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The generations that defeated fascism in the 1770s, 1860s, and 1940s understood something simple but profound: democracy survives only if ordinary people are willing to defend it. Are we today? By Thom Hartmann/ The Hartmann Report/ May 18, 2026 {In America today, power and profit are the overriding goals of our leaders. Democracy and decency are no more than afterthoughts, if thought of at…

It’s the deliberate, systematic destruction of your ability to know what’s real... By Thom Hartmann/ Hartmann Report.com/ March 10, 2026 We got more lies this morning from the Pentagon press briefing. They’re now up to 17 different rationalizations for the attack on Iran, none of which makes sense. To paraphrase Rod Serling, consider what happened in Minab, Iran. A Tomahawk cruise missile, an…

Madison and the Founders of his generation had it right: what Trump is doing violates both the Constitution and the foundational norms of democracy… We can talk about the millions of reasons President Trump had to attack Iran, but it all really boils down to this: Trump realized he was about to be exposed as a predator/child sex criminal and on the verge of losing his job as president. The…

Amy Wallace says the FBI and DOJ have the list. Twenty abusers. Zero accountability. How long will we tolerate this cover-up? By Thom Hartmann/ HartmannReport.com/ October 23, 2025 When Emmett Till’s mother lifted the veil from her son’s mutilated body in 1955, she forced America to face itself. She knew that if the nation could see what had been done to her child, it could no longer pretend…

It all traces back to billionaire-backed fearmongering in the 1960s—weaponizing panic around socialism and communism to crush unions, cut taxes, and hoard profits… By Thom Hartmann/ HartmannReport.com/ January 31, 2025 In Wednesday’s Daily Take here on Hartmann Report, I mentioned Russell Kirk and the origins of today’s hard right GOP. A few people replied with, “Who’s that?” and similar…

By Greg Palast/ HartmannReport/ January 24, 2025 A guest post by Greg Palast for the Hartmann Report Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes.  And, if not for the mass…

The GOP has gotten really good at stealing the White House… By Thom Hartmann/ HartmannReport.com/ May 14, 2024 The GOP’s favorite phrase when it comes to presidential politics appears to be, “Nobody knew at the time.”  Once a president is sworn into office, regardless of how much evidence there is of crimes and irregularities committed to get him there, both the press and the electorate just…