America didn't ask for a homegrown rightwing terror movement, but now that it's here we need to take it seriously.

They thought that by "completely destroying Baltimore" — shooting up five power substations to blackout the city — they'd so upset white people in America that Trump's racist base would rise up, begin the Second Civil War, and start slaughtering Black people, Hispanics, and Jews.

Instead, Sarah Clendaniel, 27, and Brandon Russell, 34, a co-founder of the white supremacist neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, are in federal custody awaiting arraignment.

This is what then-Congressman Adam Kinzinger was worried about when he told Axios last year:

"I don't think that's too far of a bridge to recognize. It's going to be armed groups against armed groups, targeted assassination, and violence."

And Donald Trump yesterday used his Nazi-infested social media platform to push a renewed call for violence by Americans against Americans

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Students of "How To Start a Civil War" Have Begun" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "It will likely get little to no attention today that the current front runner for the Republican presidential nomination just told his supporters to start arming themselves for a civil war to overthrow the government in the case he loses.
Just Trump being Trump! So quirky!" by Chris Murphy.

Tweet: "Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo." by Thomas Massie.

Tweet: "After Rep. Thomas Massie asserted that American citizens must possess weapons powerful enough to overthrow the government should 30-40% agree it's necessary, Tim Pool declared that the 2nd Amendment protects the individual right to own nuclear and biological weapons." by Right Wing Watch.

Tweet: "This is what a rigged economy looks like [chart]" by Fifty Shades of Whey.

Article: "Forget Gun Control, America's Young Men Should Be Training To Shoot" by Michele Gama Sosa.

Article: "Thomas Massie: Republican Congressman condemned over Christmas guns photo days after Michigan school shootings" by Claire Gilbody-Dickerson.

Site: "Committee on the Judiciary".

Site: "Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government".

Site: "Committee on the Judiciary - Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet".

Site: "Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust".

Site: "Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure - Aviation".

Site: "Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure - Highways and Transit".

Site: "Committee on Rules".

Site: "Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure".

Article: "Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure - Waters Resources and Environment".

Book: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter.

Article: "Kinzinger: "We have to recognize" possibility of a civil war" by Erin Doherty.

Article: "Tristan Harris says 'civil war for profit business model' is harming democracy" by Reliable Sources.

Article: "Trump resurrects election-year conspiracy theory that he lost New Hampshire because busloads of Massachusetts voters came north to illegally support Hillary Clinton – two years after Corey Lewandowski debunked it" by Katelyn Caralle.

Site: "Elections Canada".

Article: "How the Immigration Act of 1965 Changed the Face of America" by Lesley Kennedy.

Article: "Neo-Nazis intent on race war target U.S. infrastructure" by Rachel Maddow.

Article: "The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class" by Marilyn Geewax.

Article: "A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants" by NPR.

Article: "What Is Atomwaffen? A Neo-Nazi Group, Linked to Multiple Murders" by Jonah Engel Bromwich.

Article: "Pair Is Charged With Plotting to ‘Destroy Baltimore' by Attacking Electrical Grid" by Glenn Thrush and Michael Levenson.

Article: "Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government" by Pew Research Center.

Article: "Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981" by Ronald Reagan.

Article: "'The Turner Diaries' a blueprint for Capitol attack" by Dorany Pineda.

Article: "How to watch Biden's 2023 State of the Union address" by Caroline Linton.

Article: "Sarah Huckabee Sanders to deliver State of Union Republican response" by Sam Cabral.

Article: "David Atlee Phillips" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Juan Ciscomani" by Wikipedia.

Article: "State of the Union 2023: Rep. Juan Ciscomani to deliver GOP's Spanish rebuttal to State of the Union" by Virginia Aabram.

Article: "Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.9092 - Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act" by Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3].

Article: "Cops stand down as bystanders step in to protect young man from threatening police response" by Nevilledog.

Article: "Accomplishments" by Joe Biden.

Article: "Here are truth-challenged Sarah Huckabee Sanders' biggest whoppers" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "State of the Union 2023: Congressional Black Caucus to wear '1870' pin to call attention to police killings" by Barnini Chakraborty.

Article: "‘Happy Banned Books Week, Here Are the Ten Most Banned Books in US Libraries and Schools'" by Kim LaCapria.

Article: "Conservatives On Twitter Melt Down Over Sam Smith's ‘Satanic' Grammy Performance: ‘This…Is…Evil'" by Candice Ortiz.

Article: "U.S. military failed to detect prior Chinese incursions, general says" by Alex Horton, Dan Lamothe, Ellen Nakashima.

Case: "Brown v Board of Education".

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

Article: "Fact check: 12 of 28 comments deemed racist on viral list are Trump's direct speech" by Ella Lee.

Article: "Reaganomics" (voodoo economics) by Wikipedia.

Article: "State of the Union Address, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "Fed Chief Sets Monetary Policy By Seat-of-the-Pants Approach" by David Wessel.

Article: "Over 10 years, Chicago has paid out half a billion dollars in police misconduct settlements" by John Williams.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Hour Two: Should America follow Pence's "Better deal" and privatize all social welfare programs?
- Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President - The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do / podcast Pardon My Parsing

Article: "Pence calls for Social Security reform, private savings accounts" by Tom LoBianco.

Article: "Social Security Act" by history.com.

Article: "Trump Finds an Opening Against DeSantis" by Joshua Green.

Article: "Enron scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Florida student-athletes ask why they should be forced to inform schools about menstrual cycles" by Rebekah Sager.

Article: "Florida is officially a laboratory for fascism in the U.S." by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: "Senate Urged to 'Stand Up to Homophobic Attacks' on Biden FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn" by Jessica Corbett.

Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776) (online).

Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776).

Quote: "Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital" - Abraham Lincoln .

Article: "Ben Ray Luján" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Martin Heinrich" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ball Corporation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wendy Carlos" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks at the U.S. Conference of Mayors".

Article: "Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks on Charges and New Arrest in Connection with Assassination Plot Directed from Iran".

Article: "Read the Mueller Report: Searchable Document and Index" by David Firestone.

Article: "The wealthiest 1% has taken $50 trillion from working Americans and redistributed it, a new study finds. Here's what that mean." by Paul Constant.

Article: "Xinjiang: China defends 'education' camps" by BBC.

Article: "List of countries by literacy rate" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Honoring Black History Month: Spread The Vote
- Kat Calvin, Founder & Executive Director of Spread The Vote + Project ID / Co-Founder & CEO of the Project ID Action Fund / Author of the forthcoming book American Identity Crisis (September 2023) available for pre-sale now

Article: "Examining How Barriers to ID Harm Different Communities and Impact Everyone" by Rebecca Farmer.

Article: "Changing ID policy at every level." by Project ID Action Fund.

Article: "It's time for every American to have an ID." by Project ID Action Fund.

Article: "Identity Documents & Black Communities" by mapresearch.org.

Article: "Enfranchise" by Vote by Mail in Jail.

Site: IDs for an Inclusive Democracy Act.

Bill: "H. CON. RES. 9: Denouncing the horrors of socialism.".

Article: "The GOP's ‘horrors of socialism' resolution was bait. Dems took it." by Zeeshan Aleem.

Article: "List Of Democrats Who Voted For & Also Against Socialism In A Formal Congressional Vote!" by pensiamentopeligroso.

Article: "House passes resolution denouncing socialism, vote splits Democrats" by Mychael Schnell.

Article: "How to Stop a Senator From Blocking a Federal Judge" by NY Times.

Article: "Blue slip" by Wikipedia.

Site: TreasuryDirect.

Quote: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne.

Article: "Women have more miscarriages than live births over their lifetime" by Michael Le Page.

Article: "'Periods for Pence' campaign goes viral, urges women to call Gov. Pence's office and discuss their menstrual cycles".

Article: "Koch group to back GOP presidential candidate who will 'write new chapter for the country'" by Vaughn Hillyard and Summer Concepcion.

Article: "Grassley says he's nixing blue slips for pair of nominees" by Jordain Carney.

Video: "Loan Wolves" documentary investigates student debt.

Article: "Newsom seeks to extend life of Diablo Canyon nuclear plant by 5-10 years" by AP.

Article: "Gov. Newsom wants changes to plan to cut rooftop solar subsidies" by Bloomberg.

Article: "California Slashes Solar Panel Subsidies In The Name Of ‘Equity'" by Jack McEvoy.

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