Who Killed the America Dream? wit...
Who Killed the America Dream? with Thom Hartmann
"Be Bold America!" by Jill Cody, MPA
S7 · E14
Sep 21, 2026
58:15
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Who Killed the American Dream?

“Be Bold America!”

Aired September 18, 2026 at 5:00pm (PT)

In 1886, a corrupt court reporter inserted a single fraudulent sentence into the official record of a Supreme Court case. The Court never ruled that corporations were “persons” under the 14th amendment, the amendment written in the blood of 600,000 Civil War dead to protect formally enslaved people. But that fabricated headnote, planted by railroad oligarchs and a sympathetic justice, became the legal foundation for more than a century of corporate power  ... 

Keywords
Citizen Activism
Defend Democracy
Democracy
Vote
Jill Cody
Thom Hartmann
American Dream
Political Crimes
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