The Hartmann Report

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Tightening the Grip or Shooting Themselves in the Foot? Dec 14, 2025

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Is the Miami mayoral election a bellwether for the collapse of Republican support among hispanics? Or will the fascists hang on to office even if it takes using masked police to abduct people based on flimsy legal excuses?

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Power Beyond the Law Dec 13, 2025

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Is the Supreme Court enabling King Trump to destroy the constitutional structure of our nation?

Plus - Thom reads from 'Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer' by Erica Payne and Morris Pearl.

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Who is Betraying America? Dec 12, 2025

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Donald Trump is having a very bad week as even many of his own supporters wake up to the fact that he's not actually working for them.

Plus- director Donald Goldmacher joins Thom for a deep dive on his new movie 'Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?'.

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Daily Take: Is the Morbidly Rich’s “Brilliance” Just a Threat to the Republic? Dec 12, 2025

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In 11 months, we’ll have an opportunity to retrieve our democracy from the clutches of the morbidly rich, the ideologues who deify them (and have for millennia), & their bought-&-paid-for politicians…

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Trump's Isolated America Dec 11, 2025

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Threats to attack not only Venezuela- but maybe Mexico and Columbia as well... requiring social media history from visitors... abandoning and bullying our allies... illegal and random arrests and deportations of foreign nationals- what is this all about?

Plus- Phill Ittner on the Ukraine war.

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Daily Take: Who Do Trump & the GOP Really Work For? Dec 11, 2025

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As America slides into recession, this is a struggle over who owns America’s future: a broad middle class—or a locked-in economy run by the richest few…

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In Putin's America Dec 10, 2025

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As Trump knifes democratic Ukraine in the back, and puts down our steadfast European allies, is this the next big step in Putin's plan for the USA?

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Daily Take: Is Trump’s Embrace of Russia the Greatest Betrayal in American History? Dec 10, 2025

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The convergence of pro-Kremlin policy, tech giveaways to rivals, and rising domestic repression is a five-alarm warning that we ignore at our own peril...

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Trump's Imperial Reign Dec 09, 2025

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As Trump relentlessly pushes to expand his powers, farmers, the press, and anyone who says 'the King has no clothes' is paying the price.

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Daily Take: Alligator Alcatraz: How Tyranny Starts—With “Those People” Dec 09, 2025

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If we allow a network of secretive, cruel, detention facilities for one set of powerless people today, tomorrow it will inevitably turn those same systems against anyone who challenges their power.

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