What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
What Desperate Regimes Do Before They Fall
Donald Trump is already telling us he’s going to try to steal the 2026 election, and the fact that he’s saying it now, months in advance, is the whole tell.
Trump Targets Newsom's Inner Circle as Critics Warn Democracy's Guardrails Are Collapsing
I was a guest on C-SPAN on Sunday. You can watch the program and all the fireworks with conservative callers here.
For Decades, Americans Learned the Treasonous Truth After the Votes Were Counted. This Time Is Different.
Republicans have gotten away with it four times now, in a big way. Each time it was because Democrats didn’t realize — until it was too late — the crimes the GOP was willing to perpetrate just to seize and hold power.
Thought Crimes: The Knock on the Door Has Arrived
Back in April I wrote here about what I called the Department of Thought Crimes, the pre-crime apparatus the Trump regime had quietly stood up inside the FBI and DOJ to hunt for Americans who might someday break a law because of what they believe.
"Shut the F*ck Up," Joe Rogan
It takes a particular kind of hubris to stand on the South Lawn of the White House, on a sitting president’s 80th birthday, calling the fights for a cage match that the president personally dreamed up, hosted, sat ringside for, and bought stock in, and then go on your podcast a day later and tell the rest of the country that anybody who noticed the poli…
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Saturday Report 6/20/26 — Trump hands the spy shop to an arsonist, picks a fight with his last friend in Europe, and a democratic socialist shows Democrats where the exit from Reaganomics is…
— Trump just handed America’s spy agencies to a man with no intelligence experience and no security clearance and that’s the whole point. With Tulsi Gabbard suddenly “stepping down,” Trump installed billionaire homebuilding nepo baby Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence
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