The Hartmann Report

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12.02.2021

Once the GOP is done with birth control pills they're coming for gay marriage & ultimately, civil rights laws themselves including, like in Hungary, the rights to assembly, free-speech & due process.

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12.02.2021 NEXT UP ON THE GOP'S AGENDA: STRIPPING WOMEN OF POLITICAL & ECONOMIC POWER Once the GOP is done with birth control pills they're coming for gay marriage & ultimately, civil rights laws themselves including, like in Hungary, the rights to assembly, free-speech & due process.
12.01.2021 THE WEALTHY ARE CREATING LABS OF AUTOCRACY - CONVERSATIONS WITH GREAT MINDS - DAVID PEPPER Lawyer, writer, and former elected official, David Pepper joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the rigged systems that the rich and the GOP are creating in state capitols.
11.30.2021 REVEALED: THE RACIST PLOT TO TEAR AMERICA APART If Omicron prevails, how will you handle another lock down? Sirius XM radio host Dean Obeidallah outlines his latest article: The GOP's long embrace of anti-Muslim hate.
11.29.2021 IS GREED THE REASON WE ARE IN OMICRON'S DEADLY CROSS-HAIRS? We once celebrated those who pushed back against greed, from Dickens’ Christmas Carol to the Grinch: we must condemn greed and again celebrate community, love & selflessness. Should the Unvaccinated Be Last In Line for Covid Necessitated Transplants?
11.28.2021 THE "MEDICARE ADVANTAGE" PLAN TO KILL REAL MEDICARE The “Medicare Advantage” Plan to Kill Real Medicare.
11.27.2021 DEEPER DIVE INTO THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION Investigative journalist Lamar Waldron continues his revelatory deep dive into the death of JFK on the 58th anniversary of the assassination.
11.26.2021 THERE IS A NEW PROGRESSIVE NEWS SITE IN TOWN! Democratic strategist Tim Hogan shares the excitement of a new progressive news site, Heartland Signal. The site focus will be the 2022 midterms and the local races throughout the Midwest.
11.25.2021 HOW THE OTHER HALF EATS HOW THE OTHER HALF EATS: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America.
11.24.2021 NO MORE "TOKYO ROSES" TRYING TO DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY Senator Bernie Sanders joins the show to speak on the Build Back Better Bill & Defense Funding.
11.23.2021 OUR NATION'S TRAUMA AND FINDING A WAY TO HEAL Conversations with Great Minds - Mary Trump - The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding A Way to Heal.
11.22.2021 WHO KILLED JFK AND WHY? DEFINITIVE DEEP DIVE 58 YEARS LATER WITH INVESTIGATOR LAMAR WALDRON Thom Hartmann is joined by JFK Historian & author of numerous books, including The Hidden HIstory of the JFK Assassination, Lamar Waldron.
11.21.2021 BANNED! SLAVERY, CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE HISTORY OF REDLINING Critical Race Theory is the latest under attack by conservatives. Now American history is being erased by the GOP in North Dakota and Texas. Will your school be next?
11.20.2021 THE BUILD BACK BETTER BILL PASSES THE HOUSE! California Progressive Representative Ro Khanna joins Thom to answer listener questions for a National Town Hall, as the US House celebrates the victory of passing Biden's Build Back Better Bill and the tragic acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.
11.19.2021 WHAT IS THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND CREATING FEAR? Dr. Justin A. Frank weighs in on "What is the Psychology Behind Creating Fear Around Critical Race Theory & How Do You Purge Racism From a Society?"
11.18.2021 LET'S STOP CALLING JAN 6TH AN INSURRECTION WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY AN ATTEMPTED COUP As lawmakers debate the Build Back Better Bill in Washington, DC, Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan, takes time before the vote to answer listener questions in a National Progressive Townhall Meeting.
11.17.2021 WHAT IS THE WEALTH OF A NATION? Professor Richard Wolff joins the show to explain "What is Financialization and How Has It Damaged America?"
11.16.2021 IS THE WORLD LOCKING DOWN AGAIN ON THE NEW COVID WAVE? Epidemiologist & Senior Fellow-Federation of American Scientists Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding - Is the World Locking Down Again on the New Covid Wave?
11.15.2021 WILL YOU STORM THE CAPITOL IF THE 2024 ELECTION IS STOLEN? Bannon Urges His Followers to "fight" & "We're taking down the Biden Regime," as he surrendered.
11.14.2021 THE BILL IS COMING DUE FOR SENDING GOOD PAYING JOBS OVERSEAS Reagan’s neoliberal policies — maintained to this day — sent our good manufacturing jobs overseas and now most all we’re left with are, “Do you want fries with that?” service jobs. Americans are furious.
11.13.2021 LET'S SEAL UP THE CRACKS AND PROVIDE A SOLID FLOOR FOR ALL AMERICANS Why is free money a good thing for the children of wealthy white kids but free money to poor people or minorities is a terrible social ill that damages those young people for life?
11.12.2021 REPUBLICANS ARE SYSTEMATICALLY REPLACING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY WITH STRONGMAN AUTHORITARIANISM Republicans are systematically replacing American democracy with strongman authoritarianism
11.11.2021 WHY WAS PENCE AND HIS STAFF LOCKED OUT OF THEIR OFFICES AND BADGES DEACTIVATED ON JAN 6TH? Why don't Jurists get to know that Kyle Rittenhouse was a right wing terrorist?
11.10.2021 TIME FOR DEMOCRATS TO WAKE UP ON FREE TRADE OR PAY IN 2024 Former speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich finally is forced to answer for his hypocrisy.
11.09.2021 CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER ON HUNGER STRIKE TO SAVE VOTING RIGHTS Legendary civil rights activist Joe Madison is going on a hunger strike to push for the passing of the John Lewis Voting Act.
11.08.2021 DID TRUMP & EASTMAN GAME OUT "BLOODLUST" TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION? What If Every American's Home Was a Power Plant? If we’re committed to reaching zero emissions, we must return to that goal.
11.07.2021 HEY JOE MANCHIN - NURSES IN WEST VIRGINIA WANT YOU TO VOTE YES ON THE BUILD BACK BETTER BILL! 1,000 West Virginia hospital workers strike to “Build Back Better” in freezing weather. Will their Senator Joe Manchin deign to pay attention to them?
11.06.2021 WHERE IS THE MEDIA ON TRUMP'S MASS MURDER? WHERE IS THE MEDIA ON TRUMP'S MASS MURDER?
11.05.2021 IS QANON A TRAGEDY, A DANGER, OR A TERRORIST GROUP? Thom is joined by historian & associate professor Dr. Thomas Lecaque.
11.04.2021 THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RELIGION WITH NO NAME Brian C. Muraresku joins Thom to explore his new book The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion With No Name
11.03.2021 VIRGINIA'S ELECTION PROVES AMERICA IS STANDING ON THE EDGE OF A NEW POPULISM Neoliberalism is a wounded, dying animal. America is returning to populism, whether our politicians want it or not: the big question is will it be progressive or fascist populism?
11.02.2021 STOPPING BIG OIL FROM FUNDING CLIMATE DISINFORMATION? Are Trump & His Cronies Guilty of Mass Murder? Where is the Media?
11.01.2021 THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE OF THE GOP IS THE SURVIVAL OF WHITE SUPREMACY David Sirota joins Thom to look at the current wrangling over the reconciliation bill
10.31.2021 DID THE SUPREME COURT CREATE A CANCER EATING AWAY AT THE CORE OF DEMOCRACY? Billionaires & their companies now own politicians -- and the Supreme Court set it all up with their poisonous Citizens United decision
10.30.2021 WITHOUT THE FILIBUSTER OUR POLITICIANS ARE BARE NAKED An Open Letter in Defense of Democracy - Signed by Billy Kristol and Noam Chomsky and others...
10.29.2021 COULD A PLANETARY CHANGE IN DIET BE THE FIRST STEP TO SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY? Thom and Frances Moore Lappe discuss how activists in the anti-war movement turned to vegetarianism as a sign of their commitment to non-violence.
10.28.2021 THE PERIL OF JAN 6TH CAN HAPPEN AGAIN WHILE DEMOCRACY HOLDS ITS BREATH Chairman Adam Schiff joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the Equal Health Care For All Act and Trump's January 6th riot that almost ended democracy as we know it.
10.27.2021 COMEDIAN PROVES ABORTION AND SEX ARE NO LAUGHING MATTER Thom Hartmann debates Jennifer Stefano, the Republican Strategist and Vice President-Commonwealth Foundation Fellow -Independent Women's Forum.
10.26.2021 WHY ARE WORKERS QUITTING THEIR JOBS IN RURAL STATES? Employees quit or were hired at rates matching or exceeding the national average in the ten states with the highest rates of new infections of Covid-19.
10.25.2021 WE ARE IN DEFCON-1 OF THE BIG LIE As the facts come out about the January 6th insurrection, will our country continue down the road toward cruel oligarchy and violent fascism, or can we return to core American values of fairness, compassion, and a society that cares for ...
10.24.2021 WHY WON'T GOPers CONDEMN THE INSURRECTION? Thom welcomes former Republican Representative Joe Walsh, host, "White Flag w/Joe Walsh", author of "F--- Silence: Calling Trump Out for the Cultish, Moronic, Authoritarian Con Man He Is". Why are Republicans still lining up behind a would-be dictator? Also- are ...
10.23.2021 IS (THE REPUBLICAN) GOD DEAD? Thom and "Sexy Liberal" John Fugelsang discuss how the GOP has repudiated every one of Jesus's teachings. Who thinks Covid is a sign of the 'End Times'? Also- what to do about the filibuster?
10.22.2021 IS AMERICA HOOKED ON DOPAMINE? DR. ANNA LEMBKE REVEALS THE DANGERS OF THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE Stanford University Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Anna Lembke joins the show on her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.
10.21.2021 WILL REPUBLICANS ACHIEVE MINORITY RULE? As Texas gerrymandering and other election-rigging in red states go into effect, will racist Republicans be able to hang on to power even as white people become a minority? Or is the Republican party going down in flames? Veteran Progressive ...
10.20.2021 HOW WALL STREET IS CAUSING HOMELESSNESS As money floods into real estate from giant investment firms, what are the stark consequences of making housing out of reach for many of our fellow Americans? When will America wake up and do something about the explosion of homelessness? ...
10.19.2021 WILL WE CHOOSE TO HAVE A MIDDLE CLASS? If if we want to stop the destruction of the remnants of the last generation's middle class, it all starts with taxing the rich: The time is long past due for us to roll back the Reagan tax cuts.
10.18.2021 RIGHT WING MEDIA KILLS WHEN USED AS DIRECTED Right Wing Billionaires Are Telling Sinema to Jump & She Is Saying How High?
10.17.2021 IS THERE TIME FOR GENUINE PATRIOTS TO RESCUE AMERICA? We are close to either a collapse or a renewal of democracy: which way will America go?
10.16.2021 WHY SHOULD AMERICA TAKE THE GOP SERIOUSLY ABOUT RAISING THE DEBT CEILING Thom debates Republican strategist Jennifer Stefano, Vice President of the Commonwealth Foundation and Fellow of the Independent Women's Forum.
10.15.2021 FANNIE LOU HAMER'S ENDURING MESSAGE TO AMERICA Dr. Keisha N. Blain - Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America.
10.14.2021 GROWING NUCLEAR DISASTER HIDDEN IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST You may not have heard about the nuclear disaster brewing in the tranquil Pacific Northwest. Tom Carpenter from the Handford challenge explains this impending disaster may be as destructive as Fukushima.

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