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Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann has been ranked America’s #1 progressive Talk Show Host by Talkers Magazine for over a decade, and is the New York Times bestselling, four-time Project Censored award-winning author of over 30 books in print. His writings also appear daily at The Hartmann Report.

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August 7, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Tim Walz Is the Perfect Antidote to the Brainwashed Fox News Dads
Rupert Murdoch and his minions have poisoned the brains of millions of American men. Tim Walz is the cure.
July 24, 2024
Thom Hartmann
J.D. Vance Is a Grifter—Just Like His New Boss
Trump has been ripping off hardworking people for decades. Now he’s chosen a running mate who’s made millions pretending to be a hillbilly. They’re the perfect people to lead the party of grift.
July 23, 2024
Thom Hartmann
J.D. Vance Wants Kamala Harris to Be “Grateful” for White Male Power
Trump’s running mate has an ugly history of attacking the vice president, and he added a new chapter on Monday.
July 17, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Trump Will Make “Us” Wealthy? Depends on Who the “Us” Is.
If Trump-Vance wins, we’ll have a billionaire president and multimillionaire vice president, backed by other billionaires. And that’s who “us” is.
July 12, 2024
Thom Hartmann
AOC’s Move on Thomas and Alito Has All the Right Historical Echoes
Ocasio-Cortez’s articles of impeachment against the rogue justices probably won’t remove them. But history suggests it might help tame the court in other ways.
July 9, 2024
Thom Hartmann
How the Real Mainstream Media Bias Favors Donald Trump
It’s not liberal vs. conservative. It’s called “inversion of expectation,” and it poisons coverage every single day.
July 2, 2024
Thom Hartmann
The Next Step Is to End All Prosecutions of Trump
Clarence Thomas says Jack Smith should go back to The Hague and prosecute European war criminals, because American fascists are now officially immune.
June 27, 2024
Thom Hartmann
The Supreme Court Was Never Meant to Be Kings and Queens
The Framers designed the judiciary as the weakest branch. John Marshall changed all that. And today, we’re paying the price for it.
June 25, 2024
Thom Hartmann
How the Trump and Right-Wing Media Hate Virus Spreads
A woman almost drowned a 3-year-old Palestinian American girl in Texas last month. What made her so filled with hatred?
June 19, 2024
Thom Hartmann
On Juneteenth, Let’s Examine the Link Between MAGA and the Old South
We face a second insurrection in this country today, and most people have no idea how closely it’s modeled on the first one.
June 17, 2024
Thom Hartmann
From the Border to Bump Stocks, the MAGA Lie Machine Is Heating Up
A tipping point has been reached lately at which Republicans are even more bought in to Trump’s lies. It’s only going to keep tipping.
June 13, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Want Women to Stay Barefoot and Pregnant
The right says otherwise, and the media goes along, but history proves over and over that population decline is a good thing.
June 11, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Trump and the GOP Are Doubling Down—Again—on Trickle-Down Economics
Yes, they want to cut taxes on rich people again. It’s an obsession that goes back to the ’80s—the 1880s.
June 7, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Trump + Murdoch = Another Racially Toxic Presidential Campaign
The race-hatred engines are getting revved up again. Prepare for an ugly fall.
June 5, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Gird Yourself for the Coming Avalanche of Pro-Trump A.I. Propaganda
China has already started. This is going to make Putin’s 2016 troll farm look like amateur hour. Can we counter it?
May 31, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Guilty: Is Trumpism a Movement or a Cult?
MAGA is not a movement. A movement is based on ideas. Trumpism is less durable—but it can still do plenty of damage.
May 28, 2024
Thom Hartmann
How Trump’s Dictator Pals Might Get Him Back to the White House
The GOP pulled “October surprises” in 1968 and 1980. Intel agencies fear this year’s version could trample democracy—and start a world war, besides.
May 24, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Why Republicans Want and Need a Permanent Economic Underclass
Ever heard of the “mudsill theory”? Well, it goes back to the slaveholding South. And it explains a lot.
May 21, 2024
Thom Hartmann
In Backing Trump, America’s Billionaires Are Digging Their Own Graves
The right-wing uberrich think they’re stopping “communism.” What they’re abetting is an extremism that will one day come for them.
May 17, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Are Our Oligarchs Going to Drag Us Into Civil War?
The billionaires who own the GOP are now actively promoting the same sort of revisionist history the Confederacy did. That did not go very well.

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