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America's #1 progressive talk show host; NY Times bestselling author. SIriusXM, Pacifica, Free Speech TV, nationwide radio, podcast. Daily rants at http://hartmannreport.com
Real Name: Thom Hartmann
DOB: 5/7/1951
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Twitter: Thom_Hartmann
Diaries published: 262 (1 day since last diary on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 07:57 AM PST)
Comments posted: 414 (0 days since last comment on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 05:15 PM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: often
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Most Recommended Diary: The Real Reason the Freedom Caucus Hates Kevin McCarthy Is Larger Than You Think, 494 comments, 1091 recommends
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Dear Republicans, After the corruption of the Coolidge and Hoover administrations crashed the world economy, kicking off the Republican Great Depression in 1929, it took your party decades to rid itself of the stink. After Nixon extended the Vietnam...
by thomhartmann
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 07:57 AM PST
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It’s no secret that for years Republicans have targeted Black and Hispanic voters, doing everything they can to make it harder for these folks to vote. Their latest targets are young people: the GOP has decided (probably correctly) that Gen Z is their...
by thomhartmann
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 08:14 AM PST
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Over at his excellent Substack newsletter, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich asks the question that’s probably on the minds of many: “Why are so many people prepared to vote for Trump?” After all, there have been at least seven national polls...
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on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 06:59 AM PST
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Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed Social Security through Congress, signing it into law on August 14th 1935, and Republicans opposed it then and have hated it ever since. This week, they’re planning to do something about it with a House...
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on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 07:56 AM PST
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Yesterday’s New York Times has a fascinating article about Trump pardoning a major drug dealer and violent loan shark; it’s titled “A Troubling Trump Pardon and a Link to the Kushners.” Like with so much reporting on Trump and his possible criminal...
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 06:28 AM PST
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Something terrible and deadly is happening here in the United States, and House Speaker Mike Johnson just announced that he wants to double down on it. More on that in a moment. If you were born and live in Japan, you can expect to live to 85 years...
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on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 06:51 AM PST
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- So we decided to flee Indiana. For background, my name is Alexis, I'm a nonbinary trans person, married to my trans husband Ian, and we have 2 kids, Felix, aged 12, and Zinnia age 9. Indiana is currently attempting the "Florida Speedrun" insofar as it...91 comments 287 Recs
- On Nov. 30, Washington Post Editor-at-Large Robert Kagan wrote an extended opinion piece arguing that Donald Trump is on a "clear path" to establishing a dictatorship in this country, and that ...234 comments 369 Recs
- I haven't always been a fan of Mehdi Hasan's interview style. I find him brash and occasionally arrogant and sometimes rude. But he's good at what he does and his voice on the issue has been an important and needed one. So naturally this happens. Full...268 comments 301 Recs
- Their religious beliefs were fundamental inspirations to the lives and activism of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. Same goes for Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Oscar Romero, Coretta Scott King, William Barber, Helen Prejean, Martin Sheen, Simone...348 comments 95 Recs
- There’s no “liberal media.” OK, there is, but you have to go out of your way to find it. Daily Kos, for example. And Mother Jones. And Charlie Pierce in Esquire. And maybe some of the prime-time hosts on MSNBC (when they’re not platforming the Michael...72 comments 142 Recs
- This story, originally titled “Trump and Nunes Are Now Selling “World Class Wines” Loaded With Glycerine. No Joke,” has been retracted on account of misinformation. Misinformation is prohibited here per our Rules of the Road.558 comments 725 Recs
- This story first appeared on Forward Kentucky. The Mitch McConnell tactic of “make them dislike your opponent more than they like you” backfired this time. By BERRY CRAIG “The report of my death was an exaggeration,” Mark Twain famously replied to an...18 comments 63 Recs
- Not long ago, everyone agreed that public education was a value in this nation, much like the notion of a democracy. Yet just like with Republicans shifting attitudes toward democracy , more ...151 comments 351 Recs
- Is Tuberville’s military appts blockade a part of The Traitor’s planned “Project 2025” power grab? On July 29 of this year, Thom Hartmann wrote a piece suggesting that Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing one man blockade of filling high ranking vacancies in the...148 comments 298 Recs
- I am an old man. Don’t know how I made it into my 70s, but here I am. I have followed American politics almost all my life. Never have I been as outraged as I am now. (I’m highly irascible anyway, so that doesn’t help.) A piece of human filth called...253 comments 638 Recs
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