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Democracy Now! 2026-09-04 Friday

• Headlines for September 04, 2026
• Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
• "They Got Zero Notice": 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois
• "Terrorizing Our City": ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops
• "Top of the World": Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack

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Democracy Now! Thursday, September 3, 2026

Democracy Now! 2026-09-02 Wednesday

• Headlines for September 02, 2026
• U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt & More
• "Went to Sea and Never Came Back": Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes
• "Stand Up for Multifaith Democracy": U.S. Activists, Lawmakers Protest India's RSS & Hindu Supremacy

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Democracy Now! 2026-09-01 Tuesday

• Headlines for September 01, 2026
• The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela's Oil Reserves
• U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don't Know Under Secretive "Third Country" Deal
• Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of "La Junta" Oversight

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Democracy Now! 2026-08-31 Monday

• Headlines for August 31, 2026
• "Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions": Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing
• The Real Reason There's a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung
• "Left Behind and Overlooked": Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks
• "We're Not Going Back": Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington
• Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with "9 to 5"

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Democracy Now! 2026-08-28 Friday

• Headlines for August 28, 2026
• "Shut Down Dilley": Rep. Joaquin Castro on "Abusive" ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families
• Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is "Glaring Example of Climate Injustice"
• "Don't be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!" Amy Goodman's Personal Health Update
• "Who Paid, Who Gained": Juan González on How Chicago Funded Real Estate Instead of Social Services
• "The Lion King" in Quechua?: New Film "Runa Simi" Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive

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Filipino filmmaker Rafael Manuel discusses his debut feature film “Filipiñana.” The film premiered at Sundance where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision.

Democracy Now! Thursday, August 27, 2026

Part 2 of our conversation with Jack Crosbie on his recent articles, “Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left” and “How Trump’s War on the Left Will Come for the Center.”

Democracy Now! Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Democracy Now! 2026-08-25 Tuesday

• Headlines for August 25, 2026
• U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran's Other Top Trading Partners
• Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice Watch
• Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence

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Democracy Now! 2026-08-24 Monday

• Headlines for August 24, 2026
• "Most Stupid Trade Fight in History": U.S. & Canadian Workers Stand to Lose in Trump's New Tariff War
• Montreal Considers Cutting Ties to Israel as Outrage Grows in Canada over Israeli Impunity: Avi Lewis
• "Unbought & Unbossed": Angie Nixon on Winning Democratic Senate Race in Florida, DSA Membership & More
• In Defeat for AIPAC, Aisha Wahab Wins House Seat, Becoming First Afghan American in Congress

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Democracy Now! Friday, August 21, 2026

Democracy Now! 2026-08-20 Thursday

• Headlines for August 20, 2026
• 5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life
• AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It's an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI's Connor Leahy
• "Love Machines": James Muldoon on How AI Is Changing Relationships & the Global Workers Fueling AI

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Democracy Now! 2026-08-19 Wednesday

• Headlines for August 19, 2026
• Trump's "Authoritarian Takeover" of the Media, ABC Suing FCC & the Meta Trial: Free Press's Jessica González
• "Profoundly Corrupt": Trump Sued for Selling Early Access to His Truth Social Posts for $100K/Month
• Bipartisan Outcry Forces Trump to Pause Border Security Project in Big Bend National Park in Texas
• Activist Tree-Sit in Ancient Cottonwood Continues Against Border Wall Construction in Arizona

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Democracy Now! 2026-08-18 Tuesday

• Headlines for August 18, 2026
• Who Is Natalie Harp? NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman on Trump's Aide & His Attacks on Women Reporters
• "Regime Change" Author Maggie Haberman on Trump's Imperial Presidency, Epstein Files & War on Iran
• Netanyahu Throws "Poison Pill" into Gaza Deal as Kushner Meets with Hamas & Israel: Mouin Rabbani

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Pt. 2 of our interview with Gil Durán, author of the new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.

Democracy Now! Monday, August 17, 2026

Amy Goodman meets with two members of the Palestinian Circus who are performing daily at the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Special thanks to Hana Elias.

Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, featured in the new film American Doctor about U.S. doctors who volunteered in Gaza. We also speak with the film’s director, Poh Si Teng.