What You May Have Missed
A round-up of the past seven days on the Hartmann Report
They're Shocked We Won't Pretend Anymore
The “partisan split” of Americans showed up in a big way at Fourth of July celebrations and backyard barbecues last week, but the media, while noting or even complaining about it, rarely mentions exactly why it’s happening.
The Lie That Changed America
My new book, Who Killed the American Dream? The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told, is out today, and it plainly lays out why so much has gone wrong in this country since the Reagan Revolution and how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision came about.
The Red Scare Returns: Trump Is Calling Us "Communists" Because He Doesn't Want America Talking About the Real Threat
So, now Trump says we’re communists, you and me, after having earlier called us “potential domestic terrorists.”
What Happens When Trump Voters Realize They Want the Same Thing Progressives are Working For?
Democratic primary elections, in particular, are showing us America is both in the midst of a deep crisis and is on the verge of what could be transformational, positive, life-altering political and economic change comparable to FDR’s New Deal.
Police State: Are We Already There and Just Don't Know It?
Tuesday morning in Houston, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo did what he’d done nearly every morning for 35 years. He woke at 5 a.m., kissed his wife goodbye, loaded his van, and drove off to pick up his construction crew in Magnolia Park, the neighborhood that’s anchored Houston’s Mexican American community for a century.
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Saturday Report 7/11/26 — Trump refuses to sign the biggest housing bill in a generation, ICE shoots the wrong man in Houston, and the referees of our elections get purged...
— The Trump DOJ has decided that monopolies are people too, and they deserve a break. For forty-five years — ever since Ronald Reagan’s antitrust chief strolled into the Justice Department in 1981 and effectively hung a “Gone Fishing” sign on the merger-enforcement desk — Republican administrations have treated corporate con…
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COMMONWEALTH REPORT
Nazi Republicans Want Mentally Ill Have Access To Guns
The first Congressional bill that the Nazi Republicans passed in 2025 was to allow mentally ill people to have firearms. Republican legislation on firearms focused on expanding gun rights and rolling back restrictions. Key federal efforts, such as legislation tied to the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," sought to eliminate long-standing regulations like the $200 tax on gun silencers and loosen rules on short-barreled rifles and shotguns
Now the Cheeto regime is actively rolling back over three dozen federal firearms regulations and shifting enforcement priorities away from gun control. Key actions include eliminating the ATF's "zero-tolerance" policy for gun dealers, proposing rules to allow the direct home delivery of firearms in certain states, and challenging state-level assault weapon bans. The regime has studied the issue and despite their findings that the allowance of guns sold to the mentally ill could lead to “mass casualties” the regime has moved ahead to rescind any regulations on gun shop owners to restrict gun sales to convicted felons, mentally ill, and teenagers.
So any Nazi Republican on the campaign trail should be asked about this piece of horrific legislation that undoubtedly has the potential of inciting more gun violence in the country. Does having a Nazi in the Black House make you feel safer?