Can in the know progressives beat the media narrative by educating our friends, new research suggests that the most trusted news source is each other, friends outrank corporate news sources as the best source for finding out whats happening in the world.

Activist, investigative journalist and filmmkaer Greg Palast joins the Thom Hartmann Program discussing his lawsuits against voter purgers and how people in Georgia can find out if they were purged from the voter roll and what they can do about it. Will Palast be able to stop the Morbidly Rich and return progressives, people of color and women to the polls before the next election?

Over the course of his life as a bussinessman and as the President of the United States, Donald Trump has told more lies and conned more people than we can count. Donald Trump may be the greatest Con man alive, New Evidence shows that he even conned his father, is there anyone else for the President to lie to?

The Deep Water Horizon disaster resulted in huge environmental damage and some new regulations that the Trump administration is undoing by having lobbyist write new rules, is another Deep Water Horizon coming?

Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is causing controversy among even formerly pledged Republican supporters, and with Donald Trump's latest remarks attacking Dr. Ford, we have to ask, Are Republicans willing to give up control of the Senate and the House to control the Supreme Court?

The FCC Ruling that cut down Net Neutrality is resulting in the clear cutting of our democratic Geography, the internet being a place where people organized, and worked toward a better more progressive world. With the ruling affecting viewership of articles and websites from progressive backgrounds, how can we best fight the end of net neutrality?

As the Brett Kavanaugh farce continues, and Republicans keep trying to push the Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee through, would proof of Brett Kavanaugh committing perjury stand to knock him off the Supreme Court nomination and or even disbar him? Thom Hartmann goes through a list of many, not all, of the perjury we have proof Brett Kavnaugh committed.

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, best-selling author & activist Chris Hedges joins the program to discuss his new book, Is the rise of white nationalists, the Trump Presidency, increased police state. the erosion of democratic infrastructure, imperialist leanings and the widening gap between the morbidly rich and the working class, a sign of America's farewell?

Starting a conversation on how vulnerable populations navigate a world that often seeks out to make life harder or harm them Thom Hartmann gets a call from a man who has to deal with both America's racism and American indifference to the blind and disabled communities.

Does Donald Trump's "Fair Trade" plan protect corporations and the pharmaceutical industry over the people? Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch and Public Citizen joins the Thom Hartmann program to say not only that Trump's plan does exactly that but that it is at the heart of Donald Trump's ill advised Trade policies including his changes to NAFTA .

Did Brett Kavanaugh lie to the Senate and the American people and even to God when he said that "boofing" was about flatullence or that the "Devil's Triangle" was a drinking game? One woman calls the Thom Hartmann Program to let us know what Brett was really saying.

Caller asks if the Supreme Court is still looking toward the Constitution in it's decision making, provoking a history lesson from Thom Hartmann going back to the 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, the first Supreme Court case to apply judicial review, through President Andrew Johnson shrinking the court to reverse decisions in the favor of the Southern planter class through numerous cases in the 20th century.

The business of Private Prisons, Shane Bauer joins the program today to discuss his time going undercover as a Prison Guard in America's Private Prisons. uncovering the corporations that make money off human enslavement.

To defend himself from credible sexual assault allegations and prove to the Americans and the senate that he is indeed a qualified, even tempered, bipartisan and impartial judge, Donald Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh screams and threatens the left and democrats in an opening statement that showed no sympathy for Dr. Ford. Will Brett Kavanaugh's performance earn him a spot on the highest Court in the land or on right wing hate radio.

In a move to avoid having an all male "boys club" question Dr.Ford about painful allegations that Donald Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh attacked her, the GOP has hired a special prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to question Dr. Ford. Were the Republicans being sensitive or did they just tokenize women ?