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Attachment 38373
LGBTQ+ Americans Are Actually Gaining Support?

More Americans are fighting for LGBTQ [[Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) rights than ever before.

As religious intolerance to the LGBTQ Community changes, could we eventually see an end to hostile politicians like Mike Pence and a decrease in hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community?

An LGBT opinion poll reveals growing support for protections of transgender rights, including Trump’s transgender military ban.

The national survey examines how Americans view transgender issues including support for:
- Transgender rights in comparison to five years ago
- Transgender military service
- Having a transgender close friend or family member
- Learning a teacher at their local elementary school is transgender
- “Bathroom Bill” policies

Natalie Jackson, Research Director of the Public Religion Research Institute discussed the opinion poll survey results on LGBT and transgender questions with Thom, on the day of release.

• PRRI.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38374
Stopping the Attacks on Social Security

Social Security is under attack and Alex Lawson of Social Security Works knows how to stop the attacks and expand social security coverage and medicare.

Are you going to join the fight to insure Americans have access to social security and medicare?

• SocialSecurityWorks.org
• WeActRadio.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38376
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 25: George Papadopoulos Pt. 3

Another section of the Mueller Report, featuring George Papadopoulos.

Thom reads from page 88.

• The Full Set of Mueller Report Readings
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38377
Will Democracy Survive Billionaires?

America is a deeply divided nation right now and that divide is being exploited by the rich.

Diverse groups of reactionary Americans are being mobilized by Fox News and the billionaires so they can continue exploiting the planet and the people who live on it.

And they will succeed too, unless Americans come together to stop Trump and the right wing billionaire class around the world.

The big question, as this all tears America apart, is how can we bring this country together? And will democracy survive the process?

• With Most States Under One Party’s Control, America Grows More Divided
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38378
Climate Change Concentration Camps

Family separation is one of the most controversial actions the Trump administration has taken and now the victims of climate change may be the next locked in cages.

Climate Change refugees are on their way and the Trump administration is preparing for them by housing migrants where Japanese Americans were interred during WWII.

Is Donald Trump creating Climate Change Concentration Camps?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38379
Border Crisis Confusion: Is The Republican Party A Cult?

The border crisis engineered by the Trump administration has clear logical solutions none of which include locking children in cages, but the Republican party is not interested in solving them. They are following their Trump's lead and Trump is leading the US straight to fascism.

How can we get Republicans to abandon Trump's xenophobic policy that has led to children in cages, family separation and other vile things?

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

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Attachment 38381
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 26: Papadopoulos' Plan

This section of the Mueller Report reveals Papadopoulos's plan with the Russians.

• The Full Set of Mueller Report Readings
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38382
Bernie Sanders On How Democratic Socialism Can Save America

Bernie Sanders explained Democratic Socialism to the world yesterday in a powerful speech. The Senator and 2020 Presidential hopeful joins the Thom Hartmann to explain his thoughts on democratic socialism.

Bernie Sanders' Democratic Socialism speech hits home and the Senator joined Thom live to discuss the speech.

Oligarchy and authoritarianism and how to defeat it, along with what is democratic socialism.

After watching Bernie Speech do you think America will swing toward democratic socialism?

• BernieSanders.com
• Sanders.Senate.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38383
Tax The Rich To Save Working Americans
[[w/ Richard Wolff)

Wealth taxes are supported by not just the poor and middle class but even Billionaires agree with Elizabeth's Warren's wealth tax plan to save America.

Taxing the poor not the rich has brought back talk on socialism. We have to tax the rich to save working Americans. Professor Richard Wolff spoke with Thom Hartmann.

The massive inequality we are now experiencing in the United States has a singular source. It started with the Reagan tax cuts that took tax rates on the wealthiest Americans from 74%, where it had been for two generations, and lowered it to 25%. Does trickle-down economics have a place?

Immediately, instead of investing in their businesses or paying their employees well, wealthy CEOs begin to divert money from their companies into their own paychecks. Subsequent tax cuts by Bush and Trump made the situation even worse. Now we learn that the majority of billionaires and multimillionaires surveyed - fully 60% - actually support Elizabeth Warren‘s proposed tax on the ultra, ultra-wealthy.

This is the only thing that will re-balance our economy so that the middle-class can begin growing again. The middle-class had been steadily growing in income and wealth from the 1930s until the 1980s when Reagan began killing the working class by cutting the top tax rate on their bosses. It’s time to reverse the Reagan, Bush, and Trump tax cuts and restore sanity to our tax code so that working people can once again get a fair share of the American economy.

Understanding Marxism

• Most millionaires support a tax on wealth above $50 million, CNBC survey says
• DemocracyAtWork.info
• RDWolff.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38384
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 27: Papadopoulos' Russian Contact

• The Full Set of Mueller Report Readings
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38388
How Brett Kavanaugh Saved Trump And Doomed Democracy

Did Kavanaugh save Trump and doom democracy?

Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump's most controversial Supreme Court pick, voted to allow foreign agents to interfere with United States elections by interpreting the law in a way that would let foreign nationals get away with electioneering!

• How Brett Kavanaugh Made Russian Election Interference Easier and Robert Mueller’s Job Harder
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38389
Native Americans Protect Amazon From Oil Drilling

Native Americans are working to protect the Amazon rainforest from oil drilling and damage.

The Amazon River and across Ecuador, the rainforest animals and infrastructure need protection.

Reynard Loki, Editor/Environmental Reporter-Independent Media, joined Thom Hartmann to update the Amazon news.

• How indigenous peoples won a landmark victory protecting the Amazon from oil drilling
• IndependentMediaInstitute.org
• Earth-Food-Life
• AmazonFrontlines.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38390
If We Don't Stop Trump's Border Policy, We Are To Blame!

If we don't stop what Trump is doing at the border right now, we are going to be responsible for Trump's crimes too.

Donald Trump's controversial child separation policy has only gotten worse to the point where child migrants are being housed where Japanese Americans were housed in the last war.

• Elizabeth C. McLaughlin's Twitter thread
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38398
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 28: Carter Page

The background on Carter Page, taken from the Mueller Report.

Thom reads from page 96.

• The Full Set of Mueller Report Readings
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38399
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 29: Carter Page [[Pt. 2)

Thom continues to read the Mueller investigation report, with more on Carter Page.

This section starts on page 99.

• The Full Set of Mueller Report Readings
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38406
Trump's Economy Means Americans Can't Afford To Buy Homes

Is Donald Trump's economy putting millennials out of house and home?

While the American Middle Class is shrinking, the Chinese middle class is growing up debt free with access to fast and affordable medical care.

Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, riddled with debt and many millennials can't afford to buy their homes.

Unrestricted Warfare:
China's Master Plan to Destroy America

• The American Dream Is Alive and Well—in China
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38407
Trump's "Secret" Deal With Mexico Put ALMO Ahead
[[w/ Greg Palast)

Donald Trump's secret deal with Mexico has just been revealed and every journalist is saying that Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador or ALMO for short, beat Trump and had the deal maker put Mexico on top.

Greg Palast joins the program to discuss the details of Donald Trump's failed deal with Mexico.

Trump’s crimes against humanity continue with 20,000 migrants from Central America passing through Mexico, so he says. Mexico through Greg Palast and president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, ALMO, says that Mexicans are working with Honduras and Guatemala to help migrants financially. The Mexican national guard work at the borders to help slow down immigrants and the Mexican government are investing in Central America. The Trump terror tantrum tells more Trump lies about the Central American migrants and the mainstream media suck it up and don’t report with any accuracy.

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy:
The Case of the Stolen Election

• GregPalast.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38409
Could Catering To Swing Voters Cost Democrats 2020 Election?

The appeal to swing voters could cost Democrats the 2020 Election.

In the past Republicans have reached out to their base, in effort to get more of their hardcore supporters to show and it worked so well we have Donald Trump. The entire Republican party, by reaching to their base of supporters, has gone much further right.

At the same time.

In the past the Democratic party has reached out not to their base but to the middle ground voters. By reaching out to the center, the democrats moved slightly to the right to cater to a wider audience.

As the 2020 Democratic primary comes closer, will a field of presidential hopefuls decide to reach for the center or their base?

What do you think will help Democrats win?

Do Democrats or Republicans have a stronger base?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38410
Trump's Trade Policy Will Hurt American Workers & Re-Elect Him?

The trade deficit with China has grown under Trump, costing tens of thousands of US jobs. What will happen to American workers and can they survive Chinese trade? Chinese technology is banned in many ways now, both buying from China, but selling to China especially in the technology sector.

Mexico is due to vote on NAFTA 2.0 trade agreement, but will the agreement pass the House? Is the issue still with big pharma? Can the Democrats force the president to change the new North American Free Trade Agreement?

• TradeWatch.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38411
Did Trump Manufacture Iran Oil Tanker Attack To Start A War?

Could Trump lie the United States into a war with Iran as part of his election campaign?

Iran and the US disagree on whether an Iranian vessel attacked an oil tanker or was trying to save it by removing a mine. Trump could use this to start a war with Iran and have us lied into war with Iran.

The video isn’t clear wether it was an Iranian military vessel. We don’t know who placed the mine, if there was a mine on the oil tanker at all.

Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy

• TritaParsi.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38413
Was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Right To Call Them Concentration Camps?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins the chorus of voices calling the immigrant detention centers, concentration camps and conservatives like Liz Cheney are not happy.

But was the freshmen Congressmember right?

Are these "detention facilities" really just American concentration camps?

• Ocasio-Cortez.House.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38414
Going Vegan Can Save The Planet, What's Stopping You?

What would prevent you from going vegan if it both saved the world & your body?

Want to save the world, save some money, and live a few years longer than you might otherwise? You can do all three at once by simply going vegan. The single most powerful thing that any American can do to fight global climate change is to stop eating meat and dairy products. It’s also the single most effective way to prevent a heart attack or a stroke, as we’ve learned from people like Bill Clinton who have become vegans after having a heart attack.

There are vegan bodybuilders, vegan politicians like Cory Booker, and everyday vegans all across the country who are doing their part to help save this world. Eating meat and dairy not only pollutes the atmosphere and environment, but it also pollutes your body and your mind. Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of age-related dementia, and meat and dairy products speed up the deterioration of your veins and arteries.

In every regard, one of the best things you can do for yourself and your life is to become vegan.

• The 14 things you need to know before you go vegan
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38415
Ending Gerrymandering Once And For All
[[w/ Kathryn "Katie" Fahey)

Gerrymandering is the practice some politicians use to make their districts really strong ones for their base and disempower other voters. It's a tool the Republicans have become very good at.

But can we stop gerrymandering?

Can one person change the constitution of a state?

Yes, they can. Learn the story from Katie Fahey from Michigan and The People, who enabled a state-wide ballot initiative to change the state constitution of Michigan. The gerrymandering explained in our states, takes away your voting rights and the ability for politicians to draw districts to suit their electoral needs. Representing the people needs to be held in check to benefit the people on the ground and not the political servants. How to change a law was the challenge to stop politicians picking their voters by changing districts to their benefit against the will of the people. Discover how to undertake the same process to prevent gerrymandering in your state.

• Supreme Court again considers partisan gerrymandering, but voters are not waiting
• ThePeople.org
• CommonCause.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38417
An Economic Crash Could Determine 2020 Election & Fate Of The Country

An economic crash is looming, and it could determine the fate of Trump — and the country. How can Democrats, progressive activists, and others work together to plan for the coming crash and the political ramifications?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38419
The Secret Plan To Fake A War With Iran!

Donald Trump is not the first person to try to fake a war with Iran.

Before John Bolton's oil fire, Vice President Dick Cheney suggested that the United States could fake an incident and take the nation to war.

If the Republicans were willing to fake their way into war before what will Trump's Republicans be willing to do now?

• ThomHartmann.com