Notices by Thom Hartmann (thomhartmann@mstdn.social)

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

Step by Step, MAGA Is normalizing repression and setting America up for tyranny. Will we wait, like so many before us, until the knock comes to our own door?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/germans-hungarians-russians-italians-aec

If you think this ends with L.A., you haven’t been paying attention. This is Portland 2.0 — but scaled up, and aimed at the soul of American democracy…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-is-normalizing-the-unthinkable-f4a

Exploring the GOP’s strategy to keep wages low and the poor desperate...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-do-americas-workers-need-welfare-981

Musk’s and Rubio’s deliberate gutting of USAID and the lives it’s ending every hour…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-we-survive-a-new-apartheid-engineered-238

When greed replaces justice, and cruelty becomes policy, democracy dies not in darkness—but in plain sight, cheered on by those in power…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-great-american-betrayal-how-we-2ae

Dictators don’t go quietly. They orchestrate fear, silence dissent, and distract with spectacle. Trump’s moves in 2025 suggest he’s not planning to lose power — no matter the cost.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/when-the-tyrant-slips-why-america-15f

The numbers are in. The evidence is overwhelming. And the silence is deadly. It’s time Democrats started calling this what it is: a decades-long criminal conspiracy to seize power by any means…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/americas-long-coup-how-the-gop-rigged-812

It’s not paranoia when it’s happening right in front of you…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/theyre-coming-for-the-truth-tellers-08f

Musk. Trump. Putin. Labor spies. Stolen data. This isn’t a thriller. It’s what’s happening inside your government — right now…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-department-of-government-efficiency-fbd

History warns us: every major economic crash has led to a world war. Trump’s corruption, debt, and tariffs may be lighting the fuse…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-second-republican-great-depression-b0c

Trump’s not interested in governing. He’s rewriting the rules, tearing down institutions, and replacing democracy with spectacle and submission...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-show-must-go-on-even-if-it-burns-6f4

Undermine democracy. Destroy institutions. Divide the people. Loot the country. Collapse it from the inside out…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-putin-designed-a-plan-to-collapse-2ce

How the GOP’s war on empathy turned America into a playground for billionaires and psychopaths...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/even-mice-have-more-humanity-than-e10

Masked ICE agents are now snatching dissidents off the streets like a scene from Stalin’s Russia. This isn’t speculative fiction. It’s happening right now, in America…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74