Does the Republican party have anything to offer except hate, their policy platforms seem to suggest otherwise. but as hate seems to be going out of vogue what would else do they have to offer?

Are Healthcare companies profiting from denying life saving coverage from patients? Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive joins the Thom Hartmann Program to tell us about and other practices by health insurances companies that put profit between you and your doctor.

Donald Trump is angry that after election day a mysterious source of votes has turned up, unknown to him, these votes from from overseas military officials who have ten days after the official election day for their ballot to be received, the President that claims to be the "biggest supporter of the military" doesn't seem to want these votes from active duty military members to count...

School funding is still linked to local tax revenue, a practice dating back to the days of segregation and Jim Crow, explicitly made to empower richer white schools with funds and under-develop schools for African Americans.

In fixing America's gun problem, many have turned to increasing both the number of and the intensity of background checks as a solution to mass shootings. However Igor Volsky wants to go further, and lower the number of guns in America all together.

Have the states that elected Donald Trump turned against the President, as a new generation of activists join the house, this could put pressure on Trump and the Republican party. Could the new democratic wave stop the gerrymandering and voter suppression to take control?

Should the struggle for progressive values be limited only to the United States or should progressives in the United States seek solidarity with progressives struggles around the world?

Pundits on the right are always comparing left leaning politicians to communists and socialists, but were they really left wing ideologies?

Is Jim Crow really dead? Maybe not, although largely defeated during the civil rights movement, discrimination and subjugation of African Americans has been passed down to James Crow Esq,. the sophisticated cousin of Jim Crow. What would the discrimination of the 1960;s look like with today's technology, would voter purges happen in voting machines, through hacking elections instead of by poll taxes? Joe Madison of the Joe Madison show joins the program to discuss.

Should democrats and progressives focus on the Kitchen table issues, building infrastructure, housing, minimum wage to grow and mobilize their base or is the situation with the current administration so bad that the only cure will be impeachment? Tom Steyer joins us advocating that we impeach Trump and save our country and ourselves.

Looking at the state of African Americans inside the United States, a caller asks whether or not slavery was abolished, what if it morphed into other forms of social control? How would we defeat the peculiar institution in it's latest forms?

A 92 Year old Civil Rights activists and grandmother was denied the right to vote during the 2018 midterm elections. creating fear and heavy emotions in the community. How could someone who voted in every election since she had the power to, be turned away and told there was no record of her ever having voted, and how common is this is and who does Greg Palast need to sue to make this kind of voter intimidation stop?

Did the Civil War really end? Trump's brand of right wing, white supremacy puts him in line to be the next confederate President. What does that say about the United States and how can we stop the south from rising again?

With Democratic Control of House, Impeachment Could Mean Democratic President Before 2020

Congressman Mark Pocan takes a call form a viewer who wants to know if the Republican controlled Senate will be able to pass restrictions on healthcare, medicare and social security without the house, will the lameduck session in congress be able to get away with aggressive attacks on the pillars of democracy?