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Want to 'Highlight' Senators Blocking Voting Rights? Rename the Russell Senate Office Building!
 Russell's entire political career focused on his single-minded use of the filibuster to block Civil Rights and Voting Rights legislation, just like a few well-known senators are doing today... On this Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day and in this era of reconsidering monuments to people who built their careers on racism, it's time to rename the Russell Senate Office Building, where 33 senators today conduct their daily business. This is not just a symbolic gesture: follow along with me for a moment. Democratic Senator Richard Russell was most famous as the guy who wielded the filibuster to destroy Civil Rights legislation. Most of the time he was quite successful, spending decades scuttling legislation proposed to outlaw lynching, end school segregation, or to insure voting rights. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Sunday Excerpt: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy
Reclaiming our democracy from the ruling class... If you were looking for a date when our modern American oligarchy started, it would be January 30, 1976. It was a clear day in Washington, DC, the temperature well above freezing with a light wind. When the Supreme Court handed down their decision in the case of Buckley v. Valeo, the New York Times noted in a front page article, "Campaign finance law in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and 32 other states will require drastic revision in the wake of yesterday's Supreme Court decision that struck down nearly all limits on campaign spending by candidates for Federal office." Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Saturday Report 1/15/21 Did Trump Set Up Stewart Rhodes as 2021's Lee Harvey Oswald?
The Best of the Rest of the News — It's starting to look like Trump may have tried to set up Stewart Rhodes as the patsy to take the fall for the deaths and destruction that Trump incited on January 6th. — Do Democrats Have Something Up Their Sleeve for Voting Rights? — Rightwingers On the Supreme Court May Not Like Workplace Vaccine Mandates But They Love State-Mandated Forced Pregnancy. — Authoritarian Watch: The War on Public Education Continues. — Is Long Covid the Most Under-Reported Problem with Omicron? — Crazy alert: Get This - Conservatives Are Trans-ing Themselves To "Own the Libs?!" — In Good News - Will voters succeed in using the 14th Amendment to bar Sedition Caucus members from running for Congress? Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hours One, Two: Martin Luther's King's Letter From a Birmingham Jail
Want to 'Highlight' Senators Blocking Voting Rights? Rename the Russell Senate Office Building!
Quote: " Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace" - Patrick Henry. Quote: " Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - Theodore Parker.
Hour Three: The Fight to Vote- Michael Waldman, President - Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law / Former director of speechwriting for President Bill Clinton (1995 to 1999) / Author of 6 books including his newly updated, The Fight to Vote / Michael was a Member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States and is a graduate of Columbia College and NYU School of Law. 
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: " Preamble to the Constitution of the United States". " We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Quote: " I am President of the United States, clothed with immense power." - Abraham Lincoln.
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