Author: Thom Hartmann

Alexander Hamilton thought he and the others who wrote the Constitution had it all figured out. He and his colleagues never imagined that a group of billionaires would spend 43 years and billions of dollars to seize the U.S. Supreme Court, which would then legalize political bribery. They never conceived of a foreign billionaire family coming to American and building a nationwide media ecosystem that was capable of convincing Americans that up was down, wrong was right, and a convicted fraudster and rapist would be a noble president. They would have laughed at you if you told them that...

“Our nation is broken, perhaps beyond repair. It is unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a glorious, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures — we will instead be holding an autopsy for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.” – John Pavlovitz We just watched the final fulfillment of a 50-year plan. Louis Powell laid it out in 1971, and every step along the way Republicans have followed it. It was...

Suddenly, it seems, the American mainstream media has figured out, or thinks they have been given permission to discuss, the fact that Donald Trump is a fascist. That he literally wants to imprison and even execute his enemies including other politicians like Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris and former employees who have betrayed him, including General Mark Milley. Multiple commentators (including me) have wondered out loud if the defeat of Trump this fall will chasten Republicans and cause the Party to revert to its old “merely corporate and billionaire friendly” form, or if Trump has...

Get ready. Donald Trump has made good use of the propaganda technique known as the Big Lie 1.0, famously claiming that the 2020 “election was stolen” from him. And now he is preparing to use Big Lie 2.0 to shut down our government this fall, believing it will hurt the Biden administration and thus the Harris/Walz campaign. That second weapon — this Big Lie 2.0 — is the false allegation of widespread “voter fraud” in America. He intends to use it to try to bring the Biden administration to its knees. And, as a bonus, if it works, he...

On his eponymous TV show, Joe Scarborough pointed out recently how angry and toxic Xitter has become recently. I have seen the same thing, as have many others; quitting Xitter has become a thing, largely as a result of the venomous culture that has taken hold there. This seems to be more closely connected to it being taken over by a morbidly rich South African immigrant who seems to delight in bullying his own child (and others) than to the political season; previous election cycles did not see similar reports of such widespread hostility and bullying behavior that was...

Republican politicians and the rightwing billionaires who fund them want a nation of uneducated, compliant serfs in their workforce, not a nation of well-educated union-conscious people who are willing to strike to get better pay and benefits. Which means Job One is to get America’s kids out of the clutches of those evil unionized teachers. Education, after all, is a liberal value. The conservative vision is “quality education for the children of the wealthy, while ending child labor laws for all the rest.” And they are getting their way. Florida and Arizona are well on the way to destroying...