When the media discovered most of the people dying from Covid were Black or Hispanic, not White people - It hit conservative media and Donald Trump like a lightning bolt. The most unreported story of the pandemic, the one that seems destined to be overlooked as histories are being written, is what Trump did when he learned the Covid coronavirus was largely killing Black people and mostly sparing Whites.

The moment he came to that realization he completely altered the US response to the pandemic, leading to the unnecessary death of 300,000 to 400,000 Americans.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Part III: Solutions

"The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy"

—Donald J. Trump

"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair"

—Shirley Chisholm, America's first black woman elected to US Congress

The GOP's Grand Stand against Voting and Democracy

The idea of democracy is simple: issues are put to voters, each person gets one vote, and whatever position gets the most votes becomes law.

Our country was not established as a direct democracy, though, and citizens aren't given an affirmative right to vote in the US Constitution; the issue is placed in the hands of our "laboratories of democracy," the states.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News

— Did Kyrsten Sinema switch from Democrat to Independent to become a well-paid lobbyist?
— Jack Smith is not messing around...
— Trump wasn't that bad...other than when he was
— German police break up a Qanon/Trump-inspired plot to overthrow their government
— What have the Kushners done?
— A decade ago, anti-government terrorist gangs in Haiti shot up electrical substations in three cities
— Oregon's state epidemiologist is pleading for all to wear masks right now.
— Geeky Science! How insanely destructive sugar is to the body.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Is America Blind to Trump's Genocide?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Reopen Illinois rally draws hundreds to Loop, Springfield" by Sam Charles and Neal Earley.

Article: "Select Subcommittee Releases Final Report, Culminating More Than Two Years of Investigations Related to the Nation's Response to the Coronavirus Crisis" by Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

Article: "Preparing for and Preventing the Next Public Health Emergency: Lessons Learned from the Coronavirus Crisis" by Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

Article: "Delaware group sets May 1 rally to oppose virus quarantine restrictions".

Article: "Timeline of Trump's Coronavirus Responses" by Lloyd Doggett.

Article: "Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (2020): March" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect...." by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "In newly released tape, Trump says COVID-19 is ‘a killer' that ‘rips you apart'" by Joseph Guzman.

Tweet: "Virologist and sexy vixen vinyl expert @brithume hypothesizes that the lethality of COVID–19 could be exaggerated and "the disease turned out not to be quite as dangerous as we thought"" by Bad Fox Graphics.

Book: Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late by Deborah Birx.

Article: "Rally to 're-open' Arizona planned in defiance of COVID-19" by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy.

Article: "The US has 4% of the world's population but 25% of its coronavirus cases" by Scottie Andrew.

Article: "Nazi Slogans At Coronavirus Lockdown Protest Draws Rebuke From Auschwitz Museum" by Carlie Porterfield.

Article: "Protesters plan second 'Reopen NH' rally".

Article: "An Economic Recovery Starts by Lifting Small Businesses Back Up" by Jason Pye.

Article: "FreedomWorks Echoes House Freedom Caucus Call for Safe and Swift Reopening of US Economy" by Peter Vicenzi.

Article: "#ReopenAmerica Rally Planning Guide" by Noah Wall.

Article: "Covid could not sink cruise lines — but they now face an iceberg of debt" by Oliver Barnes, Ian Johnston, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson.

Article: "Oregonians demand state's reopening at Salem rally" by KOIN.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh slams news coverage of coronavirus racial disparity: "This is how they stop criticism"" by Media Matters.

Article: "Tucker Carlson: Coronavirus crisis "may have passed. We'll see but it looks like it may have"" by Media Matters.

Article: "An explosive documentary details how Jared Kushner's coronavirus task force consisted mainly of 20-something volunteers buying PPE with personal email accounts" by Susie Neilson.

Article: "Rally to reopen Virginia planned for Wednesday" by Adrianna Hargrove.

Article: "Trump administration scrapped plan to send every American a mask in April, email shows" by Laura Strickler and Geoff Bennett.

Article: "The countries that handled COVID-19 pandemic the worst revealed" by Samantha Maiden.

Article: "A Young Kennedy, in Kushnerland, Turned Whistle-Blower" by Jane Mayer.

Article: "Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States" by John Eligon, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.

Article: "U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries" by Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz.

Article: "Wisconsin GOP judge: COVID-19 is spreading due to meat-packing workers and not 'regular folks'" by Brad Reed.

Article: "U.S. COVID response could have avoided hundreds of thousands of deaths: research" by Howard Schneider.

Article: "Leadership" by U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Article: "Implementing a National Return to Work Plan" by U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "White House denies Trump is considering firing Fauci despite his retweet of a hashtag calling for his ouster" by Katie Shepherd, John Wagner and Felicia Sonmez.

Article: "Statement on the second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)" by WHO.

Article: "ReOpenNC rally planned for Tuesday in downtown Raleigh" by Travis Fain.

Article: "The tragedy of avoidable COVID deaths" by Faye Flam.

Article: "Epidemiology of COVID-19 Outbreak on Cruise Ship Quarantined at Yokohama, Japan, February 2020" by Expert Taskforce for the COVID-19 Cruise Ship Outbreak.

Article: "Hunter Biden laptop controversy" by Wikipedia.

Book: Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden.

Article: "Ivanka Trump receives 5 trademarks from China amid trade talks" by CBS/AP.

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

Article: "Eric Trump Reportedly Bragged About Access to $100 Million in Russian Money" by Tina Nguyen.

Article: "'We would have been armed': Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon brag Jan. 6 would be different if they were in charge " by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "'We want total war': Young Republican group cheers on the next insurrection" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "The New Republican 'Fringe' Must Grab 'Center' Stage | Opinion" by Tom Rogers and Susan Del Percio.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy makes a devil's bargain" by Heather Digby Parton.

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Rise And Resist.

Site: Jen Senko.

Article: "John Birch Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How AIDS Remained an Unspoken—But Deadly—Epidemic for Years" by Joseph Bennington-Castro.

Article: "Why Do We Get More Colds in Winter? Blame Your Nose" by Lisa O'Mary.

Article: "Bernie Sanders" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Angus King" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ruben Gallego" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'They have been remarkable': How a New York synagogue is coping as an epicenter of the US coronavirus spread" by Joseph Spector.

Article: "Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19" by CDC.

Video: Michael Cohen: Trump "willing to burn down the country".

Article: "DOJ reportedly tells Team Trump there are still more missing docs" by Steve Benen.

Article: "How To Kill and Get Away With It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Report: The ‘mind-blowingly enormous' money Tiger Woods declined to join LIV Golf" by Luke Kerr-Dineen.

Book: One Hundred Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg.

Article: "Jared Kushner warns states to get their grubby hands away from 'our stockpile' of medical equipment" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Covid Tracker Weekly Review" by CDC.

Article: "Shingles" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Prosecute/Fauci': Musk aligns himself with the far-right, and Twitter is now dangerously unsafe" by Hunter.

Tweet: "I'm a big fan of Dr. Fauci and how he's calmly guided our country through crisis. Re Musk tweet? Courting vaccine-deniers doesn't seem like a smart business strategy, but the issue is this: could you just leave a good man alone in your seemingly endless quest for attention?" by Amy Klobuchar.

Article: "Fauci blasts ‘cowardly' trolls harassing wife, children " by Chloe Folmar.

Article: "Man Who Threatened to Kill Fauci Is Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison" by Vimal Patel.

Is Kushner in YUGE trouble?

Article: "Told You So! Following the Barrack trial, Jared Kushner's legal woes are just beginning" by Vicky Ward Investigates.

Law: "Logan Act", 1799 - forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Video: The Most Dangerous President in History.

Article: "Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes" by Tom Wilson.

Article: "What is Fission?" by Nola Taylor Redd.

Article: "Nuclear fusion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Crystal radio" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Is Guilty of Pandemicide" by Laurie Garrett.

Article: "Ukrainian woman posing as Rothschild family member infiltrated Mar-a-Lago: report " by Patrick Reilly and David Propper.

Article: "The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine" by Adam Rogers.

Article: "Giardia" by Wikipedia.

Site: "Convention of States".

Article: "Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)" by Mayo Clinic.

Site: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.

Hour Three: Voters want Congress to raise taxes on big corporations, not cut them
- Frank Clemente, Executive Director - Americans for Tax Fairness

Article: "60 National Groups Oppose Corporate Tax Breaks In Year-end Budget Deal" by Americans for Tax Fairness et al.

Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".

Article: "What it took to get Sinema to support the Inflation Reduction Act" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Carried Interest Explained: Who It Benefits and How It Works" by James Chen.

Article: "Keystone Pipeline" (KXL) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Anti-ACLU group 'making sure white people remain in control' with flurry of lawsuits: report" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "How a Trump-allied group fighting ‘anti-white bigotry' beats Biden in court" by Beth Reinhard and Josh Dawsey.

Article: "Bernie Sanders to Bring Yemen War Powers Resolution to the Floor as Soon as Next Week" by Daniel Boguslaw, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Mass–energy equivalence" (E=MC²)by Wikipedia.

Article: "Japanese Internment Camps" by History.com.

Video: "Ted Talk – Juha Kaakinen – Housing First in Finland".

Article: "Neil Young Rocks for Ethanol" by Cindy Zimmerman.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch will be deposed in Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox " by Lillian Rizzo.

Book: I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker.

Article: "UK regulator blocks Murdoch's £11.7bn takeover of Sky" by Spring Law.

Article: "Was the Fox News Channel Banned in Canada?" by David Mikkelson.

Article: "Sens. Rick Scott and Tom Cotton to campaign for Herschel Walker in Georgia" by Summer Concepcion and Allie Raffa.

Article: "Chris Jones concedes Arkansas governor race, congratulates Sarah Huckabee Sanders" by Alex Kienlen.

Article: "Chris Jones, a nuclear engineer and political newcomer, enters Arkansas governor's race" by Erik Ortiz.

Article: "Sarah Huckabee Sanders" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America by Jules Witcover.

Video: ""This is Treason!" Lyndon Johnson Everett Dirksen Phone Call November 2 1968".

Article: "Steve Bannon Says ‘We Will Govern For 100 Years After We Win 100 Seats' When Asked if He Supports ‘Autocratic-Type MAGA Rule'" by Alex Griffing.

Article: "America First Legal Foundation" by InfluenceWatch.

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

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