What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
The Choice Before Tyranny: Will We Let Oligarchs Rule or Take Back America?
House Speaker Mike Johnson says that California Governor Gavin Newsom should be “tarred and feathered” because he’s going along with protestors who object to Trump’s fascist behavior.
Border Agents or Thought Police? When Did Words become a Crime?
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” — Benjamin Franklin
The Politics of Hate: How Trump Weaponized Our Darkest Instincts
Yesterday, I spoke with you about the importance of our government embracing free speech and not trying to stifle it or intimidate (or deport) people for unpopular political writings. Today, let’s examine the flip side of that argument: hate speech, the power and danger of hate itself, and how we defeat it as Trump tries to use it to manipulate us.
The Chilling Republican Plan to Slam Shut the Courthouse Doors on Average Americans
Right now, the only thing that’s preventing Trump from going full dictator is the federal court system and our ability to challenge his unlawful, unconstitutional behavior in it.
Fourteen Steps to Tyranny: How Autocratic Breakthrough Happens — And How We Can Stop It
The Trump administration has arrested a mayor, a judge, a member of Congress, and beaten a United States Senator to the ground. They’ve deployed the military, over the objections of the governor and mayor, into a major American city. We just experienced a political assassination.
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Saturday Report 6/21/25 — Astonishing: Give Trump a million dollars & you get to become an Army officer, complete with a uniform & everybody must salute you!
— Will we regret Trump being able to use a nuclear weapon? America confronts two very weird aspects to Trump’s involvement in Netanyahu’s “stay out of jail” attack on Iran. The first is that Russia — oligarchs friendly with Putin, specifically — built
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