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Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 26, 2025

Dear GOP: You'll Never Wash the Stench of Trump Off You or Your Party. Never.

No matter how hard you try, the world won't forget. The lies, the corruption, and the betrayal are etched into history, a stain that will follow your party for generations… Dear Republicans, Here we go again. A large chunk of Trump's cabinet and our national security leaders just endangered our country and our pilots who were flying over Yemen with their arrogance and frank stupidity. Their lies about it were so egregious that Jeffrey Goldberg published the actual transcript in The Atlantic this morning. Only the best people, right?
Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 24, 2025

We’re in the Final Act of America’s Third Oligarchic Backlash

And this one ends with either democracy renewed — or democracy erased… We're now at the point where five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court have harmed us so severely that our nation is facing an oligarchic takeover, aka a constitutional crisis. Trump is ignoring the courts' orders and threatening the judges' lives so blatantly that even Chief Justice John Roberts has been moved to speak out. The history of America is the history of fits and starts of progress followed by oligarchic backlash leading to periods of pain and stagnation (except for the morbidly rich). Our first eighty years started with the American Revolution against an absolute monarch and the world's largest corporation. But the Founders' idealism was rejected by the Southern oligarchs, who saw the end of slavery as a threat to their wealth and power; they'd already turned the South into a neofascist hellscape and then launched the war against America that Abraham Lincoln won.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 23, 2025

Compulsory Voting: The Hidden History of the War on Voting

Voting is mandatory in Australia and Belgium—so why not here? Many people would loudly proclaim that compulsory voting is an anti-democratic idea, but it seems unlikely that anyone would argue that Australia and Belgium are dictatorships because they fine people who don’t vote. The $20 fine is high enough to make it worthwhile for voters to participate but low enough that it is unlikely to bankrupt someone or be burdensome to enforce. Australia implemented compulsory voting in 1924; the voter turnout in Australia has never been lower than 91 percent.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 22, 2025

Saturday Report 3/22/25 - Trump to Seniors: No Data for DOGE? No Social Security!

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Trump Admin: Hand Over the Data or Say Goodbye to Social Security — Lock Them Up? Trump Officials Face Jail Time for Stonewalling. — One of the nation's largest Democratic-aligned law firms caves in to Trump threats and pressure. — Trump's Budget: Robbing the Poor to Enrich the Wealthy?. — Trump Wants Tesla Vandals Locked in El Salvador's Notorious Mega-Prison. — is Trump going to declare martial law? — Furry Alert! Don't think the GOP are doing enough? Well it's just not true: They are now tackling the furry crisis in our schools. Isn't that more important than protecting social security or minimum wage? — Wisdom School: Challenging Reality: The Mind-Matter Connection — Hunter in a Farmer's World: ADHD Chaos Hack: Mastering Your Time Before It Masters You
Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 21, 2025

Dark Enlightenment Rising: The Billionaire Experiment to Kill Democracy

Trump, Musk, and their tech-bro overlords are engineering America's authoritarian future... The future of American democracy isn't being dismantled by accident; it's being systematically replaced to prepare the way for something entirely new. A radical ideology known as the Dark Enlightenment is fueling a billionaire-led movement to gut our government, erase democratic norms, and install a technocratic elite in their place.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 20, 2025

Silencing the Defenders: Trump’s War on the Last Line of Resistance

If Trump can destroy America's biggest law firms, who will be left to stand against him? Donald Trump and his henchmen have set out to break the legs of American democracy by making it difficult for people he hates to hire an attorney to defend themselves or sue the Trump administration. He and Musk are also, with their public statements, apparently trying to terrify federal and state judges into submission with threats that their followers will employ violence. This could very well herald the end of our republic, transforming America into something that more closely resembles Russia or 1930s Germany than anything Hamilton or Franklin would have endorsed. First, some background.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 19, 2025

Trump’s America: Where Even U.S. Citizens Can Now Be Dragged Away Without a Trial

First, they came for the immigrants. Now, they're coming for legal residents, tourists, and even citizens. Are you paying attention now? Imagine stepping off a plane in the United States, fully expecting to enter the country without issue, only to be surrounded by armed agents, handcuffed, and thrown into a freezing detention center. No trial. No lawyer. No contact with the outside world. In Trump's America, you are no longer guaranteed your rights or freedom—because now, it takes nothing more than an ICE agent's "suspicion" to make you disappear. This isn't a mistake. It's part of an expanding system of cruelty, where ICE—once an agency tasked with immigration enforcement—is now operating like an unchecked police force, targeting legal residents, visitors, and even US citizens with impunity.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 18, 2025

Welcome to Trump’s America: Where Immigrants Vanish, Courts Are Ignored, and No One Is Safe

History warns us: Once the government starts rounding people up, it doesn't stop... When a president declares an "invasion" to justify shredding the Constitution, he's not defending the nation—he's declaring war on democracy itself. The United States of America has long been defined by its commitment to the rule of law. For over 240 years, this nation has stood as a beacon of justice, due process, and constitutional order. Yet today, we are witnessing a grotesque and unprecedented assault on those very principles.
Posted at Hartmann Report on Mar. 17, 2025

Schumer’s Legacy: Rolling Over for Trump While Democracy Burns

History will remember him as the man who let fascism rise without a fight… Chuck Schumer had one job: to stand between Donald Trump and the complete dismantling of American democracy. Instead, he caved — again — handing Trump the power he craved without a fight, without a demand, without even a moment of real resistance. With every cowardly compromise, Schumer isn't just failing Democrats — he's enabling an autocrat in real-time. The question most Democrats want to ask of Leader Chuck Schumer in the Senate appears to be, "How's that 'keeping the government open to hold Trump accountable' thing working out for you?" Everything Trump does now going forward, when people or the press complain, he will say was authorized by "bipartisan legislation" with "the full support of the Senate Democrats." In fact, just hours after Schumer and a handful of timid Senate Democrats voted to pass Trump's Enabling Acts of 2025 legislation, the president issued an executive order gifting Vladimir Putin with the gutting of the Voice of America, Radio Liberty, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution.

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