Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 29, 2026

“Electoral Authoritarianism”: Should Elections Control the Government or Should Government Control Elections?

From Putin’s Russia to Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, dictators have learned that you don’t have to cancel elections to steal democracy: ou just have to terrorize the people who run them.. Reporters for MS NOW just broke an extremely troubling story: seven people inside and around the FBI reached out to say that they’re afraid that in the next week they’ll be called upon to illegally seize voting machines or ballots to disrupt our election next week. They all know that federal law has made it a crime for federal law enforcement officers to enter polling places armed (unless there’s an active crime, like a shooting, going on), and has been since 1865, which has them particularly worried about their own possible legal exposure.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 28, 2026

Why Is Trump Fighting for Daylight Saving Time When Scientists Warn It Will Endanger Millions?

The golf industry wants longer evenings, but sleep researchers say permanent daylight saving time would disrupt our biological clocks and expose children to darker school commutes… His greed seems to have no limits: Trump wants to make more money off his golf courses, and you and your kids may pay for it with your lives. And one lone Republican is standing up to him. Back in 1974, the year Richard Nixon put into place year-round daylight savings time, Louise and I were living just outside Lansing, Michigan. I remember the sun not coming up that January until nine in the morning; we drove to work in full darkness, kids stood under streetlights to catch the school bus, and eight schoolchildren were killed in traffic accidents in Florida alone. When Nixon first flipped the switch, 79 percent of Americans supported year-round daylight savings time; by the end of 1974 that had collapsed to 42 percent support. President Gerald Ford signed the repeal that October. The biggest force behind this bizarre idea of year-round daylight savings time was the golf course industry. The Englishman who invented the idea of shifting the clocks was an avid golfer named William Willett; the whole idea was to give golfers another hour to play in the evening.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 27, 2026

How Trump, Paxton can overturn the Midterms

Several “legal” actions can reverse next week’s vote: A guest editorial from Greg Palast... No joke. No foolin’ around. The operation is in place to overturn the results of next Tuesday’s vote in the midterm elections. President Donald Trump has already put the wheels in motion for a “legal” reversal of the voters’ choice in Texas, Alaska and other battleground states where the US Senate’s control is in the balance. To understand the first step in their putsch plan, check out Episode 5 of Jim Crow Reloaded, 4 minutes exposing the mass challenge of 800,000 voters.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 26, 2026

Does Conservatism Always Lead to Fascism?

From the slaveholding South to Jim Crow, Reagan’s billionaire revolution, and Trump’s police state, the same dangerous pattern keeps repeating. Is fascism conservatism’s ultimate destination? What happens when “conservatives” would rather destroy their democracy than surrender power? History shows us how that road leads straight to fascism, and Trump is taking America down it.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 25, 2026

The Hidden History of American Healthcare: The four months Medicare desegregated America

This past July, Medicare turned 61. Most Americans just think of it as the program that gave seniors inexpensive healthcare for the rest of their lives, but — unknown to most Americans — it was also the most successful racial integration program in the history of the United States. Sadly, the way that happened has been almost entirely scrubbed from our national memory. As recently as 1964, Black Americans were routinely turned away from the majority of America’s hospitals. Even women in labor, even people bleeding from a car wreck, Black people were turned away, and on those rare occasions when they were admitted to a hospital they were segregated to wait in basement wards, sometimes for days, until all the white patients upstairs had been seen. The Louisiana Red Cross labeled its blood supply “White” and “Colored.”
Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 24, 2026

Saturday Report 10/24/26 — Does Ramaswamy’s Depraved New Ad Mark a New Low in the GOP’s Moral Collapse?

The Best of the Rest of the News and Opinion. — Trump’s Justice Department has sued to throw out Alaska’s Senate election before anybody’s finished voting in it, but — surprise! — only if the Democrat wins. — The Supreme Court just told New Hampshire’s college students to go find a different ID two weeks before an election, and did it in the name of not changing the rules too close to an election. — Trump now says he has “the right” to run in 2028 because, you see, the election he lost in 2020 was stolen, so it doesn’t count. — Trump spent Thursday night demanding that Mike Johnson refuse to seat Ilhan Omar, and for good measure declared that her party had “conceded” her seat. — Mark Zuckerberg’s algorithms are apparently pushing hard for Trump’s buddy’s son, Flavio Bolsonaro, to win Brazil’s presidential runoff. — Donald Trump looked an NBC reporter in the eye Friday and said he doesn’t “know anything about a stepfather,” which is a remarkable claim about an ad he’s spent three days defending — A new book alleges Jared Kushner had access to roughly $2 billion in Gulf money while running Middle East policy out of the White House, and Trump’s considered response is that the reports are “fake news.” — Climate Alert! The American West has lost nearly 300 of its original 1,450 glaciers since the 1960s.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 21, 2026

The Greatest Betrayal in American History Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes

Trump is empowering Putin, abandoning Ukraine, and preparing to bargain with dictators over the future of the world. The Republicans who could stop him are doing nothing... What the hell is going on in the Republican Party? Trump gutted his own Russia sanctions law, cut a diesel deal with Putin, and is now talking about carving up the world with Putin and Xi. Congress has the power to stop him right now: why are Thune and Johnson still on vacation?
Posted at Hartmann Report on Oct. 20, 2026

No Kings? Then Why Are We Letting Billionaires Rule What America Can See and Hear?

Millions march against authoritarianism while a handful of powerful men control the digital public square, shape our news, and decide which voices Americans get to hear… As many of us were showing up this past Saturday for our local No Kings marches, with over 3,000 of them underway, the movement’s organizers suddenly found themselves locked out of their Instagram account for hours. Meta blames it on a software glitch or something close to that, but that episode illustrates exactly the concern progressives and anti-fascists have been voicing for years: that Big Tech and the billionaires behind it have way too much power, and that they are using it to control public opinion to their own benefit. Then yesterday morning Christiane Amanpour announced that after reporting for CNN for 43 years she’s leaving the network. While she didn’t mention nepo-baby David Ellison who now owns the network, she didn’t have to: back in May at a journalism summit in London she said she was “concerned” about Ellison ownership and how it might bring about the same kind of “ideological realignment” that he’d already imposed on CBS News. What we’re seeing here with these two companies in microcosm is that the men who own the social media digital square where a near-majority of people get their news, and the people who own the TV networks and papers like The Washington Post, are the same handful of billionaires with political and financial axes to grind that fit nicely with Trump’s vision of a strongman state run by a ruling elite. Whether it turns out that Meta did something for politics or it was just an error doesn’t change the fact that one company run by one man can switch off a national movement’s megaphone and doesn’t legally owe anybody an explanation.

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