" by Andrea Nill Sanchez.

Article: "Zoloft" by Sophia Entringer.

Article: "Thorazine Side Effects" by Drugs.com.

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Article: "Thom Hartmann" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Decarbonizing US Energy System Would Save 50,000 Lives and $600 Billion a Year: Study" by Andrea Germanos.

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