Many Americans are baffled by the Republican Party's embrace of billionaire sociopath Trump and elected Republicans' willingness to overlook the death of seven Americans, including three police officers, in an attempted coup. (Particularly after they spent over 2 years and tens of millions of dollars obsessing on 4 dead Americans in Benghazi.)

They're also wondering why Kevin McCarthy would reject Liz Cheney to embrace someone like Elise Stefanik, an apologist for the January 6 treason attempt, or go along with Mitch McConnell's attempts to sabotage the American Rescue Plan, the American Jobs Plan, and the American Family Plan.

After all, people are hurting. We just experienced the worst pandemic in a century, and, under Trump and Bush before him, two economic downturns unmatched since the Republican Great Depression of the 1920s.

Why, Americans wonder, would the GOP embrace such anti-American and nakedly brutal politics and policies?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Poem: "Each in His Own Tongue" by William Herbert Carruth.

Article: "United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. election results 2022" by Reuters.

Article: "Democrats Take Control Of Michigan House And Senate For First Time In Decades" by Travis Waldron.

Article: "Michigan Proposal 2, Independent Redistricting Commission Initiative (2018)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Republicans have hijacked the US supreme court. It's time to expand it" by David Daley.

Article: "Fresh Call to Impeach Clarence Thomas After Latest Ruling on Jan. 6 Insurrection" by Kenny Stancil.

Site: Indivisible.

Article: "Schumer Says Congress Should Deal With Debt Ceiling This Year" by Laura Litvan.

Article: "Kari Lake defeat: Did democracy win in US midterms?" by Sarah Smith.

Article: "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "We need the majority in order to have subpoena power." by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

How did 1 million mail-in ballots disappear in Georgia
- Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter / Author & Filmmaker - latest film is "Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman"

Video: Vigilante film.

Article: "Georgia's record early vote doesn't vindicate its ‘Jim Crow 2.0' law" by Jonathan Capehart.

Article: "Why Did Mail-in Ballots in Georgia Plunge by One Million?" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Bad News: Vote Suppression Can Win in Georgia: Absentee Ballots Plunge by a Million" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Georgia U.S. Senate Election Results" by NYT.

Article: "'This is Jim Crow 2.0': Experts react to SB202" (Georgia) by Danae Bucci.

Article: "Deployment of Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes in Georgia Looks Significantly Different in First Statewide Election Since January 2021" by Laura Baigert.

Article: "Why Did Mail-in Ballots in Georgia Plunge by One Million?" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.

Site: Black Voters Matter Fund.

Site: New Georgia Project.

Site: Rainbow PUSH Coalition (RPC).

Article: "How a criminal investigation in Georgia set an ominous tone for African-American voters" by Jon Ward.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Article: "Election Day Mayhem Began Two Years Ago With Massive Voter Purges" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Mandela Barnes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Georgia's Voter Law Is Called ‘Jim Crow 2.0' for a Reason" by Jason Morgan Ward.

Article: "Martin Luther King's Cousin Blocked by Kemp from Casting a Ballot" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Warnock and Walker's Georgia Senate race goes into overtime as runoff begins" by AP.

Article: "Minnesota DFLers win a ‘trifecta' with sweep" by Christopher Magan.

Article: "The Switch in Time that Saved Nine?" by David Meyer.

Article: "Two Questions for Amy Coney Barrett on Precedent and Roe" by Noah Feldman.

Article: "Inside the messy rollout of Kemp's $350 payments to Georgians" by Emma Hurt, Katherine Landergan.

Article: "Governor Kemp's Family Brought Slavery to Georgia" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez defeats MAGA Republican Joe Kent, flipping key Washington House seat" by Phil McCausland.

Article: "Marie Gluesenkamp Perez" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joe Kent (Washington)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Democrat Andrea Salinas wins 6th District congressional seat" by Peter Wong.

Article: "Iowa Results" by CNN.

Article: "Kimberly Graham elected Polk County attorney, turning page after 30 years of John Sarcone's leadership" by William Morris.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Hampshire House seat decided by one vote after recount" by CBS Boston.

Article: "Live Results: Democratic Rep. Katie Porter faces off against Republican Scott Baugh in California's 47th Congressional District election" by Hanna Kang, Rebecca Cohen.

Article: "Annotated Guide to the For the People Act of 2021" by Brennan Center.

Bill: "John Lewis Voting Rights Act".

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

Article: "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood.

Article: "Iowa Election Results" by NYT.

Article: "Paul Wellstone" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump's 'big announcement' - everything we know about his 2024 president campaign" by Kyle O'Sullivan.

Article: "Estimated 1 to 2 Dozen Ballots Found in Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Clara County Says " by Alyssa Goard.

Article: "Julian Assange" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Upton Sinclair" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

Article: "Condé Nast (businessman)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The world population has now reached 8 billion" by Allison Gasparini.

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

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