What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
MAHA Madness: Bob Kennedy’s Cruel New Gospel of ‘Fitness’”
Former Republican strategist and operative Rick Wilson called out Bob Kennedy as a “heroin addict, sex addict, anti-vaccination lunatic and aspiring architect of millions of deaths” who’s dedicated to replacing real scientists with “radical eugenicists.”
Trump’s America: The Birth of a Personalist Dictatorship
America is at risk of abandoning its founding principle of government, “by and for the people,” in favor of a system older than democracy itself: rule by one man.
From Silence to Spotlight: How a Democratic Shadow Cabinet Could Break Trump’s Spell
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker isn’t pulling any punches. Yesterday, he gave a speech calling out Trump’s and Miller’s fascist cosplay, their lies and distortions, and predicting federal troops will soon be on the streets of Chicago. He came right out and said Trump is doing all this for his own wealth and power:
Is Trump’s Weakness the Fatal Blow That Will Destroy America?
Could Trump’s weakness and the GOP’s cowardice mean the end of democracy around the world? Could Trump’s apparent participation in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell be the proverbial horseshoe nail that brings down majority rule and representative government worldwide?
When the Court Says Trump Is Above the Law, Who Protects the Eleven Dead on That Boat?
When the Court says Trump is above the law, who speaks for the eleven dead on that boat? Their lives ended not in a battlefield crossfire or a clash between nations, but at the whim of one man emboldened by six justices who declared him untouchable.
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Saturday Report 9/6/25 — A Democrat introduces a bill to eliminate taxes on social security; didn't Trump promise that?
— Trump seems to delight in the suffering and even deaths of others, a characteristic common among sociopathic dictators, so it shouldn’t surprise us that he wants to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War. After all, he’s already war-mongered Greenland, Mexico, Venezuela, India, Canada, Puerto Rico, and
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