What if the number of people it took to change the world was actually relatively small. Ralph Nader, author, activists, consumer advocate and former presidential candidate joins the Program to tell Thom Hartmann and the audience that it actually only takes around 1% of the population to create real fundamental change. now imagine if all of us got out there and got active?

Thom answers a caller suggesting that the National Debt is a national crisis but could the real tragedy be the lack of unions in today's work place?

Universal Healthcare creates and sustains a strong middle class, and Canada proves it! Could this be why Republicans want to make sure it never happens?

THANKSGIVING: We are off for Thursday and Friday, so here is the Wednesday program for you to enjoy. Happy Thanksgiving from Thom and the Team.

Has the Republican Party strategy of using bigotry to win elections gone too with Donald Trump?

In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, controversy around the use of a private server by Presidential candidate and the winner of the popular vote Hillary Clinton dominated conservative talking points, but now that Ivanka Trump has been exposed for using an even more vulnerable server than Hillary Clinton, the talking points are completely gone, was the talk about a private server just a tactic and strategy to take Hillary down?

Taking down confederate monuments is an act of correcting history, but a shadowy group is organizing to put keep confederate monuments dotted across the nation, who are these people and how can we expose them and take their statues down?

Donald Trump's attacks on the press create a dangerous dictatorial level. Since running for President, Donald Trump has created the "fake" news meme, has blatantly lied to the press, and borrowed Stalin's phrase "Enemy of the people" to describe the media and the press. among many other actions including kicking out journalists like Jorge Romos and later revoking Jim Acosta's press pass. How can the media, journalists and progressives fight against these unprecedented presidential attacks?
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After Democrats took back the House, a debate on who the next speaker would be was the a major concern for democrats right up there with who would be running for President in the 2020 general election. one group of corporate democrats is fighting to get rid of Nancy Pelosi, but not for the reasons you would think, Can progressives put aside ideological unity and embrace Nancy Pelosi before this group of corporate democrats sends the party right into the hands of multinational corporations?

How did the Grand Old Party transform from the Party of Abraham Lincoln, into the party that separates children from their families, openly disenfranchises populations from voting and into the political party that has become the greatest threat to Democracy since the civil war? How did the Republican Party become the Party of Nixon, Reagan and Trump?

Seth Abramson, criminal investigator, and author of the new book "Proof of Collusion: how Trump Betrayed America" joins the program to lay out the case for a criminal prosecution of Donald Trump.. Do you think we have enough evidence for impeachment?

The next phase of the North American Free Trade Agreement is heading to be signed later this week, and although the bill has mild improvements, Lori Wallach of Public Trade Watch, believes hat this version of NAFTA will continue to hurt workers, and could even raise the prices on medicine.

Robert Reich is pointing out that the inequality tipping point where the working class can no longer afford to buy what they need to survive is getting close if it's not already here.

Congressman Bob Ney and Steny Hoyer worked together across the isle to create the Help America Vote Act which Republicans have since twisted into a tool of voter suppression, like what we saw in Texas, Georgia, and around the country, but just how did this happen to a bill that was supposed to help us vote, not hinder participation in the electoral process?

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