Donald Trump's administration, possibly under the instruction of Vice President Mike Pence, is changing the Federal Government's definition of gender to exclude trans and intersex people, making room for discrimination in justice, housing, healthcare and school as well as encouraging trans antagonistic responses from his base.

Thom tells the story of Armin Lehman, the last courier for Adolph Hitler. Lehman heard the gunshot when Hitler committed suicide.

Georgia tried to stop a group of African Americans from early voting by pulling over their bus and forcing Seniors to exit. This wasn't in the early days of the civil rights movement but in 2018. LaTosha Brown with Black Votes Matter was on the bus when it happened and is building up her organizing effort to fight voter intimidation and make sure Georgia knows that Black Votes Matter.

There is no shortage of questions about how the good Germans let Hitler and the Nazis rise to power, will future generations say the same thing to us about Donald Trump and the Republican Party?

Author Milton Mayer wrote They Thought They Were Free, about the everyday people in Germany, the mechanics, workers, Laborers, during the rise of the Nazi Party during the last century, warning about the invisible nature of a rising totalitarian state that many in Germany didn't see coming. Thom Hartmann reads an excerpt from Mayer, and asks, could what happened in Germany close to a century ago, happen in the United States today?

Did Nicaragua's highest officials have knowledge of state repression and force against protesters? Erika Guevara Rosas, a human rights attorney with Amnesty International joins to share details the how Nicaragua is instilling Terror in marginalized communities.

Rupert Murdock has worked his way around the world destroying democracy with the media publications and TV channels.

Election Fraud is not a new tactic, Republicans tested voter suppression in the election of the 43 President, George w. Bush. Since then the morbidly rich has only increased efforts, will they be successful in the 2018 election?

This next election has a lot of weight on it, and if we don't stop Republican voter suppression, we may need to start polishing our chains.

Producing the Thom Hartmann Program five days a week, costs more that you might think.

The Trickle Down Racism of the Republican Party is moving away from the dog whistle racism of Lee Atwater and into rhetoric that sounds blatant!

Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom to discuss what America would look like if we taxed the rich at levels similar to what they were before Ronald Reagan's original corporate Tax Scam?

How much responsibility does Donald Trump have, after not warning Khashoggi, and what does this say to the state of journalism, free speech, the Trump administration, America and the World. Professor Juan Cole joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss this and his new book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires.

Bret Kavanaugh's nomination has put the second Donald Trump Supreme Court appointment at odds with many in the country, voter rights activists, the MeToo Movement, and witches!
Some of whom in New York are planning to get out there and get active, by hexing Brett Kavanaugh. Will Hexing Republicans and their Supreme Court picks help us get them out of political power and will you be hexing Republicans and the morbidly rich out of political power?

Greg Palast, investigative Journalist and writer director joins the program to discuss the increased efforts of Republicans and the morbidly rich to take away your vote. How can progressives fight voter suppression and election theft by Republicans and the morbidly rich?