The Hartmann Report

Do Billionaires Really Give a Rat's Ass about "Woke" Issues?

April 24, 2023

Do Billionaires Really Give a Rat's Ass about "Woke" Issues?

(FREE) Billionaires are funding the GOP, and many Americans wonder why. Do we really believe, for example, that a fossil fuel billionaire gives a rat’s ass about whether a high school in Florida teaches students about gay people or that African Americans were once enslaved in Tennessee?

How to De-throne the Self-Appointed Kings & Queens of America

April 25, 2023

How to De-throne the Self-Appointed Kings & Queens of America

(FREE) America was never intended to have kings or queens, unaccountable to the people, ruling for life. But that’s what we have, because Congress and the White House never seriously pushed back against a power grab executed by the Supreme Court itself. It’s time to reduce the Court’s power in a way that agrees with the Const…

Men are No Longer Burning Women at the Stake - They're Now Killing Them By "Big Government"

April 26, 2023

Men are No Longer Burning Women at the Stake - They're Now Killing Them By "Big Government"

(FREE) Jaci Statton wanted her baby, but the fetus wasn’t developing properly and was dying inside her. If it wasn’t removed from her uterus it might kill her, too. She was experiencing vaginal bleeding, high blood pressure, debilitating cramps, and “intense nausea.”

Kevin McCarthy Wants a “Debt Ceiling Depression” - Will SCOTUS Give It To Him?

April 27, 2023

Kevin McCarthy Wants a “Debt Ceiling Depression” - Will SCOTUS Give It To Him?

(FREE) Kevin McCarthy is playing with fire, and he’s on very shaky constitutional grounds. He believes that he can hold hostage payments for goods bought and services already provided to the federal government — debts of the United States — in exchange for forcing the Biden administration to go along with draconian cuts to v…

Why the GOP May Actually Want a Second Great Depression

April 28, 2023

Why the GOP May Actually Want a Second Great Depression

(FREE) In yesterday’s Daily Take, I laid out a scenario where Kevin McCarthy and congressional Republicans could crash our economy by forcing a default on US debt, producing what could easily be a depression as deep and deadly as the Republican Great Depression of the 1930s.

Saturday Report

Saturday Report 4/29/23 - This ocean warming study is so distressing, scientists don't want to talk about it

April 29, 2023

Saturday Report 4/29/23 - This ocean warming study is so distressing, scientists don't want to talk about it

(PAID SUPPORTER BENEFIT) — a Bizarre confluence of events could be setting America up for a real crisis in a year and a half. First, it appears that Republicans are giving up their hopes of a candidate other than Donald Trump to run for president. Ron DeSantis is increasingly looking like a socially incompetent bobble-head weirdo, and no other Republican wannabe registers above 2% or 3% in any opinion poll nationwide. Even Trump’s. . .

Sunday Excerpt

The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment

April 30, 2023

The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment

Chapter 9 Gun Culture Enshrined: The Second Amendment To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. —Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century There’s an old saying, paraphrasing Hitler, that “the winners write history.” American culture grew out of genocide, slavery, and white supremacy, and guns have been central to this history, although the white “winners” have largely excised this from modern historical narratives. But the founders knew what was up.