Republicans not only cling to minority rule, they now want to go to the next step and impose a neofascist Taliban-style government on America run by the morbidly rich and fanatically religious.

Minority rule is killing America. This is most obvious in our Senate and Supreme Court, although it's also hurt the credibility of the presidency and is damaging many of our states.

It's happening because of two issues dating back to the founding of our republic, which brought us the Electoral College and unequal representation in the US Senate.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "How Minority Rule is Killing America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Federalist 68: The Mode of Electing the President" by Alexander Hamilton.

Article: "Why did House Democrats underperform compared to Joe Biden?" by William A. Galston.

Site: "National Popular Vote".

Article: "This white paint could reduce the need for air conditioning by keeping surfaces cooler than surroundings" by Purdue University .

Article: "Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption" by Trent Knoss.

Article: "The Persian ice house, or how to make ice in the desert" by Erika Alatalo.

Article: "O'Reilly's Ark: Gay marriage could lead to goat, duck, dolphin, and turtle marriage" by Andrew Walzer.

Article: "Traffic Fatalities Since Cannabis Legalization" by WayofLeaf.

Article: "Critical Race Theory" (CRT) by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Moral panic" by Wikipedia.

Article: "First UFO hearing in years set for Capitol Hill" by Brad Dress.

Movie: "Fire in the Sky".

Movie: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

Article: "Bob Lazar" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Steven M. Greer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tom DeLonge" by Wikipedia.

Book: Inside the Spaceships by George Adamski.

Article: "Joe Biden is not failing or flailing" by Kirsten Powers.

Article: "Abortion Rights Groups Plan 'Bans Off Our Bodies' Day of Action on May 14" by Chelsea Steiner.

Event: May 14 "'Bans Off Our Bodies' Day of Action".

Article: "Wisconsin's Senate approves a bill allowing 14 year olds to work as late as 11 p.m., and supporters say it could help plug the labor shortage" by Grace Dean.

Article: "As US oil booms, Congress lifts 40-year oil export ban" by Charlotte Raab.

Book: The Assault on Reason by Al Gore.

Book: We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States by Michael Long.

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

The future of Roe and The Supreme Court
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator (D-RI)

Case: "1st draft Dobbs v. Jackson".

Article: "Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows" by Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward.

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973).

Article: "Whitehouse Statement on Reported Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade " by Sheldon Whitehouse.

Article: "Critics Warn Alito Draft Threatens Much, Much More Than Abortion Rights" by Julia Conley.

Article: "Trump: All My Judges Will Be 'Picked By The Federalist Society'" by Brian Tashman.

Article: "Federalist society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett rose from corporations' crusade for power over the Supreme Court" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.

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

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

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

Article: "Leonard Leo's Court Capture Web Raised Nearly $600 Million Before Biden Won; Now It's Spending Untold Millions from Secret Sources to Attack Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson" by Evan Vorpahl.

Article: "David Koch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Libertarian Party National Platform 1980"

Article: "501(c)(3) organization" by Wikipedia.

Article: "501(c)(4)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Judicial Crisis Network" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donors Trust" (Honest Elections Project) by Wikipedia.

Site: Free to Learn.

Article: "DISCLOSE Act" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: The Romancification of Crime…
- Joyce Nance, award winning documentarian & author of 5 books including "Escaping the Arroyo" and "Reel to Real: The Video Store Murders".

Article: "Psychologist goes inside the mind of Vicky White" by Sydney Kalich.

Site: Investigation Discovery.

Site: Law & Crime - Dan Abrams.

Article: "Jailed Indiana GOP candidate, charged with killing wife, wins primary election " by Joshua Rhett Miller.

Article: "Voter ID bill clears Missouri legislature despite fierce criticism from Black Democrats" by Rebecca Rivas.

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

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

Article: "The "Medicare Advantage" Plan to Kill Real Medicare" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Needed Care, Federal Report Finds" by Reed Abelson.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Retailers Limit Sale Of Baby Formula As Shortage Intensifies" by Marita Vlachou.

Article: "Republicans Criticize Biden For Not Starving Undocumented Immigrant Babies" by Elise Foley.

Article: "Far Right "Parental Rights" Groups Want to Eliminate the Department of Education" by Mike Ludwig.

Article: "Rand Paul stalls quick Senate OK of $40B Ukraine package" by Alan Fram.

Article: "Ukraine's top diplomat calls out Rand Paul for delaying 'much needed support' he says could be saving lives" by John Haltiwanger.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Speech: "Farewell Address", by Dwight David Eisenhower, January 17, 1961 (transcript). "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex."

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

Article: "Paul von Hindenburg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" (1876) by James Monroe.

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Article: "Mississippi civil rights workers' murders" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review).

Article: "William Marbury" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Did John Marshall Accomplish in Marbury v. Madison?" by Keith Whittington.

Article: "Mandamus" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Judiciary Act of 1801".

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Dred Scott v Sandford".

Article: "Is the Supreme Court Seriously Above the Law?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Judicial review" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republicans Criticize Biden For Not Starving Undocumented Immigrant Babies" by Elise Foley.

Tweet: "Food security is national security.
The Biden administration is sending pallets of baby formula to the border for illegal aliens, while American mothers are crying in the grocery store searching for it.
We should Protect America First!" by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Article: "GOP official voted out, two staffers fired in extensive 'ballot harvesting' scheme in Philadelphia" by Rebekah Sager.

Article: "Erdogan says Turkey not supportive of Finland, Sweden joining NATO" by Ece Toksabay and Essi Lehto

Article: "Russian operator to suspend electricity supply to Finland" by BBC.

Article: "Ohio Lawmaker Says Pregnancy from Rape Is an 'Opportunity'" by Caitlin Cruz.

Article: "Texas Officers Charged With Assault Over Response to George Floyd Protests" by Jesus Jiménez.

Article: "With Whom are Many U.S. Police Departments Training? With a Chronic Human Rights Violator – Israel" by Edith Garwood.

Article: "Federal Officers Shoot Portland Protester In Head With 'Less Lethal' Munitions" by Jonathan Levinson.

Article: "FBI (TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh shot dead while covering Israeli military operation in West Bank" by Hadas Gold, Abeer Salman and Amir Tal.

Article: "Rachel Corrie" by Wikipedia.

Article: "James Miller (filmmaker)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Folke Bernadotte" by Wikipedia.

Article: "King David Hotel bombing" by Wikipedia.

Site: If Americans Knew.

Site: Americans for Middle East Understanding (AMEU).

Site: Jewish Voice for Peace.

Site: B'Tselem.

Site: J Street.

Site: Peace Now.

Article: "Republicans Need a New Leader. They're Looking to Florida." by Rich Lowry.

Article: "GOP recruits army of poll watchers to fight voter fraud no one can prove exists" by Jane C. Timm.

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

Site: Women's March.

Site: RiseUp4AbortionRights.org.

Site: NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Site: National Organization for Women.

Article: "Kinsman-Redeemer" by Stephen J. Bramer.

Article: "Jubilee (biblical)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nikita Khrushchev" (apparently not born in Ukraine) by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "A simple question for Justice Clarence Thomas.
Why are you such a hater?" by Hakeem Jeffries.

Tweet: "Since SCOTUS is going to overturn #RoeVWade I think this one from George Carlin is appropriate. "They're anti-women" [video]" by Tony Michaels.

Site: "Jamie McLeod-Skinner".

Site: Jessica Cisneros for Congress.

Article: "Jessica Cisneros" by Wikipedia.

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