The Hartmann Report

Why are so many Americans willing to support hate and division? Donald Trump has told us that only 9000 people have died of the corona virus in the United States, that shooting an unarmed man in the back seven times is like a bad putt at golf, that protests are being led by an airplane full of black-jacketed “thugs,“ and refused to condemn a vicious murderer who killed two people and blew the arm...

Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, and Joe Biden have both challenged Trump to condemn violence by all sides. But is Trump instead trying to start a civil war by taking lessons from past strongman regimes like the Nazis? Thom is joined by Alexander Reed-Ross, a doctoral fellow at the Center for the Analysis of the Radical Right. To what extent are police supportive of, or even infiltrated by raci...

Last week the lies flowed like water at the Republican Convention, while Trump supporters went on hunting trips to kill peaceful protesters in the streets- will the predators succeed? Will the actions of the NBA and many others standing up against police brutality be only a moment, or a movement? Which America will prevail? Plus - Trump is using the CDC to suppress the Covid case numbers in the ru...

Thom once again welcomes Progressive Congressman Ro Khanna to the air to discuss the issues of the day from his perspective. Will the public fully recognize the hypocrisy of the Republican party running on law and order while egging on the lawless murder of peaceful protesters? And is Trump deliberately creating a mess for Joe Biden to inherit? Plus Thom's callers on... do dogs really vote??. Prot...

After Trump massively violated the Hatch Act by being the first American president in history to campaign from the White House, will there be an investigation? Will Covid take its toll as it did on Herman Cain? Do any of the Republicans on Fox News care enough about this country to wake up and realize there is a con-man and criminal in the White House? Thom hears from Ben Jealous, the president of...

Will you be able to protect yourself from a financial crash, how will an economic crash now affect the 2020 election? Can this turn into a recession, a depression or something even worse? Thom Hartmann and Richard Wolff discuss just how big this pop will be! Is This Our Last Chance To Return Manufacturing Jobs To The US? (w/ Rob E. Scott, Senior Economist and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Po...

Unfit, a new film by Dan Partland, proves that Donald Trump is psychologically unfit to be president of the United States. When the duty to warn outweighs the Goldwater guideline. From Nixon’s “silent majority“ and “war on drugs“ to Reagan’s first speech as a presidential candidate near the Mississippi site were three civil rights workers were murdered as he warned an all white crowd about th...

The Republican convention’s first day was filled with sturm und drang, warnings and fear, hysteria and demagoguery. And what were they so concerned about? Sadly, most of the media is treating Trump and the weird show of supplicants and family members last night, as if he were some sort of aberration. In reality, Donald Trump is the logical endpoint of the Republican Party that started, in the...

Even the professional war criminals, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, are not willing to show up to this weeks Republican convention. It has become a death cult, where Trump’s own supporters enthusiastically cheer his efforts to make America more brutal, crude, and deadly. Thom is joined by Jacob Soboroff, Correspondent-NBC News & MSNBC / Author of the new book, SEPARATED: Inside An American Tr...

Congressional Progressive leaders Ro Khanna and Mark Pocan join Thom taking listener questions! Is the Postal Service being set up for privatization?.. Can the Postmaster General be prosecuted for destroying our machines?.. Will Trump succeed in getting elected by voter suppression?- and what might be his end game?..  Plus- Ending the revolving door between regulation and industry... And- cam...

Democrats want to govern. Republicans want to make money. Why else does Secretary of Defense Mark Esper want to shift millions in health care for our soldiers to the private market when the Pentagon just got its largest increase in funding ever? And that's just one example - - as the endless scams roll on, who else but government is going to protect us from billionaire predators? Would Reagan be r...

Regarding the hearings on the Post Office... Rand Paul gave the game away asking, essentially: If you were a venture capitalist what would you need done in order to privatize the postal service? The billionaires are circling the game, preparing to go in for the kill. Joe Biden hits a home run with his acceptance speech as the convention concludes. Callers respond. See Privacy Policy at https:...

Now that Steve Bannon was arrested for mail fraud, will he join a long list of Trump's operators and supporters already behind bars? Is Trump operating his campaign and his presidency as one massive con job? This is simply the latest chapter in Republican "Give us money, we'll give you what you want" grift- and as President Obama pointed out in his convention speech- "the consequences of this.. ar...

Xochitl Hinojosa from The Democratic Convention gives an overview of the goals and themes of Joe Biden's upbeat diverse launch. Never in the history of the United States has there been widespread violence perpetrated by the followers of a president - until now with Donald Trump. It’ll be interesting to see how many more of these people show up at the Republican convention next week. Thom welcomes...

Michelle Obama peeled the skin off of Donald Trump in her convention speech! But will the next would-be American fascist be as impaired or as incompetent as Donald Trump? Come November will we stop the advance of the Republican scam powered by the massive political influence of rich people allowed ever since the Supreme Court essentially declared bribery legal? Or will Republicans be able to use f...

Republicans Struggle to Reboot Their “Small Government, Personal Responsibility” Scam: Will Americans Buy It Again? David Sirota - Trump's Postal Service Chairman Has Led Senate GOP's $100 Million Superpac Greg Palast - Is America is Finally Waking Up to the Difficulty of Mail in Voting Christine Pelosi - #ProtectUSPSwhistleblowers Ilyse Hogue -NARAL Pro-Choice See Privacy Policy at https://art19....

Forget 'promote the general welfare' and forget the scientists, the Republicans under Donald Trump are on a mission to establish a fascist state by and for the rich people of the United States. And even with so many of us in need right now, will the right-wing agenda go beyond a government that fails to protect the people to creating a government that actively endangers us? See Privacy Policy at h...

As Trump's corrupt Postmaster General tries to destroy the capacity of the Post Office to handle vote by mail ahead of the November election, what can we do about it? Is Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's stock portfolio just a conflict of interest or is it also a clue to what he's up to?  Will postal workers be able to overcome the slowdowns and get all the ballots in time before Republicans c...

Covid-21?- A new movie under development imagines what the world will be like when the next pandemic hits- after SARS, HIV, Zika, and now the corona virus pandemic, why is it completely predictable that new diseases are emerging? And could the next one be much more deadly? And Dr. Howard Koh, former head of HHS under Obama who oversaw the H1N1 vaccination program phones in- could a Biden presidenc...

Trump and Mark Meadows are openly blocking that legislation because it contains funding for the Post Office, and Trump has now explicitly threatened to veto any legislation that increases funding for the Post Office. Now he is actively sabotaging the Post Office to steal an election. And Republicans, facing electoral defeat in overwhelming numbers, apparently agree with him that this is a good ide...

History and the intrinsic goodness of human nature have moved beyond the Republican Party’s century-long opposition to working people, voting rights and a strong social safety net. On the one hand, if the Republican Party doesn’t reinvent itself it will go the way of the Whigs. On the other hand, it appears the best the party has to offer for the future are billionaire Mitt Romney or fascist Tom C...

The single most consistent defining characteristic of an emerging dictatorship in a country that started as a democracy is that the dictator regularly holds elections and always wins, because he uses the instruments of government to make sure he wins. It will take tens of millions of us showing up, speaking out, and making sure that our votes are counted to stop this train-wreck before it utterly...

Trump says he is going to boost unemployment payments by $400, stop evictions, cut payroll taxes, and extend student loan relief. In fact, these are all lies. As usual, it’s a new con job, a grift from our grifter-in-chief. Progressive Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan answers listener questions for a national Town Hall meeting, addressing frequently asked queries on mail-in ballots and the deliber...

Judd Legum of Popular Info has been tracking the scams Trump has been using to raise money for his campaign. Will people learn to see through the fake contests that nobody ever wins and other ways Trump is ripping people off? Can the Republican party succeed at embracing black voters while at once trashing black people? Who is really rigging the election and what can we do about it? And- why are c...

Author Leah Stokes has been watching what should be a major bribery scandal over keeping unprofitable Ohio coal plants burning. What is Trump's involvement? Why won't the Republicans call a vote on the HEROES act passed weeks ago by the House of Representatives? And why doesn't the excuse Trump-humpers give for denying the unemployed the continued $600 per week apply to the very wealthy who don't...