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Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country Thom Hartmann - Unequal Protection

 On the News With Thom Hartmann: US Retailers Are Refusing to Help Stop Slave Labor, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Committee Agrees to Cut Over $4 Billion of Food Aid from the Farm Bill, and More

Memo to Bush Administration Leftovers on Fox: Shut UpWe've Been Warned About the Smooth Evasion Before ...

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Detroit Emergency Manager Poised to Sacrifice City's Unions to Investors, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann:According to SCOTUS, Monsanto Has the Right to Control Our Food Supply

It's Time for a Manufacturing Revolution

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The IRS Has Apologized to Conservative Political Groups for "Singling Them Out for Additional Review", and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: 11 States Have Affirmed That Gay Rights Are Civil Rights, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Banksters Are Violating Their $25 Billion Settlement

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Report Charts Capitalism's Cancerous Spread Into Social Programs, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New York State's Highest Court Upheld Two Towns' Right to Keep Toxic Energy Production Out of Their Communities, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: US Apparel Companies Start to Rethink Their Use of Slave Labor, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Want to Eliminate Your Overtime Pay, and More

Thom Hartmann on the News: Criminalizing Immigration, Florida Rejects Medicaid Funding, and More

If Bangladesh Can Hold Their Corporate Fatcats Accountable - Then So Can We!

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Congress Pushes for Unnecessary Tanks Despite Sequester Cuts, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Washington State Wants to Protect Businesses' Right to Discriminate, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Rise in Food-Borne Illness One of Many Signs of Austerity Fallout, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Foreclosure Fraud Victims Re-Victimized by Mishap With Long-Awaited Settlement Checks, and More

"Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back"

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: This Is What Happens When Congress Is for Sale

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Little-Known "Monsanto Protection Act" Shields the Company From Being Sued by Consumers Who Claim They've Been Harmed by Monsanto's Products, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: America's Newest Penis Enhancer - the AR-15 Assault Weapon

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: Conservatives Benefit From Instant Runoff Voting, Too

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The GOP Is Already Hatching Its Next Plot to Take Our Nation Hostage, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: How the Media Fueled the War in Iraq

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: Ted Cruz Was Too Busy Playing With His "Gun" in Sixth Grade to Pay Attention

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Detroit Will Now Be Ruled By an Unelected Dictator, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann | Conservatives: The New Taliban

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Democrats Will Introduce a Plan to Replace the Sequester, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: If Women Were in Charge

On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Won't Give Up Their Efforts to Voucher-ize Medicare, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: How to Know When to Tax and When to Spend

On the News With Thom Hartmann: 131 Republicans and 60 Corporations Submitted Friend-of-the-Court Briefs in Favor of Gay Marriage to the Supreme Court This Week, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann | Warren vs. Bernanke: Too Big to Fail?

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: The Draft: A War-Killer

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Biggest Opponents of Immigration Reform Are Those Receiving Prison Industry Cash, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Wisconsin's Private Sector Unions Are Under Attack, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: You've Heard of the Birthers, Now Meet the Simpson-Bowlers

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The White House Is Circulating a Draft Immigration Bill, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: Banksters Rip Apart Spanish Health Care

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Facebook Will Pay No Taxes, but Will Be Getting a Tax Refund of $429 Million, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: Meet the 102-Year-Old Face of Voter Suppression

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Senate Finally Reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: Marco Rubio and the Republican Ibogaine Problem

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Fight for Election Reform Got Some Huge Support, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann: A New Manhattan Project

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Largest Nurses' Union in the US Has Joined the Fight Against Keystone XL, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: The Question No One Is Asking About Keystone XL

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Senate Tackled the Issue of Gun Control Today, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: The March for Death

On the News With Thom Hartmann: CIA Whistleblower Gets 30 Months in Jail for Releasing Classified Information on Waterboarding, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: We Must Stop the Tyrannical Minority

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Are "We the People" the Terrorists Now?

On the News With Thom Hartmann: We Could Be Just Hours Away From Filibuster Reform in the Senate, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Exposed! How the Billionaires Class Is Destroying Democracy

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Corporate America Is Doing Very, Very Well Under President Obama, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: No, Actually, This Is What a Fascist Looks Like

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Two GOP Congressmen Want to Impeach Obama Over Gun Reforms, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: How to Stop the Next Pandemic: End Factory Farming

On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 8,000 New York City School Bus Drivers Go on Strike, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: The GOP’s Boldest Election-Rigging Move Yet

Thom Hartmann for Truthout: The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery

On the News With Thom Hartmann: First New Gun Law Since Sandy Hook Massacre Set to Pass Today, and More

 On the News With Thom Hartmann: White House Supports Immigration Reform With Pathway to Citizenship, and More

 The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Aaron Swartz, a Spark in Life and Death

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Another School Shooting in America, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Corporations Spread the Flu

On the News With Thom Hartmann: More States Are Considering Ditching the Death Penalty, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Corporate America: A Whale in a Fish Tank

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Dangers Ahead If Debt Limit Isn't Raised, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: GOP Undeterred by 2011 Credit Downgrade After Last Debt Limit Showdown, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Want to Buy Lifetime Disaster Insurance?

On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Voted to Use Taxpayer Dollars to Pay Private Lawyers to Defend DOMA in Court, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: The Battle for 2014 Begins on Day 1 in the Senate

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Civil Liberties Were Once Again Defeated in the Senate on Thursday, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Republicans Are the Ruling Party of Billionaire-istan

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Stakes of So-Called "Fiscal Cliff" Just Got Higher, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Netflix Blacks Out the Revolution

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans in Three States Have Introduced New Voter Suppression ID Laws, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Report Shows More Damage From the Massive LIBOR Manipulation Scandal

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The New Defense Act Will Not Include an Amendment to Protect Americans From Indefinite Detention, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Republicans Debating Republicans: Social Welfare Cuts

Thom Hartmann on the News: The Corporatists Are Buying Our Infrastructure, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: NRA Has More Blood on Its Hands Than al-Qaeda: What Do We Do?

Thom Hartmann on the News: Michigan May Have Passed an Even More Undemocratic Law Than Right-to-Work

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Sandy Hook and President Obama’s Shared Legacy

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Michigan Passes Another Anti-Democratic "Emergency Financial Managers Law", and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Conservatives and Corporatists Hope to Spread Right-to-Work-for-Less Laws, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: A Former Republican Insider Begs for Sanity

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Michigan Can Restore Unionization Rights by Gathering Enough Signatures for a Ballot Initiative, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Don't Follow Republicans Into the Wilderness

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Hostess to Lay Off 18,000 Unionized Workers in Its Liquidation, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Labor Unions on the Brink

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Google Hid Money Offshore to Dodge $2 Billion in Taxes, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: The Ghettoization of Public Education

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Introduces Right-to-Work Law, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Death and Number-Crunching in Corporate America

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Revolving Door Claims Another Willing Public Official Turned Lobbyist, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: One Party Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Budget Proposal a Kick in the Guts to Working Americans

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: The Battle for Democracy Is Year-Round

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Study Shows Carbon Emissions Up 3 Percent From Last Year, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Reagan's "Welfare Queen" FOUND!

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Thanks to Citizens United, Foreign Entities Are Meddling in Our Elections, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Obama Breaks the Golden Rule on Drones

On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Movement in the US Senate Aims to Abolish Indefinite Detention, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: "Stand Your Ground" Gun Law Strikes Again in Florida, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The "Congressman with Guts" Attended Walmart Protests, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Florida Republicans Admit to Planned Voter Suppression, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 2 Million to Lose Extended Unemployment Benefits if the Nation Tumbles off the "Fiscal Cliff", and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: France Officially Ended Its Combat Operations in Afghanistan Tuesday, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pelosi Calls GOP Stance on Sequestration "Disaster Capitalism," and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?

On the News With Thom Hartmann: BP Pled Guilty to 14 Charges Related to 2010 Gulf Oil Spill, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Give BP the Death Penalty

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Something Fishy is Happening in Florida's 18th Congressional District, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: A Wall Between Corporation and State

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Is Proposing $1.6 Trillion in New Revenue From Letting the Bush Tax Cuts Expire, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Civics 101: Spending Vs. Investing

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Spanish Bank Association Freezes Eviction Orders in Cases of "Extreme Hardship" Following Suicides, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Attention Conservatives: Canada has a Home for You

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Occupy Forgives $14K of Debt Using $500, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Applebee's CEO and Millionare Zane Tankel vs. Working Americans

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Report Finds That Allowing the Bush Tax Cut for the Rich to Expire Will Have the Least Negative Effect on the Economy, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: America the Third-World Nation in Just 4 Easy Steps

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Must Compromise on Taxes, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Monopoly Endgame for the Global Economy

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Re-Elected by a Landslide, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Harry Reid: Fix the Filibuster Now!

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Every Major Poll in the Nation Shows Obama in the Lead, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: GOP Efforts to Restrict the Vote, Outside Groups Spend $1 Billion, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Romney Campaign Is Caught Lying to Potential Poll Watchers, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: The Corporate Masters of the Universe

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Courts Help Disenfranchise Voters in Ohio

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Election 2012: They Will Steal It!

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Romney Campaign Is Trying to Deceive Voters in Swing-State Wisconsin

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Obama's FCC Set to Give Rupert Murdoch a Media Monopoly

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Goldman Sachs' Global Coup D'etat

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Fukushima Is Having Trouble Disposing of Hundreds of Thousands of Tons of Contaminated Nuclear Waste Water, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Walmart's Hunger Games

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The European Union to Approve a Financial Transaction Tax on Banksters in 10 Countries, and More

The Daily Take With Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Agenda 21: The Latest Sleight of Hand Trick by Corporate Elite

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama and Romney will Square Off Tonight in the Third and Final Debate, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Jersey Becomes the 9th State to Call for an End to Citizens United, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Fight It Out in CNN-Hosted Debate, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Workers Pick Up the Bill if Corporations Don't Pay Their Fair Share, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Painted Romney as Out of Touch in Last Night's Debate, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Portugal's Largest Union Calls for National Strike in Face of New Harsh Austerity Measures There, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Rigging of Libor Upped Homeowners' Mortgage Repayments, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Private Health Insurers Are Preying on Medicare, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Mexico's Attorney General Is Launching an Investigation Into Voter Suppression Efforts in His State, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 250 Walmart Workers and Sympathizers From Southern California Walked Out on the Job Thursday, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Unionized Public Water Service Workers Are Striking Against Privatization in Detroit, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: US's Most Dangerous City Lays Off Its Last Unionized Police Officers, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: France's Socialist Government Unveiled a New Tax Package That Targets the Rich, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Julian Assange Addressed the UN on Wednesday, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama's Lead Over Romney Is Growing in Key Battleground States, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Germany Moves to Outlaw High-Speed Trading Robots, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Anti-Trust Suit Challenges Exclusion of Third Parties From Presidential Debates, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Republican Party Is a Joke to the Rest of the World, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Mitt Romney Derides His Own Electorate, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Mitt Romney Would Only Represent Half the Nation, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Protests in the Middle East Are About a Twisted Foreign Policy

On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Federal Judge Struck Down the Indefinite Detention Provision Within the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: At This Year's DNC, President Obama Offered Choice, Not Change

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The World's Richest Woman Suggests Australia Pay Workers a $2 a Day Wage, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Are Republicans Trying to Redefine Labor Day?

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Romney Overshadowed by an Empty Chair During End of RNC, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Higher Education Was an All but Absent Topic the First Day of the RNC, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: GOP Is Desperately Trying to Downplay Fears of a Civil War Brewing Within Their Party, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Court Upholds Governor Perry's Decision to Deny Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Ron Paul Announces His Policy Positions Will Be Rolled Up Into the Official Party Platform, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Colorado, Washington and Oregon Are Giving Voters a Chance to Legalize Marijuana, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Paul Ryan Pick Has Republican Operatives Enraged, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New York City Is Poised to Become the Surveillance Capital of America, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Legislation Would Place a Tax on Carbon Emissions, and More

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Files Civil Suit Against JP Morgan Chase, and More

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Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks

Thom Hartmann is a New York Times bestselling Project Censored Award winning author and host of a nationally syndicated progressive radio talk show. Follow him on Twitter at @Thom_Hartmann.

Sam Sacks is a Progressive Commentator and former Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill. He is currently the Senior Producer of The Big Picture with Thom Hartmannairing weeknights at 7PM EST on RT and Free Speech TV. Follow him on Twitter at @SamSacks.


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