Republican politicians and the rightwing billionaires who fund them want an uneducated, compliant workforce of serfs, not a nation of well-educated union-conscious people willing to strike for better pay & benefits. Meaning…Job One is to get America’s kids out of the clutches of those evil unionized teachers. Education, after all, is a liberal value. The conservative vision is “quality education for the wealthy, while ending child labor laws for all the rest.” And, they’re getting their way.

Far-Right lawmakers want to defund Fani Willis without settling for legal means to stop the persecution of Donald Trump.

Dr. Marty Goldstein weighs in on how to help our pets with cancer, allergies and Gerd. Thom asked about his dog, Blu, having GERD and Dr. Marty had great advice, other than just the traditional prescriptions. Dr. Marty also talks about CBD for dogs.

DeSantis is moving to help police get away with crimes in what could be his next step towards a fascist take over. Can he be stopped before he becomes the next GOP frontrunner?

Did Donald Trump turn America’s Democracy into a Mafia state? Will Americans have to leave the vote and “take the cannoli” Authoritarians made an offer Americans will have to refuse if we want to keep our democracy.

The minimum wage is still too low for the majority of American workers but the right has convinced many that raising the minimum wage would cause an economic crisis, crash and depression. But what if everything you think you know about the minimum wage was a lie. Thom Hartmann breaks down the minimum wage lies you still believe.

Over a decade since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, radioactive waste water continues to periodically be released into the Pacific Ocean. Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear explores the SHOCKING dangers leaking into your ocean…and into your food.

Voting machines already give Americans enough anxiety but what happens when a new A.I. system created by far right Cleta Mitchell uses advanced technology to stop Democrats from voting? Undocumented’s Brendan FIscher joins Thom Hartmann to discuss how a new technology may decide our next elections…

Trump’s indictment is a big embarrassment to the GOP but Republicans are not even acknowledging that Trump is a criminal instead the economy itself, your job and even America’s security are going to be put at risk during the latest GOP tantrum to shut down the government and thus stop Trump’s prosecution.

He carved a swastika into an AR-15 before murdering three people in Jacksonville. Was America’s latest mass shooter inspired by racist Governor Ron DeSantis?

Donald Trump is still an existential threat to Democracy itself. Will the former president be prosecuted in time or should regular Americans like you, dear viewer, have to take action to stop the Fuhrer from returning? Dean Obeidallah already filed a complaint to disqualify Trump from the ballot! He joins Thom Hartmann to tell you how you can too…

Some people aren’t looking for money or political power, some people just want to watch the world burn. A new study confirms the existence of a new personality disorder that turns your fellow Americans into agents of chaos. What happens when these Chaos Agents gain political power?

A popular country music song is taking America by storm for apparently ‘progressive’ lyrics…? But behind populist complaints does North of Richmond have a darker side?

Are psychopaths born this way or does the environment condition them into psychopaths? Dr. Seth D. Norrholm joins Thom Hartmann to talk about genetic predisposition and how authoritarians can turn even the best of us a little bit crazy.

No reasonable person would suggest that men are smarter than women. But the International Chess Federation (FIDE) seems to believe it. A new regulation would appear to be nothing more than misogyny in disguise. Under new transphobic regulations, transgender women are banned from play for an apparent “biological advantage.” But what biological advantage do trans women have over cis women when it comes to the intellectual game of chess? Did FIDE really just suggest that they must protect women from losing at chess to “smarter” ‘assigned male at birth’ competitors?! If you scratch a transphobe does a misogynist bleed?!