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Progressive Senators Invoke War Powers Act to End US Support for Saudi Led Attack on Yemen

For the first time in history, Progressive senators are invoking the War Powers Act to put an end to U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's genocidal war efforts against Yemen. Already resulting in the starvation of hundreds of thousands of people, and the displacement of many more, Senator Bernie Sanders joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about his work to start the long process to end the violence in Yemen,

Why is Cyntoia Brown In Prison For Self Defense?

Cyntoia Brown is the latest in a long history of women of color being locked away for self defense against rape and assault.

Are We Witnessing The Impoverishment of America?

More and more Americans are shopping for groceries at Dollar Stores where only food with the least nutritional content is sold.

Former CIA Intelligence Officer David Priess on How to Get Rid of a President

Former CIA Intelligence Officer David Priess shares the methods that have gotten rid of unpopular, unable, and unfit chief executives over the last few hundred years. Having just written the new book How to Get Rid of a President, David Priess invokes a masterful understanding of history in conversation with Thom Hartmann as America faces a question on what to do with the latest unpopular, unable and unfit president, Donald Trump. Which method of getting rid a president will be used to get ride on Donald Trump?

How Trump's Pro Wrestling Strategy Turned Politics Into a Cage Fight

Is Donald Trump using public relations strategies he learned from Professional Wrestling? Thom Hartmann smells what Trump is cooking, and it doesn't smell too good. Since the 2016 primary, Trumpmania has been running wild, but now that we know his strategy maybe the newly elected Democrats can put the figure four legislative leg lock on Republican policies and move toward impeachment and passing the Green New Deal. And that's the bottom line!

Why America Can't Afford to go Without a Green New Deal (w/Guest Stephanie Kelton)

Conservatives and Republicans are fast to talk about the supposedly enormous cost of programs of social uplift. When Progressive democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders champion programs like the Green New Deal the story from Republicans and even some in the media was the same, they say it would cost too much. Stephanie Kelton joins the program to debunk this myth that social security, jobs, housing and the Green New Deal are uncomfortable, instead asking if America can afford to go on without the Green New Deal?

How Dems Will Hold Walmart and Amazon Accountable for Low Wages (w/Guest Congressman Ro Khanna)

Progressive Democrats have pressured Amazon into giving it's workers a higher wage, can this strategy work in the future. Congressman Ro Khanna one of the creators of the Stop Bezos Bill joins the show and takes your calls. Should corporations be held accountable for the poverty of their workers who earn less than is needed?

How Nancy Pelosi Could Become our Next President by Impeaching Mike Pence and Donald Trump

With Donald Trump and Mike Pence moving closer and closer to impeachable offensives, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi could become America's 46th President.

Are we Seeing the Same Signs of an Economic Crash that Preceded the 2008 Recession?

The Market is starting to freak out and the FED doesn't have the wiggle room to lower the interest rate to put more money in the economy. Are we seeing the same signs of economic crash from late 2007?

More Than Taxes: The Populist Anger Behind the Yellow Vest Movement (w/Guest Cole Stangler)

The popular depictions of France's Yellow Vest Movement try to depict the grassroots populist mobilization as a "European Tea Party" fighting against big government and high taxes. Journalist Cole Stangler joins to tell the Thom Hartmann program the much more interesting truth to the Yellow Vest movement. Do you think we'll see similar mobilizations in the U.S.?

The Life and Crimes of George Herbert Walker Bush (w/Guest Lamar Waldron)

This week marks the burial of the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush. In the week since his passing, many in the press have taken this time to describe President Bush as a model president, statesmen and in contrast to Donald Trump. But in looking at the past with rose tinted eyes we ignore how the Bush Crime family led us to Donald Trump, and it is in that spirit that Lamar Waldron joins Thom Hartmann to go over the life and crimes of George H.W. Bush. The Real story that is not being told on the corporate media.

Does America Have To Choose Between Impeaching Trump and War with Russia? (w/Guest Stephen Cohen)

As the Mueller investigation into what some are calling #Russiagate continues to unfold, some like friend of the show and guest Stephen Cohen, are becoming concerned that the investigation, allegations, and 24 hour news cycle, are worsening tensions with Russia and leading to a place where we may have to choose between impeaching Donald Trump and war with Russia.

The Congressional Black Caucus's New Chair & Diversity of Tactics (w/ Congressmember Karen Bass

The Congressional Black Caucus is looking to have a big impact on the next congress, and Chair Congressmember Karen Bass talks about a "diversity of tactics" where the Congressional Black Caucus will go on the offensive, fighting to ensure victories for their representatives and simultaneously take the defensive position against assaults on civil rights by Donald Trump, the republicans and others.

The Shrinking Difference Between Today's Working Class and Feudal Serfs (w/Guest Prof Richard Wolff)

Is Donald Trump's unplanned fumbling with an economy already experiencing it's cyclical capitalist crisis pushing us toward the return of feudalism?

Christmas Is Not Under Attack But Refugees Are!

The faux news network that brings you it's annual report of the apparently decades long WAR ON CHRISTMAS is back at it again, this time complaining that the liberals are politicizing the apolitical christian holiday celebrating the birth of a Jewish Palestinian Socialist, named Jesus Christ who would grow up to champion women's rights, taking care of the poor, the sick, and fighting for the rights of the imprisoned...

ADHD: Hunter in a Farmer's World

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