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Democrats Continue To Erode Republican Control While The Morbidly Rich Seeks To ...
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Mark Pocan Joins the program to discuss the Blue Wave taking over the nation in the face of the Morbidly Rich trying to rob elections and your vote!
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A Prayer For Politicians Who Take Contributions From The NRA: Burn In Hell
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Another day in America, another preventable attack, and only thoughts and prayers offered, I have some thoughts and prayers for politicians who take money from the NRA: Burn in hell!
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Are ALEC and The Politicians They Fund Complicit In Niklas Cruz's Florida School ...
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Is it time we start holding ALEC [[American Legislative Exchange Council) and the politicians they fund responsible for their complicity in the events we see happening here and around the world?
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Gun Lobby Shills Ask For More Surveillance Instead Of Needed Gun Control
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Gun lobby shills in the mainstream media, and the Republican Party, are asking for increased surveillance instead of addressing the issue of gun control in the form of a new meme they are promoting: See Something Say Something.
I see you not taking action on Gun Control, and I'll be saying something in November!
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The Republican Playbook: Save The Rich Because Only The Rich Can Save Us
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Economist and President of the Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends, Michael Hudson joins the program today to warn us that the stock market isn't the economy, the economy is in much worse shape than the Stock Market!
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He Is A White Supremacist So Why Is The Media Only Talking About Mental Health
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Republicans and the usual collection of gun lobby shills are again talking about mental health, this time after having just taken away healthcare from many Americans. What makes this especially interesting is that Cruz is a white supremacist... So why is the media only talking about mental health instead of white supremacy?
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Is Donald Trump More Caligula, Mussolini or Hitler?
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Would you say Donald Trump style of "leadership" is closer to that of Caligula, Mussolini or Hitler? Figuring this out could help figure out how we deal with him and win in November.
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Robert Mueller Tightens Rope, Indicts 13 Russian Nationals For Tampering With ...
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Could America End School Attacks By Ending Our Empire?
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Could our problem in schools, with guns across the nation be partly the result of our foreign policy?
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Why Can't Guns Be Regulated Just Like Cars? (w/Guest Rep. Ro Khanna)
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Cars are heavily regulated, why aren't weapons of war at least up to this standard? Congressman Ro Khanna joins us to answer this and more.
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Rep Ro Khanna wants To Demilitarize the Police in addition to Gun Control Measures
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Maybe you should show him where All law agencies have reported that he had no connection with the supremacist group.Fake news.
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Was Nikolas Cruz a White Supremacist? (w/Mark Potok)
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Florida based white nationalist group Republic of Florida, along with bad actors online faked, Nikolas Cruz's membership in their group for laughs?
Worse, Nikolas Cruz was actually posting anti-Semitic, racist, and hateful, bigotry online. Was he a white supremacist, an edgy teenager or both?
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Will Legalized Marijuana Mean Freedom For Those Locked Behind Bars For A Plant?
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Representative Ro Khanna joins the program today. Will marijuana legalization mean freedom for people behind bars? Is there a connection between United States Empire and the problem with people walking in our schools?
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Idaho State Senator Threatens High School Kids With Arrest For Participating In ...
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In a time when kids are becoming more and more politically active, getting out there and taking stake in their democracy, Republicans like Idaho State Senator Dan Foreman are doing their best to discourage them? Why!
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Tom Cotton Sends Cease and Desist Letter To Constituents What Happened To Democracy
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It would be out of character in any other Representative Democracy for a Senator to send Cease and Desist Letters to their constituents, so why is it okay for Republican Senator Tom Cotton?
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Hypocrisy! NRA Won't Let Members Bring Guns In Convention Center When Trump Is ...
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The National Riffle Association is not going to allow guns at a rally where President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak.
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The Best Advice To Student Protesters Today From A 1960s Radical: Listen To Donald...
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A student demonstrator planning a walkout in wake of the latest tragedy in Parkland Florida asks Thom, a former member of Students for a Democratic Society, for his advice on protesting. Thom's answer is not what you think it'll be!
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Far Right Feels Welcome In America After Trump Removes White Supremacists From ...
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Why did Donald Trump remove white supremacists from a list of extremist groups in America?
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Taking Community Control Of Our Neighborhoods With Thomas Linzey
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Corporations are taking more and more of our commons, even to the point of taking our water. Thomas Linzey Esq. joins us to talk about how we can take back control.
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10 Years Since The Last Crash, How Are The Banksters & The GOP About To Trick Us ...
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The CIA's Secret Wars In Afghanistan and Pakistan (w/ Guest Steve Coll)
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Do you know about the CIA's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
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What Did The Founding Fathers Intend The Second Amendment To Do? (w/Guest Julio ...
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Did the founding fathers think that the Second Amendment would be used by honest citizens should the government become tyrannical or... were they trying to keep slaves from revolting? Julio Rivera joins us today to debate!
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How The Alt Right Troll Progressive Media & The Washington Post
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Did the Alt Right pose as a survivor from the Parkland tragedy to put people in danger?
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How We Can Have Clean Elections If We Listen To Mimi Kennedy & John Roberts Brakey
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Do you think it's possible for America to have clean elections without the influence of the Koch Brothers, or the Morbidly Rich, Alt Right? Mimi Kennedy and John Roberts Brakey do!
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Is Unregulated Capitalism The Cause Of Much Of Our Mental Illness (w/ Guest Johann...
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Have the morbidly rich created a society that causes our mental illness? Author of Lost Connections, Johann Hari joins us to discuss what he believes is "the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions"!
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Why Progressives Should Fight To Abolish ICE
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What would happen if tomorrow, the United States dismantled and abolished ICE, the Immigration and Customs officials the Trump administration is using as Gestapo to round up, lock up and remove human beings from the United States?
What would happen if Progressives fought to abolish ICE?
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Is Wayne Lapierre Just A Crisis Actor Performing For Big Money?
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The worst parts of the internet are fuming with conspiracy theories about the survivors of the tragedy at Parkland, calling them Crisis actors, that they are paid to protest but aren't Paul Ryan, and Wayne Lapierre paid to protect the interest of the billionaire, morbidly rich class?
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Congressman Ro Khanna and Alex Laweson On Universal Healthcare
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Resistance To Universal Healthcare Is Futile With Michael Lighty
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Michael Lighty joins Alex Lawson with a message, Resistance to Universal Healthcare by big money and the morbidly rich is futile!
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Republicans Want To Privatize Social Security We Want To Expand It Alex Lawson and...
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The Republicans are trying to privatize social security but first they have to make it look like the private sector can run it better. Alex Lawson and Congressman Mark Pocan discuss the "thousand cut" method Republicans and the morbidly rich are using to dismantle social security and how we can stop them.
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How To Protest Against The Fascist Trump Regime (w/Guest Jason Flores-Williams Esq)
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Alex Lawson is joined by the radical lawyer, Jason Flores- Williams Esq. to discuss crimes for protesting in the age of fascism in the United States, Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions.
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If Politicians Take Corporate Money They Don't Represent You Anymore! ...
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Simple Question, Do politicians represent you when they are taking money from the Morbidly Rich? No, they Represent the fascist corporate donors!
Social Security Work's Ebonie Land joins Alex Lawson on the Thom Hartmann Program.
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Should We Cancel All Student Debt Stephanie Kelton and Alex Lawson
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Stephanie Kelton and Alex Lawson join forces to tell us how canceling student debt could save democracy!
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The Rise Of The Radical Right In Trump's America (w/Guest David Neiwert)
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Investigative Journalist, and contributor to the Southern Poverty Law Center, David Neiwert shares insights from his new book "Alt-America: The Rise Of The Radical Right in the Age of Trump"
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Can We Save Social Security From The Trump Administration? (w/Guest Jasmine Jefferson
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Can Trauma Lead To Transformation & Can That Apply To Our Country? (w/Guest Mark ...
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Alex Lawson interviews columnist and author Mark Miller on his new book, Jolt: Stories of Trauma and Transformation, and how the lessons in this book can....
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How For Profit Healthcare Extracts Profits From Your Suffering
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Alex Lawson brings in Medicare for all activist Andy Brodock to tell his story of for profit healthcare in the face of terminal illness.
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The Deadly Inefficiency Of For Profit Healthcare and The Promise Of Medicare For All
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Andy Brodock and Alex Lawson bring us, in human terms, the deadly inefficiency of the for profit healthcare companies. These stories need to be kept in mind as we fight for medicare for all.
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Is The Image Most Americans Have Of Cuba The Result Of Conservative Propaganda?
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Thom returns to the United States after staying in Cuba and what he saw is vastly different than the impoverished authoritarian police state the media seems to think Cuba is...
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Nikolas Cruz Was Just Your Average Racist Trump Supporter and The Media Won't Talk...
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If Nikolas Cruz had carved his weapons with "Viva Fidel" or "Allah Akbar" you would have heard about it, but because he carved Swastikas in them the media is silent!
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Neoliberalism Could End Democracy In The United States!
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Are we looking at the end of the Neoliberal Experiment or the end of the last vestiges of democracy?
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For Profit Healthcare Takes Our Premiums and Denies Us Coverage
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Andy Brodock joins the Thom Hartmann Program to speak on the life and death struggle for for medicare for all.
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Why Not Even Libertarians Can Name A Single Successful Libertarian State
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Can you name a single successful libertarian experiment in running a country? Even libertarians are having trouble.
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The So Called Deep State vs President Donald Trump (w/Guest Jerome Corsi PhD)
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Whoever wins in the battle between far right conspiracy theorists, Donald Trump, and the bureaucratic corps that make up the so called "Deep State" we lose.
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Former Congressman David Stockman Warns Of Unimaginable Economic Catastrophe
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Former Congressman David Stockman warns that there will be an economic disaster.
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Why Is The Media Ignoring The Most Important Voting Rights Case In Modern History
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Greg Palast joins the program to tell us what the mainstream media won't, about Chris Kobach and what would be the biggest voting rights case in modern history.
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Senate Risks Financial Ruin, Ignores What Most Americans Want (w/Guest Mark Pocan)
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The Congressional Budget Office warns that we could be in a situation worse than 2008 and the Republicans working for the Morbidly Rich are doing nothing but making it worse.
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How The Morbidly Rich Fracked Up New York's Ban On Hydraulic Fracturing ...
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Are the Morbidly Rich buying their way through New York's fracking ban? To help us find out, we are joined by Pramilla Malick [[Founder and Chair of Protect Orange County and environmental activist and 2016 State Senate Candidate / Host-Common Ground on WTBQ.)
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The Radical Left Wing Polices Most Americans Want Right Now
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Even though the New Deal Style policies of Bernie Sanders are derailed by the corporate media, Republicans and the Morbidly Rich, these so called "radical far left polices" are actually favored by the majority of Americans.
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Income Inequality and Neoliberalism Are Destroying Our Economy Richard Wolff
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Income Inequality could be so dangerous it destroys the American Economy
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Predatory Payday Loans Are Loans You'll Never Be Able To Pay Back ... Mike Papantonio
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We all have times when we could use a loan but deregulation means that you could be paying it off for the rest of your life.
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Are Trump's Tariffs The Beginning Of The End Of Neoliberalism? ...
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Dr. Stephanie Kelton takes us through a Micro and Macro look at Trump's Tariffs, the possible end of Reagan's experiment in Neoliberalism.
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Geeky Science: Climate Change Is Starting Spring Earlier, Confusing Migrating Animals
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Birds and bugs are getting mixed messages from Mother Nature as climate change alters when Spring arrives. It's starting sooner than you think!
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Can Biodiversity Save Humans From Extinction?
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When biodiversity goes down, it leads to extinctions, could an increase in biodiversity do the opposite and save us from one?
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How One Caller Convinces Coworkers To Switch From Trump To Bernie
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Did one of our callers find a way to convince Trump supporting Republicans to vote for Bernie Sanders?
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Why DayLight Saving Time Is A Life Or Death Matter
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Every year Daylight Savings Time increases heart attacks, injuries at work and loss of sleep. Maybe it's time we slept in.
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Why Democrats Should "Steel" Trump's Thunder On Trade
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Is it time for Democrats to run harder, better, faster, stronger on trade and tariffs?
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Russia : More Reason & Less Frenzy (w/guest Katrina vanden Heuvel)
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Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the end of Rex Tillerson and what is going on with Russia.
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Storms, Wildfire and Famine Worsen: Climate Change You Can See (w/guest Michael Mann)
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Michael Mann and Thom Hartmann discuss the tangible effects of climate change affecting the planet right in front of our eyes.
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Trump's Offshore Drilling Deregulation Is Written in Blood (W/guest Julio Rivera)
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Julio Rivera joins Thom for a lively debate on off shore drilling, deregulation and more!
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Activists! Monsanto Wanted Your Emails
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Why The Senate Needs To Reject Mike Pompeo To Prevent War With Iran!
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Dr. Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council explains why the senate must reject Mike Pomepeo if they want to prevent war with Iran.
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The Single Best Way To Change Our Country
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Pennsylvania proved that this is the single best way to change our country!
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Debate: Is The High Cost Of Education Too High?
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Charles Sauer debates Thom Hartmann on the cost of for profit education!
Time to get the profit motive out of education.
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Just Because Donald Trump Says It Doesn't Mean It's Wrong: Democrats On Trade
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Congressman Mark Pocan joins the program to discuss the democratic position of tariffs and trade!
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We Cannot Pretend That Capitalism Is The Only Way (w/guest Richard Wolff)
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Dr. Richard Wolff joins Thom Hartmann, suggesting that "the ultimate criteria for an economic system is whether or not it works for the vast majority of the people" Our system isn't working and yet we debate all aspects of our lives. Why not debate our economic systems?
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Net Neutrality's Next Battlefield (w/guest Even Greer)
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Evan Greer, Campaign director for Fight For The Future joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss the next battlefield for Net Neutrality, as the ISPs prepare to take Municipal Broadband Providers to court!
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Senator Sanders Takes On The "Morbidly Rich" With Thom Hartmann
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Friend of the show Senator Bernie Sanders takes on income inequality, the wealth gap, and more with Thom Hartmann!
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If Conservatives Want To Fight Drug Addiction They Must Go After Big Tobacco
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Donald Trump wants to start going after drug users. Maybe he should start with big tobacco!
The reason they address Thom as "Dear Fred" is because he signed up as Fred Flintstone. :D
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Scary Times: When Lindsey Graham Is Concerned About Warmongering Something Is ...
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Have things gotten so bizarre that even Lindsey Graham thinks the war drums are beating too loud? We don't need a blue wave, we need a blue tidal wave!
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Anything Goes Friday! Caller Dreams Up Progressive Talk Radio Host
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If androids dream of electric sheep, do progressives dreams of talk radio hosts unbound to corporate sponsors? It's anything goes Friday and a listener shares his bizarre dream of Thom Hartmann!
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Rep Ro Khanna Draws Inspiration From Indian Independence Movement
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Congressman Ro Khanna [[U.S. Congressman [[D-CA, 17th District) & a Vice Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus) answers the questions of a future politician on how to run for political office, leading to a story about drawing inspiration from the Indian Independence Movement and Mahatma Gandhi.
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Social Media Has Sold You: How Targeting Advertisements Threaten Democracy
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How business models like those of Cambridge Analytica are selling your personal social media data to create targeted advertisements
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Ro Khanna: "No Justification" For Bank Deregulation
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Congressman Ro Khanna takes calls on the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss deregulation, foreign policy, war, and Rand Paul.
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The Occupation Of Iraq: A Radical Experiment In Libertarian Ideology
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This week marks the 15th anniversary of George Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq, a war that started and continued, as a radical experiment in libertarian philosophy.
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Beyond Cambridge Analytica! How Your Private Information Is Weaponized For Profit ...
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These companies are using your private information not just to make obscene profits for the morbidly rich, but also to undermine the democratic process!
Investigative Journalist Greg Palast joins to explain how it all fits together.
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Even Donald Trump Will Have Trouble Starting A War If There Is Enough Resistance ...
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Dr.Trita Parsi [[National Iranian American Council) warns that we must mobilize antiwar activism now, in order to prevent the build up for war with Iran from growing.
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Your Invitation To Support The Non-Profit Work Of The Thom Hartmann Program
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My program is supplied, free of charge to many community, non-profit and low power FM radio stations plus volunteer cable TV systems.
However, it isn't without cost. Please watch this short video to discover how you can help me to provide the program to these invaluable outlets.
My sincere thanks, Thom.
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Net Neutrality Activist Say The Cloud Act Will Rain On The Fourth Amendment
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The Cloud Act is supposed to protect the internet but Net Neutrality advocates, along with first amendment, consumer privacy and other activists and experts warn that the Cloud Act will rain on our rights.
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DEBATE: Should Drug Dealers Face Capital Punishment? (w/guest Julio Rivera)
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Donald Trump, in an effort to curb the opioid epidemic wants to use the death penalty to fight the war on drugs. Here to support his position is Julio Rivera debating Thom Hartmann.
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The Corporate Media Won't Call Mark Anthony Conditt A Terrorist
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When are we going to start calling white suspects terrorists? Could you imagine if he had been Muslim or Black?
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Does Political Power Require Economic Power (w/Guest Mark Pocan)
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Does Political Power Require Economic Power? Mark Pocan takes calls on the Thom Hartmann Program.
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You Are The Product: Is Facebook's Business Model Spying & Selling Our Data?
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The Cambridge Analytica scandal may have exposed something rotten in our social media, is our personal data being sold?
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Free Trade Won't Save Us: Corporations Care About Profit Not Human Rights!
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The experiment in Free Trade was supposed to guarantee human rights would be upheld, wars would cease and so much more, why hasn't any of that happened? Why won't Free Trade save us?
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Libertarian Charles Sauer Believes The Market, Not The People, Should Make Moral ...
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The Cambridge Analytica scandal is not a scandal to everyone. Libertarian Charles Sauer believes that facebook and Cambridge Analytica didn't do anything wrong, and that it's up to the market to make moral decisions...
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Will John Bolton's War With Iran Be Worse Than The Iraq War?
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Dr. Trita Parsi joins the program today to discuss John Bolton's appointment to National Security Advisor, what that means for Iran, the United States, and why a war with Iran could be even worse than the 2003 war in Iraq!
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Congressman Keith Ellison: The Richest Country To Exist Can Afford Free College
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It was normal to pay for college with a summer job. Students going into debt just to pay for higher education?
#ThisIsNotNormal
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Would A Woman Running The United States End Useless Wars?
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Out of nearly 200 countries, only 59 have had or have women as leaders, further, many of those are not war mongering countries. Could a woman running the United States end the useless wars?
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Do You Want A Government 'By And For' The Morbidly Rich?
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Extremist Standing Trial Hold The Same Beliefs As Donald Trump (w/ Dean Obeidallah)
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Has hate become as constant of Republican Politics as lowering taxes? And why isn't the media talking about the extremist standing trial right now?
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Trump Could Be Worse Than Our Most Paranoid Worse Case Scenarios
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Imagine the worse case scenario with Donald Trump... It's much worse than that.
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Geeky Science! The Dangers Of Processed Foods
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Just how much damage are processed foods doing to you every year?
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Dr. Richard Wolff: Could Trump's Reckless Tariffs Start A War?
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Dr. Richard Wolff discusses the impact of Donald Trump's reckless trade policies on the Thom Hartmann Program. Could they lead to a war?
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Richard Wolff : An Unchecked Profit Motive And The Limits Of Regulation
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Dr. Richard Wolff describes the "eternal cat and mouse game" of regulation, the profit motive behind escaping those relations and what we can do about it.
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Why It Will Be Humanity Protecting Each Other Not Guns
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A caller asks Thom how will we protect ourselves if don't have the second amendment in times of natural disaster or famine. History shows us there is a much better way.
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History Shows Us The Second Amendment From Invasion
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A survivor of one invasion warns us that it is the second amendment that will save us from invasion.
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Tracking Trump's Deconstruction Of Democracy: Amy Siskind's Weekly List
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Amy Siskind's weekly list, takes up Milton Mayer's pen, tracking each move Donald Trump is making in his attempts at the deconstructing of our democracy and his growing authoritarianism.
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When Democrats Embrace Progress They Win Elections
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Thomas Piketty suggests that shifting the party platform to the left is a strategy that wins elections! Could this be how Democrats can win in 2018?
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What If No One Answers Census Question On Citizenship In Support Of Undocumented ...
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Congressman Mark Pocan answers a caller who wants to know what happens if no one answers the Republican census citizenship question in support of undocumented people.