The Hidden History of the War on Voting : Who Stole Your Vote--And How to Get It Back.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Heartbeat of Democracy -- Control the Vote, Control the Country -- Part One: The Hidden History of the Vote in America -- Power to the South: There The-Fifths Compromise -- The Racist Legacy of a Constitutional Compromise -- The Founders Feared a Trump-like President-Which Is Why They Established the Electoral College -- The Electoral College and Slavery -- The Unique Struggles of Women and Native Americans to Vote -- The Generational Fight for Women's Suffrage -- Silencing and Suppressing Native Voices

Madison's Warning -- Part Two: The Economic Royalists' Modern War on Voting -- Why Racists Don't Want Everyone to Vote -- The Racist Backlash to Brown v. Board -- Conservative Excuses for Preventing Everyone from Voting -- The Billionaires' Trick to Keep Everyone from Voting -- Buying Politicians, Selling Lies, and Suppressing the Vote -- The Rise of Social Issues -- Promoting New(t)speak -- The Day the Music Died -- A New War on the Vote -- Is Voting a Right? Should It Be? -- Numbers, Not Voters -- Stacey Abrams Was Robbed -- Exit Polling around the World

Exit Polls in the US and Red Shift Explained -- Voting Machines, Hacking, and Red Shift -- Privatizing the Vote with Voting Machines -- Suppressing the Vote with Provisional Ballots -- Diluting the Vote with Gerrymandering -- Depressing the Vote with Money in Politics -- The Beginnings of a Myth: Voting Fraud -- Voting Fraud: From Myth to Dogma -- Kris Kobach: The Voting Fraud Myth Becomes a Mission -- Interstate Crosscheck and the Election Integrity Scam -- Part Three: Solutions -- The GOP's Grand Stand against Voting and Democracy -- Republicans Oppose "For the People Act of 2019."

Automatic Voter Registration -- Restore the Vote for Returning Citizens -- End Voter Caging -- Make Election Day a National Holiday -- Vote by Mail -- Extend Early Voting -- Paper Ballots or Paper Receipts -- Stopping Politicians from Choosing Their Own Voters -- The Electoral College and a National Popular Vote -- Voting Systems Shape Elections: Getting beyond Two Parties -- Compulsory Voting -- DC and Puerto Rico Statehood, Splitting Up Big States -- Get Out There, Get Active -- Finally -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N

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"America's number one progressive radio host Thom Hartmann looks at our country's long and troubled voting history, analyzing the disenfranchisement of its citizens, particularly people of color, women, and the poor, and showing what we can do to ensure everyone has a voice in this democracy"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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