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Thom goes over why most Americans didn't get a tax break and how the Morbidly Rich used lobbying to get a break for themselves! What kind of world do we live in where the rich get a tax break but the poor don't?
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Thom goes over why most Americans didn't get a tax break and how the Morbidly Rich used lobbying to get a break for themselves! What kind of world do we live in where the rich get a tax break but the poor don't?
Attachment 34967
Government Shutdown:
Are Super Pacs Lobbying Republicans To Shutdown the CDC and National Parks?
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What is going to happen when the government shuts down, why are Republicans so unwilling to do their jobs? Are there a group of superpacs?
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
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The Republicans are trying to blame the latest government shutdown on the Democrats, on DACA, and on everything except themselves and their president, Donald Trump!
The truth is this is the Republican Shutdown. This is the Donald Trump Shutdown!
Attachment 34992
Republicans Fail to do their jobs: Dreamers Are As American as My Children
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Tom Perez the Chairman for the DNC and former United States Secretary of Labor joins the program today to discuss the government shutdown, DACA and the Republican's failure to do their job.
Attachment 34993
Why Isn't The Growth Of White Right Wing Terrorists Being Seen as a Threat To Our Country?Quote:
Thom looks at a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center about white supremacist terrorism and hate crimes on the rise. Why isn't the media taking this seriously? Why isn't the government... oh wait is it because Republicans don't want to upset their base by going after the criminals among them?
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We're not calling Donald Trump a Plutocrat, but if it walks like a plutocrat, talks like a plutocrat and quacks like a plutocrat... We might not be living in a democracy anymore. Robert Weissman the President of Public Citizen joins us to discuss this and more!
Attachment 34996
Americans Don't Deserve To Be Ruled Under Authoritarian Trump Regime
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Former President Vicente Fox joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss the white supremacist in chief, Donald Trump and his actions against the people of the world, the people of Mexico, and the people in America.
Vicente Fox having fought authoritarianism in Mexico gives us a clue on how to fight it here.
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There is something rotten in the capital. Republican chicanery has again left with a win for regressive conservatives and the morbidly rich. And one has to wonder, are the Republicans playing chess with the fate of the nation, the fate of 3.6 million people!
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Thom is joined by University of Maryland Professor Dana Fisher to discuss the data from the women's march, who is this "resistance" we are hearing about?
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Capitalism left to its own devices is going to dismantle democracy and sell the pieces to the highest bidder, that's why we need a strong democracy to act as regulator of capitalism.
So how do we go about building a strong social democratic framework?
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Is quitting smartphones the new "quitting smoking"? There are some interesting parallels to take note of including the way that big tobacco and big tech are operating. Are the big tech companies making their apps more addicting so that they can keep spying on you?
Is it healthier to take a break from screens?
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There is a lot of talk in Washington about the Nunes Memo, should it be released, Congressman Mark Pocan thinks so and not for the reasons you'll think?
Attachment 35004
Do You Need Help Getting To Your Polling Place? Call Vote Riders!
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Not long ago we were worried about the right to vote, asking which organization is out there helping people in the way that Acorn used to do?
We have the smartest listeners in all the world and they led us to VoteRiders, a grassroots organization dedicated to helping register and lifting people to the polls, getting their ID and more.
Kathleen Unger the president and CEO of VoteRiders joins us!
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Are the police being driven to militarization via the failures of unregulated capitalism and a democracy that is more and more becoming the playground of the ultra rich and the politicians in their pocket. Thom takes your calls today and one caller suggests just that!
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Is poverty in the United States about to balloon? Economist and author, Prof. Richard Wolff gives us a peak at what is to come with the rising inequality we are seeing and how unstable this all is!
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Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown
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Net Neutrality is so popular that even corporations are supporting it in their advertisements, so why was it repealed? The FCC under Ajit Pai and Donald Trump, the Republicans are working for their corporate backers not the people of the United States.
Attachment 35010
It's Past Time To Get Money Out Of Politics, but Libertarians Think It's Free SpeechQuote:
Why do libertarians think money is free speech? To answer this questions we are joined by Charles Sauer, Libertarian Economist and president of the Market Institute. Is buying politicians free speech?
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Thom takes a call from a conservative who although claiming to be pro life still doesn't care about immigrant lives? What about Dreamers and DACA recipients? Are they not lives in the eyes of conservatives?
Attachment 35012
Are Republicans A Bigger Threat To Women's Rights Than Satanists?
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Thom is joined by Jex Blackmore of the Satanic Church to discuss their battles for religious freedom. All starting from the seven satanic statements, Satanists hold bodily autonomy very close to their hearts, more so than Republicans! So it's no wonder they are allies in the fight for reproductive justice.
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Thom is joined by phone to discuss the issues of the day, including.... the flat earth? This is an entertaining conversation. What do you think? Is there any validity to the flat earth claim?
Attachment 35023
Prosecutors Want To Hide Montana's Social Problems by Locking Pregnant Mothers Behind BarsQuote:
A Montana prosecutor is putting word out that anyone pregnant caught doing drugs or drinking alcohol is to be punished severely. The prosecutor is even asking for people to report people to the Sheriff's office. Again the prison industrial complex is more interested in hiding social problems behind bars than addressing and fixing these issues. How many black and brown people are going to be caught up in police violence because of this?
Wouldn't it be better to help by providing food, shelter and a social safety net so expecting people might not feel the need to take drugs or alcohol?
Attachment 35024
Why Congress Should Boycott Donald Trump's State Of The Union
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Thom is joined by Rashad Robinson to discuss why some members of congress are choosing to boycott the State Of The Union. Do you think a boycott is a good idea? And how will this affect our country?
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In this clip from the Thom Hartmann program Thom bemoans the odd relationship between Donald Trump and a subsection of his deplorable supporters who espouse conspiracy theory beliefs in things like #PizzaGate and this idea that elite globalists are controlling the world... One big problem, Donald Trump is a globalist!
Attachment 35026
Republican Reframing The Issue Again This Time Calling Family Unification "Chain Migration"Quote:
Republicans have been very good at reframing issues in their favor, altering the truth and this time they are coming up against Family Unification, the same process that lets European immigrants come to the United States and bring their parents, or children in time, but because the people immigrating are brown, the republicans are making a meme of "chain migration". It's all not to be fallen for!