Trump can be compared to the worst of wartime Germany with his appauling rhetoric following the arrival of bombs at the homes and office of prominent Democrats.

Voter Suppression by Republicans is reaching taunting levels, where Republicans are admitting at least in closed door meetings that they don't want you to vote. Greg Palast Joins us to discuss what we can do to ensure your voting rights are protected.

Director of the new film The Long Shadow, joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk to us about how the shadow of the "peculiar institution" still haunts our legal and social work and how acknowledging this history is the first step toward creating a world without these hierarchies.

Lies and dam lies from Trump and his administration.

The MeToo movement continues to make massive headway toward this next step in women's liberation but the old guard of male judges may be trying to stop the feminist message in it's tracks. Can #MeToo keep the momentum going despite the patriarchy's best efforts?

Over and over again, Donald Trump and the far right wing media brought to you via the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, tell their audience that the left is going to bring violence, while at the same time, creating an atmosphere where right wing gangs beat up protesters.

Donald Trump's administration, possibly under the instruction of Vice President Mike Pence, is changing the Federal Government's definition of gender to exclude trans and intersex people, making room for discrimination in justice, housing, healthcare and school as well as encouraging trans antagonistic responses from his base.

Thom tells the story of Armin Lehman, the last courier for Adolph Hitler. Lehman heard the gunshot when Hitler committed suicide.

Georgia tried to stop a group of African Americans from early voting by pulling over their bus and forcing Seniors to exit. This wasn't in the early days of the civil rights movement but in 2018. LaTosha Brown with Black Votes Matter was on the bus when it happened and is building up her organizing effort to fight voter intimidation and make sure Georgia knows that Black Votes Matter.

There is no shortage of questions about how the good Germans let Hitler and the Nazis rise to power, will future generations say the same thing to us about Donald Trump and the Republican Party?

Author Milton Mayer wrote They Thought They Were Free, about the everyday people in Germany, the mechanics, workers, Laborers, during the rise of the Nazi Party during the last century, warning about the invisible nature of a rising totalitarian state that many in Germany didn't see coming. Thom Hartmann reads an excerpt from Mayer, and asks, could what happened in Germany close to a century ago, happen in the United States today?

Did Nicaragua's highest officials have knowledge of state repression and force against protesters? Erika Guevara Rosas, a human rights attorney with Amnesty International joins to share details the how Nicaragua is instilling Terror in marginalized communities.

Rupert Murdock has worked his way around the world destroying democracy with the media publications and TV channels.

Election Fraud is not a new tactic, Republicans tested voter suppression in the election of the 43 President, George w. Bush. Since then the morbidly rich has only increased efforts, will they be successful in the 2018 election?

This next election has a lot of weight on it, and if we don't stop Republican voter suppression, we may need to start polishing our chains.