The Hartmann Report

Trump says the “media” is a national security threat. What happens to this kind of threat? And - Trump “State” TV is a flop. Rightwing Billionaires Aren’t Just Buying CNN and CBS: They’re Seizing the Power to Shape Reality. “The Freedom of the Press is one of the great Bulwarks of Liberty, and can never be restrained...” — Founder George Mason, 1776

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• Dark money floods the midterms
• Taxpayers fund Trump's Fox ad
• Big Oil cashes in
• Adani walks free
• Musk eyes CNN's new owner
• MAGA candidate fasts for votes

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Thom chats with Rachel Bitecofer, PhD, who writes at The Cycle - on Substack / Author, “Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at their Own Game“ How to Kill a Free Press.

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• A Trump judge kills his press ban
• Diesel prices explode
• Sanders targets killer AI
• Seattle bans surveillance pricing
• McConnell revolts over Taiwan
• Netanyahu goes after Mamdani

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Prices didn’t leave working Americans behind all by themselves. Decades of weakened unions, stagnant wages, billionaire tax cuts, and policies favoring capital changed who gets the money…

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Missouri GOP’s Map Headed to Supreme Court a Third Time. Also 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It’s Visibly Oozing. Plus, Byron Donalds pulls prominent mentions of Trump from campaign website.

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• Trump brags he skips courts and kills suspects
• Krugman calls him sundowning
• Hackers breach the FBI
• Blanche stalls Epstein files
• Texas polls blue
• Republicans fear a midterm bloodbath

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Thom talks with author, John Perkins, about his new book, The Art of the Steal: Trump and the Economic Hit Man Presidency, where they deep dive into the complex, expansive, and clandestine global network that serves the interests of powerful corporate, financial, and political entities. 

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• Billionaires bribe their way to CNN
• Trump’s tax law backfires
• ICE shoots a driver then tries to deport him
• El Niño kills 450,000
• RFK stalls kids’ vaccines

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