In wake of Donald Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh's sexual assault allegations by multiple women, Republicans are asking "why didn't Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and others come forward earlier?" in effort to discredit the stories of survivors of sexual violence by powerful men. To answer why survivors and victims of sexual assault don't often come forward, we speak with Maya Raghu the Director of Workplace Equality and Senior Council for the National Women's Law Center; who sheds a light on how pervasive and powerful rape culture and patriarchy are and how those intersect with the enforcement of law and vulnerable populations like women, African Americans, the LGBT+ and immigrants, resulting often in silence of abused and victimized populations.

With official talk about invoking the 25th amendment, the upcoming midterm election, is about to be even more contested. To discuss how progressives can mobilize to win Move On.org's Karthik Ganapathy joins the Thom Hartmann Program.

Jefferson Smith Continues his conversation on Kavanaugh and accountability, speaking with Jodi Jacobson, what questions do we want to hear from the senate investigation, and how can men who've harmed others step up, be accountable and do better in the future?

President/Editor in Chief of Rewrite.News Jodi Jaconson joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the Cost of Speaking out, why survivors and victims sometimes take years to come forward with their stories, the accusations of Kavanaugh and other powerful men and how we can help end the culture. that allows this kind of assualt to happen.

Donald Trump in response to the devastating impact of hurricane Florence amounts to “water is wet” and hurricanes are bad. Is Donald Trump’s stupidity a national security threat or is focusing on Donald Trump’s intelligence leading us away from actual material criticism of the administration and what it reveals about our country?

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As the Republicans move to approve Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, people who may need to seek out abortion, are scared because Kavanaugh will remove the protections of Roe vs Wade should he ever get the power, One caller fears that just as our mothers and grandmothers paid the ultimate price for the criminalization of abortion, the nomination of Kavanaugh or any other Donald Trump Supreme Court pick will have our daughters paying that same price too.

Civil Rights Activist and author DeRay McKesson joins the Thom Hartmann Program in studio to talk about his new book On The Other Side of Freedom, "A meditation on resistane, justice, and freedom" as well as an intimate portrait of the Black Lives Matter movement from the front Lines. McKesson asks if we can create safety without arresting, locking people up, and without police, without prisons and without unarmed black people dying every week. Do you think Police abolition can work in the United States?

Caller asks Congressman Mark Pocan to help understand the apparent contradictions between doing what is right to stop Donald Trump, like Corey Booker did when he released sealed documents on Brett Kavnaugh which could have ejected him from the senate and playing by the rules we are trying to preserve that make our democracy so wonderful.

Brian Kemp. Georgia's current secretary of state and Gubernatorial hopeful under the Republican party for Georgia is working hard to guarantee his nomination by purging thousands of voters, mostly democrats and people of color, off the voter rolls.

Host of the Bill Press Show, joins Thom Hartmann to discuss his new book, Trump Must Go detailing why the sexist, racist, self proclaimed sexual predator, and pathological liar Donald Trump cannot remain in charge of the United States government. Did we leave anything out, what else makes you think Donald Trump must Go?

Could Human Extinction Be Part of Universal Cycle of Consciousness?

Given the increasingly dystonian policies of the Trump administration, like the separating of children from families, the revocation of passports of legal citizens, continued support for law enforcement's treatment of people of color, and much more... many are wondering if America has reached a fascist tipping point, Here to answer these questions is the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us vs Them Professor Jason Stanley.