How did a corrupt senator even find himself in a position where he could've handed two pieces of paper to the VP that would have changed the outcome of our presidential election? The Electoral College.

We just learned from the January 6th hearings that Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson tried to hand a phony slate of electoral votes from Michigan and Wisconsin to Vice President Mike Pence just before the election was certified on January 6.

How did a corrupt senator even find himself in a position where he could've handed two pieces of paper to the Vice President that would have changed the outcome of our presidential election? The Electoral College.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "How Ron Johnson Almost Got Away with Treason" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "www.nationalpopularvote.com".

Article: "A British Spy in Philadelphia 1775-1777" by Geoffrey Seed.

Article: "Famous British Historian Claims Benjamin Franklin Was A British Spy" by Richard Deacon.

Book: A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling.

Article: "Federalist 68" by Alexander Hamilton.

Book: "The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War" by Jimmy Carter.

Video: Manchurian Candidate.

Article: "January 6 hearings: state officials to testify about pressure from Trump to discredit election" by Joan E Greve.

Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787: July 18, 1787" by James Madison.

Article: "Raffensperger Ignored Evidence of Wrongful Purges Before Runoff" by Greg Palast.

Article: "OK, But Brad Raffensperger and Rusty Bowers Defended Efforts to Make It Harder to Vote" by Charles P. Pierce.

Article: "Arizona lawmaker Rusty Bowers would vote for Trump again despite his emotional Jan. 6 testimony " by Mark Moore.

Article: "RNC coordinated fake electors at Trump's 'direct request': Ronna McDaniel" by Ryan King.

Tweet: "I mean I know I keep saying Christian nationalism is violence, but I have read the National Right to Life Coalition's model law and MY GOD.
The intro has this line:" by Thomas Lecaque.

Article: "National Right to Life Committee Proposes Legislation to Protect the Unborn Post-Roe" by National Right to Life.

Article: "Lawmakers on Jan. 6 committee ramp up their security as threats increase" by Amy Gardner, Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Five Reasons to Impeach Joe Biden" by Ed Brodow.

Article: "Dick Morris: Biden Aides Attacking Harris to Prevent Her From Invoking 25th Amendment" by Martin Walsh.

Article: "The left’s grand plan to destroy our country" by David Bossie.

Article: "Trump and Democrats look backward — the GOP should move forward" by Washington Examiner.

Article: "What Patriotic Americans Can Do to Resist the Destruction of Our Constitutional Republic" by survival.

Article: "Justice for J16" by Julie Kelly.

Article: "Video shows GOP congressman leading tour of Capitol complex the day before Jan. 6 attack" by Kathryn Watson.

Article: "What will Sen. Murkowski do on the gun violence package?" by Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer.

Article: "Murkowski leans into centrist brand in reelection bid against Trump-backed rival" by Seth McLaughlin.

Article: "Robb Elementary School shooting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bowser wins Democratic primary for mayor in Washington, D.C" by Ashraf Khalil.

Article: "Bowser warns D.C. residents to stay away when Trump supporters amass downtown Wednesday" (Jan 6) by Julie Zauzmer Weil.

Tweet: "JUST NOW: @SenDuckworth tells us on @CBSNews that a "Quick-thinking" Senate aide seized copies of the Electoral College certificates before they all evacuated the chamber." (Jan 6) by Ed O'Keefe.

Article: "Trump kept having to retape his video telling fans to leave the Capitol riot, which may explain his 187-minute silence during the attack, January 6 committee chair says" by Thomas Colson.

Hour Two: What's the difference between treasury bonds and ETF bond funds, and corporate bonds, and how people can interact with them as part of their investment portfolios? Are they inherently safer than stocks?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "The stock market sell-off could be just getting started" by David Goldman.

Article: "Bond" by Jason Fernando.

Article: "What Is an Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)? " by James Chen.

Article: "Faithless electors in the 2016 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Michele Bachmann reveals she was praying inside Capitol as rioters breached building" by Yael Halon.

Article: "Michele Bachmann Claims the ‘Progressive Left’ Carried Out the Capitol Insurrection to Put Trump Down the ‘Memory Hole’" by Kyle Mantyla.

Article: "Here are some of the lucky winners of the Save America PAC lottery" by Sam Thielman.

Article: ""I can see your screen”: Ron Johnson busted after saying he's on the phone to avoid Jan. 6 questions" by Jon Skolnik.

Article: "Jan. 6 Committee Members Push Back Against DOJ Request For ‘All’ Interview Records" by Matt Shuham.

Article: "This Tax Day, Some Truckers Are Unhappy With Trump" by Hannah Levintovaz.

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

Article: "What You Need to Know About the Trump 'Pee Pee' Tape" by VICE.

Article: "Army–McCarthy hearings" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump sells Washington hotel lease to investment group" by CNN.

Article: "José Andrés to open restaurant in former Trump DC hotel" by Olafimihan Oshin.

Article: "Wisconsin Electors Sue Republicans Who Tried to Cast Fake Ballots for Trump " by Scott Bauer.

Article: "Jan. 6 Committee: Organizers of fake GOP electors talked about staying overnight in state Capitol" by Todd Spangler.

Article: "10,000 evacuated as frightening flood sweeps through Yellowstone" by AP.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "...To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years..."

Law: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..

Article: "Liberal groups devote millions to blocking GOP election deniers " by Michael Scherer.

Article: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" by Wikipedia.

Site: "National Popular Vote".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

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

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

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.

Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Biden calls for 3-month suspension of gas and diesel taxes" by Josh Boak.

Tweet: "Oil prices are decreasing, gas prices should too.
Last time oil was $96 a barrel, gas was $3.62 a gallon. Now it's $4.31.
Oil and gas companies shouldn't pad their profits at the expense of hardworking Americans." by President Biden.

Article: "Sen. Ron Johnson Wanted to Hand Deliver Fake Electors to Pence on Jan. 6" by Ryan Bort.

Article: "‘There’s No Conspiracy Here!’ Ron Johnson Blames an Intern for Fake Electors Delivery to Pence in Excruciating 2 Minutes" by Ken Meyer.

Video: "CNN reporter presses GOP senator over texts about 'fake' electors" (Manu Raju. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI)).

Article: "Goldwater's 1964 Acceptance Speech", 1964. "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Article: "Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)" (Robert Mueller) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Raffensperger launches new purge of Georgia voter rolls" by Dave Williams.

Article: "Freedom Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "After fifth hearing Thursday, Jan. 6 committee will push other hearings to July" by Rebecca Shabad and Kyle Stewart.

Article: "Jan. 6 committee members see huge increase in violent threats in past 24 hours: report" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "George Romney's 'Brainwashing' – 1967" by Larry J. Sabato.

Article: "Eight Republicans pick the worst possible place to celebrate July 4" by Dana Milbank.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "Use Of Immunity Leads To Dismissal Of North Charges" by Elaine S. Povich and Chicago Tribune.

Article: "G. Gordon Liddy" by Wikipedia.

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

Tweet: "Tune in at 11 pm ET tonight, to @11thHour on @MSNBC. I think I get to talk about Ron Johnson." by Al Franken.

Video: Watch The 11th Hour Highlights: June 21.

Article: "China, India May Be Buying More Russia Oil Than Known, US Says" by Josh Wingrove.

Article: "Russia's energy revenue higher now than just before Ukraine war, U.S. official says" by Timothy Gardner.

Article: "Report: Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. were investigated for real estate fraud in 2012" by Andrew Prokop.

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