Over the weekend, protesters took over town halls held by Republican lawmakers in New York and South Carolina.

They shouted slogans and demanded their elected representatives protect - and not repeal - Obamacare.

One town hall in Ashville, New York actually had to be moved outdoors because so many people showed up to protest.

If this sounds like a headline you've heard before - well, that's because it is a headline you've heard before.

So are we watching the birth of a liberal tea party?

And if so, how can Democrats turn it into victory at the ballot box?

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... Trump Doubles Down on Forever War (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Quote: "A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything." -- Malcolm X.

 

Hour One: "Trump Stress" Is Now Epidemic - How Do You Handle It? Thom Explains How He's Dealing With It....

Video: Bob Marley - WAR.

Speech: "Selassie's Address to the United Nations (1963)".

Article: "Feudalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Peon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump nixes Elliott Abrams for State Department job" by Jamie Gangel and Elise Labott.

Site: Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).

Site: Drinking Liberally

Book: My Dream of Heaven by Rebecca Ruter Springer.

Bible: "Matthew 6:26-34" "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them..."

Article: "Elián González" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Don't act so shocked at Trump's plans to deport 3 million illegal immigrants - Obama has deported 2.5 million" by Kirsty Major.

Article: "EPA chief Scott Pruitt says regulators 'exist to give certainty' in first speech to agency" by CNBC.

Site: Justice Democrats.

Article: "Complex PTSD" by VA.

Article: "Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" by Thom Hartmann

Crazy Alert: "Paws Everything. Iceland Is Running A 'Big Brother' For Kittens." by Nina Golgowski.

Site: Reason Magazine.

Site: National Review.

Site: Biblical Archaeology Review.

Article: "52nd anniversary of Malcolm X death" by World Bulletin.

Article: "Malcolm X" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Frederick Douglass" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by David A. Graham.

 

Article: "Single Payer on The March" by Lambert Strether.

 

Article: "Report: Plan To Force God Into Public Schools Released" by Michael Stone.

Article: "Dear Betsy DeVos: The Religious Right's Education Agenda" by Peter Montgomery.

Article: "Trump administration halts California's plans for high-speed rail and infrastructure improvements" by Walter Einenkel.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Malcolm X in Michigan" by Nicole Garrett.

Book: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley.

Article: "COINTELPRO" by Wikipedia.

Article: "5 Rare Clips of Malcolm X Speaking Truth to Power" by TeamEbony.

Article: "Trump pledges to unite 'divided country' after African-American history museum visit" by Jeremy Diamond.

Article: "Biden tells African-American audience GOP ticket would put them "back in chains"" by Rodney Hawkins, August 14, 2012.

Book: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Page: "Books by Dick Gregory".

Page: "Books by James Baldwin".

Page: "Books by Richard Wright".

Article: "Port Huron Statement" by Tom Hayden (1962).

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Luke Vargas 

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

Article: "Mexico's foreign minister: We won't move a 'millimeter' in opposition to border wall" by Luke Vargas.

Article: "Mexican Catholic church denounces Trump's 'hostility' to migrants" by Luke Vargas.

Article: "New memos outline Trump's immigration crackdown" by TMN.

Article: "Immigration advocates: DHS memos pave the way for mass deportation" by Bryan Renbaum.

Article: "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" (DACA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. secretaries Tillerson, Kelly to visit Mexico next week" by Christine Murray.

Article: "Food Fight: Mexico Targets American Corn In Trump 'Trade War'" by Kenneth Rapoza.

Article: "Millions of Americans live in Mexico. Can we continue to coexist?" by Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz.

Video: Sean Spicer White House Press Briefing (2/21/2017).

Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Shanghai Maglev Train" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A high-speed getaway like no other" by Larry Bleiberg.

Article: "America's infrastructure $1.44 trillion short through 2025: report" by Hilary Russ.

Article: "Trump administration deals a big setback to Caltrain" by Matier & Ross.

Audio: Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet - April 4, 1964.

Book: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.

Documentary: I Am Not Your Negro.

Article: "Marcus Garvey" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nation of Islam" by Wikipedia.

Article: "From an Anchor's Lips to Trump's Ears to Sweden's Disbelief" by Peter Baker and Sewell Chan.

Article: "Swedish police comments 'taken out of context' in film cited by Trump" by Philip Oltermann and Edward Helmore.

Article: "Trump asked people to 'look at what's happening ... in Sweden.' Here's what's happening there." by Rick Noack.

Article: "Hakim Jamal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "People's Climate March" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: Before the Flood.

Article: "Malcolm X Street" by Demarius Similton.

Book: Blackness: The Life and Times of an Unpopular People (Volume 1) by Dr. T. Nicole Shockley.

Article: "Trump's F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules" by Cecilia Kang.

    

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

 

I'll be debating Libertarian Charles Sauer of the The Market Institute

 

I'll be talking to Kevin Mottus & Dr. David Carpenter about the dangers of 5G telecommunications expansion.

 

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