Just who were the top 20 political donors this past election cycle and what does that say about our electoral process, money in politics and America in general? To answer these questions Natalie Jones of The Guardian . joins guest host Jefferson smith of XRAY.FM

Daniel Dale has been counting Donald Trump's lies and the number is staggering. As the midterm elections got closer, Donald Trump lied more than he had in a previous year. which makes us wonder if Donald Trump's supporters, Republicans,

In the first for the country, a new kind of election system is being tested out in Fargo, called approval voting, which will allow voters to select all of the candidates on the ballot you would want elected. Voters would be free to pick third party candidates without having to fear throwing their vote away. Could this work on a national scale?

Is facebook a danger to democracy, a monopoly on how we talk to each other, find information and more, shouldn't our antitrust laws break up monopolies?

In a boxing match, the fighter in the red shorts would not be allowed to play referee.

The single biggest financial advantage democrats have over republicans is small dollar donations from average working class people. What will the GOP do when its corporate money tries up?

Hedrick Smith believes that political reform, fixing the system itself, should be the focus for progressives before we move onto the kitchen table topics many voters are concerned about

Could Donald Trump's order against the Migrant caravan be a war crime? Veteran Joe Kassabian thinks that firing on unarmed people throwing rocks is not only unethical but would constitute a war crime, is Donald Trump setting up the military for a long deployment in the Hague?

What can we learn from the election that changed American Politics forever? No not the 2016 presidential election nor the 2018 midterm elections, but the 1968 election. Lawrence O'Donnell joins the program to discuss this and his new book "Playing with Fire" on this very subject.

Greg Palast returns to update the audience of efforts to fight against voter disenfranchisement, fighting against the white washing of votes.

Is Trump's bullying losing its power? World leaders are starting to stand up to the

There are a lot of people confused with Medicare and Medicare Advantage, a knock off for profit health insurance coverage, that wants to cut into medicare.

Republicans are fanning the flames of racial hatred in order to win elections but just how deep do these go? Thom takes a call from a long time listener who suggests that it is deeper than you might think.

Does the Republican party have anything to offer except hate, their policy platforms seem to suggest otherwise. but as hate seems to be going out of vogue what would else do they have to offer?

Are Healthcare companies profiting from denying life saving coverage from patients? Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive joins the Thom Hartmann Program to tell us about and other practices by health insurances companies that put profit between you and your doctor.