What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
The GOP's New Civil War Against America Isn’t With Bullets — It’s With Ballots
The Republican motto — since Nixon sabotaged LBJ‘s Vietnam peace negotiations and Reagan blew up Carter’s deal to get the Iranian hostages back — has been: “If you can’t win, cheat.”
We Watched Others Fall: Now the Edge Is Beneath Our Feet
We watched it happen in Russia. We watched it happen in Hungary. Democracies, once imperfect but alive, were hollowed out from within by strongmen who declared emergencies, rewrote the rules, and convinced enough people that fear was freedom and corruption was strength.
Will Joe Rogan Become Trump’s Fixer-in-Chief?
Joe Rogan built an empire on being the guy who asked the questions nobody else would. That’s why millions of Americans — especially younger men — trust him more than they trust the nation’s media, Congress, or the Supreme Court. They believe he sees through the spin. He talks to conspiracy theorists and scientists alike, grills politicians, mocks the me…
The Army Was Built to Protect the Republic — Now It’s Being Deployed to Subdue It
After a couple of wannabe carjackers punched out Big Balls in DC, Trump used it as an excuse to threaten to take over the city and bring in the National Guard to police it, in a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. This despite the fact that crime in Washington DC is at a 30-year low and the city already has the
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Saturday Report 8/8/25 — The Epstein Files: Will Joe Rogan speak Truth to Power or Become Trump’s Fixer-in-Chief?
— So, let me get this straight: Because of Trump’s tariffs, Americans will pay 18.3% more for food and products while manufacturing is not returning (we’ve lost over 100,000 manufacturing jobs since Trump became president again), and the top 100 big business CEOs and stockholders are raking in an
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I’ve been listening to you since Air America, and wanted to recommend Noel Casler as a guest. He’s writing some pretty accurate stuff. He knows Trump well having worked with him during Celebrity Apprentice.