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, April 13, 2021 The Republican Party Must Be Purged Like the Nazis and Fascists President Joe Biden has largely given up on trying to negotiate anything with Republicans. There's a good reason for this: the GOP is no longer a legitimate political party. One of the most comprehensive and well respected surveys of political parties worldwide is called the Global Party Survey and... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 02, 2021 The GOP Has No Interest in Actual Governing You can tell when Republicans are in trouble: they start throwing gunpowder on the fires of the culture wars. This week Republicans who control the Michigan State House and Senate passed a law requiring the state to inform recipients of the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine that it was developed... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Boulder: Is it Time to End the Second Amendment? Another mass gun murder just happened in America, the seventh in 7 days, and already "Second Amendment legislators" are offering the 2021 version of thoughts and prayers. Lauren Boebert just tweeted , "May God be with them." Standing in front of her wall of assault weapons, most likely. And, of... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 02, 2021 Could This Be the Smoking Gun of Trump's January 6 Treason? Probably the largest question that the Trump impeachment trial must answer is both simple and straightforward: “Did the President lead or participate in a conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States and install himself as a strongman dictator-for-life?” Proving this first requires... Read more |
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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 |