What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Why Corruption Always Breeds Tyranny: Lessons from Trump’s Second-Term Playbook
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” — George Orwell
When a President Spits on Unity: The ‘Scum’ Speech That Should Warn Us All
Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible, not by praising our fallen heroes but by attacking Democrats. He wrote on his Nazi-infested social media site on Monday morning:
The Billionaire Hoarding Plague: How America’s Richest Became Its Biggest Threat
It happens every few generations. It’s what drove the fascist oligarchs of the Confederacy to reach out and try to conquer the entire United States in the 1860s. It caused the Robber Barons to murder union organizers and ultimately crash America into the Republican Great Depression in the early decades of the 20th century. And it’s why wages have been s…
Me vs. We: The Battle for America’s Soul
Yesterday, I wrote about how the mental illness of hoarding syndrome afflicting a few hundred of our nation’s rightwing billionaires has destroyed a large chunk of the American middle class and is threatening the health of our biosphere. But the overall story is larger than just that.
Democracy’s Hidden Guardians: The Shadow Cabinet That Could Save America from Billionaire Rule
On election day 2020, I suggested on my radio program that if the Biden ticket were to lose (something we did not expect, but after 2016 who knew what could happen) he, Harris, and Democrats in Congress should set up a “shadow government” to be a visible and ongoing opposition and alternative to Trump’s second term.
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Saturday Report 5/31/25 — The Trump Administration wants to create an “Office of Remigration”: Say what?!?
— The Trump Administration wants to create an “Office of Remigration”: Say what?!? “Remigration” is a phrase that came out of the white supremacist ethnic cleansing movements across Europe; the first Remigration Conference was held a few weeks ago in Milan, Italy where speakers called for nonwhite people to be expelled from EU countries, even if they’d …
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