So if we can't regulate the “news” or even stop foreign trolls from stirring up Americans, how can we activate the “immune system” of democracy?

America is now in the midst of a “truth crisis” that threats to tear us apart and end the American Experiment in democratic governance; Finland is implementing a solution to “fake news” that we should seriously consider.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Democrats' voting rights plan faces long odds in U.S. Senate" by Richard Cowan.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Site: Heritage Foundation

Site: Indivisible

Article: "Federal judge tosses most claims against Trump, Barr and U.S. officials in clearing of Lafayette Square " by Spencer Hsu.

Article: "How Does America Solve Its "Fake News" Crisis? " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: “Almost a third of GOP voters believe Trump could be reinstated as president this year“ by Brigid Kennedy.

Article: “Jefferson's preference for “newspapers without government” over “government without newspapers” (1787)“.

Article: “UK lays out plans to teach fake news in schools“ by The Day.

Article: “Protocols of the Elders of Zion“ by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: “Inoculating against misinformation: Finland's efforts to bring media literacy to the classroom“ by Nada Zohdy.

Site: Media Matters for America

Article: “Poll: 28% of Republicans believe core Q-Anon beliefs“ by Public Religion Research.

Article: “How Everyday Social Media Users Become Real-World Extremists“ by Max Fisher and Amanda Taub.

Article: “Trump's Legacy: Voters Who Reject Democracy and Any Politics but Their Own“ by Trip Gabriel.

Article: “Powell Memo“.

Article: “53% of Republicans view Trump as true U.S. president -Reuters/Ipsos“ by Reuters.

Article: “Wikipedia wars: inside the fight against far-right editors, vandals and sock puppets“ by Justin Ward.

Article: “Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Patrick Condon“ by Justin Ward.

Article: “Voting rights clash brewing at Minnesota Capitol“ by Briana Bierschbach and Stephen Montemayor.

Article: "Talk Radio: Democrats Can't Win if They Don't Play" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How Facebook's algorithm devalues local reporting" by Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The filibuster that almost killed the Civil Rights Act" by NCC.

Article: "Whitmer appears on CNN: What she said about Michigan GOP" by Paul Egan.

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

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Video: Pro-democracy activists gear up to pressure senators on voting rights bill.

Site: Our Revolution

Site: Indivisible

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

Site: Democratic National Committee

Article: "No Labels" by Wikipedia.

Video: Manchin Leak: Stopping Sell-Outs To Big Money? (w/ Lee Fang).

Article: "Leaked Audio of Sen. Joe Manchin Call With Billionaire Donors Provides Rare Glimpse of Dealmaking on Filibuster and January 6 Commission" by Lee Fang, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Elections and Technology" by ACE.

Article: "The Arizona Senate and it's Sham Audit" by Victoria López.

Article: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"

Article: "Preemption" by LII.

Article: "Town where Trump repeatedly demanded election probe says it has no evidence at all of fraud" by Mayank Aggarwal.

Article: "Mitch McConnell: Democrats Want to ‘Rig the Rules of American Elections Permanently' in Their Favor" by Jacob Bliss.

Article: "Homicides are up, but GOP misleads with claims about blame" by David Klepper, Gary Fields.

Hour Two: Georgia's New Mass Voter Challenge
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters @Greg_Palast

Video: Georgia New Mass Voter Challenge by GOP Exposed by Greg Palast.

Article: "Uncovered: Illegal Attack on 364,000 Georgia Voters" by Greg Palast.

Article: "True the Vote" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Election Integrity Act of 2021"(Georgia Senate Bill 202) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ku Klux Klan Act" (1871) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Garland zeroes in on voting rights" by Todd Ruger.

Site: Brian Ross Investigates.

Article: "How Jeb Bush Stole the 2000 Election for His Brother" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Report: Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp is blocking 53,000 voter registrations as he runs for Governor" by Ben Nadler.

Article: "Transcript: All In with Chris Hayes, 6/21/21".

Article: "Kerry Won Ohio: Just Count The Ballots at The Back of The Bus" by Greg Palast.

Video: “GET OUT OF MY HOUSE” Reporter Greg Palast Busts a GOP Scheme.

Article: "Arizona ballot audit backed by secretive donors linked to Trump's inner circle" by Swati Pramod.

Article: "Secret Trump-affiliated 'dark money' groups are the funding force behind the 'grotesque' election audit in Arizona" by Meaghan Ellis.

Site: Congressional Dish.

Article: "His cybersecurity firm is working on the Arizona 'audit'. But people who know him have questions" by Bob Ortega, Kyung Lah, Stephanie Becker and Anna-Maja Rappard.

Video: Who are the Cyber Ninjas?

Article: "Trump-tied ‘dark money' groups funding Arizona ballot review" by Anna Massoglia and Sam Levine.

Article: "Arizona ballot audit backed by secretive donors linked to Trump's inner circle" by Sam Levine and Anna Massoglia.

Article: "The ad launching Dr. Chris Jones' campaign for Arkansas governor will blow you away" by Denise Oliver Velez.

Law: "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act", 1970 (RICO).

Article: "Experts Believe Prosecutors Are Mulling 'Little RICO' Mob Law Against Trump Org: Report" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Roy Cohn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Netflix's Fear City Hints at Trump's Mob Connections. The Real Story Goes Even Deeper." by Gabrielle Bruney.

Article: "Donald Trump's 13 Biggest Business Failures" by Tessa Stuart.

Article: "The Godfather" by Wikipedia.

Article: ""He can handle it": Michael Cohen recalls the time Trump offered up Don Jr. for prison before Ivanka" by Sarah K Burris.

TV: "The Tudors".

Article: "QAnon Supporters Dismayed at Donald Trump's December Tour With Bill O'Reilly " by Ewan Palmer.

Article: "13 States Set to Copy Georgia Law Restricting Independence of Election Officials" by Sharon Zhang.

Article: "Examples of unintentionally confusing ballot design? - The Butterfly Ballot, 2000 Presidential Election in Palm Beach, Florida" by Foo Bar.

Tweet: "WATCH: Ron Johnson says Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a largely "peaceful protest" http://hill.cm/WooYEaT" by The Hill.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Hour Three: Can the "Rights of Nature" Save America's Waterways?
- Thomas Linzey. Senior Counsel - Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) @RightsOfNature

Article: "First in the U.S.: “Rights of Nature” State Constitutional Amendment Filed in Florida to Protect Waterways-6/2/2021" by Chuck O'Neal.

Article: "Rights of nature" by Wikipedia.

Site: FL5.ORG.

Article: "Florida Senate Approves Bill to Overturn Key West Cruise Ship Ban " by The Maritime Executive.

Article: "Sarah Huckabee Sanders" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Space Shuttle Challenger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Arkansas Nuclear One" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A coronavirus outbreak hit a Florida government building. Two people are dead but a vaccinated employee wasn't infected" by Jamiel Lynch.

Article: "Trump wanted DOJ to stop 'Saturday Night Live' from mocking him: report" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "His cybersecurity firm is working on the Arizona 'audit'. But people who know him have questions " by Bob Ortega, Kyung Lah, Stephanie Becker and Anna-Maja Rappard.

Article: "John Fetterman" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Let me be 100 clear:
Over 6M votes cast, there's exactly 2 cases of criminal voter fraud in PA.
- Luzerne Republican voting for a dead mom
- Chester Republican voting for a live democrat son.
10 days of every Republican frenetically searching: TWO CASES." by John Fetterman.

Video: Maddow: Republican war on democracy is as dangerous as its premise is bananas.

Article: "Joe Manchin says he will vote to PASS voting rights bill in the Senate" by Katelyn Caralle.

Article: "America's anti-democratic Senate, by the numbers " by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Bannon vows a daily fight for 'deconstruction of the administrative state'" by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.

Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.

Article: "Marsha Blackburn" by Wikipedia.

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