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Are Sanctions Just War By Other Means? (w/Guest Jamal Abdi)
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When wars happen, medical facilities, water treatment facilities, roads that transport food and life saving supplies are blocked, destroyed and left in ruins. Jamal Abdi, the Executive Director of the NIAC Action [[National Iranian American Council) says sanctions do the same thing. Are sanctions just war by other means?
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Do You Regret Voting For Donald Trump?
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More and more Republicans like Jeff Flake and Rick Wilson, and conscious conservatives are regretting their decision to vote an incompetent neofascist working with the Russian government.
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The Democratic Party's Fight Is For Democracy Itself Says Tom Perez
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Chairman of the DNC [[Democratic National Convention) Tom Perez says that the fight of the Democratic Party is one of fighting for democracy itself!
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Congressman Pocan vs Republican Lies On ALEC, Election Victories And More!
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Congressman Mark Pocan, who went undercover at ALEC [[American Legislative Exchange Council) continues.
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"Warrior Is" Featured On The Thom Hartmann Book Club!
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The Greasy Grass Battle aka the Little Bighorn Battle on June 25, 1876 was an epic encounter and clash of cultures. The experience and display of warrior spirit resulted in the defeat of the Seventh Cavalry and Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
The world has searched for the answers to the questions of “why”, “how” and “who else” was also on the hill known as Last Stand Hill. Our book WARRIOR IS provides the answers to these questions. The coming battle ignites global interest and intrigue, to become a lasting inspiration for books, historical documentation, and speculation. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the world will visit the site of the conflict.
Tunkasila [[Grandfather) was born in 1849 in He Sapa [[the Sacred Black Hills of South Dakota). His name is Mato Niyanpi [[Saved By Bear), his culture is Mnincoju of the Lakota Nation.
The origin of the Lakota begins with Wind Cave in He Sapa. It is here, where we left the Spirit world and entered the physical world of existence. We are Earth woman and Earth man in her honor, the keepers of the land. Co-existence with all life is Creator's asking. We believe in the hoop, or Circle of Life. All of Creator's beings are needed, and contribute to life on Unci Maka [[Grandmother Earth). Our lands were pristine and pure, offering abundant sustenance. Reverence and respect were practiced by the human. A civilization with proven tradition and culture emerged.
Tradition is the foundation of Lakota society. Mato Niyanpi would learn and grow with these teachings in body, mind, and spirit, thus becoming a member of certain warrior societies. He was a man connected to the Wakinyan [[Thunder Beings), supported by ritual, medicine, and ceremony. Tunkasila chose his path in life, to walk with prayer and belief. Mato Niyanpi carried his Cannumpa [[pipe) for peace and creation.
A dark cloud would come over the Lakota Nation. The United States Government was preparing to remove the indigenous from their land. The judicial, executive, and legislative processes against the people began. Greed, profit, and possession of natural resources takes center stage politically. The government approach was executed with treaties. Negotiations between only selected tribal leaders, military, and designated officials ensued. The treaties were pieces of paper which were full of lies, deception, corruption, and were always broken. There was no benefit in their signing to the Lakota, or other tribal Nations.
Gold was found in the Black Hills. This fueled a very emotionally charged Washington D.C. Drastic measures were proposed and approved, the final decision being genocide. The implementation of genocidal practice would threaten the very existence of the Lakota Nation. It would be recognizable in every part of their lives. Freedom of movement, subsistence, and most importantly, their prayer to Unci Maka, were being destroyed.
The atrocities suffered by our relatives during this time frame were unimaginable. Confinement to reservations and agencies which were essentially prison camps; where starvation, disease, inhumane personal violations, torture, murder, and massacre were methods of deprivation. In defense, the Lakota and a number of related Tribal Nations would come together as one. Warriors talked, prayed, and decided to go to battle.
Mato Niyanpi is called upon by his relatives, and Creator, to perform an act of commitment and courage. Tunkasila has a face-to-face confrontation with Custer on Last Stand Hill. Mato Niyanpi is the proud Lakota warrior who killed Lt. Col. George A. Custer. In the taking of his human presence from Unci Maka, Mato Niyanpi became, and continues to be, the Spirit Keeper of Custer. Creator called this union for our future together as human beings, living in peace, unity, tolerance and love.
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Are The FDR Democrats Coming Back To Fight Money In Politics?
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Progressives have been fighting to bring the Democratic Party back to its roots in FDR's new deal policies and it looks like it's finally happening!
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Why We Need To Expand Social Security (w/guest Nancy Altman)
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Republicans, Neocons and the Morbidly Rich are all telling us we can't afford Social Security the way it is. The truth is, we need to expand it!
Nancy Altman, the author of The Truth About Social Security and president of Social Security Works joins the program to elaborate on social security needs.
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Did Laura Ingraham Go To Far? (w/Guest Martha Nussbaum)
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Martha Nussbaum, author of many books including the latest "Monarchy Of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis" joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss her new book and the rise in hatecrimes related to Fox News.
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Where Should Progressives Stand On NAFTA Compromise w/Guest Lori Wallach
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How Trump's Trade War is hurting the economy, the planet, and the United States. Lori Wallach the Executive Director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch joins the program to find out where Progressives stand on NAFTA Compromise.
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How Corporate Healthcare Interests Are Trying To Scare You Out Of Universal Health...
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The morbidly rich are wasting no time countering the momentum progressives are making towards universal healthcare and now corporate healthcare interests scared of losing their obscene profits are trying to scare you into giving up single payer.
Wendell Potter, former Health Insurance Executive and author of Deadly Spin and Nation on the Table joins the program to uncover the for profit private healthcare lobby's games.
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Is Fox News Complicit In The Rise In Hate Crimes
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How much responsibility does Fox News have for the rise in hate crimes since Trump took power? Did their promotion of Donald Trump and his racist policies help create a danger atmosphere that empowered fringe right wing white supremacists?
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Behold America By Sarah Churchwell In The Thom Hartmann Book Club
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In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases--the "American dream" and "America First"--that once embodied opposing visions for America.
Starting as a Republican motto before becoming a hugely influential isolationist slogan during World War I, America First was always closely linked with authoritarianism and white supremacy. The American dream, meanwhile, initially represented a broad vision of democratic and economic equality. Churchwell traces these notions through the 1920s boom, the Depression, and the rise of fascism at home and abroad, laying bare the persistent appeal of demagoguery in America and showing us how it was resisted. At a time when many ask what America's future holds, Behold, America is a revelatory, unvarnished portrait of where we have been.
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Why Was The Right Too Scared To Unite?
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A year after Unite The Right resulted in tragedy the same far right organizers were prepared to march on the White House but when the time came, hardly anyone showed up. Why was the Right too scared to unite?
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Is Protecting White Supremacists Standard Practice For Police?
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After police protected white supremacists in Portland, even going after antifascist activists and then in Washington DC even going so far as to give them their own metro shuttles, many are wondering, is protecting white supremacists standard operating procedure for police?
To answer Kymone Freeman, an activist and organizer with Black Lives Matter DC and host on We Act Radio joins the program.
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Was Trump's Meeting With Putin A Second Yalta?
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Was Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin a second Yalta Conference, or did the oligarchs already divide up the world to their choosing?
Malcolm Nance, U.S. Intelligence Expert and author of The Plot to Destroy Democracy, joins the program to give us background on the history of how Russia turned into a conservative, reactionary state and how that led to our current political crisis.
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Just How Catastrophic Will Unchecked Climate Change Be? (w/Guest Dr. Joe Romm)
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We've all heard that climate change will produce catastrophic events, but just how much damage are we talking? Dr. Joe Romm, physicist and climate expert, joins the program to discuss the rising ocean levels, the unnaturally long draughts, and whether or not there is still time to turn things around.
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Threshold Thom Hartmann
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More than three million listeners tune in every weekday to hear what Thom Hartmann has to say about the state of our world. Now, as the first decade of the twenty-first century closes amid economic collapse and the seeming ruin of the American Dream, America's #1 rated progressive radio host sounds an urgent call to arms for building a better, more sustainable world-while there's still time. Offering not just an indictment of the failures that have courted economic, demographic, and environmental ruin, Hartmann also outlines five critical personal and policy solutions to bring us back from the brink. Threshold-like Jared Diamond's Collapse-is radical but rooted in common sense, illuminating the necessary next steps in the evolution of mainstream thinking.
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What Do Zyklon B, Agent Orange And Your Children's Cereal Have In Common?
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Robert Kennedy Jr joins the show today to discuss a win against controversial agro business Monsanto. Are they poisoning your children's cereal now?
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Proof Of Election Interference: It’s The Republicans Illegally Taking Your Vote
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And they would have got away with it too! If it wasn't for investigative Journalist Greg Palast uncovering the latest in the morbidly rich's efforts to cut you out of the vote.
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Why Are Organic Farms Disappearing (w/Guest Mark Kastel)
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Can Elizabeth Warren Save Capitalism By Reforming It?
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Elizabeth Warren introduces the Accountable Capitalism Act which would limit the excesses of unregulated capitalism. Can Senator Warren save capitalism and the United States through financial reform?
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Will Turkey's Debt Crisis Go Viral (w/Guest Richard Wolff)
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Professor Richard Wolff joins the Thom Hartmann Program to explain how Turkey's debt could lead to a global economic meltdown and what this says about capitalism.
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Hate On The Rise: Chauncey DeVega On How The Far Right Is The New Center Of The ...
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Chauncey DeVega explains why police work with the far right enabling their actions and how that same far right has become the new center of the Republican Party.
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Can Someone Be Both Homophobic And A Democratic Socialist?
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Can someone fighting for free college, and universal healthcare also fight against the rights gay people? Thom debates a woman who is just that.
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Microtrends Squared Thom Hartmann Book Club
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Conservative Concerned About Race Baiting Turns Out To Be Racist
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A conservative called the Thom Hartmann Program and was able to sound somewhat reasonable for 0.68 seconds until to the surprise of absolutely no one, he turned out to be another petty racist when his concerns were nothing more than that the democrats bringing up race made him uncomfortable.
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Are You Supporting The National Prison Strike?
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August 21st is being dubbed Nat Turner Day in solidarity with Prisoners holding a national strike demanding an end to slave labor in prison. Do you support the prison strike? Let us know in the comments!
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How Do We Stop The Next Trump?
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With the Mueller investigation moving forward, it seems that Donald Trump might just be looking at impeachment. Callers to the Thom Hartmann Program and Guest Host Jefferson Smith want to know how to stop the next Trump.
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Why Is Trump Fighting The Fed?
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Will Donald Trump cause the value of the dollar to sink by messing with the Fed the same way he messed with tariffs? Richard Wolff joins the program to discuss.
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Why Does The Right Want To Save Confederate Monuments?
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Why does the Right want to preserve monuments to people who betrayed the United States? To answer, James S Robbins, author of a new book on why the right wants to save monuments to people who betrayed the United States, explains.
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Is It Time For Progressive Democrats To Proudly Claim Socialism?
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Is it time to take back the word socialism and stop reactionary republicans from using it to invoke fear and misunderstanding. If socialism means providing the American people with education, housing, the social safety net, and strengthening those pillars which made the middle class strong, then maybe we should all be proud socialists.
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How To Save Our Elections
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Greg Palast uncovers the way progressives fight against republican efforts to hand out our vote to the morbidly rich
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Does Donald Trump Have Microchips in his Body?
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Anything goes Friday caller asks if Donald Trump has microchips in his body and as any good newsperson Jefferson Smith wants to find out too!
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Is it Too Early To Discuss The Legacy Of John McCain
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Congressman Ro Khanna answers a caller who feels that we should not be grieving John McCain because of the legacy of the Republican Senator in the Vietnam war and his work in the United States senate. Is it too soon to discuss the legacy of John McCain?
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Are Republicans Happy To Profit Off Your Death
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Jefferson Smith asks if Republicans are okay with anything so long as they profit from it!
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What's Libertarian's Problem With Social Security, Medicare And Hanging Up On People?
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Professor Thomas DiLorenxo, acting as the Hand of the invisible Hand of the free Market, 'Drops the Call' on Medicare Public Schools and a debate with Thom Hartmann.
Was this libertarian special snowflake triggered when he was challenged on the merits of advocating for a free market solution that would weaken the very institutions of democracy?
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Republican Leverage In Elections Rises And Voter Population Falls
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A call on voting rights prompts Thom Hartmann to reveal the real reason Republicans, the morbidly rich and others are trying to get rid of your vote. It's how they get elected. Does Republican leverage in an election go up as the voting population goes down?
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Could The United States Become Another Poland Or Hungary
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With the mainstream media now openly discussing the possibility of the United States losing our Democracy under the Trump Pence Regime, will we be able to pull through and avoid authoritarian rule or will Trump seize the opportunity available and use war or some other disaster to implement a new dark chapter in American history where the elections are made up and the votes don't matter.
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Serving Kansas's Kris Kobach Over Purging Voters From Rolls (w/Guest Greg Palast)
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Greg Palast is sueing Kansas's Kris Kobach over Voter Purges
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Democrats Reject Fossil Fuel And Super Delegates Tom Purez Frustrated By Rumors
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Tom Perez is angry. Republicans won't like him when he's angry. Having just led the battle to get rid of superdelegates which prevented Bernie Sanders from securing the nomination for president in 2016, now two years before the next presidential election, the Democratic Party has gotten rid of fossil money and superdelegates. Are the Democrats setting the stage for a new social democrat to lead the party to victory?
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Book Club: The Shadow President - The Truth about Mike Pence - by Michael ...
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Thom reads from The Shadow President - The Truth about Mike Pence - by Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner.
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How Future President Mike Pence Is Preparing To Take Over The White House
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Michael D'Antonio, author of The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence sits down with Thom Hartmann to discuss efforts by the vice president and his allies to make Mike Pence the 46th President of the Unite States. Do you think Vice President Mike Pence is going to make a presidential run?
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How A Decade Of Financial Crises Changed The World (w/Guest Adam Tooze)
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Professor of history at Columbia University and Director of the European Institute, Adam Tooze joins the show to discuss his new book, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.
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Are Economic Anxieties Really Behind Trump's Rise to Power? Congressman Mark Pocan
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Congressman Mark Pocan answers questions from callers on the financial reality behind Trump's election. Was economic anxiety the reason rural communities supported then candidate Trump or was it something more sinister.
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Book Club: The Perfect Weapon By David E. Sanger
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Thom reads from The Perfect Weapon by David E. Sanger.
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Right Wing Robo Calls Tell Citizens To Exterminate Undocumented People
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Right wingers are politicizing the tragic end of Mollie Tibbetts's life by calling for more deportations, increasing calls for Donald Trump's proposed border wall and now, as Fox News and other mainstream conservative press focus on Cristhian Bahena Rivera's identity as an immigrant, phones are ringing with robocalls advocating for the extermination of undocumented people from the United States. What can we do to stop the hate?
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Prisoners Strike To End Legal Slavery
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Prisoners across the nation are striking to end prison slavery, codified in the 13th amendment that ends all forms of slavery except as punishment.
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Open Admission That Profit Is The Bottom Line Richard Wolff
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Book Club: Kickback - Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network - by David Mon...
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Thom reads from Kickback - Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network - by David Montero.
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Should Democrats Utilize The Policy Demands Of The Movement For Black Lives
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Should the next move for progressive Democrats be adding the platform of the Movement for Black Lives to their list of policy demands?
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The Dangers Of Privatization
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Privatization changes from having functional and safe infrastructure to making profit off infrastructure and that, as the example from Italy shows, leads to a danger to people and the environment. Is this what we want for America?
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How The Koch Brothers Used America's Racist Past To Elect The Far Right
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The racist elements in America's past and present are being used as tools by the Koch Brothers and others with money in an effort to ramp up a social movement like the Tea Party and the Alt Right that are electing far right politicians and creating a very dangerous place for Americans today.
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A Year After Charlottesville (w/guest Rev. Brittany Caine-Conley)
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The Soup Of America
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Book Club: Threshold - The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink ...
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Thom reads from his book Threshold - The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink.
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"No Silver Lining" Kavanaugh Nomination Could Mean The End Of Legal Safe Abortion ...
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Dawn Laguens, the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, says there is no silver lining to Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who will overturn Roe v Wade along with other landmark supreme court cases affecting the civil rights of women, LGBTQ community and minorities that Planned Parenthood has spent its existence protecting.
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Will A Far Right Supreme Court End Democracy?
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Could Brett Kavanaugh be the start of the end of democracy by ushering in a Supreme Court that will rule in favor of corporations, and against the constitution and the people?
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Why Is Brett Kavanaugh Hiding His Work For The Bush Administration?
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Brett Kavanaugh is not showing his full deck of cards. What kind of legal advice did he give President George Bush on torture, war and other crimes that could hurt his nomination? Will progressives be able to expose these in time?
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Will Paper Ballots Stop Republican Red Shift And Election Fraud? Congressman ...
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Congressman Mark Pocan joins the program to discuss the nomination process of Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh and takes a call on whether or not paper ballots will be able to stop Republican efforts to curve voting rights through election fraud. Will Paper Ballots be able to stop Red Shift?
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Brett Kavanaugh Circumventing Chevron Deference Is Corporate Wet Dream
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Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination has brought up vague Supreme Court rulings which we will need to understand if we are going to get through the Trump presidency and what could be a far right Supreme Court.
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Republicans Organizing To Invoke 25th Amendment And Bring In President Mike Pence
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A member of the resistance to Trump, [[though not a part of The Resistance) calls the Thom Hartmann Program to let America know that a group of Republicans are organizing to have Mike Pence invoke the 25th Amendment to impeach Donald Trump, leaving the country to be led by President Mike Pence.
How widespread is the movement to impeach Donald Trump and have Mike Pence take over as commander and Chief? Will Republicans stand behind Mike Pence? Will the new President pardon Trump or would Mike Pence be caught up in the Mueller investigation too?
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Bret Kavanaugh Should Be Impeached For Lying To The Senate — With Lisa Graves
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Brett Kavanaugh has lied to the Senate during his hearing a week prior to the publication of this video, by stating he has no knowledge of memos from his time during the Bush administration. Here to correct Kavanaugh and call for his impeachment is Lisa Graves the author of the very memos Brett Kavanaugh lied about to the Senate. Should Brett be impeached rather than elevated for lying to the Senate?
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How Kobach Stole Primary Using Voter Purging Strategies Against Another Republican
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Working as Secretary of State, Kansas's Kris Kobach was able to use his position to make sure that the people eligible to vote were voting for him. So far there is no word from his defeated Republican opponent on how the Republican strategy of limiting the voter pool feels when it was used against his own party by other people in his party. Greg Palast joins the program to discuss this, his lawsuit of Kobach and whether or not the supreme court will be a place to take lawsuits in the future should Brett Kavanaugh be elevated to the highest court in the country!
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Dr Crystal Fleming On How To Be Less Stupid About Race
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Dr. Crystal Fleming has some ideas on how we can be less stupid about racist acts, namely to stop thinking about them as simply individual acts but as part of larger systems of power. Dr. Fleming and Thom Hartmann bring up the recent Serena Williams scandal to document how discussing issues as acts of individual prejudice instead of as acts of power limit our understanding and ability to fight racism.
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The Human Cost Of Lies That Lead Nations And People To War
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On the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, a caller reminds us that the tragedy is not just what was lost that day but also what has been lost since that day thanks in part to the reaction by the George W. Bush administration that added to the tragedy. The lives, both foreign as well as in our military, lost in the invasion of Iraq and in the War in Iraq that followed. Tragedy begets tragedy and in remorseful and tearful words a caller tells of his brother who would still be alive today if it were not for the war mongering reaction by oil hungry oligarchs to the loss of American lives that led us straight into operation Iraqi Freedom.
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The Rainbow Wave Of LGBTQ Candidates Coming After Bigots In Power
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Christopher Massicotte, Chair of Victory Fund campaign board and a partner at DSPolitical, joins the Thom Hartmann program to discuss the more than 400 openly LGBTQ [[Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) politicians running to fight the rise in anti LGBT legislation and the Trump regime's continued attack on the queer community.
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How The Morbidly Rich Get Away With Election Theft - Davis Hammet
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Davis Hammet, activist and founder of Loud Light joins the Thom Hartmann Program to help us find out how the morbidly rich are getting away with election theft. Kris Kobach stole Kansas's election, Donald Trump stole the election of 2016, is there a way to stop the voter purges and red shifts before the planet and humanity get stuck in a libertarian hellscape?
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War Profiteers, The United States War Machine And The Arming Of Repressive Regimes
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Medea Benjamin, activist and co-founder of Code Pink, discusses a new report by Code Pink on War Profiteers, the U.S. War Machine and the Arming of Repressive Regimes. The report uncovers how Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics profit off war.
How do we stop the military industrial complex?
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Life Saving Drugs Belong To The People Not The Morbidly Rich
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DEBATE: Thom Hartmann counters a caller supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industry's free market "right" to charge whatever they want for life saving prescriptions and drugs. Should the pharmaceutical industry and drug manufacturers be able to raise drug prices at the expense of American lives and well being or should We The People demand that the pharmaceutical, medical industry, and all other essential functions be operated for the people and not for the profit?
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How Capitalism & The GOP Set North Carolina Up For Disaster Against Hurricane ...
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As the east coast of the United States prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Florence, North Carolina is finding itself under prepared because of a GOP law that makes it illegal to use climate change data in preparation for natural disasters. The Morbidly Rich had found that using information from scientists studying global climate change and global warming would hurt the profits of corporations wanting to build in their state, and in a move that put profits in the pockets of stockholders and people in danger, climate change became illegal to mention. Hurricane Florence didn't get the memo however.
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Guantanamo For Kids: Senator Jeff Merkley Refuses To Let Trump Separate Families
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Senator Jeff Merkley is not going to let Donald Trump construct Guantanamo Bay style prisons for children his administration is separating from their families. He joins the Thom Hartmann Program to help fight against the brutal policy.
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A Former "Drug Dealer" Rails Against Immoral Pharmaceutical Industry Drug Price ...
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A former worker for the pharmaceutical industry reveals how cheap the production of ever more expensive life saving drugs and medicines are and how many of these companies do not even have the patents on the drugs and medicine they sell.
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Can Progressive Democrats Go For The Jugular To Defeat Trump And Corporate Power ...
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Mark Pocan answers a caller live on the Thom Hartmann Program who wants to fight corporate influence on politics, suggesting that the influence of big money leads to mediocre candidates that don't stand a chance against the Republicans and can't bring out progressive voters.
Are Progressives going to build enough power to take down Trump and corporate power?
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How To Find The Best Marijuana For You (w/Guest Angela Becca)
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As more and more States begin to legalize and decriminalize Marijuana, a lot of people are wondering what kind should they get and why. Thankfully Angela Bacca joins the Thom Hartmann Program to tell us how to find the best Marijuana for you.
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Conservative Author Wants To Defend Andrew Jackson
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Hillsdale College professor and author Bradley J. Birzer wants to defend the legacy of Andrew Jackson. Are conservatives so ready to defend Donald Trump that they will defend his favorite president — the genocidal, supreme court disobeying Andrew Jackson?
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Are Drug Companies Exploiting People For Profit?
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Caller believes that the unfair rises in the cost of life saving medicine by drug and pharmaceutical companies is the result of capitalist profit motive over human rights and well being. Are pharmaceutical companies exploiting the people? How can we stop them?
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Contempt — Thom Takes Down GOP's Falling Starr
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Ken Starr is still after the Clintons for “lack of moral character” but refuses to go after Kavanaugh, Donald Trump or conservatives and instead, decides to come out with a new book:Contempt: a Memoir of the Clinton Investigation, which retells the story of the prosecution led by Ken Starr acting as Independent Counsel. What would happen if Kavanaugh was forced to give up personal details and stories?
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How The Last Fifty Years Treated Women Who Spoke Out Against Assault
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As accusations of assault come forward against Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by Professor Christine Blasey Ford and now at least one other woman, a caller joins the program to discuss how the last fifty years treated women and girls who spoke out against their assaulters. Kavanaugh's nomination could swing our response as a society all the way back to the 1950s and erase the work of the MeToo Movement.
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The Progressive Hippocratic Oath: On Not Working With Trump To Do Harm
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Some Democrats are suggesting working with Republicans to get things done. One poster from Democratic Underground posted what we at the Thom Hartmann Program are calling the "Progressive Hippocratic Oath" which lists out where progressives are not working with Republicans, the Trump administration or anyone else. These include working to lessen the rights of African Americans, the LGBT population, to give banks more profit at the expense of the people. In short, progressives are not willing to work with anyone to do any harm. In the age where our political divide is often talked about needing to be bridged, do you agree with this list or do you want to walk across the aisle?
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Why Tax Cuts For The Rich Cuts The Wages Of The Working And Poor
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A caller challenges Thom Hartmann on the merit of tax cuts for corporations and the rich, and gets a lesson in economics detailing how tax cuts for the rich always come at the cost of the wages of working and poor Americans.
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Has America Reached Fascist Tipping Point Under Trump Administration?
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Given the increasingly dystopian policies of the Trump administration, like the separating of children from families, the revocation of passports of legal citizens, continued support for law enforcement's treatment of people of color, and much more... many are wondering if America has reached a fascist tipping point. Here to answer these questions is the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us vs Them Professor Jason Stanley.
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Could Human Extinction Be Part Of Universal Cycle Of Consciousness?
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Why Trump Must Go! (w/Guest Bill Press)
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Host of the Bill Press Show, joins Thom Hartmann to discuss his new book, Trump Must Go detailing why the sexist, racist, self proclaimed sexual predator, and pathological liar Donald Trump cannot remain in charge of the United States government. Did we leave anything out? What else makes you think Donald Trump must Go?
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Three Quarters Of A Million Voters Purged By Brian Kemp
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Brian Kemp, Georgia's current Secretary of State and gubernatorial hopeful under the Republican party for Georgia is working hard to guarantee his nomination by purging thousands of voters, mostly Democrats and people of color, off the voter rolls.
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Courage And Sacrifice In The Age Of Donald Trump (w/Mark Pocan)
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Caller asks Congressman Mark Pocan to help understand the apparent contradictions between doing what is right to stop Donald Trump, like Corey Booker did when he released sealed documents on Brett Kavanaugh which could have ejected him from the Senate, and playing by the rules we are trying to preserve that make our democracy so wonderful.
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Can We Create Safety Beyond The Need for Policing (w/Guest DeRay McKesson)
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Civil rights activist and author DeRay McKesson joins the Thom Hartmann Program in studio to talk about his new book On The Other Side of Freedom, "A meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom" as well as an intimate portrait of the Black Lives Matter movement from the front lines. McKesson asks if we can create safety without arresting, locking people up, and without police, without prisons and without unarmed black people dying every week. Do you think police abolition can work in the United States?
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Will Our Daughters Pay The Ultimate Price For Criminalizing Abortions?
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As the Republicans move to approve Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, people who may need to seek out abortion are scared because Kavanaugh will remove the protections of Roe vs Wade should he ever get the power. One caller fears that just as our mothers and grandmothers paid the ultimate price for the criminalization of abortion, the nomination of Kavanaugh or any other Donald Trump Supreme Court pick will have our daughters paying that same price too.
Will Kavanaugh be a member of the Supreme Court? Will Roe v. Wade be overturned? And will we one day see the return of women, girls, trans men and all seeking abortion care, paying the ultimate price for the medical procedure's criminalization?
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Are Recreational Drug Users Just Self Medicating (w/Angela Bacca)
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Will Marijuana See Federal Legalization (w/Guest Angela Bacca)
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What is the difference between medicinal and recreational drug use?
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Factory Farming Hogwash Biggest Threat To Envirorment
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Is Donald Trump's Stupidity A National Security Threat?
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Donald Trump in response to the devastating impact of hurricane Florence amounts to “water is wet” and hurricanes are bad. Is Donald Trump’s stupidity a national security threat or is focusing on Donald Trump’s intelligence leading us away from actual material criticism of the administration and what it reveals about our country?
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The Cost Of Speaking Out (w/Jodi Jacobson)
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President/Editor in Chief of Rewire.News Jodi Jacobson joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the cost of speaking out, why survivors and victims sometimes take years to come forward with their stories, the accusations of Kavanaugh and other powerful men and how we can help end the culture that allows this kind of assault to happen.
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How Do People Who Harmed Hold Themselves Accountable And Do Better?
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Jefferson Smith continues his conversation on Kavanaugh and accountability, speaking with Jodi Jacobson. What questions do we want to hear from the Senate investigation? How can men who've harmed others step up, be accountable and do better in the future?
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Mobilizing For The Midterms Karthik Garapathy
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With official talk about invoking the 25th amendment, the upcoming midterm election is about to be even more contested. To discuss how progressives can mobilize to win, MoveOn.org's Karthik Ganapathy joins the Thom Hartmann Program.
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Why Survivor's Don't Come Forward (w/Guest Maya Raghu)
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In the wake of Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's sexual assault allegations by multiple women, Republicans are asking "Why didn't Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and others come forward earlier?" in an effort to discredit the stories of survivors of sexual violence by powerful men. To answer why survivors and victims of sexual assault don't often come forward, we speak with Maya Raghu the Director of Workplace Equality and Senior Council for the National Women's Law Center who sheds a light on how pervasive and powerful rape culture and patriarchy are and how those intersect with the enforcement of law and vulnerable populations like women, African Americans, the LGBT+ and immigrants, resulting often in silence of abused and victimized populations.
Maya Raghu is participating a national walk out in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
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Can Democracy Co-exist With Billionaires?
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Can democracy exist alongside billionaires or should the question be rephrased to "Can democracy survive the existence of billionaires?" The problem of oligarchy is not being discussed, could this be because the billionaires own or are increasingly interested in owning the "free" press? Is the problem not to say that billionaires should not be able buy media but that billionaires should not exist?
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How The Hostile Racism & Sexism Of Donald Trump Define A Decades-Long ...
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Are we in the middle of a constitutional crisis?
With new data showing that Donald Trump sits in a long history of illegitimately elected Republican presidents, we ask Chauncey DeVega on what we can do to fight the decades-long constitutional crisis exemplified by the hostile racism and sexism of Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, the Republican Party, and the morbidly rich.
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Why Democrats Need To Run On Raising Taxes On The Rich (w/Guest President Franklin...
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Although Progressive Democrats are cautioned against going too hard against the Morbidly Rich, one Democrat was able to get elected multiple times by doing just that, Franklin Roosevelt. Can Democrats openly call for higher taxes on the wealthy and get elected?
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Will Rosenstein Resignation Spark Constitutional Crisis (w/ Guest Stephen Spaulding)
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What does Rosenstein's resignation mean to the state of our democracy? Will Donald Trump be able to thwart the Mueller investigation after Russian interference was proven to be a key reason he sits in The White House?
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Donald Trump Attacks Socialism To Cut Your Social Safety Net
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President Donald Trump spoke at the United Nations against the dangers of socialism, which he believes will lead to increased and unjustified policing, power centralized into the hands of a few people and poverty for the many.