Thom talks with attorney and radio host Mike Papantonio about Republican attempts to disenfranchise "untraditional voters." Also discussed: why retailers refuse to pay their workers an honest wage, how Obamacare will soon be benefiting citizens in Cook County, IL and if the DOJ will protect states' rights when it comes to marijuana. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom gives more proof why Anonymous' claim that Rove's attempt to steal the election isn't so far-fetched.

The Good! *Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D)* Massachusetts is set to allow undocumented immigrants under the federal deferred action program to pay in-state tuition at the Bay State's public universities. Gov. Patrick will direct the state board of higher education to grant in-state tuition rates to any student who has a work permit. This directive will take effect immediately - and will greatly lower the costs of higher education for immigrant students. For example - UMASS Amherst currently costs nearly $27000 dollars for out of state students - compared to around $13000 dollars for in-state students. Here's to Gov. Patrick for allowing undocumented immigrants in his state the chance to improve their lives.

Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, joins Thom Hartmann. The shady Wall Street practice known as shadow banking played a major role in this country's financial meltdown - yet the practice is going stronger than ever. What kinds of regulations and oversights need to be put in place to reel in shadow banking - and prevent another financial collapse?

Janet Larsen, Director of Research-Earth Policy Institute, joins Thom Hartmann. This past weekend Thom saw the PBS's new documentary on the Dustbowl of the 1930s - Ken Burns brilliant look at one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in modern times. During the Republican "no regulations" bubble of the 1920s, commodity prices - particularly wheat - were bid up on to the point where thousands of farmers flocked to the Midwest and used mechanized plows to break open tens of millions of acres of virgin prairie land and convert it to fields for growing wheat. The buffalo grass that covered the plains - and the buffalo that both grazed on it and fertilized it - helped hold moisture in the earth and produce a viable layer of topsoil. But when the farmers turned this over and exposed it to the sun, combined with a decade-long period of episodic drought, it turned to dust that was picked up by the wind and destroyed farms and towns, destroying fields and killing livestock and humans alike. The World Bank has now warned that the temperature increase will be felt the most along the equator in the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of the United States. This temperature increase will lead to scarcity in water and food resources and disruptions in biodiversity - which could force mass migrations of people out of affected areas. Rising temperatures will also lead to rising sea levels which threaten cities located in India, Mexico, and Vietnam - as well as ...