So here we are in 2023 and the real beliefs and plans of the Founding generation — slaveholders and abolitionists alike — have dissolved into a blur of BS, Qanon, and fundamentalist religion.

Yesterday "Paul from Woodinville, WA" called into the show and asked, perhaps rhetorically, what the end goal of the GOP was for America. "What kind of a nation are they trying to create here?" he said.

The answer is straightforward. Today's radical Republicans are trying to turn America into a Christianized version of something like Pakistan.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) / Member & Former Co-Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus / (Committees: Appropriations / Also, Education & Labor)

Article: "Exxon smashes Western oil majors' earnings record with $56 billion profit for 2022" by Sabrina Valle.

Bill: "H.R.9187 - Save Medicare Act" by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].

Article: "Pocan, Khanna, Schakowsky Introduce Bill to Strengthen Medicare, Define Alternative Plans" by Mark Pocan.

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

Article: "George Santos withdraws from House committees amid spiraling scandal" by Martin Pengelly .

Article: "House GOP readies vote to oust Rep. Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee" by Scott Wong.

Article: "Trump is heavy favorite in GOP 2024 primary: poll" by Max Greenwood.

Article: "Illinois Appellate Court keeps assault weapons ban on hold for some specific gun owners who sued" by CBS Chicago.

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973) (abortion legal).

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

Article: "Polls Show Overwhelmingly Negative Approval Of House GOP Performance" by Corey Walker.

Article: "Fact Check: Bill Barr Appointed to the Board of Dominion Voting Systems" by Suman Priya Mendonca.

Article: "‘Seniors are getting ripped off': progressive congressman Mark Pocan on overhauling Medicare" by Joan E Greve.

Article: "What is ‘Cop City'? How opposition to an Atlanta police center prompted national demonstrations" by Char Adams.

Article: "Jaime Harrison" by Wikipedia.

Book: Branding Democrats: A Top-to-Bottom Reimagining of Campaign Strategies by Ken Weber and Daryl Weber.

Article: "The Social Security 2100 Act" by John Larson.

Article: "Discharge petition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is SCOTUS About to Put Religion Over Civil Society?" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "In God we trust"; the religious beliefs and ideas of the American founding fathers by Norman Cousins.

Article: "What religions smoke marijuana as a sacrament?" by Annette Felix.

Article: "A Georgia State Senator Explains the New Law That Would Imprison Women Who Get Abortions" by Mark Joseph Stern.

Case: "Trans World Airlines v Hardison".

Article: "Find A Congregation" by Satanic Temple.

Article: "Woman Wins Right to Wear Colander on Her Head in Driver's License Photo" by Samantha Grossman.

Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer and David M. Rolf.

Article: "Pakistani police arrest four for ‘blasphemy' over mosque argument" by Al Jazeera.

Book: The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Reasons for tax evasion in Pakistan" by Ahmed Bilal Mehboob.

Article: ""Cold day in hell": Arkansas lawmaker irked by Satanic Temple statue display at rally " by CBS/AP.

Article: "The wealth of the wealthiest" by Fatima S Attarwala.

Article: "Abortion in Pakistan" by Abortion in Pakistan.

Article: "Republicans block bill to protect women who travel to other states for abortions" by Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V and Julie Tsirkin.

Article: "Prescribing abortion pills online or mailing them in Texas can now land you in jail" by Ashley Lopez.

Case: "Town of Greece v. Galloway".

Case: "Groff v DeJoy".

Article: "Explainer: Israel, annexation and the West Bank" by BBC.

Article: "China Wants More Babies. Some Men Choose Vasectomies." by Sui-Lee Wee and Elsie Chen.

Article: "Iowa Republicans invent new way to stomp down on vulnerable kids in public schools" by Marissa Higgins.

Case: "Brown v Board of Education".

Law: "14th Amendment Section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability".

Article: "In Georgia, a judge rules that Marjorie Taylor Greene did not engage in an insurrection on Jan. 6." by Neil Vigdor.

Article: "A New Mexico judge cites insurrection in barring a county commissioner from office" by Ashley Lopez.

Article: "Court blocks DOJ review of Scott Perry's phone in Jan. 6 probe" by Spencer Hsu, Jacqueline Alemany, Rachel Weiner.

Article: "Debt ceiling: Here's what could happen if lawmakers don't raise the country's borrowing limit" by Aimee Picchi.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Haym Salomon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George Washington and Religion: Interview with Mary V. Thompson".

Article: "Iowa lawmakers approves public money for private school students" by Scott McFetridge.

Article: "In Hungary, Anti-Semitism Rises Again" by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak.

Article: "George Soros" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'A useful punching bag': why Hungary's Viktor Orbán has turned on George Soros" by Shaun Walker.

Article: "Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signs private school voucher expansion bill, now largest in U.S." by AP.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Article: "Killing of Tyre Nichols" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Andy Griffith Show" by Wikipedia.

Article: "FBI finds no classified docs at Biden beach house, lawyer says" by AP.

Hour Three: Does McCarthy want to ban Ilhan Omar so bigots can be happy?
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127 / Columnist - CNN.com / Contributor - The New Republic

Site: The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy wants to ban Ilhan Omar from her House committee to make GOP Bigots happy" by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "Ilhan Omar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McCarthy May Not Have the Votes to Unseat Omar From Committees" by Sharon Zhang.

Article: "Polls reveal the real reason Ron DeSantis is fighting the teaching of Black history" by Dean Obeidallah.

Site: Michelangelo Signorile.

Article: "History Of Book Banning: A Reminder From The Past" by Maggie Valenti.

Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

Article: "Media needs to call the person who attacked Paul Pelosi what he is: A MAGA Terrorist! " by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "Critical race theory" (CRT) by Wikipedia.

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."

Article: "Florida gave ex-felons the right to vote. Now the state is arresting them for voting." by Maximillian Alvarez and Mansa Musa.

Article: "Fleeing Florida? New state laws have LGBTQ families thinking about moving" by Rodric Hurdle-Bradford.

Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).

Article: "The Sturmabteilung: Hitler's Unofficial Army Of Thugs" (brownshirts) by Gina Dimuro.

Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nope, coffee won't give you extra energy. It'll just borrow a bit that you'll pay for later" by Emma Beckett.

Article: "‘She's Not Sober': Tucker Carlson Roasts Kamala Harris' Latest Speech and Suggests She's Taking Hallucinogens" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "Hillsborough's new Republican Party head on the GOP's image and reaching out to minority voters" by Steve Newborn.

Article: "U.S. National Debt by Year" by The Balance.

Article: "Trump outlines plan to attack trans rights if re-elected, vows to ‘protect children from left-wing gender insanity'" by Muri Assunção.

Article: "Trump Bans Transgender People Serving in the Military" by Adam Edelman.

Article: "Laozi" (Lao Tzu) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Divide and rule" (divide and conquer) by Wikipedia.

Article: "New College board fires president, installs former GOP House speaker, DeSantis ally" by Zac Anderson.

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