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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Can Freedom Exist Without “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Can Freedom Exist Without “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”?

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disease. Can freedom exist without life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

2:04.9

Tennessee Republican State Representative Moni Fritz, who's eyeing running for governor,

2:09.6

has proposed legislation that would put women in that state who have had abortions in the electric chair.

2:15.0

Republican policy is already killing pregnant women. Those who live in a red

2:19.2

state with an abortion ban, almost all of them, are more than twice as likely to die during

2:24.2

pregnancy or immediately after childbirth than women who live in states that allow abortion.

2:30.0

The founding principle of America is freedom, a word that's been a touchstone for the GOP since the days of Reagan.

2:36.9

Jefferson identified what his generation meant when using that word, when he wrote in the Declaration of Independence,

2:43.6

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are undoubted by their creator with certain unalienable rights,

2:50.0

that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are

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