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The Hartmann Report

The Direct Democracy of Civil Assemblies

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Healthy Democracy's Linn David joins guest host Jefferson Smith to discuss a more collaborative way for we the people to own public policy.

Plus- Trump's amoral actions in contrast to the disturbing weaponization of Christianity.

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This is the Tom Hartman program.

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May you live in interesting times.

1:26.6

And as we fight at this moment for the question of whether, to the extent we have had a democracy, the shreds of it will continue.

1:32.8

What should that democracy look like? How do we get there? And what's happening out there that

1:37.8

might be worth fighting for, in addition to what's worth fighting against. On the air, we have

1:44.0

Lynn Davis.

1:44.7

He's the program director of Healthy Democracy.

1:47.0

He'll explain more about what that is.

1:50.0

A way I will put it is, what might we do at the local level, including, to fight for democracy itself.

1:59.8

Lynn, thank you for joining us. And why do you introduce thank

2:02.6

you democracy in your own words? We do something called a civic assembly. And this is sort of a

2:08.7

different kind of democracy that takes everyday people, selected at random from the public,

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