Florida is putting into effect the first "election police" in the nation - expect other GOP-run states to jump onboard soon, as the Republican War on Democracy continues apace.

"There's a famous statement: Sometimes the vote counter is more important than the candidate."
—Donald Trump

They used to go by the name Ku Klux Klan, those guys who'd show up every election day to "police" the ballot boxes and make sure only "authorized" people had a chance to vote.

By the 1960s, when William Rehnquist got into the game and would stand outside polling places near Phoenix challenging the credentials of every Black, Hispanic or Native American, they'd changed the name to the infamous Operation Eagle Eye.

Now Governor Ron DeSantis is bringing to the game millions of taxpayer dollars and the power, held solely by government, to imprison people.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Wannabee Strongman DeSantis Deploys Election Police" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Looking, Very Closely, for Voter Fraud" by Stephanie Saul.

Article: "G.O.P. Seeks to Empower Poll Watchers, Raising Intimidation Worries" by Nick Corasaniti.

Article: "Trump: "Sometimes the Vote-Counter Is More Important Than The Candidate"" by Tim Hains.

Article: "U.S. election workers get little help from law enforcement as terror threats mount" by Linda So, Jason Szep.

Article: "California Erects Solar Panels Over Canal to Save Huge Supply of Water From Evaporation" by Andy Corbley.

Article: "Putin boasts 'unparalleled' hypersonic missiles are 'ready' to launch – horror warning" by Jacob Paul.

Article: "China Gets Wuhan Lab Leak Revenge by Doubling Down on U.S. Bioweapons Claim" by John Feng.

Article: "Trump Ignores Sean Hannity's Prompt To Call Putin 'Evil'" by Josephine Harvey.

Article: "Minneapolis teachers strike puts spotlight on school funding needs" by Rob Olson.

Book: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.

Article: "Perdue proposes election police force in Georgia" by Reid Wilson.

Article: "Meat packers' profit margins jumped 300% during pandemic - White House economics team" by Andrea Shalal.

Article: "Powell Memo".

Case: "Pennsylvania Coal Co. v Mahon".

Article: "Disgust after India refuses to vote against Russia - Modi sparks anger for Putin support" by Dylan Donnelly.

Article: "Have a wolf by the ears" by Free Dictionary.

Article: "Gulf of Tonkin incident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Missouri lawmaker says punishment for giving abortions not 'strict enough,' suggests death penalty" by Aysha Qamar.

Article: "Another Texas GOP lawmaker is attempting to make abortion punishable by the death penalty" by Shannon Najmabadi.

Article: "U.S. Fights Bioweapons Disinformation Pushed by Russia and China" by Edward Wong.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Claims Ukraine Is Making Bioweapons by Citing a Pentagon Official Who Actually Said the Exact Opposite" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "Inside the far-right's embrace of Russian disinformation " by Meaghan Ellis.

Article: "How the right embraced Russian disinformation about 'U.S. bioweapons labs' in Ukraine" by Glenn Kessler.

Article: "Ukraine Bio-Labs Expert Rips 'Stooges of President Putin' at Fox News for Pushing Bioweapons Theory" by Kipp Jones.

Article: "Harris says US commitment to NATO is 'ironclad' as she aims to reassure its Romanian allies" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Donald Trump: 'I love the poorly educated'" by Dylan Stableford.

Article: "DePasquale rules out second attempt to unseat Scott Perry, cites redistricting" by York Dispatch.

Article: "Russ Diamond" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Doug Mastriano" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ostracism in Ancient Greece" by National Geographic.

Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

Article: "Trump lawyer knew plan to delay Biden certification was unlawful, emails show" by Hugo Lowell.

Article: "Inoculating against misinformation: Finland's efforts to bring media literacy to the classroom" by Nada Zohdy.

Tweet: "Unlike ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles go less than 100m. above wavetop to evade detection." by Chas.

Tweet: ".@USAmbUN on Russia's continued invasion of Ukraine: The Kremlin has attacked homes, schools, orphanages, and hospitals. The Kremlin has attacked civilian infrastructure, including water and sanitation facilities. The Russian military is laying siege to Ukrainian cities. [video]" by Department of State.

Article: "International Court of Justice" (World Court, the Hague) by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States and the International Criminal Court" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq" by Jonathan Stein, Tim Dickinson.

Book: We the People: A Call to Take Back America by Thom Hartmann, illustrated by Neil Cohn.

Article: "Reichstag fire", 27 February 1933 by Wikipedia.

Clip: "Dank Ihrer Führung wird Deutschland sein Ziel erreichen, Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein für alle Deutschen der Welt." by Rudolph Hess, 1934 Nuremburg rally.

Movie: "Triumph of the Will (1935)".

Article: "High oil and gas prices to linger, Bakken production to remain flat" by Michael Anthony.

Article: "Why do we import Russian (and other foreign) oil when we have a lot of it in the U.S.? " by Andy Uhler.

Article: "Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production" by Clifford Krauss.

Article: "Big Oil Is Planning $38 Billion In Buybacks This Year" by Charles Kennedy.

Article: "'At least the guy was a Democrat': Text sent to Republican AG who killed man with his car sparks outrage " by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Three plead guilty in plot to hit power grid" by Andrew Jeong.

Article: "Three Men Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States" by Department of Justice.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.

Site: Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "Edward Snowden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Edward Snowden Sends Out First Tweet Since Russia's Ukraine Invasion — Says This Is Why He Has Been Silent" by Shivdeep Dhaliwal.

Article: "Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom" by Bill McKibben.

Article: "Heat pumps can counter Putin and the climate crisis, advocates say" by Maxine Joselow.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Article: "Florida House passes election police bill, sends it to gov" by Anthony Izaguirre.

Article: "Where Running Over Protesters Could Become Legal" by Kelly Weill, Spencer Ackerman.

Article: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.

Article: "What you need to know about the cost of police misconduct" by Keith L. Alexander, Steven Rich and Hannah Thacker.

Article: "Jeff Bezos" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Collective defence - Article 5" by NATO.

Article: "Can the World Learn from the Failure of the Budapest Accords?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Joe Biden warns of 'World War III' after personally halting plans to send MiG fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine" by Claudia Aoraha.

Article: "NATO" by Wikipedia.

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