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Saturday Report 2/14/26 — One of Trump’s top allies and private-White-House-dinner guests is now calling for all American women to be imprisoned in the ICE Concentration Camps...

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Saturday Report 2/14/26 — One of Trump’s top allies and private-White-House-dinner guests is now calling for all American women to be imprisoned in the ICE Concentration Camps...
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February 14, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Can we reject the politics of concentration camps, election denial, and oligarchy by showing up in numbers too large to ignore?

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A Vote for Republicans Is a Vote Against Democracy
Can we reject the politics of concentration camps, election denial, and oligarchy by showing up in numbers too large to ignore?
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February 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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From France to Germany to Canada, governments are recalibrating their security, technology, and defense policies around one unspoken reality: America can’t be counted on…

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What Happens When the World Decides It Can’t Trust America Anymore?
From France to Germany to Canada, governments are recalibrating their security, technology, and defense policies around one unspoken reality: America can’t be counted on…
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February 12, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Why does a lie that has never been proven, never worked, and never been real still hold the power to undermine an entire democracy?

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Is “Voter Fraud” the Most Dangerous Political Lie in American History?
Why does a lie that has never been proven, never worked, and never been real still hold the power to undermine an entire democracy?
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February 11, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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If this feels uncomfortable to read, that’s good. It should. From Colombia’s death squads to America’s detention camps, this is how societies relearn the cost of calling some lives disposable…

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Have Human Hunt Clubs Come to America, This Time Wearing Badges and Body Armor?
If this feels uncomfortable to read, that’s good. It should. From Colombia’s death squads to America’s detention camps, this is how societies relearn the cost of calling some lives disposable…
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February 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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The NFL proves that rules, referees, and “redistribution” are the only way any game, including the American economy, actually works…

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The NFL Is “Socialist” on Purpose, and It Exposes Republican Economic Stupidity
The NFL proves that rules, referees, and “redistribution” are the only way any game, including the American economy, actually works…
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February 9, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Saturday Report 2/7/26 — Surprise Surprise?! TrumpRX is a fake. Read the fine print...

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Saturday Report 2/7/26 — Surprise Surprise?! TrumpRX is a fake. Read the fine print...
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February 7, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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This wasn’t a joke or a mistake but a warning about how racism, silence, and abuse of power are eating away at democracy…

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Trump’s Racist Attack on the Obamas Shows the Moral Collapse of His Presidency
This wasn’t a joke or a mistake but a warning about how racism, silence, and abuse of power are eating away at democracy…
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February 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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A historical warning about how presidents escape, aides go to prison, and “just following orders” has never saved anyone...

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Dear Trump Administration Official: History Is Full of Loyal Men Who Thought They’d Be Protected
A historical warning about how presidents escape, aides go to prison, and “just following orders” has never saved anyone...
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February 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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ICE’s nationwide detention system continues to expand under plans that would double its size while shielding it from meaningful accountability…

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Over 70,000 People Detained in 225 Concentration Camps, With Plans to Double Them: Why Isn’t This a National Emergency?
ICE’s nationwide detention system continues to expand under plans that would double its size while shielding it from meaningful accountability…
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February 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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A warning from history about oligarchy, terror policing, and the death of democracy…

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Is Trump Rebuilding the Confederacy, Starting With the Slave Patrols?
A warning from history about oligarchy, terror policing, and the death of democracy…
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February 3, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…

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The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover
Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…
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February 2, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink"

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Chapter 11: The Climate Collapse Presidency
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink"
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February 1, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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How war language is being used to collapse the distance between immigration enforcement, political retaliation, and the criminalization of dissent…

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When Democracy Learns to Speak the Language of War, Children Become Collateral Damage
How war language is being used to collapse the distance between immigration enforcement, political retaliation, and the criminalization of dissent…
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January 30, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Under Trump, tax giveaways to the wealthy and soaring debt replaced economic stability and sacrificing the nation’s future for short-term political gain…

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When Future Historians Write About the Fall of American Economic Power, Will Trump Be the Turning Point?
Under Trump, tax giveaways to the wealthy and soaring debt replaced economic stability and sacrificing the nation’s future for short-term political gain…
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January 29, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Trump’s recalibration follows the same step-back, step-forward playbook used by Orbán, Putin, and every modern strongman…

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The Most Dangerous Moment Is When Authoritarians Seem to Compromise
Trump’s recalibration follows the same step-back, step-forward playbook used by Orbán, Putin, and every modern strongman…
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January 28, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Will we stand with the generations who expanded freedom through resistance and sacrifice or surrender self-government to fear, force, and authoritarian power?

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Once Again, Under the Shadow of Authoritarian Power, Americans Must Decide What Kind of Nation We Will Become
Will we stand with the generations who expanded freedom through resistance and sacrifice or surrender self-government to fear, force, and authoritarian power?
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January 27, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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What the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti reveal about who really controls this country and how...

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Is the Most Powerful Message in America Now "Obey or Die"?
What the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti reveal about who really controls this country and how...
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January 26, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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M. Scott Peck warned decades ago that social systems built on lies eventually lose the capacity to distinguish reality from fantasy, loyalty from morality, or raw power from truth...

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Donald Trump and Republicans: People of the Lie
M. Scott Peck warned decades ago that social systems built on lies eventually lose the capacity to distinguish reality from fantasy, loyalty from morality, or raw power from truth...
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January 23, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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How a fake “Board of Peace,” billion-dollar tribute payments, and hereditary succession could replace the United Nations with a Trump dynasty…

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Is Donald Trump Trying to Crown Himself “King of the World”?
How a fake “Board of Peace,” billion-dollar tribute payments, and hereditary succession could replace the United Nations with a Trump dynasty…
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January 22, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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When future historians ask what Putin wanted from Trump, the answer may be painfully simple: “Everything America once stood for.”

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Will No One Hold Trump Accountable for Handing Putin Everything He Wanted?
When future historians ask what Putin wanted from Trump, the answer may be painfully simple: “Everything America once stood for.”
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January 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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How the Language of Morality Became a Cover for Fear and Power…

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Is “Conservative Values” the Lie That Made Trump Possible?
How the Language of Morality Became a Cover for Fear and Power
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January 20, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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This isn’t alarmism: it’s the historical pattern, repeated across dozens of countries and thousands of years. I’ve seen it, repeatedly, with my own eyes…

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Is Having a “Fearful View of Freedom” the Key to The Trump Revolution?
This isn’t alarmism: it’s the historical pattern, repeated across dozens of countries and thousands of years. I’ve seen it, repeatedly, with my own eyes…
hartmannreport.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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