Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 19 August, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: The Dictator's Dream: Controlling Who Gets to Vote
Article: "The Dictator's Dream: Controlling Who Gets to Vote" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The Anti-Voting Bills Republicans Enacted This Legislative Season" by Devon Hesano.
Tweet: "Trump: If you have mail in voting, you're not going to have many Democrats get elected. That's bigger than anything having to do with redistricting, believe me. [video]" by Acyn.
Law: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 4. "The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.".
Would Trump go to war and them cancel the election? You betcha.....
Article: "'He's testing the fence': Trump's 'abundantly clear' desire shocks analyst" by Robert Davis.
Article: "'You Like This Idea': Trump Jokes About Canceling 2028 Elections To Fight War" by Sara Boboltz.
Video: "President Trump Quips About Canceling 2028 Elections If U.S. Is At War" by C-SPAN.
Video: Wartime Elections in the United States.
Article: "Emil Bove declines to rule out 3rd Trump term or denounce Jan. 6 rioters in Senate questionnaire" by Scott MacFarlane.
Article: "Top Republican under fire for suggesting Trump get third term and run DC for 'as long as he wants'" by Joe Sommerlad.
Oklahoma is requiring teachers from blue states to take an "America first" exam. Is it America first or racists first?
Article: "Oklahoma will test some incoming teachers with 'America-first' exam" by Daniel Wu.
Book: Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow.
Article: "Trump rules out sending US troops to Ukraine as part of security guarantees" by Caitlin Wilson, Sean Seddon,Shevchenko, Bernd Debusmann Jr.
Article: "Trump's Gilded Oval Office: Six Months of Gold in the White House" by Jesus Mesa .
Article: "Why we should never forget the monstrosity that was Donald Trump's gold apartment" by Sam Horine.
Article: "As-Salam Palace" by Wikipedia.
Article: "With Rush to Washington and Use of Flattery, E.U. Leaders Help Keep Talks On Track" by Neil MacFarquhar.
Article: "Fractional-reserve banking" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump broke off his meetings with Europe's leaders to call his friend in the Kremlin... why?" by Sam Kiley.
Law: "Supremacy Clause".
Hour Two: Crazy Alert! Speaker Johnson vows to fight CA Democrats "power grab" but not the TX GOP "power grab"
Article: "Speaker Johnson vows to fight California Democrats' 'illegal power grab'" by Caroline Vakil.
DOJ to start sharing Epstein files with Congress Friday - Has Trump been removed?
Article: "DOJ to start sharing Epstein files with Congress on Friday" by Kate Santaliz.
Article: "Supreme Court Grants Trump Broad Immunity for Official Acts, Placing Presidents Above the Law" by ACLU.
Article: "The Medicare Advantage Trap: What They Don't Tell You" by Thom Hartmann.
Is Trump being blackmailed?
Article: "The idea that the Kremlin has kompromat on Trump seems increasingly plausible" by Michael McDowell.
Article: "I wish they would bring National Guard to Albuquerque" (scroll down) by Terry Palmer.
Article: "Ex-New Mexico candidate gets 80 years in prison over gun attacks on Democrats' homes" by Michael Loria.
Article: "New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency" by Nikki McCann Ramírez.
Video: Putin launches largest recent attack on Ukraine during Trump's meeting with Zelenskyy.
Post: "Rep. Nicole Collier (D) has been officially locked in the Texas House chamber for over 24 hours. Republicans say she cannot leave until she signs a "permission slip" agreeing to be under 24/7 police surveillance for three weeks." by No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen.
Article: "Trump says lawyers are drafting executive order to end mail-in voting" by Joseph Gedeon.
Article: "What order? Trump team ignoring 1 in 3 major judicial rulings against them, analysis finds" by Ariana Baio.
Article: "UnitedHealth to drop Medicare Advantage plans for 600K people" by Heather Miller.
Article: "1950 East German general election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Super spy or paper pusher? How Putin's KGB years in East Germany helped shape him" by Laura King.
Article: "RFK Jr sacks entire US vaccine committee" by Mike Wendling & Madeline Halpert.
Article: ""Not Just Measles": Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline " by Duaa Eldeib and Patricia Callahan.
Site: Vote.org.
Hour Three: The brazen power grab in Texas pushed Democrats to start their own efforts to unravel independent commissions established by voters, and now it's threatening to tilt the whole country into chaos.
- David Daley, author of the national best-sellers Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count" and "Antidemocratic: Inside the Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections. His journalism has appeared in the New Yorker and many other publications. He is the former editor in chief of Salon and a senior fellow at FairVote. @davedaley.bsky.social
Article: "In a Wider Redistricting War, Republicans Have an Advantage" by Elena Shao and Nick Corasaniti.
Article: "State government trifectas" by ballotpedia.
Article: "REDMAP" (Republican gerrymandering tool) by Wikipedia.
Article: "The megadonors who fueled Trump and the Republican Party and what they may want in the next 4 years" by Daniel Klaidman.
Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" (Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unconstitutional.) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump, John Roberts and the Unsettling of American Politics" by David Daley.
Article: "Powell Memo".
Article: "The Other Memo That Started the Conservative Legal Movement" by David Daley.
Article: "Federalist society" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How Viktor Orbán Wins" by Kim Lane Scheppele.
Quote: "If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers" - Abraham Lincoln .
Article: "How Texas could help ensure a GOP House majority in 2026" by David Daley.
Article: "Texas ignited a gerrymandering war. We will all pay the price." by David Daley.
Article: "How the GOP Hopes to Gerrymander Its Way to a Midterms Victory" by David Daley.
Article: "How did we get all this gerrymandering? A short history of the Republican redistricting scheme" by David Daley.
Article: "Democrats can't gerrymander themselves out of their gerrymandering problem" by David Daley.
Article: "Can Texas GOP steal the midterms in advance? Yes, they can" by David Daley.
Article: "Ghislaine Maxwell Hit by Wild Claim She Tried to Give Trump Dirt to Biden" by Janna Brancolini.
Article: "Unitary executive theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Quote: "If you [end] mail in voting, you're not gonna have many Democrats get elected. That's bigger than anything having to do with redistricting." - Donald J. Trump (video).
Article: "Karl Rove's Tactics Won't Work for Donald Trump" by David Atkins.
Article: "F.B.I. Returns Materials Taken From Mar-a-Lago to Trump" by Michael D. Shear.
Article: "Congressional Research Service" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A Guide to the Criminal Cases Against Donald Trump" by Kaela Malig, Kristina Abovyan.
Article: "Joe Walsh says he's becoming a Democrat" by Sarah Fortinsky.
Video: DEBATE: Should Democrats Embrace Conservatives to Stop Trump & Fascism? w/ Joe Walsh.
Article: "United States congressional apportionment" by Wikipedia.