Daily Take: The Sound of Freedom Shattering at 3 AM
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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At 3:07 in the morning the pounding started...
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| 2:04.8 | At 307 in the morning, the pounding started, on a knock or a doorbell, it was the kind of impact |
| 2:10.0 | meant to wake the neighbors and erase any doubt that resistance would be pointless. |
| 2:14.5 | Within seconds, armed men were inside the house shouting orders, refusing questions. |
| 2:19.3 | No explanation, no warrant presented, no charges read, just urgency, intimidation, and removal. |
| 2:28.0 | The people taken that night would eventually learn something chilling. Under the legal theory |
| 2:32.4 | being used, what happened to them wasn't considered |
| 2:34.7 | a violation of their rights at all. This idea is not new to America. In fact, it's exactly the |
| 2:41.8 | governing method that pushed the colonies into revolution. The men who wrote the Declaration of |
| 2:48.2 | Independence weren't reacting to isolated abuses. They were reacting to a system, one designed to make resistance legally impossible while violence remained technically lawful. |
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