Will Ron DeSantis succumb to the same temptation to rig the election for himself, like Jeb Bush did for his brother George? As Michael Keaton once said in a movie, "Is a frog's ass watertight?"

It appears that Ron DeSantis is getting ready to pull a Jeb Bush: Floridians should get ready.

Jeb, then governor of Florida, famously threw the 2000 election in Florida — with a little help from 5 Republicans on the Supreme Court — to his brother, Texas Governor George W. Bush, who won the election by a mere 537 votes.

Jeb did this through his Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, using voter purges and "spoilage" of Black people's ballots.

For the voter purge, Harris acquired from George W. Bush's Texas a list of all of that state's convicted felons. Like most former slave states, the largest cohort of Texas' citizens are white but the majority of their prisoners — about 2/3rds — are Black or Hispanic.

So, how did Harris and Bush use this Texas felon list — and their own Florida felon list — to purge Black and Hispanic voters off the Florida voting rolls in 2000, and how could DeSantis do the same this year and in 2024?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Is Ron DeSantis Getting Ready to Pull a Jeb Bush?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Cord Byrd defends wife's 'passionate' praise of Capitol rioters, other extreme elements" by A.G. Gancarski.

Article: "Most Common Hispanic Last Names in the United States" by Name Census.

Article: "The Hidden History of the War On Voting" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Voter Purge Rates Remain High, Analysis Finds" by Kevin Morris.

Article: "QuickFacts: Texas" by U.S. Census.

Law: "H.R.3295 - Help America Vote Act of 2002" by Rep. Ney, Robert W. [R-OH-18].

Article: "President Carter Tells Thom Hartmann: 'I Don't Think George W. Bush Won'" by Leslie Salzillo.

Article: "Black Leaders to Protest Tally of Electors" by Nick Anderson.

Article: "Supreme Court Upholds Controversial Ohio Voter-Purge Law" by Nina Totenberg.

Article: "6 Takeaways From Georgia's 'Use It Or Lose It' Voter Purge Investigation" by Johnny Kauffman.

Article: "The 2000 Election: Protesters; Jesse Jackson Demands Inquiry on Florida Vote" by David Gonzalez.

Article: "Ron DeSantis' handpicked 'radical far-right' secretary of state will oversee his race" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "2019 Statistical Report" by Texas Board of Criminal Justice.

Article: "Our Mission" by US Commission on Civil Rights.

Article: "Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election" by US Commission on Civil Rights.

Article: "GOP Challenging Voter Registrations" by Jo Becker.

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

Video: 2000 Election Theft in Florida - Part 1.

Video: 2000 Election Theft in Florida - Part 2.

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).

Article: "Half of G.O.P. Voters Ready to Leave Trump Behind, Poll Finds" by Michael C. Bender.

Article: "A Guide to Voter Caging" by Justin Levitt.

Article: "Husted v. Randolph Institute" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Judge won't delay trial for Trump ex-adviser Steve Bannon" by Nomaan Merchant.

Article: "'Savage our enemies!' Steve Bannon throws a fit demanding to testify at Jan. 6 hearing" by David Edwards.

Article: "Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to fraud after arrest on luxury yacht" by Victoria Bekiempis.

Article: "Steve Bannon pardon: Trump pardons Steve Bannon as one of his final acts in office" by Pamela Brown, Paul LeBlanc and Kaitlan Collins.

Case: "Moore V. Harper".

Article: "The Nightmare Scenario SCOTUS is Plotting For the 2024 Election Takeover" by Thom Hartmann.

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"

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Levels Of Scrutiny In The Equal Protection Clause" by Bhanodai Pippala.

Case: "Shelby County v. Holder", 2013.

Article: "When John Roberts Said There Isn't Enough Racism In America To Justify The Voting Rights Act" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Biden Administration Considers A Windfall Tax On Oil And Gas Profits" by OilPrice.com.

Bill: "H.R.7061 - Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act" by Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17].

Bill: "S.3802 - Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act" by Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI].

Article: "Florida DMV offices return to appointment-only after walk-ins caused overwhelming lines" by Amy Viteri.

Article: "Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coup d'état" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Critical race theory" (CRT) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pregnant Texas Driver Argues Fetus Is Passenger After Carpool Fine" by AFP.

Article: "January 6 hearings: Trump tried to contact witness, Cheney says – live" by Maanvi Singh, Joan E Greve.

Article: "Jan. 6 committee shows White House aide described Trump west wing as ‘unhinged'" by Kevin Breuninger.

Podcast: "On Abortion Laws, It All Goes Back to 2010" by Michael Barbaro.

Article: "Reconstruction era" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made" - J.R.R. Tolkien.

Article: "Employment Guidance for the District of Columbia National Guard" by Christopher C Miller, 4 January 2021.

Article: "Hogan still puzzled by delay in approval for Maryland National Guard assistance during Capitol riot" by Joseph Choi.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause).

Article: "Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories" (birtherism) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Compromise of 1877" by Wikipedia.

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

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

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

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.".

Article: "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".

Case: "Brown v Board of Education".

Article: "Did LBJ Advocate: 'Convince the Lowest White Man He's Better Than the Best Colored Man'?" by David Emery.

Article: "Eugene Goodman" by Wikipedia.

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

I'll be talking with Dr. Mary L. Trump, Ph.D from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, and has taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology / She writes a column at Substack called, https://marytrump.substack.com/">The Good In Us / Host-The Mary Trump Show podcast on YouTube / Author of the new book, The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding A Way to Heal / Previous book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

Plus, what is quantitative easing and why should I care? - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

And, Malcolm Nance, U.S. Intelligence expert / Author or several books including his latest, They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency (previous: The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West)

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