Should the next move for progressive Democrats be adding the platform of the Movement for Black Lives to their list of policy demands?

Thom reads from Book Club: Kickback - Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network - by David Montero

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Prisoners across the nation are striking to end prison slavery, codified in the 13th amendment that ends all forms of slavery except as punishment.

Right wingers are politicizing the tragic end of Mollie Tibbetts's life by calling for more deportations, increasing calls for Donald Trump's proposed Border Wall and now, as Fox News and other mainstream conservative press focus on Cristhian Bahena Rivera's identity as an immigrant, phones are ringing with robocalls advocating for the extermination of undocumented people from the United States. What can we do to stop the hate?

Thom reads from The Perfect Weapon by David E. Sanger

Congressman Mark Pocan answers questions from callers on financial reality behind Trump's election, was economic anxiety the reason rural communities supported then candidate Trump or was it something more sinister.

Professor of history at Columbia Unversity and Director of the European Institute, Adam Tooze joins the show to discuss his new book, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.

Michael D'Antonio, author of The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence sits down with Thom Hartmann to discuss efforts by the vice president and his allies to make Mike Pence the 46th President of the Unite States. Do you think Vice President Mike Pence is going to make a presidential run?

Thom reads from The Shadow President - The Truth about Mike Pence - by Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner

Tom Perez is angry, Republicans won't like him when he's angry. Having just led the battle to get rid of Superdelegates which prevented Bernie Sanders from securing the nomination for president in 2016. now two years before the next presidential election the Democratic Party has gotten rid of Fossil money and superdelegates, are the Democrats setting the stage for a new social democrat to bring to lead the party to victory?

- Greg Palast is sueing Kansas's Kris Kobach over Voter Purges

With the mainstream media now openly discussing the possibility of the United States losing our Democracy under the Trump Pence Regime, will we be able to pull through and avoid authoritarian rule or will Trump seize the opportunity available and use war or some other disaster to implement a new dark chapter in American history where the elections are made up and the votes don't matter.

A call on voting rights prompts Thom Hartmann to reveal the real reason republicans, the morbidly rich and others are trying to get rid of your vote. It's how they get elected. Does republican leverage in an election go up as the voting population go down?

Professor Thomas DiLorenxo, acting as the Hand of the invisible Hand of the free Market, 'Drops the Call' on Medicare Public Schools and a debate with Thom Hartmann.