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Thom's blog
Because We Don't Have A Right to Vote...
 In America, the country that is supposed to be the world's premier democratic republic, citizens do not have an absolute right to vote. Because we don't have a right to vote, red state governors can radically cut back on the number of polling places and voting machines so that working class people are forced to stand in line for five, six, in some cases 10 hours to vote. Because we don't have a right to vote, about 30 million registered voters nationwide have been removed from the voting rolls since 2014, so when they show up to vote they are given "provisional ballots" that, in red states, are almost never counted unless there is a lawsuit. Because we don't have a right to vote, back in the 1960s William Rehnquist helped organize "Operation Eagle Eye" in Arizona to pull together a volunteer army of large and often uniformed white men to challenge Black, Hispanic, and Native American voters at the polls. It was so successful it kicked off Rehnquist's Republican political career, taking him all the way to chief justice of the US Supreme Court, and is now being emulated by the Trump campaign. Read more here. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Because We Don't Have a "Right" To Vote...
Tweet: " We have made tremendous progress with the China Virus, but the Fake News refuses to talk about it this close to the Election. COVID, COVID, COVID is being used by them, in total coordination, in order to change our great early election numbers.Should be an election law violation!" by Donald J. Trump. Tweet: " The Fake News Media is riding COVID, COVID, COVID, all the way to the Election. Losers!" by Donald J. Trump. Case: " Bush v. Gore", 2000. " The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States" Article: " 9th Amendment" "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Article: " 10th Amendment" " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people" Article: " 15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 " The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude" Article: " 19th Amendment " The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
Hour Two: Has the Trump Civil War Begun?
Tweet thread: " For all those pundits stuck in the 1990s and making claims today like, "Biden just lost PA" because he pledged to transition the US to 100% clean energy - here are some inconvenient facts from a poll of registered voters in PA we conducted in Sept: ..." by Anthony Leiserowitz.
Yes, the Republicans CAN Steal Elections...- Don Siegelman, LAST Democratic Governor of Alabama, 1999-2003 / Lt. Governor, 1995-1999 / Attorney General, 1987-1991 / Secretary of State, 1979-1987 & author of the new book, Stealing Our Democracy 
Hour Three: Don't F*** With My Vote- Brian Baird (Former) U.S. Congressman (D-WA, 3rd District) / Founder of Don't F*** With My Vote
Science revolution: America Can't Afford Another Climate Denier on the Supreme Court... Barrett Backers Will Pay a Price With Voters- Lori Lodes, Executive Director - Climate Power 2020 / Obama admin alum
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...." |
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Alabama: A Dangerous Place to Vote
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