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Democracy Now!
An independent daily global news hour, anchored by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González, broadcast weekdays on 1,400+ radio and TV stations. Livestream the show weekdays from 8AM to 9AM ET at http://www.democracynow.org.
Episodes
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Headlines for February 18, 2026; Jesse Jackson Fought for Justice at Home & Abroad: Juan González & Bishop William Barber; “Extremely Dangerous Situation”…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Headlines for February 17, 2026; “Keep Hope Alive”: Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon Who Twice Ran for President; Bernie Sanders on Jesse…
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Democracy Now! Monday, February 16, 2026
Headlines for February 16, 2026; Why Is ICE Still Jailing Leqaa Kordia? Palestinian Protester Suffers Seizure After 11 Months Locked Up; “The Alabama…
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Democracy Now! Friday, February 13, 2026
Headlines for February 13, 2026; House Passes “Worst Voter Suppression Bill Ever” in Latest Push to Help Trump Take Over Elections; “Love Forward Together”…
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Democracy Now! Thursday, February 12, 2026
Headlines for February 12, 2026; “Massive Cover-Up”: Rep. Jayapal Slams AG Pam Bondi over Epstein Files & Spying on Lawmakers; Netanyahu Seeks to Kill…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Headlines for February 11, 2026; “De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE, CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics; Impeach the President: Rep. Al Green…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Headlines for February 10, 2026; Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence; Rep. Joaquin Castro Slams…
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Democracy Now! Monday, February 9, 2026
Headlines for February 09, 2026; Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis; As Black History Month Turns…
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Democracy Now! Friday, February 6, 2026
Headlines for February 06, 2026; Juan González on Lasting Impact of 9/11 Toxic Exposure as NYC Faces Calls to Release Suppressed Files; “Journalism Deserves…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Headlines for February 04, 2026; “No Means No”: AZ Secretary of State Calls for Resistance as Trump Pushes to “Nationalize” Voting; Why Was Spy Chief Tulsi…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Headlines for February 03, 2026; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Directs Local Police to Investigate “Rogue, Reckless” ICE Agents; Philly City Council Considers…
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Democracy Now! Monday, February 2, 2026
Headlines for February 02, 2026; “Journalism Is Not a Crime”: Georgia Fort & Don Lemon Arrested for Covering St. Paul Church Protest; “Leave Our City Now”…
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Democracy Now! Friday, January 30, 2026
Headlines for January 30, 2026; “Hostile Takeovers”: As U.S. Claims Venezuela’s Oil, Trump Seeks “Vassal States” Across the World; “Cold-Blooded Murder”…
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Democracy Now! Thursday, January 29, 2026
Headlines for January 29, 2026; “Let Us Out”: ICE Detention of Children Sparks Protests at Immigration Jail in Dilley, TX; “Not Going to Bully Me”: Rep…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Headlines for January 28, 2026; ICE “Wartime” Recruiting Effort Targets Gun & Military Lovers Using White Nationalist Messaging; Rep. Ilhan Omar Attacked by…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Headlines for January 27, 2026; “Feels Like a Cover-Up”: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Slams Trump Admin over Deadly ICE Crackdown; Can ICE Forcibly Enter Homes…
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Democracy Now! Monday, January 26, 2026
Headlines for January 26, 2026; “He Was Executed”: Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti; RIP Alex Pretti…
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Democracy Now! Friday, January 23, 2026
Headlines for January 23, 2026; “Emperor” Trump’s So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance; Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After…
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Democracy Now! Thursday, January 22, 2026
Headlines for January 22, 2026; “An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order; “Catch of the Day”: Latest…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Headlines for January 21, 2026; Facing Possible Arrest, Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official; As Trump Threatens to Take…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Headlines for January 20, 2026; ICE vs. People of Minnesota: A Special Report on Community Resistance to Trump’s Militarized Crackdown; “Not Above the Law”…
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Democracy Now! Monday, January 19, 2026
MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman…
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Democracy Now! Friday, January 16, 2026
Headlines for January 16, 2026; ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report; “Autocratic Power Grab”: Trump Threatens to…
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Democracy Now! Thursday, January 15, 2026
Headlines for January 15, 2026; FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump; “This Regime Will Fall”: Director…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Headlines for January 14, 2026; “Federal Invasion”: Minnesota Officials Condemn Violent ICE Raids, Arrests; Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Headlines for January 13, 2026; “Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent; “State of Siege”: Iran…
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Democracy Now! Monday, January 12, 2026
Headlines for January 12, 2026; Iran Escalates Deadly Crackdown on Mass Protests as Trump Threatens to Launch Military Attack; “We Had Whistles. They Had…
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Democracy Now! Friday, January 9, 2026
Headlines for January 09, 2026; “What Are You Hiding?” Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Says ICE Killing of Renee Good Must Be Investigated; “The Voice of Hind…
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Democracy Now! Thursday, January 8, 2026
Headlines for January 08, 2026; “Terror & Chaos”: Minneapolis Reeling After ICE Killing of Renee Nicole Good; Trump Vows to “Indefinitely” Control Venezuela’s…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Headlines for January 07, 2026; “This Is Our Hemisphere”: Report from Colombia on Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Region; Trump’s Plan to Seize Greenland…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Headlines for January 06, 2026; “It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela & Kidnapping Maduro; “Imperial Laboratory”…
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Democracy Now! Monday, January 5, 2026
Headlines for January 05, 2026; “Venezuela Is Not Going to Be a U.S. Colony”: Report from Caracas on U.S. Attack & Maduro Abduction; “Imperialist…
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Democracy Now! Friday, January 2, 2026
Headlines for January 02, 2026; Mamdani Takes Oath at Abandoned NYC Subway Station to Highlight Plan to Improve Public Transit; Zohran Mamdani Supporters…
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Democracy Now! Thursday, January 1, 2026
“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by…
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Column — Breaking the Sound Barrier
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Democracy Now! turns 30 in February. Carried on over 1,500 stations around the globe, and with a growing audience of millions…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Headlines for December 31, 2025; U.S. Strikes Against Venezuela: Trump “Wants the Oil” as Grassroots Resist “Economic Asphyxiation”; “One More Step to Push Out…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Headlines for December 30, 2025; “Whatever Israel Wants”: Trump Backs Netanyahu’s “Colonial” Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond; “Israel Crushed Mohammad Bakri”…
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Democracy Now! Monday, December 29, 2025
Headlines for December 29, 2025; What’s Behind Trump’s Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?; “Witch Hunt”: Jailed U.K…
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Democracy Now! Friday, December 26, 2025
Arundhati Roy on New Memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” Gaza & Authoritarianism from India to U.S.; Remembering Bill Moyers: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate…
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Democracy Now! Thursday, December 25, 2025
A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by…
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Column — CBS 60 Minutes Censorship Rings Another Alarm, Warning of Corporate Media’s Threat to Democracy
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan News organizations cannot function under corrupt corporate control, answering to billionaire bosses and politicians. When that…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Headlines for December 24, 2025; “Heartbreaking”: Journalist Vicky Ward on New Epstein Files & Survivors’ Fight for Accountability; “Never Stop”: Freed After 9…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Headlines for December 23, 2025; CBS Censorship: Bari Weiss Pulls “60 Minutes” Exposé on Torture of Migrants U.S. Sent to El Salvador; “Out for Blood”: Writer…
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Democracy Now! Monday, December 22, 2025
Headlines for December 22, 2025; “Who Are They Protecting?”: Rep. Ro Khanna Urges Contempt Charges over AG Bondi’s Epstein Redactions; Rep. Ro Khanna on…
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Democracy Now! Friday, December 19, 2025
Headlines for December 19, 2025; Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare; Kilmar Ábrego García…
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Column — For Some Brown University Students, This Was Their Second School Shooting
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Gun violence is not unique to this country, but its sheer magnitude and frequency here is without equal.
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Democracy Now! Thursday, December 18, 2025
Headlines for December 18, 2025; “Divorced from Reality”: Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump’s Primetime Speech; Meet Tania Nemer, Fired Immigration Judge…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Headlines for December 17, 2025; A Path to WWIII? Greg Grandin on Venezuela, Trump’s “Madman Doctrine” & More; Chile’s Trump? Ariel Dorfman on the Election of…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Headlines for December 16, 2025; “We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence; Homelessness Is About…
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Democracy Now! Monday, December 15, 2025
Headlines for December 15, 2025; Antony Loewenstein on the Hanukkah Massacre in Sydney & the Muslim Food Vendor Who Saved Lives; Nobel Peace Laureate Narges…
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Democracy Now! Friday, December 12, 2025
Headlines for December 12, 2025; From COVID to Hepatitis to Measles, RFK Jr. Is Gutting Vaccine Science: An Ex-CDC Expert Speaks Out; “Watched, Tracked &…
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Column — From Rosa Parks to National Parks: Trump's Racism and Bigotry Demand Resistance
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in…
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Democracy Now! Thursday, December 11, 2025
Democracy Now! Thursday, December 11, 2025 Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Headlines for December 10, 2025; Will the International Community Act? Preschool Massacre & “Large Piles of Bodies” in Sudan; “Torture & Enforced…
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Headlines for December 09, 2025; “Merger Madness”: Trump at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.; “Honor Our History”: Trump Slammed for…
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Democracy Now! Monday, December 8, 2025
Headlines for December 08, 2025; “Murder on the High Seas”: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Trump’s Boat Strikes; “I Was Pepper-Sprayed”: Rep. Adelita…
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Democracy Now! Friday, December 5, 2025
Headlines for December 05, 2025; Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage; 5,000 Arrests? ICE…
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Column — Secretary-on-the-Defensive Pete Hegseth's Dept. of War (Crimes)
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims he had nothing to do with killing two survivors clinging to the wreckage of their boat…
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Democracy Now! Thursday, December 4, 2025
Headlines for December 04, 2025; Will Hegseth Go? Defense Secretary Faces Anger from Congress over Boat Strikes, Signal Chat; Can a Deal Be Reached to End…
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Headlines for December 03, 2025; U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank: Sari Bashi; Ralph Nader on Trump’s “Entrenching…