Tag Archives: Ronald Reagan

“America’s Comeback” Is Nothing but a Con Job

By Thom Hartmann/ Hartmannreport.com/ September 16, 2025 When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, he was sitting under a tent that had “America Comeback Tour” printed in huge letters across all four sides. It was the theme of his tour of college … Continue reading

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The GOP’s 60-Year Conspiracy to Kill Our Democracy: None Dare Call It Treason—But I Will

It all traces back to billionaire-backed fearmongering in the 1960s—weaponizing panic around socialism and communism to crush unions, cut taxes, and hoard profits… By Thom Hartmann/ HartmannReport.com/ January 31, 2025 In Wednesday’s Daily Take here on Hartmann Report, I mentioned Russell Kirk and … Continue reading

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JANUARY 21, 2010: THE DAY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY DIED

By Arlen Grossman/ OpEdNews/ January 19, 2025 “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” –John Adams, 1814 Barack Obama knew what was coming. During … Continue reading

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A Confession… Just 40+ Years Late

 Reagan’s Treason, Two Bushes and the $23 Million Payoff This week, a Texas pol, Ben Barnes, confessed that he was personally involved—and therefore an eyewitness to–high treason: The Ronald Reagan campaign’s successful secret deal with the Iranian government to hold … Continue reading

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How Can America Avoid the Bloodshed & Chaos of Civil War? There is an active movement within the United States trying to start a civil war — and we have two and a half years before the 2024 election to … Continue reading

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How Democrats Clean Up Republican Economic Messes

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Donald Trump Is a Broken Man

In another time, in a different circumstance, there would perhaps be room to pity such a person. By Peter Wehner/ Atlantic/ July 21, 2020   LEON NEAL / GETTY The most revealing answer from Donald Trump’s interview with Fox News … Continue reading

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The Real “Shithole Country”

by Chris Hedges/ Truthdig/ January 14, 2018 I covered the war in El Salvador for five years. It was a peasant uprising by the dispossessed against the 14 ruling families and the handful of American corporations that ran El Salvador … Continue reading

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STOLEN ELECTIONS

The Past 5 GOP Presidents Have Used Fraud and Treason to Steer Themselves to Electoral Victory By Thom Hartmann/ AlterNet/ July 28, 2017 People are wondering out loud about the parallels between today’s Republican Party and organized crime [3], and … Continue reading

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The Sorry Plight of the Worker

A 21st-Century Form of Indentured Servitude Has Already Penetrated Deep into the American Heartland Corporations want to make sure that laborers never again have the power to tell big business how to treat them. By Thom Hartmann/ AlterNet/ July 17,2017 … Continue reading

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