The polls all show that Joe Biden is winning the presidential race in a landslide, but Americans are worried that Donald Trump will nonetheless steal this election.

Americans have been told to tolerate the fact that a man who lost an election by 3 million votes sits in the White House.

It's astonishing that we treat as normal the possibility that massive voter suppression in a couple of states can lead to the loser of an election becoming president.

Read more here.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump stops negotiations on coronavirus relief until after election" by FOX 5 New York.

Article: "Donald Trump Tweets Over 40 Times in Two Hours While Being Treated at White House for Coronavirus" by Jeffery Martin.

Article: "Hillary Clinton Officially Wins Popular Vote by Nearly 2.9 Million" by Alana Abramson.

Article: "Hanging Chad Law and Legal Definition" by USLegal.

Article: "Mnuchin and Pelosi resume discussions after Trump changes course on fiscal stimulus" by Greg Robb and Elisabeth Buchwald.

Article: "Despite Questions, President Trump Issues Executive Order To Create Temporary Payroll Tax Cut" by Kelly Phillips Erb.

Article: "Trump promises permanent cut to payroll tax funding Social Security and Medicare if he's reelected" by Tony Romm.

Article: "Social Security could come to a screeching halt" by Nancy Altman.

Bill: "H.R.860 - Social Security 2100 Act" by Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1].

Article: "The Social Security 2100 Act" by John Larson.

Article: "Consumer Price Index" by BLS.

Article: "Consumer Price Index for the elderly" (CPI-E) by BLS.

Article: "Trump's Brutal Week Has Left the GOP Worried About an Election Landslide" by Cameron Joseph.

Article: "U.S. Rep. Lamborn staffers in D.C. test positive for COVID-19, sources say" by Conrad Swanson.

Article: "'I'll go in a moon suit': Sen. Ron Johnson says his COVID-19 diagnosis won't stop him from voting on Supreme Court" by Mary Spicuzza and Daniel Bice.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Site: I Will Vote.

Article: "Defense Health Agency" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mark Takano" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict drives thousands from their homes as death toll mounts" by Alexandra Odynova.

Article: "Pentagon's Joint Chiefs In Quarantine After Coast Guard Officer Tests Positive" by Greg Myre.

Bill: "H.R.6800 - Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act or the HEROES Act" by Nita Lowey [D-NY-17].

Article: "With Bipartisan Deal Elusive, Democrats Push Through Their Own Stimulus Bill" by Emily Cochrane.

Article: "Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alaska's at-large congressional district" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Congressional Apportionment Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The HEROES Act/GROW Act's Composite Pension Plan Design Is The Right Path Forward - So Why Do Unions Oppose It?" by Elizabeth Bauer.

Law: "S.2147 - Butch Lewis Act of 2017" by Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH].

Article: "Pence's team agrees there can be plexiglass on his side of the debate stage" by Catherine Garcia.

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Article: "United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Who Is Louis DeJoy? U.S. Postmaster General In Spotlight Ahead Of 2020 Election" by Tim Mak, Tom Dreisbach & Dina Temple-Raston.

Article: "Fact-checking the bipartisan spinfest on Brett Kavanaugh's time at the White House" by Salvador Rizzo.

Article: "Congressional Progressive Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pramila Jayapal" by Wikipedia.

Site: Progressive Caucus.

Site: Progressive Caucus.

Article: "Biden's Health Play In A COVID-19 Economy: Lower Medicare's Eligibility Age To 60" by Julie Rovner.

Article: "House Defeats Amendment To Cut Defense Spending Levels by 10%" by Eric Garris.

Article: "Projection shows Florida and North Carolina among states that could gain congressional seats after Census" by Gregory Wallace.

Hour Two: Debate tonight & Covid, Trump
- Tom Perez, DNC Chairman/former U.S. Secretary of Labor

Site: Voy A Votar.

Article: "Over half of states in US report increase in COVID-19 cases, according to Johns Hopkins" by Stephanie Weaver.

Trump's job losses are the worst of any American president on record by Chris Isidore.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "DOJ Frees Federal Prosecutors to Take Steps That Could Interfere With Elections, Weakening Long-standing Policy" by Robert Faturechi and Justin Elliott.

Article: "FBI Director James Comey Under Fire After Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Announcement" by Sam Frizell.

Article: "Here are all the stories Trump has cited as evidence of a rigged election" by Jon Ward.

Article: "The Courts Won't End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them" by Ari Berman.

Site: Fair Fight.

Article: "Doctors working to crack the mystery of 'long haul' COVID-19 sufferers" by Dr. Alexis E. Carrington and Dr. Jay Bhatt.

Article: "Unanimous consent" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Senate GOP's third positive Covid-19 case threatens quick Barrett confirmation" by CNN.

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

Article: "General Election: Trump vs. Biden" by RealClearPolitics.

Article: "Voter caging" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's encouragement of GOP poll watchers echoes an old tactic of voter intimidation" by Mark Krasovic.

Article: "USPS removed 711 sorting machines this year, new court documents show" by Kristen Holmes and Paul P. Murphy.

Article: "Postmaster general says postal service can't return mail-sorting machines" by Kaelan Deese.

Article: "Trump migrant separation policy: Children 'in cages' in Texas" by BBC.

Article: "'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book" by Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart.

Article: "'Fist bumps and thumbs-ups' - and disregard for the grief of the families of 210,000 dead Americans" by Greg Milam.

Article: "Trump budget slashes EPA funding, environmental programs" by Rebecca Beitsch And Rachel Frazin.

Article: "The great dismantling of America's national parks is under way" by Jonathan B Jarvis and Destry Jarvis.

Article: "Worker Dangers Up As Trump OSHA Cuts Come Home To Roost, Say AFL-CIO Exec, Ex-DOL Official" by Ted Knutson.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Voting is the Beating Heart of Democracy" - Thomas Paine.

Quote: "The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected." - Thomas Paine..

Article: "Biden snags KeepAmericaGreat.com to troll Trump" by Andrew Wyrich.

Site: Keep America Great: Promises Made, Promises Kept Broken.

Tweet: "... I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business..." by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Democrats allege EPA plans to withhold funding from 'anarchist' cities" by Rebecca Beitsch.

Article: "Apparently, Rod Rosenstein was also a monster" by Dartagnan.

Article: "'Crimes Against Humanity': Inspector General's Report Reveals Top DOJ Officials Drove Family Separation Policy" by Julia Conley.

Article: "‘We Need to Take Away Children,' No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said" by Michael D. Shear, Katie Benner and Michael S. Schmidt.

Article: "Michigan protesters storm state Capitol in fight over coronavirus rules: 'Men with rifles yelling at us'" by Louis Casiano.

Article: "Voting rights groups, voters file suit over Texas governor's drop box limit" by Nicole Via y Rada.

Article: "The Red Shift: Anomalies In Electronic Voting Trend Overwhelmingly In One Direction" by National Election Defense Coalition.

Article: "Supreme Court Nomination Was Super Spreader Event" by Taegan Goddard.

Article: "Largest COVID-19 contact-tracing finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders" by Princeton University.

Article: "Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in in two Indian states" by Ramanan Laxminarayan et al.

Article: "United States Postmaster General" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A covid-19 diagnosis, texts suggesting infidelity roil pivotal N.C. Senate race" by Pam Kelley, Rachael Bade and Paul Kane.

Article: "Thom Tillis' Ex-Wife Cites "Cruel and Inhuman Treatment" in Divorce Documents" by Chai Karve.

Article: "Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Trump" by Jon Swaine, Marc Bennetts.

Article: "Georgetown created fact sheets on illegal militias at the polls and what to do if you spot them" by Scottie Andrew.

Article: "State Fact Sheets" by Georgetown.

Site: Jaime Harrison for Senate (v. Lyndsey Graham, SC.).

Site/movie: Last Hours

Site/movie: Carbon

Site/movie: Green World Rising

Site/movie: Restoration

Hour Three: Science revolution: The 2020's Record-Breaking Hurricane Season... What's Behind It?
- Dr. Jeff Masters, Meteorologist / Regular Contributor - Climate Connections (previously worked w/NOAA hurricane hunters) & is a co-founder of Weather Underground

Article: "Hurricane Delta rapidly intensifies to category 4, takes aim at Cancun" by Jeff Masters, Ph.D.

Article: "Climate Change Is Making Hurricanes Stronger, Researchers Find" by Henry Fountain.

Site: Climate Central: A Science & News Organization.

Article: "Coastal flooding will disproportionately impact 31 million people globally" by Indiana University.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Sea level rise is eroding home value, and owners might not even know it" by John Tibbetts and Chris Mooney.

Article: "Climate change denial" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paris Agreement (Climate Change).

Article: "Venice remains dry as flood barriers pass 1st emergency" by Colleen Barry.

Article: "David Cay Johnston" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kakistocracy" by Wikipedia. " a state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens."

Article: "Are you on the 'inactive voter' list? Here's what to do" (Arizona) by Joe Ducey.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: ""Smoking Doesn't Kill" And Other Great Old Op-Eds From Mike Pence" by Andrew Kaczynski.

Article: "Before face masks, Americans went to war against seat belts" by Daniel Ackerman.

Article: "The Automobile and the Environment in American History" by Martin V. Melosi.

Article: "Donald Trump overturns law preventing companies dumping coal mining debris in streams and rivers" by Independent.

Article: "Islamic State 'Beatles' charged in US over hostages' deaths" by BBC.

Article: "President Obama makes doomed appeal to reason and courage on Guantanamo" by Paul Waldman.

Article: "Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war" by CNN.

Article: "Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over".

Article: "Meet The Carlyle Group".

Article: "The next Fed chair is not an economist. Does it matter?" (Jerome Powell) by Allison Schrager.

Article: "Jerome Powell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Carlyle Group" by Wikipedia.

Article: "White House abandoned plan to send 650 million face masks across the U.S. in April, report says" by Hannah Miao.

Article: "Fact Check: Trump misleads on lowering drug prices" by Tami Luhby.

Article: "Trump administration asks Supreme Court to take up challenge to consumer bureau" by Sylvan Lane.

Article: "Wells Fargo to pay $185 million settlement for 'outrageous' sales culture" by James Rufus Koren.

Article: "Was Donald Trump on steroids at the time of the first debate with Joe Biden?" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Paul Harvey" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Political positions of the Republican Party" by Wikipedia.

Video: Adultery.

Book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D..

Article: "Trump's coronavirus drugs: Regeneron, dexamethasone and more, explained" by Jackson Ryan.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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