Donald Trump just tweeted his outrage that the State of Nevada is going to make it easy for all their registered citizens to vote by mail.

He knows, as Republicans have known for 40 years since Americans first started rejecting Reaganomics in widespread numbers, that when everybody can vote in America, Republicans lose elections.

Because Republicans can't win when elections are fair, they cheat. In Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin, for example, the majority of those states' voters cast their ballots for Democrats, so each one of those states got a Democratic governor. But in each of those states, Republicans still control the legislatures because they gerrymandered the states so heavily that Republican politicians could pick their voters, rather than having the voters pick the politicians.

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-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump Promised To Sign A New Healthcare Plan Today. Instead, He's Golfing." by Jason Easley.

Tweet: "In an illegal late night coup, Nevada's clubhouse Governor made it impossible for Republicans to win the state. Post Office could never handle the Traffic of Mail-In Votes without preparation. Using Covid to steal the state. See you in Court!" by Donald J. Trump.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fact-checking the GOP's 'satirical' vote-by-mail video" by Salvador Rizzo.

Article: "Nevada Legislature OKs election bill expanding mail-in voting, ballot collection procedures" by James DeHaven.

Article: "'Attempted murder of your post office': Outrage as Trump crony now heading USPS moves to slow mail delivery" by Jake Johnson.

Tweet: ".@realDonaldTrump's supporters are out in force today protesting Nevada Dems' attempts to ram through mass mail-in voting & ballot harvesting.
Dems want to use the pandemic to destroy election integrity.
Help us fight back and http://ProtectTheVote.com" by Rona Romney McDaniel.

Article: "As Trump leans into attacks on mail voting, GOP officials confront signs of Republican turnout crisis" by Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey.

Site: Trump Death Clock.

Article: "COVID-19 survivors could lose hearing along with sense of smell, taste" by Yaron Steinbuch.

Article: "Vitamin D helps the body fight coronavirus, major Israeli study claims" by Nathan Jeffay.

Article: "Electronic voting in Estonia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We Looked At How The Stock Market Performed Under Every U.S. President Since Truman - And The Results Will Surprise You" by Sergei Klebnikov, Halah Touryalai.

Article: "Trump administration considering first US nuclear test since 1992" by Jon Levine.

Article: "Trump Administration Confirms U.S. Is Leaving Open Skies Surveillance Treaty" by Bill Chappell.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "RNC spokesperson says event in Charlotte will be closed to the media" by WCNC-TV Charlotte.

Article: "RNC Now Opens The Door To Having Journalists At Trump Nomination Vote" by Kevin Freking.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Video: America's Great Divide: Steve Bannon, 1st Interview | FRONTLINE.

Video: America's Great Divide: Steve Bannon, 2nd Interview | FRONTLINE.

Article: "Bannon vows a daily fight for 'deconstruction of the administrative state'" by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.

Video: Watch CNBC's exclusive interview with Steve Bannon and Kyle Bass.

Hour Two: How the DHS Can Still Arrest Journalists in Portland
- Ken Klippenstein, DC Correspondent - The Nation Magazine

Article: "How the DHS Can Still Arrest Journalists in Portland" by Ken Klippenstein.

Article: "Judge rejects Oregon Attorney General's request to stop feds from arresting rioters" by Valerie Richardson.

Article: "ACLU sues DHS, U.S. Marshals over journalist treatment by federal officers" by KATU.

Article: "BLM, ACLU say Seattle police violated court order with violence in protests" by Kim Malcolm, Angela King, Gil Aegerter.

Article: "With No Federal Agents on Streets, Portland Protests Turn Largely Peaceful" by Alicia A. Caldwell.

Law: "Logan Act", 1799 - forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S.

Law: "Hatch Act of 1939" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Happened With Merrick Garland In 2016 And Why It Matters Now" by Ron Elving.

'It is terrifying to have a president who is psychotic'
- Psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank MD, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - George Washington University / Author - Trump on the Couch (Previous books include Bush on the Couch & Obama on the Couch)

Article: "'It is terrifying to have a president who is psychotic': Dr. Justin Frank explains why Trump hates anyone who is loved" by Chauncey Devega.

Quote: "Voting is the Beating Heart of Democracy" - Thomas Paine.

Tweet: "FAKE NEWS IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Psychosis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump: Without Coronavirus Testing 'We Would Have Very Few Cases,' Here Is The Reaction" by Bruce Y. Lee.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian dissident Gary Kasparov lays out 'doomsday scenario' for American democracy - and it's closer than you think" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "House Panel Says Gov't Overpaid $500M For Ventilators" by Daniel Wilson.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Yale psychiatrist: Trump's psychosis has infected his followers. Here's how to get them better" by Bandy X. Lee.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "QAnon follower wins Senate primary in Oregon" by Christopher Wilson.

Article: "QAnon supporter defeats incumbent Republican in Colorado primary" by Andrew Naughtie.

Article: "Here are the QAnon supporters running for Congress in 2020" by Alex Kaplan.

Article: "The Chaos in New York Is a Warning" by Edward-Isaac Dovere.

Article: "What alleged voter fraud in Paterson, N.J., tells us about November - and what it doesn't" by Philip Bump.

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

Article: "Clyburn says more important to have Black woman on Supreme Court than as VP" by PBS.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Article: "Stand-your-ground law" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: What does history tell us about the rise of authoritarianism?
- Professor Noam Chomsky, Laureate Professor of Linguistics - University of Arizona / He was previously at MIT - Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics emeritus / Author of numerous books including (2017) Optimism Over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire and Social Change / his latest project, authoring a chapter in the book TURNOUT! Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency

Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).

Article: "Sturmabteilung" (SA, Storm Troopers, Brownshirts) by Shoah Resource Center.

Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Military leaders slam Trump over protests as Barr defends clearing Lafayette Park" by Ben Tracy.

Article: "Trump's Paramilitary Units Trained at the Border for the Assaults on Portland Moms" by Linus Chan, Carrie L. Rosenbaum.

Article: "Trump loyalist gets Defense post as Senate nomination stalls" by Lolita C. Baldor.

Article: "Trump's purge of inspectors general is a crisis. Alarm bells should be going off everywhere." by Andrew Bakaj, John Tye and Mark Zaid.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sunrise Movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Green New Deal" (GND) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joseph McCarthy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charles Coughlin" (Father Coughlin) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Everything you need to know about Davos, the invitation-only conference that brings billionaires together with business and political leaders at a Swiss resort" by Taylor Nicole Rogers.

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1701. Obstruction of mails generally" "Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.".

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1703. Delay or destruction of mail or newspapers" "(a) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, unlawfully secretes, destroys, detains, delays, or opens any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail entrusted to him or which shall come into his possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any carrier or other employee of the Postal Service, or forwarded through or delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General or the Postal Service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both..."

Article: "Trump's push to spoil the census - and make Democrats disappear" by Washington Post.

Tweet: "NEWS: Pelosi admonished top counterintel official Evanina during private briefing this a.m., accusing him of withholding info about Russia. Evanina ultimately acknowledged that Russia is trying to boost Trump's reelection; Dems want him to say it publicly. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/31/nancy-pelosi-william-evanina-russia-meddling-389847" by Natasha Bertrand.

Book: Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion is Threatening American Democracy by Seth Abramson.

Article: "Kristallnacht" by Wikipedia.

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