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Thom's blog
Can Congress Reverse the Damage Corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court have Inflicted on America?
 Democrats have two months before they lose control of the House. It's absolutely essential that they do everything possible to stop the cancer of "big money" and "dark money" in our politics. Now it's official. Twenty-seven men choose who runs the GOP. Pundits are fond of saying, "The President of the United States is the most powerful person in America." He's not and hasn't been for over a decade. Political power in this country, since five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court fully legalized both overt and secret political bribery in their 2010 Citizens United decision, is now centered in the money bins of the morbidly rich.Political pundits said that, for example, Val Demmings outraising Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate race boded well for her and bad for Rubio in the upcoming election. In fact, it was only marginally relevant because billionaire dark money doesn't show up in official fundraising numbers. And Rubio had multiple billionaire backers.A small number of rightwing billionaires today run the show, at least for the moment, and, according to a new study, 27 of them basically own the GOP and thus the ability to block most positive and forward action by the Biden administration.Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: In for Thom today, Jefferson Smith, Host - Democracy Nerd podcast...
It's Thank You Thursday...what are you thankful for?
Hour Two: Progressives need to seize the momentum & keep going!!- Justin Krebs, Campaign Director - MoveOn.org 
Tweet: " BREAKING: According to the Edison Research National Election Pool exit poll, the national youth vote choice for the U.S. House of Representatives was 63% for Democrats, 35% for Republicans. Voters 18-29 are the only age group in which more than half of votes supported Democrats." by Antonio Arellano. Quote: " When China gets our good air, their bad air got to move" - Herschel Walker. Quote: " Republican Herschel Walker says he wants to be 'werewolf, not vampire' – video" - Herschel Walker.
Building communities where everyone can thrive- Derenda Schubert, Executive Director - Bridge Meadows
Quote: " Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" - Milton Friedman.
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