From New York, this is Democracy Now.

The importance of the election on Tuesday is gigantic.

It could decide the future of the House of Representatives.

It could decide then the future of America and the future of the world.

Why is Elon Musk spending some $20 million on Wisconsin Supreme Court election Tuesday

and what's become the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history.

Giving away a million dollar checks to two voters who signed one of his petitions,

we'll speak with longtime Wisconsinite John Nichols of the nation.

Then after President Trump fires most of the board and

leadership of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, we'll talk to ousted artistic

director, Mark Bermuti Joseph. I'm taking down everything black in my office, just as the new leadership of the Kennedy Center is doing its best to disavow much of the literal color that has made this place special.

Finally, we remember Free Press co-founder Robert McChesney, a tireless defender of media and democracy.

What we've seen is that the Internet was promised to be this great engine of economic competition.

It was going to spur economic growth, create all these new businesses, huge amounts of jobs.

Remember the term new economy from the late 90s?

And instead, what we've seen is the Internet is arguably the biggest generator of monopoly in the history.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. The death toll in Burma, also known as Myanmar, from Friday's 7.7 magnitude earthquake, has topped 2,000. It's expected to rise significantly as rescuers try to reach people buried under the rubble.

At least 19 people also died in Thailand.

The World Health Organization is warning health care facilities in Burma are overwhelmed

as aid in humanitarian groups express alarm over the devastation.

People are just, you know, desperate, devastated.

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