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Thom's blog
America Needs a "Right to Vote," as Georgia Proves Jim Crow Never Completely Ended
 The right to vote is more important then owning property or guns This week, Georgia passed the most restrictive voter suppression legislation since Jim Crow. In actuality, the Georgia legislature proves that Jim Crow never completely ended. It's alive and well today, in part, and its principal proponent is the GOP. The two bills end automatic voter registration, ban drop boxes for absentee ballots and radically curtail mail-in voting. They also make illegal "Souls to the Polls" on some weekends, a tradition that has led to about 10 times more African Americans than white people voting on Georgia Sundays near Election Day. And Georgia is just the first among many Republican-controlled states that are planning to do the same and more. Read more here. -Thom
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Thom's blog
Why the Republicans Will Only Talk About "Big Lies" & Culture Wars
More & more Americans are figuring out their feigned-outrage 40-year old scam Now that "conservative ideas" have been so badly discredited, Republicans are resorting back to Big Lie and faux outrage techniques to try to hold their base together. Back in 1981, when Republican strategist Lee Atwater was advising Reagan, he pointed out that using the N-word post-1965 was counterproductive. Read more here. -Thom
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: America Needs a "Right to Vote," as Georgia Proves Jim Crow Never Completely Ended - The right to vote is more important then owning property or guns
Is Trump's move to take over the Republican Party about power or money? Is he still taking over America or just trying to get more wealthy?
Tweet: " He didn't start his own party, which is complicated to do and be competitive, but Trump is trying to set himself up as the place where money for Republicans should go as opposed to GOP committees [+ Trump statement]" by Maggie Haberman.
Hour Two: Why there can be no justice for George Floyd without convicting Derek Chauvin for murder...- Karissa Lewis, National Field Director - Movement for Black Lives ![Twitter]()
Tweet: " Amazing! @RepZoeLofgren has compiled & published all the social media posts of Members of Congress who were egging people on from election day to the end of Jan. Some of their posts, now permanently memorialized (for expulsion?), are positively shocking." by Thom Hartmann.
Hour Three: Legalizing Marijuana is Good For Workers... PLUS, (revisited from hour 1) What makes Trump Tick? Money? Power? Or, is there a 3rd component as suggested by a caller...?
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
I'll be debating the Covid Relief bill with Patrick Hedger, Vice President of Policy - Taxpayers Protection Alliance (Prior to joining TPA, Patrick was a Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Technology and Innovation and also served as Director of Policy at FreedomWorks)
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Will COVID-19 Vaccine Let You See People Again?
These 8 Millionaires Stopped $15 Minimum Wage!
Is GOP Culture War Over Cancel Culture Fake? (w/Parker Molloy)
GOP Lies Are Security Threat Says Intelligence Officer
Royal Family's Colonial Racism Against Markle
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