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Attachment 34606
How Pipelines Put You In Danger For Profit!
[[w/Guest Greg Palast)

Greg Palast joins Thom to share his investigation into the alteration of pipeline safety equipment to avoid the cost of repairing old pipelines, the results are explosive.

• GregPalast.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34607
The Beginning Of The End Of Patriarchy and the Start Of Accountability

It looks like a larger cultural shift i s taking place right in front of our eyes, where men will actually be held accountable for their crimes against women.

• Uh-oh we have an accusation against Bernie Sanders
• She Said A Powerful Congressman Harassed Her. Here’s Why You Didn’t Hear Her Story.
• Eight women say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them — with nudity, groping and lewd calls
• Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34609
Does Robert Mueller have a sealed Indictment Waiting For Trump?

There is still a sealed indictment from Robert Mueller and no one knows who it's for, Thom speculates that this sealed indictment is for the President himself, a trump card, pun intended, for when the President tries to Pardon one of his minions. What do you think? Is Robert Mueller playing seven dimensional chess?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34610
The FCC had Enough with Net Neutrality and We've Had Enough Of Them
[[w/Guest Evan Greer)

The FCC has had "Enough" with Net Neutrality and Evan Greer, the Campaign Director for Fight for the Future, has had enough of corporate control of the internet, and joins us to discuss the way to a free and open internet.

• VerizonProtests.com
• FightForTheFuture.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34611
The Koch Brothers Continue Long Tradition Of Colonization

As we depart for Thanksgiving, we talk about how what the Koch brothers, the republicans and others of the Billionaire class are doing today, is really just following a long tradition of colonization. Last year Indigenous folks were attacked by the state because they sought to protect themselves against a pipeline, this year, they are cleaning up a spill in the ground. We have to break the imperialist cycle.

• Fuck Thanksgiving on Twitter: "Just a reminder last year on ...
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34612
Make America Brown Again!

Thom takes your calls on this Wednesday before Thanksgiving. One caller suggests a sort of civil disobedience against Trump's racist policies, if Trump is trying to kick out all the brown people, be they Haitians, Mexican, central American, or Syrian, we need to make America Brown Again! What do you think? Could we stop Trump by defying his orders? More next on the Thom Hartmann Program.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34617
Are Republicans Trying to Bring Back the Poll Tax?

Republicans are going old school with voter disenfranchisement, and are trying to create a new poll tax, will you be able to pay?

• Too poor to vote: how Alabama’s ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting
• Leading Trump Census pick causes alarm
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34619
The United States Government is No Different from a Fascist Government

Given the merger of state and corporate power that is our government today, how are we any different from fascist governments?

• Censoring Climate Change
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34624
How The Loss Of Net Neutrality and Citizens United Work Together To Create Fascism

Thom looks at the bigger picture, combining the implications of both the loss of Net Neutrality and Citizens United to create corporate control.

• DemandProgress.org
• FightForTheFuture.org
• Free Press Action Network
• Skype Vanishes From App Stores in China, Including Apple's
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34633
Why Do We Give Terrorists Fair Trials?

A conservative former prison staff worker wants to know why we can't get rid of criminals and terrorists who are "obviously" guilty. Because It's the right thing to do, because it is what makes us American.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34637
Is It Fair For Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Poor
[[w/Guest Brian Darling)

Thom is joined by Brian Darling, a former Rand Paul staffer to discuss the GOP's new tax bill. Is it really fair for Billionaires to pay such a small percentage of their income when the poor and working class pay much larger pieces of their salary?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34639
Has America Stopped Reaching For John Kennedy's Vision Of Peace

There couldn't be a starker contrast between Kennedy and Donald Trump, we've all heard the bellicose, vulgar and less than verbose vehemence of Donald Trump, what of the courage and profile of former President John F Kennedy?

Thom takes us on a trip to an America we wouldn't recognize, where Presidents believed in peace.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34640
Is Puerto Rico Being Ethnically Cleansed for the Rich?

Thom is joined by Harvey Wasserman to discuss how after the devastating hurricane, predatory capitalists have started ethnically cleansing Puerto Rico to make it a paradise for the rich.

• TruthDig.com
• Solartopia.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34641
The Right to Local Self Government

Thom is joined by activists to discuss the right to local self government and how local towns are gaining power from states. Members of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Michelle Sanborn and New Hampshire House Representative Ellen Road talk about the actions they have been taking to make this happen.

• Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
• NHCommunityRights.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34643
It's Not A Fair Economy If People Can't Eat!
[[w/Guest Julio Rivera)

Thom is joined by frenemy of the show, Julio Rivera [[Editorial Director, Reactionary Times, NewsMax Contributor) to discuss a new study proving that taxing the rich creates a more healthy society.

• New analysis links proposed changes in U.S. tax laws to rich-poor gap and deaths among Americans
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34644
If The Rich Would Rather Leave than pay Taxes, Let Them
[[w/Guest President Franklin Roosevelt)

Thom brings up some of FDR's responses to those of the rich of his day who wanted to leave the country if the taxes were going to stay high. His message: go ahead and leave.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34645
Why On Earth Would Democrats Work With Trump?

Thom talks to a conservative Fox News viewer who wants to know why the Democrats won't work with President Trump? Why can't we just get along for the good of the nation? Because Trump and the Republican plan are not good for the nation and they will hurt and kill lots of people.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34646
How Can We Police Our Media When Big Money Bought It?
[[w/Guest Charles Alexander)

The Koch brothers are buying up the media, how can we stop them? The former science editor of Time Magazine joins us to help us figure it out.

• Koch insists it will just be a passive investor in Time Inc. The fine print reveals that’s not true.
• Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34648
Why Can't We Use The Bloated Defense Budget To Fund Free Higher Education
[[w/Guest Mark Pocan)

Thom is joined by Congressman Mark Pocan to take your calls on issues about funding higher education, our larger than life defense budget and more!

• Congressional Progressive Caucus
• Pocan.House.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34649
Are the Super Wealthy a Threat To Democracy Itself?
[[w/Guest Mark Pocan)

Are the super wealthy a threat to democracy itself? Thom is joined by Mark Pocan, and the two take your calls leading to lively discussions on progressive taxes, the transfer of wealth to the most wealthy and more. You don't want to miss this!

• Congressional Progressive Caucus
• Pocan.House.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34650
Is it time to Democratize The Media to Fight Net Neutrality?

Nancy Pelosi is done with Trump, so are many others but the corporate media doesn't seem to be behind ditching the President, and with Net Neutrality on the chopping block, is it time to democratize the media?

• British lawmaker: Trump invite to visit UK should be withdrawn
• Republican tax bill paves way for the destruction of Social Security, Medicare, and safety net
• Study Shows Corporate Cable Networks Largely Ignoring FCC Plan to Kill Net Neutrality
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34651
Is The Fed The Only Thing Keeping Us From a Great Depression?

The republican tax scam is going to create death panels that will deny you life saving medical treatment because you can't pay and are we really just an interest rate raise away from a great Depression? Better start putting those pennies in your mattress!

• FairVoteWA.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34652
Republican Tax Scam Is Either Evil Or Dumb, Maybe Both!

Thom goes over the cycles of capitalism and the understood wisdom learned through the last hundred years and how the Republicans are doing the exact opposite of how one should run an economy, if they want the economy to exist in five years.

• The Daily 202: Tension over adding ‘triggers’ to the tax bill highlights the Republican identity crisis over deficits
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34657
Why The Founding Fathers Would Impeach Trump Now!

The Trump regime is total chaos. Is this Steve Bannon just dismantling the state like he promised or is there something more here? So often we are stuck to believing that impeachment is less politically motivated, yet it is and the founding fathers prove it. Thom takes us on a journey through the thoughts of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison on impeachment, would they impeach Trump?

• 44 Trump Administration Officials Have Close Ties to the Koch Brothers, Public Citizen Finds
• The case for normalizing impeachment
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 34658
Why Giving Tax Breaks To The Rich Doesn't Create Jobs
[[w/Guest Richard Wolff)

Thom is joined by Professor Richard Wolff, speaking on the Bail Ins, how banks are using your money as their own assets, and the effects of the GOP tax Bill. spoiler, no jobs ahead.

Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

• How Tax Bills Would Reward Companies That Moved Money Offshore
• Trump's Tax Promises Undercut by CEO Plans to Help Investors
• DemocracyAtWork.info
• RDWolff.com
• ThomHartmann.com