It's often said that if Trump is reelected, it'll be the end of democracy in America. But how could Trump get reelected, and how could democracy get wiped out in the USA?

Turns out, there's an actual project to rewrite our Constitution, turning America into a corporate-run oligarchy.

All it needs to succeed-within just a few short years-is for Trump and the GOP to win big in 2020. And the prospects of that happening are going up every day. With a big Trump win will come a rewrite of our Constitution itself, if the billionaires funding it have their way.

But how could he win?

Read more here.

-Thom

Trump's son Eric said on Fox News that he's loving the Democrats being upset about Trump's racist language. He argued that it's playing right into their hands. Is it true that Democrats reacting to Trump's new radicalized version of the old Nixon-era "Love it or leave it" language is going to lead to a massive shift among white and hispanic voters toward the GOP? Or will racism finally backfire on the Republican Party, fifty years after Nixon rolled out his "Southern Strategy"?

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Tweet: "I will again, this month, bring impeachment to a vote on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives for bigotry in policy, harmful to our society. #RacistPresident #ImpeachNow https://www.facebook.com/repalgreen/videos/2302754666705828/" by Congressman Al Green.

Site: Congressman Al Green.

Article: "House to vote on Rep. Al Green's impeachment resolution today" by Hallie Jackson.

Article: "Steve Scalise says House Republicans didn't disrespect Obama's position. Let's go to the tape." by JM Rieger.

Article: "5G phone network: Expert concerned by lack of understanding of potential health effects" by Isobel Roe.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "McConnell's Legislative Graveyard" by Nancy LeTourneau.

Article: "A $15 Minimum Wage Is Exactly What Our Economy Needs" by Mark Pocan, Pramila Jayapal.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "Alexander Acosta's Replacement Could Be More Aggressive In Rolling Back Regulations" by Dave Jamieson.

Article: "Politics is priming the pump for higher gasoline prices" by Gary S. Vasilash.

Article: "Microsoft offers software tools to secure elections" by Frank Bajak.

Event: July 25, 2020: "Bermuda Bliss Cruise Hosted by Thom Hartmann".

Article: "Iran nuclear deal parties not ready to trigger dispute mechanism - EU" by RTE.

Article: "House Approves $733B Defense Spending Bill for Fiscal 2020" by Jane Edwards.

Article: "US Defense Spending" by Christopher Chantrill.

Article: "AG Bill Barr killed 7 Robert Mueller lines of investigations - 10 days after he submitted his report" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Robert Mueller public hearing to be delayed one week" (until until July 24) by Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb.

Article: "William Barr's New Authority to Declassify Anything He Wants Is a Threat to National Security" by Joshua A. Geltzer, Mary B. McCord.

Article: "The 10 instances of possible obstruction in Mueller report" by Mark Sherman.

Article: "Universal health care diagnosis is on the mark" by D.L. Davis.

Article: "The Butch Lewis Act Takes Important Step Forward" by Holly Fechner and Peter Rechter.

Article: "Debt ceiling talks progress but time running out" by Phil Mattingly.

Article: "Trump's premeditated racism is central to his 2020 strategy" by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen.

Article: "Trump Sets the 2020 Tone: Like 2016, Only This Time 'the Squad' Is Here" by Jeremy W. Peters, Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman.

Site: Robert McKee Seminars.

Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.

Article: "Eric Trump: '95 percent' of Americans agree with my father" by Quint Forgey.

Article: "Boehner's Bibi invite sets up showdown with White House" by Jake Sherman.

Article: "Kellyanne Conway defends Trump by asking reporter: 'What's your ethnicity?'" by Sabrina Siddiqui.

Article: "In Trump I Trust" by Alex Kingsbury.

Article: "Stormy Daniels: Donald Trump's alleged porn star affair and hush money scandal explained" by Dylan Matthews.

Article: "Karen McDougal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Michael Cohen goes to prison, slamming Trump along the way" by Michael R. Sisak, Jim Mustian.

Article: "Judge orders release of docs tied to Michael Cohen's hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels" by Tom Winter and Rich Schapiro.

Article: "Donald Trump Wishes He Were Running Against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" by Frank Bruni.

Article: "It's official: Minority babies are the majority among the nation's infants, but only just" by D'Vera Cohn.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Trump 2020 campaign is going after older people with immigration ads on Facebook" by Emily Stewart.

Article: "The average age of Fox News viewers is 68 and a majority of them are politically conservative and white" by Alexandra Klausner.

Article: "Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Who Led Liberal Wing, Dies at 99" by Linda Greenhouse.

Article: "John Paul Stevens: Canny Strategist and the 'Finest Legal Mind' Ford Could Find" by Adam Liptak.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Feds end investigation into Trump Org and hush money payments" by Erica Orden.

Article: "Why Donald Trump is thrilled about this fight with the 'Squad'" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "Here are the 4 Republicans who voted to condemn Trump's racist tweets" by Paul LeBlanc.

Article: "Republican senator says group of minority Democratic congresswomen are 'more famous than wise'" by Devan Cole.

Article: "Steve Scalise reportedly said he was 'like David Duke without the baggage'".

Article: "Trump administration begins enforcing abortion 'gag rule'" by Alice Miranda Ollstein, Rachel Roubein.

Article: "Planned Parenthood Has Ousted Its President, Leana Wen, Amid A Dispute Over The Organization's Direction" by Ema O'Connor, Ruby Cramer.

Article: "Mike Pence is one of the most anti-abortion Republicans in Washington. Here's his record." by Emily Crockett.

Article: "'Periods for Pence' Campaign Targets Indiana Governor Over Abortion Law" by Mitch Smith.

Article: "The Electoral College Was Created to Stop Demagogues Like Trump" by Michael Signer.

Article: "Federalist 68: The Mode of Electing the President" by Alexander Hamilton.

Article: "Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Inside a 1992 party with Trump, Jeffrey Epstein" by Morning Joe.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "An impeachment inquiry is risky. Not opening one is riskier." by Eugene Robinson.

Article: "What Will It Take for Democrats to Unite Behind Impeaching Trump?" by Michael Conway.

Article: "Peter W. Rodino" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Article: "Godwin's law" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "So interesting to see "Progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how...." by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Boeing executive out, Raytheon lobbyist in to lead Pentagon" by Karl Evers-Hillstrom and Reid Champlin.

Book: The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Facts About Childhood Hunger" by No Kid Hungry.

Article: "Will losing health insurance mean more US deaths? Experts say yes" by Mona Chalabi.

Article: "Rep. Daniel Lipinski wins Illinois's 3rd Congressional District seat" by AP.

Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.

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