Thom Hartmann
ThomHartmann@mstdn.social
<p>America’s #1 progressive talk show host. NY Times bestselling author. SiriusXM, Free Speech TV, nationwide radio, Pacifica, podcast. Writings at www.hartmannreport.com</p>
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The destruction of the American Dream isn’t just an abstraction; it’s measurable. In 1980 when Reagan was elected president, at the peak of the American Dream, fully two-thirds of American families were in the middle class. https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-9-the-numbers-dont-lie
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The question is no longer whether Trump will contest defeat this fall. It's whether America's institutions—and its citizens—are prepared to stop him when he does… https://hartmannreport.com/p/now-we-know-the-road-to-emergency-096
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Create the crisis, make working Americans suffer, reward the billionaires, blame Democrats for the wreckage, then campaign as the only people who can fix it. https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-republican-playbook-break-america-5c2
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Americans pay extraordinary sums for a system that can still deny doctor-recommended care, while Canada’s Medicare fight shows another path… https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-insurance-industry-built-a-tollbooth-ecd
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The bond market is warning that 45 years of Republican tax cuts and exploding debt may finally force ordinary Americans to pay for a party the wealthy already enjoyed... https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-america-about-to-get-the-biggest-10d
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For forty years America restrained concentrated wealth and built the largest middle class in history. Then billionaires rewrote the rules, bought political power, and began taking democracy apart… https://hartmannreport.com/p/germanys-far-right-and-trumps-billionaires-ac4
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When one man turns prosecutors, tax collectors, billionaires, and elections into weapons of personal power, democracy itself becomes the next thing he owns… https://hartmannreport.com/p/sex-money-and-revenge-what-happens-8de
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Epilogue: What History Will Say About Us. The final chapters from “Who Stole The American Dream?” https://hartmannreport.com/p/epilogue-what-history-will-say-about
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Since Nixon, Republicans have shifted wealth from working Americans to the morbidly rich. Dems should repeat that simple affordability message everywhere, every day, without apology or hesitation… https://hartmannreport.com/p/its-worse-than-you-think-for-the-a23
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They didn't rob a bank. They robbed entire generations by dismantling the one institution powerful enough to stand up to corporate America… https://hartmannreport.com/p/killing-unions-the-greatest-political-733
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Trump's Smithsonian purge follows the same roadmap used by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and every strongman who came before… https://hartmannreport.com/p/that-sign-in-front-of-the-smithsonian-0ee
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The policies under attack today once defined mainstream American leadership from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR and LBJ… https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-this-is-communism-then-teddy-roosevelt-7a5
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From FEMA relief to clean energy funding, government resources are becoming political weapons, creating the kind of regional resentment that has shattered nations before… https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-trump-is-driving-america-toward-4eb
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Every eighty years America's oligarchs have tried to bury democracy. Three times they failed. This time they've dismantled the election's guardrails before the votes are even cast… https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-fourth-assault-on-american-democracy-7e4
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For 45 years, billionaires and their political allies have weaponized hate, divided Americans, and quietly dismantled the middle class while we fought each other instead of them… https://hartmannreport.com/p/they-made-you-fear-and-hate-your
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The permanent fence around Lafayette Square isn't just about security. It's the latest warning that oligarchy is preparing to defend itself from democracy… https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-oligarchs-warning-this-fall-america-c96
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Saturday Report 7/11/26 — Trump refuses to sign the biggest housing bill in a generation, ICE shoots the wrong man in Houston, and the referees of our elections get purged... https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-71126-trump-refuses
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History shows that police states aren't declared: they're assembled piece by piece, until one day ordinary people realize the freedoms they once took for granted have quietly disappeared… https://hartmannreport.com/p/police-state-are-we-already-there-3ae
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Trump's latest Red Scare recycles one of America's oldest political tricks: invent an internal enemy to distract voters from the policies reshaping the country… https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-red-scare-returns-trump-is-calling-137
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From Caesar's denarius to Trump's meme coin, the message is always the same: "I am the state and you damn well better both fear me and pay me tribute!" https://hartmannreport.com/p/every-republic-in-history-has-feared-ec7
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An afternoon in East Berlin became the lens through which today's America suddenly makes terrifying sense... https://hartmannreport.com/p/i-saw-this-happen-behind-the-iron-d03
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Hundreds died in this week's heat wave. But the real killer is a political & economic system that rewards predators, turns citizens into prey, & leaves governments protecting power instead of people… https://hartmannreport.com/p/predators-always-need-prey-now-theyre-38d
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The Founders fought a revolution against kings; Trump is turning their anniversary into a tribute to himself… https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-has-rewritten-americas-250th-7fc
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If we can’t outlaw dark money and wake people up, who will be the next Trump trying to end democracy in America? https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-we-dont-break-the-cycle-a-trump-ec5
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Behind the noise is a ruthless, coordinated effort to dismantle the American system and rebuild it for the ultra-wealthy… https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-morbidly-rich-machine-is-crushing-cca
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The Strait of Hormuz crisis could be following the same path that led to World War I… https://hartmannreport.com/p/did-trump-just-light-a-fuse-he-cant-586
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The forces that shaped him didn’t stay in the past: they grew with power, fueling the cruelty and chaos now hitting your wallet, your safety, and America’s place in the world… https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-happened-to-trumpand-why-does
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It&#39;s a sign of an industry that knows it’s above the law and has been doing so with absolute arrogance — making billions every year — for 30 years... https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-just-happened-in-the-meta-trial
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The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept... https://hartmannreport.com/p/ice-was-my-idea-the-kind-of-moment