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What History Can Tell Us About The Outcome Of The Midterm Election
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The historic possibilities of the 2018 midterm elections sometimes overshadows what history can tell us about elections like these and the possible outcomes. Will we see a repeat of the midterms in the 1990s that resulted in the impeachment of Bill Clinton or will we see a do nothing congress with a split House and Senate?
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Is America Waking Up To Republican Lies?
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If Republicans were honest, admitting running campaigns on a platform of giving money to corporations and destroying the environment, no one would vote for them. Instead they run on tricks, pulling in racists, gun nuts, and more but those tricks can't last forever and more and more people are starting to wake up!
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What Can We Expect From The Lame Duck Session Of The 115th Congress (w/Congressman...
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What will the 115th congress do as it reaches its lameduck session, that period after the election of a new congress but before the current congress steps down? Congressman Mark Pocan joins to discuss what we can do to stop them from funding Trump's border wall through the defense spending bill and even attacks on Social Security and Medicare.
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Conservative View Of Midterm Elections (w/Guest Bryant Pruitt)
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What takeaways are Republicans and conservatives making from last night's election? Here to answer is Bryan Pruitt contributor to RedState.com. What can we learn from the conservative takeaway?
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Can Republicans Cut Medicare & Social Security In Lameduck Session? ...
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Congressman Mark Pocan takes a call from a viewer who wants to know if the Republican controlled Senate will be able to pass restrictions on healthcare, Medicare and Social Security without the House. Will the lameduck session in congress be able to get away with aggressive attacks on the pillars of democracy?
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With Democratic Control Of the House, Impeachment Could Mean Democratic President ...
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With the Democratic Party in control of the House, impeaching Donald Trump and Mike Pence would mean that the third in line to the most powerful position in the United States is Democratic Speaker of the House?
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Is Trump The New Confederate President?
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Did the Civil War really end? Trump's brand of right wing, white supremacy puts him in line to be the next confederate President. What does that say about the United States and how can we stop the south from rising again?
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Why Was 92 Year Old Civil Rights Activist Purged From Voting In Georgia ...
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A 92 year old civil rights activist and grandmother was denied the right to vote during the 2018 midterm elections creating fear and heavy emotions in the community. How could someone who voted in every election, since she had the power to, be turned away and told there was no record of her ever having voted? How common is this and who does Greg Palast need to sue to make this kind of voter intimidation stop?
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Did Slavery Change Form Instead Of Being Abolished?
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Looking at the state of African Americans inside the United States, a caller asks whether or not slavery was abolished. What if it morphed into other forms of social control? How would we defeat the peculiar institution in its latest forms?
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Why Progressive Focus Needs To Be On Impeachment (w/Guest Tom Steyer)
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Should Democrats and Progressives focus on the kitchen table issues, building infrastructure, housing, minimum wage to grow and mobilize their base or is the situation with the current administration so bad that the only cure will be impeachment? Tom Steyer joins us advocating that we impeach Trump and save our country and ourselves.
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James Crow Esq.The Sophisticated Cousin Of Jim Crow Subverting Civil Rights Gains ...
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Is Jim Crow really dead? Maybe not, although largely defeated during the civil rights movement, discrimination and subjugation of African Americans has been passed down to James Crow Esq., the sophisticated cousin of Jim Crow. What would the discrimination of the 1960s look like with today's technology? Would voter purges happen in voting machines, through hacking elections instead of by poll taxes? Joe Madison of the Joe Madison show joins the program to discuss.
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Was Communism Really Left Wing Or Was It An Authoritarian Ideology? (w/Guest ...
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Pundits on the right are always comparing left leaning politicians to communists and socialists but were they really left wing ideologies?
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The Need For An International Progressive Struggle (w/Katrina vanden Heuvel)
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Should the struggle for progressive values be limited only to the United States or should progressives in the United States seek solidarity with progressive struggles around the world?
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel joins the program to discuss.
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The States That Elected Trump Have Turned Against Him (w/Guest John Nichols)
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Have the states that elected Donald Trump turned against the President? As a new generation of activists join the house, this could put pressure on Trump and the Republican party. Could the new democratic wave stop the gerrymandering and voter suppression to take control?
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Why Background Checks May Not Be Enough To Make America Safe. (w/Guest Igor Volsky)
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In fixing America's gun problem, many have turned to increasing both the number of and the intensity of background checks as a solution to mass shootings. However Igor Volsky wants to go further and lower the number of guns in America all together.
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Are The Vestiges Of Segregation Still Haunting America's Public Schools?
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School funding is still linked to local tax revenue, a practice dating back to the days of segregation and Jim Crow, explicitly made to empower richer white schools with funds and under-develop schools for African Americans.
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Why Does Donald Trump Want To Ignore Votes From Veterans
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Donald Trump is angry that after election day a mysterious source of votes has turned up, unknown to him, these votes from from overseas military officials who have ten days after the official election day for their ballot to be received, the President that claims to be the "biggest supporter of the military" doesn't seem to want these votes from active duty military members to count...
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Is Hate The Last Thing Republicans Have To Offer?
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Does the Republican party have anything to offer except hate? Their policy platforms seem to suggest otherwise. But as hate seems to be going out of vogue what else do they have to offer?
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How Deep Does Republican Fueled Hatred Run?
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Republicans are fanning the flames of racial hatred in order to win elections but just how deep do these go? Thom takes a call from a long time listener who suggests that it is deeper than you might think.
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Private Health Insurer Calls Itself Medicare To Take Advantage Of You (w/Alex Lawson)
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There are a lot of people confused with Medicare and Medicare Advantage, a knock off, for-profit health insurance coverage that wants to cut into medicare.
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GOP White Washes Electoral Process Greg Palast Demands Every Vote Be Counted
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Greg Palast returns to update the audience of efforts to fight against voter disenfranchisement, fighting against the white washing of votes.
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The Election That Transformed American Politics (w/Guest Lawrence O'Donnel)
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What can we learn from the election that changed American Politics forever? No not the 2016 presidential election nor the 2018 midterm elections, but the 1968 election. Lawrence O'Donnell joins the program to discuss this and his new book "Playing with Fire" on this very subject.
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Is Trump's Bullying Losing Its Power?
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Is Trump's bullying losing its power? World leaders are starting to stand up to the....
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Veteran Says Trump's Order To Troops Against Migrant Caravan Amounts To War Crimes
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Could Donald Trump's order against the migrant caravan be a war crime? Veteran Joe Kassabian thinks that firing on unarmed people throwing rocks is not only unethical but would constitute a war crime. Is Donald Trump setting up the military for a long deployment in the Hague?
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Why Our Focus Must Be On Fixing Our Broken Democracy (w/Guest Hedrick Smith)
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Hedrick Smith believes that political reform, fixing the system itself, should be the focus for progressives before we move onto the kitchen table topics many voters are concerned about.
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The GOP's Money Problem (w/Guest Erin Hill)
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The single biggest financial advantage democrats have over republicans is small dollar donations from average working class people. What will the GOP do when its corporate money dries up?
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Republicans Don't Want To Count Every Vote (w/Guest Ari Berman)
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In a boxing match, the fighter in the red shorts would not be allowed to play referee.
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Should We Break Up with Facebook? (w/Guest Sarah Miller)
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Is facebook a danger to democracy, a monopoly on how we talk to each other, find information and more? Shouldn't our antitrust laws break up monopolies?
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Could This New Election System Save Our Democracy? (w/Guest Jed Limke)
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In the first for the country, a new kind of election system is being tested out in Fargo, called approval voting, which will allow voters to select all of the candidates on the ballot you would want elected. Voters would be free to pick third party candidates without having to fear throwing their vote away. Could this work on a national scale?
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Documenting Donald Trump's Lies: Do Americans Care About The Truth (w/Guest Daniel...
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Daniel Dale has been counting Donald Trump's lies and the number is staggering. As the midterm elections got closer, Donald Trump lied more than he had in a previous year, which makes us wonder if Donald Trump's supporters, Republicans, ...
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Who Were The Top 20 Political Donors This Election? (w/Guest Natalie Jones)
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Just who were the top 20 political donors this past election cycle and what does that say about our electoral process, money in politics and America in general? To answer these questions, Natalie Jones of The Guardian joins guest host Jefferson Smith of XRAY.FM
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How Provisional Ballots Were Turned Into A Tool Of Voter Suppression
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Congressman Bob Ney and Steny Hoyer worked together across the isle to create the Help America Vote Act which Republicans have since twisted into a tool of voter suppression, like what we saw in Texas, Georgia, and around the country. But just how did this happen to a bill that was supposed to help us vote, not hinder participation in the electoral process?
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Is America Facing The Same Economic Challenges That Preceded The Great Depression?
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Robert Reich is pointing out that the inequality tipping point where the working class can no longer afford to buy what they need to survive is getting close if it's not already here.
The last time this happened was right before the Great Depression of the second decade of the last century.
Is America's working class facing the same economic challenges that preceded the Great Depression?
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Why NAFTA 2.0 Will Still Hurt Workers & Keep Medicine Prices High (w/Lori Wallach)
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The next phase of the North American Free Trade Agreement is heading to be signed later this week, and although the bill has mild improvements, Lori Wallach of Public Trade Watch, believes hat this version of NAFTA will continue to hurt workers, and could even raise the prices on medicine.
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How Trump Betrayed America (w/Guest Seth Abramson)
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Seth Abramson, criminal investigator, and author of the new book "Proof of Collusion: how Trump Betrayed America" joins the program to lay out the case for a criminal prosecution of Donald Trump. Do you think we have enough evidence for impeachment?
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How The GOP Become The Greatest Threat To Democracy Since The Civil War
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How did the Grand Old Party transform from the party of Abraham Lincoln, into the party that separates children from their families, openly disenfranchises populations from voting and into the political party that has become the greatest threat to democracy since the civil war? How did the Republican Party become the Party of Nixon, Reagan and Trump?
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The Hidden Reason Corporate Democrats are Trying to Take Down Nancy Pelosi
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After Democrats took back the House, a debate on who the next speaker would be was a major concern for Democrats right up there with who would be running for president in the 2020 general election. One group of corporate democrats is fighting to get rid of Nancy Pelosi, but not for the reasons you would think. Can progressives put aside ideological unity and embrace Nancy Pelosi before this group of corporate democrats sends the party right into the hands of multinational corporations?
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Fighting Donald Trump's Unprecedented Attacks On The Press (w/Guest Jim Risen)
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Donald Trump's attacks on the press create a dangerous dictatorial level. Since running for President, Donald Trump has created the "fake" news meme, has blatantly lied to the press, and borrowed Stalin's phrase "enemy of the people" to describe the media and the press, among many other actions including kicking out journalists like Jorge Romos and later revoking Jim Acosta's press pass. How can the media, journalists and progressives fight against these unprecedented presidential attacks?
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Exposing The Daughters Of The Confederacy (w/Guest Kali Holloway)
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Taking down confederate monuments is an act of correcting history but a shadowy group is organizing to keep confederate monuments dotted across the nation. Who are these people and how can we expose them and take their statues down?
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How Ivanka Trump's Private Email Server Reveals Republican Hypocrisy And Strategy
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In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, controversy around the use of a private server by presidential candidate and the winner of the popular vote Hillary Clinton dominated conservative talking points. But now that Ivanka Trump has been exposed for using an even more vulnerable server than Hillary Clinton, the talking points are completely gone. Was the talk about a private server just a tactic and strategy to take Hillary down?
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Bigoty: The Republican Party's Most Profitable Strategy
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Has the Republican Party strategy of using bigotry to win elections gone too far with Donald Trump?
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How Canada Proves Universal Healthcare Creates a Strong Middle Class
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Universal healthcare creates and sustains a strong middle class and Canada proves it! Could this be why Republicans want to make sure it never happens?
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Why The National Debt Is Not A Crisis & Why The Lack Of Unions Are!
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Thom answers a caller suggesting that the National Debt is a national crisis but could the real tragedy be the lack of unions in today's work place?
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The Small Number Of Activists It Takes To Change The World May Surprise You
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What if the number of people it took to change the world were actually relatively small? Ralph Nader, author, activist, consumer advocate and former presidential candidate joins the program to tell Thom Hartmann and the audience that it actually only takes around 1% of the population to create real fundamental change. Now imagine if all of us got out there and got active?
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Tear Gas On Children: How Trump & The Media Are Mirroring The Lead Up To The Invas...
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The coverage of the corporate media, following the lead of President Donald Trump against migrants eerily mirrors the years long lead up to the invasion of Iraq by George Bush.
Is Trump using the same tactics and could we see a war on the southern border if this kind of rhetoric continues?
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Crowd Funding Medical Care: The Healthcare Industry Is Destroying Us
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Healthcare companies are now telling their patients to seek crowd funding to treat expensive conditions. The life of the patient depends on whether or not they can raise that much money.
How can we stop healthcare companies from destroying us all?
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Stacy Abrams Sues To Rid Georgia Of Jim Crow Voter System (w/ Greg Palast)
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Continuing his coverage of the voter purges, Greg Palast joins the show with news that would-be Governor is suing to get rid of the Jim Crow era voting system that cost her the win and led to the purging of many voters of color. Will Stacy Abrams be able to make a civil rights victory against the racist election system?
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DNC Chair Tom Perez Calls Trump Most Dangerous President In History
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Tom Perez, the chairman of the DNC didn't mince words telling the Thom Hartmann audience that Trump hasn't done a damn thing for working families and calling the 45th president the most dangerous president in history!
How can Democrats fight the most dangerous president in history?
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Can Antitrust Laws Save Us From Facebook And Google Monopolies? (w/ Robert Reich)
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What are we to do about monopolies and the extreme control they hold over us, especially when corporations like Facebook and Google control what is seen and by whom, and what information gets out and how?
Robert Reich, former labor secretary joins the program to discuss.
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Paul Manafort's Plea Deal Falling Apart: Did Mueller Catch Trump In A Lie?
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Is Paul Manafort's plea deal falling apart a sign that special prosecutor Robert Mueller caught Donald Trump and Paul Manafort in a lie?
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Democrats Refuse Trump's Wall Again (w/Guest Congressman Mark Pocan)
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Donald Trump's border may be neglected to its initial roll as a chant to fire up his base as the new Democratic Party controlled house is holding strong against Donald Trump's plans to build a wall.
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54 Percent Of Mississippi Voters Reminded America Why Red States Come In Last
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54 percent of voters reminded America why Mississippi is dead last on healthcare, income, high school graduates and more. And these voters did this by voting for an openly racist right wing republican. Why is it that states that vote red are the states that do the utter worst in these metrics? What does this say about rural America?
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African Americans Need Democrats To Stop Police Violence
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What policies are needed from Democrats as we head into the 2020 presidential fight? Van tells Thom and the Thom Hartmann audience that the most needed policy for African Americans is tackling police violence against African Americans. Can Democrats stop police violence legislatively in the run up to the 2020 election?
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The Policies Democrats Must Take In 2020 To Not Be Destroyed
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What policies must Democrats adopt not just to win in 2020 but to not be destroyed?
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Would You Betray Your Country For A Hotel In Moscow? Donald Trump Did!
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What would it take for you to betray your country? Money, power? For Donald Trump all it took was a hotel in Moscow. Thom Hartmann discusses that the implications of Michael Cohen pleading guilty to lying to congress is revealing the price on Donald Trump's patriotism.
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Yemen Proves U.S. Foreign Policy Can't Be Based On Defense Contractor's Sales ...
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Due to Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen, over 85,000 children have already starved to death. Senator Bernie Sanders, along with Barbra Lee and others are fighting to stop U.S. involvement in that genocide. "We cannot let them determine U.S. military priority" Sanders tells Thom Hartmann ... the audience that weapons contractors, pathological liars like Donald Trump, and the Saudi Royal family cannot lead U.S. military policy.
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Expanding Medicare's Low Drug Prices To All Americans (w/Guest Senator Jeff Merkley)
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A new bill expanding the availability of Medicare's low drug prices to every American is being introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley. Can this bill stop the greedy drug companies and let patients get the care they need?
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Senator Sherrod Brown vs Trump On The Working Class: Which Side Are You On? ...
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Donald Trump blamed Senator Sherrod Brown for the closing of a General Motors plant after the president's own policies caused massive layoffs and instigated a trade war. Brown fought back by contrasting his political career supporting the working class against Trump's faux populism. Which politician represents the interests of the working class to you and who will be able to keep the working class employed?
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The Extinction Domino Effect That Could Annihilate Life On Earth Has Already Started
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Is the extinction of the human race the final domino to fall in a chain of extinctions and species die offs that may have already started? What can we do to save the planet before the domino ends all life on earth?
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General Motors Proves Trickle Down Theory Only Works If You Shower With Gold Water
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General Motors admits what we all know, after receiving a massive tax cut, the auto maker is laying off thousands of American employees and closing its plants. Wasn't this tax cut passed on the rationalization of trickle down theory?
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Do Trump Voters Believe Sexuality Is A Choice Because They Are Choosing To Be ...
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Why do conservatives still believe that sexual preference, who we are attracted to, is a choice? Could it be that more than a margin of the people on the right who hate LGBT people are making their own choices as well?
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How The GOP Tax Scam Is Already Lowering Your Wages
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The GOP Tax Scam resulted in a small but noticeable increase in paychecks for some workers but what many do not realize is that it is already building the structure to lower wages. Will the working class wake up in time to stop it or toil like dogs under tight wages, deregulation and policies that send jobs overseas?
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Is It Time To Abolish The Death Penalty? (w/Guest Mike Farrell)
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The use of the death penalty has been a source of much debate in recent years. Is it time for America to abolish capital punishment and join the rest of the world? Mike Farrell, actor, human rights advocate and president of Death Penalty Focus joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the legacy of the death penalty and why putting the barbaric practice to rest will be a good step for our democracy!
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How Greed, Laziness And Donald Trump Are Destroying News (w/Guest Joe Strupp)
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Is the profit motive killing journalism?
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How Universal Healthcare Could Cut Corporations Out Of Medicare
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Why is calling universal healthcare often called medicare for all? Are the two different? If so, how...and could universal healthcare cut corporations out of decisions between patients and doctors?
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Is Republican Party Policy Leaving People With No Choice?
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How much more corruption can we take from Trump and the Republican Party?
Their policy decisions are creating environments where people are feeling so hopeless they are taking drastic action...
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Conservatives Keep Equating Abortion And The Death Penalty: Here's Why That ...
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A conservative caller wants to know why progressives are working hard to abolish the death penalty but are working to keep abortion illegal, positions that for him and other conservatives amounts to an apparent contradiction. Why is abortion morally and legally sound but the death penalty so morally disgusting that progressives have mobilized to put a legal end to it. For the conservatives that see abortion as murder, this might be a hard thing to figure out.
Thom Hartmann explains and leaves our conservative friend a little closer to the right side of history on both issues. What do you think?
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How & Why The Press Makes Us Hate One Another (w/Guest Matt Taibbi)
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The way the media is covering the news today isn't good for America but it is good for their profits, shareholders and advertisers. Matt Taibbi joins the program to discuss how the profit motive is driving the press to drive us apart!
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Have We Passed The Climate Change Tipping Point? (w/Guest Dr. Michael Mann)
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Dr. Michael Mann, climate change expert and author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening The Planet, joins the program to discuss the climate change tipping point and the domino extinctions that may have already started.
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The New Moral Imagination Of Immigration (w/Congressmember Pramila Jayapal)
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Progressive democrats are coming out with a bold vision of what our immigration policy could be to fight the Republican tactic of ICE detention, deportation and family separation. The Co-Chair of the Progressive Congressional Caucus joins the Thom Hartmann Program to tell us about this new moral imagination on immigration.
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Christmas Is Not Under Attack But Refugees Are!
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The Faux News network that brings you its annual report of the apparently decades long WAR ON CHRISTMAS is back at it again, this time complaining that the liberals are politicizing the apolitical Christian holiday celebrating the birth of a Jewish Palestinian socialist named Jesus Christ who would grow up to champion women's rights, taking care of the poor, the sick, and fighting for the rights of the imprisoned...
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The Shrinking Difference Between Today's Working Class And Feudal Serfs (w/Guest ...
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Is Donald Trump's unplanned fumbling with an economy already experiencing its cyclical capitalist crisis pushing us toward the return of feudalism?
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The Congressional Black Caucus's New Chair & Diversity Of Tactics ...
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The Congressional Black Caucus is looking to have a big impact on the next Congress, and Chair Congressmember Karen Bass talks about a "diversity of tactics" where the Congressional Black Caucus will go on the offensive, fighting to ensure victories for their representatives and simultaneously take the defensive position against assaults on civil rights by Donald Trump, the Republicans and others.
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Does America Have To Choose Between Impeaching Trump And War with Russia? (w/Guest...
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As the Mueller investigation into what some are calling #Russiagate continues to unfold, some like friend of the show and guest Stephen Cohen, are becoming concerned that the investigation, allegations, and 24 hour news cycle, are worsening tensions with Russia and leading to a place where we may have to choose between impeaching Donald Trump and war with Russia.
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The Life And Crimes Of George Herbert Walker Bush (w/Guest Lamar Waldron)
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This week marks the burial of the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush. In the week since his passing, many in the press have taken this time to describe President Bush as a model president, statesman and in contrast to Donald Trump. But in looking at the past with rose tinted glasses we ignore how the Bush crime family led us to Donald Trump, and it is in that spirit that Lamar Waldron joins Thom Hartmann to go over the life and crimes of George H.W. Bush. The real story that is not being told on the corporate media.
Bani-Sadr on Reagan's treason from the Argo article:
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Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the “October Surprise,” which prevented the attempts by myself and then-US President Jimmy Carter to free the hostages before the 1980 US presidential election took place. The fact that they were not released tipped the results of the election in favor of Reagan.
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More Than Taxes: The Populist Anger Behind the Yellow Vest Movement (w/Guest Cole ...
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The popular depictions of France's Yellow Vest Movement try to depict the grassroots populist mobilization as a "European Tea Party" fighting against big government and high taxes. Journalist Cole Stangler joins to tell the Thom Hartmann program the much more interesting truth to the Yellow Vest movement. Do you think we'll see similar mobilizations in the U.S.?
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Are We Seeing The Same Signs Of An Economic Crash That Preceded The 2008 Recession?
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The market is starting to freak out and the FED doesn't have the wiggle room to lower the interest rate to put more money in the economy. Are we seeing the same signs of economic crash from late 2007?
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How Nancy Pelosi Could Become Our Next President By Impeaching Mike Pence And Dona...
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With Donald Trump and Mike Pence moving closer and closer to impeachable offensives, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi could become America's 46th President.
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How Dems Will Hold Walmart And Amazon Accountable For Low Wages (w/Guest Congress ...
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Progressive Democrats have pressured Amazon into giving its workers a higher wage. Can this strategy work in the future? Congressman Ro Khanna, one of the creators of the Stop Bezos Bill, joins the show and takes your calls. Should corporations be held accountable for the poverty of their workers who earn less than is needed?
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Why America Can't Afford To Go Without A Green New Deal (w/Guest Stephanie Kelton)
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Conservatives and Republicans are fast to talk about the supposedly enormous cost of programs of social uplift. When Progressive Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders champion programs like the Green New Deal the story from Republicans and even some in the media was the same, they say it would cost too much. Stephanie Kelton joins the program to debunk this myth that social security, jobs, housing and the Green New Deal are uncomfortable, instead asking if America can afford to go on without the Green New Deal.
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How Trump's Pro Wrestling Strategy Turned Politics Into A Cage Fight
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Is Donald Trump using public relations strategies he learned from Professional Wrestling? Thom Hartmann smells what Trump is cooking, and it doesn't smell too good. Since the 2016 primary, Trumpmania has been running wild, but now that we know his strategy maybe the newly elected Democrats can put the figure four legislative leg lock on Republican policies and move toward impeachment and passing the Green New Deal. And that's the bottom line!
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Former CIA Intelligence Officer David Priess On How To Get Rid Of A President
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Former CIA Intelligence Officer David Priess shares the methods that have gotten rid of unpopular, unable, and unfit chief executives over the last few hundred years. Having just written the new book How to Get Rid of a President, David Priess invokes a masterful understanding of history in conversation with Thom Hartmann as America faces a question on what to do with the latest unpopular, unable and unfit president, Donald Trump. Which method of getting rid of a president will be used to get rid of Donald Trump?
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Are We Witnessing The Impoverishment Of America?
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More and more Americans are shopping for groceries at dollar stores where only food with the least nutritional content is sold.
The middle class used to shop at K Marts and big name grocery stores but over a quarter century of Reaganomics has diminished the middle class and its buying power.
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Why Is Cyntoia Brown In Prison For Self Defense?
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Cyntoia Brown is the latest in a long history of women of color being locked away for self defense against rape and assault.
Ruby McCollum, on August 8th 1952, arrested and tried for killing her rapist, famously was not allowed to testify at her trial despite that he had held her captive.
CeCe McDonald, a black trans woman who was attacked by white supremacists and defended herself resulting in the death of her attacker, was locked in a men's prison.
Korryn Gains had a parking violation and was shot in her home while holding her son. She had numerous encounters where Baltimore police would abuse her and Marissa Alexander who spent years in prison after shooting a gun in the air to protect her child from an abusive man in the state where George Zimmerman got away with the murder of Trayvon Martin.
Marissa was not able to use the Stand Your Grand defense despite only having fired warning shots.
Cyntoia Brown [[29 years old now) was 16 years old when she was imprisoned for killing a 43 year old man in self defense. She’s been ordered to serve 51 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole. The Tennessee Governor can grant her clemency and free her before he leaves office in January.
Contact Tennessee Governor and urge him to grant clemency for Cyntoia before he leaves office. Call, write letters, send emails:
Governor Bill Haslam
1st Floor, State Capitol
Nashville, TN 37243
[[615)741-2001
https://www.tn.gov/governor/contact-us.html
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Progressive Senators Invoke War Powers Act To End US Support For Saudi Led Attack ...
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For the first time in history, progressive senators are invoking the War Powers Act to put an end to U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's genocidal war efforts against Yemen, already resulting in the starvation of hundreds of thousands of people and the displacement of many more. Senator Bernie Sanders joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about his work to start the long process to end the violence in Yemen.
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Do We Have To Choose Between Capitalism Or Democracy? (w/Congressman Mark Pocan)
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Does the freedom we as Americans experience come from capitalism or from democracy? Does capitalism understand that all men are created equal? A Thom Hartmann caller asks this to Congressman Mark Pocan, one of the leaders of the Progressive Caucus in the Democratic Party leading to a lively discussion. What do you think, does the freedom we as Americans experience result from our free markets or from our democratic traditions and are these forces in conflict?
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America Is Moving Away From Traditional Religion And It Might Be A Good Thing
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James Madison's nightmare, that the merger of church and state would weaken both institutions, might have taken place after the conservatives catered to the reactionary elements within the American religious community in the past. Now Americans are leaving traditional religion and it might not be such a bad thing. New research shows that many Americans are leaving traditional religious practices for new age, pagan and spiritual practices.
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Are The Yellow Vest Revolts A Push Against Neoliberalism? (w/Guest Professor Rich...
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The populist Yellow Vest Revolt in France has caught the attention of the world. Could these protests and riots resulting in policy changes including raising of France's minimum wage, an end to a petrol tax that would have hit the working class and poor hardest, be the first tangible sign that the workers of the world are ready to fight against neoliberalism and capitalism?
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Deal Breaker: The Unmaking of the Iran Nuclear Peace Deal (w/Guest Scott Ritter)
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Donald Trump and the Republican Party tore up a peace agreement between the United States and Iran decades in the making. A peace deal that many including friend of the show and guest Scott Ritter believe was the only thing holding back a war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America. Author of the recently published book Dealbreaker: Donald Trump and the Unmaking of the Iran Nuclear Agreement, Scott Ritter joins the program, letting us know just how dangerous getting rid of the peace deal is and why we must return to it or risk war.
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Could Beto Out Trump The Donald? How Progressive Populism Could Defeat The Repub ...
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Beto O'Rourke has come out on top of a straw poll for presidential democratic presidential candidates, even beating front runners like Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden.
Who do you want to be the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate?
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The Curious Case Of Jerome Corsi
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Jerome Corsi fashions himself a political prisoner under attack by the Mueller investigation for what he says are partisan reasons.
The author of the conspiracy theory that Barrack Obama, and a believer in the Qanon conspiracy theories makes his case on the Thom Hartmann program for the innocence of himself, Donald Trump and others.
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Why The Foreclosure King Is Running The Treasury (w/ David Dayen)
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The cleanest person in the Trump administration might be the most corrupt person in any other administration.
Steve Mnuchin whose connections to Goldman Sachs led him to be known as the Foreclosure King, because of his involvement in illegal foreclosures, is now the head of the Treasury department.
David Dayen, author and journalist at the Intercept, walks us through the shady history of a man who made his money kicking people out of their homes.
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VICE : How Bad A Criminal Was Dick Cheney? (w/ Adam McKay)
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Adam McKay, the writer & director of the new movie, VICE, exploring the vices of former vice president Dick Cheney, joins the program to answer the question.
Just how bad a criminal was Dick Cheney, really?
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How Georgia Became The Worst Jim Crow Election (w/ Greg Palast)
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The voter suppression in Georgia is so bad that journalist and investigative reporter, Greg Palast, says it's the worst Jim Crow Election he has ever seen in his whole career as a journalist.
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How Neoliberal Economics Are Creating A Financial Freeze
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2018 ends with the first month since November 2008 where not a single company has borrowed money from the United States high yield corporate bond market.
Did neoliberal economic policies freeze U.S. credit markets?
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Should ICE Face A Hague Tribunal For Human Rights Abuses On The Southern Border?
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After news of seven year old Jakelin Caal's death from dehydration after being denied water in ICE [[Immigration Customs Enforcement) custody, the public is asking if ICE, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller and other responsible parties should face not just impeachment but the International Criminal Court at the Hague?
Should we have a Nuremberg Trial for the Trump Administration?
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How To Win Political Campaigns (w/Roger Wolfson)
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Are you thinking about running for political office? Making the needed connection with your audience requires a very particular set of skills. To persuade people, we need to join with them in universally shared feelings. Roger Wolfson former counsel to Senators Lieberman, Kennedy, Kerry, etc. offers solutions to bringing people together over common causes and winning elections.
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Shouldn't The Senate Represent The People? (w/ Larry Cohen)
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As it stands now, roughly sixty percent of Americans are represented by only forty percent of Senators. What is causing this drop is representation? Who is being left out of our democratic process and how can we correct this?
Larry Cohen of The Democracy Initiative joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss a radical idea to get the senate to represent the American people.
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Should Johnson & Johnson Face The Corporate Death Penalty Over Cancer?
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For decades Johnson and Johnson knew that their baby powder contained carcinogens like asbestos and didn't warn the public, pull their product or take action to save the lives of their customers.
Instead they let people suffer and in some cases die of preventable diseases while they made money.
If a person did this they would be facing life in prison if not the death penalty so why should a corporation get away with it?
Should corporations face the death penalty for the kind of malicious neglect Johnson and Johnson are guilty of?
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DEBATE: Is Obamacare Unconstitutional? (w/ Dr. Michael Busler)
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A Federal Judge in Texas has ruled that the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare is unconstitutional.
Michael Busler is here defending the judge, the private healthcare industry and to debate Thom Hartmann, who completely disagrees.
What do you think, is the Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional?