The Hartmann Report

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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Writer and Pastor John Pavlovitz joins Thom for a deep dive on religion and the right. Are the politics of many evangelical Christians actually creating more hate and division in the world, in opposition to Christ's teachings?

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Once citizens believe a nation is "a republic but not a democracy", then it’s easier for a strongman to limit majority-rule voting so “only the right people” get to vote-- or have their vote counted.

But can Biden and the Democrats prevent Republicans from rigging the game?

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Was the January 6th riot just a small part of a larger plan supported by foreign and domestic oligarchs to end American democracy as we know it? Or will the benefit of hindsight help us to avoid descending into fascism?

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In America if you kill your spouse you'll end up in prison - but - if you kill millions of people, you can laugh at the law... and buy a new yacht. And Doctor Eric Feigl-Ding joins Thom. Can we believe Republicans who are claiming the danger of Covid has passed?

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Professor Richard Wolff speaks on whether America will start to see a crackdown on monopoly?

Is our “reality TV” media up to the task of comparing and contrasting the two political parties, and judging the most likely outcomes of the directions they’ve chosen?

Have the Trumpians sent religion straight to hell in America?

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White people in the South have repeatedly been suckered into taking the side of oligarchs, once to support the cotton industry and now to prop up fossil fuels and tax breaks for the ultra rich. Most recently they’ve been following a libertine billionaire from New York who manipulated their fears with birtherism and racism while mocking them behind their backs. Also U.S. Representative from Wisconsin, Mark Pocan joins Thom for a national progressive town hall meeting with callers.

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