Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann (thom at thomhartmann.com) is a Project Censored Award-winning New York Times best-selling author, and host of a nationally syndicated daily progressive talk program The Thom Hartmann Show. www.thomhartmann.com His most recent books are Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country and an updated edition of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back." Previous books include: Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture," "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight," "We The People: A Call To Take Back America," "What Would Jefferson Do?," "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It," and "Cracking The Code: The Art and Science of Political Persuasion." He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.
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Views Saturday, February 09, 2019 The Founders Created the Electoral College to Prevent a Foreign-Influenced Candidate From Winning—It Didn't Stop Trump, so Let's Scrap It America’s Founders and Framers thought they could use the Electoral College to prevent somebody like Donald Trump from ever becoming president. Unfortunately, they were wrong, and now we’re paying the price. Given how the Electoral College hasn’t protected us from getting a president beholden to a... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 23, 2019 How Libertarian Theology and Trump Are Destroying the Internet—and America Check out this lede from Buzzflash in 2021: “Americans woke up this morning to the City of Chicago’s entire electrical system having shut down, along with the water systems of Boston and San Francisco, and all air traffic control in the Northeast. Several million homes with smart thermostats and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 10, 2019 4 Reasons the Corporate Media Refuses to Talk About Things That Matter The media recently was all over Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for calling Donald Trump a “ m@therf *cker” in the context of wanting to impeach him. It got lots and lots of coverage, over a period of several days, while the really big work the Democrats were doing in the House is largely ignored,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 08, 2019 It’s Time to Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty “The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporate form were inherent in the citizen, and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 02, 2019 The GOP’s Most Successful Scam Is About to Reboot Itself Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode and restart the scam they’ve been running since Reagan. It’ll predictably begin in the first week or two of January, probably first on “Meet the Press” and other Sunday shows that feature “serious thinkers”... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 10, 2018 With an Impeachable Trump and Pence, Are You Ready for President Pelosi? So, now that we know that Donald Trump and Mike Pence reached the White House through at least two specific and separate criminal conspiracies, what do we do about it? Can they be removed from office? Can the election be done over? Can the Trump/Pence administration’s actions over the past two... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 06, 2018 Medicare for All Will Destroy the GOP—Because of Voting! Now we know why the GOP is truly terrified of Medicare for All; it will wipe out the Republican Party’s control of the House, Senate, White House, and most state governments. Because it could make it very easy for every citizen over 18 to vote. Here’s how it works. In Canada, every citizen has a... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 30, 2018 It’s a Right-Wing Cover-Up: Trump Was a Big Inspiration for the Synagogue Slaughter in Pittsburgh It’s already started. They’re messaging, texting, tweeting, and even calling into my radio/TV show. Breitbart is even bragging that they got it on CNN. “This killing in Pittsburgh has nothing to do with Donald Trump. He’s not an anti-Semite; his daughter converted to Judaism and his grandkids are... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 22, 2018 Stop GOP Voter Suppression—Or Else! The Republican Party is currently hoping to win nationwide using two simple elements: explicit and overt racism, and voter suppression. No “ideas”; no pitch for tax cuts; no discussion of their “replacement” for the Affordable Care Act; no push for better schools, hospitals, airports, roads or... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 17, 2018 The Fascists Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare The billionaire fascists are coming for your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And they’re openly bragging about it. Right after Trump’s election, back in December of 2016, Newt Gingrich openly bragged at the Heritage Foundation that the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress were... Read more |