The Hartmann Report

It has been 50 years since the Attica Prison Rebellion, one of the most famous and bloodiest prison uprisings in America's history. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who refused to meet with the prisoners during the rebellion, stated that the prisoners "carried out the cold-blooded killings they had threatened from the outset." The deaths of only one of the officers and three of the...

Republicans are playing with fire here, but it’s not just around abortion rights. They’re also explicitly going after a wide variety of other rights that Americans have fought to maintain for centuries. If they achieve their endpoint, the direction they’re currently heading, they will ultimately see their own rights stripped away as well, leading to the end of our democratic republic. See Privacy...

Editorial Director & Publisher of The Nation Magazine, Katrina vanden Heuvel reflects on 20 Years of Lies & Bloodshed with the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Radio host Dean Obeidallah joins the show to explain his essay, "On September 10, 2001, I went to sleep a White guy. On September 11, I woke up an Arab." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...

The GOP's Obsession with Power-At-All-Costs Will End Badly for Us All (Including Them).  The monster of fear, hate, and greed the right wingers have created – as it rises from the primordial mud and shakes itself into life – will eventually consume them. Also Professor Richard Wolff explores what people understand of neoliberalism? And where is it going? See Privacy Policy at https://art...

With the hospitals overwhelmed, should the unvaccinated be the last in line to be treated? Should we blow up the filibuster and finally face up to the scams behind much of our health care system? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Genuine patriots work to heal a country, to bring out its best, to strengthen its social and political fabric and make a better nation and world for future generations. So who are these people set on tearing us apart while wrapping themselves in the flag? Also, author Elie Mystal of the Nation joins Thom- are Democrats responding too meekly to the right wing crazies? See Privacy Policy at https://...

President of the Center for Health and Democracy, Wendell Potter joins Thom to explain that healthcare insurers work for the shareholders and not the patient. This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret: a complete list of the prices they negotiate with private insurers. Four hospital associations jointly sued the government to block it, and ap...

Radioactive Waste Specialist from Beyond Nuclear, Kevin Kamps joins Thom for two unsettling new revelations. Why is 3.6m pounds of nuclear waste buried on a popular California beach? Plus - Are the Fukushima operators building an undersea tunnel to release treated water? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...

After calling for bloodshed during elections, many are wondering, why is Madison Cawthorn in congress instead of in jail? Congressman Mark Pocan shares his thoughts in a national progressive town hall meeting among listeners. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Is There a Sense of Impending Doom In the Air? While some will give up and walk away from political activism, others realize the importance of doubling down on our activism. Outlawing abortion is more dangerous than the GOP wants you to think. Thom and Prof Richard Wolff explore the economics of women not having access to abortions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cal...

Republicans are proud of how they're intimidating women in Texas. But could this abortion ban & its vigilantism be the tipping point that activates women & allies to take down the GOP? Dr. Ben Strauss joins Thom on whether extreme weather is on the rise and are we seeing it on the east & west coasts with fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes etc. Greg Palast explains the real reason the...

Trump "Salted the Earth" Against Biden to Get Chaos, Revenge & Profit - Trump has so far avoided the final fate of Abimelech, who was taken out by a woman...or has he? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Epidemiologist & Health Economist Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding explores what the next 5 covid years may look like? Hey Ron Death-Santis - How Many Covid Deaths Are Enough For You? Executive Director-Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Lori Wallach joins Thom on why vaccinating the world will save Americans too. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at h...

It’s probably beyond the power of human nature to prevent this from happening again, but we must not resign ourselves to another authoritarian movement now rising to power in America. Get active! Dr. Justin A. Frank joins Thom to ask are crackpot fake news sources destroying the minds of their believers? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19...

Policy & Research Coordinator for the Movement for Black Lives, Dr. Amara Enyia joins Thom to discuss the new report detailing the persecution of activists and organizing have been facing since the George Floyd protests. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The weekend march in Washington in front of the Capitol is to support the right of voters. Over 40 states now have legislation in place to suppress voting by blacks and others, to destroy true democracy. Radio host Joe Madison joins Thom to discuss why the Republicans want to remove your right to vote? Because if everyone has a free vote, they will lose. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co...

Bush & Cheney have gotten away with lying us into two wars & wildly enriching their friends; meanwhile, more people are dead & the media won't even ask the right questions. Will we ever learn? Has the Press Been Too Critical of Biden's Afghan Pull-out or and was the Press negligent is not talking more of the Trump sabotage? The Taliban aren't the only ones trying to impose th...

Debate! Julio Rivera VS Thom - What's the latest strategy, you right-wingers, are going to try to use to blame Trump's Surrender to the Taliban on Biden? How Can You Defend Trump's Give-Away of Afghanistan to the Taliban?  Greg Palast - Moire Judicial Monarchy - Courts Forcing States to Clean up Voter Rolls. What?! Also Lala Wu on National Women's Equality Day (100th anniversary of the 1...

Have Americans Run Out of Empathy Due to Too Many Disasters? Could the “Monarchs” on the Supreme Court Tank Democracy? Get ready for the Supreme Court & a handful of GOPers to put Trump, DeSantis, Scott, Cotton or Hawley into the White House regardless of the 2024 election outcome - unless they are stopped now. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...

Now that the Pfizer vaccine has received full approval and is widely available across the US, it’s time to back it up with a vaccine passport. What red blooded, Nazi-arm-band-wearing, Confederate-flag-waving, capitol-invading, gun-toting, Trump-humping American patriot could possibly object? Crazy Alert - Where was Fox News when the GOP & Trump were hunting women? See Privacy Policy at https:/...

Trump Brutally Represents an American Version of the Taliban - And now almost the entire Republican Party has chosen to go down the same Taliban-paved path with him. What could possibly go wrong? Why Are Republicans so bent out of shape about masks but not school shootings? Also why remedy to Haiti's crisis isn't happening. Jakob Johnston of the Center for Economic & Policy Research joins Thom...

The Endpoint for "White Replacement Theory Promoted on Conservative Media: Apartheid America. Welcome to the “great” America that Trump and his MAGA followers want us to become again: a racist, sexist, repressive and dangerous apartheid state. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Trump set up a disaster in Afghanistan and now the right wants to blame Biden for it. Here's why.  Also, economist Professor Richard Wolff explains why Republicans and "conservative" democrats are freaking out about the national debt, particularly the $3.5 infrastructure bill. What's the deficit, the debt, and why should we care or not care? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

Rightwing billionaires have robbed & pillaged America. Sadly, the future Rosenberrys and Stacks won't hear this listening to AM radio or Fox “News.” So we live in increasingly dangerous times... As the GOP continues to push against mask mandates, Texas hospitals may soon deny unvaccinated patients access to ICU beds. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy N...

Jay Famiglietti of the Global Institute for Water Security has been studying what may be the greatest drought in history in the American west. Is it too late to make a difference? Dr Michael Mann is here with the latest data- why is Earth's climate shifting so much faster than predicted? Plus- Author Jimmy Tobias on the collapse of the wild population of red wolves. See Privacy Policy at...