Katherine Culliton Gonzalez, Advancement Project & Nicole Austin-Hillery, The Brennan Center & Hilary Shelton, NAACP all join Thom.

Katherine Culliton Gonzalez, Advancement Project & Nicole Austin-Hillery, The Brennan Center & Hilary Shelton, NAACP all join Thom.

Thom Hartmann breaks down the earlier debate of the day.

Tonight’s progressive panel discusses last night’s GOP presidential debate and in tonight's “Conversations with Great Minds" Thom discusses the voting rights act with Professor Gary May, author of the book “Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy.”

Thom discusses the first GOP debate with attorney and radio host Mike Papantonio, the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act with the NAACP’s Hilary Shelton, the Advancement Project’s Katherine Culliton Gonzalez, and The Brennan Center’s Nicole Austin-Hillery. And in tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses how the same deceitful characters behind the Iraq war are the ones who are against the Iran nuclear deal.

Tonight’s Rumble discusses Obama’s latest words on the Iran deal, how the Baltimore PD is monitoring Black Lives Matter’s twitter accounts, and what President Jimmy Carter thinks of our current electoral system. Thom talks net neutrality with Free Press’ Lauren Wilson, the Koch brothers secret donor event with The Undercurrent’s Lauren Windsor, and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses why Citizens United has meant the return of the corrupt party bosses of the 20th century.

Gianno Caldwell, Caldwell Strategic Consulting & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) & Brian Darling, Third Dimension Strategies Plus, Special Guests: Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour (radio) & Brendan Fischer, The Center for Media & Democracy/ALEC Exposed all join Thom. Scott Walker - the current Wisconsin governor and Koch candidate for the presidency - stopped at a local pizza shop in New Hampshire yesterday. He was greeted by what appeared to be a group of supporters asking to take a picture with the candidate while they held a sign that said "Walker 4 President." But when it came time to take the picture - the would-be supporter turned the sign around to reveal a 9 hundred million check from the Koch brothers. The man holding the sign - Tyler McFarland - then told Walker "I'd like to present you with this check from the Koch brothers for climate denial."

Gianno Caldwell, Caldwell Strategic Consulting & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) & Brian Darling, Third Dimension Strategies Plus, Special Guests: Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour (radio) & Brendan Fischer, The Center for Media & Democracy/ALEC Exposed all join Thom. According to a new report - if the minimum wage were increased to 15 dollars an hour - prices at fast food restaurants would only go up by an estimated 4.3%. That means that for a Big Mac - the price would only go up about 17 cents from $3.99 to $4.16. And the savings for fast food restaurants as a result of reduced labor turnover would be about 5.3 billion dollars.

Gianno Caldwell, Caldwell Strategic Consulting & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) & Brian Darling, Third Dimension Strategies Plus, Special Guests: Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour (radio) & Brendan Fischer, The Center for Media & Democracy/ALEC Exposed all join Thom. Yesterday evening - Senate Democrats blocked from moving forward a bill that would have stripped the women's health organization of all of the $500 million it in aid from the federal government. The debate surrounding the measure was contentious - but if one person stole the show it was Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren - who gave a blistering speech defending Planned Parenthood from right-wing smears. After listing off a number of recent examples of Republican attempts to block access to reproductive health - she got down to the bottom of what the push to defund Planned Parenthood was really all about. Take a look...

Gianno Caldwell, Caldwell Strategic Consulting & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) & Brian Darling, Third Dimension Strategies Plus, Special Guests: Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour (radio) & Brendan Fischer, The Center for Media & Democracy/ALEC Exposed all join Thom. Why is Debbie Wasserman Schultz - the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee - waiting until the fall to hold the first Democratic debates? With all this Republican crazy talk floating around - wouldn't it be a good idea to get a Democratic response out there sooner rather than later? Wouldn't it make sense to let Bernie Sanders - Hillary Clinton - Martin O'Malley - Jim Webb - and Lincoln Chafee - confront Republican talking points head on? Wouldn't it be good for the party - and the issues it says it cares about - to debunk Republican lies BEFORE - not after - the catch on? Or is protecting Hillary Clinton just too important to care about any of that?
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Tonight’s special edition Politics Panel discusses last night’s New Hampshire Republican Forum, why Republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood, Puerto Rico defaulting on massive debt, and how Scott Walker got punked by an environmental activist.

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-05)/The College of William & Mary joins Thom. Congress is out of session - but the opposition to the Iran nuclear deal isn't slowing down. Congress is out of session - but the opposition to the Iran nuclear deal isn't slowing down. Find out who's fighting against the deal and what we can expect going forward.

Ari Rabin-Havt, The Agenda/SiriusXM Progress 127/The Benghazi Hoax & Kevin L. Kearns, United States Business and Industry Council both join Thom Hartmann.

Sam Bennett, Political Strategist, joins Thom. Women's reproductive health is under a full-blown siege from the right. We'll be talking about planned parenthood and the male supremacists who want to end it.

Mary Nicol, Greenpeace USA joins Thom. For tonight's Green Report - we head out to Portland - Oregon -where on Thursday - with the group Greenpeace USA staged one of the most remarkable acts of civil disobedience in recent memory. Hanging from the St. John's Bridge and paddling under it through the waters of the Willamrtte River- they blocked a ship called the Fennica from making its way north to the Arctic ocean. The Fennica is what's known as an icebreaker ship - and its final destination was an oill drilling site in the Chukchi sea off the coast of Alaska - a fragile region that's just been reopened for oil exploration by the Obama administration. On Friday - the Fennica finally made it through the Greenpeace blockade - but activists are staying positive. They say that the 36 hour delay they added to the ship's schedule was a victory in and of itself.