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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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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
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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.
May 14, 2024
Thom Hartmann
How Will Trump 2024 Add to the GOP’s Long History of Election Theft?
Nixon sabotaged Vietnam peace talks. Reagan asked Iran to hold the hostages. We never know about these things until years later. So: What will Trump do?
May 9, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Trump Keeps Dragging America Into More Moral Sewers Than We Can Count
The American president is supposed to represent the national character. Trump has set a “moral example” that will take a generation at least to repair.
May 6, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Right-Wing CEOs and Billionaires Think Trump Will Protect Them. Wrong.
Sorry, Elon Musk, but that’s not how fascism works.
May 3, 2024
Thom Hartmann
What’s More Deadly—a New H5N1 Flu or the Republican Party?
You should be keeping an eye on the “bird flu”—and on the Republicans who want to slice and dice the CDC budget.
April 29, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Why Democratic Voters Would Never Accept Republican Defectors
Recently, a Tory left his U.K. party to join Labour. That’s something that could probably never happen here, and here’s why.
April 25, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Southern Autoworkers Call B.S. on Republican Anti-Union Agitprop
That Volkswagen vote in Tennessee was step one. Step two may come next month in Alabama. Yet Southern GOP governors stand pat.

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