The Hartmann Report

United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead by a yet unknown assassin but clues to his motive are pointing to the bloodthirsty profit United Healthcare makes from denying life-saving insurance claims.  Listeners of the Thom Hartmann program feel the pain and share personal stories and political strategies to combat the injustice of the insurance scam.  See Privacy Policy at h...

Cohost of the RADICALIZED Truth Survives podcast, Jim Stewartson gives a warning that the Q fringe has not gone away. America doesn't want a Cabinet full of abusers and drunks!? What happens when global powers abandon their word? Just ask Ukraine. It has been 30 years since the betrayal of the Budapest Memorandum. Reporting from Kyiv, Veteran War Correspondent Phil Ittner gives an update...

What happens when global powers abandon their word? Just ask Ukraine… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

President of Social Security Works, Alex Lawson warns that Elon Musk's commission is a plot to destroy our Social Security. By giving it to Wall Street executives, you get nothing and they get everything. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to rein in predatory data brokers - but won't be able to if Musk deletes them. Plus Geeky Science! The best longevity thing you can do is...

Save your healthcare and dump Medicare Advantage before it’s too late. Here’s why you should return to real Medicare if you still can... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Author and Activist David Pepper joins Thom to discuss the growing lockout of common people from ever holding real power. Will Republicans roll out nationally what they've learned to to do in places like Ohio and North Carolina? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

How Yoon’s State of Emergency and Trump’s Strategies Are Eroding Global Freedoms See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

As we watch Korea's fake populist make his play for total control, how are America's right wing setting the table to use our government to enrich themselves? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

A stark warning about Trump’s dystopian plans for his second term... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Kash Patel says he's coming for the free media- and Pete Hegseth's own mother says to watch out for this guy. Will Trump get his clown posse in power using fake recess appointments? Plus - Thom's take on pardoning Hunter Biden. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Neoliberalism’s death grip or a New Deal revival? The stakes couldn’t be higher... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Bizarro World holds no candle to the peculiar ponderings of the Republican mindset as reinvented by Trump and Vance. Callers of the Thom Hartmann show weigh in on the significance of the disastrous election outcome. Will a political strategy built on dysfunctionally racist and sexist memes inevitably fail?  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic...

With fascism looming, Thom's callers process the moment we find ourselves in. Plus- Thom reads from former Congressman Bob Ney's fascinating inside look at how Congress really works, his book "Sideswiped". See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

National Progressive Townhall Meeting with phone questions answered by U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) / Vice Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus. Listeners of the Thom Hartmann show ply the representative with queries on Congressional; strategies with the return of Trump, the apparent leadership vacuum in the DNC, and will exponential reforestation blunt planetary tipping...

From Adams’ Sedition Acts to Trump’s relentless attacks, the war on truth threatens to unravel the very foundation of our republic... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

How and why was America's middle class systematically taken out? Thom Hartmann goes over all the details. The rich are planning to take everything the middle class has left. Find out how they did it and how the middle class can win again. The schemes of the billionaires, morbidly rich and forces of unchecked capitalism can be defeated! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...

It’s probably, politically and spiritually, the darkest Thanksgiving for our nation in my lifetime. So how about a quick story out of America’s earliest history that somewhat echoes this moment and may give us some hope? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

China, Canada and Mexico hit back at Trump’s tariff plan amid warnings of impact on the US economy - - How do we bring our jobs back home? Trump says he'll slap tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico on Day 1. I agree with jobs coming home - Dems should have done this. Our drugs, food, and good union jobs have been sent to unregulated cheap labor. There are loads of recalls that no one even chec...

The right approach to tariffs could rebuild American manufacturing and reshape the political landscape… See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

News - We all can't be good Germans or good Russians. Or now good Americans. The Next Pandemic Could Be Brewing: Is Trump’s Team Ready to Fail Us Again? Straight white people can chill as they're still in charge. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Democrats have a long and illustrious history of strong leadership: FDR, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ, Clinton, Obama. Where is this generation’s leader? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Romney's Bain Capital helped dismantle left-wing talk network Air America. Will something similar happen to MSNBC? Republicans are gunning for Republicans. Will their be anything left beside subsidized right-wing propaganda? Plus- Thom reads from "How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property" by Ben G. Price. See Privacy Policy at https://art19....

Incompetence and conspiracy theories meet a deadly virus: Will history repeat itself, or will we face an even deadlier disaster with unprepared leaders at the helm? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Fascists have ruled by fear and corruption throughout history. This is not a new thing, and the preparation to destroy the hard-won institutions that protect us is happening right now. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Public prayer, talking violent civil war with their neighbors, tearing down what little support we give to the least among us- how does the modern Republican party claim to follow the teachings of Jesus? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .