Daily Take: A Vote for Republicans Is a Vote Against Democracy
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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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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| 1:00.3 | A vote for Republicans is a vote against democracy. |
| 1:05.5 | Forget about left or right. |
| 1:07.4 | There's only one thing on the ballot this fall. |
| 1:09.6 | Democracy, the Democrats, or |
| 1:12.3 | oligarchy that leads to tyranny Republicans. |
| 1:16.5 | Trump, the GOP, the 13 billionaires in his cabinet, and the roughly 150 billionaires who |
| 1:22.6 | made him president again, are all on the side of oligarchy. |
| 1:29.1 | And we're already most of the way there, |
| 1:34.6 | thanks to the five corrupt Republicans on the take Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 1:38.2 | As President Jimmy Carter told me 11 years ago, quote, |
| 1:44.0 | Citizens United violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just |
| 1:45.0 | an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for |
| 1:49.9 | president or to elect the president. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system |
| 1:55.7 | as a payoff to major contributors who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the |
| 2:01.5 | election's over, end quote. Democracy is when the will of the people is regularly converted into |
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