Wednesday 24 August '22 show notes

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Hot Democracy Summer - Jefferson Smith is in for Thom... Election news & views...plus your calls...
Why a $1.6 BILLION dark money donation is a HUGE threat to democracy as we know it... - Brendan Fischer, Deputy Executive Director - Documented
Why is GA Gov Brian Kemp playing hide & seek with the Grand Jury investigating Trump for possible election tampering??? - Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter / Author of several books including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / Filmmaker-his latest, Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman, produced by Martin Sheen, to be released soon.

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The Claws of the Morbidly Rich are Deeply Sunk into American's Body Politic

The question today is whether we can twist free of them and again become a self-governing nation. Or if we're doomed to continue to devolve into a full-blown oligarchy.

â€œAt bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding , and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt.

â€œIt is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.â€

—Justice John Paul Stevens's dissent in Citizens United

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Hot Democracy Summer - Jefferson Smith is in for Thom... Election news & views...plus your calls...

Poem: "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley.

Article: "Nadler Swamps Maloney in Primary Face-off of Washington Veterans" by James Barron.

Article: "Democrat Pat Ryan wins â€˜bellwether' House special vote in Hudson Valley" by Zach Williams.

Article: "How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts " by Andrew Perez, Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott.

Article: "An overview of NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon" by Lucie Aubourg.

Article: "Nuclear Fusion Energy Breakthrough: Ignition Confirmed in Record 1.3 Megajoule Shot" by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Article: "Enrico Fermi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Manhattan Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chain Reaction (1996 film)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Opinion: Democrats are fooling themselves about the midterms" by Jeffrey A. Rosen and Kevin R. Kosar.

Article: "Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now" (ACORN).

Article: "Kansas voters resoundingly defend their access to abortion" by AP.

Article: "2022 Kansas Primary Election Results" by PBS.

Article: "2002 United States elections" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herschel Walker" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Can Tim Ryan Really Win Ohio's Senate Race?" by Nate Silver.

Article: "'Threats to Democracy' Overtake 'Cost of Living' as Voters' Top Issue: P" by Xander Landen.

Article: "Inflation Reduction Act includes billions in clean energy funds for states" by Doug Cunningham.

Speech: "1944 State of the Union Address" (Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech) by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "January 6, 1941: State of the Union (Four Freedoms)" by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden's infrastructure plan: Here are the details" by Tami Luhby, Katie Lobosco and Kate Sullivan.

Article: "Progressive Party Platform of 1912".

Article: "Gilded Age" by Wikipedia.

Article: "C-SPAN" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: why a $1.6 BILLION dark money donation is a HUGE threat to democracy as we know it...
- Brendan Fischer, Deputy Executive Director - Documented

Article: "Right-Wing Dark Money Group Gets $1.6 Billion Donation From Tax-Dodging Business Mogul" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts " by Andrew Perez, Andy Kroll and Justin Elliott.

Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "DISCLOSE Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Son of a Koch: $1.2 Billion Infusion Into Chase Koch's Dark Money Group Suggests Political Ambitions" by Connor Gibson and Arn Pearson.

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

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

Article: "Florida congresswoman asks feds to investigate FPL over â€˜dark money' reports" by Ana Ceballos.

Site: Florida Phosphate Mosaic.

Article: "History Of Phosphate Mining In Florida Fraught With Peril " by Steve Newborn.

Movie: "Baby Boom".

Article: "Article Five of the United States Constitution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution" (Article V Convention) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Congress Admits UFOs Not â€˜Man-Made,' Says â€˜Threats' Increasing â€˜Exponentially'" by Matthew Gault.

Article: "Listen to NASA recording of black hole audio" by Jared Gans.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Al Capone" by Wikipedia.

Article: "An updated list of notable investigations and lawsuits against Donald Trump" by Dan Berman.

Article: "Rural Electrification Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paving the Way to the Modern Internet" by DARPA.

Book: The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis.

Hour Three: Why is GA Gov Brian Kemp playing hide & seek with the Grand Jury investigating Trump for possible election tampering???
- Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter / Author of several books including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / Filmmaker-his latest, Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman, produced by Martin Sheen, to be released soon.

Article: "Kemp Resists Grand Jury – Has Reason to Fear Indictment" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Palast's New Film Exposing Hidden GOP Vote Suppression Trickery" by Greg Palast.

Article: "How Brian Kemp STOLE The Georgia Election" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Martin Luther King's Cousin Blocked by Kemp from Casting a Ballot" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Trump demands Georgia secretary of state 'find' enough votes to hand him win" by Quinn Scanlan.

Article: "What Does Georgia's New Voting Law SB 202 Do?" by Stephen Fowler.

Article: "Why is insulin still so expensive for diabetes patients in the U.S.?" by Berkeley Lovelace Jr..

Article: "Democrats fail to overrule parliamentarian on insulin price cap as GOP votes no " by Alexander Bolton.

Article: "The Inflation Reduction Act caps costs for Medicare patients on insulin. Where the push for broader relief stands" by Lorie Konish.

Article: "FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Student Loan Relief for Borrowers Who Need It Most" by White House.

Article: "The Budget Reconciliation Process: The Senate's "Byrd Rule"" by CRS.

Quote: "Out, damned spot" - Lady Macbeth.

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