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Democracy Now! 2026-04-30 Thursday

• Headlines for April 30, 2026
• Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act in "Devastating Blow" to Democracy & Civil Rights: Maya Wiley
• Maya Wiley: Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment Is Part of Trump's Broader Attack on Civil Rights
• Scholar Gilbert Achcar on the U.S. War Against Iran & Trump's "Old-New Imperial Doctrine"
• Sunlight Doesn't Go Through the Strait of Hormuz: Bill McKibben on Iran Oil Shock & Green Transition

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Democracy Now! 2026-04-29 Wednesday

• Headlines for April 29, 2026
• "Political Disaster for Donald Trump": Jeremy Scahill on Stalled U.S.-Iran Talks
• UAE Quits OPEC as Many Countries Ramp Up Oil Production Despite Worsening Climate Crisis
• "We Are Bombarding America's Forests with Roundup": Despite Cancer Fear, Trump Admin Pushes Herbicide

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Democracy Now! 2026-04-27 Monday

• Headlines for April 27, 2026
• Rep. Ro Khanna on White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Political Violence, Epstein Files & More
• "Slow Civil War" Author Jeff Sharlet on the Growing Normalization of Violence at Home & Abroad
• Death by Firing Squad: Sister Helen Prejean on Trump's Moves to Ramp Up Executions

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Renowned anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean reacts to the Justice Department announcement that it will use firing squads and single-drug lethal injections to kill condemned federal prisoners, as it seeks to ramp up and expedite capital punishment. Watch Part 1 of this interview here.

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Democracy Now! 2026-04-20 Monday

• Headlines for April 20, 2026
• "Gulf of Trust" Between Iran & U.S. as End of Ceasefire Nears, Peace Talks Uncertain
• Who Is Breaking International Law in the Strait of Hormuz? It's Not Iran, Says Scholar
• Shepard Fairey on Art, Activism & Resisting Fascism: "It Can Happen Here, and It Is"
• Forest Firings: Trump Admin Aims to "Break the Forest Service," Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake

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Democracy Now! 2026-04-14 Tuesday

• Headlines for April 14, 2026
• Exclusive: Former American & Iranian Negotiators on Ceasefire Talks & How War Could End
• President vs. Pope: Trump Posts Pic of Self as Jesus, Pope Says Warmakers Have "Hands Full of Blood"

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Democracy Now! 2026-04-13 Monday

• Headlines for April 13, 2026
• Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Iran After Failed Talks, Iran Threatens Retaliation in Gulf
• Viktor Orbán's Era Is Over: Hungarians Celebrate as Longtime Far-Right Leader Suffers Landslide Loss
• Trump Fires Judges Who Blocked Deportations of Student Activists Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi
• Automatic Draft Registration Would Expand U.S. Surveillance State: Antiwar Activist

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