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Attachment 36464
The Dangers Of Privatization

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?

• 'We Are Tired of Crying for the Dead': A Stunned Genoa Mourns
• Italy bridge collapse: furious ministers blame highways firm
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36466
How The Koch Brothers Used America's Racist Past To Elect The Far Right

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.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36467
A Year After Charlottesville
[[w/guest Rev. Brittany Caine-Conley)

• CongregateCville.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36468
The Soup Of America

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36469
Book Club:
Threshold - The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink - by Thom Hartmann

Thom reads from his book Threshold - The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink.

Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36475
"No Silver Lining" Kavanaugh Nomination Could Mean The End Of Legal Safe Abortion In United States

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.

• PlannedParenthood.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36476
Will A Far Right Supreme Court End Democracy?

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?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36477
Why Is Brett Kavanaugh Hiding His Work For The Bush Administration?

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?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36479
Will Paper Ballots Stop Republican Red Shift And Election Fraud?
Congressman Mark Pocan

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?

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

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Attachment 36480
Brett Kavanaugh Circumventing Chevron Deference Is Corporate Wet Dream

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.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36484
Republicans Organizing To Invoke 25th Amendment And Bring In President Mike Pence

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?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36499
Bret Kavanaugh Should Be Impeached For Lying To The Senate —
With Lisa Graves

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?

• I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About
• DocumentedInvestigations.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36500
How Kobach Stole Primary Using Voter Purging Strategies Against Another Republican

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!

• TheBestDemocracyMoneyCanBuy.com
• GregPalast.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36501
Dr Crystal Fleming On How To Be Less Stupid About Race

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.

How to Be Less Stupid About Race:
On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

• The NFL's Ongoing Kaepernick Controversy Shows Much of White America Is Still in 'Slave Patrol' Mode
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36505
The Human Cost Of Lies That Lead Nations And People To War

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.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36506
The Rainbow Wave Of LGBTQ Candidates Coming After Bigots In Power

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.

• VictoryFund.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36507
How The Morbidly Rich Get Away With Election Theft - Davis Hammet

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?

• LoudLight.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36508
War Profiteers, The United States War Machine And The Arming Of Repressive Regimes

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?

Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection

• War Profiteers: The U.S. War Machine and the Arming of Repressive Regimes
• CodePink.org
• GlobalExchange.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36509
Life Saving Drugs Belong To The People Not The Morbidly Rich

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?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36510
How Capitalism & The GOP Set North Carolina Up For Disaster Against Hurricane Florence

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.

• North Carolina Politicians Have Decried the Climate-Change Science That Makes Hurricane Florence so Dangerous
• Climate.NASA.gov/Evidence
• The tea party radio network
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36511
Guantanamo For Kids:
Senator Jeff Merkley Refuses To Let Trump Separate Families

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.

• Merkley.Senate.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36513
A Former "Drug Dealer" Rails Against Immoral Pharmaceutical Industry Drug Price Hiking

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.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36514
Can Progressive Democrats Go For The Jugular To Defeat Trump And Corporate Power - Rep Mark Pocan

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?

• Don’t Just Impeach Trump. Annul His Presidency
• Congressional Progressive Caucus
• Pocan.House.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36516
How To Find The Best Marijuana For You
[[w/Guest Angela Becca)

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.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 36521
Conservative Author Wants To Defend Andrew Jackson

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?

• ThomHartmann.com