If the Democrats fail in restoring Americans' faith in the ability of government to solve problems and serve the people, get ready. The next Jackson, Mississippi will be your town.

Philosophy matters. And philosophy turned into law matters a lot. Particularly in this brave new world of severe climate change.

Jackson, Mississippi has a crisis of clean water, which shouldn't surprise any of us. Like Michigan was when Flint's water supply was crippled, it's a Republican-controlled state and Republicans will always prioritize tax cuts for the morbidly rich over building or maintaining infrastructure. Even in the face of climate-change-driven flooding.

Nine of the ten poorest states in the nation are Red states; that's also no surprise. Republicans, after all, have philosophically opposed both unionization and the minimum wage since the 1930s. They believe that people will only "pull themselves up by their bootstraps” when they're confronted with horrible poverty as the alternative. (The exception to this, of course, are the children of rich people, who must be allowed to inherit every penny without a "death tax” on their inheritance.)

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "When Will Americans Again Believe in America?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "8 Economic Indicators — Are Red or Blue States Better?" by Paul Chiariello.

Article: "Covid Deaths Skew Higher Than Ever In Red States" by KHN.

Article: "Red States See Highest Rates of Covid Deaths" by Taegan Goddard.

Article: "Red States Have Higher Crime Rates Than Blue States" by Dr. Eric Ostermeier.

Article: "Blue States Barack Obama Won In 2012 Are More Educated Than Red States" by FindTheBest/Kiran Dhillon.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "There's a fascinating difference between income inequality in red states and blue states" by Barbara Tasch.

Article: "Red States Are Welfare Queens" by Benzinga.

Article: "America's 10 Most Polluted States" by Jen Alic.

Article: "Heatwave 'Supercharged' by Climate Crisis Poised to Intensify Fires in US West" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "Decades of Republican Mismanagement Have Left Red States Mired in the Past & at the Bottom" by Quaid.

Article: "Report Finds Hundreds More Died In Texas Winter Storm Than State Says" by Jemima McEvoy.

Article: "The States Where Women Are Most Likely To Be Murdered By Men" by Melissa Jeltsen.

Article: "Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates " by Jennifer Glass and Philip Levchak.

Article: "Red states have higher traffic death rates than blue states" by Jerry Hirsch.

Article: "Teen Pregnancy Is Higher in Red States Than in Blue States" by Kevin Drum.

Article: "Moochers Against Welfare" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "His Lights Stayed on During Texas' Storm. Now He Owes $16,752" by Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Ivan Penn.

Article: "How a Worm Gave the South a Bad Name" by Rachel Nuwer.

Article: "STDs higher in Red States?" by Glenn Thrush.

Article: "Archived: Pro-Democrat group says 9 of the 10 poorest states are Republican" by C. Eugene Emery Jr.

Speech: "Inaugural Address 1981" by Ronald Reagan.

Article: "Violence and Abuse in Rural America" by Rural Health Information Hub.

Article: "The States With the Highest Poverty Rates" by Elliott Davis Jr.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Rand Paul Suggests FBI May Have Planted Evidence at Mar-A-Lago" by Infowars.com.

Article: "The FBI's photo of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago was standard procedure, despite Trump's claims it was staged to make him look bad" by Katie Anthony.

Article: "Trump's lawyer tried to defend him, but revealed the former president 'frequently' had guests inside a Mar-a-Lago office that held boxes of classified documents" by Mia Jankowicz.

Article: "Trump Attorney's Eye-Popping Claim On Live TV Sounds Like A Confession" by Ed Mazza.

Joke: "Bush, Obama and Trump go to a job interview with God...".

Article: "Lindsey Graham's warnings of 'riots' are a threat" by Zeeshan Aleem.

Article: "Trump says he agrees ‘100 percent’ with ‘lock her up’ chants about Clinton" by Brett Samuels.

Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) / Author of 2 books, his latest Dignity In A Digital Age: Making Tech Work For All Of Us

Site: Sirius XM - Progress.

Site: Free Speech TV.

Article: "What You Need to Know About Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan" by Ron Lieber and Tara Siegel Bernard.

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

Article: "CHIPS Act Passes: House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China" by Brian Bushard.

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

Article: "What the Electoral Count Act is -- and why some argue reforming it can protect future elections" by Paul LeBlanc.

Article: "These electric vehicles qualify for $7,500 tax credit under Inflation Reduction Act" by Sarah Raza.

Article: "U.S. coastguard vessel unable to refuel in Solomon Islands - official" by Kirsty Needham.

Article: "Opium Wars" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal pardons in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump’s pardons: Full list of clemencies granted during his presidency" by Bruce Golding.

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

Article: "China is becoming the world’s battery factory" by Chang Che.

Article: "China dominates the solar energy industry. Can the U.S. catch up?" by Sabri Ben-Achour.

Article: "Trump: Since China joined WTO, U.S. has lost 60,000 factories" by Lauren Carroll.

Article: "Biden to address 'extremist threat to democracy' in prime-time speech" by ABC News.

Article: "William Bennett" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Max Steiner" by Ballotpedia.

Site: Max Steiner for Congress.

Article: "Democrats clash over Manchin side deal, raising shutdown risk" by Rachel Frazin.

Article: "350.org" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden DOJ Says Medical Marijuana Patients Are Too ‘Dangerous To Trust’ In Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit On Gun Rights" by Kyle Jaeger.

Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".

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

Article: "John Fetterman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tim Ryan (Ohio politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Deadline to order free COVID tests via USPS is Sept. 2" by Daniel Figueroa IV.

Article: "Biden Wants To Lower Medicare Eligibility Age To 60, But Hospitals Push Back" by Phil Galewitz.

Article: "Trump has spoken privately with Putin at least 16 times. Here's what we know about the conversations" by Adam Taylor.

Article: "Rand Paul delivers letter from Trump to Putin" by Rebecca Morin.

Article: "The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study" by Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, and Nahid Tabatabai.

Bill: "H.R.5723 - Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust" by Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1].

Article: "Melania felt so 'violated' by Mar-a-Lago search that she bought all-new underwear: report" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Glenn Kirschner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Innocuous Story of Bernie Sanders’s Trip to Russia" by Masha Gessen.

Article: "CBS Chief Les Moonves Says Trump's 'Damn Good' For Business" by Nick Visser.

Article: "The Senate is 50/50, Yet America is Not - and This is Democracy? " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.

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

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

Article: "Harry Litman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Everybody Does Better When Everybody Does Better " by Jim Hightower.

Site: End The Bribe System.

Article: "Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US Presidents and Recessions – What Can We Learn?" by Urban Carmel.

Article: "Word spacing issue keeps abortion rights amendment from ballot; court fight expected" by Beth LeBlanc.

Article: "GOP Officials Vote to Bar Popular Abortion Rights Initiative From Michigan Ballot" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "What is a special master and why does Donald Trump want one?" by Hugo Lowell.

Article: "Aileen Cannon: Federal Judge Presiding Over Trump Hearing Was Appointed By the Former President" by Alyssa Choiniere.

Article: "By 2040, two-thirds of Americans will be represented by 30 percent of the Senate" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Compromise of 1877" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2022 House Forecast" by Nate Silver.

Article: "Peltola beats Palin, wins Alaska House special election" by Becky Bohrer.

Article: "Mary Peltola" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Mary Peltola" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republicans rage against ranked choice voting after Alaska election" by Emily Brooks.

Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion).

Article: "Mark Begich" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "U.S. Crude Oil Production - Historical Chart" by Macrotrends.

Article: "OPEC oil output rises by 690,000 bpd in August-survey" by Reuters.

Article: "WTI Oil Price History" by Oil Price.

Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

Article: "Artificial sweeteners should 'not be assumed to be safe' because they make cells less able to absorb sugar and change gut microbiome, study says: Experts warn they may raise diabetes risk" by Luke Andrews.

Article: "Traditional Chinese medicine" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "The Birth of a Nation (1915)".

Article: "In bid to become even more unpopular, GOP plots law suits against Biden's student debt cancellation" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "The Fall of a Nation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Larry King on why he started wearing his signature suspenders on TV" by Ronnie Koenig.

Tweet: "Skyrocketing housing costs. A broken health care system. A decaying media. It can all be tied back to one thing: private equity.
The industry is getting rich by making your life more expensive — and bankrolling politicians who do their bidding." by Robert Reich.

Article: "Big Pharma, medical firms donated $750K to Kyrsten Sinema — then she opposed drug bill" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Homelessness: Better HUD Oversight of Data Collection Could Improve Estimates of Homeless Population" by GAO.

Article: "Oregon gubernatorial election, 2022" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Betsy Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tina Kotek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Meet the Candidate Who Could Crush Dem Dreams in Oregon" by Ursula Perano.

Article: "2022 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Grandmother and grandson visit 62 national parks on adventure of a lifetime" by Sydney Page.

Article: "Trump claims women 'are raped at levels never seen before' during immigrant caravan" by Vivian Salama.

Article: "Oil reserves in Mexico" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pemex" by Wikipedia.

Article: "History of the Venezuelan oil industry" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Aspartame" by Wikipedia.

Article: "‘What's this about?': body-cam footage shows confusion as Florida man arrested for voter fraud" by Sam Levine.

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