All Republicans who want to survive a GOP primary must bow to the "Biden didn't really beat His Orangeness" line, just like they were required to "take a vow against communism" back in the 1950s.

Lauren Windsor is a journalist's journalist (disclosure: I've supported her work, and you can, too) and she just got Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to essentially expose for the world the real con the GOP has been running for decades. It's burning across the internet right now, as you can see on her Twitter feed.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Texas bill restricting voting access heads to governor's desk" by Brad Brooks.

Article: "Robin Vos meets with Trump on Wisconsin's election review two months after the former president trashed him" by Patrick Marley.

Quote: "Approximately 50,000 people voted for one of the eight Republicans running for Congress in Wisconsin but did not vote for Donald Trump" - Robin Vos.

Article: "Congressman Mark Pocan Re-Introduces Proposed Constitutional Amendment for Right to Vote" by Richard Winger.

Article: "Big Pharma continues to top lobbying spending" by Karl Evers-Hillstrom.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868.

Article: "The Fourteenth Amendment and the State Action Doctrine".

Article: "Texas 6-Week Abortion Ban Takes Effect as Top Court Stays Silent" by Greg Stohr.

Article: "Calls to expel 'traitorous' Madison Cawthorn grow after he warns of 'bloodshed' and lies about 'rigged' election" by David Badash.

Article: "Will America's latest redistricting cycle be even worse than the last?" by Sam Levine.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy warns GOP majority 'will not forget' if companies turn over phone records to Jan. 6 committee" by Jessica Guynn.

Bill: "H.R.1667 - Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act" by Rep. Wild, Susan [D-PA-7].

Bill: "S.610 - Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act by Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA].

Article: "Jan. 6 committee seeking lawmakers' phone records" by Ivana Saric.

Article: "Iowa Governor Defends Law Banning School Mask Requirements As Biden Administration Urges Reversal " by Katarina Sostaric, Grant Gerlock.

Article: "Judge ends Florida Gov. DeSantis's ban on school mask mandates" by David Hogberg.

Article: "Dr. Scott Gottlieb says the Covid delta surge may be the 'final wave' in U.S." by Pia Singh.

Article: "National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - August 13, 2021" by DHS.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Lights Out In Louisiana - But Not Why You Think...
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker & Puffin Writing Fellow, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters

Article: "Power outage in New Orleans: Is Ida or Entergy to blame?" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Deadly Hurricane Ida leaves over 1 million without power in Louisiana" by Jacob Knutson.

Article: "Enron scandal" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Hurricane Katrina" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Portland mayor says city is ready to buy PGE from Enron" by William McCall.

Article: "Enron nixes city-led purchase of PGE" by Wendy Culverwell.

Article: "Grand Gulf Nuclear Station" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Declaration of Independence". "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Case: "Roe v. Wade".

Article: "The Trump administration forced Apple to secretly reveal at least two Democrats' data" by Sean Hollister.

Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann (read online)

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Madison Cawthorn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lauren Boebert" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lauren Boebert's husband did jail time for "lewd exposure" in a bowling alley. She was there" by VT.

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 Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'Periods for Pence' Campaign Targets Indiana Governor Over Abortion Law" by Mitch Smith.

Article: "Andy Biggs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Gosar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mo Brooks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jim Jordan (American politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Matt Gaetz" by Wikipedia.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "Ron Johnson Revealed the Secret GOP Ruthless Con to the World" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "EXCLUSIVE: Sen Ron Johnson blames Trump for losing Wisconsin in 2020 and tells me "there's nothing obviously skewed about the results." [video]" by Lauren Windsor.

Site: "Donate to Fund Independent, Progressive Journalism of The Undercurrent and Project Veritas Exposed".

Article: "About Lauren Windsor".

Article: "Biden says 'extreme' Texas abortion law violates Americans' constitutional rights" by Eric Garcia.

Article: "A Texas School District Shut Down After 2 Teachers Died of COVID" by Paul Blest.

Article: "McCarthyism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Genesis 2:7" "Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being".

Article: "Brett Kavanaugh's One Abortion Case" by Brigitte Amiri.

Article: "What Does the Bible Really Say About Abortion? " by Brian Bolton.

Article: "Over 900,000 People Dead, a 'Vast Undercount,' and $8 Trillion Looted " by Spencer Ackerman.

Article: "Transcript: The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 8/26/21".

Article: "Trump Urged Ukraine President 'About Eight Times' to Work With Giuliani to Get Dirt on Biden's Son: WSJ" by David Badash.

Article: "Ukraine's president gets a White House meeting with Biden 2 years after Trump tried to manipulate him for political dirt" by Sonam Sheth.

Article: "Ann Kristin Neuhaus, Doctor And Tiller Colleague, Is The Latest Casualty In Kansas Abortion War" by Hunter Stuart.

Article: "Doctor who performed abortions shot to death" by CNN.

Poem: "How the Women Went From Dover" by John Greenleaf Whittier.

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