The Republican Party has, in fact, reinvented the old Confederacy, including treasonous iconography & fighting to preserve statues and place names of traitor Confederate generals

Hershel Walker's abortion hypocrisy is a hot mess, but that's only the smallest part of the story: the GOP actually has a template for what they're attempting to pull off in the election this fall and "morality" has nothing to do with it.

Instead, it's all about white power and wealth, in a context that once ruled the southern states. This campaign anecdote pretty much explains it all:

Back in 2020 when the economy was sinking like a stone the Senate voted 96-0 to send a $1,200 check to every adult American with a social security number. It was explicitly for every American, including people then held in prisons: everybody in, nobody out.

Every Republican voted for it, as did every Democrat.

But now, as Judd Legum points out in his brilliant popular.info newsletter, Republicans ran over 50,000 advertisements just in the first three weeks of last month arguing that in that and subsequent votes (the later $600 checks) that Black Democrats, in particular, "chose felons over Georgia families" and sent "$1 billion in stimulus to criminals and illegal immigrants."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Are White Supremacy & the Wealth of Its Oligarchs the Only Things the GOP Fights For?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Criminally deceptive" by Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby.

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

Article: "GOP strategy elevates clashes over crime, race in midterm battlegrounds" by Annie Linskey and Colby Itkowitz.

Video: Vigilantes: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitmen.

Article: "Cotton gin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herschel Walker's campaign refuses to respond to proof his ad contains a blatant lie" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Ron DeSantis says a 'national regime media' wanted Hurricane Ian to hit Tampa to 'advance their agenda' of hurting Florida" by Nicole Gaudiano.

Article: "As US oil booms, Congress lifts 40-year oil export ban" by Charlotte Raab.

Article: "OPEC Cuts Demand Action on Gasoline Exports" by Food & Water Watch.

Article: "Oregon gubernatorial election, 2022" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Betsy Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tina Kotek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Meet the Candidate Who Could Crush Dem Dreams in Oregon" by Ursula Perano.

Article: "Micron plans $100B computer chip factory in New York" by Breck Dumas.

Article: "CHIPS Act Passes: House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China" by Brian Bushard.

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954 (integrated schools).

Article: "Like His Dad, Charles Koch Was a Bircher" by Lisa Graves.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Case: "Shelby County v. Holder", 2013.

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

Article: "Pennsylvania Senate Moves Back to Toss Up" by Jessica Taylor.

Article: "In key battlegrounds, GOP onslaught of crime ads tightens Senate races" by Adam Edelman, Natasha Korecki and Henry J. Gomez.

Article: "Bill Clinton's claim that 100,000 cops sent the crime rate ‘way down'" by Glenn Kessler.

Article: "Trump says FBI accessed his safe during raid at Mar-a-Lago: 'They even broke into my safe!'" by Isabella Zavarise.

Tweet: "DEFUND THE FBI!" by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Article: "Justice Jackson makes waves in first Supreme Court arguments" by Lawrence Hurley.

Article: "Supreme Court will hear NC case with 2024 presidential election implications" by Will Doran. (Moore v. Harper)

Case: "Moore v. Harper".

Article: "The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court" by Steven Donziger.

Article: "The Senate is 50/50, Yet America is Not - and This is Democracy? " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "DeVos Considers Using Federal Funds to Buy Firearms for Schools" by Amy Rock.

Article: "Betsy DeVos Backs $5 Billion in Tax Credits for School Choice" by Erica L. Green.

Article: "US must 'eliminate military assistance to Saudi Arabia' after OPEC move: Dem lawmakers " by Jake Johnson.

Article: "US Should Respond to OPEC by Reinstating Oil Export Ban, Says Green Group" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Will Powell, MBS, and Putin Throw the Entire World Into a Depression?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "History of the Venezuelan oil industry" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Citgo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oil refineries are making a windfall. Why do they keep closing?" by Evan Halper.

Radiation Risk: Tactical Nuclear Weapon vs. Nuclear Plant Meltdown
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "Russia's Small Nuclear Arms: A Risky Option for Putin and Ukraine Alike" by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad.

Article: "Nuclear Weapons: The Only Use Of Nuclear Weapons In Warfare" by Kimota.

Article: "Tactical nuclear weapon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Strategic nuclear weapon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Radioactivity in food after a nuclear emergency" by WHO.

Article: "Effects of nuclear explosions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What are Tactical Nuclear Weapons?" by Union of Concerned Scientists.

Article: "Deadly Russian strikes in Zaporizhzhia as Putin moves to take full control of nearby nuclear plant" by Olga Voitovych and Joshua Berlinger.

Article: "Released Zaporizhzhia director general 'not returning to role'" by WNN.

Article: "Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Video Shows Russian Missile Exploding 900 Feet From Nuclear Plant" by Zoe Strozewski.

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

Article: "Give 'em hell Harry" by Taegan Goddard.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "What Have Dems Done for Us Lately? GLAD YOU ASKED! - Good News Roundup, April 20" by niftywriter.

Article: "Farmers flourish under Biden, see recovery from Trump-era trade wars" by Teaganne Finn.

Article: "Contaminated water in Iowa continues to grow" by Elyse Gabor.

Article: "Brain-eating amoeba that infected a swimmer in Iowa is increasingly found in Northern states" by Elisha Fieldstadt.

Hour Three: Hurricanes & Ukraine...
- Ali Velshi, Host - MSNBC "Velshi" (Sat/Sun 8-10aET) & "The Last Word" (Fri 10pET) / Host of the digital platform, The Velshi Exchange

Article: "Watch DeSantis' Face When Biden Says Hurricane Ian Has 'Ended' Climate Change Discussion" by George Upper.

Article: "Watch: President Biden Congratulates Ron DeSantis For Acknowledging Climate Change" by Steph Bazzle.

Article: "Climate change in Guatemala" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Rips ‘Unseemly and Anti-Human' Liberal Pundits for Talking About Climate Change During Hurricane Ian" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "After Ian, coastal residents return to pick up the pieces" by Stephen Smith and Bobby Caina Calvan.

Article: "Scientist Says Some Coral Reefs Can Be Saved 'If We Take Immediate Action'" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Saudi Arabia, Middle East invest heavily in solar power, says Nextracker executive" by Ousama Habib.

Article: "United States embargo against Cuba" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sanctions against Iran" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Obama opens doors to Cuba after 56 years" by David Jackson and Alan Gomez.

Video: Are Democrats Prepared for GOP Fear Mongering? Featuring Jaime Harrison.

Article: "Donbass: why is it so disputed?" by Annalisa Vibio.

Article: "Rex Tillerson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (Iran Deal) by Wikipedia.

Article: "100,000 Americans Die from Air Pollution, Study Finds" by Alan Neuhauser.

Article: "Kushner: Saudi Arabia, at least 3 other Arab countries nearing deals with Israel" by ToI.

Article: "Our History" by 350.org.

Article: "Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Fung or Magaziner? What we learned about RI's 2nd Congressional race from a new poll" by Patrick Anderson and Katherine Gregg.

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