The American media needs to call this movement what it is, fascism, and demand accountability and answers from the thousands of Republican politicians nationwide who refuse to repudiate it... Reporters for TPM obtained text messages between Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (formerly a Tea Party congressman) and 34 Republican members of Congress advocating strategies to end democracy in America by keeping Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election.

For example, South Carolina's Republican Congressman Ralph Norman texted Meadows:

"Mark, in seeing what's happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of no return in saving our Republic !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!"

His misspelling "martial" — as in "having the military take over the country" — notwithstanding, Norman was pushing to end the American experiment in much the same way Robert E. Lee tried to do in 1861.

This is not a coincidence.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump Isn't Our Biggest Problem: It's the Authoritarian Fascist Movement He Launched" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election" by Hunter Walker, Josh Kovensky and Emine Yücel.

Book: The Illustrious Dunderheads by Rex Stout.

Books: "Rex Stout".

Article: "Shock Poll: Trump Support Cratering — Whopping 61% Republicans Want Another Candidate for 2024" by Colby Hall.

Article: "Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra".

Article: "Mark Meadows" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.

Article: "Ron DeSantis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America First Committee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Revolutionary War" (1775-1783) by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "World War II" (1939 - 1945) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iran Hostage Crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Brett Kavanaugh Partying With Matt Gaetz Raises Questions" by James Bickerton.

Article: "Hundreds of Oath Keepers Have Worked for DHS in Recent Years, Report Finds" by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "Progressive Lawmakers Demand Fraud Probe Into Medicare Privatization Scheme" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh awarded Medal of Freedom in surprise State of the Union move" by Kaitlan Collins.

Article: "Why Tesla Stock Hit a New 2-Year Low Today" by Howard Smith.

Article: "Stop the Medicare "Advantage" Scam Before Medicare is Dead" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable': How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions" by Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz.

Article: "North Carolina power grid: Tens of thousands still in dark after 'targeted' attacks on substations" by CNNWire.

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: "Carbon capture in Iowa: A lifeline or a pipe dream?" by The Gazette.

Hour Two: New JFK Docs to Be Released Thursday...or WILL they? (Pt 1)
- Lamar Waldron, Political Commentator / JFK Historian & Author of numerous books, including Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA.

Article: "Thousands more secret JFK files including 'smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald' are set to be released next week after President Biden delayed making them public" by David Averre.

Book: "Ultimate Sacrifice" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron.

Article: "John Lewis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Lewis" by JFK Library.

Article: "Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Law: "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992" (2017 deadline).

Article: "President Biden Issues Memorandum on the Public Release of Withheld JFK Assassination Records, Sets New Disclosure Deadline" (December 15, 2021).

Article: "Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Carlos Marcello" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A Bradenton bank robbery and the killing of JFK" (Jack Van Laningham) by Chris Anderson.

Article: "Joseph Milteer is a key to the JFK assassination" by Steven Hager.

Article: "Lee Harvey Oswald" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jack Ruby" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Abraham Bolden: Ex-Secret Service agent pardoned by Biden" by BBC.

Video: Justice for Abraham Bolden.

Article: "Santo Trafficante Jr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "Richard Cain" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernard Barker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States" (Rockefeller Commission) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Church Committee", 1975-6 by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States Senate Watergate Committee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States House Select Committee on Assassinations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sheila Jackson Lee" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "JFK".

Article: "Brett Kavanaugh Repeatedly Ruled in Favor of the Security State, Most Recently for the CIA — and Against Me" by Jefferson Morley.

Article: "George Joannides" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jimmy Hoffa" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Roselli" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bay of Pigs Invasion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Juan Almeida Bosque" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Enrique Ruiz-Williams" (Harry Williams) by Spartacus.

Article: "Cuban missile crisis" (1962) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Haynes Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Dr. Strangelove".

Movie: "Seven Days in May".

Article: "David Sánchez Morales" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Martino (writer)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David Ferrie" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Guy Banister" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: New JFK Docs to Be Released Thursday...or WILL they? (Pt 2)
- Lamar Waldron, Political Commentator / JFK Historian & Author of numerous books, including Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA.

Article: "George S. Patton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A plot against JFK in Tampa?" by Jennifer Liberto.

Article: "JFK murder plots planned in Chicago before Dallas assassination" by ABC7.

Article: "Jack Ruby" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David Powers" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oswald and the U2 Program: A Second Look and Yet Another Fascinating Coincidence" by Mark Prior.

Article: "Jan. 7, 1963: Under U.S. government eyes, Oswald goes to work"(at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall) by Jefferson Morley.

Article: "Kenneth O'Donnell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tip O'Neill" by Wikipedia.

Book: Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill by Tip O'Neill.

Article: "David Atlee Phillips" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Campisi's Egyptian Restaurant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jean Souetre" (aka Michel Mertz and Michel Roux) by John Simkin.

Article: "John E. Nolan Oral History Interview – RFK#5, 11/11/1971" by Roberta W. Greene.

Article: "Erneido Oliva" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Manuel Ray Rivero" (Manolo Ray) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Manuel Artime" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John F. Kennedy autopsy" by Wikipedia.

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

I'll be talking with Keisha Deonarine NAACP Director of Opportunity, Race, and Justice, about the FBI's release of 2021 Hate Crime Data

Plus, Branding Democrats: A Top-to-Bottom Reimagining of Campaign Strategies with authors Ken Weber & Daryl Weber

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"

And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...

The JFK Documents - Will They or Won't They Be Released? Featuring Lamar Waldron

Can Authoritarian Fascist Movement Defeat Democracy?

Marjorie Taylor Greene's Sick Dream of a Successful Armed January 6th