Well, now we know. The way for Democrats to win is by campaigning on the Green New Deal, debt free college, strengthening Medicare and letting it negotiate drug prices, free insulin, and covering every person in the state who doesn't have health insurance with Medicaid. Polling ahead of the election in Virginia found that each one of these positions polled well above 50% among the general electorate. And now that electorate has flipped the entire state blue, as many of the candidates running on the Democratic side explicitly embraced a fully progressive platform. Candidate Joshua Cole even ran on ending cash bail and flipped a seat in the Virginia legislature where a Trump-supporting Republican had won overwhelmingly in the last election. While America's corporate media won't enthusiastically report it, Democrats need to realize that returning to the New Deal and Great Society roots of the party is the number one way to win elections today.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Democrats Are Poised To Take The Virginia State Senate" by Data for Progress.

Article: "Democrats flip Virginia Senate and House, taking control of state government for the first time in a generation" by Gregory S. Schneider and Laura Vozzella.

Article: "Juli Briskman, Who Was Fired for Flipping Off Trump, Has Won Election in Virginia" by Michelle Ruiz.

Article: "Mike Pence's hometown city council flips Democrat for the first time in nearly 40 years" by First Amendment.

Article: "Donny Deutsch says Medicare for All would turn America into 'f***ing Denmark.' Danish Millionaire shreds him with facts." by Dara Brewton.

Article: "Dear Mr. Donny Deutsch: Please Come to "F***ing Denmark."" by Djaffar Shalchi.

Article: "Federalist 68: The Mode of Electing the President" by Alexander Hamilton. "The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications"

Article: "False attacks on Facebook could bring 'a Titanic-sized disaster' in 2020" by Mark Scott.

Article: "Kentucky Senate president thinks GOP-controlled state legislature could challenge Democrat's gubernatorial victory" by Alex Henderson.

Book: The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health by T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II.

Article: "Just 40 days left until Obamacare open enrollment ends!" by Joan McCarter.

Site: healthcare.gov (2020 Open Enrollment is here - and ends Dec 15).

Article: "Poroshenko: 11,000 Ukrainians killed since beginning of war in Donbas" by Interfax-Ukraine.

Article: "House Democrats say public impeachment hearings will begin next week" by AP.

Site: Liker.

Site: DuckDuckGo.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Sondland changes testimony, acknowledges delivering quid pro quo message to Ukraine" by Josh Lederman and Adam Edelman.

Article: "Republicans busted paying for phone calls to 'jam the phone lines of House Democrats': report" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Wisconsin GOP-controlled Senate fires agriculture secretary" by Scott Bauer.

Article: "Wisconsin rules GOP gerrymandering violates Democrats' rights" by David Smith.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 2 section 4. "... The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors...."

Article: "Quid pro quo" by Wikipedia.

Law: "The term " extortion " means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right." - 18 U.S.C. § 1951 - U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 1951. Interference with commerce by threats or violence.

Law: "Hobbs Act" (18 U.S.C. § 1951).

Law: "U.S. Code §201. Bribery of public officials and witnesses".

Article: "Bribery" by Wikipedia.

Article: "5 takeaways from William Taylor's huge opening statement" by Aaron Blake.

Article: "Officials say Donald Trump involved Mike Pence in efforts to pressure Ukraine's leader" by Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe & Ashley Parker.

Article: "House Investigators Release Transcripts of Closed-Door Testimony" by Nicholas Fandos and Michael S. Schmidt.

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

Article: "Trump Threatens to Veto Bill on Foreign Influence in Elections" by Jordan Fabian.

Site: OpEdNews

Article: "Stop stalling, send homeless bills to governor".

Article: "Centrist Democrats Have A New Idea To Win Reelection: Ignore Labor And Give Trump A Major Trade Deal" by Ryan Grim.

Article: "United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement" (USMCA) (NAFTA 2.0) by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP Sens. Ron Johnson and Marsha Blackburn are tied to Russian money and Trump conspiracy theories. They're not alone" by Sophia Tesfaye.

Article: "Ron Johnson says his involvement in Ukraine will not cause him to recuse himself from a Senate impeachment trial" by Craig Gilbert and Christal Hayes.

Hour Three: Yovanovitich Ouster Pushed By Mobsters and Fox News...
- Amee Vanderpool, Lawyer & Writer - Shero blog

Article: "Yovanovitch Ouster Pushed By Mobsters and Fox News" by Shero.

Article: "Rudy Giuliani's fixers for the Ukraine caper just got arrested" by Andrew Prokop.

Article: "Donald Trump Jr. recklessly tweets out name of 'alleged whistleblower'" by David Edwards.

Tweet: "Because of course he did!!!
Alleged 'Whistleblower' [alleged whistleblower's name] Worked Closely with Anti-Trump Dossier Hoaxer https://t.co/v5kDe0X62u" by Donald Trump Jr.

Tweet: "I love the outrage about me tweeting an article about the “alleged” whistleblower... also good to know you have other sources confirming. Those thinking I coordinated with The White House to tweet out a @BreitbartNews article haven't been watching my feed much. Didn't happen!" by Donald Trump Jr.

Article: "Whistleblower's lawyer blasts Trump Jr for putting his client's family 'at risk'" by AFP.

Article: "What Michael Cohen says about the origin of his false congressional testimony" by Philip Bump.

Book: "Ultimate Sacrifice" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann

Book: "Legacy of Secrecy" by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann

Article: "Ukraine Policy and the 'Three Amigos': Impeachment Update" by Billy House and Erik Wasson.

"Tax the Rich, Save America!"
- Morris Pearl, Chairman - Patriotic Millionaires / former managing director at BlackRock Inc

Event: 6 Nov 2019: "Tax the Rich! conference".

Article: "Millionaires from Across US to Gather in San Francisco with Single Demand: "Tax the Rich!"" by Sam Quigley.

Article: "How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice" by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.

Article: "Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of 'untold suffering'" by Damian Carrington.

Article: "World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency" by William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M Newsome, Phoebe Barnard, William R Moomaw.

Documentary: In the Age of AI (Frontline).

Article: "Donald Trump-Russia dossier" (Steele dossier) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cambridge Analytica" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Closed primary" by BallotPedia.

Video: U.S. Intelligence and Election Security.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Article: "Santa Clara County workers agree to mediation, suspending strike and contract vote" by Thy Vo.

Article: "Libertarian Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tesla unveils sleek electric big rig with 500-mile range" by Mike Murphy.

Site: Andrew Yang - Official Campaign Website.

Video: Will You Vote for Universal Basic Income in 2020 Election? (w/Andrew Yang).

Quote: "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." - George W. Bush.

Article: "Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "What Susan Sarandon said about Trump was out of this world" by Jonathan Capehart.

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