Notices by Thom Hartmann (thomhartmann@mstdn.social)

From Jefferson’s era to today, history proves democracy’s defenders can still win…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-lies-echo-a-dark-era-but-one-e3b

House Democrats dropped a political bombshell...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/no-war-no-distraction-no-flag-waving

Dark money, captured courts, and media empires are quietly doing what dictators once could only dream of...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-assault-on-democracy-stronger-54c

The Pentagon’s purge of its own legal advisers reveals how obedience is replacing principle, and why that’s the hallmark of authoritarian capture…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/when-loyalty-becomes-law-is-our-military

The leaked messages show what happens when cruelty becomes political culture…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-this-what-the-next-generation

Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-brutality-is-the-message-why-633

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-ice-todays-klan-70e

A historian’s alarm: when these twelve familiar steps appear in a nation, the result is often irreversible—unless citizens rise up and demand otherwise…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/twelve-steps-to-national-collapse-636

When lies become policy and propaganda becomes identity, democracy itself is put at risk…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-gops-addiction-to-lies-the-death-17e

The reason we’re at a pivotal moment in America is because most people don’t know how to answer this question: “How do you know when you’re really no longer living in a democracy?”

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-day-america-stepped-over-the-512

By protecting him from accountability, the Court gave him power to end lives at will — and he’s wasting no time using it…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/when-the-court-says-trump-is-above-7eb

Mamie Till did it in 1955. One grieving mother will do it again, and the gun industry will never recover…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-day-will-come-when-parents-show-f38

With Fox sharpening the blade and MAGA losing its grip, America teeters on the edge of a political Jonestown...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/death-rattle-of-a-cult-trump-epstein-812

He didn’t need a jungle. With lies, fear, and blind loyalty, Trump built his Jonestown in the heart of our republic — and millions are still drinking…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-kool-aid-presidency-how-donald

Why Republicans want to destroy the hidden link between Middle Class wealth and democratic power…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/modernization-theory-the-key-to-understanding

Autocrats follow a predictable playbook. Learn how we can disrupt their rise before revolution or civil war become the only solutions...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/fourteen-steps-to-tyranny-how-autocratic-8d3

How ordinary Americans became numb to authoritarianism—step by chilling step…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-normalization-of-evil-we-thought-381

Helicopters, uniforms, and flags used like weapons. Now Marines are prowling American streets. This is how democracies die — in prime time…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-suspension-of-reality-and-law-c63

A Supreme Court justice handed the keys of our democracy to billionaires — and now they’re crashing it in public…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/who-owns-america-musk-and-trump-are-3cf

By rewriting history, staging propaganda events, and testing the military’s loyalty, is Trump laying the groundwork for a future coup attempt?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-is-preparing-the-military-for-626