What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
The American Revolution Started Over This Kind of Abuse: Have We Forgotten?
This fight isn’t really about immigration. It’s about whether the Constitution still restrains government power at all.
History Shows How the Transition to Tyranny Begins: By Punishing the Weak and Defying the Courts
Donald Trump‘s Crusade against Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “on life support” as it may finally be dismissed this week or next by District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Tennessee. But will that be the end of this father’s and husband’s ordeal?
Silencing Dissent Without a Single Raid: The Billionaire Capture of America’s News
Stephen Colbert joked that Donald Trump wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about him on television because “all Trump does is watch TV.” It was a punchline, but it also revealed something darker: when political power becomes obsessed with controlling the screen, the most effective way to silence dissent isn’t through raids or arrests. It’s th…
Is the Trump–Epstein Scandal Nearing the Critical Mass that Turned "Watergate" Into a White House Collapse?
We’ve only had one genuinely failed presidency in the modern era: Richard Nixon’s. I believe we’re on the verge of the second, and for very similar reasons. If it plays out the way I expect, the consequences could be world-changing, and will certainly alter how our politics work for decades to come.
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Saturday Report 2/21/26 — The Dick-Tatorship Hangs a Banner
— “I can destroy the country…” says Trump, as he continues destroying the country (and Ukraine, both on behalf of Putin). Six of the justices on the Supreme Court affirmed the Founders’ and Framers’ conviction that power must be distributed among the three branches and that the Constitution says clearly that the power to tax lies exclusively with Congre…
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