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Democracy Now! 2022-07-01 Friday

• Headlines for July 01, 2022
• In Radical Ruling, Supreme Court Limits EPA's Power to Cut Carbon Emissions & Combat Climate Crisis
• San Antonio Organizer: U.S. Immigration Policy Is to Blame for Deaths of 53 in Smuggling Tragedy
• Meet the Dutch Doctor Helping Expand Abortion Access by Mailing Safe & Legal Pills Worldwide

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Democracy Now! 2022-06-30 Thursday

• Headlines for June 30, 2022
• Anatol Lieven on NATO Expansion & What a Ukraine Peace Settlement Could Look Like
• ACLU's David Cole: Supreme Court Conservatives Imposing "Truly Radical Ideology" on U.S. Population
• Flint Residents Outraged as Charges Dropped in Deadly Water Scandal That Poisoned Majority-Black City

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Highlights from the explosive testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, former top aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, at the sixth public hearing of the January 6 committee.

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Democracy Now! 2022-06-28 Tuesday

• Headlines for June 28, 2022
• Tragedy in Texas: 46 Found Dead in Suspected Smuggling Attempt Amid Biden's Harsh Border Enforcement
• Texas Abortion Funds Push to Keep Supporting Patients as State AG Vows to Prosecute Advocates
• Investigation: Facebook Is Helping Anti-Abortion Clinics Collect Highly Sensitive Info on People
• Encrypt, Obscure, Compartmentalize: Protecting Your Digital Privacy in a Post-Roe World

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Democracy Now! 2022-06-27 Monday

• Headlines for June 27, 2022
• Overturning Roe: Slavery, Abortion, Maternal Mortality and the Disparate Effect on Women of Color
• "A Devastating Ruling": Law Prof. Michele Goodwin & SCOTUS Attorney Kitty Kolbert on Overturning Roe
• Missouri Enacts Abortion Ban Trigger Law. Planned Parenthood Opens Clinic 15 Mins. Away in Illinois.
• Caught on Tape: "He Punched Me in the Face," says RI Dem Hit by GOP Rival, a Cop, at Abortion Rally

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The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a New York state law on concealed firearms, vastly expanding gun rights across the country; Highlights from the fifth day of public hearings by the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.

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Democracy Now! Thursday, June 23, 2022

Democracy Now! 2022-06-22 Wednesday

• Headlines for June 22, 2022
• Top Arizona Republican Testifies He Rejected Trump Plot to Overturn Vote, Then Faced Violent Threats
• "Whatever You Can Do": Jan. 6 Hearing Lays Out "Fake Electors" Scheme to Rig 2020 Election for Trump
• Georgia Poll Workers Falsely Targeted by Trump as "Scammers" Faced Racist Harassment, Lived in Fear

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Democracy Now! 2022-06-21 Tuesday

• Headlines for June 21, 2022
• Colombia Elects 1st Leftist President Gustavo Petro & 1st Black VP Francia Márquez. Can They Deliver?
• Colombia's Incoming VP Francia Márquez in Her Own Words: "A New Form of Government Is Possible”
• Gustavo Petro Promised a "New Progressivism." Now He's Set to Be Colombia's First Leftist President

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A Juneteenth special with Clint Smith, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Craig Steven Wilder.

Democracy Now! 2022-06-17 Friday

• Headlines for June 17, 2022
• Punished for Exposing War Crimes? U.K. Approves Assange Extradition to U.S., Faces 175 Years in Prison
• "Hang Mike Pence!": Jan. 6 Hearing Shows Trump Targeted VP, Knew Plan to Overturn Vote Was Illegal
• Trump's Lawyer John Eastman Asked for Pardon After Giving Illegal Advice to Overturn Election
• Poor People's March on Washington Saturday Demands "Moral Reset" on Poverty, Voting Rights, Climate

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Democracy Now! 2022-06-16 Thursday

• Headlines for June 16, 2022
• $1B More in U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine: Weapons Expert Urges Negotiation vs. "Military-First Approach"
• Idaho to Bay Area: White Supremacists Violently Target Pride Events, Egged on by Right-Wing Media
• No Pride in Detention: Trans Immigrant Activist Skips WH Event, Urges Support for LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

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Democracy Now! 2022-06-15 Wednesday

• Headlines for June 15, 2022
• "Conspiratorial Mindset": From Nixon to Trump, Lessons for Jan. 6 Hearing 50 Years After Watergate
• AFL-CIO Elects 1st Woman Pres. & African American Sec.-Treasurer. Will It Organize Amazon, Starbucks?
• Biden to Visit Saudi Arabia After Vowing to Treat Kingdom as a "Pariah" for Human Rights Violations

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Highlights from the second public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol.

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Democracy Now! 2022-06-13 Monday

• Headlines for June 13, 2022
• Harvest of Empire: Juan González on His Landmark Book, Immigration & Consequences of U.S. Imperialism

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Democracy Now! 2022-06-09 Thursday

• Headlines for June 09, 2022
• Sexual Violence by Russian Troops in Ukraine "Chronically Underreported," U.N. & Amnesty Int'l Find
• "Act Now": House Hears from Uvalde & Buffalo Gun Violence Victims, Passes Reforms Doomed in Senate
• Jan. 6 Hearings to Open as Proud Boys Members Are Indicted for Seditious Conspiracy

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Democracy Now! 2022-06-08 Wednesday

• Headlines for June 08, 2022
• Billionaire Democracy? San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Ousted in Recall & L.A. Mayor Race Heads to Runoff
• "Global Embarrassment": Mexico & More Skip Biden's Summit of Americas for Excluding Cuba, Venezuela
• Indigenous Amazon Leader, Excluded from Summit of Americas, Urges Leaders to Protect Rainforest
• "Intensify the Search": Journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous Expert Bruno Pereira Missing in Brazil

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In an extended, in-depth interview we speak with investigative journalist Keri Blakinger about her “epic” new memoir, “Corrections in Ink,” and her path from aspiring professional figure skater to prison after she was arrested in her final semester of her senior year at Cornell University with six ounces of heroin. Blakinger went on to become an investigative journalist and now works at The Marshall Project, where she is the organization’s first formerly incarcerated reporter.

Democracy Now! 2022-06-07 Tuesday

• Headlines for June 07, 2022
• U.K. PM Boris Johnson Survives No-Confidence Vote But Faces Uphill Battle to Stay in Power
• We Can't Get Answers: Texas Lawmaker Decries Police Refusal to Address Response to School Massacre
• Texas Editor: Police in Uvalde Are Actively Obstructing Us from Doing Our Jobs
• "Corrections in Ink": Keri Blakinger on Her Journey from Addiction to Cornell to Prison to Newsroom

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