Thom speaks to a longtime listener with personal connections to the Tree of Life, where a man fueled off Donald Trump's xenophobic anti immigration rhetoric targeted the Synagogue. When will we be able to hold the republican party, Donald Trump and the right wing media accountable for spreading messages of hate and fear that fuel these kinds of tragedies

Congressman Ro Khanna on the Thom Hartmann Program discusses how we can find the ideological and systematic underpinnings of the violence we are seeing in the Trump era and how we can combat such ideologies.

In wake of the mail bombs sent to Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, George Soros, Maxine Waters and other liberal public figures, some on the media have started to call out Donald Trump and the Right for creating an environment normalizing violence, the right pushed back calling saying that "both sides" are to blame. Jefferson Smith filling in for Thom Hartmann brings on Jodi Jacobson from Rewire News to break down the fallacy that both sides are equally to blame.

Jefferson Smith, filling in for Thom asks us, "Who is going to tell the people?" will it be the corporate media, owned by either the Koch Brothers or Sinclair's news outlets, or will it be community media, run by people like you an me. Do the people need to seize the means of communication to make democracy possible?

Maxine Waters has been the choice target for attacks and hatred from the right for years and as the California Representative continues to take bold stances against the Trump Regime, their supporters, the morbidly rich, and late stage capitalism, including her calls to "Impeach 45" Maxine Waters's profile has only grown, as has the target on her back from conservative pundits, racist online trolls, Trump's brown-shirts and the President, Donald Trump himself. But why has the right targeted Maxine Waters over other politicians?

Trump can be compared to the worst of wartime Germany with his appauling rhetoric following the arrival of bombs at the homes and office of prominent Democrats.

Voter Suppression by Republicans is reaching taunting levels, where Republicans are admitting at least in closed door meetings that they don't want you to vote. Greg Palast Joins us to discuss what we can do to ensure your voting rights are protected.

Director of the new film The Long Shadow, joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk to us about how the shadow of the "peculiar institution" still haunts our legal and social work and how acknowledging this history is the first step toward creating a world without these hierarchies.

Lies and dam lies from Trump and his administration.

The MeToo movement continues to make massive headway toward this next step in women's liberation but the old guard of male judges may be trying to stop the feminist message in it's tracks. Can #MeToo keep the momentum going despite the patriarchy's best efforts?

Over and over again, Donald Trump and the far right wing media brought to you via the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, tell their audience that the left is going to bring violence, while at the same time, creating an atmosphere where right wing gangs beat up protesters.

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?