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The Hartmann Report
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The Hartmann Report is a personal blog at hartmannreport.com about politics and economics. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link it for claims that vote suppression, not voter preference, decided the 2024 US election, citing Election Assistance Commission figures and conservative estimates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Daily Newsletter of Renaissance Thinking about Progressive Politics, Economics, Science, and the Political News Issues of Our Day.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-05
What Hacker News says?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won... Numbers are published by U.S. Elections Assistance Commission. Read it if you want. They'll dismantle the federal state alright. But not for the reasons you think or want. https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
Comment linking /p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
on “The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE”Submitted Authoritarian Coups Are Gradual Then Sudden as a story · 66 points
HN discussionTechnically you are correct. But actually the real winners were the extreme vote suppression tactics. Without them trump would have lost clearly: read the extremely conservative estimates targeted mostly non-trump voters: https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won...
Comment linking /p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
on “US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s”Submitted Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead as a story · 33 points
HN discussionA popular vote win by a meager ~1.5% is nothing to cheer about [1]. In 2020, Biden won popular vote by 4.5% [2] Even Hilary got a higher percentage of the popular vote in 2016, by earning 2.1% more over Trump [3] After you consider Republicans have been pushing for voter suppression and purging voter rolls in states for _decades_ [4]. We are just now seeing the effect. I suppose you can say it worked in the 2000 ele…
Comment linking /p/democracy-undone-the-texas-placebo-f52
on “'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison”