Democracy Now! 2026-06-05 Friday Headlines for June 05, 2026 Adam Hamawy, Ex-Volunteer Doctor in Gaza, Wins NJ House Primary Calling for End to Israeli Aid Hasan Piker on Being Banned from U.K., Traveling to Cuba & Supporting Candidates Critical of Israel Download this show
Democracy Now! 2026-06-04 Thursday Headlines for June 04, 2026 Voices from Delaney Hall: Family and Community Members Demand Release of Loved Ones from ICE Jail Far-Right Leaders, Including Ex-CBP Chief Greg Bovino, Convene in Portugal for "Remigration Summit" "Notes from an ICE Chaser": Tracking Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign on the Ground Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Ada Ferrer on Cuba's Crisis, U.S. Sanctions and Family Separation Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-06-03 Wednesday Headlines for June 03, 2026 "Fraud on the Court": Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case over Collusion MAGA Loyalist Bill Pulte Tapped to Be New U.S. Spy Chief, Led Efforts to Target Trump Critics "Appalling Misconduct": Chicago Federal Prosecutors Under Fire; "Broadview 6" Charges Dropped The Government Tried to Villainize Us: Broadview 6 Defendants Speak Out After Charges Dropped Download this show...
Watch Part 2 of our conversation with Kat Abughazaleh and Michael Rabbitt, two of the “Broadview 6” who were indicted for protesting last year outside the Broadview ICE jail during Trump’s so-called Operation Midway Blitz immigration crackdown. During a recent court hearing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office admitted federal prosecutors committed misconduct during the grand jury proceedings and, in a stunning move, the U.S. Attorney’s Office dismissed the charges against the remaining four defendants. ...
Democracy Now! 2026-06-02 Tuesday Headlines for June 02, 2026 Iran Suspends U.S. Talks as Israel Kills 8 More in Lebanon & Expands Occupation "Murder as Policy": Amnesty Int'l Decries U.S. Strikes on Latin American Boats as Death Toll Tops 200 "The Overseer Class": Steven Thrasher on Black Cops, Pro-Palestine Protests, DEI & More Download this show...
Watch Part 2 of conversation with Steven Thrasher, author of the new book The Overseer Class: A Manifesto. In the book, he explores how members of historically marginalized groups rise to positions of power within institutions. Thrasher says these figures often perpetuate, rather than challenge, systems of injustice.
Democracy Now! 2026-06-01 Monday Headlines for June 01, 2026 NJ State Police Join Crackdown Against Supporters of Hunger-Striking Immigrants at Delaney Hall "We Closed Our Account": Advocates Call for Boycott of Citizens Bank for Financing ICE Jails "Revolving Door": Former GEO Group VP David Venturella Is New Interim ICE Chief Meet Bajun Mavalwalla, Veteran Convicted for ICE Protest in Unprecedented Use of Conspiracy Charges Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-29 Friday Headlines for May 29, 2026 "Subversion of Law and Order": ICE Violence Escalates at Newark's GEO-Run Jail, Delaney Hall Meet Nadia Milleron: Jury Awards Family $50M for Daughter's Death in Boeing Crash "It's About People Feeding Their Families": Indigenous-Led Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Bolivia Download this show
Democracy Now! 2026-05-28 Thursday Headlines for May 28, 2026 No End in Sight: Israel Expands War on Lebanon, Orders Evacuation of 14% of Country Ex-Nuclear Negotiator on U.S.-Iran Talks, Abraham Accords & Trump's Threat to Blow Up Oman "From Bogotá to El Fasher": How UAE Trained Colombian Mercenaries to Fight Alongside RSF in Sudan Trump's Enemies List: DOJ Launches "Egregious" Criminal Probe into Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-27 Wednesday Headlines for May 27, 2026 "They Are Not Alone Inside": Protests Outside Newark ICE Jail Support Hunger-Striking Detainees Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters & Other Allies "How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies": Northwestern Prof. Jeffrey Winters on Book "The Blind Spot" Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-26 Tuesday Headlines for May 26, 2026 U.S. Bombs Iran Despite Peace Talks; Israel Strikes Lebanon to "Force Trump's Hand": Negar Mortazavi "Designed to Break You": Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention "He Was in Agony": Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-25 Monday Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More Download this show
Democracy Now! 2026-05-22 Friday Headlines for May 22, 2026 "Politically Driven Epidemic": Ebola Response Hampered by Impoverishment & U.S. Global Health Cuts Stephen Colbert Out at CBS as Trump Weaponizes Regulatory Power to Control the Media: David Sirota "AI Resist List": Karen Hao on Data Center Resistance, Tech Billionaires, "Empire of AI" & More Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-21 Thursday Headlines for May 21, 2026 "Clear Racism": Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans Rising Conflict in DRC, Sudan, Other African Countries Linked to Trump's Gutting of USAID: Study "They're Trying to Silence Us": Students, Faculty on Censoring Pro-Palestine Voices at Graduations Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-20 Wednesday Headlines for May 20, 2026 "Dictatorship in Action": David Cay Johnston on $1.8B Slush Fund & Shielding Trumps "Forever" from IRS Report from Havana: Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade Is an Invasion of Cuba Next? Peter Kornbluh on U.S. Move to Indict Raúl Castro & CIA's Widening Role Amnesty: Executions Spike in Iran as Gov't Intensifies Domestic Repression Amid U.S./Israeli Attacks Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-19 Tuesday Headlines for May 19, 2026 3 Killed in Devastating San Diego Mosque Shooting: Linda Sarsour on Rising Anti-Muslim Hate & More "Ask E. Jean" Film Profiles the Woman Who Twice Sued Trump & Won, for Sexual Assault & Defamation Minnesota Officials Charge ICE Agent Who Shot Venezuelan Immigrant & Falsely Reported What Happened Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-18 Monday Headlines for May 18, 2026 As WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, Did USAID Cuts Worsen the Crisis? Trump's Christian Nationalist Agenda & Taxpayer-Funded D.C. Prayer Rally: Bishop Barber & Sarah Posner "Staggering Corruption": Rep. Raskin on Trump's $10B IRS Lawsuit, Stock Trades & Family Business Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-15 Friday Headlines for May 15, 2026 Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel's Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience "Israel: What Went Wrong?": Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz's Gideon Levy Debate Zionism Download this show
On Tuesday, a coalition of groups held a rally to protest ICE’s abuses at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, a 41-story federal building in Lower Manhattan that houses immigration courts, ICE field offices, immigrant detention spaces, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The protest, organized by Hands Off NYC, included advocates from Make the Road New York, the New York Immigration coalition and a surprise guest — musician Tom Morello, who performed “This Land Is Your Land.”
Democracy Now! 2026-05-14 Thursday Headlines for May 14, 2026 Xi Warns Trump of Potential "Conflict" over Taiwan in Beijing Summit on Iran, Trade, Tech & More "Here Where We Live Is Our Country”: Molly Crabapple on Resurfacing the Jewish History of Anti-Zionism Download this show
Democracy Now! 2026-05-13 Wednesday Headlines for May 13, 2026 FDA Chief Pushed Out in Latest Sign of Public Health Chaos Under RFK Jr. Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" Free Salah Sarsour: Muslim & Jewish Communities Demand ICE Release Milwaukee Mosque Leader Download this show
Democracy Now! 2026-05-12 Tuesday Headlines for May 12, 2026 A Return to Jim Crow? Ex-DOJ Civil Rights Chief Kristen Clarke Denounces Gutting of Voting Rights Act I Was Kidnapped by Israel in Int'l Waters, Jailed for 10 Days: Gaza Flotilla Activist Saif Abukeshek Download this show
Democracy Now! 2026-05-11 Monday Headlines for May 11, 2026 Far-Right Anti-Immigrant Party Surges in U.K. Elections; Calls Grow for Labour PM Starmer to Resign Meet Guido Reichstadter, the Marine Veteran Who Scaled D.C. Bridge to Protest Iran War & AI Canceled over Palestine: Biotech CEO Rami Elghandour on Rutgers Disinviting Him as Graduation Speaker Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-08 Friday Headlines for May 08, 2026 Trump Pushes to Take Over Elections, Punish His Enemies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Ned Parker Amid Growing Abuse at ICE Jails, Rep. Adelita Grijalva Calls to Shut Down Trump's Detention Network "They Don't Care": Trump's Border Wall Construction Damages 1,000-Year-Old Sacred Indigenous Site "Absolutely Vulnerable": Over 20,000 Global South Ship Workers Stranded at Sea Due to Iran War Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-07 Thursday Headlines for May 07, 2026 Gaza Faces Public Health Collapse Amid Rat Infestation & Disease as Israel Blocks Reconstruction India's Modi Gov't Purged Millions of Voters Before Elections in "Direct Attack" on Democracy "Gerrymandering Arms Race": GOP Rushes to Erase Black Representation After SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-06 Wednesday Headlines for May 06, 2026 Global Press Freedom Hits Record Low, U.S. Drops to 64th in the World: Reporters Without Borders Israel's Destruction of Southern Lebanon Turns Villages into "Moonscapes": Reporter Lylla Younes "Backtalker": Kimberlé Crenshaw on New Memoir, Voting Rights, Critical Race Theory & Clarence Thomas Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-05 Tuesday Headlines for May 05, 2026 Trump's War on Iran & Strait of Hormuz Crisis Reveal "Limits of American Imperial Power" "Assault on the First Amendment": Dem. FCC Commissioner on Megamergers & Trump Targeting Kimmel, ABC Public Access TV at Risk: Cable Giants Threaten to Cut Funds for Local Stations Across U.S. Download this show...
The Grammy-winning Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas visits Democracy Now! to perform and talk about her new memoir, Norteña, and her new album of the same name. Venegas has been a leading figure in Latin rock and pop for decades, often transcending genres, and is beloved by audiences around the world.
Democracy Now! 2026-05-04 Monday Headlines for May 04, 2026 Abortion Rights Movement Shifts to "Plan C" as Court Restricts Mifepristone by Mail Gaza Flotilla Participant Details "Cruelty" of Israeli Abduction at Sea; Two Activists Still Detained Trita Parsi on Iran War: Trump Still "Looking for a Silver Bullet" Instead of Negotiating Seriously Download this show...
Democracy Now! 2026-05-01 Friday Headlines for May 01, 2026 From Springfield, Ohio, to the Supreme Court: A Pastor's Fight to Protect TPS for Haitians "No School, No Work, No Shopping": Workers, Immigrants to Lead Thousands of May Day Protests "A People's History of Invisible India": Journalist Neha Dixit on Dire State of Worker Rights Download this show...
