End Notes from Stop the Steal

Ben's 2nd book, Stop the Steal, is only available in paperback.  Which makes viewing the sources noted in the End Notes a bit of a problem to find.  So, here, the solution.

1 Mr. Conservative Republican himself, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, warned his party against this unholy alliance with these Christians and their leader, https://angelolopez.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/barry-goldwaters-Vight-against-jerry-falwell-and-themoral-majority/

2 https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_affiliations_of_registered_voters

3 https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Polling_Index:_Congressional_approval_rating

4 https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Incumbent_win_rates_by_state

5 You will Find little evidence online for this assertion. I contend that Big Money rarely impacts elections’ outcomes, it rather follows winners into their offices. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-complicated-love-story/

6 a “self-fulilling prophecy.” See the Film Stand and Deliver, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094027/

7 Aristotle, Jefferson, and nearly every serious philosopher of politics and democracy

8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WxdaU9AsnU

9 https://today.yougov.com/ratings/politics/popularity/politicians/all

10 https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/fallacies.html

11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#Definition

12 https://citizensandscholars.org/resource/national-survey-finds-just-1-in-3-americans-would-pass-citizenship-test/

13 falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson, who nevertheless preached it until he became president

14 Unfit -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/01/unfit.html

15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_1948_presidential_campaign#Whistle-stop_tour

16 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/presidents-ranking-trump-biden-list

17 “There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them"

18 https://wellstonememorial.org/about-paul-wellstone/

19 https://presidentialgreatnessproject.com/

20 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/07/deficits-dont-matter-so-why-are-democrats-complaining-about-them-216946/

21 Deficits Don't Matter -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2014/11/deficits-dont-matter.html

22 https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

23 https://www.statista.com/statistics/203961/wealth-distribution-for-the-us/

24 https://www.progressivecaucuscenter.org/the-ceo-pay-problem-and-what-we-can-do-about-it

25 PragerU on Denmark’s socialism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEPKrHalaY

26 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthiest-10-americans-own-93-033623827.html

27 Dems ... Losing ... Messaging ... Socialism -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/05/dems-socialism.html

28 https://captimes.com/opinion/column/dave_zweifel/plain-talk-capitalism-needs-constant-saving-from-itself/article_88706a7d-5226-

52d8-9a71-1db6e9676c9e.html

29 A Wealth Tax -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-wealth-tax.html

30 Being Jeff Bezos -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2020/02/being-jeff-bezos.html

31 https://legaljournal.princeton.edu/the-economic-impact-of-prison-labor-for-incarcerated-individuals-and-taxpayers/

32 https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/pretrial_detention/

33 https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/quarterly

34 https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/politics/fact-check-trump-falsely-claims-us-crime-stats-are-only-going-up-most-went-down-lastyear-including-massive-drop-in-murder/index.html

35 https://aaqi.org/

36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legislation

37 https://www.americanprogress.org/article/ending-war-drugs-numbers/

38 https://web.archive.org/web/20001025070707/https://www.nationalreview.com/12feb96/drug.html

39 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/years-of-fossil-fuel-reserves-left

40 https://www.crfb.org/blogs/breakdown-foreign-aid-obligations

41 A Different Health Care Paradigm -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-different-health-care-paradigm.html

42 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_immigration_laws

43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

44 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_State_of_Palestine

45 A Brief for Israel -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-brief-for-israel.html

46 https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/this-day-in-politics-093504

47 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel#List_by_the_International_Institute_for_Strategic_Studies

48 https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fpl/

49 https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/press-kits/2023/iphi/20230912-iphi-slides-poverty.pdf

50 Social Security, A Reality Check -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2018/03/social-security-reality-check.html

51 {Monthly Payment = ((Principal – Paid Off Principal Sum) * (1.00 + (total years * <low interest rate>))) / (years remaining * 12)}

52 On Cancelling Student Debt -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2022/08/on-cancelling-student-debt_28.html

53 https://news.gallup.com/poll/4732/supreme-court.aspx

54 Corporate … What?, https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2014/04/corporate-what.html

55 https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf

56 The Leak -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-leak.html

57 https://represent.us/americas-corruption-problem/

58 https://www.movetoamend.org/amendment

59 Money in Politics -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2022/04/money-in-politics.html

Does Big Money Always Win Elections? -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2019/11/does-big-money-always-win-elections.html

60 The Perils of Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-perils-of-democracy.html

Doomsday Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/07/doomsday-democracy.html

Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2015/07/democracy.html

The Irony of Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-irony-of-democracy.html

61 https://news.gallup.com/poll/508169/historically-low-faith-institutions-continues.aspx

62 https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/05/06/web-extra-the-lawyer-who-argued-for-roe-in-roe-v-wade

63 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEZITdTFfPY

64 https://nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf

65 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect#2001_Donohue_and_Levitt_study

66 https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/

67 https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-educated-countries

68 https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/20-843

69 https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/SAS-BP-Civilian-Firearms-Numbers.pdf

70 #2A -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/04/2a.html

A Study of Gun Violence in the USA -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2016/07/gun-violence.html

71 https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/

72 Wedding Cakes -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2018/06/wedding-cakes.html

Obergefell v. Hodges -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2015/04/obergefell-v-hodges.html

73 On Being Trans -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2023/07/on-being-trans.html

74 Our Secular Nation -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2023/06/our-secular-nation.html

School Prayer -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2018/11/school-prayer.html

75 Lying is Legal -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2019/12/lying-is-legal.html

Freedom of Speech -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2014/07/freedom-of-speech.html

76 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin#List

77 A Republic, Not a Democracy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-republic-not-democracy.html

78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States#Statistics

79 https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-founding-fathers-religious-wisdom/

80 https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danbury.html

81 https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/ext/transcription92.html

82 KJV: Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25

83 KJV: Matthew 6:24

84 KJV: Matthew 19:21

85 https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/georgia-governor-signs-three-voter-suppression-laws/

86 Qualifications -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2020/08/Qualifications.html

87 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert

88 In addition to facts and opinions, declarative sentences can be beliefs, guesses and predictions, explanations, and jokes.

89 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/america-most-trusted-news-anchors-1235906257/

90 Donald Trump is a one-man argument for making exceptions to the First Amendment’s freedom of speech clause. See “Trump’s false or

misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years” -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleadingclaims-

total-30573-over-four-years/

91 The Value of Civic Literacy -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-value-of-civic-literacy.html

92 https://citizensandscholars.org/resource/national-survey-finds-just-1-in-3-americans-would-pass-citizenship-test/

93 https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship-resource-center/naturalization-related-data-and-statistics/naturalization-test-performance

94 Here is a practice test: https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship-resource-center/naturalization-test-and-study-resources/study-for-thetest/

2008-civics-practice-test

95 A Civics Class -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-civics-class.html

96 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations

97 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher

98 An Open Letter to American Creationists -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2017/02/creationist-letter.html

99 https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/

100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

101 https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population

102 Be Fruitful and Multiply -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2016/08/be-fruitful.html

103 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/

104 The 2024 presidential election was close, not a landslide, https://g1abcnews.go.com/538/2024-presidential-election-closelandslide/

story?id=116240898

105 https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/01/unfit.html

106 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046

107 https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/ and https://news.gallup.com/poll/329384/presidential-approval-ratingsjoe-

biden.aspx and https://news.gallup.com/poll/654878/americans-think-history-rate-biden-presidency-negatively.aspx

108 https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-15/trump-harris-and-musk-how-money-did-and-didnt-affect-the-election

109 https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/34164-republicans-best-president-reagan-trump

110 https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1232447088/historians-presidents-survey-trump-last-biden-14th

111 Americans need to be better educated than they are. Higher education should be available to every American who is willing to work for it.

I want every American to see the world with a shared access to facts and history (like we are all equal under the law and planet Earth is

billions of years old), and we need to raise the level of every American to agree on what is true and what is not.

112 NOTHING is more critical to the flourishing of a healthy democracy than the educational level of its citizens, especially their civic literacy.

See the Section Education, pp. 95-114.

113 Some Democrats have already figured out how to win their elections without compromise, and without spending a dime on TV ads. You

should know who they are. They don’t “follow” my Blueprint, they are the inspiration for my Blueprint.