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Virginia is for lovers... of election rigging!
Virginia is now poised to be the first state to move legislation forward, which will rig the Electoral College to benefit Republican presidential candidates in the future. On Wednesday, legislation to dole out Electoral College votes based on gerrymandered Congressional districts, instead of the current winner-take-all system, advanced out of a state Senate subcommittee. It now heads to full committee, where it will likely be approved, before heading to the full state Senate, which is controlled by Republicans.
So, Republicans have actually taken rigging the next presidential election seriously, with efforts also underway in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio to do the same thing. Progressives must counter with an equally aggressive push for a national popular vote. Nine states have already passed National Popular Vote laws, which commit their electors to vote for whichever candidate wins the national popular vote, even if that candidate lost the state Electoral College vote.
Those nine states that have passed national popular vote laws - including California, Maryland, and Illinois - account for 132 electoral votes among them, nearly half of the 270 needed in the Electoral College to win the White House. If this trend continues, and enough states sign up to bring their combined Electoral College votes to 270, then the Electoral College, which Republicans are currently trying to rig, dies just like that. Let’s get active and fight fire with fire.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... DOJ & banksters...time to face the facts (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: DOJ & banksters...time to face the facts- Mike Papantonio, Attorney & Host-Ring of Fire Radio 
Screwed: Threats to kill Obama over healthcare...- Austin Petersen, Director of Production-FreedomWorks 
The Best of the Rest...
Your Take / My Take Live - Call Thom LIVE at (202) 904-2134 TONIGHT 7-8pm ET (Check local listings)
Geeky Science - Why the evolution of dogs is important...
Daily Take: There's just one way to stop GOP rigging the vote...and here it is
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Are "We the People" now the real Terrorists?
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Article: " 4th Amendment". " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..." Article: " 5th Amendment" (capital crimes, double jeopardy, plead the 5th, compensation for property taken for public use). Article: " 8th Amendment". " Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Hour Two: The shooting at the Texas School Coral only shot a bystander...- Mark Walters, Host-Armed American Radio (nationally syndicated) / Author-Lessons from Armed America / Concealed carry expert
Article: " 2nd Amendment". "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8: ...To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;...Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8. " ... To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; ..."
Article: " 27th Amendment". " No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened."
Hour Three: Is Pepsi more dangerous than Coke?
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Threats to kill Obama over healthcare...- Peter Suderman, Reason Magazine and Reason.com
Harry Reid capitulates on filibuster reform- Bob Edgar, Common Cause
Hour Two: Are atheists an enemy of God?- Bradlee Dean, Co-host of Sons of Liberty Radio / ordained preacher & heavy metal drummer for the band Junkyard Prophet
Hour Three: There's only one way to stop GOP rigging the vote...here it is
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
It's Friday and that means it's "Brunch With Bernie"...America's Senator...Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here discussing all the important issues of the week and he'll be answering your questions too...
Plus, it's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...what do you want to talk about?
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Can women serve as effectively as men in combat?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Are "We the People" Now the Real Terrorists?
Crazy Alert! Forget your Veggies - Eat the Dirt...
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Retradously Ugly!
What's more dangerous - Pepsi or Coke?
Can we stop the GOP from rigging the 2016 election?
Lone Liberal - When did the GOP star become a Satan symbol?
Lone Liberal - NRA says guns are a God-given right - really?
Should citizens have the same weapons as the military?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 1/23/13: The NRA's God-Given Guns
Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses the NRA's solution to gun violence, whether Obama's inaugural speech is really that far left and the absurd decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals to keep marijuana classified as a Schedule I drug. Also discussed: how Republicans plan to regain power in 2016 and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom gives another horrific example of how America's War on Terror is out of control and undemocratic.
Thom Hartmann on the News: January 23, 2013
Caller: Morphine is Not Addictive
Is Pepsi More Dangerous Than Coke?
NRA: A God-Given Right to Own a Weapon!
2nd Amendment: Keep Tyrannical Government In Check
How Does a Nation Become a Terror State to its Own People?
Are "We the people" The Real Terrorists?
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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