The Hartmann Report
The Hartmann Report is an independent daily podcast hosted by award winning, author, radio & TV host Thom Hartmann. Thom’s podcast highlights the bigger picture behind politics, science and culture through discussion and debate. Catch Thom’s live show Monday through Friday noon ET / 9am PT- www.thomhartmann.com.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 3134
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Voting for Democracy
What solutions can we reach for to hang on to genuine Democracy despite ascendant fascism and oligarchy in America?- a deep dive with Thom's callers.
Plus, Thom reads from the book "How Bernie Won: …
00:57:59 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Daily Take: Permanent Chains: When Surveillance Becomes Guilt
How “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime” is rewriting American justice…
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00:13:55 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Is Truth Dying?
Journalist Michael Wolff had privileged access to Trump's White House and to Jeffrey Epstein himself. He joins Thom to discuss what he discovered.
Plus - as Trump tightens the fascist grip, reality …
00:58:00 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
Daily Take: Welcome to the "Chilling Stage" of Tyranny—Where the Tyrant Tightens His Grip
The last moments to resist are slipping away, and history shows once fascism’s grip tightens, it rarely loosens…
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00:13:41 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
Hiding in the Shadow Docket
Why does the Supreme Court side with Donald Trump using a method that hides their opinions from public scrutiny? The Brendan Center for Democracy's Stephen Spaulding joins Thom with the details.
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Sun 24 Aug 2025
How to Resist DJT's Unlawful Use of Emergency Powers
Trump is in collapse, his psyche fracturing, his infrastructure mirroring his breakdown, his institutions weaponized around his rage. The rupture is real, and it’s here, now. There will be no more su…
00:57:47 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Retribution: FBI Raids John Bolton’s House
Say what?! Trump Admin Reviewing ALL 55 Million People With Visas For Possible Deportation Is a 100-seat majority Trump's redistricting endgame? A New York appellate court says Trump’s Organization …
00:58:18 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Daily Take: The Authoritarian’s Secret Weapon: They Never, Ever Leave Voluntarily
Every gerrymander, purge, and press attack tightens the screw — until the system is locked and the tyrant holds the only key…
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00:13:06 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Trump Just Sent Three US Warships to Venezuela? Distraction from Epstein and Fascist Takeover?
Did you see that Trump's new executive order on voting gives him the power to direct states on which votes to count and which to throw away? Why isn't anybody else talking about this? What JB Pritzke…
00:58:30 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Daily Take: Culture Is Where Democracy Lives or Dies, Because Politics Always Follows the Story a Nation Tells Itself
Republicans have mastered storytelling. Unless Democrats learn to fight on cultural ground, their policies will never matter…
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00:15:52 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
The Unsettling of American Politics
The author of books including “Antidemocratic: Inside the Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections,” David Daley joins Thom for a deep dive. Will the redistricting fight lead to the restora…
00:58:00 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Daily Take: Welcome to MAGAstan: Trump’s GOP is Building an American Taliban of Racism & Authoritarianism
Loyalty oaths, banned history, forced obedience: the right isn’t hiding anymore. They’re telling us exactly what kind of dictatorship they want…
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00:12:26 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
What Vlad Wants Vlad Gets
Trump wants Ukraine to abandon its defenses and give Russia much of its land and people. Why in the world is the president of the United States behaving so submissively to the dictator of a minor pow…
00:58:00 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Daily Take: The Dictator’s Dream: Controlling Who Gets to Vote
From Putin’s whispers to an executive order in the making, Trump openly declares his intent to shred America’s electoral system for 2026 before our eyes…
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00:14:05 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Fight Fire with Fire?
Democrats in California and elsewhere need to recognize that the Supreme Court has changed the rules, and step up the battle before we lose Democracy itself to the fascist takeover.
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00:57:59 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
Daily Take: The Great American Betrayal: Trump’s War on Ordinary People
He promised to drain the swamp — instead he filled it with billionaires, crooks, and fascists…
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00:11:35 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
The Infrastructure of Repression
Is Trump using crime as an excuse to put troops in place to be ready if they try to steal the midterm elections? Progressive Rep. Mark Pocan joins Thom for the view from the floor of the House.
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00:58:47 |
Sun 17 Aug 2025
All Washed Away
Investigative Reporter Greg Palast is back with Thom for a deep dive on his latest movie. What does the deadly flooding in Texas have in common with Katrina?
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00:59:13 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
Is the Lid Coming Off Inflation?
People are showing up in Anchorage, Alaska to protest on behalf of Ukraine, Feds make arrests outside Gavin Newsom's presser - the war is on. Is the lid coming off inflation? Are Americans Being Cond…
00:58:26 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Daily Take: Are Americans Being Conditioned by Our Media to Become “Good Germans”?
When governments rewrite reality and the press goes along, cruelty becomes invisible and the public becomes complicit…
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00:12:19 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
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