Congressman Mark Pocan takes a call form a viewer who wants to know if the Republican controlled Senate will be able to pass restrictions on healthcare, medicare and social security without the house, will the lameduck session in congress be able to get away with aggressive attacks on the pillars of democracy?

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What will the 115th congress do as it reaches it's lameduck session, that period after the election of a new congress but before the current congress steps down? Congressman Mark Pocan joins to discuss what we can do to stop them from funding Trump's border wall through the defense spending bill, and even attacks on social security and medicare.

If Republicans were honest, running campaigns on a platform of giving money to corporations, and destroying the environment, no one would vote for them. instead they run on tricks, pulling in racist, gun nuts, and more but those tricks can't last forever and more and more people are starting to wake up!

The historic possibilities of the 2018 midterm elections sometimes overshadows what history can tell us about elections like these and the possible outcomes, will we see a repeat of the midterms in the 1990's that resulted in the impeachment of Bill Clinton or will we see a do nothing congress with a split house and senate?

Is it possible that the Democratic Party could not only take the house but also the senate after tonight''s election. Michael Blake, Vie Chair of the Democratic National Convention is optimistic that this isn't just a dream!

The American people are choosing their next elected officials and we get to see the road America will go down, will the United States be one where a family can afford healthcare or one where the Billionaires and morbidly rich gain total control?

Joe Madison joins the Thom Hartmann Program to stress the importance of voting to Millennials and generation Z who failed to show up during the last election, Would Trump be in office if young voters had showed up in massive numbers?

Can the democratic party do more to let their voters know about voter disenfranchisement, election fraud and voter purging before Republicans do unrepeatable damage to our democracy? Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee joins the program to answer these questions and more!

The Midterm election Tuesday night is concerning people from all over the world of politics, including Bernie Sanders who wants to see a rise in voter turnout. Joining the Thom Hartmann Program, the 2016 Presidential hopeful stressed the importance of both the kitchen table issues that bring people to the polls and also the big picture issues of the environment and restoring America's Democratic infrastructure. .

For years Republicans have fought to make sure that Universal Healthcare, single payer Healthcare models, are all defeated and even went as far as sabotaging the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obama Care. Is there something more to their distaste of accessible Healthcare than just being greedy pawns of the morbidly rich?

In studio Greg Palast, Director of Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Investigative Journalist, answers calls from Thom Hartmann listeners who want to know what they can do if their votes are purged!

A civil RICO suit has been brought against The Trump Organization, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump in United States District Court for their participation in a pyramid scheme." Could this investigation take down the Trump administration?

Private Prisons have come under increased after the prisoner strike earlier in the summer of 2018 and then as journalist pointed out the dangers prisoners faced while being in the path of storms but we don't have to worry about those problems at federal facilities run by our federal government do we?

"Voting is a choice, survival is not," the message of a series powerful advertisements from Immigrant Film showcasing the struggle of migrants under the Donald Trump regime. As Congressman Mark Pocan says, elections have consequences. and controlling these consequences is part of why you should vote while you have the power and the choice.