Podcast appearances and mentions of Thom Hartmann

Bill talks with legal scholar and former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade about her book, "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government," arguing that core democratic principles—rule of law and equality before the law—are eroding under Donald Trump. McQuade describes Trump's tactics as extortionate and mob-like, pressuring institutions such as law firms, media, universities, and allies, and warns that Congress has failed to check executive overreach while the Supreme Court's shadow docket and unitary-executive approach can enable it. She says DOJ independence has been damaged by political payback efforts and cites examples of alleged lawbreaking and self-dealing, including tariffs, Iran action, emoluments-style profiteering, and a proposed tax-related settlement. McQuade outlines “fixes” including restoring DOJ norms, extending ethics rules, and structural reforms like ranked-choice voting, independent redistricting, and overturning Citizens United, emphasizing elections and accountability, including reviving the election-interference case after Trump leaves office. You can get McQuade's great new book at Bookshop.org. Today Bill directs listeners to ACTBlue.com, your one stop shop for donating to the causes and candidates you support. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is Trump's Iran War and apparent peace deal a win or another Trump headline in search of substance?  President Trump is touting a new Iran deal as a major breakthrough, but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are asking what's actually in this agreement. The reported deal comes with big promises about stability, security, and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, but details are scarce and even some Republicans say they'll need answers before declaring victory.We will run it past Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David Cay Johnston. Mark talks politics with progressive host and author Thom Hartmann.The Mark Thompson Show 6/16/26Patreon subscribers are the backbone of the show! If you'd like to help, here's our Patreon Link:https://www.patreon.com/themarkthompsonshowMaybe you're more into PayPal.  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PVBS3R7KJXV24And you'll find everything on our website: https://www.themarkthompsonshow.comThe Mark Thompson Show has an official new Facebook page.  Please join! Here's the link: https://m.facebook.com/TheMarkThompsonShow/Show sponsors:coachellavalleycoffee.com  - use code MarkT at check out to save 10%Suite 106 Bakery use code MarkT to save 15%Here's a special link:https://suite106bakery.com/discount/MARKT

What can YOU do you stop voter suppression? Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald has a new series of shorts out at FightToVote.org we can all use to help get the message out.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The mainstream media got the story around Todd Blanche's corrupt moves to protect- and even enrich Trump using legal cases over his egregious tax fraud. Journalist Sabrina Haake joins Thom with the details. Will Blanche lose his ability to practice law over this?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Could we be nearing a turning point- or just staring into the abyss? Mark Pocan takes listeners' challenging questions from across the nation. And - Nipplegate? Trump's abuse of Epstein's underage girls emerges with a disturbing level of detail.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rule #1 in the Dictator's Playbook: Crush One to Warn a Thousand...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Impeachments he wants erasedElections he wants federalizedMail ballots he wants deadA War Room huddle over NipplesAnd cryptic numbers carved into the National MallSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Iran War Over? Its Political Impact.“I Love the Inflation.” Pain at the Pump.UFC at the White House. GOP and Masculinity.Platner vs. Collins in Maine. Sleeping Trump. With Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief at CQ-Roll Call, Amanda Becker, National Reporter for 19th News and Philip Bump, senior editor and columnist at Hearst Connecticut. Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The Laborers" International Union of North America. More information at LIUNA.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Freedom 250 griftA gerrymander the people bannedA sweating cabinetA database tracking every voterA gag order on whistleblowersAnd Jim Jordan is defending the indefensibleSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

History Will Call Them Monsters: The Politicians Who Cage Children and Called It Patriotism...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump grabs for Iran's oilWill Trump censor the entire internet?Musk becomes the world's first trillionaireSolar topples coalPlus, Taylor Swift lifts Trump's Knicks curseSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

War Correspondent Phil Ittner is live from Kiev- can Putin afford to lose his war, or will he behave like a cornered rat?Plus- Trump has started an enemies list, and broadcaster David Pakman is on it. He joins Thom with this latest dystopian authoritarian development.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How is the European Union a model for blue states to exert their power to resist the authoritarian takeover? The Existentialist Republic's Christopher Armitage joins Thom for a deep dive.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How Dark Money Captured America — And How Hawaii Just Declared War on It...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is Trump's brain shutting down?His family wins big on crypto while followers lose bigA secret Trump Junior paydayVance hunts a governorAnd fake AISee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Federal officials said they are removing killers and rapists from the streets. Data obtained by The New York Times indicates most detainees at a Newark facility haven't been convicted of crimes. Has the Grift Ever Been This Shameless? Also Did Trump Send American Paratroopers to Go Into Iran in Secret? Plus Are ICE's “Worst Of The Worst” Really Criminals?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Senate Democrats hunt Trump's secret Iran war memoICE threatens New YorkThe EPA rigs chemical scienceMedicare for All organizesCuba goes darkAtlantic warningSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

While America Burns, Trump Builds Himself a Colosseum...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guest host Joe Cirincione interviews nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein about his book The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age, revisiting the run-up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the postwar fight between nuclear hawks and doves over who should control nuclear weapons. Wellerstein argues there was no single “decision” to use the bomb—plans were already underway under military control, Truman was largely excluded and poorly briefed, and he may not have known a second bomb was coming. After Nagasaki, Truman asserted presidential control to halt further use, motivated by horror at civilian casualties. They discuss debates over whether the bombings ended the war and Truman's moral framing of nuclear weapons. The events of the past have clear echoes in today's nuclear policy debates, and the dispute over Iran's nuclear program and who is telling the truth about Iran's nuclear ambitions.You can check out his Nuke Map at nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The right wing uses racial and cultural resentments to brainwash their supporters and to keep the spotlight away from grabbing hold of more and more of our shared economy and government. And don't ask questions about the truth!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A president can't take a questiona war secretary insults the fallenICE lies about who it cagesPelley sounds the alarmMAGA eyes violenceSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Senate Democrats hunt Trump's secret Iran war memoICE threatens New YorkThe EPA rigs chemical scienceMedicare for All organizesCuba goes darkAtlantic warningSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Are Today's “Evil, Heartless Bastards” Rebuilding the Confederacy?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sitting-In for Thom Hartmann is guest=host Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, and convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition. Reporting live from the Netroots Nation 2026 National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Guests include David Dayen, the executive editor of The American Prospect. Also Professor and author Christopher M. Rabb, plus Evan Sutton, founder of FireKit Campaigns.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sitting-In for Thom Hartmann is guest=host Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, and convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition. Reporting live from the Netroots Nation 2026 National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Guests include Lisa Graves of True North Research and president of the board of the Center for Media and Democracy. Also Democratic Candidate for the Iowa Agriculture Secretary, Chris Jones. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Former youth pastor and author, John Pavlovitz proclaims,"I've been trying to place the heaviness within me these days; the nagging sickness that resides in the pit of my stomach every morning, regardless of what I do to try and push it away." Plus the Supreme Court greenlights a map it already called racist and Trump's masked goons are a criminal's dream. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump's Masked Goons are a Criminal's Dream...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

GOP Begins to Try to Oppose Trump: Ballroom. Weaponization Fund. War Powers. Pulte.Resonating With Voters? California Governors' Race.Could Iowa Turn Blue? Maine Platner Troubles.Democrats Narrow Path to Senate Majority.The Politics of AI and Data Centers in the Midterms.60 Minutes Under Attack. With Shirish Date, Senior White House Correspondent for Huff Post, Allan Smith, Politics Reporter for NBC News and Jessica Taylor, Senators and Governors Editor for The Cook Political Report.Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The United Food and Commercial Workers Union. More information at UFCW.org.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Iran's war drags down the world economyTrump strips 8,000 workers' protectionsMusk nears a trillionGreenland and Canada eyed. AgainTrump starves the agency that defends workersTexas faces flesh-eating maggotsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump's corruption gets a price tagPatriot Front balloons across 49 statesHouse Republicans break ranks on IranGaza's board shuts out PalestiniansPlus Trump's bizarre skyscraper chartSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Oil reserves are shrinking, supply routes remain disrupted, and gas prices keep climbing as Trump's Iran blockade drags on into summer. No better time to switch to EVs. According to the Guardian, Aipac affiliate has funded lavish trips to Israel for dozens of Congress members since 7 October. So who's paying for that again?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We Are All Scott Pelley...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Gas prices climb as Trump's Iran blockade drags onSanders-backed progressives surgeA Vermont town fights ICEEpstein ties reach a top Trump appointeeSeniors brace for cutsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What Would America Look Like Without Citizens United?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump has named a housing official to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the country's top spy chief who oversees 18 government intelligence agencies. Also where has Donald disappeared to, not seen in person in some time?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Voters rage at corruptionThe Pentagon hires a Capitol rioterThe Court blesses a racist Alabama mapCBS guts PelleyGas prices surgeBig Food copies Big TobaccoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A secret White House office copies vote.govMillions face losing Medicaid over red tapeWho funds Congress's Israel tripsPlus mosquitoes and a mayor who repealed bedtimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

60 Minutes was one of the most-watched shows in America- now it's falling apart. This is what happens when billionaires and their unqualified nepo-babies take over American institutions. So who is really going to end up '86-ed'?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Why America is Falling Apart...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Maine's flooded with dark money to crush PlatnerTrump rips out ocean climate sensorsA mortgage crusader gets the spy keysTrump wants a loyalty test on your tax dollarsWill Newark shut down their ICE jail?And Ebola races across CongoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Guest host Joe Cirincione interviews David Rothkopf. Rothkopf is the host of the Deep State Radio podcast. He is also Chief Global Affairs Columnist at the Daily Beast and was formerly the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine. He has taught at Columbia, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins universities. He was the Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration and is the author of ten books including, most recently, Traitor: A History of Betraying America from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump. His newsletter "Need to Know" is available at davidrothkopf.substack.com. Cirincione talks with Rothkopf about what he calls the unfolding catastrophe of Trump's war on Iran, arguing the U.S. has repeatedly failed in Southwest Asia and that this conflict has achieved neither tactical nor strategic objectives, while causing greater-than-reported damage to U.S. bases and eroding trust in military and government accounts. Rothkopf says the war has weakened U.S. alliances, empowered Iran, Russia, and China, and further damaged America's global standing, while also tying U.S. policy to an increasingly destabilizing Israeli government. The conversation then shifts to domestic consequences, with Rothkopf alleging Trump has monetized the presidency through pervasive corruption, including favors, pardons, and an IRS-related settlement he calls theft from the Treasury. Rothkopf remains hopeful but warns against complacency, argues accountability and progress are linked, and urges resistance ahead of 2026 elections.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Krugman wants a de-MAGAfication of AmericaThe boat strikes top two hundred deadBillionaires buy CaliforniaHegseth purges the NavyAnd the rich plot their escapeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A celebration intended to honor the founding of the United States is rapidly being repackaged as a celebration of Trump himself: his movement, his grievances, his white supremacy, his misogyny, and his power. The Roman emperors understood the deal they were making with the public: bread and circuses. Trump has inverted the formula. He's keeping the circus and taking away the bread.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump Has Rewritten America's 250th Birthday Around One Person: Himself...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bernie wants the public to own half of Big AIRepublicans embrace NaziismTrump guts FEMA before storm seasonThen hides his recordsRogan eyes Sixty MinutesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The longtime Democratic congressman from Washington State takes listener calls on the critical issues facing us today.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The wannabe dictator's justice department is ramping up the illegal punishment of their enemies using the law and by grabbing private records. Meanwhile- Israel just threw out the agreement they signed along with Trump in order to eject Palestinians and seize more Palestinian land. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

America Just Expanded Voting Rights To Corporations. Yes, Really.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump's DOJ hunts E. Jean Carroll helpersICE critics unmaskedDon Jr. cashes in for $620 millionNetanyahu shreds the ceasefireThiel runsGilded horses for the kingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Thom interviews guest Jeremy Lent on his new book, Ecocivilization, which theorizes on a new system potentially approaching that could change the way of life across the world. Instead of favoring left or right, capitalism or socialism, the system would change to one that works for the people and for the Earth, without having to do away with technology.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.