The Hartmann Report

Representative Ro Khanna takes listener calls from across the nation.    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How the GOP’s war on empathy turned America into a playground for billionaires and psychopaths...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

MAGA wants to turn America into an autocracy, and carve up the planet into three dictatorial spheres of influence. Will we let oligarchy win this time?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

And this one ends with either democracy renewed — or democracy erased…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Masked ICE agents are now snatching dissidents off the streets like a scene from Stalin’s Russia. This isn’t speculative fiction. It’s happening right now, in America…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Greg Palast is watching Republican dirty voting tricks kick into overdrive in time for the midterms. Now Trump is working to undermine federal courts.. And, April 1st the US post office is slowing down services. Do enough people pay attention to even know they are being hustled?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

No matter how hard you try, the world won’t forget. The lies, the corruption, and the betrayal are etched into history, a stain that will follow your party for generations…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Matthew Biggs is the President of the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers. Can federal workers become part of the resistance to Trump's fascist takeover?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When your regime is part mafia spoof, part constitutional crisis, things stop being funny real fast…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

While Vance's wife scouts out Greenland, Trump's special envoy to Vladimir Putin wants Russia to get its old sphere of influence back. And elsewhere, Erdoğan and Netanyahu take time out to arrest their opposition. Can America escape the authoritarian wave?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's probably a coincidence, but why did Donald ask government officials to be ready to declare martial law before Adolf's birthday on April 20th? Is ignoring the legal system of the United States just the start for these guys?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

National Progressive Town Hall with US Rep Mark Pocan of Wisconsin taking listener questions. We must flood the streets in protest. We must call our representatives and demand accountability. We must challenge this in the courts, in the media, and at the ballot box. Silence is complicity. The time to resist is now, before Trump’s America becomes a full-fledged police state.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The astonishing report that should have stopped Russia and Donald Trump but it was covered up. Investigative Raconteur Heidi Siegmund Cuda of the Bette Dangerous Substack joins Thom Hartmann with the story. Also as Putin delays actual commitments to end his aggression, veteran war correspondent Phil Ittner reports from Kiev, Ukraine. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump, Musk, and their tech-bro overlords are engineering America’s authoritarian future...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The incompetent power grab roles along, as doped-up Donald destroys the Department of Education to pay for the massive tax cut Republicans are about to gift their billionaires employers.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

If Trump can destroy America’s biggest law firms, who will be left to stand against him?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Who does shutting down the Voice of America benefit? Hint: Not Democracy.Also- Trump moves to kneecap the Social Security Administration through mass layoffs.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

First, they came for the immigrants. Now, they’re coming for legal residents, tourists, and even citizens. Are you paying attention now?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Putin puts Trump on hold while he talks to Russian oligarchs and makes him wait - I guess we know who the real boss of Trump is. Is Putin our boss now too? Who broke into the US Institute of Peace? And why? Also David Pakman joins the show to discuss his new book, The Echo Machine.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

History warns us: Once the government starts rounding people up, it doesn’t stop...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As Trump-Musk target Social Security, seniors share stories of benefit cutoffs. Also is Trump rolling back the Biden pardons? We are now in a Constitutional Crisis. It is time again to impeach this lawless president!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

History will remember him as the man who let fascism rise without a fight…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

DJT openly defies the Hatch Act as he showcases Tesla vehicles on the White House lawn next to Elon Musk. Also the Republicans lure Senator John Fetterman into their camp to follow the pattern they established with Kyrsten Sinema. GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma defies Senate dress code rules by sporting a cowboy hat in defense of Fetterman's sloppy attire.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Women are NOW having trouble registering to vote in NH because they've done the SAVE Act on a state level. Also It looks like the US Postal Service has cut a deal with DOGE and it's not good. Could RFK Jr. be implicated in the hunt for the perpetrator of the decapitated California sea lion? And Substack columnist Rohn Kenyatta discusses with Thom the national PTSD caused by DJT's continued wild stunts with American governance.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Musk lists the programs he wants to destroy, including unemployment insurance...Wow! Also Crazy alert! Did you hear about Dr Oz's new blond Trump hairstyle? Bizarre! Bernie shows how to say NO to the GOP spending scam. And did Chuck Schumer play us all for fools? It is time for some ineffective leaders to wake up or get out?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

From Polk to Putin, Trump’s picking the worst role models in history...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Russia’s cyber attack on Ukraine and subsequent invasion, it turns out, may just have been a dress rehearsal. Is it possible that Russia might be planning something like this? Is it possible that Trump could be setting us up? Plus veteran war correspondent Phil Ittner reports from Kiev, Ukraine. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Their diabolical and racist plan, for purely political purposes, to intentionally allow a half-million Americans to die has been largely ignored by the American mainstream media…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Buying Influence or Breaking Democracy? Why is protester Khalil seized by Trump being kept in a notorious violent ICE facility? Also why was Mark Kelly accused of being a traitor by Musk? Was is because he did the unthinkable? Visiting and supporting Ukraine? For the Book Club, Thom reads from "Free Trade Doesn't Work"See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

While working families struggle, Trump and his billionaire cronies are cashing in big time…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Crowdfunding Cancer Care While Billionaires Hoard Billions. This guy says that he can murder the FBI and police who investigated him for his rioting on January 6 because Trump‘s pardon covers it. The judge isn’t buying it, but it hasn’t made its way to the Supreme Court yet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Who’s next? Trump’s ICE is snatching student protesters off the streets!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The morbidly rich are waging a neverending war on Democracy. So who are these people, and how do they get what they want?Plus- Thom reads from "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wall Street landlords, foreign buyers, and the GOP’s war on affordable housing...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Start building! Guest host Jefferson Smith emphasizes what we CAN do amid the destructive rule of Presidents Trump and Musk.Plus- Thom reads from 'Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America' by Nancy MacLean.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann. Too often fundamentalism is used primarily to subjugate and oppress. Whether economic, racial, class or sex fundamentalism is not based on purity religion but as a weapon to attack the more vulnerable.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann. Interview: Founder and CEO of Twenty Ideas Inc, Mike Biglan joins Jefferson Smith to break down the failures of Trump's meme inspired Department of Government Efficiency. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How fake patriots are betraying their own country...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann examines the hypocrisy and authoritarianism of DJT's recent speech. Also Jeff's dad Joe Smith returns for the ever popular "News With My Dad" feature. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

America’s safety net is their next profit scheme — and you’re the target…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann examining the reals motives and deceptive tactics of the billionaire class in destroying the country and what they have to gain. What damage is at stake and what are strategies we can employ to break them?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The last time American fascists tried this, FDR and Wallace took them down. Will we?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann with insights on coping in the age of triggering and fear tactics from the White House. Plus Jeff gives his better-late-than never insights from the past election. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Russia’s cyber attack on Ukraine and subsequent invasion, it turns out, may just have been dress rehearsal…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guest-host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann. Why does America's promises and character matter? Why does NATO matter? Why do our allies matter? And when do countries declare their independence?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What happens when the country that once led the free world becomes the enemy of Democracy?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A longtime Progressive leader in Congress, Ro Khanna is doing townhalls in red districts in his state. Why aren't all of the Democrats out raising hell as our government gets torn apart?Plus- Thom reads from "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success" by Ross Douthat See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Did Republican voter suppression techniques add up to enough difference to hand Donald Trump the Election? And as the rich get richer, is this all part of the right-wing plan?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Thom checks in with Victoria Jones in London- and Phil Ittner in Kyiv- to take the pulse of Trump's moves regarding Ukraine. Can Europe stand on its own if the Kremlin succeeds in setting us against each other?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to the Hunger Games: This is what happens when government shrinks...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.