The Hartmann Report

Want more proof that there is no 'magic market' making things better for everyone?- look at our hospitals. As oligarchic corruption and consolidation slowly corrupts our society, can we rescue our politics- and ourselves- from the consequences?

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Will Trump's defense against his con jobs while president, be that he was the victim and Giuliani is the villain? Could he provide the entire Republican Party with an out now? They can claim that they were all the victims of Giuliani the con man?

Also, as Joe Madison ends his hunger strike for voting rights, how competent have Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi been at getting legislation through?

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From the White House to the Poor People's Campaign marches- what should Progressive strategy be in this moment? Thom spends an hour with his callers discussing the issues that confront us.

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Can we prevent criminals like Donald Trump from making us into an autocratic, mafia-like state? It's a low bar, but can we at least be as functional as the National Football League? Plus- thoughts on Biden's recent public comments.

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National Progressive Townhall Meeting with Congressman Mark Pocan. Professor Richard Wolff answers the question: How will American economics be affected If Trump or someone like him takes the White House and ends what's left of democracy? Will America look the other way on the GOPs new election police? Voter fraud isn't real, but election fraud is very much real and alive & that's exactly what DeSantis and the Texas GOP are proposing -- right out in the open.  

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How American democracy itself will be on the ballot in coming years, as Republicans embrace Trump’s Big Lie, and politicians like Stacey Abrams make the fight for voting rights central to their political strategy. Thom is joined by Michael Waldman, author of The Fight to Vote and member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. Radio Host Dean Obeidallah - Biden Is Shedding the Support of His Base and That Could Be Bad for Democracy.

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Regarding Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day and in this era of reconsidering monuments to people who built their careers on racism, it’s time to rename the Russell Senate Office Building, where 33 senators today conduct their daily business. Thom Hartmann reads from Martin Luther's King's Letter From a Birmingham Jail.

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Journalist Art Cullen joins Thom from Iowa. Why have Republicans ended a 140 year long tradition by kicking reporters out of the statehouse? Will the next Republican candidate for president refuse to take part in presidential debates? What is the right wing strategy here?

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As Republicans push laws to restrict or ban abortions- and put abstinence only education in red state schools- how can Progressives work to preserve a woman's right to choose?

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Does Kirstin Sinema want black people to vote? Like the white supremacists of Thom's youth, they hide their dirty work with phrases like “bipartisanship” and “states’ rights” and their main weapon is the filibuster. Freedom Works are mobilizing their base. We need to mobilize ours.

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