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The massacre at Robb Elementary School increases pressure for gun control; How Australia passed sweeping new gun control measures after a mass shooting; DHS says it will try to pause immigration enforcement in Uvalde after the Robb Elementary School massacre; Journalist Patrick Cockburn on continued fighting in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

An 18-year-old gunman kills 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. We speak with Nicole Golden of Texas Gun Sense, The Trace reporter Mike Spies, and Parkland H.S. victim father and activist Manuel Oliver. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Two years after the police killing George Floyd, go to Minneapolis to speak with Robin Wonsley, longtime activist who is now the city's first Black Democratic Socialist city councilmember.

Haitian American historian Westenley Alcenat and Prof. Gerald Horne respond to The New York Times series “The Ransom,” which details how Haiti became one of the poorest countries in the world while bankers in France and the United States made a fortune; President Biden is in Tokyo to meet with leaders from the “Quad” in efforts to counter China’s power and makes confusing comments on U.S. policy on Taiwan. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Democracy Now! Monday, May 23, 2022

An update from the grieving Buffalo community after last weekend’s white supremacist massacre; reproductive rights groups face a major setback as Oklahoma imposes one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Nina Khrushcheva on Russia’s war in Ukraine; Gun control advocates say stricter rules may have prevented the Buffalo shooter’s killing spree; Chileans rewrite their country’s Pinochet-era constitution. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Progressives win big in Tuesday’s primary elections despite opposition from within the Democratic Party, as well as deep-pocketed outside groups, say journalist David Sirota and progressive champion Nina Turner; U.S. journalist William Nessen reports from the frontline of the war in eastern Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Color of Change’s Rashad Robinson on social media’s role in the Buffalo massacre and the propagation of extremism; Journalist Talia Lavin on how the gunman’s hateful ideology reflects hateful rhetoric found in online chatrooms she reports on; The role of monopolies in the U.S. baby formula shortage. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

India Walton in Buffalo responds to the mass shooting at a grocery store that targeted the Black community; the spread of white nationalist conspiracy theories and Fox News host Tucker Carlson and their relation to mass shootings; Ibram X. Kendi on antiracist education; We Testify founder Renee Bracey Sherman on the racist history of anti-abortion movements and what lawmakers must do to protect reproductive healthcare. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Indigenous writer and historian Nick Estes on a new report by the Interior Department that says at least 500 Indigenous children died at Indian boarding schools run or supported by the U.S. government; Calls grow for President Biden to grant clemency to imprisoned Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier; Journalists in Mexico are being killed with impunity in record numbers; European peace activists oppose Finland’s plans to end decades of neutrality and join NATO. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Democracy Now! Thursday, May 12, 2022

Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank; Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa on the return of the Marcos dynasty in the Philippines; Workers at Starbucks and Amazon who say they were fired for organizing are fighting to get their jobs back. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Sri Lanka’s prime minister resigns after weeks of mass protests over the country’s economic crisis; The podcast “Suave” wins a Pulitzer Prize; Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book “Bad Mexicans” tells the untold story of the Mexican Revolution and its relation to U.S. imperialism. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

U.S. lawmakers are openly calling the fighting in Ukraine a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia; Alabama becomes the first state to make it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical care to trans youth; The Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin wins a historic number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The World Health Organization says the true death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is nearly 15 million people, with nearly 5 million deaths in India alone; Reproductive rights scholar Michele Goodwin on how a ban on abortion in rape and incest cases hurts the survivors. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

In an in-depth interview with Michele Goodwin, she discusses her book, “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood,” and lays out a “Reproductive New Deal.”

How the Russian war in Ukraine is exacerbating world hunger, especially for African countries reliant on wheat imports and where food insecurity is already dire; The European Union vows to ban Russian oil imports by the end of the year; Historian Timothy Snyder on why Russia’s war in Ukraine is a colonial war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We speak with an abortion doctor and a reproductive rights activist facing deportation about how to protect access to abortion; The role of dark money in placing anti-abortion justices on the high court; What can we learn from the Ohio primaries for House and Senate races where a Trump-backed candidate won and a progressive Democrat lost amid a wave of outside attacks. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

A leaked majority opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion; CodePink’s Medea Benjamin and the Quincy Institute’s George Beebe on the war in Ukraine and the risk of a direct military confrontation between Russia and the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

A record-breaking heat wave hits India and Pakistan as summer arrives early due in part to the climate crisis; One in five reptile species risk extinction; Update on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and its impact on support for crises in other parts of the world. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Russian missiles fly over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, raising fears of a nuclear disaster; Science writer Ed Yong on why future pandemics are more likely, due to the climate crisis; The landmark 1979 labor documentary “The Wobblies” is rereleased in high definition and entered into the Library of Congress. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

A Harvard report details the school’s deep ties to slavery; After a U.S. prisoner swap with Russia this week, calls grow for the Biden administration to secure the freedom of WNBA star Brittney Griner, jailed in Russia since February; Anatol Lieven on the dangers of a U.S. proxy war in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

U.S. lawmakers push for Puerto Rico’s self-determination; Asylum seekers could see better conditions if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy; Historian Alfred McCoy on how to end the war in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Cuba and the U.S. hold their highest-level talks in four years; Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is set to buy Twitter for $44 billion; Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger on leaving house arrest after nearly 1,000 days. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

French President Emmanuel Macron wins reelection against far-right leader Marine Le Pen; Redistricting in Florida all but guarantees Republicans four more seats in Congress while cutting seats of Black Democrats; Legislative attacks on LGBTQ rights proliferate across the U.S., and some Democratic lawmakers are pushing back. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We mark Earth Day with a look at why the U.S. must reconsider its heavy reliance on Russian and Ukrainian dirty steel; The director of “Powerlands,” a new documentary on Indigenous movements against environmental catastrophe across the world. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We speak with a Ukrainian democratic socialist; Tony Wood on how average Russians are paying the price for Vladimir Putin’s gamble; Why the Donbas region is pivotal to the outcome of the war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

In an extended conversation, we get an update on the Donbas part of Ukraine, where thousands of civilians are reportedly trapped.

Security deteriorates in Afghanistan under Taliban rule as a boys’ school in Kabul is bombed; U.S. border officials allow Ukrainian refugees to enter while holding back asylum seekers from Haiti, Central America and elsewhere; Texas plans to execute Melissa Lucio despite claims she is innocent, amid bipartisan calls to save her life. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Russia launches a major new offensive in eastern Ukraine; Imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah undertakes a hunger strike to protest his detention as his family calls for his urgent release. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Israeli forces repeatedly raid the Al-Aqsa Mosque, violently clearing worshipers during Ramadan; Republican-led states enact a wave of new abortion restrictions; The Biden administration grants temporary protected status to Cameroonians living in the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

U.S. weapons makers are cashing in on the Ukraine war; Vijay Prashad on how Russia’s invasion exposes Western hypocrisy on war crimes; “Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The U.S. mental health crisis and its connections to the New York subway shooting; Sweden and Finland consider NATO membership; Update from Lviv on the Russian war in Ukraine after Putin declared a “dead end” to peace negotiations. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams on the subway shooting; How the Russian war in Ukraine is impacting inflation; Starbucks Workers United union drive spreads to 30 states. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Russia is set to launch a massive offensive in eastern Ukraine; Saudi investment in the Trump family and the fate of 26 Saudi men accused of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi; J. David McSwane on his new book, “Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Activists Tariq Ali and Tooba Syed respond to Imran Khan’s ousting as Pakistan’s prime minister and the election of Shahbaz Sharif; Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen will face French President Emmanuel Macron in a runoff after France’s first round of presidential elections; Founder of the La Frontera Fund on mobilizing to free and support Lizelle Herrera, jailed over a “self-induced abortion” amid Texas’s crackdowns on reproductive rights. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Prof. Michele Goodwin on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic confirmation to the Supreme Court and the wave of anti-abortion laws sweeping the U.S.; Russia’s suspension from the U.N. Human Rights Council reveals double standards in the international criminal justice system; Trita Parsi on negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Democracy Now! Thursday, April 7, 2022

Evidence grows of Russian atrocities in Ukraine; A Taliban crackdown on girls’ education stalls talks with the U.S. about possible relief for Afghanistan’s economic crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Pakistan faces a constitutional crisis as Prime Minister Imran Khan calls for new elections; Concerns grow about human rights abuses in El Salvador during a 30-day state of emergency over gang violence; A new report highlights how poverty and COVID-19 deaths are linked in the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We speak with the two best friends who took on Amazon and successfully organized workers in Staten Island vote to form the retail giant’s first U.S. union; As Russian forces retreat from the areas around Kyiv, evidence emerges of summary killings of civilians, mass graves and other atrocities. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

President Biden signs the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, culminating more than a century of efforts to make lynching a federal crime. We speak with Till’s cousin and best friend, as well as the great-granddaughter of crusading anti-lynching journalist Ida B. Wells; Journalist Chris Hedges speaks about his former RT America show, Julian Assange, Ukraine and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Russia appears set to launch a major new offensive in the Donbas region of Ukraine; Funding ends for free COVID-19 tests, treatment and vaccines, putting the uninsured and communities of color at even greater risk, as the pandemic has led to a renewed push for Medicare for All. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Is there a peace deal in sight for Ukraine?; Guerline Jozef and Maria Hinojosa on the unequal treatment of nonwhite refugees, most recently Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border; Investigative reporter Sally Hayden on African refugees imprisoned in Libya. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Part 2 of our interview with Sally Hayden, author of the new book, “My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route.”

Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine meet in Turkey for peace talks; Calls grow for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s impeachment; A new Frontline/ProPublica documentary details the “Plot to Overturn the Election.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is willing to discuss Russia’s demand to adopt a neutral status; A new investigation reveals European Union countries are detaining nonwhite refugees fleeing Ukraine; Pressure grows in former Caribbean British colonies to cut ties with the British monarchy amid a visit from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Yanis Varoufakis on the war in Ukraine and why the West would be “playing with fire” by pursuing regime change in Russia; Foreign policy expert William Hartung on ending the war in Yemen and why hawks in Washington are pushing for even more military spending; Colombian environmentalist and vice-presidential candidate Francia Márquez says “a new form of government is possible” in the country. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

NATO announces it will send even more troops to Eastern Europe as the Ukraine war enters its second month; Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson endures hours of Republican attacks on her third day of Senate confirmation hearings; Republicans push anti-abortion measures in states across the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Republican senators attack Ketanji Brown Jackson’s work as a public defender representing Guantánamo Bay detainees and her record as a judge; Ukrainian sociologist ​​Volodymyr Ishchenko on Putin’s endgame in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe