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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is an hour-long independent American television, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman, Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh. The show, which airs live each weekday at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, is broadcast on the Internet and via more than 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.
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Black voters in Georgia on Tuesday said, “Not today, Satan,” according to professor Carol Anderson, professor of African American studies at Emory University. Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to disenfranchise Black voters in the South this election cycle and the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act, she says there was “massive turnout” that propelled Democrats to victory. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms defeated billionaire Republican healthcare executive Rick Jackson, becoming the first Black woman ever elected governor in the United States. Incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff also handily won his bid for reelection.
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Texas Democrats have shattered more than three decades of Republican dominance in the state, winning races for U.S. Senate, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and even railroad commissioner. They are also poised to possibly take control of the Texas House of Representatives for the first time since 2003. The Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, lost his bid for a fourth term to Democratic state Representative Gina Hinojosa, who defeated him by nearly 700,000 votes. She will be Texas’s first Latina governor. And James Talarico will be the first Democrat to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate since 1993. “We’re celebrating these wonderful candidates who won office, and we’re also starting to think about what it means to hold power,” says Mike Siegel, a city council member from Austin, Texas, who founded Ground Game Texas, a statewide voter turnout organization. “We need to start thinking very quickly about how we will protect public education, how we will stop data centers and the encroachment of AI on our society, how we will protect public schools, how we stop collaboration with ICE .”
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In a stunning repudiation of President Trump, Democrats regained control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections, flipping seven Senate seats: Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina. Meanwhile, progressive Democrat Dr. Abdul El-Sayed defeated former Republican Congressmember Mike Rogers for an open Senate seat in Michigan with over 52% of the vote. El-Sayed campaigned on a platform of Medicare for All, tackling economic inequality and getting big money out of politics — as well as ending military aid to Israel. He is the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. El-Sayed faced vitriolic, Islamaphobic attacks by top Republicans throughout the campaign. “Last night wasn’t just about Dr. Abdulrahman being a Muslim, winning and going to the United States Senate,” says Palestinian American organizer and author Linda Sarsour, who has been campaigning for El-Sayed. “It demonstrated that progressives can win in states like Michigan” and that “we can win on standing up for the human rights of the Palestinian people.”
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Voters Deliver Stunning Rebuke of Trump with Democrats Regaining Control of Congress, Historic Night in Texas as Democrats Win Senate Seat and Governorship, Progressive Michigan Democrat Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Elected First Muslim Senator, Democrat Annie Andrews Wins South Carolina Senate Seat in a Stunning Upset, Mississippi’s Senate Race Remains Too Close to Call, Democrat Troy Jackson Unseats Five-Term GOP Senator Susan Collins, New Hampshire Democrat Chris Pappas Becomes First Openly Gay Senator, Adam Hamilton Becomes First Kansas Democrat Elected to the Senate Since 1932, Democrat Amy Acton Defeats Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio Governor’s Race, Democrat Deb Haaland Becomes First Native American Female Governor in U.S. History, Midterm Elections Result in Several Historic Firsts, The Democratic Socialists of America Score Big Wins in Congress, Voters Approve Ballot Measures Expanding Reproductive Rights, Trump Announces U.S. to Stop Providing Israel $4 Billion in Annual Military Aid, DOJ Tells Alaska Democrats They May Be Targets of Federal Probe over Alleged “Spoiler” Candidate, Trump Administration Presses for Long-Term U.S. Military Occupation of Venezuela
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In 2024, Donald Trump won the presidency with the support of 44% of Hispanic voters, suggesting that a major realignment in party preferences might be underway. But just two years later, it appears much of that support has eroded. Sixty-one percent of Hispanic voters say they will now support Democrats in the midterms, including 11% who previously had voted for President Trump. We get a bird’s-eye view of what to expect from the Latino vote from Marisa Franco, the co-founder and director of the advocacy organization Mijente. While ICE brutality will be at the front of voters’ minds, she says, Democrats cannot continue to take Latino voters for granted. “The vast majority of Latinos are working-class. Quite simply, they voted for Trump because they were looking at issues of economy, cost, inflation,” explains Franco. “And at the end of the day, these same issues have worsened under Trump’s administration, under Republican control. So people, I think, are looking for someone who’s going to explain what’s happening and propose solutions and be dogged about finding them.”
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New York City is preparing to send two DSA members, presumptive election night winners Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, to Capitol Hill. DSA -backed candidates made historic gains in this year’s Democratic primaries, with at least five expected to join current DSA members Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the House. But can socialism really make headway in the halls of Congress? Democracy Now! fellows Amba Guerguerian and Diego Ramos report. “Our task is going to be winning our colleagues over to our position and finding common ground,” Valdez tells Democracy Now! “Some of the most popular policies in our country’s history have been socialist policies,” says Avila Chevalier. “They have been the things that working people have organized for and won.”
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As President Donald Trump continues to cast doubt on the integrity of U.S. elections, signaling his intentions to challenge results unfavorable to Republicans, we go to Washington, D.C., where a federal judge ruled Monday night that the Department of Justice can deploy election monitors to polling sites across the country, as long as they are not law enforcement officers with the power to make arrests. “In some respects, this is a victory for voters. Every voter in our country deserves to be able to cast a ballot today, free from intimidation,” says Kristen Clarke of the NAACP , which sued to challenge the DOJ’s plans to deploy ICE agents and other armed officers to the polls. The NAACP was also part of a coalition that intervened when the Trump administration attempted to force California to set aside about 20,000 mail-in ballots that it alleged were sent incorrectly to noncitizens. “This was a baseless, error-prone, shoddy 11th-hour attempt to hijack the election in California, plain and simple, and it’s now been rejected by four courts,” Clarke says. The administration’s attacks on voters “are not bearing fruit,” she adds. “We anticipate and are ready for anything that they may throw our way.”
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As voters in the United States head to the polls, we take a look at what’s on the ballot with Chris Melody Fields Figueredo of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “This is a consequential election, and voters are going to be able to vote on democracy itself, whether they can participate in elections, how congressional districts are drawn, whether they will have autonomy of their own bodies,” says Fields Figueredo, who previews some of the over 145 ballot initiatives being considered across the country, including California’s billionaire wealth tax and measures concerning reproductive, voting and LGBTQ+ rights.
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WSJ : U.S. Carries Out Strikes Around Strait of Hormuz on Eve of Midterm Elections, SCOTUS Rejects Trump Admin’s Attempt to Force California to Set Aside 20,000 Mail-In Ballots, Federal Judge Denies Attempt by NAACP to Block DOJ from Deploying Election Monitors, Michigan Democratic Senate Nominee Dr. El-Sayed Raises $2.4 Million in One Day, Aide to Georgia GOP Senate Candidate Mike Collins Posted Online Slurs and Calls to Violence, Elon Musk Spent Record-Shattering $474 Million on Midterm Elections, Former Head of Chicago FBI Sues DOJ , Alleging Politically Driven Prosecutions, New York Records First Measles Death in Over 3 Decades, Houthis Advance on Aden as Fighting Worsens Yemen’s Hunger Crisis, Displaced Palestinians Return to Hebron as Israel Ends 10-Day Siege, Russian Strike on Humanitarian Aid Center in Ukraine Leaves Dozens Injured or Dead, Bangladeshi Garment Workers’ Strike Demands End to Poverty Wages
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Vanity Fair recently published an excerpt from longtime investigative reporter Matthew Cole’s new book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East . The excerpt alleged that during President Trump’s first term, Saudi and Emirati leaders secretly put at least $2 billion into bank accounts and gave access to Kushner. At the time, Jared Kushner was serving as senior adviser to President Trump, his father-in-law. He is now Trump’s special envoy. Kushner’s lawyers responded by demanding that Vanity Fair retract the article and threatening legal action against the book publisher, Simon & Schuster. Jared Kushner denied the report, saying, “The allegations made by this author are completely insane, categorically false, and never happened. We denied every one of these claims on the record, yet the author failed to provide a single shred of evidence to substantiate any of them.” His lawyers say no such bank accounts existed and that the allegations are unsupported by the verifiable evidence. In an extended interview with Democracy Now! , author Matthew Cole stood by his reporting. “This book is a result of more than 50 sources. There was an enormous amount of fact-checking and legal vetting that went into this book,” says Cole. “There’s plenty of information and reporting in the book that lets us establish and understand that there was … an unholy alliance between Jared Kushner and the leader of the UAE , the leader of Saudi Arabia and, at the time, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel.” On Friday, Congressmember Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, called on Kushner to recuse himself from Middle East and Ukraine negotiations and to produce a “comprehensive list of bank accounts or other financial instruments” that he had access to during his time in government.
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Democratic Congressmember Stevens Endorses MAGA Republican Rogers in Michigan’s Senate Election, Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Halt Pressure Campaign Against Election Officials, Federal Judge Rejects DOJ’s Lawsuit Seeking to Block Certification of Alaska’s Senate Election If GOP Loses, Federal Appeals Panel Refuses DOJ’s Request for California to Segregate Ballots Supposedly from Noncitizens, GOP Senator Marshall Releases New Ad About His Medical Practice after Democratic Attacks, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy Hospitalized After Stroke, Federal Judge Dismisses Trump’s $10 Billion Lawsuit Against Wall Street Journal over Epstein Reporting, Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss NAACP Lawsuit Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Thousands Rally in Tel Aviv Demanding Opposition Form a Jewish-Arab Coalition to Oust Netanyahu, Israeli Strikes Kill Eight Palestinians in Gaza, Tens of Thousands of People Protest Across Germany, 320,000 People Participate in France’s Third Weekend of Protests, Anti-Government Protests Continue to Roil India, Calling for Resignation of Chief Election Commissioner, U.K. Bars Swedish Climate Scholar and Palestinian Rights Advocate Andreas Malm from Entering the Country, Houston Grand Jury Indicts ICE Agent for Running Over Immigrant Construction Worker, AP: Trump Admin Plans to Deport Afghan Immigrants Via Pakistan
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We speak with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman about his new book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide , a meticulous investigation into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the physical destruction of the territory and its impact on the Palestinian people. Forensic Architecture was founded in 2010 as an interdisciplinary research group focused on investigating state violence and human rights violations. Since 2023, Forensic Architecture has focused on producing evidence for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Weizman says “ungrounding” is “a kind of destruction that we have not seen anywhere else,” with Israeli bulldozers “terraforming” the landscape to erase all traces of Palestinian life. With thousands of bodies still unrecovered from under destroyed buildings, Israel’s flattening, extraction and reshaping of the rubble in Gaza is a continuation of its crimes, says Weizman. “Israel is actively and against court order, against the order of the ICJ , destroying the evidence of the genocide that it has perpetrated,” he says.
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DOJ Opens Criminal Probe of California Mail-In Ballots Despite Judge’s Order, Corporations Spend $737M on Midterm Elections as Super-Rich Give $4.2B to Super PACs, Trump Returns to South Carolina to Rally GOP Support as Pollsters Declare Senate Race a Toss-Up, DOJ Ramps Up Criminal Probe of Alaska Senate Candidate Mary Peltola’s Campaign with Subpoenas, Famine Declared in Yemeni City of Taiz Amid Houthi Siege, Sen. Chris Murphy Calls Trump’s Plans to Renew Attacks on Iran “Insane”, Russian Strike Kills 14 at Crowded Train Station in Ukraine as Another Ship Is Sunk in Black Sea, Ukraine Halts Attacks on Russian Refineries at Trump’s Request, as Russian Diesel Heads Toward U.S., GEO Group Signs 10-Year Contract to Continue Operating Notorious Tacoma ICE Jail, El Salvador Deploys 2,000 Troops to Haiti, Flávio Bolsonaro Declares He’s Brazil’s “Legitimate” Leader After Trump Helps Him Flee to Miami
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Several tech workers at Google’s AI unit DeepMind have resigned in protest over the tech giant’s work with the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Last week, DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori announced her resignation in a letter to her colleagues titled “Stay Human.” She denounced what she called “Google’s complicity in the Gaza genocide” and the increasing integration of Google’s technology into military and surveillance systems. “I felt I could not, in good faith, send this message of building AI to benefit humanity while ignoring that our company was complicit in a genocide,” Liguori tells Democracy Now! “The problem is that when the focus is on the model capabilities and on the potential for agents 'going rogue,' we are shifting the attention from a specific human choice … which is this unrestrained, unregulated integration of the systems without red lines.”
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Immigrant rights and labor icon Dolores Huerta died Wednesday at the age of 96. Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 and then the United Farm Workers of America, working with Cesar Chavez. From 1965 to 1970, the union organized the historic Delano grape strike, which ended in major gains for farmworkers’ labor rights. In the years that followed, Huerta became heavily involved in the women’s liberation and immigrant rights movements and became a major supporter of the Democratic Party. In March, The New York Times published an investigation into Cesar Chavez’s history of sexual abuse of women and girls in the farmworkers’ movement, prompting Huerta to reveal that she, too, had been raped by Chavez. Huerta said the assaults led to the births of two of her children. Dolores Huerta appeared on Democracy Now! many times over the years. We remember her legacy with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa, who says, “Dolores was not only a labor organizer, a civil rights organizer, a feminist, committed, always optimistic about the possibilities of this country, but she loved life, and I want people to remember that.”
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Arab Parties Could Determine Next Israeli Prime Minister as Election Produces No Clear Winner, Israel Bombs Gaza Ministry as Settlers Attack Palestinians and Activists in West Bank, City of Cambridge, MA, Votes to Divest from Businesses Tied to Israel’s Military, Three More Oil Tankers Erupt in Flames Near Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon Tells Congress U.S. War on Iran Has Cost $47 Billion, NYT : Democrats Recruited Another Dan Sullivan to Sow Confusion in Alaska Senate Race, Tennessee GOP House Candidate Blames “Youthful Indescretions” for Unsolicited Nude Photos, Judge Says U.S. Request to Set Aside California Ballots Would “Wreak Havoc and Disrupt the Election”, Right-Wing Activist James O’Keefe Charged with Unlawful Voting in Minnesota over Islamophobic Stunts, Hasan Piker Files $72 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Scott Jennings, Labor Organizer and Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta Dies at 96, United Nations Condemns U.S. Economic Embargo of Cuba, Judge Overseeing Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores Case Dies at 92, Spain Train Crash Kills 68 People, Dozens Injured, Alexander Brothers Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Sex Trafficking
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We get analysis of the Israeli elections, the upcoming U.S. midterms, the pro-Palestine movement and more from Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi and Pakistani British writer Tariq Ali. They are co-authors of the new book The Neck and the Sword: Palestine’s Unfinished Struggle . The book, an extended conversation between Khalidi and Ali over two years, offers an overview of Palestinian intellectual and political history, drawing its title from a famous phrase used by the renowned Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani to describe the futility of “peace talks” between occupier and occupied, saying it was akin to a “conversation between the sword and the neck.” Kanafani was assassinated by Israel in 1972, “murdered simply because his words were too dangerous for Israel to tolerate,” says Khalidi. Public opinion about Israel has grown increasingly negative in the United States and across much of the world in the wake of the genocide in Gaza, and it’s “not going to shift back,” says Khalidi. “People have seen something that cannot be unseen. They’ve seen genocide. They’ve seen slaughter. And Israel has no defense.” “Even in countries with no history of a Palestine solidarity movement, suddenly the Palestine flag emerges,” says Ali. “Why? Because their governments are trying to stop dissent on this issue, so they are defying their governments.”
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Political Gridlock in Israel After No Clear Winner Emerges from Tuesday’s National Election, Israeli Troops Violently Disperse Protest in Occupied West Bank, Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Sentenced to Five Years and One Month in Prison, Lina Attalah, Editor of Independent Egyptian Outlet Mada Masr, Released from Police Custody, Ansar Allah Claim Attack on Saudi Arabia’s Largest Oil Refinery, NYT : Trump Admin Considering Lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russian Government’s Investment Fund, Flávio Bolsonaro Flees to the U.S. Following Defeat in Brazil’s Presidential Election, Pentagon Strikes Alleged Drug Boat in the Eastern Pacific, Killing Five People, Alex Pretti’s Parents Accuse Federal Gov’t of Protecting CBP Officers Who Fatally Shot Their Son, Roberto Jimenez Gutierrez Dies in ICE Custody, AP: ICE Has Detained a Mentally Ill U.S. Citizen for Nearly a Year, SCOTUS Declines to Restore Biden-Era Rule Allowing Immigration Judges to Suspend Deportation Cases, CDC Deputy Director Steps Down After Four Months on Job
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A court in Cairo has ordered the closure of the independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr . The court also ordered the site’s editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah, to be detained until she pays a fine of over $50,000. She was convicted on charges of managing an unlicensed website. Mada Masr is “the flagship independent media outlet in Egypt and a pillar of independent media in the region,” says Sharif Abdel Kouddous of Drop Site News , who previously worked at Mada Masr . The independent outlet was founded in 2013 “in the midst of Egypt’s revolution and counterrevolution” and has “managed to survive all of those years in one of the most hostile media environments” in the world. Still, “what happened today is an unprecedented escalation” because Attalah and Mada Masr had never before been referred to trial. Kouddous adds that the attack on Mada Masr comes less than a month after Egyptian authorities arrested an entire newsroom at the independent fact-checking outlet Matsadaash . They remain behind bars.
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With the U.S. midterm elections just a week away, the affordability crisis — intensified by President Trump’s tariffs and war on Iran — has emerged as a major campaign issue. Across the country, families are struggling to make ends meet, while oil and gas companies have reported record profits during recent periods of price shocks. Economist Isabella Weber’s new book, Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy , warns economic insecurity can fuel the rise of authoritarian movements, and argues protecting democracy requires making life affordable for everybody. Anti-fascist economics is “not about getting rid of the market,” says Weber. “It’s about having public players that behave differently, and by behaving differently, changing the dynamic of the market as a whole and literally creating an alternative so that people are not dependent on often very concentrated and private providers as the only choice,” she explains, providing current examples of governments enacting such policies from New York City to Mexico City to Rome.
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