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(42 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 7, 2022
Why Is the GOP Siding With Putin? - The Hartmann Report This move toward autocracy in the Republican Party is the biggest threat our democracy faces today Republicans are increasingly voting with Putin because they hope to turn America into something that looks and works very much like Putin's Russia. It's very comfortable for the morbidly rich oligarchs and their wholly-owned politicians as well.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 17, 2020
How billionaires' short-term greed could upend America and destroy their own wealth The coronavirus crisis is highlighting how dysfunctional states run by Republicans are. This is a feature of GOP rule, not a bug. For the past 40-plus years, a group of "conservative" billionaires have been working as hard as they can to reshape our federal government from one that provides education, health care, housing, food and other necessities into one that does nothing more than run the military and fight wars.

(5 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 23, 2015
The Republican Insurgency Against the Judicial Branch On January 20, 2009, the night when the Obamas were dancing at inaugural balls and most Americans were out celebrating the end of the Bush years, a group of powerful Republicans was planning the end of Obama presidency before it even got going. At the Caucus Room restaurant in Washington, DC, GOP leaders drew up a plan to intentionally sabotage President Obama at every point possible.

(7 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 1, 2019
If Democrats Want to Beat Trump, They Better Not Nominate a "Free Trade" Candidate The Democratic Party must return to its pre-1992 progressive/protectionist/union roots and steal this issue right out of Trump's mouth, saying that he's not protecting American workers' jobs well enough or fast enough. They should run hard in 2020 on the Progressive Caucus's long-held position that we use protectionist policies, including tariffs, to end our trade deficits and bring back home our jobs.

(8 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty Corporations have successfully argued before the Supreme Court that they should have First Amendment rights of free speech, Fourth Amendment rights of privacy, Fifth Amendment protections against takings, and Fourteenth Amendment rights as "persons" to "equal protection (with you and me) under the law," among other "rights of person-hood."

(9 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 6, 2016
Are We Looking at a Mass Extinction Event? To save human and other life as we know it on this planet, we need to put a price on carbon NOW, and we need to hold those who fund climate deniers accountable for knowing the risks of fossil fuels for decades, and lying to the public about it. Our survival as a species may well depend on it.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 4, 2015
What's Good About Guaranteed Basic Income The next time a conservative tells you about government waste and fraud with Medicaid and food stamps, just remind them. We could eliminate every single social welfare program and streamline our social safety net if we simply set up a guaranteed minimum income based on living wages around the country.

(29 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 26, 2014
It's Time for the US Middle Class to Make a Comeback We need to get the middle class back on track. That starts by introducing trade policies that protect American jobs, tax policies that even the playing field, adopting policies that make life-saving health care more affordable and education policies that make a college education a reality instead of a pipe dream for millions of Americans.

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 10, 2006
Thom Hartmann: The Lie of the Free Market; Tax and SpendLiberals; Weapons in the War on the Middle Class answers to the "tax and spend liberal" accusation.

(7 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Case Against Billionaires It's time we as a nation have a serious discussion about outlawing billionaires. Are billionaires dangerous to democracy?

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 13, 2014
Is the Koch Brothers' Curriculum Coming to Your Child's School? The curriculum being taught to North Carolina students is filled with the Koch brothers' libertarian beliefs and ideologies, and a whole lot of misinformation on US history. A great deal of the curriculum focuses on the libertarian love affair with "limited government."

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 8, 2022
What Would An American Fascist Government Look Like? We can't pretend we don't know what's happening and where it will lead if it's not stopped - the question is what we will do about it

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 10, 2022
Is Ron DeSantis Our Next Authoritarian Nightmare? If DeSantis "- an authoritarian who's even followed Il Duce's lead in creating a private police force answerable only to himself "- becomes president, George Washington's nightmare could become true

(10 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 12, 2013
It's High Time We Abolished the Department of Homeland Security Our nation now finds itself at a crossroads when it comes to Constitutional rights and civil liberties. The DHS has become way too powerful, with no checks and balances. In effect, it's created an entire surveillance industry around itself. It is time for a change. Repeal the PATRIOT Act, dissolve the DHS, and let's return to sanity.

(5 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, August 3, 2016
How One GMO Nearly Took Down the Planet The issue surrounding GMOs isn't just about what these companies are putting into our food and stocking our stores with. What's potentially more devastating for the planet is that genetically modified organisms developed by companies like Monsanto and DuPont can escape into our ecosystems and potentially wreak havoc before they are even tested or approved as safe.

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 19, 2006
Low Minimum Wage Killing the Middle Class One in four workers are not paid enough to make it in the middle class. Becoming middle class in America today is like scaling a cliff. Most middle-- class Americans are clinging to the edge with their fingernails, trying not to fall.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 21, 2016
How a Bank Robber Is Right on Taxes If policymakers need to raise revenues, they should go to where the money is: Tax the multi-millionaires and billionaires on their net assets, end our insane system of corporate subsidies that funnel wealth from the middle class to the top 1%, and close the tax loopholes that let the top 1% hide their fortunes overseas in places like Panama and Switzerland.

(15 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 25, 2021
It's Time To Blow Up the Maskholes' Sick and Twisted Plan The United States has reached the point, in many parts of the country, where there are more vaccines available than there are people willing to take them. Most of this so-called "vaccine relucance" is driven by pure politics.

(6 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 14, 2006
Thom Hartmann; Free Public Education; Why We Should Have it, Why the Cons Hate it Democracy requires an educated middle class for its survival. Why Bush and his base want to take quality education out of the reach of the middle class and poor and how they're DOING it.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 10, 2015
Beware Rand Paul's Bait-and-Switch When I say Rand Paul supports some unreal right-wing economic policies, I mean really unreal. Not only does he want to do away with Medicare and Social Security, he also supports going back to the "Lochner era," when the Supreme Court banned child labor laws and basically made life a living hell for the US worker. The solution is for the Democratic Party to go back to its progressive roots.

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