In today’s daily news roundup, Thom Hartmann examines major breaking political and economic developments:

Iran put a comprehensive diplomatic deal on the table this week to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, restart nuclear talks, and end the conflict—yet Donald Trump flatly rejected it.

-- The Republican Playbook: Break America, Blame Democrats, Then Promise to Save It

In this deep-dive analysis, Thom Hartmann breaks down the recurring cycle of political messaging and policy contradictions in American politics.

This Monday, House Republicans held a hearing focused on creating a closed-door commission to cut Social Security and Medicare. The hearing was for an audience of one: billionaire donor Harlan Crow.

Data released Wednesday by the Guttmacher Institute and Power to Decide shows “the stark and brutal reality that awaits patients across the country” if Republican lawmakers in Congress fulfill their goal of “defunding” Planned Parenthood, which provides contraceptive counseling and services to millions of patients per year, as well as other essential healthcare services.

Thom talks with political strategist and author, Rachel Bitecofer, about how the Nazis intended to create an information system in which the government progressively acquired the power to determine what millions of Germans would know about the world—and how they would understand what they knew. Sound familiar?

The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.

The United States has invited Vladimir Putin to take part in the meeting of the G20 scheduled in Miami in December in what would be the first major summit with the Russian leader present since he launched his invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Donald Trump is using aggressive political rhetoric to frame his platform, but what is really behind these campaign promises?

A landmark report by 60 scientists from the Potsdam Institute reveals that 7 out of 9 planetary boundaries essential for sustaining human life have now been breached, with ocean acidity, freshwater systems, and deforestation reaching unprecedented crisis levels.

Thom talks with veteran war correspondent, Phil Ittner, about how Russia is holding parliamentary elections, the first since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in a political landscape in which critical opposition is effectively nonexistent, with opponents barred or having fled the country...

With just weeks until the midterm elections, Senator Tommy Tuberville, who hopes to be Alabama’s next governor, is ignoring voter concerns to descend into a bizarre anti-furry frenzy...

Over $1 billion in dark money is flooding the 2026 midterm elections as tech and AI super PACs pour tens of millions into congressional races to silence regulation.