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

Poem: "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins.

Article: "Karen Bass Becomes First Woman Elected Mayor of Los Angeles" by Gene Maddaus.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi stepping down as US House Democrats leader" by Guy Birchall.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thomas D'Alesandro Jr." (Nancy Pelosi's father) by Wikipedia.

Article: "‘I'm Gonna Punch Him Out': Exclusive Footage Shows Pelosi Vowing to Clobber Trump on Jan. 6 If He Marches to the Capitol" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi's List Of Accomplishments As Speaker Proves She's The Champion We Still Need" by Sarah Wood.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi's secret sauce" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "Marriage Equality Bill Moves Forward in Senate With Bipartisan Vote" by Trudy Ring.

Article: "Mormon church voices support for Senate bill to protect gay marriage" by Lauren Aratani.

Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion).

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973) (abortion legal).

Site: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact".

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Law: "Article 3 Section 2 of the Constitution".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Article: "Tom Foley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Newt Gingrich" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Henry Clay" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Progressives need to seize the momentum & keep going!!
- Justin Krebs, Campaign Director - MoveOn.org

Site: Drinking Liberally.

Article: "Democrats held the Senate. What now?" by Garrett Downs.

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.

Article: "‘This movement was rejected': Republican election deniers lose key state races" by Sam Levine.

Article: "Thanksgiving Day 2022" by Calendardate.

Article: "Warnock and Walker's Georgia Senate race goes into overtime as runoff begins" by AP.

Article: "Raphael Warnock" by Wikipedia.

Site: Reverend Warnock for U.S. Senate.

Site: Moveon: Georgia Runoff.

Quote: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry.

Quote: "If You Don't Stand for Something, You'll Fall for Anything".

Quote: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" - Martin Luther King jr.

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.

Article: "Herschel Walker Fact Check: Can Werewolves Kill Vampires?" by Rich Juzwiak.

Article: "Frederick Douglass" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Daniel Webster" by Wikipedia.

Building communities where everyone can thrive
- Derenda Schubert, Executive Director - Bridge Meadows

Article: "Housing policy should stop creating competition between young and old" by Derenda Schubert.

Site: Treehouse Foundation.

Video: The superpower of intergenerational living | Derenda Schubert | TEDxMtHood.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The New Jim Crow: DeSantis Voter Suppression on Full Display in Florida" by Jay Kuo.

Article: "Ron DeSantis' Aggressive Gerrymander Could Wind Up Making Him The House GOP Hero" by S.V. Date.

Article: "Ron DeSantis Likened to Prophet Sent by God in New Ad Praised by Wife" by Zoe Strozewski.

Article: "Seven deadly sins" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" - Milton Friedman.

Article: "Forecast for US Recession Within Year Hits 100% in Blow to Biden" by Josh Wingrove.

Article: "Russia's economy is officially in recession" by Irina Ivanova.

Hour Three: Humans are wired to share...how do we fight against privatization and for the common good?
- Donald Cohen, Executive Director, In the Public Interest / Co-author, The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

Blog: Public Things.

Article: "Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart is spotted among Donald Trump's inner circle at his 2024 presidential bid announcement" by David Southwell.

Article: "U.S. Dispatches an Army of Tree-Hungry Beetles to Fight Everglades Menace" by Mireya Navarro.

Article: "Democrats Take Control Of Michigan House And Senate For First Time In Decades" by Travis Waldron.

Article: "Republicans gain control of the U.S. House of Representatives" by AP.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy wins GOP nomination for House speaker" by Rebecca Kaplan, Zak Hudak, Melissa Quinn.

Article: "Crime in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who led the campaign arm to elect GOP senators, called the 2022 midterms a 'complete disappointment'" by John L. Dorman.

Article: "Romulus and Remus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We Ended Gerrymandering In Michigan" by Voters Not Politicians.

Audio: How The People Can Push Back Against the Backsliding of Democracy w/ Katie Fahey.

Article: "Katie Fahey" by Wikipedia.

Article: "4 Ex-Presidents Who Ran Again — And What They Mean for Trump" by Joshua Zeitz.

Article: "Social Security (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden reveals plan to lower prescription drug costs by directly negotiating with pharmaceutical companies before they hike the prices" by Elizabeth Elkind.

Article: "The 1619 Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Regular Fox viewers score worst on climate misinformation and policy beliefs, survey finds" by Ethan Freedman.

Article: "Trump to Try for Historic Third Impeachment" by Andy Borowitz.

Article: "DeSantis gains ground on Trump in hypothetical match-up: poll " by Brad Dress.

Article: "Ross Perot 1992 presidential campaign" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ronald Reagan vs. Gerald Ford: The 1976 GOP Convention Battle Royal" by Lee Edwards.

Article: "Martin Van Buren" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Teddy Roosevelt and Taft: The Odd Couple" by Robert W. Merry.

Article: "Ulysses S. Grant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "J. Edgar Hoover" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Grover Cleveland" by Wikipedia.

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