President Obama gave one of the strongest speeches of his presidency - slamming Paul Ryan and taking on the Republican Party. How the speech is a sign that progressive activism on the ground is starting to trickle up to our elected representatives.

On Sunday night - a homemade explosive device was detonated outside a window of a Planned Parenthood office in Wisconsin - but you haven't heard a peep about it from mainstream media. The Fear Machine is tearing apart American society. How can we turn it off and return America to the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Hilary Shelton, Washington Bureau Director and Senior Vice President for Advocacy & Policy-NAACP joins Thom Hartmann. With the nation still trying to figure out what happened in Sanford, Florida that led to the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin back in February - and why George Zimmerman is still walking around as a free man - a new - and just as disturbing case is coming to light out of New York. It was there - that a 68-year-old African American man was gunned down in his own home by police officers who were responding to a false alarm. Ken Chamberlain, Sr. - a former Marine who suffered from a heart condition - had a medical alert system pendant - that when pressed would call for emergency medical help.

Lynn Parramore, Contributing Editor-Alternet joins Thom Hartmann. Corporations in America used to care about the best interests of their communities and country - but their role in society has changed. How have corporations become a predatory monster - preying on Americans and their wallets?