This is not politics: it’s the rise of a strongman. And the Constitution has only one remedy… hartmannreport.com/p/only-my-ow...

"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Once a government convinces its people that what they saw with their own eyes never really happened, what’s left of democracy in that republic is already on life support… hartmannreport.com/p/the-deprav...

Last night on the @deanobeidallah.bsky.social show, @hartmannreport.com talks about how Trump is following Putin's doctrine of destroying democracy and taking over countries.

Mad kings rarely stop themselves: they’re stopped when the people around them decide the country matters more than the crown… hartmannreport.com/p/is-mad-kin...

Coming Up Today Tuesday, January 6, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/hartmann...

Wild- Trump’s guy Witkoff’s son using his brother’s death to praise Trump’s Venezuela invasion when in reality he died of OxyContin overdose from an American corporation (Purdue) and family (Sacklers) Gross stuff

By treating sovereign borders and international law as optional, the Trump regime embraces the worldview that fueled Hitler, fortified oligarchs, and now threatens the American Experiment… hartmannreport.com/p/trump-didn...

The Beginning: How Trump Lit the Match hartmannreport.com/p/part-iii-t...

Trump’s invasion of Venezuela & kidnapping of President Maduro is following the Putin Doctrine... hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-r...

A quiet USPS postmark change could turn “on time” ballots into “too late” ballots by the millions… hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-pos...

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

Billionaire cash steers the agenda, military and police power set the boundaries, and religious messaging sells it as virtue, all while taxpayers fund the very system that excludes them… hartmannreport.com/p/a-new-year...

The clock is ticking, and cynicism isn’t a strategy. Here’s the concrete, local, Tea Party-style roadmap to rebuild Democrats into a fighting progressive party… hartmannreport.com/p/weve-got-1...

A warning to every progressive voter: In America’s election system, your third-party vote can be a gift-wrapped victory for the GOP… hartmannreport.com/p/why-do-thi...

From 50-year mortgages to paywalled car features, the rental economy is replacing ownership with lifelong monthly bills... hartmannreport.com/p/nothing-is...

I see on the news that before meeting with Zelenskyy this morning, Trump got his instructions via telephone from Putin.

Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink" hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-7-...

Live with Thom Hartmann & Christopher Armitage hartmannreport.com/p/live-with-...

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.

Saturday Report 12/27/25 — Trump to Democrats,“Enjoy What May Be Your Last Merry Christmas!” hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-r...

The future lay before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered. hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-chr...

Music to go with today's Daily Take, written by Louise Hartmann... youtu.be/134Ix5bxN6o

He and his people have decimated our ability to adequately defend this country. One well-placed strike and our country, possibly the whole world, is over in a couple of hours.

Found the CBS feedback form. Left a message about Bari www.cbs.com/showfeedback...

Yule fire, candlelit pines, and the old northern promise that if we hold each other close, the light returns… hartmannreport.com/p/christmas-...

The playbook that showers the rich, spikes the debt, then demands you sacrifice Social Security and healthcare… hartmannreport.com/p/santa-clau...

Just got this in email; Trump says if I want my "Tariff Check" I need to click on WinRed and give him money. Isn't this how the Nigerian Prince scams work? Just asking... Check it out here: secure.winred.com/never-surren...

Oh.

DOJ files released today show prosecutors in 2019 discussing 10 Epstein co-conspirators, interviews with 25 victims, and subpoenas across multiple states. Yet FBI Director Kash Patel swore under oath there was “no credible information” Epstein trafficked victims to others. WTF?

So, what will Trump do to get these bombshells off the front page? War in Venezuela? Annex Greenland? Denaturalize American citizens? We need to spread the word now to stop him… www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

They turned clean air into “socialism,” turned polluters into victims, and turned America into a profit center with our kids as casualties… hartmannreport.com/p/deregulati...

The commons, unions, and a livable wage built the first mass middle class. Now younger voters want to reboot that machine at full throttle… hartmannreport.com/p/is-a-new-n...

Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Great fun with Ali Velshi this morning on MSN, and some solid, important points for Democrats to be making going forward. Forty-four years of Reaganomics has devastated the American middle class; when will the media catch on? www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Your weekly excerpt from my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink" (FYI, I’ll be a guest on Ali Velshi‘s show on MSNOW at 10 AM Eastern time, 7 AM Pacific time, internet and news gods willing.) hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-6-...

The Best of the Rest of the News and Opinion hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-r...

A palace rising on public ground while the affordability crisis tightens its grip isn't just bad optics, it’s a betrayal of the idea of America… hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-new...

Trump owned a talent agency and Miss Teen USA back in the day, and this is in the New York Times today: “Mr. Trump would occasionally send over modeling cards for Mr. Epstein to peruse, like a menu.” Was Trump involved in sex trafficking? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

A stark look at the speech that blurred the line between leadership and losing control on the world stage… hartmannreport.com/p/was-that-a...

“Frantic” seems to be the best word to describe Trump‘s speech tonight.

When politicians hand the gun industry a liability shield, they’re not “protecting freedom,”they’re protecting a business model built on body counts… hartmannreport.com/p/whos-reall...

Trump calls it “Trump Derangement Syndrome” when we object to cruelty and division. The real story is what that hate is doing to America’s democracy, and when we finally push back… hartmannreport.com/p/how-much-m...

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… hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-mor...

Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink" hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-5-...