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If T wins the electoral college , despite this summary of events, it seems I can only point to the lack and quality of civic education in our schools. Here in Texas, I can say, if they only spent a fraction of the funds on civics they spend on football and campaigning against what books are available in the library, we would all be so much better off.

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So true!!!

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Looks like the 1 star on it's flag an accurate review ...

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I hate to listen . Am also often near other people. Could you please ALEAYS ALEAYSALWAYS give the option of reading a transcript ? Thank you

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See the heart? Look right to transcript🤷‍♀️

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Michael, this worked for me. I hope that works for you. Do you see where it says in gray letters Letters from an American at the upper left part of your screen? If you click on that, it will open up the audio version but below that it gives you the options for the written version. For instance today, the written transcript is the third box down and if you click on it, it will give you the written transcript. I hope that helps!

-Rebecca

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Thanks for your comprehensive report. You covered so much ground (so much is going on), that I had to listen twice! I prefer the audio over the transcript since it is possible to do other things while listening.

With regards to the on-going voter suppression efforts by Republican state election boards or officials, they should be required (such as by a federal judge) to provide the list of “purged” voters to an independent third party to check the list, to determine if they purged legitimate voters. Not much time left to do that with only about 39 days to the election!

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Trump is living in an alternative universe, but MAGA supporters also don't care about the truth. God help us if he actually wins this election.

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Yes, I agree!

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“The republicans decided to work with us at the end of” THEIR TERM! The Worst do nothing congress in history! Look back on this republican congress during the last four years. Wasted time pointing fingers, the ridiculous Santos scam, not coming up with a federal budget ever, verbal abuse from the circus M.T.G., allowing poor war torn Ukraine to wait over 6 months without funding their weapons already promised. 15 rounds of votes to elect a speaker only to get rid of that ineffective guy to replace him with another. Trying to impeach and embarrass top government officials and agencies without A Shread of evidence. (Biden, Miley, Faucci, Justice Department, FBI) Not voting for student debt relief, drug pricing reduction legislation for Medicare. The worst congress in history! I know I’ve left a lot out, it’s hard to stomach again what our poor country has had to go through.

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All voted into Congress by Americans, who have the gall to call themselves patriots and Christians. Quo vadis, America?

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Please tell me with more detail how to by-pass the recordings nd read a transcript. Can't follow the sub-stack directions. I really don't like the video/sound format. I want to read...

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I'm not against more funding if that's needed, but a former head of the Secret Service recently said that insufficient funding is not the problem, and that the Service needs reorganizing and house cleaning instead. This would be thought on. The Pennsylvania shooting in July seems to me to be a classic case of lack of coordination between the Feds and the Locals. The FBI is famous for disdaining the local police, and I suspect that the President's guard was guilty of the same negligence in the case of the Trump shooting.

I also wonder is why the assassins always miss Republicans, while they don't miss when a Democrat or Black man is in the cross-hairs. Is it possible that the latter get covert help from government professionals, while the former don't? The FBI certainly had a hand in the assassination of Malcolm X.

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Please send me all communications as a transcript, Could you also divert all your communications

to Substack.

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Careful if you buy one of those Trump watches. They tell you the time that Donald Trump wants you to see whether it's the real time or not.

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