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Thom's blog
There's Only One Reason Trump and the GOP Don't Want Mail-in Voting
 Trump and Republicans don't want mail-in voting this November because it blows up a couple of their most effective voter suppression schemes. In presidential elections dating back to 2000, there's been noticeable media coverage of long lines in majority-black precincts; commentators sometimes wonder out loud why people would have to wait in line 8 hours to vote in, for example, inner city Ohio in 2004 or Milwaukee in the 2020 primaries. Leading up to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp's contest with Stacey Abrams in 2018, the Atlanta Constitution-Journal documented how 8 percent of the state's polling places had been recently closed, hitting rural black areas particularly hard. The Washington Post chronicled how broken voting machines - and the long lines they create - were largely confined to downtown Atlanta and black suburbs and rural areas. The effect, of course, is to discourage voters from showing up or staying in line, particularly those people who are paid by the hour and have to take time off work to vote. Read more here. -Thom |
Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: How Do We Heal America From the Damage Caused By Right Wing Media?
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 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, 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...."
Article: " New Deal" (1933 - 1939) by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: New Federal Regulations On GMOs Finalized- Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst - Center for Food Safety 
Tweet: " Thank you Cowboys. See you in New Mexico!" by Donald J. Trump (retweeting video saying 'only good Democrat is a dead Democrat'.
U.S. Unprepared for Nuclear Accident During Pandemic- Paul Gunter, director of the Reactor Oversight Project Beyond Nuclear
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
One rule for the well-connected & rich and one for the rest of us? Victoria Jones, Chief Washington Analyst - The DC Radio Company will tell us about the Huuuuge mess Boris Johnson (and now his Conservative govt according to latest polls) is in because of his adviser Dominic Cummings breaking lockdown rules and then apparently lying about it...
Plus, It's Anything Goes Friday!
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"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Watch & Listen to Thom
GOP Gerrymandering Scheme Exposed! (w/ David Daley)
Did You Know ANYONE Who Died From the Flu?
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