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  THOM HARTMANN'S LENGTHY LIST NEEDS TO STAND BY ITSELF FOR  SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF THE MORAL DEPRAVITY OF THE  REPUBLICAN  PARTY...REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT...INCLUDING THE  MASS GOP! Trump’s GOP Is Ripping This Nation Apart. The Question Is: Why? The morality of today’s Republican Party has been laid bare. But it boggles the mind the depth of this destruction and cruelty. Thom Hartmann Jul 14, 2026 Common Dreams President Donald Trump is destroying the nation like a crazed maniac. Does anyone really understand what motivates him or the party he controls. (Cartoon: AI generated via The Hartmann Report) Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill — which gave the top 1% fully $118 billion this year in tax cuts — turns a year old this week and Republicans in Congress actually celebrated the largest cuts to food assistance and Medicaid in American history. They told us it was about fraud, about lazy people gaming the system, about restoring the dignity of work. Exactly a ye...

    Watch now   Senators Chris Murphy and Tim Kaine on Trump's Corrupt Scheme Ben Meiselas  and  MeidasTouch Network Apr 5   This week on the MeidasTouch Podcast , I had the privilege of sitting down with two of the most fired-up and fearless fighters in the U.S. Senate: Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia . It was their first time on the show together, and these two came ready to fight. We got right into it. While Trump and his billionaire cronies like Elon Musk are busy tanking the global economy and calling it “Liberation Day,” Senators Murphy and Kaine are calling it what it actually is: a full-blown recession in the making, designed not to help workers, but to punish Trump’s enemies and funnel wealth to his friends. Murphy didn’t mince words. He laid out how Trump’s tariffs aren’t just bad policy—they’re   intentional political weapons . If you’re a company that wants relief from Trump’s economic chaos? You’d be...

  By  Kelly Garrity TOLL POLL —  Staring down the threat of slashed federal transportation grants and dwindling gas tax revenue, transit advocates are calling for lasting solutions to the state’s transportation funding struggles — solutions they say Bay Staters back. A majority of people surveyed in a new poll  conducted by the MassInc Polling Group for Transportation for Massachusetts said they want to see the state develop its own long-term funding plan, and pluralities said they’d be open to exploring new revenue sources, including tolls and congestion pricing. "The reality is we can’t take for granted that the federal dollars we’ve relied on  will always be there  . Massachusetts must strengthen its commitment to long-term transportation funding," Transportation for Massachusetts Executive Director Reggie Ramos said. "We need a proactive plan to ensure safe, reliable, and sustainable transportation — one that embraces fair and effective funding solutio...