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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan González. “The nightmare began the moment they took me off the plane.” Those are the words of 26-year-old Gonzalo, one of 252 Venezuelan immigrants in the U.S. who were flown […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan González. As the U.S. expands its military presence in Latin America, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared earlier this week the Pentagon’s now on a war footing. In a major speech, […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan González. We end today’s show here in New York City, where Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani is less than two months away from taking office. The Democratic Socialist will make history as […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn into the office by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday, 50 days after winning her seat in Congress in a […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, the federal agency that funded global health initiatives for over six decades. […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. As the House of Representatives moves closer to forcing the release of the Epstein files by the Department feel Justice, we turn now to look at a […]

California leads states in siphoning nearly $200 million in federal health grants to illegal immigrants How can a nation secure its own future when its leaders actively divert precious taxpayer resources to those who have broken its laws to enter? This is the pressing question that every American must now confront, as a shocking […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show with renowned Iranian filmmaker, Sepideh Farsi, the director of the new documentary, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk. The film, based on regular video calls Sepideh […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman in New York. Juan González is in Chicago, where protests are continuing over the Trump administration’s massive immigration raids. Over the weekend, federal immigration agents reportedly pepper sprayed a father and his […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan González. Before we begin with our last segment, we want to note it includes a discussion of sexual assault. 50 years ago, August 15, 1975, Joan Little became the first woman […]