How do mass movements form and how do they degenerate?

Frank Luntz manipulated language to win battles against democrats, liberals, and progressives. Jefferson Smith brings him up to ask us to watch our language. Are the words we are using today actually hurting the progressive cause by falling into right wing Frank Luntz style traps?

How did Donald Trump become a conservative and how did the conservative movement in America grow to accept someone so clearly foreign to their cause?

Gerald Ford had advice for Americans who were then experiencing what Ford called, a National Nightmare. As America waits for the current nightmare, Donald Trump to be over, can we learn anything from Gerald Ford about fighting the Trump administration?

Public banking is on the rise. Is this the solution to banks in the future.

40 years on, what is the lesson to learn from the Three Mile Island nuclear accident?

Film maker Robbie Leppzer’s new documentary “Power Struggle” look at the future of energy and especially focusing on nuclear energy.

Thom reads from Lawrence O'Donnell's Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics in this edition of the Thom Hartmann book club

Are the ends of Democracy starting to fray as different anti democratic forces grow in power?

How is the News Media doing when it comes to Trump's corruption?

Trump's Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of gerrymandering, the practice of intentionally redrawing voting districts to benefit politicians or political parties.

After the release of the Mueller Report, or at least Bill Barr's statement on the report, progressives are asking what we should focus on.

In opposition to Donald Trump, many Americans are saying "This is not who we are" one caller asks Jefferson Smith filling in for Thom Hartmann, to consider that the vilest and most corrupt of Donald Trump's policies are in line with U.S. policy historically.

Trump is at odds with the Affordable Care Act and says the ACA should be invalidated in court.

Thom reads from How the Rats Reformed the Congress from author Ralph Nader.