Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" (2020); "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" (2019); and more than 25 other books in print.
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Views Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Mitch McConnell Wants to Let Corporations Kill You Without Consequence Probably the most under-reported story of the year has been how Mitch McConnell is holding Americans hostage in exchange for letting big corporations kill Americans without any consequence. "While Republicans have fought against raising the minimum wage or letting workers unionize for over 100... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 16, 2020 This Election Was Rigged It turns out that Donald Trump was right: the election was rigged. He would know, of course, because he and Lewis DeJoy were the ones who rigged it. Historically, “conservative“ (e.g. “white racist”) efforts to rig the vote were almost entirely focused on preventing people of color from voting. For... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 03, 2020 This Election Proves the Need for a Right to Vote America needs an absolute right to vote, like most other major democracies. One legacy of slavery is that our Constitution does not contain an absolute right to vote for all citizens who have achieved the age of majority. Our property rights are totally intact. If the government wants to take away... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 29, 2020 Was April 7, 2020 the Day That Sealed the Fate of America? On April 18, Bob Woodward recorded Jared Kushner saying that Trump had taken control away from the doctors and was going to open the country back up. So what might have provoked that? What was happening right around that time? Trump’s official national emergency declaration came on March 11, and... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 26, 2020 Because We Don’t Have a Right to Vote… In America, the country that is supposed to be the world’s premier democratic republic, citizens do not have an absolute right to vote. Because we don’t have a right to vote, red-state governors can radically cut back on the number of polling places and voting machines so that working-class people... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 19, 2020 How Does a Nation Best Deal With a Leader Who Intentionally Kills Its Citizens? Covid-19 infections now represent the third leading cause of death in America. This is an extremely contagious, crippling, and deadly disease. On top of that, there's a growing legion of people who call themselves "long haulers," who have been seriously disabled by Covid and are unable to live a... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 12, 2020 It's Time to Unpack the Court Donald Trump was bragging a week or so ago that Obama had “left me 128 judges to fill” as if Obama was just sloppy. The actual number was 105, but Obama didn’t “leave” them; he’d appointed genuinely qualified people, many women and minorities, to fill every single one of those judicial slots, and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Trump Goes Full Authoritarian Dictator What we saw last night was the dictator's playbook. Tell violent white supremacist racists to "stand by" and encourage them to show up at polling places to intimidate voters. Bully, bluster and threaten like Mussolini did, promoting your brand as "tough guy" when in fact you’re a lazy coward. Claim... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 23, 2020 Trump Keeps Telling Us How He and Republicans Plan to Steal This Election Donald Trump became president by exploiting a loophole called the Electoral College. The majority of Americans did not want him or vote for him as president, but he’s there anyway. Now he’s planning on using a different loophole, the 12th Amendment, to hang onto power. "It's come down to us. We are... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Trump "Never Noticed" a Modern-Day American Genocide Donald Trump said in a rally last night that the coronavirus, “Affects virtually nobody.“ Apparently “virtually nobody” means 200,000 dead Americans, ranging in age from the elderly to infants. Apparently he hasn’t noticed the damage his lack of coronavirus response policy has done to our economy,... Read more |