Voter fraud isn't real, but, election fraud is very much real and alive & that's exactly what DeSantis and the Texas GOP are proposing -- right out in the open. Republicans have been committing election fraud right out in the open since 1964 and covering it up by yelling about "voter fraud."

Remember the hours-long lines to vote we've seen on TV ever since the 60s in minority neighborhoods? Those are no accident: they're part of a larger election fraud program the GOP has used to suppress the vote for sixty years now.

This election year Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is raising the stakes: he's planning to put together a force of "election police" under his personal command to travel the state intimidating voters while pretending to look for "voter fraud."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

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

Article: "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins" by NY Times.

Article: "Senate clears Feb. 18 stopgap funding bill, averts shutdown" by Jennifer Shutt and Paul M. Krawzak.

Article: "Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state" by Fredreka Schouten.

Article: "Trump, Bill O'Reilly Booed After Admitting They Both Got COVID Vaccine Booster" by Jolie Lash.

Article: "Parliamentarian of the House" by House.

Article: "It's now illegal in Georgia to give food and water to voters in line" by Faith Karimi.

Article: "Manchin Welcomes Primary Challenge over Opposition to Nuclear Option for Filibuster" by Caroline Downey.

Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here's the full text of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's speech on voting rights, filibuster" by KTAR.

Article: "Kyrsten Sinema is bisexual and claims no religion. But identity was a nonissue in her winning Senate race." by The Lily News.

Article: "Reps. Pocan and Ellison Introduce Right to Vote Constitutional Amendment" by Mark Pocan.

Article: "Sánchez and Pocan Introduce Strengthening Social Security Act" by Mark Pocan.

Bill: "H.R.860 - Social Security 2100 Act" by Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1].

Article: "New York City gives noncitizens right to vote in local elections" by Kelly Mena.

Article: "Manchin defends CEO daughter after company raised EpiPen price" by David Wright.

Article: "Heather Bresch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mylan CEO Gets Massive Pay Raise as EpiPen Price Skyrockets" by Bethania Palma.

Article: "What's in the House-passed Build Back Better bill? Paid leave, universal pre-K and more" by Joey Garrison and Ledyard King.

Hour Two: If Trump or Someone Like Him Takes the White House & Ends What's Left Of Democracy - What Happens First? 2nd? third?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Boris Johnson" (UK) by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Will America Look the Other Way on the GOP’s New Election Police?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "“A Stone of Hope”: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Its Impact on the Economic Status of Black Americans" by Jenny Bourne.

Article: "RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Sees Hope for Republican 'Foothold in Virginia' Now That Youngkin Takes Office" by Rebecca Downs.

Video: "HCRP Election Integrity Brigade Program Overview".

Article: "As Texas Lawmakers Attack Voting Rights, GOP Official Aims to 'Build an Army' of Poll Watchers" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Trump resurrects election-year conspiracy theory that he lost New Hampshire because busloads of Massachusetts voters came north to illegally support Hillary Clinton – two years after Corey Lewandowski debunked it" by Katelyn Caralle.

Article: "G.O.P. Opens Drive to Prevent Fraud" by NY Times (1964).

Article: "Brett Kavanaugh Florida ties: Elian, 2000 vote recount".

Article: "Florida governor proposes special police agency to monitor elections" by Lori Rozsa and Beth Reinhard.

Article: "Without evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote" by Abby Phillip and Mike DeBonis.

Article: "James Carville" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ron Klain" by Wikipedia.

Site: Jim Hightower.

Article: "Washington State Voters Reject Carbon-Fee Initiative" by Hal Bernton.

Article: "Ginni Thomas, Wife of Clarence, Cheered On the Rally That Turned Into the Capitol Riot" by Mark Joseph Stern.

Article: "'No power whatsoever': Romney warns Dems of 2022 consequences if they change filibuster" by Savannah Behrmann.

Article: "US Unemployment Rate by Month" by multipl.

Article: "Biden to highlight progress, ask for patience over setbacks in speech today" by Zeke Miller.

Article: "Senate to vote as early as Wednesday on voting rights, filibuster" by Danielle Haynes.

Article: "Democrats ponder Plan B strategy to circumvent voting rights filibuster " by Alexander Bolton.

Article: "Lisa Murkowski says of the Senate: '[T]he train has to go off the cliff before you get the rescue crew'" by Brent D. Griffiths.

Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state

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