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Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Meet the Senior Federal Official Blowing the Whistle on Trump’s Suppression of Climate Science; Formerly Jailed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Jeff Sessions Is Extending Obama’s War on Leaks; Head of Bombed Minnesota Mosque Denounces Trump for Stoking Hate & Violence Against Somali Community.
Meet Houston’s Latino Police Chief Standing Up to Texas’s Anti-Immigrant “Show Me Your Papers” Law; As Downtown Detroit Gentrifies, Longtime Black Residents Fight Illegal Tax Foreclosures; Charlottesville VA Backs “Reparations” Fund for Black Residents & Votes to Sell Robert E. Lee Statue; Houston PD Chief: Trump’s Support of Police Brutality Reinforces View of Officers as … Continued
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” On Democracy Now! Today Esther Schor Biographer of Emma Lazarus author of This Poem The New Colossus at the base of the Statue … Continued
Nikole Hannah-Jones on DOJ’s Attack on Affirmative Action & How School Segregation Never Ended; “Cruel & Inhumane”: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Trump Push to Slash Legal Immigration; Trump Considers Prolonging Afghan War to Secure $1 Trillion in Untapped Mineral Deposits.
Explosive Lawsuit: White House & Fox Peddled Seth Rich Conspiracies to Distract from Russia Probe; Wray Confirmed as FBI Director as Questions Swirl over His Past Record & Close Ties to Big Business; Death at the Border: How CBP Agents Urged Mexican Teen to Drink the Liquid Meth That Killed Him; Yale Historian Timothy Snyder … Continued
As U.S. Sanctions Maduro and Hints at Regime Change, a Debate on Resolving the Crisis in Venezuela; Negotiations, Not War: Green Party’s Jill Stein Warns About U.S. Escalating Tension with N. Korea; Jill Stein on Trump as a “Grave Danger” & Why She was at 2015 Moscow Dinner with Putin & Flynn.
Retired Police Detective: Trump’s Comments Endorsing Police Brutality are “Treasonous”; “Billion-Dollar Mistake”: Democrats Neglect People of Color While Failing to Woo White Trump Voters; Is Trump Trying to Sabotage the Nuclear Deal to Lay Groundwork for War With Iran?
“Far from Over”: Senate Narrowly Defeats Obamacare Repeal, But More Attacks on Healthcare Loom; Meet the Two Catholic Workers Who Secretly Sabotaged the Dakota Access Pipeline to Halt Construction; As Trump Targets Teenagers for Deportation, Immigrants Push Back with Direct Action.
The First Openly Transgender Infantry Soldier in U.S. Army Speaks Out on Trump’s New Military Ban; What Role Should the Military Play in the Fight for Transgender Rights? The Rolling Resistance: Meet Three Disability Rights Activists Fighting to Save Healthcare.
In “Dangerous” Move, Republicans Push to Strip Healthcare from Millions Without Holding Any Hearings; Is Trump’s Base Turning on the President over His Humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions? Joshua Green on the “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump & the Storming of the Presidency”; A Look at How a Racial Theorist Tied to Mussolini … Continued
