As an American dies every minute from coronavirus because Donald Trump and the Republican Party refused to do anything about it, they are now trying to use the coronavirus to mess with the election this November.

Trump's Postmaster General is actively destroying the Post Office and slowing down the mail to create a crisis for people who want to vote by mail, while Republican governors are closing urban polling stations and stripping people from the voting rolls left and right.

Now, to distract from the worst economic news in the history of the United States, from John Lewis's message and funeral, and to set up his challenge when he loses the election, Trump is suggesting we should delay the election.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Video: Funeral service for the late John Lewis in Georgia.

Article: "Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation" by John Lewis.

Article: "Emmett Till", 1955 by Wikipedia

Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Killing of Rayshard Brooks", June 12, 2020 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Death of Sandra Bland", 2015 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shooting of Breonna Taylor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shooting of Trayvon Martin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charleston church shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2017 Las Vegas shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Death of Elijah McClain" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US GDP Plunges 32.9% In Historic Q2 Contraction Fueled By Coronavirus Pandemic" by Tanzeel Akhtar.

Tweet: "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Seattle Mayor Durkan: We Are Seeing A "Dry Run" For Martial Law By Trump" by Ian Schwartz.

Article: "4 Rebut Testimony Of Rehnquist On Challenging Of Voters In 60's" by Stuart Taylor Jr.

Article: "Political activist Herman Cain dies after covid fight" by Louis Nelson.

Article: "You don't have mail: New postmaster general is generating exactly the anger and distrust Trump wants" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "More than 1,000 US polling sites closed since supreme court ruling, report finds" by Tom McCarthy.

Article: "Republicans Are Trying to Kick Thousands of Voters Off the Rolls During a Pandemic" by Ari Berman.

Article: "Trump illegally asked Russia to help him win in 2016. He shouldn't get away with it." by Fred Wertheimer and Norman Eisen.

Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here's the Full List" by Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck-Ripka And Kendra Pierre-Louis.

Article: "Under the Fog of Kavanaugh, House Passes $3.8 Trillion More in Tax Cuts" by Glenn Fleishman.

Article: "Wounded Portland protester Donavan La Bella back in hospital after setback" by Noelle Crombie.

Article: "Journalists and Media Figures React with Alarm to Trump's 'Deadly Serious' Election Delay Tweet" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "One person in the US dies every MINUTE from COVID-19 as the death toll surpasses 150,000 - and Florida, California and Texas all set single-day highs for the number of deaths" by Emily Crane.

Article: "Senate Republicans seek reduction of $600 unemployment benefits in stimulus package" by Francesca Chambers, David Lightman.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Racist In Chief: Trump Says Suburbanites Will 'No Longer Be Bothered' By Low-Income Housing" by Zoë Richards.

Article: "Pompeo defers to Justice on question of Trump election tweet" by Laura Kelly.

Article: "Republicans openly challenge Trump's tweet on delaying election" by Clare Foran and Manu Raju.

Article: "Susan Collins, Do Your Job" by Lincoln Project.

Article: "Romney the only senator to defect from party in impeachment vote" by Andrew O'Reilly.

Quote: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou.

Article: "Election Day (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Video: Can Perez Build Overwhelming Force Against Trump (w/ Tom Perez).

Article: "Trump signs orders to lower prescription drug prices" by Jeff Mason, Alexandra Alper, Carl O'Donnell.

Article: "Students for a Democratic Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nine-year-old girl is the youngest to die from coronavirus in Florida, state health officials say" by Denise Royal and Rosa Flores.

Hour Two: What Does this mean? GDP PLUNGES RECORD 32.9%
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Article: "Second-quarter GDP plunged by worst-ever 32.9% amid virus-induced shutdown" by Jeff Cox.

Article: "AP-NORC poll: Nearly half say job lost to virus won't return" by Josh Boak, Emily Swanson.

Article: "Trump Constitutionally Could Remain President Even if He Loses 2020 Popular and Electoral Votes, and He Knows It. Thom Hartmann Explains." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Trump's push to re-open schools, dissing health experts, etc..
- Lily Adams, Senior Spokesperson and Advisor to the DNC War Room

Tweet: "Trump promised the coronavirus would disappear. Instead, we have skyrocketing cases and deaths. Now he is pushing to fully reopen schools. But do you trust Trump to do what's best for our children? [video]" by DNC War Room.

Article: "U.S. weekly jobless claims rise for a second straight week, total 1.434 million" by Fred Imbert.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Article: "Mississippi civil rights workers' murders" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump pitches White suburban voters in blatantly political White House event" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Sterilization of Native American women" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US GDP shrank 4.8% in the first quarter amid biggest contraction since the financial crisis" by Jeff Cox.

Article: "Rep. John Lewis funeral updates: Obama delivers eulogy" by Ella Torres and Libby Cathey.

Video: Watch live: Congressman John Lewis' funeral service.

Article: "President Obama Eulogy for Rep. John Lewis - Complete Video - A Historic Speech".

Article: "Obama unloads on Trump at John Lewis funeral — without even mentioning his name" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Trump calls reporters to the White House for surprise event as Obama delivers eulogy for John Lewis" by Eric W. Dolan.

Video: President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House Correspondents' Dinner! (2011).

Article: "Trump's trying to end Obamacare but there's emerging evidence it could undo him" by Sahil Kapur.

Article: "Turning Point USA co-founder dies of coronavirus-related complications" by Daniel Lippman and Tina Nguyen.

Article: "Trump youth group begins deleting tweets mocking COVID-19 after co-founder dies from the virus" by Walter Einenkel.

Article: "Maverick former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, 74, DIES of Covid-19 after going to Trump's notorious Tulsa rally WITHOUT a mask and then being diagnosed nine days later" by Nikki Schwab, Emily Goodin.

Article: "12 more people suspected of having covid-19 in Danang" by VNA.

Article: "One vaccine to beat COVID, Sars, Mers and common cold – possible?" by Sheena Cruickshank.

Science revolution: Line Speed Bill to Protect Meatpacking Workers Introduced by Senator Cory Booker this week
- Tony Corbo, Senior Government Affairs Representative - Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action

Article: "With "Midnight" Executive Order, Meatpacking Slaughterhouses Become Trump's Forced-Labor Camps of Human Sacrifice" by Mark Karlin.

Bill: "S.4338 - A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to temporarily suspend increased line speeds at meat and poultry establishments, and for other purposes." by Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ].

Bill: "H.R.7521 - To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to suspend increases in line speeds at meat and poultry establishments, and for other purposes." by Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11].

Article: "Senator Booker Introduces Line Speed Bill to Protect Meatpacking Workers" by Food & Water Watch.

Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Filibuster in the United States Senate" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Video: Secrets, Spies and Trials: National security vs the public's right to know | Four Corners.

Video: Trump/Russia: Secrets, spies and useful idiots (2/3) | Four Corners.

Video: Trump/Russia: Moscow rules (3/3) | Four Corners.

Article: "Trump Constitutionally Could Remain President Even if He Loses 2020 Popular and Electoral Votes, and He Knows It. Thom Hartmann Explains." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Law: "3 U.S. Code § 15. Counting electoral votes in Congress" (Electoral Count Act of 1887).

Article: "1824: Presidential election goes to the House of Representatives" by History.com.

Case: "McPherson v. Blacker" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Chiafalo v. Washington," by Wikipedia.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000 by Wikipedia.

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