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California's PG&E just plead guilty to killing more than 80 Americans- how is that corporations can be a person when it comes to free speech, but not a person when it comes to legal liability? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Did America just get manipulated by the meat industry with a fake shortage scare that led to protection from legal liability and stay-at-home orders? If there was a meat shortage, why were we exporting so much meat to China? Food and Water Watch's Tony Corbo is on the line with Thom- why has Trump's trade agreement with China opened the door for the United States to import chicken meat from China?...

Trump’s rally in Tulsa this weekend and his moving the Republican convention to Florida both demonstrate that he is more than willing to take actions that will kill Americans in order to get his ego stroked and increase his chances of reelection. Weaponizing a virus for political purposes is a crime against humanity, and it is being committed right in front of our own eyes against our friends and...

America has the worlds highest rate of infection and death from the corona virus, and Donald Trump and the Republicans are trying their best to pretend theres nothing going on. While Steve Mnuchin and Donald Trump are passing out hundreds of billions of dollars to each other and their good buddies while refusing to let the American people know who got what, the corona virus continues its deadly sp...

Movement vs. Moment: How WE Can Stop Trump In Tulsa (w/ Joe Madison) Will Trump's visit to Tulsa be successful? It just might be unless we can turn this moment of anti-racism, into a movement, Joe Madison joins Thom with an answer that may surprise you. Have we moved from moment to movement? Is the political virus out to get you? Every movement has required sacrifice of some kind. Sacrifice can ch...

Are Conservatives Considering Going After Police Too? (w/ Julio Rivera) The brutality of police has gotten a lot of people on the side of Black Lives Matter... but did you ever expect Julio Rivera to be on our side? What grotesque police organization is forcing even the most dyed in the wood conservative to reconsider Donald Trump's special group of armed men? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c...

Medea Benjamin has been thinking about the intersection between racism and militarism- could forces for peace be assembled to intervene in conflicts, much like we hope to change the approach of our police forces? The 13th amendment did not abolish slavery, it only limited it to those convicted of a crime. Why does America imprison people at rates far higher than any other developed country, and wh...

What is up with Trump's plans to hold a rally on Juneteenth in Tulsa, site of a massacre and looting of a prosperous black neighborhood in 1921? Benjamin Dixon, of the Benjamin Dixon show joins Thom- can Trump win by doubling down on his racism? Or are many of his supporters finally over it? And, Thom welcomes Dr. Jhacova Williams of the Economic Policy Institute, who has uncovered a statistical l...

What will it take to stop Republicans from maintaining structural racism in our voting? Yesterday we saw the Republicans number one voter suppression strategy on display, as black areas in Georgia suffering lines as long as six hours to vote- a racist crime against our democracy. Its time to criminalize voter suppression once and for all. Why are Republicans opposed to mail-in voting? Are they alr...

Trump has just reopened 5000 square miles of ocean habitat to fishing, and legalized killing bear moms and bear cubs in Alaska. Jim Adams, of the National Parks Regional Conservative Association joins Thom with some deep background on the story. New Zealand is almost ready to declare themselves virus-free. Why didn't the United States do the same kind of aggressive testing and contact tracing they...

What practical steps should be taken in this moment to reform police departments? Should we be disbanding so-called 'police unions'? Dr. Robin Cooper, of the Commonwealth Association of School Administrators, joins Thom to talk about school districts asking police departments to take a hike. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...

-- How Immunity For Cops and Facebook Kills America Victoria Jones, Executive Director, DC Radio Company reports on the world wide protests in solidarity with U.S. outrage over police brutality especially against African Americans. Imam Khalid Latif Executive Director of the Islamic Center at NYU, Chaplain for New York University joins Thom to conflate the violence against African Americans w...

Thom welcomes Mark Pocan, co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus to once again answer questions in a national town hall meeting. Will Progressive be able to weaken the FISA (spy on America bill) and the so-called Patriot Act, to restore some of our rights? And will they be able to call into question the 20 percent increase in defense spending over the last three years? And are we abandoning smal...

Thom puts his head together with fellow Progressive talk show host Dean Obeidallah- when will be the moment of maximum danger if Trump is not re-elected? Are there lessons in the history of the middle east for dealing with presidents who don't want to give up power? Plus... Is Trump a strongman or the messiah? Did using military force for his church photo-op violate the establishment clause? And w...

America has arrived at a crisis-point. As Trump surrounds the White House with unmarked federal prison guards loyal to him, directly attacks the constitutional right to peacefully assemble, and is urging Republican governors to use violence against protesters- Senate Republicans say nothing. But some on the right- like former Trump cabinet member General Mathis- are loudly denouncing Trump's uncon...

Don Siegelman, Former Governor of Alabama on Racism & Police Violence Trump is trying to play out Richard Nixon’s “law and order“ theme from the 1968 election. “Law and order“ were Nixon’s code words for white supremacy, but nobody in the mainstream media identified that or called it out at the time; that commentary was largely limited to the black press. America today is a very different...

Now is the time for the House of Representatives to offer a second Article of Impeachment against Trump for nakedly violating the First Amendment, and for the Republicans in the Senate, who should now see the terrible mistake they made the last time they had this opportunity, to remove him from office before he can do any more damage to our nation.  Amy Goodman from Democracy Now, was arreste...

Protests erupted into flames but the real culprit lighting these fires might surprise you! Do you smell anything suspicious besides the ashes of our democracy? Will Minnesota protesters be able to put the killer cops responsible for the untimely death of George Floyd behind bars... or will agent provocateurs disrupt the movement! Could the difference in the coverage of protest really be about raci...

 Many of the families of people who have died of COVID-19 here in the United States have considered suing Trump, but it is nearly impossible to sue a sitting president, and Bill Barr has made it clear that the Justice Department will not hold Trump accountable for anything, up to and including shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue. Therefore, we here in the United States, who are the victims of h...

Is the Trump administration abandoning any leverage we may have to protect the autonomy of Hong Kong? Thom is joined by Hong Kong expert Wilfred Chan, a contributing writer to The Nation magazine. Will China's aggressive moves to dismantle democracy in Hong Kong lead to the Thucydides Trap as a rising power confronts a declining one? Will Trump be able to distract us from the real dangers in the w...

Trahern Crews - Black Lives Matter Minnesota As Americans rise up against police terror, the far right has a horrible plan that could backfire on all of us... Thom Hartmann reveals the white supremacist plans for to use the unrest in Minnesota after George Floyd's murder by police officer was caught on tape, sparking massive outrage. Will the protesters be able to get justice for George Floyd or w...

Progressive Wisconsin Representative Mark Pocan joins Thom Hartmann for a national Town Hall Meeting, answering listener questions ranging from the latest Congressional remedies for the Covid crisis to election security for the 2020 race.  For the Book Club Thom reads selections from "Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover" by Ruth Marcus and "They Thought They Were F...

Bakari Sellers, Attorney and CNN Political Analyst, author of My Vanishing Country, joins Thom to talk about the changes in our country and systematic racism. Listeners call in with responses to Joe Biden's recent gaffe on the radio program of Charlamagne tha God, and point out that the 2020 election alone can't solve 400 years of racism. For the Book Club, Thom reads from "Just Another N-word: My...

Will Trump and Fox News be able to cover up the Covid deaths, or get white people to ignore them, and win? Or will he kill a million Americans, lose, and be seen by history as the man willing to let his fellow citizens die in droves for ultimately unsuccessful but purely political and purposes? For the Book Club, Thom reads from "The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy fro...

As the Caronavirus crisis grinds on, the Fed is handing out virtually free money in the form of very low interest loans-- how is this backdoor stimulus changing the behavior of the large corporations that have corrupted our political system? Economist Richard Wolff joins Thom to share his research and predictions. And as the big banks get caught again engaging in mortgage fraud, in some ways are w...