What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
Is Having a “Fearful View of Freedom” the Key to The Trump Revolution?
Nebraska mom Jamie Bonkiewicz filmed her interaction with Secret Service agents and police who came to her door because of a tweet.
Is “Conservative Values” the Lie That Made Trump Possible?
For decades, Americans have been told that “conservative values” stood for restraint, responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. The rise of Donald Trump forces an unavoidable question: were those values abandoned, or were they a generational lie that made his authoritarian takeover possible?
Will No One Hold Trump Accountable for Handing Putin Everything He Wanted?
Trump went to Davos this morning and gave the speech that Vladimir Putin wanted him to, lying and pissing off Europe and shaking the North Atlantic alliance to its core.
Is Donald Trump Trying to Crown Himself “King of the World”?
This isn’t merely scandalous or unethical: it’s impeachable on its face and dangerous to the survival of democracy worldwide.
Donald Trump and Republicans: People of the Lie
Jack Smith’s testimony before Congress yesterday was a master class at demonstrating how elected Republicans have become what psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck termed “People of the Lie” with his 1986 bestseller. It was the perfect example for this week being the sixteenth anniversary of the corrupt
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Saturday Report 1/24/26 — Trump is targeting states that didn’t vote for him, with your money. Surprise.
— So much for the “anti-big-government right” in America. Growing up in Michigan, I had a friend whose dad was in the Michigan Militia, a rightwing group that used to go into the forests of northern Michigan to “train” with semiautomatic weapons and survival tactics for the day when the “jackbooted thugs” from the “big government” would try to “end our …
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