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The War on Voting Comes Home
Republicans hate it when people vote. Despite what the people over at Fox So-Called News say, this really is a center-left nation, and when lots of people vote, it hurts Republican candidates. As Paul Weyrich, the co-founder of ALEC said in 1980 when he was helping run the Reagan campaign, Republican chances in elections go up as the number of people turning out to vote goes down:
“I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." Flash-forward to today and it’s clear that Republicans have listened closely to what Paul Weyrich was talking about way back in 1980.
At the behest of ALEC - the group Paul Weyrich founded - GOP-controlled states all across the nation have, over the past few years, put into place harsh new laws requiring people to have government-issued IDs in order to vote. Republicans say these voter ID laws protect against “voter fraud,” but really they’re only there for one reason and one reason alone: to keep people - mostly minorities and other Democratic-leaning groups - away from the polls.
Make no mistake about it: getting an ID is not easy and it’s not practical. I know this from personal experience. Earlier this morning I went down to the Washington, D.C. DMV to get my new driver’s license renewed. Other than a vision test, the requirements to get a driver’s license are the same as the requirements to get a voter ID, so the crap I went through this morning to get a new driver’s license is just like what people in North Carolina and Texas have to go through if they want to vote.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Citizens demand term limits on SCOTUS... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
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Need to Know: Citizens demand term limits on SCOTUS...
The Best of the Rest...
PLUS, Kids vs. global warming- Alec Loorz, iMatter Movement 
Daily Take: The Voter ID Nightmare...
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
The Big Picture- Nate Sweet, The Big Picture producer
Letter: " Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Monticello" by Thomas Jefferson, September 23, 1800. " for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Article: " Amun" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: U.S. Scientists: We are not fearmongering- Dr. Michael Mann
Hour Three: More Progressives needed in the House- Marianne Williamson, candidate for Congress (I-CA, 33rd District) takes your calls
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..." Quote: "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Law: " DISCLOSE Act" (Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act).
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May 10 - Northampton, MA 7pm: Crash of 2016 booksigning, The Parlor Room. Free, but sign up at whmp.com
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: The Voter ID nightmare...
Hour Two: Occupy found guilty- Frank Coughlin, Justice for Cecily Support Group
Hour Three: Kids vs. global warming- Alec Loorz, iMatter Youth
PLUS, The Impossible Will Take a Little While- Paul Loeb, The Impossible Will Take a Little While
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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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll talk to journalist Paul DiRienzo about the lastest accident at the embattled Hanford nuclear plant...
And, we'll have the best of the rest of the news together 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"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Should there be term limits for Supreme Court justices?
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Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 5/6/14: Report: Climate Change is Happening Now
Thom discusses the new climate change report with Climate Scientist's Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel and Dr. Michael Dorsey and the upcoming TPP protest with George Kohl of the Communications Workers of America. Tonight's "Politics Panel" discusses a new report showing how Romneycare and Obamacare are working well, Seattle's push for a $15 minimum wage and the Supreme Court's ruling on religion in the workplace. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how the rapid decline of America's middle class is pushing us toward third world country status.
U.S. Scientists: We are not Fearmongering
Did SCOTUS Just Blow up Separation of Church/State?
Thomas Jefferson and the Tyranny of Religion
Is the Crash of 2016 Coming Sooner?
Progressives Needed in the House
The Thom Hartmann Program - May 6, 2014
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