What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days, plus recommended newsletters from across Substack
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Democrats’ Fatal Flaw: The Party That Forgot How to Captivate America
Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump held a rally in Las Vegas. It was streamed and mentioned on social media millions of times within an hour of his repeating his “No tax on tips” mantra. By the time Facebook, Meta, X, TikTok, and Instagram were done with the weekend, using their now-heavily-tilted-to-Republicans algorithms, it’s safe to bet Trump’s rally …
Crashing the Economy: Trump’s Blueprint for Power and Profit
Democrats are warning that Trump’s threats to increase our national debt by as much as $7 trillion (with new tax cuts for billionaires), shift billions of Treasury dollars into crypto, and impose tariffs on imported goods risk creating a financial crises and maybe even a second Republican Great Depression.
Trump’s Hostile Takeover of America: The Corporate Raider’s Final Heist
Yesterday, the Medicaid payment portal was shut down in all 50 states; they came back up when a federal judge put Trump’s illegal impoundment of federal funds on hold until February 3rd.
If Obama Had Sent a Mob to Kill a Cop, Republicans Would Never Let You Forget It
In your mind, turn the tables for a moment.
The GOP’s 60-Year Conspiracy to Kill Our Democracy: None Dare Call It Treason—But I Will
In Wednesday’s Daily Take here on Hartmann Report, I mentioned Russell Kirk and the origins of today’s hard right GOP. A few people replied with, “Who’s that?” and similar questions; others were incredulous that Republicans actually believed the middle class created by FDR’s New Deal was a
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Saturday Report 2/1/25 - Another "hair on fire" moment?
— Let’s just call these mass firings at Justice and the FBI what they are. Donald Trump is a lawless man who is ripping apart the FBI to turn it into a banana republic-style group of enforcing thugs who will only do his will. They will spare his friends and persecute his enemies. We’ve seen this over and over during the past…
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Recommended Reading
Thom Hartmann also writes three additional separate Substack newsletters. Each has both a free and paid subscription option. Below are links to one free newsletter from each Substack from the past week, plus another Substack newsletter of note that I read and recommend:
