Seniors not getting eyeglasses or diabetics getting price gouged on insulin are all bad, but won't signal the death of our republic: the failure to pass meaningful voting rights certainly will.

Remember when the Biden presidency was brand new and Democrats in the House and Senate proposed a sweeping, $6 trillion package to rebuild our social safety net, cut drug prices, upgrade our infrastructure, rescue our students and elderly, and save the environment?

As it was moving forward, a small group of Republicans and Democrats who call themselves the "corporate problem solvers caucus," told us that if they could just peel off the parts that involved actual physical construction of infrastructure into a separate bill, they'd get it going right away without having to worry about the filibuster.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Act Two: The Apocalyptic Plot to Go After Voting Rights" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Neoliberal Parasites Now Want Public Libraries as Profit Centers for Wall Street" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "What is the Electoral Count Act, and why are people calling for it to be reformed as we near Jan. 6?" by Amber Phillips.

Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" 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].

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

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

Article: "Electoral Count Act of 1887" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Anti-Feminist' Lawyer Is Suspect in Killing of Son of Federal Judge in N.J." by Nicole Hong, William K. Rashbaum and Mihir Zaveri.

Article: "Sedition Day: Overthrowing Democracy is Not the Same Thing as Protesting Police Violence" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ted Cruz Reaches New Level of Pathetic by Begging for Tucker Carlson's Forgiveness Over Jan. 6 Comments" by Ryan Bort.

Article: "Conspiracy Theorist/Right Wing Podcaster/Anti-Vaxxer Doug Kuzma Dies From COVID" by Ed Scarce.

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

Article: "Time to End the Medicare Advantage Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Liz and Dick Cheney Were the Only Republicans to Attend the House's Anniversary Observance of Jan. 6 Riots" by Virginia Chamlee.

Site: Trump Death Toll.

Video: Farron Balanced: School Board BANS Teachers From Talking About Capitol Riot.

Article: "William Bennett" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bennett: Black Abortions Would Lower Crime" by James Joyner.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

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

Article: "Augusto Pinochet" (Chile) by Wikipedia.

Site: Donna McLeod for Congress (Georgia's 7th district).

Article: "Georgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards" by James Oliphant and Nathan Layne.

Article: "1953 Iranian coup d'état" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iran–United States relations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Swing-Vote Manchin Received Major Advertising Attention Throughout 2021" by Michael Ginsberg.

Article: "Big GOP Donors Poured Money Into Kyrsten Sinema's Campaign in September" by Russ Choma.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Video: Congress members hold 'Candlelight vigil for democracy' on Capitol storming anniversary " by Liz George.

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

Article: "Full transcript: Biden, Harris speak from Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 anniversary" by Ayushi Agarwal.

Article: "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Will Visit Atlanta to Speak on Voting Rights" by Katie Burkholder.

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

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: "Insurrection Act of 1807" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'It's a Trap': Advocates Warn Against McConnell-Backed Election Reform Gambit" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Pelosi scraps Biden's BBB vote for infrastructure, but progressives threaten boycott" by Callie Patteson and Samuel Chamberlain.

Article: "Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Capitol Riot: Identity Of Pipe Bomb Suspect Is Still A Mystery One Year Later" by Sebastian Murdock.

Video: 'This is not about a day': Booker sets January 6 on U.S. civil rights timeline -full video.

Article: "COVID-19 and the cost of vaccine nationalism" by RAND Europe.

Article: "March-In Rights Could Ensure Patient Access By Keeping Drug Prices In Check. They're Under Attack" by Peter S. Arno, Dana Neacsu, Kathryn Ardizzone.

Article: "Moderna posts billions in profit from COVID-19 vaccine but won't share technology " by MSF.

Article: "TRIPS Waiver (COVID)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House passes larger defense budget than Biden administration requested" by Mike Brest.

Article: "Republicans' Jan. 6 Responsibility" by Karl Rove.

Article: "Guy Fawkes" by Encyclopedia Britannica.

Article: "Guy Fawkes Day" by Encyclopedia Britannica.

Article: "Schumer, Warren: The Next President Can and Should Cancel Up To $50,000 In Student Loan Debt Immediately; Democrats Outline Plan for Immediate Action in 2021" by Elizabeth Warren.

Video: Alan Grayson on the GOP Health Care Plan: "Don't Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!"'.

Article: "The biggest threat to Medicare you've never even heard of" by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Susan Rogers, M.D.

Article: "Clear and present danger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vaxxed or Unvaxxed: Who Should Get the Last Bed Hospital Bed?" by Peter Singer.

Article: "I'm an E.R. Doctor in Michigan, Where Unvaccinated People Are Filling Hospital Beds" by Rob Davidson.

Article: "They need to process your Covid tests. Now they're out sick from Omicron" by David Lim.

Article: "Update on our breakthrough Covid infections...it's real and can be a bad deal." by MontanaMama.

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

Quote: "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Site: Poor People's Campaign.

Article: "RepresentUs" by Wikipedia.

Book: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky.

Book: The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon by David Webber.

Book: The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees by Ben Mezrich.

Article: "America Must Awaken From the Big Lie of "Rugged Individualism"" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "If Biden Doesn't Act Quickly, Millions Could Lose Medicaid as Omicron Surges" by Jake Johnson.

Site: People for Portland.

Quote: "Lost working time is lost money. Every day that a workman is unemployed, or a machine is unused, or a business organization is marking time, it is a loss to the Nation" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Article: "US workforce grows by just 199,000 in disappointing December" by Edward Helmore.

Article: "Jobs Report and the Monthly Employment Growth Statistics" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "Anne Gorsuch Burford, 62, Dies; Reagan EPA Director" by Patricia Sullivan.

Article: "'Stop getting medical stats from Fox': Internet erupts after Gorsuch makes false claim about flu deaths to kill vaccine mandate" by David Badash.

Article: "Chief Injustice Robberts is a halfwit" by lagomorph777.

Law: "H.R.2912 - To reaffirm the inherent sovereign rights of the Osage Tribe to determine its membership and form of government." by Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3] (2004).

Article: "Up To 1 Million COVID Tests Expired In Florida As Gov. DeSantis Kept Mum On Surging Cases" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Chris Cuomo Controversy and the Fate of The CNN Network" by Mireille Karadanaian.

Article: "Days before the Capitol attack, Sean Hannity tried to persuade Trump to abandon his January 6 strategy and accept defeat, texts show" by Matthew Loh.

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