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On today's show: Headlines “Let Us Out”: ICE Detention of Children Sparks Protests at Immigration Jail in Dilley, TX “Not Going to Bully Me”: Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison over ICE Jail Inspection ICE Agents Film Minnesota Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Massive Facial Recognition Push Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 29, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Headlines ICE “Wartime” Recruiting Effort Targets Gun & Military Lovers Using White Nationalist Messaging Rep. Ilhan Omar Attacked by Man at Minneapolis Town Hall After She Called for Noem's Impeachment “The Border Is the Entire Country”: How Trump Brought Borderland Violence into U.S. Cities Abolish ICE: Rep. Delia Ramirez Calls for Defunding DHS & Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar After Attack Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 28, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Headlines “Feels Like a Cover-Up”: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Slams Trump Admin over Deadly ICE Crackdown Can ICE Forcibly Enter Homes Without a Warrant? Inside Trump's Attack on the 4th Amendment From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.   The post Democracy Now! – January 27, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Headlines “He Was Executed”: Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti RIP Alex Pretti: Colleague Remembers “Compassion,” “Deep Empathy” of ICU Nurse Killed by Feds “Trumped-Up Charges”: Out of Jail, Nekima Levy Armstrong Faces Prosecution for Anti-ICE Church Protest “ICE Out”: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 26, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: “Emperor” Trump's So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul ICE Out of Minnesota: Unions & Churches Lead Economic Blackout in “Day of Truth and Freedom” “Kings and Pawns”: Howard Bryant on What Jackie Robinson & Paul Robeson Reveal About America Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 23, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump's “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order “Catch of the Day”: Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community Born in Evin Prison, Iranian Author on Protests Against “Authoritarian, Theocratic Regime”   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 22, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: Facing Possible Arrest, Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official As Trump Threatens to Take Greenland, Oxfam Warns of Rising Authoritarianism & Billionaire Boom NYC Nurses' Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 21, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: ICE vs. People of Minnesota: A Special Report on Community Resistance to Trump's Militarized Crackdown “Not Above the Law”: Law Prof. Michele Goodwin Decries Violent ICE Activity in Minnesota A Distraction from Epstein Files? Trump Ramps Up Chaos in Minnesota, Greenland & Beyond “No Going Back”: Trump Escalates Threats to Take Greenland & Tariff European Allies Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 20, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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ON TODAY'S SHOW: FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump “This Regime Will Fall”: Director Jafar Panahi on Deadly Iran Protests & Filmmaking Under Censorship Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 15, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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ON TODAY'S SHOW: “Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent “State of Siege”: Iran Protest Death Toll Rises to 2,000 After U.S. Sanctions Spawn Economic Crisis “Empire in Decline”: Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela, Iran & Beyond Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 13, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On todays show: Headlines Iran Escalates Deadly Crackdown on Mass Protests as Trump Threatens to Launch Military Attack “We Had Whistles. They Had Guns”: Nationwide Protests Held over ICE Killing of Renee Good “All the Walls Came Down”: L.A. Fire Survivors Fight Foreclosure & Demand Justice in Altadena   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 12, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Headlines “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”   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 9, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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On today's show: Headlines “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” Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Headlines “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 Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Headlines “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? Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – January 5, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Headlines 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 The post Democracy Now! – January 2, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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On today's show: Headlines “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 Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's episode: Headlines 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 Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 29, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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On today's show: Headlines CBS Censorship: Bari Weiss Pulls “60 Minutes” Exposé on Torture of Migrants U.S. Sent to El Salvador “Out for Blood”: Writer Jasper Nathaniel on Surviving Israeli Settler Attack on W. Bank Olive Farmers Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 23, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Who Are They Protecting?”: Rep. Ro Khanna Urges Contempt Charges over AG Bondi's Epstein Redactions Rep. Ro Khanna on Venezuela Strikes, Zohran Mamdani, Trump-Kennedy Center & More Israel Approves 19 New West Bank Settlements as State-Sponsored Violence Escalates “Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 22, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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On today's show: “Divorced from Reality”: Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump's Primetime Speech Meet Tania Nemer, Fired Immigration Judge Suing Trump Admin Amid Purge of Immigration Court System “No Military Solution”: Is Peace Possible in Sudan as “Proxy War” Expands? Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 18, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Trump Orders Blockade on Sanctioned Oil Tankers Entering and Leaving Venezuela ICC Rejects Israel's Bid to Block War Crimes Probe in Gaza First Funerals Held Today for Victims of Bondi Beach Massacre Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 17, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: “We're Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age” From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 16, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Antony Loewenstein on the Hanukkah Massacre in Sydney & the Muslim Food Vendor Who Saved Lives Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi Arrested Again in Iran Meet Mia Tretta: Shot 6 Years Ago, Brown Student Speaks Out After Surviving 2nd School Shooting   Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 15, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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On today's show: Is War Next? U.S. Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker as Anti-Maduro Campaign Escalates “Slow Poison”: Scholar Mahmood Mamdani on New Book About Uganda, Decolonization & More “My Advice to Parents Is Learn from Your Kids”: Mahmood Mamdani on Raising Zohran, NYC's Next Mayor “Slower Form of Death”: Despite Ceasefire, Israel Keeps Killing in Gaza as Winter Storm Floods Tents   Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.     The post Democracy Now! – December 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: Will the International Community Act? Preschool Massacre & “Large Piles of Bodies” in Sudan “Torture & Enforced Disappearances” at Florida's ICE Jails “Alligator Alcatraz” & Krome Trump Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt's Nephew's Mother Released from ICE Jail, Faces Deportation Despite Judge's Order, ICE Deports Shackled Babson College Freshman, Harasses Her Family in Texas What Activists Can Learn from Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycot Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 10, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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On today's show: “Murder on the High Seas”: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Trump's Boat Strikes “I Was Pepper-Sprayed”: Rep. Adelita Grijalva on ICE Raid, Epstein Files, Rising Health Costs & More “Domestic Terrorism”: Leaked DOJ Memo Targets “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity” “The Problem with Plastic”: Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It's Too Late Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – December 8, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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ON TODAY'S SHOW: “The Epstein Class”: Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around the Sexual Predator Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela? Trump's Anti-Maduro Campaign Seen as Part of a Broader Regional Plan Assassinated Amazonian Rubber Tapper Chico Mendes Tried to Save the Rainforest. Meet His Daughter Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – November 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: From Affordability to Genocide, Trump-Mamdani Meeting at White House Was Full of Surprises Climate Deal Excludes Fossil Fuel Phaseout as Wealthy Nations Place Burden “On the Backs of the Poor” Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – November 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

ON TODAY'S SHOW: No Fossil Fuel Phaseout, No Deal! At COP30, Vanuatu Climate Minister Joins 30+ Dissenting Nations “We Need to Be Heard”: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on COP30 Protest “Inviting the Arsonists”: Indian Climate Activist Slams Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at U.N. Climate Summit Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – November 21, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Climate Crisis Displaces 250 Million Over a Decade While U.S. & Other Polluting Nations Close Borders Brazilian Indigenous Minister Sônia Guajajara on Fossil Fuel Phaseout, Bolsonaro's Conviction & More The Race to Save the Amazon: Top Brazilian Scientist Says Rainforest Is at “Tipping Point” Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – November 20, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.