What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Fascism’s Grip Tightens: Will America Fight Back Before It’s Too Late?
There’s no sugarcoating the truth: As fascism‘s grip tightens under Trump and the GOP, America’s government no longer operates as a constitutional republic.
The GOP Is Winning by Rigging the System—Shouldn’t Democrats Do the Same?
Democrats are at least 17 years late to the party and damn well better catch up soon if they want to win the House (or Senate) in next year’s election. The history — and lack of Democratic response — is shocking.
The Strongman’s Test Run, and Why the Next Deployment Will Be Bigger, Longer & Deadlier
He says he’s deploying the military to Washington DC because of a “crime emergency,” but armies don’t do policing: Their job, and their training, is to blow things up and kill people.
Are Trump and Putin Using Gaza as the Blueprint to Shackle Ukraine?
This is what happens when cynical, greedy, amoral billionaires and psychopaths run a country.
Are Americans Being Conditioned by Our Media to Become “Good Germans”?
We’re all familiar with Trump’s famous deportation flights of Venezuelans and Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a concentration camp in El Salvador in violation of a court’s order.
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Saturday Report 8/16/25 — California Democrats Light the Fuse: Gerrymander Bill Rocks the GOP...
Vlad gets red carpet, and Trump gets Epstein off the front pages. A submissive, groveling, obsequious Donald Trump was humiliated yesterday afternoon by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. The American president, accused by multiple women and teenage girls of raping or sexually assaulting them, joined the indicted war criminal and Russian president who h…
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For you, 108 protest signs for the fight. This is for Occupied D.C. Many signs are revised to sing. 🎶. I recommend using a local printer, but national print companies offer great pricing, shipping included. There is time to get the lot printed for your protest group, assuming you have a gathering of 300 to 1,000. This would help fill the hands of the signless.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/protest-sign-sign-everywhere-a-sign