War is the use of armed violence to achieve political ends. If the armed, uniformed militias who attacked our Capitol on January 6th weren't "levying War against" America, what were they doing?

America is now under armed assault, a tyranny that suppresses free speech and has produced almost-daily mass- and school-shootings, in a gun ownership frenzy fed by people who claim their power comes from the Constitution.

Their entire argument — that the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to form private militias and then turn their guns against the government — is a complete and utter scam.

America is now occupied by this armed movement that regularly terrorizes racial minorities, school boards, witnesses against Donald Trump, politicians, poll workers, and LGBTQ people.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Biden: ‘Climate Change Is Literally an Existential Threat to Our Nation and to the World' " by Melanie Arter.

Article: "Let's rebuild the US microchip industry – not give it a $50bn-plus check" by Bernie Sanders.

Video: Can Manufacturing Jobs Fight Against Oligarchy Featuring Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Wall Street is buying up family homes. The rent checks are too juicy to ignore" by Hanna Ziady.

Article: "Community Choice Energy Programs" by EBP.

Article: "TVA: From the New Deal to a New Century" by Tennessee Valley Authority.

Article: "Voter turnout in United States presidential elections" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Electoral Count Act of 1887" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden says he raised Khashoggi murder with Saudi crown prince" by ABC News.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mohammed bin Salman" (MBS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "401(k) Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) now start at age 72" by Betterment Editors.

Article: "What to know about Paxlovid, the COVID-19 therapy that Biden is taking" by Mary Kekatos.

Article: "Congress Passes Surprise Medical Billing Legislation" by Haley Nicholson.

Article: "Supplemental Security Income (SSI) " by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rep. Bowman and Sens. Brown, Sanders, and Warren Lead Colleagues in Calling for Desperately-Needed Expansions and Improvements to SSI Program" by Rep. Jamaal Bowman.

Article: "How Joe Manchin Left a Global Tax Deal in Limbo" by Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley.

Article: "Trump has longstanding history of calling elections 'rigged' if he doesn't like the results" by Terrance Smith.

Article: "Prayer in Schools: Supreme Court Ruling on Football Coach Upends Precedent" by Mary Retta.

Article: "America Is Occupied By a Dangerous Second Amendment Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Raskin is pretty good at this [video]" by Acyn.

Article: "Next Generation Squad Weapon" by USAASC.

Article: "The Federalist Papers : No. 46: The Influence of the State and Federal Governments Compared" by James Madison.

Case: "State v. Gohl, 46 Wash. 408" (1907) (Bight to Bear Arms).

Law: "Militia Act of 1792"

Law: "Constitution of Virginia".

Case: "Presser v Illinois" (1886) (There is no Second Amendment violation when a state bans private citizens from forming personal military groups, drilling, and parading).

Article: "The Army chose Sig Sauer for its next-generation rifle and not everyone is happy about it" by Max Hauptman.

Article: "How Mark Milley became America's most politicized general" by Jeff Schogol.

Law: "The Constitution of the United States".

Article: "The Army's M4, M16 and SAW replacement is on its way" by Todd South.

Article: "Message about aggressive masculinity is key to Sandy Hook lawsuit against Remington" by Ronald Levant and Christopher Kilmartin.

Law: "Militia Act of 1903".

Article: "Dispelling the Myth of the Second Amendment" by Brennan Center for Justice.

Article: "The Rifle That Ruined America" by Ryan Busse.

Article: "‘Proud' Gunmaker Figures Out How to Make Mass Shootings Worse" by Michael Daly.

Article: "One in five US adults condone ‘justified' political violence, mega-survey finds" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "The Simple Physics That Makes Some Bullets Deadlier Than Others" by Alex Yablon.

Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chris Christie: Jared Kushner's father committed 'one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes' I prosecuted" by Devan Cole.

Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "Donald Trump Jr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "Murder of Laquan McDonald" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Secret Service spokesperson defending the agency's deleted Jan 6. texts previously misled reporters about the police cover-up on Laquan McDonald's killing" by Matt Gertz.

Article: "A Potential Historic Political Shift Is Taking Place Among Evangelical Christians" by Paul Engler.

Article: "Election deniers going door-to-door demanding answers about Trump votes: 'No boundaries to ethics or civility'" by Travis Gettys.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Law: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..

Article: "How Sri Lanka Landed in a Crisis and What It Means: QuickTake" by Niluksi Koswanage.

Article: "Jim Justice" (WV governor) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is it time for Democrats to kick Joe Manchin out of the party?" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republican Revolution" (Gingrich Revolution) by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Council for National Policy" by Wikipedia.

Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Article: "Merrick Garland rebuffs speculation that the DOJ isn't probing potential crimes concerning the Capitol riot: 'We do not do our investigations in public'" by Cheryl Teh.

Article: "Trump Is Losing Ground to DeSantis in Poll After Poll" by Benjamin Hart.

Article: "Mehmet Oz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herschel Walker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Georgia notifies 142,000 registered voters who might have moved".

Article: "Supreme Court Upholds Controversial Ohio Voter-Purge Law" by Nina Totenberg.

Article: "Secret Service Chief James Murray Retires For Security Job at Snapchat" by Natalie Korach.

Article: "Anthony ‘Tony' Ornato: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" by Jessica McBride.

Article: "Anthony Ornato" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stacey Abrams Defends Refusal to Concede Georgia Gov. Race: ‘The Game Is Rigged'" by Jack Crowe.

Hour Three: The Growing Signs of White Nationalist Recruitment
- Amanda Milkovits, Rhode Island Reporter - The Boston Globe about the growing signs of white nationalist recruitment across New England

Article: "White nationalists increase attempts to recruit in New England" by Amanda Milkovits.

Article: "Proud Boys" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three Percenters" by Wikipedia.

Site: Oath Keepers.

Site: Anti-Defamation League.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Article: "Compromise of 1877" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Can America Pull Off a Second Reconstruction?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Randy Weaver" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David Koresh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.

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

Law: "Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965".

Article: "White Students are Now the Minority in U.S. Public Schools" by Grace Chen.

Article: "Obama election prompts surge in US gun sales" by McClatchy.

Article: "2008–2016 United States ammunition shortage" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Americans bought guns in record numbers in 2020 during a year of unrest -- and the surge is continuing /A>" by Martin Savidge and Maria Cartaya.

Article: "Bolsonaro attacks Brazil's election system in briefing of diplomats" by Reuters UK.

Article: "Trump advisers drafted more than one executive order to seize voting machines, sources tell CNN" by Zachary Cohen and Paula Reid.

Article: "Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered" by Christina Larson.

Article: "Democrats need to fill a lot of judicial vacancies fast, which means no more deals with McConnell" by Joan McCarter.

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

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

Article: "A Government Official Helped Them Register. Now They've Been Charged With Voter Fraud" by Bianca Fortis.

Article: "Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count" by NYT.

Article: "Coronavirus in Oregon: Hospital system ‘extremely stressed', Oregonians urged to mask up" by Fedor Zarkhin.

Article: "Skittles lawsuit claims ‘toxin' makes them ‘unfit for human consumption'" by Emily Heil.

Article: "Bioaccumulation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Titanium dioxide" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Precautionary Principle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "It could take centuries for EPA to test all the unregulated chemicals under a new landmark bill" by Mark Scialla.

Article: "Sanders Files Amendment to Limit $76 Billion in 'Corporate Welfare' for Microchip Industry" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "I Work for Midwestern Democrats, and I Know How to Win Back Voters From the G.O.P." by Brian Stryker.

Site: Steven Greenhouse.

Article: "Andy Levin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andy Levin and Haley Stevens running in incumbent-vs.-incumbent Democratic primary in Michigan's 11th Congressional District" by Roneka Matheny.

Article: "Haley Stevens" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milkweed for Monarchs" by NWF.

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