The signs of a recession are everywhere, but the Trump administration is burying the data. Tariffs, billionaire tax cuts, slashed climate investments, and attacks on worker protections are hollowing out the economy. Trump claims to stand with working people, yet every major policy benefits billionaires, monopolies, and foreign autocrats. Who is this economy really being built for?

Social Security and Medicare aren’t abstract programs — they keep millions of Americans alive. Critics warn Trump-backed policies could force seniors and disabled Americans to delay or skip lifesaving care. We break down what’s changing, who’s at risk, and why this could become a public health emergency.

Donald Trump sided with Russia - the European Union is rushing to get aid to war torn Ukraine but one man, Viktor Orban, Hungarian Dictator is standing in the way. Phil Ittner joins us to discuss Ukraine's next move.

Republicans promised a vote to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies but just voted to make America unaffordable to working families.

Donald Trump is realigning American power away from our democratic allies and toward Russia and other authoritarian regimes. From abandoning Ukraine to pushing a Kremlin friendly National Security Strategy and undercutting NATO, the pattern is unmistakable. This is a five alarm warning for democracy in America and Europe. Do you see this as the greatest betrayal in modern US history?

Donald Goldmacher joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the 50 year old Billionaire Conspiracy to undermine democracy and impoverish working people.

Was Russia planning on massive terrorist attack on Europe & US? What does this say about Trump's support of Russia?

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.

Is the Supreme Court really going to hand more power to Trump?

Zelensky is refusing to bow to Putin, but Trump seems more than willing to lend Russia's authoritarian leader a hand or anything else. Thom Hartmann explains why Zelensky is refusing Trump's latest plan for 'peace' in Ukraine.

Donald Trump wants the FBI to create a secret list of Americans who oppose ICE, are anti-capitalist and who are against capitalism. This is how authoritarianism starts. this is fascism.

For more than fifty years, billionaires and corporate interests have followed a deliberate plan to capture American democracy. From the Powell Memo to Citizens United, five corrupt justices opened the floodgates to dark money, media control, and corporate rule. The result is a nation pushed toward oligarchy while working people pay the price. Do you believe this takeover can still be reversed?

Public hangings could be on the horizon if Vice President JD Vance, and venture capitalist and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel keep listening to a far right blogger, dreaming of unleashing state violence on a mass scale.

Donald Trump didn't expect his DEI attacks to hit his audience the hardest.

Donald Trump is getting away with murder.