What You May Have Missed
A round-up of the past seven days on the Hartmann Report
Killing Unions: The Greatest Political Heist in American History
Yesterday I published Chapter 9 from my new book Who Killed the American Dream? detailing how nearly a half-century of Reaganomics have left the middle class in this country in tatters.
It’s Worse Than You Think for the Middle Class
“Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure.” — old proverb
Is Todd Blanche Going to Drop the Cold, Dead Hand of Anthony Comstock on America’s Women if He's Confirmed?
Todd Blanche is campaigning to become our real, confirmed Attorney General, presumably so he can better help Donald Trump, his corrupt family, and the 13 billionaires in his cabinet make off with as much of our money as they can.
They're Not Voting for Karl Marx, They're Voting for a Damn Raise
Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan, declared yesterday morning, seems to have broken the brains of Republicans and the chattering class.
Who Is the "Third Way" and Why Are They Fighting Progressives Instead of Republicans?
The Third Way has functionally declared their intention to purge the Democratic Party of progressives. They will not, in my opinion, get us the things progressive are working for and most Americans and the large majority of Democrats want:
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Saturday Report 8/8/26 — Is That a Squirrel On Trump’s Head?
— Trump has figured out a way to grift off the plight of immigrant kids. A Texas law firm with virtually no immigration experience, but multiple people close to Trump or accused of being open racists, just got a $150 million sole-source contract to replace the public defenders defending kids being held in Trump’s conce…
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COMMONWEALTH REPORT
The Republican Fraud On WE the People
Fraud is an intentional act of deception or a knowing misrepresentation of the truth designed to secure an unfair or unlawful gain or to deprive a victim of their money, property, or legal rights.
One thing is for sure, Republicans have over the last 40y have gradually defrauded WE the People with Reagan’s trickle down economics, a debunked theory that essentially whittled down the middle class and debilitated the unions, making the corporate boardrooms king. Of course for rich donors came the tax breaks for the wealthy.
Remember Reagan’s fraud of the “welfare queen”, which was the beginning of the attack on the social safety net for those less fortunate who supported the wealthy’s tax breaks and continues in earnest today.
Remember how John Roberts and the fascist Heritage Foundation thought up the unitary executive theory and then before Cheeto’s second term got started gave the president immunity from crimes committed during the presidency. This has led to brazen criminal corruption today.
Now the evolving Republican party has become a full blown fascist party and pulled the biggest fraud of all by getting the American electorate to buy into Cheeto’s lies and get a felon elected to the presidency. The fascist Republicans should not be trusted with government’s power again.