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It's to Be a Democracy, Ma'am, if You Can Keep It
 America is divided. With one single exception, every state is entirely under the control of one party or the other. A large part of this divide is being driven by big money propping up the Republican Party so that they can get lower taxes and less protections for the public, also known as regulations. But a large part of it is also being pushed by Catholics and evangelicals around abortion, the NRA around guns, and bigotry in the form of "opposition to gay marriage," school choice to keep white schools white, etc. The big question, as this all tears America apart, is how can we bring this country together? And will democracy survive the process? -Thom |
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How Fears of Abolition Shaped the Second Amendment
Little did Madison, Jefferson, or Henry realize that one day in the future, weapons-manufacturing corporations, newly defined as "persons" by a dysfunctional Supreme Court, would use his slave-patrol militia amendment to protect their "right" to manufacture and sell guns to individuals who would use them to murder schoolchildren " Give me liberty or give me death." - Patrick Henry Article 1, Section 8, of the proposed Constitution had southern slave owners concerned about the future of their economy. Slavery can exist only in the context of a police state, and the enforcement of that police state was the explicit job of the militias. If the antislavery folks in the North could figure out a way to disband those southern militias - or even just to move the militias out of the states - the police state of the South would collapse. And, similarly, if the North were to invite into military service the slaves of the South, then they could be emancipated, which would collapse the institution of slavery - and the southern economic and social systems - altogether. Read more here. -Thom |
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Event: Wed, Jun 12: PORTLAND, OR 7:30pm - Powell's, 1005 W Burnside St. Thom's The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour. Event: Sun, Jun 23: SEATTLE, WA 7:30pm - Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave (West Entrance) w/ Elliott Bay Book Company. Thom's The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour.
Hour Two: "It's To Be a Democracy, Ma'am, If You Can Keep It."
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). " The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States..." Article: " Preamble to the Constitution of the United States". " We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Hour Three: Countries Around the World Need to Plan for Climate Refugees...Is Putting Them in Former Japanese Internment Camps (As Trump is Planning) a Solution?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 25 : George Papadopoulos Pt. 3
Stopping the Attacks on Social Security
LGBTQ+ Americans Are Actually Gaining Support?
Establishment Democrats Admit: Fascist Take Over Happening
Climate Change Solutions in ICE on Fire Film (w/ Leila Conners)
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On the Road Again
The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour Is Coming...
Wed, Jun 12: PORTLAND, OR 7:30pm - Powell's, 1005 W Burnside St.
Tue, Jun 25: SAN FRANCISCO, CA 7:00pm - First Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley w/ The Booksmith.
Fri, Jun 28: CHICAGO, IL 7:00pm - Frugal Muse, 7511 Lemont Rd. #146 (Chestnut Court Shopping Center), Darien.
Sat, Jun 29: MINNEAPOLIS, MN 7:00pm - Common Good Books, 38 S. Snelling Ave, St. Paul.
Fri, July 12: PHILADELPHIA, PA 4:15pm - Netroots Nation, PA Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA.
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