Thom Hartmann

If my hypothesis from yesterday — that Democrats best way to win elections and regain political power is to engage in class warfare against the GOP and the billionaires that fund it — the immediate question is, “How?”The last century has seen two presidents engage in class warfare in a big and direc...

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— I’ll be on C-SPAN this Sunday morning at 9:15 am ET (6:15 am PT) to discuss the election, the direction of the country and taking questions. It should be interesting; be sure to tune in!— Is changing the Democratic Party the way to remake our Democracy? Donald Trump only got about a million more v...

If my hypothesis from yesterday — that Democrats best way to win elections and regain political power is to engage in class warfare against the GOP and the billionaires that fund it — the immediate question is, “How?”The last century has seen two presidents engage in class warfare in a big and direc...

Oligarchy is a form of government where the richest people in a country have captured its political system (or even filled it with themselves) and use that control to direct much of the government's efforts to increasing their own wealth and power.

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Alexander Hamilton thought he (and the others who wrote the Constitution) had it all figured out.He and his colleagues never imagined that a group of billionaires would spend 43 years and billions of dollars to seize the US Supreme Court, which would then legalize political bribery.They never concei...

Private equity, billionaire agendas, and GOP-funded attacks are driving a stake through the heart of American media diversity…

Comcast spinning off MSNBC bodes ill. Will rich liberals please wake up to the media crisis in this country?