Create the crisis, make working Americans suffer, reward the billionaires, blame Democrats for the wreckage, then campaign as the only people who can fix it.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-republican-playbook-break-america-5c2
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Americans pay extraordinary sums for a system that can still deny doctor-recommended care, while Canada’s Medicare fight shows another path…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-insurance-industry-built-a-tollbooth-ecd
US Constitution, Art III, Sec 3:
“Treason against the United States, shall consist … in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
WaPo:
“Trump administration allows for Russian oil sales as energy prices soar”
NYTimes:
“U.S. Encourages Flow of Iranian Oil While It Battles Iran”
Since Nixon, Republicans have shifted wealth from working Americans to the morbidly rich. Dems should repeat that simple affordability message everywhere, every day, without apology or hesitation…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/its-worse-than-you-think-for-the-a23
Boosted by @gvenema@fairmove.net
Epilogue: What History Will Say About Us. The final chapters from “Who Stole The American Dream?”
https://hartmannreport.com/p/epilogue-what-history-will-say-about
When one man turns prosecutors, tax collectors, billionaires, and elections into weapons of personal power, democracy itself becomes the next thing he owns…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/sex-money-and-revenge-what-happens-8de
Boosted by @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
The bond market is warning that 45 years of Republican tax cuts and exploding debt may finally force ordinary Americans to pay for a party the wealthy already enjoyed...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-america-about-to-get-the-biggest-10d
Every eighty years America's oligarchs have tried to bury democracy. Three times they failed. This time they've dismantled the election's guardrails before the votes are even cast…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-fourth-assault-on-american-democracy-7e4
For forty years America restrained concentrated wealth and built the largest middle class in history. Then billionaires rewrote the rules, bought political power, and began taking democracy apart…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/germanys-far-right-and-trumps-billionaires-ac4
They didn't rob a bank. They robbed entire generations by dismantling the one institution powerful enough to stand up to corporate America…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/killing-unions-the-greatest-political-733
Bannon just pulled back the curtain on a strategy that ties together recent events in a way that’s getting harder and harder to dismiss…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/bannon-exposes-trumps-2026-test-run
The permanent fence around Lafayette Square isn't just about security. It's the latest warning that oligarchy is preparing to defend itself from democracy…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-oligarchs-warning-this-fall-america-c96
For 45 years, billionaires and their political allies have weaponized hate, divided Americans, and quietly dismantled the middle class while we fought each other instead of them…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/they-made-you-fear-and-hate-your
His escalating contradictions are forcing a question about congressional and cabinet powers designed for moments like this…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-is-unraveling-isnt-it-time-aa0
Trump's latest Red Scare recycles one of America's oldest political tricks: invent an internal enemy to distract voters from the policies reshaping the country…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-red-scare-returns-trump-is-calling-137
As Trump demands sweeping new resources in the name of war, the scale of funding raises a chilling question: is this about national security or consolidating power?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/are-trumps-purges-and-calls-for-a-ef9
From Caesar's denarius to Trump's meme coin, the message is always the same: "I am the state and you damn well better both fear me and pay me tribute!"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/every-republic-in-history-has-feared-ec7
The policies under attack today once defined mainstream American leadership from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR and LBJ…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-this-is-communism-then-teddy-roosevelt-7a5
The Founders fought a revolution against kings; Trump is turning their anniversary into a tribute to himself…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-has-rewritten-americas-250th-7fc
The line between church and state is collapsing at the hands of hypocrites and fanatics who use religion to seize power —and history shows the cost...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/hegseth-is-reviving-the-crusades-7a2
The Strait of Hormuz crisis could be following the same path that led to World War I…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/did-trump-just-light-a-fuse-he-cant-586
They’re promising it, celebrating it, and daring those of us who believe in democracy to try to stop them…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-they-kill-your-vote-they-kill-9f6
Behind the noise is a ruthless, coordinated effort to dismantle the American system and rebuild it for the ultra-wealthy…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-morbidly-rich-machine-is-crushing-cca
The slogan that promised efficiency was really a blueprint to dismantle public government and hand its power—and money—to the billionaire class…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-presidency-scam-how-republicans-644
As war sends oil prices soaring, fossil fuel giants rake in billions while Americans get stuck with the bill, even though EVs already offer a cheaper way out…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/gas-prices-are-exploding-again-but
The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/ice-was-my-idea-the-kind-of-moment
How Republicans turned misinformation into a system for seizing power and reshaping reality, and the damage those lies are doing to our democracy…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/alex-jones-didnt-just-spread-lies-fee
A 30-year campaign of intimidation turned watchdogs into lapdogs, and now the consequences are impossible to ignore…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/from-fake-news-to-full-control-how-374
An afternoon in East Berlin became the lens through which today's America suddenly makes terrifying sense...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/i-saw-this-happen-behind-the-iron-d03
The forces that shaped him didn’t stay in the past: they grew with power, fueling the cruelty and chaos now hitting your wallet, your safety, and America’s place in the world…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-happened-to-trumpand-why-does
Hundreds died in this week's heat wave. But the real killer is a political & economic system that rewards predators, turns citizens into prey, & leaves governments protecting power instead of people…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/predators-always-need-prey-now-theyre-38d
The Saturday Report 4/4/26 — Vance Targets Blue States as Trump’s New Fraud Czar
The Best of the Rest of the News and Opinion
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-saturday-report-4426-vance-targets
Trump's Smithsonian purge follows the same roadmap used by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and every strongman who came before…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/that-sign-in-front-of-the-smithsonian-0ee
Trump makes mob-style threats. Only instead of, “I’m going to mess up you and your family,” it’s now, “A whole civilization will die tonight.” He must be impeached now…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-im-going-to-do-to-you-is-going-a91
Saturday Report 7/11/26 — Trump refuses to sign the biggest housing bill in a generation, ICE shoots the wrong man in Houston, and the referees of our elections get purged...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-71126-trump-refuses
Saturday Report 3/28/26 — Trump brown-noser Brendan Carr bragged about his role in censoring "left-wing" American media
The Best of the Rest of the News and Opinion
It's a sign of an industry that knows it’s above the law and has been doing so with absolute arrogance — making billions every year — for 30 years...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-just-happened-in-the-meta-trial
Saturday Report 4/11/26 — When will the other Melania shoe drop?
The Best of the Rest of the News
https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-41126-when-will-the
As a new federal pre-crime system begins identifying Americans for what they might do — before any law is broken — the Trump regime is making a list and expanding its network of concentration camps…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-department-of-thought-crimes-6ab
Using the same tactics that made him a TV star, he stokes outrage, scripts conflict, and dominates headlines even as his actions weaken democratic norms and heighten international risk…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-deploys-reality-show-tricks-24d
When people lose faith in government, the result isn’t reform, it’s instability, extremism, and eventual breakdown…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-most-dangerous-crisis-in-america-c4b
Hope Is a Discipline
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink"
If we can’t outlaw dark money and wake people up, who will be the next Trump trying to end democracy in America?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-we-dont-break-the-cycle-a-trump-ec5
History shows that police states aren't declared: they're assembled piece by piece, until one day ordinary people realize the freedoms they once took for granted have quietly disappeared…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/police-state-are-we-already-there-3ae
From FEMA relief to clean energy funding, government resources are becoming political weapons, creating the kind of regional resentment that has shattered nations before…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-trump-is-driving-america-toward-4eb