The easiest and most efficient way to clean up our elections and make them open and transparent is for Congress to create an "Elections USA" agency as soon as possible. The United States needs a national elections system run by professionals with complete transparency and not vulnerable to politics: Canada did this 102 years ago and we should take a lesson from their successes to create an Americanized version.

With almost 40 percent of all the mail-in ballot requests coming out of heavily-Democratic Houston being rejected because of the GOP's latest anti-voter law — and over a dozen other Republican-controlled states following suit with the newest thing in election suppression — by the end of this year's election it should be obvious to all Americans that we need to change our elections systems.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "GOP Sen. Ron Johnson flip-flops to block Biden judicial nominee" by Tierney Sneed.

Article: "Ron Johnson moves to block William Pocan nomination to federal court" by Bill Glauber.

Article: "William Pocan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Blue slip" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP Senator Opposes District Pick, Setting Up Test of Norm (2)" by Madison Alder Madison Alder .

Article: "Federal government could shut down Saturday because one GOP senator keeps pushing debunked 'free crack pipes' lie" by David Badash.

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

Video: Representative Mondaire Jones on potential Supreme Court.

Article: "Rep. Ro Khanna Proposes Supreme Court Term Limits, Appointments Schedule, Without Constitutional Amendment" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "The IRS Admits It Doesn't Audit the Rich Because It's Too Hard" by Luke Darby.

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

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

Law: "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Current US Inflation Rates: 2000-2022" by US Inflation Calculator.

Law: "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Congress passes $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, delivering major win for Biden" by Annie Grayer, Manu Raju and Clare Foran.

Article: "Waukesha Christmas parade attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Senate confirms Biden's nominee for FDA commissioner" by Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett.

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

Article: "A scarcity of chips feeds frustration, inflation" by AP.

Article: "The House Passes the America COMPETES Act " by Madeleine Dean.

Article: "Texas freeze pushes U.S. gasoline prices higher" by Reuters.

Article: "House January 6 committee digs into fake elector plot, issuing subpoenas to 6 more people" by Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles.

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Direct Contracting Model: Professional and Global Options Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO)-based Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) Fact Sheet" by CMS.

Article: "The biggest threat to Medicare you've never even heard of" by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Susan Rogers, M.D.

Article: "2022 State of the Union Address" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Demanding America Live Up to It's Promises and Possibilities
- Bishop William J. Barber, II, Pastor-Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina / President & Senior Lecturer-Repairers of the Breach and the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement

Site: Poor People's Campaign.

Event: Feb 14 - June 18: "The Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls Mobilization Tour".

Article: "Poverty Fact Sheets" by Poor People's Campaign.

Article: "Third Reconstruction" by Poor People's Campaign.

Article: "Reconstruction era" by Wikipedia.

Law: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Case: "Brown v. Board", 1954.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Law and order"(War on crime) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.", April 4, 1968 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Article: "The Fall of Conservatism" by George Packer (positive polarization).

Article: "Joe Manchin Defends Minimum Wage Stance of Republicans 'Just Not in Sync With Bernie Sanders'" by Jason Lemon.

Article: "Tesla and other carmakers want you to pay monthly for feature subscriptions" by Sasha Lekach.

Article: "Prepare to pay more for car updates with 3G sunsetting " by Cate Lawrence.

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO).

Article: "America Needs To Listen to Canada About an "Elections" Agency" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "2020 November General Election Turnout Rates" by US Elections Project.

Article: "US Constitution Article IV Section 4" "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.".

Article: "Constitution of the United States".

Article: "Number of Registered Voters by State 2022" by World Population Review.

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Elections Canada says its system protects Canadian voters from U.S.-style drama" by Ryan Patrick Jones.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson".

Site: National Popular Vote.

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

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

Article: "'He's just a bad guy': Judge destroys lawyer claiming Trump is part of 'protected class'" by David Edwards.

Article: "Fox News cuts and runs " by Bill Palmer.

Article: "Roy Moore, Alabama Justice Ousted Over Ten Commandments Monument, Poised To Regain Post" by Reuters.

Article: "Satanists want statue next to 10 Commandments" by Daniel Burke.

Article: "California adopts nation's first 'endemic' virus policy" by Don Thompson.

Article: "Estimated 73% of US now immune to omicron: Is that enough?" by Carla K. Johnson.

Article: "Even with our 'darkest days' gone, Biden can't declare full independence from virus" by Stephen Collinson.

Article: "WATCH: Trump's Former Doc Says Natural Immunity is Better than COVID-19 Vaccine" by San Angelo Live!.

Site: Trump Death Toll.

Article: "Keeping You Posted" by Amee Vanderpool.

Article: "The U.S. States That Are Ending Mask Mandates" by New York Times.

Book: On Liberty by John Stuart Mill.

Article: "Gorsuch overrules Sotomayor, again demonstrating the Supreme Court has to be expanded to be saved" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Supreme Court to consider challenge to teacher vaccine mandate in New York City" by Joseph Choi .

Article: "Gorsuch writes scathing dissent after Supreme Court rejects New York vaccine mandate challenge" by Kaelan Deese.

Article: "Idaho lawmakers hear pitch to absorb three-fourths of Oregon".

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