The filibuster is not in the Constitution & its only purpose, way back, was to block discussion of legislation that involved slavery or civil rights. Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer held a vote in the Senate to simply open a discussion on the Freedom To Vote Act, authored by Senator Amy Klobuchar and co-authored by Senator Joe Manchin. After the failure of the For The People Act to get even one single vote from any Republican, Manchin told his fellow Democrats that he could tweak the legislation to both protect the vote and get Republican votes. Clearly, he failed.

But the bill did functionally get 50 votes and, with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote as President of the Senate, that's enough to make it into law according to the Constitution.

But it was stopped by the filibuster.

The filibuster is not in the Constitution. It's not part of any law. And it's damaging America.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Could Vice President Harris Follow Richard Nixon & Challenge the Filibuster?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "To Save the World, End the Filibuster" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Business groups increasingly worried about death of filibuster" by Alex Gangitano.

Article: "The Filibuster Was Grounded in Slavery and Now Threatens All Life on Earth" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A former Senate insider explains how the chamber became a threat to democracy" by Democracy Now.

Article: "Article I, Section 3".

Article: "Article V".

Article: "The Case Against the Filibuster" by Caroline Fredrickson.

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

Bill: "S.2747 - Freedom to Vote Act" by Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN].

Article: "The filibuster is unconstitutional. Here's how Vice President Harris can take it on" by Erwin Chemerinsky and Burt Neuborne.

Article: "'Kill Switch' Examines The Racist History Of The Senate Filibuster" by Terry Gross.

Article: "GOP filibuster kills background checks" by Alex Seitz-Wald.

Article: "Finally, James Madison Mania" by Richard Brookhiser.

Article: "All eyes on Manchin after Republicans again block voting rights legislation" by Mike DeBonis.

Article: "VPs Hold Key on Filibuster Change" by Donald Wolfensberger.

Book: The Brainwashing of My Dad by Jen Senko.

Article: "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Blood libel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's "Shared Psychosis" Is Destroying the Fabric of Society" (adrenochrome) by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson.

Video: Conversations With Great Minds - The History Of QAnon (w/ Mike Rothschild) Part One.

Video: Conversations With Great Minds - The Storm Is Upon Us (w/ Mike Rothschild) Part Two.

Article: "Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting", December 14, 2012 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gun control after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McConnell: 'You'll regret this'" by Ramsey Cox.

Article: "Bills that have passed only one house" by Congress.gov.

Article: "How population growth will impact Republicans in the 2024 election" by Sibile Marcellus.

Article: "Texas Republicans pass voting maps that entrench power of whites" by Sam Levine.

Article: "Senate Republicans Deploy 'Nuclear Option' to Clear Path for Gorsuch" by Matt Flegenheimer.

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "John Lewis Voting Rights Bill Passes House With Zero Republican Votes" by Sharon Zhang.

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

Article: "19 states passed this year laws to restrict voting, new tally finds" by Fredreka Schouten.

Article: "Texas passes law banning abortion after six weeks" by BBC.

Case: "Roe v. Wade".

Article: "Here's what Trump means when he says 'drain the swamp' — even though it's not an accurate metaphor" by Rebecca Harrington.

Site: "Convention of States".

Article: "Overton window" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Is God Dead?
- John Fugelsang, Actor/Comedian & Radio Host-Tell Me Everything on SiriusXM Progress Ch. 127 - 9pm ET / 6pm PT

Event: 23 Oct, 8 pm CT: Madison, WI: "Sexy Liberal Survivor's Tour" (book to stream).

Article: "Sermon on the Mount" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Praying In A Closet".

Bible: "Matthew 25".

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".

Bible: "If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life..." - Exodus 21:22-23".

Bible: "Numbers 5:11-22: The Test for an Unfaithful Wife".

Article: "Passover" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Exodus 20 : Ten Commandments".

Article: "How Donald Trump has already broken all 10 Commandments" by David Paskin.

Article: "Beatitudes" "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven..."

Article: "The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit" by Thomas L. Hungerford and Rebecca Thiess.

Article: "Seema Verma and Medicare Advantage" by Follow.Health.

Article: "Direct Contracting Entities: Handing Traditional Medicare to Wall Street" by Kay Tillow.

Article: "Direct Contracting Model: Professional and Global Options Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO)-based Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) Fact Sheet" by CMS.

Article: "Understanding the Direct Contracting (DC) Payment Model" by Joe Mercado.

Article: "The 53 participants in CMS' direct contracting model" by Morgan Haefner.

Article: "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services" (CMS) by Wikipedia.

Event: Sep. 23: 9:00 pm EDT: "Direct Contracting Entities: Handing Traditional Medicare to Wall Street–What they are and how to stop them. Webinar".

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "End-times radio host says COVID vaccines implant 'an egg that hatches into a synthetic parasite' in your body " by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Founder of far-right platform rages against 'Jew coup'" by TOI.

Article: "Orbán: Soros Working in Brussels "to Harm Hungarians Wherever He Can"" by MTI-Hungary Today.

Article: "Jim Bakker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tammy Faye Messner" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

Article: "Televangelist Jim Bakker sued for selling fake coronavirus cure" by Caitlin O'Kane.

Tweet: "End Times conspiracy theorist Rick Wiles claims that COVID-19 vaccines contain "an egg that hatches into a synthetic parasite and grows inside your body." [video]" by Right Wing Watch.

Article: "A "Jimmy Stewart Filibuster" Would Pass HR 1 & Save American Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Coal jobs are nearly gone in West Virginia. It's 'coal culture' that's driving Manchin's resistance to Democrats' clean-energy plans." by Ben Winck, Andy Kiersz.

Article: "The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby's" by Christopher Ingraham.

Tweet: "Biden and Schumer need to pack the $3.5 trillion bill with another few hundred billion in goodies just and specifically for WV and AZ, do a big PR rollout of them, and then bring it to the floor for a vote this week. Dare those sellouts to vote against their own states." by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image" by Leonard Shlain (Thom's review).

Article: "Utah Senator Compares America's Public Lands to Elite Playgrounds and We're Not Having It" by TRCP.

Article: "House Committee Advances Legislation Attacking National Forest Protections" by Brett Hartl.

Article: "Endangered Species Act of 1973" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What is NEPA?" (National Environmental Policy Act) by Protect NEPA.

Article: "National Forest Management Act of 1976" by Wikipedia.

Article: "They Overcame Mutual Loathing, and Saved a Town" by Nicholas Kristof.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "...To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years..."

Article: "War of 1812" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Defense Authorization Act" (NDAA) by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Conversations With Great Minds: Dopamine Nation
- Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry-Stanford University School of Medicine and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic / Author of the new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.

Article: "Dopamine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Morphine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Friedrich Sertürner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hypodermic needle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Heroin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "James Albert Bonsack" (cigarette rolling machine inventor) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tobacco companies aimed to keep smokers hooked, court told" by Anne Harding.

Article: "What You Need to Know about Freebasing Cocaine" by Marisa Crane.

Article: "The smartphone has become the modern-day hypodermic needle" by Dr Anna Lembke.

Book: The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality by Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Book: Magical Child by Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Article: "Myelination" by Science Direct.

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