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Could Republicans Cutting Welfare Lead To Political Uprising?
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A caller suggests that welfare and social safety net programs act as a counter revolutionary concession to keep the population complicit. If this is true, what is going to happen when Republicans cut welfare? Could this lead to a political uprising that will replace corporate backed politicians with progressive democrats?
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The Aden Sisters On The Stock Market - Up? Or Down? (w/Guest Mary Anne & Pamela Aden)
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With the Trump administration trade wars, deregulation and tax giveaways to the morbidly rich changing our economy, it can be a confusing time to invest in the stock market. Here to make sense of everything are The Aden Sisters.
How Should you be investing in this turbulent time?
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Why People Don't Vote and Why They Should (w/Guest Kyle Lierman)
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Have you ever wondered why people don't vote or are you one of those people who doesn't vote? Thom Hartmann speaks to guest Kyle Lierman on the myriad reasons keeping people out of the voting boths and Kyle tells our audience why voting is important, together they discuss why we as progressives need to overcome these obstructions to voting.
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Did Russian Hackers And Trolls Elect Donald Trump (Prof Kathleen Hall Jamieson)
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Did the Russian hackers and trolls elect Donald Trump? Kathleen Hall Jamieson is here to present the case that Donald Trump could be an illegitimate president.
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Senator Jeff Merkley Fights The Dishonorable Judge Brett Kavanaugh (w/Guest Jeff ...
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Senator and possible Democratic Presidential hopeful Jeff Merkley joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss his plan to stop Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination in the wake of sexual assault allegations, lying to the senate and more. Will Senator Jeff Merkely be able to stop a far right court from stripping Americans of rights?
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Will Donald Trump Go After Iran? (w/Guest Sina Toossi)
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Will Donald Trump go to war with Iran? His remarks at the United Nations make us think so. Here to discuss what will happen with Trump, Iran, the Iran peace deal and more is Sina Toossi from the National Iranian American Council [[NIAC)
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Dr. Justin Frank Psychoanalyst Puts Trump on the Couch (w/Guest Dr. Justin Frank)
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Dr. Justin Frank, pschoanalyst and author puts Donald Trump on Sigmund Freud's couch on the Thom Hartmann Program. What is the 45th President's major malfunction?
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How GOP Tokenized Women By Hiring Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell To Question Dr. Ford
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In a move to avoid having an all male "boys club" question Dr.Ford about painful allegations that Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attacked her, the GOP has hired a special prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to question Dr. Ford. Were the Republicans being sensitive or did they just tokenize women?
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Kavanaugh Screams At The Left & Democrats To Prove He Is Qualified, Bipartisan And...
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To defend himself from credible sexual assault allegations and prove to the Americans and the Senate that he is indeed a qualified, even tempered, bipartisan and impartial judge, Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh screams and threatens the left and Democrats in an opening statement that showed no sympathy for Dr. Ford. Will Brett Kavanaugh's performance earn him a spot on the highest court in the land or on right wing hate radio.
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Into The Business Of Punishment In American Private Prisons (w/Guest Shane Bauer)
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Regarding the business of private prisons, Shane Bauer joins the program today to discuss his time going undercover as a prison guard in America's private prisons, uncovering the corporations that make money off of human enslavement.
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Is The Supreme Court Still Looking At The Constitution For Their Decisions?
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A caller asks if the Supreme Court is still looking toward the Constitution in its decision making, provoking a history lesson from Thom Hartmann going back to the 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, the first Supreme Court case to apply judicial review, through President Andrew Johnson shrinking the court to reverse decisions in the favor of the Southern planter class through numerous cases in the 20th century.
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What Brett Kavanaugh's High School Year Book Slang Really Means
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Did Brett Kavanaugh lie to the Senate and the American people and even to God when he said that "boofing" was about flatulence or that the "Devil's Triangle" was a drinking game? One woman calls the Thom Hartmann Program to let us know what Brett was really saying.
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Protections For Corporations In Heart Of Trump Free Trade
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Does Donald Trump's "Fair Trade" plan protect corporations and the pharmaceutical industry over the people? Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch and Public Citizen joins the Thom Hartmann program to say not only that Trump's plan does exactly that but that it is at the heart of Donald Trump's ill advised Trade policies including his changes to NAFTA.
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How America's White Supremacist Culture Keeps The Most Vulnerable On Edge
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Starting a conversation on how vulnerable populations navigate a world that often seeks to make life harder or harm them, Thom Hartmann gets a call from a man who has to deal with both America's racism and American indifference to the blind and disabled communities.
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America: The Farewell Tour (w/Guest Chris Hedges)
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Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, best-selling author & activist Chris Hedges joins the program to discuss his new book. Are the rise of white nationalists, the Trump presidency, increased police state, the erosion of democratic infrastructure, imperialist leanings and the widening gap between the morbidly rich and the working class, signs of America's farewell?
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Will Proof Brett Kavanaugh Committed Perjury Kick Him Off The Court?
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As the Brett Kavanaugh farce continues, and Republicans keep trying to push the Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee through, would proof of Brett Kavanaugh committing perjury stand to knock him off the Supreme Court nomination and/or even disbar him? Thom Hartmann goes through a list of many, not all, of the perjury we have proof Brett Kavnaugh committed.
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FCC Net Neutrality Ruling Clear Cuts Democratic Geography
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The FCC ruling that cut down net neutrality is resulting in the clear cutting of our democratic geography, the internet being a place where people organized, and worked toward a better more progressive world. With the ruling affecting viewership of articles and websites from progressive backgrounds, how can we best fight the end of net neutrality?
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Are Republicans Willing To Lose The House & Senate For Control Of The Supreme Court?
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Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is causing controversy among even formerly pledged Republican supporters, and with Donald Trump's latest remarks attacking Dr. Ford, we have to ask, Are Republicans willing to give up control of the Senate and the House to control the Supreme Court?
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Will Lobbyists Create Another Deep Water Horizon Disaster Through Deregulation?
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The Deep Water Horizon disaster resulted in huge environmental damage and some new regulations that the Trump administration is undoing by having lobbyists write new rules. Is another Deep Water Horizon coming?
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Is There Anyone Left For Donald Trump To Con?
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Over the course of his life as a businessman and as the President of the United States, Donald Trump has told more lies and conned more people than we can count. Donald Trump may be the greatest con man alive. New Evidence shows that he even conned his father. Is there anyone else for the President to lie to?
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The Best Democracy We Can Sue For: Voter Purges vs Greg Palast
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Activist, investigative journalist and filmmaker Greg Palast joins the Thom Hartmann Program discussing his lawsuits against voter purgers and how people in Georgia can find out if they were purged from the voter roll and what they can do about it. Will Palast be able to stop the Morbidly Rich and return progressives, people of color and women to the polls before the next election?
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Can Progressives Undo Corporate Media Brainwashing By Educating Our Friends?
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Can in-the-know progressives beat the media narrative by educating our friends? New research suggests that the most trusted news source is each other. Friends outrank corporate news sources.
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Can You Trust Your News: The Money Behind The Media
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Can you trust the media you're watching? Thom Hartmann shows how the news is taking advertisements from extreme far right organizations, working toward the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as their latest crime in a long history of using big money to manipulate the governance of America.
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Will The GOP Tax Scam Crash The Economy (w/Guest Richard Wolff)
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Professor Richard Wolff joins the program to discuss the possibility of the tax cuts pushed by the GOP crashing the economy. What will the GOP tax scam mean for our democracy?
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Exposing Republican Election Shenanigans (w/Guest Mimi Kennedy)
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Professor Richard Wolff joins the program to discuss the possibility of the tax cuts pushed by the GOP crashing the economy. What will the GOP tax scam mean for our democracy?
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From Columbus To Kavanaugh: Why Neither Man Should Be Celebrated!
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Columbus Day is dwindling in popularity, as are Republicans after pushing Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, invoking a wave of anger and activism from women across the country and from all political positions.
Will the growing anger of women and allies be enough to stop Republicans from taking America back to the time of Columbus and interpreting the constitution as a rich slave owner would?
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Are Republicans Getting Away With Inflaming Civil Unrest
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Critics of Republicans are finding themselves in need of protection, relocation and security from the abuses by Republican voters and right wingers.
Is the Republican Party going to get away with making things unsafe for their opponents?
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If Donald Trump Is Our Reality TV President Can We Vote Him Off
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Donald Trump is employing a reality TV star method to the madness of his position as President. Viewers want to know if Donald Trump is the reality TV president does that mean we can kick him off?
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From Suffrage To MeToo: Feminism In The Age Of Trump And Beyond
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A caller lists milestones from the suffrage movement through the feminism of the 1960's with Gloria Steinem and now up to today's
#MeToo movement. The caller asks what will become of this latest movement? Will it result in any successes for women and girls?
Do you think the
#MeToo movement will help change the world for the better?
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How Donald Trump Sells Political Alienation For Power
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Donald Trump's election was very much based on feelings of political alienation of certain demographics. Since his election, this political alienation among his base has only gotten worse thanks to the intentional dog whistle and the money the Koch Brothers are throwing in. Will playing on political alienation create a dangerous environment for the future? Will this be enough to get the Republicans elected again?
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What Is To Be Done With Those Responsible For Climate Change
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Scientific reports are showing that there is little more than a decade before the effects of global climate change reach a tipping point the human race may not survive beyond. It's the time for action. What are we do to with those responsible for climate change, the morbidly rich, corporations, petro billionaires, and the politicians in their pocket. Do we throw them all in jail, nationalize their industries or do we have a truth and reconciliation commission?
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The GOP Is Trying To Steal Your Vote This Very Second (w/Guest Greg Palast)
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Greg Palast continues his coverage of the GOP's efforts to steal elections through voter purges and how we can fight against it. Have you been purged? Will the GOP be able to get away with taking votes from African Americans, minorities and Democrats?
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Trump Administration Tries To Win Over Voters With Antisemitism & The Media Joined In
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The GOP is using antisemitism to win over some of Donald Trump's "very fine people" and the media is buying it up and even sharing it. How dangerous is this for our democracy?
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As Progressives We Need More Than Just Elections To Defeat The Trump Cult
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Will it take more than winning elections and blue waves to defeat the cult around Donald Trump? How do we deprogram the cult of Donald Trump?
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Dr. Michael Mann, Professor of Meteorology and author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, joined the program to discuss the dire state of the planet in the face of climate change and what will happen to coastal lands and islands when the sea levels begin to rise in response to increased temperatures that are melting the ice at the poles.
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Is It Time To Find Alternatives To Capitalism?
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After reports show the dire situation that the earth is being put in thanks to the oligarchs and the morbidly rich, is it time to try alternatives to strengthen democracy that may not include capitalism? Is it time to give socialism another shot after the lessons and failures of its execution in Russia? What about sortition? Callers in a desperate place ask important questions. What do you think?
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Congressman Mark Pocan Takes On Corporate Media With Thom Hartmann
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Congressman Mark Pocan responds to one of the largest newspapers in America publishing a White House press release as an op ed full of lies, many of which were lies against Democrats. How do we handle newspapers that publish lies like this?
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Taking On Trump And Supporters Using His Own Words (w/Congressman Ro Khanna)
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Congressman Ro Khanna joins the Thom Hartmann Program, answering calls from the audience and taking on Trump supporters and Republican rhetoric with the words of Donald Trump himself. Digging up damaging and contradictory statements, could Trump's own words be enough to condemn him in the eyes of his supporters?
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The Dark History Of Trump's "America First" Slogan Traced To KKK & Fascism
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Sarah Churchwell author of Behold America traces Donald Trump's slogan to its origins in fascist Italy and in the 20th century resurgence of the Klu Klux Klan [[KKK) in America. What does this say about the slogan, Donald Trump and the Republican use of it? And lastly, is "America First" still a fascist phrase?
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Republicans Admit They Dont Want You To Vote (w/Guest Congressman Ro Khanna)
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Congressman Ro Khanna comments on Republicans' explicit message that they don't want progressives to vote, because they have less of a chance of winning if we do!
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How Republicans Plan To Steal Your Vote (w/Guest Tom Perez)
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Tom Perez, the chairman of the DNC joins the program today to talk to about Republican efforts to steal your vote and the election. Can the DNC fight election fraud before it's too late or will the Republicans gain majorities in the House and the Senate?
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Will Big Tech be able to take a moral stand against working for human rights abusers like Saudi Arabia? Anand Giridharadas joins to talk about technology companies and Saudi Arabia, his new book on the futility of changing the world without changing the power structures under it, and much, much more.
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How Is Trump's New Gilded Age Treating You?
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Anniversary Of The Black Panther Party
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Today marks the fifty-first anniversary of the Black Panther Party's founding. We celebrate by reading from the Panther's ten point program. Which of these do you want to see happen today? How have the Black Panther Party for Self Defense Influenced the world? Let us know in the comments!
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If Enough Young People Vote There Won't Be Any Republicans Left In Office (w/Nick ...
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DEBATE: How The Republican Tax Scam Steals Your Money And Power
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All is not what it seems when it comes to the Republican Tax Scam, but how are people seeing extra money in their paycheck going to react when they find out the true cost of the cuts the Republicans have made. Is it worth it?
A man receiving additional revenue in his paychecks due to the Republican Tax cuts, passed by a majority Republican Congress and signed by Donald Trump, wants to know why progressives and Democrats are against the Republican Tax Plan, and challenges Thom Hartmann on this and other points on the Republican Tax Plan, leading to a tax debate and an unexpected outcome.
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Debate: Is It Time To Use The F Word? (w/Guest Dave Workman)
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Have we reached a stage-two fascism problem? The GOP invited Proud Boys to an official function in NYC, where they enacted the assassination of a socialist by a far right nationalist, and then went out attacking people on the street. The police did nothing. Do we have a Fascism problem?
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What Will Happen When Republicans Remove The Pillars Of Democracy?
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What will happen when the Republicans remove the pillars of democracy we rely on for a functioning society, things like social security, medicare, the social safety net?
Worse, what happens when they are removed to add endless wars, authoritarian leaders and increases in income inequality...
or maybe we should be asking, who will it land on?
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How Republicans Use Debt As A Political Tool To Win Elections
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Jude Wanniski popularized a strategy for Republicans to use to beat Democrats by giving their constituents, the billionaire class, oil oligarchs and war makers, every tax cut they want, increasing the debt and then blaming it on Democrats and the social safety net, cutting it more and giving the billionaires more of what they want. And this time they are trying again. Will the Two Santa Claus Theory work during the 2018 midterm elections?
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Are Pollsters Failing Black Progressive Candidates Ahead Of Midterms? ...
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Pete Tucker seems to think so after noticing the huge margins of error in the work of pollsters that puts progressive people of color behind political rivals they would otherwise be beating.
What blame do pollsters have when they undermine the popularity of progressive black candidates by lowering their popular appeal?
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Did Republicans Knock Off More than 10% Of Eligible Voters? (w/ Greg Palast)
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Greg Palast, investigative journalist and writer/director joins the program to discuss the increased efforts of Republicans and the morbidly rich to take away your vote. How can progressives fight voter suppression and election theft by Republicans and the morbidly rich?
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Witches Plan To Hex Brett Kavanaugh (w/Guest Dakota Bracciali)
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Bret Kavanaugh's nomination has put the second Donald Trump Supreme Court appointment at odds with many in the country: voter rights activists, the #MeToo movement, and witches!, some of whom in New York are planning to get out there and get active by hexing Brett Kavanaugh. Will hexing Republicans and their Supreme Court picks help us get them out of political power and will you be hexing Republicans and the morbidly rich out of political power?
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Did Trump Have an Obligation to Warn Khashoggi (w/Juan Cole)
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How much responsibility does Donald Trump have, after not warning Khashoggi, and what does this say to the state of journalism, free speech, the Trump administration, America and the World. Professor Juan Cole joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss this and his new book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires.
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What Would America Look Like If We Taxed The Rich (w/ Richard Wolff)
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Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom to discuss what America would look like if we taxed the rich at levels similar to what they were before Ronald Reagan's original corporate Tax Scam?
Would taxing the rich bring back the middle class after the GOP Tax Scam?
Professor Wolff's coffee mug says "A woman's place is in the resistance."
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Trickle-Down Racism: The Not So New Platform Of The Republican Party
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The trickle-down racism of the Republican Party is moving away from the dog whistle racism of Lee Atwater and into rhetoric that sounds blatant!
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If We Don't Stop Voter Suppression Start Polishing Your Chains
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This next election has a lot of weight on it, and if we don't stop Republican voter suppression, we may need to start polishing our chains.
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How Republicans Tested And Got Away With Election Fraud
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Election fraud is not a new tactic. Republicans tested voter suppression in the election of the 43rd President, George w. Bush. Since then the morbidly rich have only increased efforts. Will they be successful in the 2018 election?
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Right Wing Instilling Terror In Nicaragua (w/Guest Erika Guevara Rosas)
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Did Nicaragua's highest officials have knowledge of state repression and force against protesters? Erika Guevara Rosas, a human rights attorney with Amnesty International, joins to share details about how Nicaragua is instilling terror in marginalized communities.
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The Destruction Of American Democracy By Our Right Wing Media
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Rupert Murdock has worked his way around the world destroying democracy with media publications and TV channels.
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Could What Happened In Germany In 1932 Happen In America Today?
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Author Milton Mayer wrote They Thought They Were Free about the everyday people in Germany [[the mechanics, workers, laborers) during the rise of the Nazi Party during the last century. He warned about the invisible nature of a rising totalitarian state that many in Germany didn't see coming. Thom Hartmann reads an excerpt from Mayer and asks if what happened in Germany close to a century ago happen in the United States today?
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Will Future Generations Ask How Americans Let Authoritarianism Take Hold?
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There is no shortage of questions about how the good Germans let Hitler and the Nazis rise to power. Will future generations say the same thing to us about Donald Trump and the Republican Party?
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Why Did Georgia Stop A Bus Of African Americans Trying To Vote? (w/Guest LaTosha ...
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Georgia tried to stop a group of African Americans from early voting by pulling over their bus and forcing Seniors to exit. This wasn't in the early days of the civil rights movement but in 2018. LaTosha Brown with Black Votes Matter was on the bus when it happened and is building up her organizing effort to fight voter intimidation and make sure Georgia knows that Black Votes Matter.
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Tribal Politics - What Can We Do To Stop It?
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Thom tells the story of Armin Lehmann, the last courier for Adolph Hitler. Lehmann heard the gunshot when Hitler committed suicide.
What happened in Germany was Tribal politics. Is that what is now happening in the US, and if so, how do we stop it?
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How Donald Trump's Latest Attacks On Trans People Could Cause A Ripple Effect Of ...
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Donald Trump's administration, possibly under the instruction of Vice President Mike Pence, is changing the federal government's definition of gender to exclude trans and intersex people, making room for discrimination in justice, housing, healthcare and school as well as encouraging trans antagonistic responses from his base.
David Johns, former White House Staffer under at the Obama Administration and Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition, joins the program to discuss the Trump Administration's latest attack on trans, intersex and other intersecting marginalized communities.
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Is The American Far Right Responsible For Stochastic Terrorism?
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Over and over again Donald Trump and the far right wing media, brought to you via the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, tell their audience that the left is going to bring violence while at the same time creating an atmosphere where right wing gangs beat up protesters.
And now someone is sending suspicious packages and bombs to George Soros, Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton and more. Could this attack be related to anti-semitic calls for violence from right wing pundits and politicians?
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How Male Judges Are Stopping The #MeToo Movement In Its Tracks (w/Guest Victoria ...
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The MeToo movement continues to make massive headway toward this next step in women's liberation but the old guard of male judges may be trying to stop the feminist message in its tracks. Can
#MeToo keep the momentum going despite the patriarchy's best efforts?
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Do We Ever Learn From History? FDR vs Trump
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Lies and damned lies from Trump and his administration.
Has nothing been learned from history? Compare Trump and FDR and you decide.
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How The Long Shadow Of Slavery Haunts American Politics (w/Guest Frances Causey)
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Director of the new film The Long Shadow, joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk to us about how the shadow of the "peculiar institution" still haunts our legal and social work and how acknowledging this history is the first step toward creating a world without these hierarchies.
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GOP Caught Warning Donors About "Voting While Black" (w/Guest Greg Palast)
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Voter suppression by Republicans is reaching taunting levels, where Republicans are admitting at least in closed door meetings that they don't want you to vote. Greg Palast Joins us to discuss what we can do to ensure your voting rights are protected.
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Trump Uses Twitter To Encourage More Terrorism
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Trump can be compared to the worst of wartime Germany with his appalling rhetoric following the arrival of bombs at the homes and office of prominent Democrats.
Thom compares wartime Germany to what Trump is doing today in 2018 and how it could destroy our democracy.
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Why Does The Right Hate Maxine Waters?
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Maxine Waters has been the choice target for attacks and hatred from the right for years and, as the California Representative continues to take bold stances against the Trump regime, their supporters, the morbidly rich, and late stage capitalism, including her calls to "Impeach 45" Maxine Waters's profile has only grown, as has the target on her back from conservative pundits, racist online trolls, Trump's brown-shirts and the President, Donald Trump himself. But why has the right targeted Maxine Waters over other politicians?
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Why Calling Out "Both Sides" Is Apples and Oranges (w/Guest Jefferson Smith & ...
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In wake of the mail bombs sent to Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, George Soros, Maxine Waters and other liberal public figures, some in the media have started to call out Donald Trump and the right for creating an environment normalizing violence. The right pushed back saying that "both sides" are to blame. Jefferson Smith filling in for Thom Hartmann brings on Jodi Jacobson from Rewire News to break down the fallacy that both sides are equally to blame.
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Do We Need To Seize The Means Of Communication?
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Jefferson Smith, filling in for Thom, asks us "Who is going to tell the people?"
Will it be the corporate media, owned by either the Koch Brothers or Sinclair's news outlets? Or will it be community media, run by people like you an me?
Do the people need to seize the means of communication to make democracy possible?
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The Tragedy When Trump's Violence Comes Home
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Thom speaks to a longtime listener with personal connections to the Tree of Life, where a man fueled off Donald Trump's xenophobic anti-immigration rhetoric targeted the Synagogue. When will we be able to hold the Republican Party, Donald Trump and the right wing media accountable for spreading messages of hate and fear that fuel these kinds of tragedies?
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How Trump’s Xenophobic Racism Triggered Anti-Semitic Terror (w/Congressman Ro Khanna)
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Congressman Ro Khanna joins the Thom Hartmann Program discussing the tragedy at Tree of Life synagogue where Donald Trump's violent rhetoric about Central and South American refugees inspired a shooter to target the Jewish community doing work to help refugees and migrants.
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Trump Crime Family Isn't Just A Slogan How They Screwed Buyers (w/Guest Heather Vogel
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Thom used the phrase "Trump Crime Family" as more than just a way to make fun of the current Republican President but as a statement of fakes. Heather Vogell of ProPublica joins to talk about some of the illegal dealings of the Trump family. What does it mean that America has a criminal running the country?
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Who Is Responsible For Taking Down Racism (w/Guest Congressman Ro Khanna)
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Congressman Ro Khanna answers a caller about what white people should do to confront and ultimately take down racism and white supremacy in the United States?
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Why America Is Moving Backward When It Comes To Black And White
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Regular caller Kenyetta talks about how America is moving backwards on race issues and how dangerous the situation could become.
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Should Parents Prepare Children For A Harsh World Instead Of Letting Them Sink ...
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Should parents be preparing kids for the world we live in with all of its flaws and hurts instead of merely trying to protect them from it so that the children can face and succeed against the harshness of the world? How do we raise children to be capable of going after their dreams in a world full of capitalism, patriarchy and the instant gratification of screens and social media?
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Discovering The Ideological Underpinnings Of Violence In The Trump Era (w/Congress...
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Congressman Ro Khanna on the Thom Hartmann Program discusses how we can find the ideological and systematic underpinnings of the violence we are seeing in the Trump era and how we can combat such ideologies.
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Is Brazil's New President, Jair Bolsonaro, More Of A Fascist Than Donald Trump? ...
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Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director for the Center for Economic Policy & Policy Research joins the Thom Hartmann program to discuss Brazil's newest president, Jair Bolsonaro, a fascist, pro-torture, anti-LGBT who may be even worse than Donald Trump.
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How Meditating Can Help Us During The Trump Times (w/Guest Ariel Garten)
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Can technology help us meditate and can meditation help us as we get through the Trump regime or just to be more focused people? Ariel Garten, Founder of InteraXon Brain Sensing Technology joins the program to answer these questions.
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Has Trump Inoculated America Against Cult Politics?
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A caller is worried about whether Trump has inoculated America against the rise of cult politics.
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What Is To Be Done About Our Billionaire Problem?
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Median household wealth is falling, except of course for billionaires who are seeing six thousand percent growth on their wealth. At this level of inequality, a fulltime worker making fifteen dollars an hour would have to work for millions of years in order to get close to what billionaires make. There is nothing inevitable about the rich getting richer nor is there anything inevitable about the poor and working class getting poorer. Something must be done about it. Would a Wealth Tax be the answer to what is to be done about our Billionaire Problem?
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Could Public Banking Be The Answer To Questions Occupy Movement Raised (w/Phoenix ...
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Currently states give billions of dollars to Wall Street to handle their banking and this money is then used to fuel the ever growing divide between the rich and workers. Ending that flow of money to Wall Street will be a must if we hope to change things. Phoenix Goodman, with Public Bank LA is here to promote public banking, state banking and local banking, where the money a bank makes would be used to help its local economy instead of funding the morbidly rich.
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An Unequal Society Is Good For The Rich & Bad For Democracy & The Poor
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Inequality fuels social problems like crime, homelessness, drug addiction, teen and unwanted pregnancies the only people it's good for are the billionaires and morbidly rich. What kind of society would be good for the rest of us?
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Climate Vengeance: A New Approach To Environmental Law (w/Guest Professor Mary Wood)
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"As climate vengeance strikes communities with greater frequency and horrifying intensity, citizens across the planet now bear witness to the lethal consequences of humanity’s industrialized path. Yet environmental law, society’s major instrument to impart ecological responsibility, does little to bring human actions into compliance with nature’s laws – the laws that really count. In fact, environmental regulation hastens this course of disaster...
"The problem lies not in the statutes themselves but in the frame governing environmental law. As a political frame, it continually bends agencies into serving those parties holding the most political power, which in today’s world often means corporations rather than the general public. In many US agencies, decisions flow from what the politics will allow, not what the statutes say. High-ranking political operatives use their discretion to favor the industries they continue to serve from inside the agency. Staff scientists and permit writers operating within highly charged political cultures suffer varying degrees of pressure to fall in line with the agency’s political agenda. These pressures remain obscured from the public, taking place in procedural fortresses made nearly impenetrable by their sheer complexity."
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How Trump's Rhetoric Causes Marginalized Communities To Live In Fear
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Donald Trump has gone after immigrants, trans people, African Americans through Jeff Session's "Black Identity Extremist" and so many other people. Is it any wonder that these communities are living in fear?
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How Our Immigration Policy Hurts All Workers By Empowering Corporations To Exploit...
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Anti-immigration rhetoric is rising as Donald Trump and the Republicans continue to fear monger around the "migrant caravan." The debate on immigration often focuses on jobs, how immigrants will come in, take the jobs, and be payed less, and how this hurts the American worker. Thom Hartmann and Congressman Mark Pocan join forces again to aim our focus at the root of the problem, corporations who break the law, by hiring people who don't have a right to work here, not people who need help.
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Do We Fear What Politicians Tell Us? (w/ Dr. Justin Frank)
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How does our brain process the fear instilled in us by modern politicians?
Dr. Justin Frank joined Thom to explain.
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Are Federal Prisons Really Any Better Than Private Prisons?
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Private prisons have come under increased scrutiny after the prisoner strike earlier in the summer of 2018 and then as journalists pointed out the dangers prisoners faced while being in the paths of storms. But we don't have to worry about those problems at federal facilities run by our federal government do we?
Are federal prisons really any better than private prisons?
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Could A Civil RICO Suit Take Down Trump? (w/Guest Judd Legum)
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A civil RICO suit has been brought against the Trump organization, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump in United States District Court for their participation in a pyramid scheme. Could this investigation take down the Trump administration?
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"What To Do If Your Vote Is Purged?" Greg Palast Answers Your Calls!
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In studio Greg Palast, Director of Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Investigative Journalist, answers calls from Thom Hartmann listeners who want to know what they can do if their votes are purged!
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Vote, While You Have A Choice!
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"Voting is a choice, survival is not," the message of a series of powerful advertisements from Immigrant Film showcasing the struggle of migrants under the Donald Trump regime. As Congressman Mark Pocan says, elections have consequences and controlling these consequences is part of why you should vote while you have the power and the choice.
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Could Universal Healthcare Cure America's Election Fraud?
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For years Republicans have fought to make sure that universal healthcare, single payer healthcare models, are all defeated and even went as far as sabotaging the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obama Care. Is there something more to their distaste of accessible healthcare than just being greedy pawns of the morbidly rich?
A look at Canada might give us an answer, where healthcare cards are not just acceptable forms of ID for most activities, but also for voting. Would Republicans find it difficult to crosscheck and purge voters if everyone could vote through healthcare cards or more simply stated, could universal healthcare cure America's election fraud?
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The Election Night Concerns Of Senator Bernie Sanders Center Voter Turnout
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The midterm election Tuesday night is concerning people from all over the world of politics, including Bernie Sanders who wants to see a rise in voter turnout. Joining the Thom Hartmann Program, the 2016 presidential hopeful stressed the importance of both the kitchen table issues that bring people to the polls and also the big picture issues of the environment and restoring America's democratic infrastructure.
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Will The DNC Talk About Voter Purges Before It’s Too Late? (w/Guest Tom Perez)
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Can the Democratic Party do more to let their voters know about voter disenfranchisement, election fraud and voter purging before Republicans do irreparable damage to our democracy? Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee joins the program to answer these questions and more!
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If Millennials Can Stand In Line For Iphones They Can Stand In Line To Vote
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Joe Madison joins the Thom Hartmann Program to stress the importance of voting to Millennials and generation Z who failed to show up during the last election. Would Trump be in office if young voters had showed up in massive numbers?
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Mid Terms 2018: Today We Find Out The Future Of America
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The American people are choosing their next elected officials and we get to see the road America will go down. Will the United States be one where a family can afford healthcare or one where the billionaires and morbidly rich gain total control?
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DNC's Michael Blake Is Optimistic That Democrats Can Take The House And The Senate!
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Is it possible that the Democratic Party could not only take the House but also the Senate after tonight's election? Michael Blake, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Convention is optimistic that this isn't just a dream!