Progressive Democrats have pressured Amazon into giving it's workers a higher wage, can this strategy work in the future. Congressman Ro Khanna one of the creators of the Stop Bezos Bill joins the show and takes your calls. Should corporations be held accountable for the poverty of their workers who earn less than is needed?

With Donald Trump and Mike Pence moving closer and closer to impeachable offensives, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi could become America's 46th President.

The Market is starting to freak out and the FED doesn't have the wiggle room to lower the interest rate to put more money in the economy. Are we seeing the same signs of economic crash from late 2007?

The popular depictions of France's Yellow Vest Movement try to depict the grassroots populist mobilization as a "European Tea Party" fighting against big government and high taxes. Journalist Cole Stangler joins to tell the Thom Hartmann program the much more interesting truth to the Yellow Vest movement. Do you think we'll see similar mobilizations in the U.S.?

This week marks the burial of the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush. In the week since his passing, many in the press have taken this time to describe President Bush as a model president, statesmen and in contrast to Donald Trump. But in looking at the past with rose tinted eyes we ignore how the Bush Crime family led us to Donald Trump, and it is in that spirit that Lamar Waldron joins Thom Hartmann to go over the life and crimes of George H.W. Bush. The Real story that is not being told on the corporate media.

As the Mueller investigation into what some are calling #Russiagate continues to unfold, some like friend of the show and guest Stephen Cohen, are becoming concerned that the investigation, allegations, and 24 hour news cycle, are worsening tensions with Russia and leading to a place where we may have to choose between impeaching Donald Trump and war with Russia.

The Congressional Black Caucus is looking to have a big impact on the next congress, and Chair Congressmember Karen Bass talks about a "diversity of tactics" where the Congressional Black Caucus will go on the offensive, fighting to ensure victories for their representatives and simultaneously take the defensive position against assaults on civil rights by Donald Trump, the republicans and others.

Is Donald Trump's unplanned fumbling with an economy already experiencing it's cyclical capitalist crisis pushing us toward the return of feudalism?

The faux news network that brings you it's annual report of the apparently decades long WAR ON CHRISTMAS is back at it again, this time complaining that the liberals are politicizing the apolitical christian holiday celebrating the birth of a Jewish Palestinian Socialist, named Jesus Christ who would grow up to champion women's rights, taking care of the poor, the sick, and fighting for the rights of the imprisoned...

Progressive democrats are coming out with a bold vision of what our immigration policy could be to fight the Republican tactic of ICE detention, deportation and family separation. Co Chair of the Progressive Congressional Caucus joins the Thom Hartmann Program to tell us about this new moral imagination on immigration.

Dr. Michael Mann, climate change export and author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening The Planet, joins the program to discuss the climate change tipping point and the domino extinctions that may have already started.

The way the media is covering the news today isn't good for America but it is good for their profits, shareholders and advertisers. Matt Taibbi joins the program to discuss how the profit motive is driving the press to drive us apart!

A conservative caller wants to know why progressives are working hard to abolish the death penalty but are working to keep abortion illegal. Positions that for him and other conservatives amounts to an apparent contradiction. Why is abortion morally and legally sound but the death penalty so morally disgusting that progressives have mobilized to put a legal end to it, for the conservatives that see abortion as murder, this might be a hard thing to figure out.

How much more corruption can we take from Trump and the Republican Party?

Why is calling universal healthcare often called medicare for all, are the two different, if so, how...and could Universal Healthcare cut corporations out of decisions between patients and doctors?