No matter how hard Republicans try to reinvent the Founders & Framers in the image of their libertarian billionaire patrons, the reality is that America was history's first great liberal experiment...

For example:

Today's Republicans claim that America was founded as a Christian nation; the truth is that one of the most unique things about the "American experiment" was that we were the first explicitly secular nation in the history of the world.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "America's Founders Would Have Been Disgusted By Today's GOP & Trump" by Thom Hartmann.

Letter: "From George Washington to Roman Catholics in America, c.15 March 1790".

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

Article: "Where Did the Religious Nuttery Come From?" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn.

Book: The Rise of American Civilization: Volumes One and Two by Charles A. And Mary R. Beard Beard.

Book: Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips.

Book: We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution by Forrest McDonald.

Article: "Is there no crime Trump could commit that would lose him GOP support?" by Catherine Rampell.

Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Doctors in Lancet study accuse Trump administration of causing 461,000 unnecessary deaths in a year due to health policies - in addition to 180,000 needless COVID-19 fatalities" by Emily Crane.

Article: "'All They Had To Do Was Ask' – Trump Bitches on Truth Social They Didn't Need to 'Seize' Documents He Said He Didn't Have" by Caleb Howe.

Article: "Katie Hobbs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of United States Representatives from Arizona" by Ballotpedia.

Book: Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.

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..."

Article: "George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation" by Amy Lynn Filsinger, Raymond Dwek.

Article: "James Madison And Church-State Separation" by Rob Boston.

Article: "University of Virginia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jefferson's Gravestone".

Article: "'We're under attack': Texas elections administrator details violent threats from pro-Trump election deniers" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds" by Amy Gardner.

Article: "Sidney Powell and other TFG Lawyers Copied Sensitive Election Data in 3 States" by ericlewis0.

Article: "Thomas Jefferson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jefferson's Gravestone".

Article: "Land-grant university" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Homelessness of Jesus" by Suzanne Benner.

Article: "John C. Calhoun" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Clarence Thomas: Court 'should reconsider’ gay marriage, birth control" by Samuel Chamberlain, Natalie O'Neill and Nolan Hicks.

Case: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).

Case: "Lawrence v Texas" (2003) (made same-sex sexual activity legal).

Law: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause).

Law: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.".

Law: "9th Amendment".

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

Case: "Griswold v Connecticut" (1965) (contraception for married couples).

Case: "Loving v Virginia".

Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion).

Article: "Viral Video Captures Ted Cruz Fist-Bumping Republicans After Blocking Bill to Help Vets Suffering from Toxic Burn Pits" by David Badash.

Article: "Steve Schmidt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Liz Cheney" by Wikipedia.

Twitter: "Mrs. Betty Bowers".

Video: JP Harris - Take off Your Tin Foil Hat.

Video: Portlandia What about men.

Article: "Robber baron (industrialist)" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else" by Chrystia Freeland.

Article: "Betsy DeVos" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Treaty of Tripoli" (1796) by Wikipedia. "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"

Book: What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky.

Article: "Liz Cheney’s future and what else to watch in Wyoming and Alaska primaries" by Amber Phillips.

Article: "Lisa Murkowski" by Wikipedia.

Article: "From Cheney friend to foe, Harriet Hageman takes command of Wyoming race animated by Trump" by Jeff Zeleny.

Article: "Rep. Liz Cheney" by GovTrack.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Article: "Mary Peltola" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 2022" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "'Extreme heat belt' to cover middle of US by 2053: report " by AFP.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The latest on the Colorado River and Lake Mead report" by Elise Hammond, Angela Fritz, Rachel Ramirez and Ella Nilsen.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Columbine High School massacre" (April 20, 1999) by Wikipedia.

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: "U.S. gun sales have been surging, study finds" by Ian Thomsen.

Article: "Guns now the leading cause of death for US children, CDC says" by Anders Hagstrom.

Article: "David Hogg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Beto O’Rourke renews calls for tougher gun laws after Uvalde shooting, including on assault weapons" by Patrick Svitek.

Bill: "H.R.1808 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2022" by Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1].

Bill: "S.736 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2021" by Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] .

Quote: "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." - Dorothy Parker.

Article: "Teachers' health care coverage" by UnitedHealthcare.

Article: "Primary elections in Wyoming" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Democratic Registration in Wyoming Sinks to 15.3%, Lowest in History" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Liz Cheney calls on Democratic voters to switch parties, give her boost in GOP primary" by Ronn Blitzer.

Article: "H. G. Wells" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: How Successful Local Democratic Party Organizations Work
- Scott Hays, Secretary, Clackamas County Dems

Article: "Precinct Committee Person" by Democratic Party of Oregon.

Article: "Sign up for the Democratic Party of Oregon's Neighborhood Leader Program!" by Democratic Party of Oregon.

Book: Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition by Stephen J. Levitt, Steven D. Dubner.

Article: "Abortion and Crime, Revisited" by Stephen J. Dubner and John Donohue.

Article: "New Study Claims Abortion is Behind Decrease in Crime" by Allison Tarmann.

Article: "Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law, sealing major Democratic victory on climate, health care and taxes" by Kathryn Watson.

Article: "Trump’s passports returned after Mar-a-Lago search, DOJ official says" by Kelly O'Donnell and Dareh Gregorian.

Article: "2022 Alaska Election Results" by USA Today.

Article: "Mary Sattler Peltola" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sarah Palin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marijuana may make sleep worse, especially for regular users, study finds" by Sandee LaMotte.

Article: "Emmett Till", 1955 by Wikipedia

Article: "Is it true that Thomas Paine first coined the phrase, “The United States of America?” " (Republicus) by Thomas Paine National Historical Association.

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

I'll be talking with 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 eBook)

Plus, Oregon Gov's Race Could Be a Spoiler Alert... - Rachel Bitecofer, Political branding strategist, Adslinger, & polling/targeting expert.

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