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.

How does our brain process the fear instilled in us by modern politicians?

Anti immigration rhetoric is rising as Doanld Trump and the Republicans continue to fear monger around the "migrant caravan" the debate on immigration often focuses on jobs, how immigrants will come in, take the jobs, and be payed less, and how this hurts the American worker.

Donald Trump has gone after immigrants, trans people, African Americans through Jeff Session's "Black Identity Extremist" and so many other people, is it any wonder that these communities are living in fear?

"As climate vengeance strikes communities with greater frequency and horrifying intensity, citizens across the planet now bear witness to the lethal consequences of humanity’s industrialized path. Yet environmental law, society’s major instrument to impart ecological responsibility, does little to bring human actions into compliance with nature’s laws – the laws that really count. In fact, environmental regulation hastens this course of disaster...

Inequality fuels social problems like crime, homelessness, drug addiction, teen and unwanted pregnancies the only people it's good for are the Billionaires and morbidly rich, What kind of society would be good for the rest of us?

Currently states give billions of dollars to Wall Street to handle their banking and this money is then used to fuel the ever growing divide between the Rich and workers. Ending that flow of money to Wall Street will be a must if we hope to change things. Phoenix Goodman, with Public Bank LA is here to promote public banking, state banking and local banking, where the money a bank makes would be used to help it's local economy instead of funding the morbidly rich.

A caller is worried about whether Trump has inoculated America against the rise of cult politics.

Median Household wealth is falling, except of course for billionaires who are seeing six thousand percent growth on their wealth. At this level of inequality, a fulltime worker making fifteen dollars an hour would have to work for millions of years in order to get close to what billionaires make. There is nothing inevitable about the rich getting richer nor is there anything inevitable about the poor and working class getting poorer. Something must be done about it. Would a Wealth Tax be the answer to what is to be done about our Billionaire Problem?

Can technology help us mediate and can meditation help us as we get through the Trump regime or just to be more focused people? Ariel Garten, Founder of InteraXon Brain Sensing Technology joins the program to answer these questions.

Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director for thhe Center for Economic Policy & Policy Research joins the Thom Hartmann program to discuss Brazil's newest president, Jair Bolsonaro, a Fascist, pro-torture, anti- LGBT, who may be even worse than Donald Trump.

Should Parents be preparing kids for the world we live in with all of it’s flaws and hurts instead of merely trying to protect them from it, so that the children can face and succeed against the harshness of the world? How do we raise children to be capable of going after their dreams in a world full of capitalism, patriarchy and the instant gratification of screens and social media?