The New York Times has revealed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become the de facto viceroy of Venezuela, effectively controlling Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government.

Friday afternoon the Trump administration released a formal proposal to ring Lafayette Square with a permanent fence up to ten feet tall and to install gates across Pennsylvania Avenue at 15th and 17th Streets, all of it designed so officials can seal off America’s most famous protest ground within minutes.

Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures reveal a staggering $2.22 billion in gains during his first year back in office—averaging roughly $6 million every single day.

Thom exposes a series of urgent political developments: federal agents targeting New York Times journalists, the permanent fencing of Lafayette Square, and the secret American governance of Venezuela.

Congressman Ro Khanna was detained by armed settlers in the West Bank and flatly accuses the IDF of lying about the incident.

The DOJ appear on the doorsteps of three New York Times journalists. This is nothing more than an attempt to intimidate the press, when they publish a story Trump dislikes. How is that not press censorship?

Russia stepped up attacks on Ukraine's natural gas production sites over the weekend as the Kremlin responded to Kyiv's successful strikes against every major oil refinery in western Russia, leading to major fuel shortage and the introduction of rationing throughout almost the entire country.

Since early 2025, the Trump administration has been trying to take control of voter rolls, mail ballots, and registration rules away from the states and hand it to the federal executive branch. Now, 18 states have turned their complete voter files over to the Trump Justice Department, including the driver’s license numbers and Social Security numbers of every registered voter in them.

The executive counsel at the fossil fuel behemoth ExxonMobil is leaving his role to join the Trump Justice Department’s newly renamed Energy and Natural Resources Division, a move one watchdog organization said shows that “Big Oil’s capture of the US government is now complete.”

The Pacific Ocean is currently "running a fever," with marine heat waves covering over 30% of the global ocean—a three-fold increase since the 1980s. Thom Hartmann breaks down the alarming science behind these heat domes and their connection to super typhoons, wildfires across Europe and the US, and extreme weather events.

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was admitted to the hospital on June 14th and since then his team has not said anything about why he was admitted and what his current condition is. His absence remains a mystery with the Senate set to return on Monday.

History shows that police states aren't declared: they're assembled piece by piece, until one day ordinary people realize the freedoms they once took for granted have quietly disappeared…

Thom Hartmann covers six urgent stories that define the current political landscape.

President Donald Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states in a move that is raising new questions about whether he’s injecting political motivations into emergency management decisions.

They don't agree on politics, but they do agree that the American Dream is slipping away, and that could change everything…