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Was the 2024 Election Stolen, Not by Ballots, but by Algorithms? By Thom Hartmann/ HartmannReport.com/ May 7, 2026 New data suggests social media algorithms didn’t just influence voters; they may have tilted the entire outcome… {Do you believe Thom Hartmann’s … Continue reading

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Billionaire Bashing

{Billionaires have so much, while the rest of us are losing ground. Those billionaires are less popular than ever. So understandably, when super wealthy Jeff Bezos, who flaunts his wealth, disregards the problems of his employees, and sucks up to … Continue reading

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Is the Next Economic Crash Being Signaled to Billionaires & Putin as the Working Class Gets Blindsided?

While Putin, the Trump kids, and their fellow billionaires are rubbing their hands in glee, it’s going to be a hell of a year or three for the other 99% rest of us… By Thom Hartmann/ Substack.com/ April 30, 2026 … Continue reading

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Is the Morbidly Rich’s “Brilliance” Just a Threat to the Republic?

In 11 months, we’ll have an opportunity to retrieve our democracy from the clutches of the morbidly rich, the ideologues who deify them (and have for millennia), & their bought-&-paid-for politicians… By Thom Hartmann/ HartmannReport.com/ December 15, 2025 The idea … Continue reading

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Betrayal. And Is Trump’s $2,000 “Dividend” Just a Corrupt Plan to Buy Votes?

The $2,000 “dividend” plan may be the boldest attempt yet to turn democracy into a cash-for-votes transaction… By Thom Hartmann/ HartmannReport.com/ November 10, 2025 Democrats swept the off-year elections, Trump’s popularity is sliding. The Democratic Party seems on the rise. … Continue reading

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Who Owns America? Musk and Trump Are Fighting Over the Deed

A Supreme Court justice handed the keys of our democracy to billionaires — and now they’re crashing it in public… By Thom Hartmann / ThomHartmann.com/ June 6, 2025 The alpha-male dick-measuring contest between Trump and Musk isn’t entertainment: it’s the … Continue reading

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The Billionaire Coup is Almost Complete and No One Stopped It — Can We Return to Democracy?

How America’s ultra-rich dismantled democracy, one Supreme Court ruling at a time… By Thom Hartmann/ The Hartmann Report/ February 5, 2025 There is one thread that ties together Trump’s destruction of American government agencies, his offer to take the Gaza … Continue reading

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Bernie Explains That Trump Will Not Help Working People

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The Nightmare Ahead

What happened November 5? Hal Ginsberg and I decipher the election results and what lies ahead. I feel that the 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United decision enabling billionaires and big corporations to buy politicians and the government was responsible for … Continue reading

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Are Billionaires Simply Money Addicts – Like Scrooge McDuck?

Why are the GOP and billionaires so committed to gutting worker protections while increasing the wealth of the top one percent? By Thom Hartmann/ HartmannReport.com/ May 7, 2024 Do elite Republicans and the CEOs who fund them hate working people? … Continue reading

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