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1/ Without Clean Elections There Is No America >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >> The polls all show that Joe Biden is winning the presidential race in a landslide >> but Americans are worried that Donald Trump will nonetheless steal this election >>

2/ Americans have been told to tolerate the fact that a man who lost an election by 3 million votes sits in the White House >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

3/ It's astonishing that we treat as normal the possibility that massive voter suppression in a couple of states can lead to the loser of an election becoming president >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

4/ It's bizarre how little value our news media assigns to democracy itself >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

5/ Americans tolerate the Republican Party engaging in voter caging >> throwing people off the voting rolls because they didn't send back a postcard >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

6/ Americans tolerate the Republican Party making the very process of voting long >> tortured >> and difficult >> particularly for working people paid by the hour >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

7/ Americans tolerate the Republican Party sending armed gunmen with swastikas and confederate flags to intimidate people at polling places bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

8/ Americans tolerate an administration that has destroyed over 600 multi-million-dollar high-speed mail sorting machines so mail-in ballots won't arrive in time to be counted >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

9/ The Trump administration and the Republican Party have committed a number of horrible acts >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

10/ They've put refugee children in cages >> and kept them there for years >> They've minimized an infectious disease that has killed over 200,000 Americans >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

11/ They've gutted funding for the environment and and worker safety >> They're destroying our national parks and selling off our public lands to frackers >> drillers >> and miners >> The list goes on and on >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

12/ But none of this is as destructive to this nation as ripping apart our elections >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

13/ 13/ Republicans on the Supreme Court just made it much harder for mail-in ballots to be counted in South Carolina ,In Texas the governor has ordered that there can only be one >single ballot drop box for a city of over 4 million people> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann

14/ 14/ Trump is constantly telling us that the election is rigged and the vote can't be trusted >> a naked attempt to demoralize voters and diminish faith in America >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

15/ 15/ We live in a democratic republic >> For such a form of government to work >> elections must be fair and accurate >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

16/ 16/ The GOP's Jim Crow efforts to suppress the vote in dozens of Republican-controlled states from Florida to South Carolina to Wisconsin to Texas are all >> in actuality >> efforts to suppress democracy >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

17/ 17/ Trump's Republican party today is threatening the very core of American values and the American way of life >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

18/ 18/ Without a functioning democracy >> nations inevitably spiral downwards into autocracy and authoritarianism >> and eventually into tyranny >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

19/ 19/ We've seen this in country after country >> as strongman dictators rise around the globe to destroy democracies >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann >>

20/ 20/ This year >> it's not just Republicans >> Democrats and third parties on the ballot >> It's the fate and future of democracy and a republican form of government itself >> bit.ly/33H60WB @Thom_Hartmann

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