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The documentary Yanuni profiles Indigenous chief and activist Juma Xipaia, who has survived six assassination attempts while defending her people’s land from illegal gold miners and deforestation. Shortlisted for a 2026 Academy Award, the film highlights her fight for Indigenous sovereignty and the preservation of the Amazon, her historic appointment as Brazil’s first secretary of Indigenous rights and the challenges faced during the administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Democracy Now! recently spoke with Juma Xipaia as well as director Richard Ladkani.

Democracy Now! Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Watch Part 2 of our interview about All the Walls Came Down–a new short documentary by filmmaker Ondi Timoner that looks back at the devastating 2025 fires in Los Angeles, which destroyed Timoner’s home and left the historically Black community of Altadena in ruins. The film has been shortlisted for an Academy Award, follows community organizer Heavenly Hughes as residents confront the aftermath of the fires and organize to rebuild their town.

Democracy Now! Monday, January 12, 2026

Extended conversation with Liat Beinin Atzili, an Israeli American high school teacher who was held hostage in Gaza for 54 days after being seized on October 7, 2023. Her story is the focus of the new documentary Holding Liat, directed by Brandon Kramer. The film follows her parents, Yehuda and Chaya Beinin, as they cope with the fear and uncertainty of their daughter’s captivity while witnessing Israel’s war on Gaza unfold in real time. Holding Liat premieres Friday, January 9, at Film Forum in New York, where Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman will moderate a Q&A with Liat Atzili and director Brandon Kramer.

Democracy Now! 2026-01-09 Friday

• Headlines for January 09, 2026
• "What Are You Hiding?" Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Says ICE Killing of Renee Good Must Be Investigated
• "The Voice of Hind Rajab," Shortlisted for Oscar, Uses Audio of 6-Year-Old Girl Killed in Gaza
• "Holding Liat": Former Israeli Hostage Says "There Aren't Any Conflicts That Are Unsolvable"

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Democracy Now! 2026-01-08 Thursday

• Headlines for January 08, 2026
• "Terror & Chaos": Minneapolis Reels After ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Renee Good, Mother of 3
• Trump Vows to "Indefinitely" Control Venezuela's Oil as U.S. Seizes Two More Oil Tankers

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Democracy Now! 2026-01-07 Wednesday

• Headlines for January 07, 2026
• "This Is Our Hemisphere": Report from Colombia on Trump's Escalating Threats to the Region
• Trump's Plan to Seize Greenland Would "Militarize the Arctic," Trample Indigenous Rights
• "Firestorm": MS NOW's Jacob Soboroff on Anniversary of L.A. Fires & "America's New Age of Disaster"

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Watch Part 2 of our interview with David Uberti, reporter for The Wall Street Journal, about President Trump’s “war on wind” farms. Despite well-established demand for new power, Trump recently paused leases for all large offshore wind farms under construction, which has “thrown the renewable energy industry into turmoil,” Uberti says. He has covered how the U.S. is forfeiting the clean energy race to China after Trump scrapped projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump’s “animus for offshore wind has a personal link, as well,” notes Uberti: He once tried unsuccessfully to stop windmills off the coast of one of his golf courses. Uberti also discuses his piece “What Happened When Small-Town America Became Data Center, U.S.A.” and his coverage of the role AI may play in the modern economy. Uberti expects in 2026, this will move from being “an emerging political issue” among the left to one that is more mainstream.

Democracy Now! 2026-01-06 Tuesday

• Headlines for January 06, 2026
• "It's All About the Oil, Stupid!": Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela & Kidnapping Maduro
• "Imperial Laboratory": Alexander Aviña on the "Donroe" Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America
• Chevron Stocks Surge After Trump Vows to "Take Back" Venezuela's Oil After U.S. Attack
• Trump Family Businesses Rake in $4 Billion After His Reelection with Focus on AI, Crypto & Nuclear

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Democracy Now! 2026-01-05 Monday

• Headlines for January 05, 2026
• "Venezuela Is Not Going to Be a U.S. Colony": Report from Caracas on U.S. Attack & Maduro Abduction
• "Imperialist Intervention": Law Prof. David Cole on the Illegality of U.S. Attack on Venezuela
• Trump "Just Wants Oil," Not Democracy: What's Next in Trump's War on Venezuela?

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Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and Alejandro Velasco.

Democracy Now! 2026-01-02 Friday

• Headlines for January 02, 2026
• Mamdani Takes Oath at Abandoned NYC Subway Station to Highlight Plan to Improve Public Transit
• Zohran Mamdani Supporters Celebrate "Politics of Optimism" at His Inauguration
• AOC, NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams & Poet Cornelius Eady: Voices from the Mamdani Inauguration
• "I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist": Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration

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Democracy Now! 2026-01-01 Thursday

• "Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

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Democracy Now! 2025-12-31 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 31, 2025
• U.S. Strikes Against Venezuela: Trump "Wants the Oil" as Grassroots Resist "Economic Asphyxiation"
• "One More Step to Push Out Principled Humanitarian Actors": NRC on Israel Ban on Aid Groups in Gaza
• "Mayor for the Masses": Can the Democratic Socialist Movement That Elected Mamdani Keep Its Momentum?
• "The Blue Road to Trump Hell": Norm Solomon on "How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy"

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Democracy Now! 2025-12-30 Tuesday

• Headlines for December 30, 2025
• "Whatever Israel Wants": Trump Backs Netanyahu's "Colonial" Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond
• "Israel Crushed Mohammad Bakri": Gideon Levy & Rami Khouri on Death of Iconic Palestinian Filmmaker
• Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options
• Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess

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Democracy Now! 2025-12-29 Monday

• Headlines for December 29, 2025
• What's Behind Trump's Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?
• "Witch Hunt": Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks
• Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump's Current Border Commissioner

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Democracy Now! 2025-12-26 Friday

• Arundhati Roy on New Memoir "Mother Mary Comes to Me," Gaza & Authoritarianism from India to U.S.
• Remembering Bill Moyers: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting

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