Greg Palast, investigative journalist and writer/director joins the program to discuss the increased efforts of Republicans and the morbidly rich to take away your vote. How can progressives fight voter suppression and election theft by Republicans and the morbidly rich?
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October-18-18, 05:20 PM #10151
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Did Republicans Knock Off More than 10% Of Eligible Voters? [[w/ Greg Palast)
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October-18-18, 06:08 PM #10152
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Witches Plan To Hex Brett Kavanaugh [[w/Guest Dakota Bracciali)
Bret Kavanaugh's nomination has put the second Donald Trump Supreme Court appointment at odds with many in the country: voter rights activists, the #MeToo movement, and witches!, some of whom in New York are planning to get out there and get active by hexing Brett Kavanaugh. Will hexing Republicans and their Supreme Court picks help us get them out of political power and will you be hexing Republicans and the morbidly rich out of political power?
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October-18-18, 07:24 PM #10153
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Did Trump Have an Obligation to Warn Khashoggi [[w/Juan Cole)
How much responsibility does Donald Trump have, after not warning Khashoggi, and what does this say to the state of journalism, free speech, the Trump administration, America and the World. Professor Juan Cole joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss this and his new book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires.
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October-19-18, 05:05 PM #10154
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What Would America Look Like If We Taxed The Rich [[w/ Richard Wolff)
Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom to discuss what America would look like if we taxed the rich at levels similar to what they were before Ronald Reagan's original corporate Tax Scam?
Would taxing the rich bring back the middle class after the GOP Tax Scam?
Professor Wolff's coffee mug says "A woman's place is in the resistance."
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October-19-18, 06:04 PM #10155
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Trickle-Down Racism: The Not So New Platform Of The Republican Party
The trickle-down racism of the Republican Party is moving away from the dog whistle racism of Lee Atwater and into rhetoric that sounds blatant!
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October-22-18, 05:06 PM #10156
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If We Don't Stop Voter Suppression Start Polishing Your Chains
This next election has a lot of weight on it, and if we don't stop Republican voter suppression, we may need to start polishing our chains.
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October-22-18, 05:50 PM #10157
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How Republicans Tested And Got Away With Election Fraud
Election fraud is not a new tactic. Republicans tested voter suppression in the election of the 43rd President, George w. Bush. Since then the morbidly rich have only increased efforts. Will they be successful in the 2018 election?
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October-22-18, 07:34 PM #10158
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Right Wing Instilling Terror In Nicaragua [[w/Guest Erika Guevara Rosas)
Did Nicaragua's highest officials have knowledge of state repression and force against protesters? Erika Guevara Rosas, a human rights attorney with Amnesty International, joins to share details about how Nicaragua is instilling terror in marginalized communities.
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October-23-18, 03:40 PM #10159
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The Destruction Of American Democracy By Our Right Wing Media
Rupert Murdock has worked his way around the world destroying democracy with media publications and TV channels.
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October-23-18, 05:30 PM #10160
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Could What Happened In Germany In 1932 Happen In America Today?
Author Milton Mayer wrote They Thought They Were Free about the everyday people in Germany [[the mechanics, workers, laborers) during the rise of the Nazi Party during the last century. He warned about the invisible nature of a rising totalitarian state that many in Germany didn't see coming. Thom Hartmann reads an excerpt from Mayer and asks if what happened in Germany close to a century ago happen in the United States today?
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October-23-18, 06:07 PM #10161
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Will Future Generations Ask How Americans Let Authoritarianism Take Hold?
There is no shortage of questions about how the good Germans let Hitler and the Nazis rise to power. Will future generations say the same thing to us about Donald Trump and the Republican Party?
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October-23-18, 06:22 PM #10162
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Why Did Georgia Stop A Bus Of African Americans Trying To Vote? [[w/Guest LaTosha ...
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Why Did Georgia Stop A Bus Of African Americans Trying To Vote?
[[w/Guest LaTosha Brown)Georgia tried to stop a group of African Americans from early voting by pulling over their bus and forcing Seniors to exit. This wasn't in the early days of the civil rights movement but in 2018. LaTosha Brown with Black Votes Matter was on the bus when it happened and is building up her organizing effort to fight voter intimidation and make sure Georgia knows that Black Votes Matter.
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October-24-18, 04:55 PM #10163
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Tribal Politics - What Can We Do To Stop It?
Thom tells the story of Armin Lehmann, the last courier for Adolph Hitler. Lehmann heard the gunshot when Hitler committed suicide.
What happened in Germany was Tribal politics. Is that what is now happening in the US, and if so, how do we stop it?
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October-24-18, 05:15 PM #10164
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How Donald Trump's Latest Attacks On Trans People Could Cause A Ripple Effect Of ...
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How Donald Trump's Latest Attacks On Trans People Could Cause A Ripple Effect Of DiscriminationDonald Trump's administration, possibly under the instruction of Vice President Mike Pence, is changing the federal government's definition of gender to exclude trans and intersex people, making room for discrimination in justice, housing, healthcare and school as well as encouraging trans antagonistic responses from his base.
David Johns, former White House Staffer under at the Obama Administration and Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition, joins the program to discuss the Trump Administration's latest attack on trans, intersex and other intersecting marginalized communities.
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October-24-18, 05:59 PM #10165
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Is The American Far Right Responsible For Stochastic Terrorism?
Over and over again Donald Trump and the far right wing media, brought to you via the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, tell their audience that the left is going to bring violence while at the same time creating an atmosphere where right wing gangs beat up protesters.
And now someone is sending suspicious packages and bombs to George Soros, Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton and more. Could this attack be related to anti-semitic calls for violence from right wing pundits and politicians?- MSNBC reporter blames Republican conspiracy theories for bombs targeting Clinton and Obama
- Trump’s Assassination Dog Whistle Was Even Scarier Than You Think
- Were Trump's Comments 'Stochastic Terrorism'?
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- Are Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage guilty of stochastic terrorism?
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October-24-18, 06:34 PM #10166
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How Male Judges Are Stopping The #MeToo Movement In Its Tracks [[w/Guest Victoria ...
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[[w/Guest Victoria Jones)The MeToo movement continues to make massive headway toward this next step in women's liberation but the old guard of male judges may be trying to stop the feminist message in its tracks. Can #MeToo keep the momentum going despite the patriarchy's best efforts?
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October-25-18, 03:50 PM #10167
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Do We Ever Learn From History? FDR vs Trump
Lies and damned lies from Trump and his administration.
Has nothing been learned from history? Compare Trump and FDR and you decide.
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October-25-18, 05:16 PM #10168
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How The Long Shadow Of Slavery Haunts American Politics [[w/Guest Frances Causey)
Director of the new film The Long Shadow, joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk to us about how the shadow of the "peculiar institution" still haunts our legal and social work and how acknowledging this history is the first step toward creating a world without these hierarchies.
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October-25-18, 06:18 PM #10169
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GOP Caught Warning Donors About "Voting While Black" [[w/Guest Greg Palast)
Voter suppression by Republicans is reaching taunting levels, where Republicans are admitting at least in closed door meetings that they don't want you to vote. Greg Palast Joins us to discuss what we can do to ensure your voting rights are protected.
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October-26-18, 04:34 PM #10170
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Trump Uses Twitter To Encourage More Terrorism
Trump can be compared to the worst of wartime Germany with his appalling rhetoric following the arrival of bombs at the homes and office of prominent Democrats.
Thom compares wartime Germany to what Trump is doing today in 2018 and how it could destroy our democracy.
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October-26-18, 05:08 PM #10171
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Why Does The Right Hate Maxine Waters?
Maxine Waters has been the choice target for attacks and hatred from the right for years and, as the California Representative continues to take bold stances against the Trump regime, their supporters, the morbidly rich, and late stage capitalism, including her calls to "Impeach 45" Maxine Waters's profile has only grown, as has the target on her back from conservative pundits, racist online trolls, Trump's brown-shirts and the President, Donald Trump himself. But why has the right targeted Maxine Waters over other politicians?
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October-26-18, 05:39 PM #10172
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Why Calling Out "Both Sides" Is Apples and Oranges [[w/Guest Jefferson Smith & ...
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Why Calling Out "Both Sides" Is Apples and Oranges
[[w/Guest Jefferson Smith & Jodi Jacobson)In wake of the mail bombs sent to Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, George Soros, Maxine Waters and other liberal public figures, some in the media have started to call out Donald Trump and the right for creating an environment normalizing violence. The right pushed back saying that "both sides" are to blame. Jefferson Smith filling in for Thom Hartmann brings on Jodi Jacobson from Rewire News to break down the fallacy that both sides are equally to blame.
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October-27-18, 03:49 PM #10173
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Do We Need To Seize The Means Of Communication?
Jefferson Smith, filling in for Thom, asks us "Who is going to tell the people?"
Will it be the corporate media, owned by either the Koch Brothers or Sinclair's news outlets? Or will it be community media, run by people like you an me?
Do the people need to seize the means of communication to make democracy possible?
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October-29-18, 05:50 PM #10174
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The Tragedy When Trump's Violence Comes Home
Thom speaks to a longtime listener with personal connections to the Tree of Life, where a man fueled off Donald Trump's xenophobic anti-immigration rhetoric targeted the Synagogue. When will we be able to hold the Republican Party, Donald Trump and the right wing media accountable for spreading messages of hate and fear that fuel these kinds of tragedies?
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October-29-18, 06:49 PM #10175
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How Trump’s Xenophobic Racism Triggered Anti-Semitic Terror [[w/Congressman Ro Khanna)
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How Trump’s Xenophobic Racism Triggered Anti-Semitic Terror
[[w/Congressman Ro Khanna)Congressman Ro Khanna joins the Thom Hartmann Program discussing the tragedy at Tree of Life synagogue where Donald Trump's violent rhetoric about Central and South American refugees inspired a shooter to target the Jewish community doing work to help refugees and migrants.
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