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Jan 5

The Real Reason the Freedom Caucus Hates Kevin McCarthy Is Larger Than You Think

While the battle for House Speaker appears to be about personality, it’s really about ideology. It’s about the future of “big government” and the American middle class Share While Kevin McCarthy’s struggle to become Speaker of the House of Representatives appears to be about personality and struggles within the House Republican caucus, it’s really about something much larger: the fate and future of American “big government” and the middle class it created.

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The Real Reason the Freedom Caucus Hates Kevin McCarthy Is Larger Than You Think
The Real Reason the Freedom Caucus Hates Kevin McCarthy Is Larger Than You Think

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Dec 30, 2022

Was the Southwest Airlines Meltdown Impacted By the “Great Share-Buyback Scam”?

It’s time to declare the 42-year Reagan Revolution’s neoliberal experiment a failure, and outlaw the stock manipulation that makes CEOs rich and impoverishes the rest of us My radio/TV program and my daily Substack newsletter, Hartmann Report, together are a small business. The only way I can increase my income from that business is by increasing the advertising revenue to the show, getting more people signed up for the newsletter, or both.

Share Buybacks

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Was the Southwest Airlines Meltdown Impacted By the “Great Share-Buyback Scam”?
Was the Southwest Airlines Meltdown Impacted By the “Great Share-Buyback Scam”?
Share Buybacks

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Dec 23, 2022

The Hidden History of Santa Revealed!

May all your dreams and good work be realized as our sun’s eternal energy returns to full life in our part of Earth this coming New Year… Share Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, a connection to some of the most ancient of all known northern European shamanic traditions. Like people living in the north for millennia, we continue to embrace them with regional, national, and religious tweaks. It occurs during the week of the shortest day and longest…

Christmas

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The Hidden History of Santa Revealed!
The Hidden History of Santa Revealed!
Christmas

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Dec 22, 2022

Is Homelessness Our “Malnutrition & Starvation” Applied to Housing?

As America’s housing & homelessness problems reach crisis levels — the housing equivalent of malnutrition & starvation — Sen. Merkley has submitted legislation to stop the corporate feeding frenzy… Share This week’s brutal winter storm’s impact on homeless people across the nation — it will certainly kill many — reminds us how essential safe housing is for us human beings. There are commodities and there are necessities. Sometimes, they’re the same. …

Homelessness

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Is Homelessness Our “Malnutrition & Starvation” Applied to Housing?
Is Homelessness Our “Malnutrition & Starvation” Applied to Housing?
Homelessness

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Dec 21, 2022

Will America Keep Our Word to Ukraine?

As the Russian campaign of murder, rape, and destruction continues, America has both a moral and a legal obligation to defend Ukraine and enforce the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting the United States today and speaking to a joint session of Congress. He will be pushing back against those on both the extreme left and right who keep whining that in 1991 President George HW Bush said NATO would not expand toward Russia (a…

Budapest Memorandum

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Will America Keep Our Word to Ukraine?
Will America Keep Our Word to Ukraine?
Budapest Memorandum

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Dec 20, 2022

The Dirty Game Republicans are Playing with Desperate People’s Lives

Who on Earth would want to send thousands of desperate people to our Southern border just in time for every midterm facing a Democratic president? Who would be that crass and cynical? Just a month ago we finished President Biden’s first midterm election and, as predictably as the sun rises in the east, right around election time and for the months afterward a wave of refugees and immigrants have shown up at our southern border.

Immigration

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The Dirty Game Republicans are Playing with Desperate People’s Lives
The Dirty Game Republicans are Playing with Desperate People’s Lives
Immigration

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Dec 19, 2022

Should a Handful of Billionaires Own More Wealth than the Bottom 50% of All Americans?

Is our economy here to serve average Americans, or are we here to serve those who own and control most of the money flowing through our economy? At the urging of Republican Senators Hawley and Rubio, a new think tank is working out ways for the GOP to change their messaging. They want to shift their rhetoric from support for corporations and the morbidly rich to pretending they care about working people. This new organization will, they…

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Should a Handful of Billionaires Own More Wealth than the Bottom 50% of All Americans?
Should a Handful of Billionaires Own More Wealth than the Bottom 50% of All Americans?

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Dec 16, 2022

What the Final Stage of Reaganism Looks Like

The question today is whether we as a nation and a people will recover from it, or if it will, as Reagan promised, destroy the American experiment of pluralistic liberal democracy Back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in and implicitly promised to destroy our government because it was “the problem,” many of us who strongly opposed him wondered what the final stage of Reaganism would look like.

Reaganism

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What the Final Stage of Reaganism Looks Like
What the Final Stage of Reaganism Looks Like
Reaganism

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Dec 14, 2022

How Do We Stop Wealthy Rightwing “Christians” from Bribing the Supreme Court?

Imposing a judicial code of ethics on SCOTUS like the European Parliament is creating this week is a vital place for Congress and the White House to begin… The European Parliament and the US Supreme Court are both ensnarled in major corruption scandals. Each was caused by powerful politicians having no independent legal check on their own behavior. And on “this side of the pond” Congress needs to act as soon as possible (as are the Europeans).

Supreme Court

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How Do We Stop Wealthy Rightwing “Christians” from Bribing the Supreme Court?
How Do We Stop Wealthy Rightwing “Christians” from Bribing the Supreme Court?
Supreme Court

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Dec 13, 2022

Trump Isn’t Our Biggest Problem: It’s the Authoritarian Fascist Movement He Launched

The American media needs to call this movement what it is, fascism, and demand accountability and answers from the thousands of Republican politicians nationwide who refuse to repudiate it… Reporters for TPM obtained text messages between Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (formerly a Tea Party congressman) and 34 Republican members of Congress advocating stragegies to end democracy in America by keeping Trump in office after he lost the 2020 election.

Fascism

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Trump Isn’t Our Biggest Problem: It’s the Authoritarian Fascist Movement He Launched
Trump Isn’t Our Biggest Problem: It’s the Authoritarian Fascist Movement He Launched
Fascism

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Thom Hartmann

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America’s #1 progressive talk show host & NY Times bestselling author. Thom’s writings also appear at HartmannReport.com.

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