Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment and more than 25 other books in print.
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Views Wednesday, July 17, 2019 How a Trojan Horse Project to Rewrite Our Constitution Could Actually Happen if Trump Wins in 2020 It’s often said that if Trump is reelected, it’ll be the end of democracy in America. But how could Trump get reelected, and how could democracy get wiped out in the USA? Turns out, there’s an actual project to rewrite our Constitution, turning America into a corporate-run oligarchy. They’d end the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 09, 2019 Trump and GOP Are Blatantly Encouraging Foreign Dictators to Hack the 2020 Election It looks like Donald Trump and the leadership of the GOP are encouraging other countries to hack our upcoming 2020 election. Donald Trump is sucking up to dictators, strongman oligarchs, and autocrats around the world , while Mitch McConnell is using political brute force to prevent individual... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Can Donald Trump Hold Off an Economic Crash Until the Election? If he times it right, Donald Trump might set back the Democratic Party for a generation or more; if he misses, he’ll go down in history along with Herbert Hoover as the guy who brought the nation an economic disaster. Back in 2007 and early 2008, many of us were convinced that an economic crash was... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 12, 2019 How Fears of Abolition Shaped the Second Amendment “Give me liberty or give me death.” —Patrick Henry Article 1, Section 8, of the proposed Constitution had southern slave owners concerned about the future of their economy. Slavery can exist only in the context of a police state, and the enforcement of that police state was the explicit job of the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 04, 2019 How Guns Literally Go to Men's Heads People are asking why the shooter in Virginia Beach used a gun to settle his workplace score. The answer is probably pretty simple. When a man has a gun, he literally holds the power of life and death in his hand. That kind of power is extraordinarily seductive. With a gun in his hand, a man can... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 30, 2019 If Democrats Want to Beat Trump, They Better Not Nominate a ‘Free Trade’ Candidate “[Americans’] patriotism would certainly prefer its [tariffs’] continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.” —... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 21, 2019 This Is How Republics Die The American republic could die, just like Rome. Wavering for some time on the verge of becoming a complete oligarchy, America is on the verge of flipping from a democratic republic to a strongman or autocratic form of government, something that’s happened to dozens of democracies in the past few... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 17, 2019 The GOP Is on the Road to Mass Lockups for Women Who Have Miscarriages The GOP’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is on its way. During Mike Pence’s first year as governor of Indiana, his state put a young woman in prison for having a miscarriage, alleging that she’d taken an abortion-causing drug. Purvi Patel didn’t have a trace of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 04, 2019 Republicans Have Put Our Country on a Path of Warp-Speed Decline—And They Want You to Think It's Worth Cheering For Listening to Republicans, it’s apparent they don’t have much respect for the intelligence of the American people. Over 70 percent of Americans want a national health care system like every other developed country in the world has, but the GOP tells us that we just aren’t smart enough to make it... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Has "Cover-Up General" William Barr Struck Again? Back in 1992, the last time Bill Barr was U.S. attorney general, iconic New York Times writer William Safire referred to him as “Coverup-General Barr” because of his role in burying evidence of then-President George H.W. Bush’s involvement in “Iraqgate” and “Iron-Contra.” General Barr has struck... Read more |