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Stop Alligator Alcatraz Now, Before They Build Another in a Remote Area Near You

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Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Supreme Court Just Granted Trump a License to Erase Moral Responsibility

The Supreme Court Just Granted Trump a License to Erase Moral Responsibility
26.06.2025 8

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump Is Trying to Unconstitutionally Bomb His Way Back to Popularity

23.06.2025 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Senate GOP’s Remedy for Anti-Trump Lawsuits? Make Them Impossible.

20.06.2025 2

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Attack on Padilla Proves We Are Living in an Early-Stage Police State

Attack on Padilla Proves We Are Living in an Early-Stage Police State
14.06.2025 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump Is Following in the Footsteps of the Worst Traitor in US History

Trump Is Following in the Footsteps of the Worst Traitor in US History
13.06.2025 9

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

This Is How Trump Kills US Democracy—With US Marines in the Street

11.06.2025 90

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Most Dangerous Thing About Trump's Fascism? Getting Used to It

06.06.2025 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat

30.05.2025 10

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

By Calling More Than Half the Country ‘Scum,’ Trump Is Raising a Bright Red Flag

27.05.2025 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump’s Illiberal Democracy Threatens Our Foundational Moral Principles

19.05.2025 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The GOP Hates You and Wants You to Have a Harder Life

15.05.2025 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented

13.05.2025 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump's Plan for Workers: Make America a Sweatshop Again

05.05.2025 6

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Do You Understand How Dangerous This Moment Is — How Far We've Drifted?

01.05.2025 40

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Now Is Not the Time to Kneel—It's Time to Rise

26.04.2025 2

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The American Public Must Resist Trump’s ‘Papers, Please’ Politics

25.04.2025 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You

15.04.2025 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump’s Latest Executive Order Lays Bare His Authoritarian Ambitions

10.04.2025 2

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

The Idiotic Tariff Policy of Dim-Witted Trump

04.04.2025 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Dark Enlightenment: the Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction

23.03.2025 9

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

‘Peace in Our Time’ Schumer Proved He’s Not the Leader We Need to Save Our Democracy

17.03.2025 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump’s Imperial Fantasy: To Be Polk, McKinley, and Putin—All at Once

17.03.2025 40

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Brings Us to the Edge of a Dystopian Future

12.03.2025 5

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump and Musk’s Plan to Destroy Social Security Started Tuesday Night

06.03.2025 6

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Social Security Advantage: Trump and Musk’s Evil Plan to Privatize Our Safety Net

06.03.2025 2

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Elon Musk and the Libertarians Are Lying to You

01.03.2025 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

People Get Ready: Trump's Reichstag Fire Is Coming

An attack on America—real, orchestrated, enabled, or imagined—that would enable him to play the role Bush did after 9/11 would be very politically...

24.02.2025 6

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Be Terrified Trump Is Using the Same Bonaparte Quote as This Right-Wing Mass Murderer

17.02.2025 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump, Vance, and Musk Have Ushered Us Into Madison’s ‘Very Definition of Tyranny’

10.02.2025 8

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Oligarchs Want Their Throne Back—but They Can Be Stopped

05.02.2025 10

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

We Built the US by Vanquishing a Monarch—But the Kings Are Back

04.02.2025 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Hostile Takeover of the United States by Corporate Raiders Has Arrived in Full

30.01.2025 3

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Right-Wing Control of Media Has Crushed the Promise of US Democracy

15.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Killer CEOs of Big Oil

11.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Which Party Benefits from Zuckerberg’s Move? The One that Lies a Lot.

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (wearing a $900,000 watch ) announced yesterday morning that across their over-seven-billion-user-strong social media...

08.01.2025 4

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Why Can’t the US Get the Giant, Bloodsucking Health Insurance Tick off Its Back?

As with many problems in American life, it largely comes down to two factors: the legacy of white supremacy and corporate profits.

28.12.2024 30

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Corporate Titans Bend the Knee to Trump's Fascism

In fascist states, corporations and wealthy individuals fall all over themselves to gain the favor of the fascist strongman leader or they lose out...

18.12.2024 30

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

With Trump and Musk, the Oligarchs Are Inside the House

The lines between corporate power, billionaire interests, government authority, public “knowledge,” and foreign influence have not just...

11.12.2024 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

The Hated US Healthcare System Is Why Government Shouldn’t Be Run Like a Business

Because the desire of right-wing billionaires not to pay taxes have prevailed ever since Truman first proposed single-payer healthcare, Americans...

09.12.2024 10

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Medicare Advantage Deadline Is Today: Get Out!

Enough is enough. Let your members of Congress know it’s beyond time to fix the Court and Medicare, so scams like Medicare Advantage can no longer...

07.12.2024 9

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Trump Is Likely Plotting to Succeed Where South Korea’s Yoon Failed

Trump’s goal will be to avoid Yoon’s outcome and instead—like Putin and Orbán did in Russia and Hungary—ensure there won’t be any meaningful...

04.12.2024 7

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

How Dems Can Take Advantage of Trump’s Tariffs to Reverse the Reagan Revolution

As he shatters the neoliberal tariff consensus, Democrats should rise to the occasion and argue for rational, targeted, and gradual tariffs, taking...

28.11.2024 5

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Will Trump's Return Coincide With the Death of Progressive Media?

We all must support (and share with our friends) those outlets where we find useful news and information. If we fail to do so, America’s media...

24.11.2024 5

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Is Progressive Journalism Being Systematically Destroyed?

Without the right-wing media juggernaut, Donald Trump probably wouldn’t be president next year and wouldn’t have won in 2016. That said, the...

22.11.2024 5

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Trump Win Fulfills Oligarchy's 50-Year Plan for Right-Wing Takeover

The billionaires have won. They have successfully killed the American Dream. And now we have to fight back.

06.11.2024 20

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

Today Is the Last Day to Defeat Fascist Billionaire Trump: Vote!

Many of America’s rightwing billionaires don’t want you to vote. Ask yourself this simple question: why?

05.11.2024 4

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

You Bet Every Vote Matters—and Here’s How to Convince People of It

Tuesday night, in a brilliant speech before 75,000-plus people on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., from which Trump sent a murderous mob against...

30.10.2024 5

New Republic

Thom Hartmann

Democracy Dies... in the Pockets of the American Oligarchy

From Jeff Bezos to Elon Musk, America's oligarchs are using media control to shape politics, grow profits, and destroy the prospect of a better...

28.10.2024 9

Common Dreams

Thom Hartmann

For Trump, November 5 Is When the Election Starts

Increasingly, MAGA Republicans associated with Trump are convinced he is going to lose the election. But they have a backup plan to put him in the...

27.10.2024 4

New Republic

Thom Hartmann