And, if so, what about the hundreds of other Republican politicians and news sites who went along with and echoed Trump's lies, knowing full well they were not true?

When Alex Jones lied hundreds of times on the air about the families of the children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the families of those dead children — suffering from harassment by Jones' followers and tortured by his claims that they were "crisis actors" — successfully sued for damages.

But nobody died — at least among the families who sued Jones — because of his lies. Which is why he was sued civilly by the families but not charged criminally by local, state, or federal authorities.

The "You can't yell ‘Fire!' in a crowded theatre" exception to the First Amendment's free speech protection usually applies to safety, to the potential or actual loss of life, and is — with justification — a very high bar to prove.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Does Fox "News" Merit Criminal Prosecution for Sedition or Reckless Endangerment?" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "News Corp".

Letter: "Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 16 Jan. 1787".

Article: "Lachlan Murdoch has court win in defamation battle against online publisher Crikey" by Heath Parkes-Hupton.

Book: "The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction - and What This Means Today" by Dan Sisson with Thom Hartmann

Site: "Crikey".

Article: "Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor. And Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator" by Bernard Keane.

Article: "The Sedition and Espionage Acts Were Designed to Quash Dissent During WWI" by Dave Roos.

Article: "Passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts" by Larry Gragg.

Site: "Adams Papers Digital Edition".

Article: "They knew it was a lie: The behind-the-scenes happenings at Fox while the network pushed false claims about Dominion" by Julie Tulbert, Bushra Sultana, Payton Armstrong, Shelby Jamerson & Zachary Pleat.

Article: "Two Justices Say Supreme Court Should Reconsider Landmark Libel Decision" by Adam Liptak.

Article: "Jack Smith urged to investigate Fox News for inciting Jan. 6 violence with election lies" by Tom Boggioni.

Case: "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan", 1964.

Article: "Court Lets Lawsuit Against Fox News Move Forward—Here's Where Dominion And Smartmatic's Defamation Suits Stand Now" by Alison Durkee.

Article: "Alien and Sedition Acts of the United States". "old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams."

Article: "Eugene V. Debs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Benjamin Franklin Bache (journalist)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Matthew Lyon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Glenn Kirschner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "MSNBC's Glenn Kirschner Says Trump Will Be Indicted — And Rat On Everyone To ‘Reduce His Prison Term By One Day'" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "President Biden In Poland: U.S. "Support For Ukraine Will Not Waver," "NATO Will Not Be Divided"" by Tim Hains.

Article: "Mardi Gras" (Fat Tuesday) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pro-Russia party holds protest in Moldova amid coup fears" by Raphael Minder, Roman Olearchyk.

Article: "Russo-Georgian War" by Wikipedia.

Site: Indivisible.

Site: Free Speech TV.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "There's Something Strange in the Video of Biden and Zelenskyy Walking Through Kyiv" by Elizabeth Stauffer.

Article: "Kyiv, Yes. East Palestine, No Way." by Ray Cardello.

Article: "America First or America Last? – As Trump Heads To Ohio, Biden Goes to Ukraine" by Matthew Holloway.

Article: "Is Donald Trump to Blame for Ohio Train Derailment?" by James Bickerton.

Article: "East Palestine Mayor: Biden Giving Millions to Ukraine, Not Us Shows ‘He Doesn't Care about Us'" by Breitbart.

Article: "EPA steps up cleanup oversight in Norfolk Southern train derailment site in Ohio" by Monroe Trombly.

Article: "McCarthy hands massive trove of Jan. 6 surveillance video to Tucker Carlson: report" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Bennie Thompson rips McCarthy for giving Tucker Carlson Jan. 6 footage" by Lauren Sforza.

Article: "‘Oh My God!' Stunned Joe Scarborough Laughs At Secessionist MTG Being On Homeland Security Committee" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "Black History Month" by history.com.

Article: "Abby Steiner" by Wikipedia.

Video: Abby Steiner Opens 2023 With Two Massive Record Breaking 400m races.

Article: "Sixers' Mac McClung Wins NBA Slam Dunk Contest With Electrifying Performance" by Noah Levick.

Article: "Anti-War Protesters in Washington Praise ‘Russian Patriot' Vladimir Putin" by Zachary Petrizzo.

Video: As Biden leads West in support of democracy in Ukraine, weird assemblage voices dissent.

Article: "Sen. Bernie Sanders is embracing his anger. A new book details what he's angry about" by Steve Inskeep, Jojo Macaluso.

Video: The Rich Hooked America on the Free Market Myth Featuring Naomi Oreskes.

Speech: "March 29, 1952: Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner" - Harry Truman

Speech: "Harry Truman Democratic National Convention Nomination Acceptance", 15 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA.

Article: "Minsk" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Maidan casualties" (Heavenly Hundred, Ukraine) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Viktor Yanukovych" by Wikipedia.

Site: Stephanie Miller Show.

Article: "Exclusive: McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson access to trove of Jan. 6 riot tape" by Mike Allen.

Article: "Two Fox News contributors quit over Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 documentary" by Dominick Mastrangelo.

Book: Insurrection by Nate Gowdy.

Video: Jan 6th Insurrectionists Attacked Me During Coup Attempt" Featuring Nate Gowdy.

Article: "You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers" by David Folkenflik.

Hour Two: Debate: Why red states have poor health & poor credit - is it because they have libertarian leadership that doesn't believe in using tax dollars to build infrastructure and a social safety net?
- Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President - The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do / podcast Pardon My Parsing

Article: "The surprising reason credit scores are lower in the South" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Spurious relationship" by Wikipedia.

Article: "As of July 1, your medical debt may no longer hurt your credit score—here's why" (2022) by Brett Holzhauer.

Article: "Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions: Interactive Map" by KFF.

Article: "Medicaid Expansion: Frequently Asked Questions" by Inna Rubin, Jesse Cross-Call and Gideon Lukens.

Site: Surgery Center of Oklahoma.

Article: "Does Mark Cuban's drug company offer the best prices? Kaiser Health News put it to a test" by Kaiser Health News.

Article: "Amazon launches $5-a-month unlimited prescription plan" by Nathaniel Meyersohn.

Article: "Dr. Josh Umbehr Explains How to Get Quality, Economical Health Care and Undermine ObamaCare" by Ari Armstrong.

Article: "In Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders sweeps the GOP primary for governor" by Daniel Breen.

Article: "Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls for Medicaid work restrictions" by Worth Sparkman.

Article: "'Bait and switch': Minister slams Hobby Lobby founder's 'He Gets Us' ads " by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Billy Graham" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Franklin Graham" by Wikipedia.

Article: "DeSantis and Haley highlight 2024 chasm on Ukraine" by Aaron Blake.

Article: "'It will die': Michigan GOP's latest move could put it on road to extinction " by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "John Hancock" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Zachary Taylor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Stephen A. Douglas" by Wikipedia.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

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

Quote: "Behind Every Great Fortune There Is a Crime" - Honoré de Balzac.

Article: "Josh Gottheimer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Congressional Progressive Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Curse of Ham" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Polygenism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Samuel George Morton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Frederick Ludwig Hoffman" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray.

Article: "Libertarian Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rugged Arizona libertarians hilariously beg government to bail them out" by kos.

Article: "Jimmy Carter Reflects the Best of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy" by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.

Article: "Obits Black Out Claims That Reagan Conspired to Keep Hostages in Iran Until After 1980 Election" by Jon Schwarz.

Article: "It's Costing Us Peanuts to defeat Russia" by LetMyPeopleVote.

Article: "Russia 'aims to "absorb" Belarus by 2030 according to leaked document setting out plan to infiltrate the country'" by David Averre.

Article: "Chechnya" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Syrian civil war" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ten Years Ago, Russia Invaded Georgia" (in 2008) by VOA.

Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Belarus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine war: President Putin speech fact-checked" by BBC Reality Check.

Article: "U.S. to limit asylum for migrants who pass through a third country" by AP.

Article: "A 4 a.m. departure, a fake ‘golf tourney', and two 10-hour train rides: How President Biden's secret visit to Ukraine unfolded" by Amanda Kaufman.

Article: "Donald Trump's 'pee tape' controversy, explained" by Brian De Los Santos.

Article: "DeSantis Downplays Russian Military Power Hours After Finland's PM Warns Putin Is ‘Threat to All of Europe'" by Alex Griffing.

Article: "Republican hardliners attack Biden as president speaks in Poland on Ukraine war – live" by Chris Stein.

Article: "Is an Arctic ‘Cold War' coming? How climate change and the war in Ukraine are driving tensions" by Joshua Keating, Dave Levitan, Lili Pike.

Article: "Finley: With Karamo as chair, it's R.I.P., Michigan GOP" by Nolan Finley.

Article: "Lend-Lease" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russia 'aims to "absorb" Belarus by 2030 according to leaked document setting out plan to infiltrate the country'" by David Averre.

Article: "Ukraine war live updates: Biden returns to Poland after surprise Kyiv visit; Sweden says Russia threat has grown" by Natasha Turak.

Article: "Ukraine update: It's official—Germany will send Leopard 2, U.S. will send M1A2 Abrams" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Poland and Lithuania to send German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine" by Euronews with AFP.

Article: "1976 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Crisis Point: The State of Literacy in America" by Resilient Educator.

Case: "Brown v Board of Education".

Article: "South Africa hosts joint maritime exercises involving China and Russia" by Africanews.

Article: "Ukrainian sailor accused of trying to sink $8 million yacht belonging to his boss, a Russian arms exporter, says he has no regrets" by Ukrainian sailor accused of trying to sink $8 million yacht belonging to his boss, a Russian arms exporter, says he has no regrets.

Article: "School corporal punishment in the United States" by Wikipedia.

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

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

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