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Democracy Now! Friday, September 26, 2025

Democracy Now! Thursday, September 25, 2025

We continue our conversation with Will Potter, the author of Little Red Barns, an investigation into the state repression of journalists, environmentalists and animal rights activists who attempt to expose the harms of the U.S. factory farming industry. “This is a corporate versus the people issue,” says Potter, who explains how the exploitative agriculture industry pollutes the environment, abuses animals and partners with law enforcement to criminalize activist movements, all while promoting a “fascist” myth of the “happy farmer and the American countryside.”

Democracy Now! 2025-09-24 Wednesday

• Headlines for September 24, 2025
• Trump Slams United Nations, Global Migration & Climate Science in U.N. Speech
• "Science Under Siege": Dr. Peter Hotez on Trump, Tylenol & Autism
• "This Is What Fascists Do": Trump Labels Antifa a Terrorist Org in His War on Dissent

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-23 Tuesday

• Headlines for September 23, 2025
• Alaa Abd El-Fattah Is Free: Family Celebrates Political Prisoner's Release in Egypt
• No Secret Police Act: CA Gov. Signs Law Against Masked ICE Agents; Feds Say They Won’t Comply
• ICE Assaults Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh at Chicago Protest

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-22 Monday

• Headlines for September 22, 2025
• Trump Expands "Authoritarian" Free Speech Crackdown, Calls Negative Media "Illegal": Jameel Jaffer
• "Huge Step Forward": MP Jeremy Corbyn Cheers U.K. Recognition of Palestine, Calls for More Pressure on Israel
• Egypt Pardons Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah; British MP Jeremy Corbyn Responds to "Amazing News"
• Israeli Peace Activist: My Mother Was Killed on October 7. Here's Why I Support Palestinian Statehood.
• "Nothing Will Stop Israel": Mustafa Barghouti on the Limits of Western Recognition of Palestine

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-19 Friday

• Headlines for September 19, 2025
• "I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-18 Thursday

• Headlines for September 18, 2025
• Amnesty Int'l: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Palantir Enable & Profit from Israel's Genocide in Gaza
• "The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya": Al Jazeera Film on Israel's Abduction & Torture of Gaza Doctor

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-17 Wednesday

• Headlines for September 17, 2025
• "Single Shots to the Head": U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees "Extermination of a People” in Gaza
• "Perish or Leave": Hundreds of Thousands Flee as Israeli Military Invades Gaza City
• How Video Games, Discord & Deep Web Influenced Alleged Kirk Killer
• Trump Uses "Black Criminality" Myth to Take Over Black-Led Cities: Memphis Rep. Justin J. Pearson
• Robert Redford the Activist: Hollywood Icon Was Lifelong Champion of Environment & Independent Film

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-16 Tuesday

• Headlines for September 16, 2025
• ICE Kills Immigrant Father After Traffic Stop, Detains Day Laborer Who Sued Chicago Police
• Block the Bombs to Israel: Rep. Delia Ramirez Denounces Genocide in Gaza
• Bishop William Barber Condemns Charlie Kirk Murder and the Right's Religious Nationalism
• U.S. Acts as "Judge, Jury & Executioner" in Venezuelan Boat Strikes, Killing at Least 14

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-15 Monday

• Headlines for September 15, 2025
• "Shame on Humanity": Gaza Doctor Pleads with World to Stop Israel's Genocide
• "The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk": Journalist Chris Hedges on the Weaponization of Kirk's Killing
• Judith Butler: Jewish Prof. Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley "Antisemitism" Files Handed to Trump Admin

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Part 2 of our conversation with professor and philosopher Judith Butler, whose name was recently shared by the University of California, Berkeley with the Trump administration in response to the administration’s sweeping crackdown on Palestinian solidarity activism.

Democracy Now! 2025-09-12 Friday

• Headlines for September 12, 2025
• Mehdi Hasan: Trump Is Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk to Go After the Left
• Mehdi Hasan on Death of Two-State Solution, Possible U.S. War with Venezuela & More
• "A Historic Moment in Brazil": Jair Bolsonaro Gets 27 Years for 2022 Coup Plot
• Nepal's "Gen Z Protests" Topple Government Amid Anger over Corruption & Inequality

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-11 Thursday

• Headlines for September 11, 2025
• "Moment of Great Peril": Jeff Sharlet on Killing of Charlie Kirk & Rising Political Violence in U.S.
• Trump's Personal Army? Exec. Order to Create "Quick Reaction Force" Raises Alarm
• Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Keep Sailing to Gaza; Israeli Drones Accused of Striking Two Boats

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-10 Wednesday

• Headlines for September 10, 2025
• "America Is Bankrolling This": Jeremy Scahill on Israel's Bombing of Hamas in Qatar
• Will Egyptian Pres. Sisi Soon Free Jailed Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah?
• "Here Comes the Sun": Bill McKibben on Renewable Energy, "Sun Day" & the "Last Chance" for Climate

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-09 Tuesday

• Headlines for September 09, 2025
• Jeffrey Epstein & JPMorgan: How the Largest U.S. Bank Enabled the Sexual Predator's Crimes
• "Chipocalypse": Viet Thanh Nguyen on Trump Invoking "Apocalypse Now" & Speaking Out on Gaza Genocide

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-08 Monday

• Headlines for September 08, 2025
• ICE Conducts Largest-Ever Raid at Georgia Hyundai Plant: 475 Arrested, Mostly Korean
• Report from Gaza: Aid Coordinator Describes Disease, Famine as Israel Blows Up Residential Towers
• Sister of U.S. Citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi Demands Justice 1 Year After Israel Killed Her in West Bank
• Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton Dies at 99; Explored Human Darkness, from Nazi Doctors to Hiroshima

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-05 Friday

• Headlines for September 05, 2025
• "How Can You Be So Ignorant?": GOP & Dem. Senators Slam RFK Jr. for Attacks on Vaccines & Science
• Deadly U.S. Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fears of Wider War: Greg Grandin
• Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown

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Democracy Now! 2025-09-04 Thursday

• Headlines for September 04, 2025
• "Courage Is Contagious": Survivors Demand Epstein Files Release as More Women Come Forward
• "Morally Right": Ro Khanna on Epstein Files Transparency Act, Arms Embargo on Israel
• "Uniting for Peace": How U.N. Could Override U.S. Veto, Send Peacekeepers to Gaza, Block Arms, & More

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Today, September 3, is the last day for public comment on a newly proposed rule for the Department of Veterans Affairs that would ban VA doctors from performing most abortions. We speak to Guardian investigative reporter Aaron Glantz about his recent piece headlined “New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest.”