The Hartmann Report

As Amy Coney Barret take a seat on the high court almost literally on the eve of the election, and after Republicans broke with tradition and pushed through a last minute judge, denied Obama his Supreme Court pick and federal judges, and have thereby packed the federal courts- how should Democrats respond, and what would their options be if they take power? What steps may a partisan court take to...

Only an established, legal “right to vote“ can defeat Republican voter suppression. Increasingly, this election is coming down to the simple question of how effective 40 years of concerted Republican voter suppression efforts will be. Republicans are doing everything they can to keep people from voting, and then, when people do vote, to try to prevent those votes from being counted. When this elec...

David Daley, contributor to New Republic, joins Thom to discover just what is happening to your ballot. David's latest piece 'The Cancer on Your Ballot' looks inside the GOP’s drive for permanent minority rule and examines the right-wing assault on voting rights. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...

A new study found Trump's poor response to Covid is responsible for at least 197,000 American deaths. Will America wake up to the consequences of having an incompetent reality TV star for president? Is Trump deliberately spreading chaos so that Joe Biden will inherent an ungovernable country? Plus- a man in Germany is facing charges for using pepper spray to keep the unmasked away from him. Is thi...

Investigative reporter Greg Palast has got his eye on the Georgia vote. Could the possibly illegal purge of 198,000 voters in Georgia- and as many as 16 million nationwide- determine the Senate majority- or even the presidency? Thom gives the lowdown on the second and hopefully last EVER debate with Donald Trump. Plus Moe Vela, former Senior Adviser to VP Joe Biden joins Thom- how crucia...

What are the real values Americans have always proclaimed, if imperfectly executed? Will we vote for truth, justice, and the American way? Or will a criminal and grifter move us closer to fascism? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The Electoral College loophole has let two presidents out of the last three ascend to power without the will of the people behind them, leading to catastrophes beyond mention. Rep Jamie Raskin wants to put an end to the electoral college once and for all. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic & Policy Research. Nearly one year later, Bolivians vote to repudiate coup and reclaim democracy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Covid infections now represent the third leading cause of death in America. Whether America ends up with a Truth and Reconciliation Commission like South Africa did, or we simply put Trump and his enablers on trial for their crimes and all the deaths they caused, we must hold these people accountable. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art...

Progressive Congressmen Ro Khanna and Mark Pocan join Thom to take on listener questions. Has Trump left us in limbo with no Covid relief agreement?- and which side is really doing the court packing? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Our president endorsed the extra-judicial killing of a left wing murder suspect- is this practice for authoritarianism?; some say oppression is always tried first on outsiders and the vulnerable. Author Jean Reith Schroedel brings Thom a look at the ongoing history of voter suppression of Native Americans. And then her fellow author Harley L. Zephier adds his fascinating perspective- is this prese...

Richard Wolff joins Thom to examine why the unemployment numbers we see can’t be trusted. Professor Richard Wolff is an economist and the co-founder of Democracy At Work and author of numerous books; his latest is “The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.co...

Does the court have way too much power, taken unto itself? Would it constitutional for Congress to rein in that power? Also... Is the People of Praise a cult? Will Amy Comey Barret ever get away from this group's hold on her mind? What and with whom are her allegiances? Would she uphold the 14th through 16th amendments to the constitution? Does the Supreme Court represent the diversity of beliefs...

As Trump spreads Covid to his rally attendees, is his apparent herd immunity strategy just another aspect of billionaire indifference to the lives of common people?- and could all the lives lost or damaged in pursuit of immunity be in vain anyway? Dr. Richard Wolff joins Thom to talk about it. Will Trump's Supreme Court pick deliver on the investment the billionaires have put into her career and t...

Will Trump's partisan Supreme Court pick hold up LGBTQ rights? Does she think the 14th amendment is illegitimate? If we lost it, would we therefore lose equal representation, abortion, and privacy rights under the law? Should Biden add judges to the court to rebalance many years of Republican court packing? Plus - Sheldon Whitehouse lays out the Republican scam directly to congress. See Privacy Po...

Thom reviews the Senate hearings on Amy Coney Barrett. Biden and Harris need to stop avoiding the question and point out that six years of unprecedented partisan actions by Mitch McConnell have left our courts, particularly our Supreme Court, badly out of balance. There are a variety of ways to restore that balance, and all need to be examined, including blocking the appointment of Amy Coney Barre...

Americans with and without health insurance lose their homes and their lives because they cannot afford medical care. Samuel Metz, MD of Mad as Hell Doctors joins Thom to discuss the vital necessity of universal healthcare, the new SCOTUS pick and Donald Trump on steroids. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...

From the Turner Diaries, to Camp of the Saints, and now to Qanon! Thom Hartmann exposes the dangerous history of Republican conspiracy theories! Professor Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works joins Thom to analyze Trump's corrosive effect on US democracy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Savage capitalism is the conservative world view. Even now that Trump himself has Covid, he still thinks 1,000+ Americans a day dying from the disease is a case of 'too bad, so sad'. Have we reached the full expression of extreme right-wing libertarianism? This is part and parcel with Republican opposition to regulating poisonous pollution, dangerous cars, gambling banks, and every other danger to...

Now the GOP is more and more resembling a softer American version of the Taliban: embrace the religious fanatics, openly oppose public education and science, and do everything possible to disempower women. Thom breaks down the VP debate and the art historian's interpretation of the fly encounter. Tom Perez of the DNC joins the show for the latest on avoiding voter suppression and the imp...

Norwegian sociologist and comedian Harald Eia joins Thom- but when the leader of the free world is a joke, it's not funny. Is America as free a country as we imagine? What can we learn from the Scandinavian economic model? Plus- how long is it going to take to recover from the damage that Trump has done to the economy? Economics Professor Richard Wolff gives a historical perspective. See Priv...

Investigator Greg Palast is watching the Republican voter suppression campaign go into overdrive. Also, Judd Legum of Popular Info joins Thom with the story of how influencers on Facebook are once again swinging the election with their lies. But will Facebook do anything about it? Plus- why did the Secretary of State in Texas just have his staff quit and request a federal investigation?... Can we...

Now that Scott Atlas' "Herd Mentality" policy has put a president in the hospital, will post-Covid Trump become more like Brasil's Bolsinaro or Britain's Boris in his attitude? Is Trump's hospital car ride sealed in with Secret Service agents emblematic of the fact he doesn't care about what happens to other people? After all this will Americans finally get wise to Republican scams, and the fact t...

Why did the debate between Trump and Biden devolve into interruptions and lies? Is there a connection to the deep racism Trump is actively courting- and encouraging? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Deportation, torture, forced pregnancy, abuse of prisoners, these are some of the things Donald Trump's supreme court pick has allowed, approved, and voted for over her career as judge, and if Amy Coney Barrett gets to the supreme court, we are going to have to worry about a lot more than just Roe v. Wade, but every decision by the Supreme Court that has ever protected you. See Privacy Policy at h...