

The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report is an independent daily podcast hosted by award winning, author, radio & TV host Thom Hartmann. Thom’s podcast highlights the bigger picture behind politics, science and culture through discussion and debate. Catch Thom’s live show Monday through Friday noon ET / 9am PT- www.thomhartmann.com.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 13min
Daily Take: Democracy Is Eroding Faster Than Experts Predicted: A Trump Insider’s Resignation Helps Explain Why
What he saw from inside the system, and why his departure signals that the guardrails are collapsing faster than anyone on the outside fully understands…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 17, 2026 • 58min
Is Russia's Internet Blackout a Preview of America's future?
Mobile internet access has been disabled in Moscow in recent days after similar outages in dozens of regions, reports the Wall Street Journal. Could it happen here? Plus the slogan that promised efficiency was really a blueprint to dismantle public government and hand its power—and money—to the billionaire class. And the superpower of cats is only recently understood by scientists. Plus six years later, Epstein’s ranch finally gets searched. And a judge decides how a woman can deliver her own child. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 17, 2026 • 12min
Daily Take: Iran- The Treason That Changed America’s Energy Future
Iran: The Treason That Changed America’s Energy Future...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 16, 2026 • 58min
So Far the Illegal War is Costing A Billion a Day
Who's paying for this war? You are.. At $11,500 a second. If the road to Tehran required the sons and daughters of the billionaire & political class to march beside everyone else’s kids, would we still be there? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 16, 2026 • 10min
Daily Take: The $5 Billion Secret Behind Trump’s Iran War — And Jared Kushner’s Role
The $5 Billion Secret Behind Trump’s Iran War — And Jared Kushner’s Role...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 15, 2026 • 59min
Don’t Let Stephen Miller Turn America Into a Surveillance State
Common Dreams reports that Stephen Miller wants to increase mass surveillance on Americans. More than 90 civil society groups on Thursday urged congressional Democrats to “stand firm against White House efforts to extend government surveillance powers” by renewing “without new safeguards” a highly controversial surveillance authorization historically abused by federal agencies. Free Press Action and Demand Progress are leading the call to senior Democratic lawmakers to not reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—a controversial law that has been abused hundreds of thousands of times—without first enacting privacy reforms.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 14, 2026 • 60min
Are Wars Now Being Directed By Artificial Intelligence?
Iranian Schoolgirls Killed After Hegseth Uses ChatGPT To Send Strike Trump's Iran Lies, Miller's surveillance grab, Democrats' 28-0 winning streak, and neo-Nazis at a GOP rally. What do we do if our national leader is guided and manipulated by adversarial foreign countries? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 13, 2026 • 58min
Word-Class Hustlers
Elections, favors, nuclear secrets, federal land- it's all for sale. Washington is in the grips of a cabal of billionaires, stealing us blind while drowning the average person in a flood of propaganda and distraction.Plus - Thom reads from 'The Meat Racket' by Christopher Leonard. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 13, 2026 • 15min
Daily Take: The “CEO Presidency” Scam: How Republicans Turned Government Into a Profit Center for Billionaires
The slogan that promised efficiency was really a blueprint to dismantle public government and hand its power—and money—to the billionaire class…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 12, 2026 • 58min
The Existentialist Republic
Substack's Christopher Armitage joins Thom- is there anything more powerful than action- or will the despair win out? Also- veteran war correspondent Phil Ittner joins Thom from Kiev, Ukraine.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.


