Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 26 February, 2024

Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show

Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: The New "Over the Top" Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024
Article: "The New "Over the Top" Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Election results, 2022: Comparison of state delegations to the 117th and 118th Congresses" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Trump's Secret Plan Was No Secret" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Dancing in the Dark: Steps to Avoid a Constitutional Coup in the 2024 Election" by Mark Medish & Joel McCleary.
Article: "This can't be Constitutional" by Americans for a Republican Irrelevancy.
Article: "political question doctrine " by LII.
Site: "Joy Reid's Reidout".
Article: "GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik won't commit to certifying the 2024 election results" by Summer Concepcion.
Article: "What the Electoral Count Reform Act Means for States" by Wendy Underhill.
Article: "Whether U.S. Democracy Is a House of Cards Is Up to the House" by Tom Rogers.
Tweet: "Interesting" by Elon Musk. In response to...
Tweet: "Maine, Colorado, and other states that might try to bureaucratically deny ballot access to any Republican nominee should remember the U.S. House of Representatives is the ultimate arbiter of whether to certify electors from those states." by Thomas Massie.
 
Article: "Confused About Michigan's Primary and Convention? You're Not Alone." by Neil Vigdor.
Site: Republicans for Ukraine.
Article: "Discharge petition" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Secret Service erased text messages from Jan. 6 and the day before, the Homeland Security watchdog says" by Kyle Stewart, Haley Talbot and Zoë Richards.
 
GOP pollster shows how Trump's rise wasn't/isn't due to the will of voters - Who is pulling the strings?
Article: "'Frightening': GOP pollster shows how Trump's rise wasn't due to the will of voters " by David McAfee.
Article: "Farah Griffin: Haley's South Carolina results should be a 'five-alarm fire' for the GOP " by Sarah Fortinsky.
Article: "'Bad news for Trump' despite South Carolina primary win: analysts" by Tom Boggioni.
 
Movie: "Dalai Lama Renaissance".
Article: "Anne Miller, 90, First Patient Who Was Saved by Penicillin" by Wolfgang Saxon.
 
Article: "Netanyahu Wants Trump" by Clyde Prestowitz.
Article: "Speech or Debate Clause" by Wikipedia.
 
Was Navalny killed to prevent him from being freed in a prisoner swap?
Article: "Alexei Navalny was killed on eve of prisoner swap, his team claims" by Eva Hartog.
Article: "Vadim Krasikov: who is Russian hitman linked to Navalny prisoner swap claim?" by Kate Connolly.
 
Article: "German lawmakers back sending further long-range weapons to Ukraine, but vague on details" by Geir Moulson.
Article: "Scholz Closes Door on Sending Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine" by Arne Delfs.
Book: The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman.
Article: "Trump Can't Stop Comparing Himself to Alexei Navalny" by William Vaillancourt.
Documentary: Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches.
Documentary: The Perfect Weapon.
Article: "Biden calls Johnson, Schumer for White House meeting as congressional chaos stirs government shutdown fears" by Elizabeth Elkind.
Article: "How a speaker of the House can be ousted with a 'motion to vacate'" by Kyle Stewart.
Article: "Dean Phillips" by Wikipedia.
Site: Kost Elisevich: Ukraine: Essays on a Nation's Fight for Survival.
Podcast: "2/25: The Takeout: North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry" by Major Garrett.

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Hour Two: Mike Johnson's Campaign Contributions From Company Tied to Russia
- Heidi Siegmund Cuda, Author & Emmy-award winning investigative reporter / co-host of the "Radicalized Truth Survives" podcast / subscribe to her substack at bettedangerous.com   @Heidi_Cuda
Article: "'Mike Johnson Exposed Him$elf' — Martin Sheil Follows the Money in His Latest Letter to the Editor" by Heidi Siegmund Cuda.
Thread: "Ethane — the company that paid @SpeakerJohnson — was majority owned by three Russian nationals: Konstantin Nikolaev, Mikhail Yuriev, and Andrey Kunatbaev." by Bette Dangerous.
Article: "Mike Johnson's Campaign Contributions From Company Tied to Russia" by Ewan Palmer.
Article: "Swalwell says Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat newly elected Dem Tom Souzzi" by Nevilledog.
Article: "Documentary 'Bad Faith' gives powerful look at the rise of 'Christian nationalism'" by Brian Blueskye.
Documentary: Bad Faith.
Article: "'God & Country' Review: One Nation, Under the Cross" by Nicolas Rapold.
Documentary: God & Country.
Article: "Billionaire backers of new California city reveal map, details of proposed development " by Janie Har.
Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954.
Article: "Render unto Caesar" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'I'm Not at Church': Speaker Mike Johnson's 'Sermon' at GOP Meeting Sparks Backlash" by Samantha Benitz.
 
Article: "What is Shariah law, and what does it mean for Afghan women under the Taliban?" by Daniel Victor.
Article: "Eight Republicans pick the worst possible place to celebrate July 4" by Dana Milbank.
Article: "Still a summit secret: What happened in Helsinki between Putin and Trump?" by Benjamin Siegel.
Article: "Trump hid his calls with Putin. Now, Biden has access to them." by Natasha Bertrand and Daniel Lippman.
 
Should taxpayers support the Medicare Advantage increases in payments?
Article: "Should we taxpayers support increased payments to Medicare Advantage? Public comment by March 1." by rvtravel.
 
Crazy Alert! The GOP is warning folks that vaccines are being slipped into vegetables...Really?!
Article: "Republican warns of vaccines being slipped into vegetables: 'A polio vaccine in there'" by Travis Gettys.
Article: "Edible Vaccines" by Indu Ravi, Mamta Baunthiyal, Jyoti Saxena.
 
Article: "Seven Mountain Mandate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Was 'Doonesbury' Censored by Gannett Newspapers on Feb. 18, 2024?" by Jack Izzo.
Cartoon: "Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 18, 2024".
Site: Indivisible.
Article: "Voting by mail-in or absentee ballot is safe, secure, and easy." by Pennsylvania Government.
Article: "Florida has banned nearly 400 books in schools. Here's the full list" by Brandon Girod.
Article: "Florida's governor signs controversial law opponents dubbed 'Don't Say Gay'" by Jaclyn Diaz.

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Hour Three: Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism
- Peter Montgomery, Research Director / Oversees Right Wing Watch - People for the American Way (PFAW)   @rightwingwatch   @peoplefor   @petemont
Article: "Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism" by Peter Montgomery.
Article: "Project 2025" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump zeroes in on a key target of his 'retribution' agenda: Government workers" by Allan Smith.
Article: "The Heritage Foundation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jim DeMint" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kevin Roberts (academic)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Stephen Miller (political advisor)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Brief of John Finnis and Robert George in the Dobbs Case" by Robert George.
Article: "The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy".
 
Article: "Latest Pennsylvania Polls" by 538.
Article: "2024 Pennsylvania elections" by Wikipedia.
Article: "David McCormick is gearing up for a Senate run in Pennsylvania. But he lives in Connecticut" by Brian Slodysko.
 
Does the 1st Amendment apply to Social Media? Looks like SCOTUS will decide......
Article: "Does the First Amendment apply to social media moderation? The U.S. Supreme Court will decide" by Pooja Salhotra.
Article: "Does the First Amendment apply to social media moderation? U.S. Supreme Court will decide" by Pooja Salhotra.
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.
 
Article: "'We Didn't Get All The Way There On Jan 6': Trump Booster Pledges to End Democracy in CPAC Rant as Bannon Cheers On" by Jennifer Bowers Bahney.
Article: "Donald Trump repeats comment he would be a dictator 'for one day' if reelected in 2024" by Marina Pitofsky.
Article: "Light snow falls in Portland early Monday, could return overnight" by Jim Redden.
Article: "Aaron Bushnell: US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy in Washington" by Tom Geoghegan, Kayla Epstein, and Mike Wendling.
Article: "Biden tells Israel not to 'repeat mistakes' made by US after 9/11" by Julian Borger.
Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).
Article: "Hamilton Fish" by Wikipedia.
Article: "501(c)(3) organization" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Johnson Amendment In 5 Questions And Answers" by Tom Gjelten.