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Communities around Wisconsin are getting money to reach out to people who need lead pipes removed. $900 million in loan money comes from the bipartisan infrastructure law. Communities can start applying at the end of the month. More than 37,000 lead service lines have been replaced or shut off in Wisconsin since 2018.  Expect to hear more about reproductive rights from Vice President Kamala Harris as she campaigns for president. Marquette Poll Director Charles Franklin says it's the number one issue for Democratic voters. But independents rank it quite a ways down. And so I think it's possible that she may emphasize that issue more than Biden was doing. Whether that brings any independents over is an open question. Franklin speaking with Wisconsin Eye. Harris and Republican running mate J.D. Vance will both campaign in Eau Claire tomorrow.  I'm Terry Bell, Civic Media News. Here's what you need to know closer to home. The Brewers hold on to first place. Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with sports. The Milwaukee Brewers back to a six-game lead in the NL Central Division. The Pirates are now in second. NFL, the Packers practice all week before they head to Cleveland against the Browns Saturday night. The Badgers offense had a good day in their practice in pads at UW-Platteville. Quarterback Tyler Van Dyke, with his best performance yet, hitting on some deep balls. Head coach Luke Fickle...  always going to be a winner there's always going to be someone that doesn't win that's the kind of the nature of the game and la chargers head coach jim harbaugh still under fire as new evidence of cheating and sign stealing at michigan are coming out in an ncaa report never lie never cheat never steal i was raised with that lesson if you stumble you apologize and you make it right today i do not apologize  I did not participate, was not aware, nor complicit in those said allegations. 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It's a new book by the right-wing provocateur Jack Posobiec.  and who was the guy who promoted the theory that there was a pedophile ring in the Comet Pizza place in Washington, D.C. that led this guy to go in and shoot up the pizza place. And there was not even a basement. So his new book is called Unhumans. And Posobiec's new book argues that leftists, Democrats, don't deserve the status of human beings in the United States.  He said that they are unhumans and waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if not stopped. This is from the book. Keep in mind, when he says they, he's talking about people like you and me. He said, as they are opposed to humanity themselves, they place themselves outside the category completely in an entirely new misery-driven subdivision, the unhuman.  He writes that progressivism is the latest incarnation of an ancient evil dating back to the late Roman Republic and through the French Revolution and communism. He said, often they write, great men of means are required to crush this scourge. Our history has brought us to this conclusion. Democracy has never worked to protect innocence from the unhumans. Keep in mind, the unhumans are Democrats, liberals, the left.  One of the book's heroes is Francisco Franco. He's the guy who in the 1930s Civil War in Spain took over and became a fascist dictator of Spain right up until the 1960s when he died. They refer to him as the great man of history in comparing him to George Washington.  They write, quote, we do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box, end quote. It's an actual quote from a book that J.D. Vance just blurbed. Unhumans talks about Augusto Pinochet, the leader of the military junta who led a coup against Salvador Allende in 1973 in Chile and then oversaw decades of torture and oppression.  You know, particularly in throwing political enemies out of helicopters, which is a real popular meme. I was downtown Portland a couple of years ago at one of these right-wing marches, and a bunch of the right-wingers were wearing T-shirts that said, free helicopter rides for liberals. You know, same deal here.  I mean, it's pretty unusual for a candidate for vice president to openly align himself with somebody who says democracy doesn't work, somebody who writes that we do not believe in government through the voting booth.  The book goes on to say, quote, the great American counterrevolution to depose the cultural Marxist must occur on all levels of society they currently possess and on those they aim to seize. It is achievable only with the resolve of Franco. You know, he's openly calling for dictatorship in the United States.  So Mr. Vance, J.D. Vance, or Shady Vance as they're calling him, he wrote in his blurb, he wrote, we need to do a debath, we need like a debathication program.  Oh, I'm sorry, this is not his blurb. This is what he said in 2021 on the Jack Murphy podcast. He said, I think that we should seize the institutions of the left and turn them against the left. We need to do a debathification program, but like a de-workification program in the United States. He said, we don't have a real constitutional republic anymore. Trump should fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state and replace them with our people.  Well, that's what Franco did. That's what Pinochet did. That's what dictators do. In the book, Posobiec writes, much like the United States founding fathers, Franco and his fellows saw themselves as rebels intending to overthrow a corrupt, tyrannical government. Step by step, book by book, comment by comment, we are learning who Shady Vance really is. And it's pretty breathtaking.  THE OTHER STORY THAT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU, THIS IS GRIM STUFF. I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE ABOUT PROVISIONAL BALLOTS. IN FACT, I WAS THINKING ABOUT WRITING ABOUT THIS THIS AFTERNOON. PROVISIONAL BALLOTS CAME INTO  The legislation, it was called something like the Let People Vote Act. I'd have to go back and look up the name of the bill. But this was the legislation that George W. Bush pushed through Congress that was designed to solve the problem of Florida, because Florida had all these different voting systems and whatnot. And it gave $5 billion to the states to buy voting machines. It was a big kind of pro-voting machine piece of legislation.  And what was interesting about it was it had this thing called a provisional ballot. And we'd never had provisional ballots before. It was called the Help America Vote Act, HAVA, was the piece of legislation. And under HAVA, if you show up to vote but you're not registered to vote or you've been deregistered or removed from the voting rolls, you are still given a ballot.  It's called a provisional ballot. And you fill it out and you think that you voted. You feel like you voted.  But the only way that ballot gets counted is if you show up in person at the Secretary of State's office with your birth certificate and your ID and your passport or whatever the state requires to prove that you're an actual legal citizen and you live where you say you live. And then the provisional vote can be counted. So the vast majority of provisional ballots are just never counted.  Well, Texas now has put 2.1 million people on a voter suspension list. They haven't done what Georgia, what Brad Raffsenperger and Brian Kemp have done in Georgia. They haven't removed people from the voting rolls. Instead, what they've done is they've taken 2.1 million people  Most of them in big cities, and therefore presumably Democratic voters, they've taken 2.1 million people and put them on this list that they call suspended, which means that all 2.1 million of those people, when they show up to vote, will be given a ballot, and they will think that they voted, but it will be a provisional ballot. And unless they show up at the Secretary of State's office in person within a couple of days of the election, their ballot will never be counted.  But they'll think they voted. So that way you don't get the blowback that you get in Georgia when people show up and they're told, I'm sorry, you're not on the voter rolls. See you later. Go away. In this case, I mean, this is just such an elegant scam that Greg Abbott has put together in Texas. This is a big deal.  And, you know, we need to be paying attention to it. I laid this all out in some detail in my book, The Hidden History of the War on Voting. And this has been, the provisional ballots have been a big part of the Republican war on voting ever since the Help America Vote Act was passed in the early 2000s.  So, amazing stuff. It's coming up on 15 minutes past the hour. I'll be back with your calls on the other side of this break. Stay with us. It's the Tom Hartman Program, occupying the media three hours a day, five days a week. We're right here. We'll be right back.  This is the Tom Hartman Program. Right back with your calls in just a minute. Stay tuned.  Did you know your dog's food could be harming them? Dr. Marty says there's one major red flag to look out for, cooked dog food, like kibble or canned food. When dog food is cooked at high temperatures, the amino acids often overheat, and that can create dangerous compounds called AGEs, or Advanced Glycation End Products. 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It's the Capitol Switchboard. It'll get you right through to them.  Welcome back. Yeah, I was just reading this Kamala Harris.  is the eldest of two children born to Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher from India, and Donald Harris, an economist from Jamaica. And it just occurred to me, can you imagine these two meeting and falling in love and getting married and thinking, well, maybe someday this little girl that we're birthing will become president of the United States. I'll bet it never occurred to them.  You know, an immigrant from Jamaica and an immigrant from India. What an all-American story. What a heartwarming story. And now Tim Walz, you know, just a decent guy from the Midwest, a teacher, a National Guardsman for 24 years, the Sergeant Major in the National Guard. You know, a guy who spent his entire life serving his state and his country.  I'm so proud to be an American. Stephen in Lexington, Kentucky. Hey Stephen, what's on your mind today? Hello, how are you this afternoon? I wanted to mention something before I begin. I know that JD Vance claims to be the walking encyclopedia of human behavior. Well, I've got news for him. Relationships are not supposed to be a prison.  And he seems to adhere to this organized religious, and that's what it is, essentially. We've all had, subconsciously, we're all impacted by that in some way. And I think that's precisely what we're trying to move away from, not trying to run towards it. So I wanted to set that record straight first and foremost. I'm a little bit hesitant about Walsh. I've gotten to read a little bit more about him. I like him as a person.  But what concerns me about, I would have preferred Kelly. I think Kelly would have really dealt with this immigration issue. One thing that bothers me, though.  as far as the immigration issue is concerned, we're always talking about the southern border. We're never invoking into the conversation the northern border. And it seems to me that people seem to have selective amnesia in this country because the fact is, on 9-11, those terrorists that hijacked our country came in through Canada. They didn't come in through Mexico, which just proves that there is just as much crime at the Canadian border as there is at the Mexican border.  And yet we don't hear about any of this at all. But those people don't have brown skin, Stephen. Well, so what? The people coming from Canada. Well, that's why Republicans don't care. You know, if white people sneak into the United States, they don't care. I mean, you know, there's something like a million unregistered Irish in the United States. Some huge number. I don't recall the exact number, but some huge number of illegal Irish and British immigrants in the United States has been for years. You'll never hear a Republican talk about them. They're white people.  Well, the fact is, though, they need to start getting in with moving with the times, because the fact is, this is not just a question of race, ethnicity, what have you. We're talking about criminal activity. They're the ones who claim to be law and order, and yet they have a person who has 34 felony convictions, and they have their ticket. Maybe they can explain to us why, since Richard Nixon, they've tried to play this tune, and now it's getting to be pretty old. As far as  Another thing that's not invoked into this conversation is how corporations have been exploiting these undocumented workers. Now, if we're to assume for a moment that we're always being told that if you have a criminal conviction and you're an immigrant, you're sent back to your home country. If that's the case, we're not talking about criminals here. And I'd also be interested in knowing, too, whether or not this is a lot of bureaucratic red tape, because it seems to me  that a lot of these undocumented could actually work their way in through the worker visa program. And yet why is this not being talked about as much? As far as these corporations are concerned, Harris should really hit Trump hard on this. He has been the benefactor of illegal immigration himself at his golf courses.  at his hotels at his casinos that he is and she needs to really drive that home to people how much of a hypocrite this man is getting up there and by the way he wants to talk about immigration being so horrible well then maybe he can explain why it is that his family came here from germany and scotland his wife who is one of the she's the first foreign-born first lady since louisa adams in 1825 maybe i don't hear her voice on this matter oh i know she  Oh, I know. She doesn't care. You know, she's too busy doing her nails. We all know that. I know. And she came into the United States on an Einstein visa. There's this special visa category that is reserved for people who have extraordinary talents that are necessary for the United States. Oh, we all know her talents.  We're not going into it, but we all know her town. Oh, yeah, we've all seen the naked pictures, yep. Stephen, I've got to move along, but thank you for the call. That was a good one. Tom in St. Paul, Minnesota. Hey, Tom, thanks for listening to KTNF. Thoughts on Tim Walz? I'm with Veterans for Peace, and we do a vigil along with the Line 3 pipeline protest every Monday.  we're on his front door and he's uh i respect him he was went to uh wellstone action that's uh that's when i got politicized working leafleting for wellstone in the 90s um but anyway that wellstone action the mantra for paul wellstone is we all do better when we all do better and  understanding the distinction of the we and the all is key to it but anyway but that you know i think he embraces that i don't see that by the way i'm with you in the republican mantras we all do better when billionaires have tax cuts yes seriously the other the other thing is um  Walt Hoover saw dealing with Line 3 in northern Minnesota, and it turned out not perfect because the line got installed, but it wasn't the crazy, vicious thing that Standing Rock was just three years ago. So that's the difference between the North Dakota governor and the Minnesota governor. And he was also dealing with George Floyd, which...  It was the third really painful... Right, and let's not forget that the guy who set the police building on fire in Minneapolis was a Republican from Texas who went up there specifically to do it. I just retweeted that story. Tom, thank you. Thank you for the call, and thanks for the thoughts on Tim Walz. Thank you. My pleasure. It's an honor. Thank you, Tom. We'll be right back, 27 minutes past the hour.  You're listening to the Tom Hartman Program. Call 202-808-9925. It's your media support group for We the People. We'll be right back with your calls after this.  Healthy cholesterol levels are important to your heart health, metabolism, and your blood sugar levels. Do you exercise and watch what you eat, but then get frustrated when you don't see results? Your secret weapon for heart health is Superbarian Advanced Cholesterol Support. Superbarian is a plant-based supplement from nature. Both Louise and I take it because it works. 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ABC's Alex Stone in Los Angeles. Wisconsin and Michigan, the first two battleground states, Vice President Harris will visit on Wednesday with newly chosen running mate Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor. The Richmond, Virginia-based federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland's ban, decade-old ban, on semi-automatic rifles, including the AR-15, the majority rejecting the argument of gun rights groups that the ban is unconstitutional. A Supreme Court challenge expected. This is ABC News.  You can always continue the conversation on social media. Share your thoughts when you find and follow Civic Media on Facebook, X, and Instagram.  Civic Media News. I'm Terry Bell. Here's what Wisconsin needs to know. Working people in Wisconsin need more opportunities to boost their income. That's according to Robert Craig of Wisconsin Citizen Action. He recommends more access to job training programs. A lot of the workforce training programs we have are helpful to a number of people, but they don't move the inequality.