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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Happy Martin Luther King Day, but in Mississippi and Alabama, of course, it's Robert E. Lee Day.

Honest to God, the traitor who declared war against the United States has been honored today in Mississippi and Alabama.

Amazing. As long as the Republicans use race as a political weapon, we're going to see hate crimes intensify.

This is just a grim, grim story, actually a whole series of grim stories

about what's going on in the United States right now because in large part of, in my opinion,

because Donald Trump and the Republican Party, really starting with Nixon's Southern strategy.

I mean, obviously this goes back 400 years in this continent, but in the modern era,

explicitly, a political party, explicitly embracing racism, the Republican Party starting with the,

you know, with Nixon's Southern strategy and going forward. We'll talk about that in the third hour,

and Russia has stolen 700,000 Ukrainian children.

Where's QAnon when you need them? So we got a lot to talk about today.

Just to begin, as I mentioned, it is Martin Luther King Day today.

And thanks to New Books, this is Carlos Guillermo Smith over on Twitter.

Thanks to New Books, pushed by Ron DeSantis and the GOP floor to legislate your books about

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