What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Is Corruption the New American Dream — A Nation Rebuilt on the Gospel of the Grift?
When corruption becomes endemic, democracy dies from the inside out. Trump’s family’s grift is teaching America’s elites that power can be bought, just as it is in Putin’s Russia and Orbán’s Hungary, and it’s already distorting our economy.
Is the Assault on Democracy Stronger than We Think — and Nearing Permanent Control?
Trump and the billionaires and foreign fascists he’s aligned with are both stronger than most think and weaker. Today I’ll deal with the stronger part; tomorrow, the weaker.
What If Trump Is Weaker Than We Think—and America’s Finally Figuring It Out?
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.”
Is the Algorithm the Single Greatest Threat to Humanity at this Moment?
Some data points for your consideration:
Will the 2028 Election Even Happen? Is There a Plot to Use the Insurrection Act to End Democracy?
Will the 2028 election even happen, or are we watching the slow-motion rehearsal for its cancellation? Every signal from Trump’s orbit points to a deliberate strategy to turn fear, chaos, and manufactured crisis into political weapons.
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Saturday Report 11/1/25 — Tear gassing trick-or-treaters: Noem’s new definition of American values...
— The GOP’s dirty little secret exposed, courtesy of Donald Trump: Republicans in the Senate could have ended the shutdown anytime they wanted. Ever since the shutdown started, I’ve been shouting into the wilderness that Senate Majority Leader Republican John Thune (who now holds the position Mitch McConnell held for so long) could reopen the government…
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