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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 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 […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We’re joined here in New York by the U.N. climate – by Nina Lakhani, Senior Climate Justice Reporter for The Guardian U.S. Her latest piece, out today, “Climate Disasters Displace 250 Million People in Past 10 Years, U.N. Report Finds.” […]

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. Three or More is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here. That’s the name of a new collection of essays by Jelani Cobb, the acclaimed journalist, […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Federal agents continue to carry out raids across the Chicago area. On Wednesday, armed ICE agents in black vests chased a teacher into a Spanish-language day care and preschool in front of children and parents. In video of the incident, […]