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Inside ICE's $100 million recruitment strategy
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- Inside ICE's $100 million recruitment strategy
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Reporter Drew Harwell discusses the $100 million ICE recruitment push, which is targeting gun and military enthusiasts including through ads that echo white supremacist language.
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- Abolish ICE: Rep. Delia Ramirez Calls for Defunding DHS & Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar After Attack
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- 10:23
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- 8 months ago
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We speak with Congressmember Delia Ramirez following an attack on her colleague, Congressmember Ilhan Omar, who was sprayed with an unknown foul-smelling liquid while speaking at a town hall event in Minneapolis on Tuesday. "This is a direct influence of what you're seeing from this president," Ramirez says, criticizing Trump's policies and his long history of attacking Omar in particular.
Ramirez also discusses her efforts in Congress to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Ramirez says Noem's agency is "rotten from the inside out" and must be completely dismantled. "You have an agency killing people, executing them, lying about it, and then talking about investigating themselves while operating with impunity."
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- Decades of Anti-Immigration Policy Created "Mass Grave" at Southern Border
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- 14:06
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- 8 months ago
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As President Trump shakes up the leadership of his immigration crackdown in Minnesota following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents, we examine the expanding role of the agency in interior enforcement.
Independent journalist Todd Miller says the Trump administration's immigration operations in U.S. cities are an "extension" of "policies and practices that we've been seeing in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands now for decades," characterizing Border Patrol culture as one of rampant abuse and impunity.
We also speak with Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent who quit in 2001 and is now an immigrant rights activist. She disputes the claim that recent violence by CBP staff is a result of insufficient training. "The management of the Border Patrol has been corrupt for many generations, and then after 9/11 we just gave them money with little accountability and let them de...
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- Rep. Ilhan Omar Attacked by Man at Minneapolis Town Hall After She Called for Noem's Impeachment
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- 7:36
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- 8 months ago
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Minnesota Congressmember Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unknown liquid Tuesday during a town hall event in Minneapolis. Omar has long been a favorite target of President Donald Trump and his supporters, and the attack on her comes just days after Florida Congressmember Maxwell Frost was punched by a Trump supporter while attending the Sundance Film Festival.
"It's truly heartbreaking, this moment we find ourselves in," Omar said when she resumed her remarks, discussing the Trump administration's violent immigration crackdown. "But if we know anything about U.S. history, it's that everything is temporary, and we will find our way out of this."
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- ICE "Wartime" Recruiting Effort Targets Gun & Military Lovers Using White Nationalist Messaging
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- 9:52
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- 8 months ago
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As outrage grows across the country over the Trump administration's deadly immigration crackdown in Minnesota, we speak with reporter Drew Harwell, who recently reported on the government's effort to hire thousands more ICE agents. According to an internal strategy document uncovered by The Washington Post, the federal government plans to spend $100 million over a one-year period in a "wartime recruitment" push, including online targeting of UFC fans, gun-rights supporters, military enthusiasts and more. Meanwhile, the administration's online messaging has repeatedly echoed white nationalist slogans.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 28, 2026
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- 11:53
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- 8 months ago
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- Rep. Ilhan Omar Attacked at Town Hall
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar was attacked at a town hall in Minneapolis Tuesday night.
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- How body cams expanded the role of police
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- 2:25
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Alec Karakatsanis, the author of "Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News" explains how the adoption of body cameras did little to stop police violence, and in fact expanded the role of the police.
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- From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing
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- 12:57
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening and converts them into supporting meaningless reforms that actually don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies.” Karakatsanis is the author of Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. He breaks down many of the myths about crime and policing that arose in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests over the past decade, including the reformist myth of police body cameras and the so-called crime wave. Police-tracked crime, “contrary to what you have been told in the news every single day for the last several years, is actually down,” says Karakatsanis, but fearmongering mainstream media narratives are “designed to make people so afraid that they support repressive in...
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- Can ICE Forcibly Enter Homes Without a Warrant? Inside Trump’s Attack on the 4th Amendment
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- 6:43
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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ICE is asserting federal immigration officers have the power to forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant. “That’s just not true,” says legal scholar Stephen Vladeck, who says the claim directly violates the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure. “What we’re really seeing here is an effort to twist a handful of old cases that have recognized circumstances in which the government doesn’t need a judicial warrant to enter a home.” Vladeck also encourages witnesses to share video evidence of federal agents’ abuses to support future prosecution efforts.
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- “Feels Like a Cover-Up”: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Slams Trump Admin over Deadly ICE Crackdown
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- 23:15
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- 8 months ago
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A federal judge in Minnesota heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit filed by city and state officials to halt Trump’s deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota. “The federal government cannot coerce us into doing it their way,” says Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is part of the group that brought the lawsuit. As the Trump administration continues to obstruct local investigations into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minnesota this month, we speak to Ellison and Georgetown University law professor Stephen Vladeck to discuss state and federal jurisdiction over investigations and potential prosecutions. Ellison also responds to the announcement that “border czar” Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota to replace U.S. Border Patrol “commander-at-large” Gregory Bovino as the public face of Trump’s immigration enforcement surge.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 27, 2026
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- 12:20
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- 8 months ago
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- Mass protests in Minnesota demand “ICE Out”
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Tens of thousands of Minnesotans braved the bitter cold in Minneapolis on Friday to demand ”ICE out.”
“The fear is so tangible,” said English teacher John Reuss. “If we do not shut it down right now, your city is next.”
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- CWA President says unions can fight authoritarianism
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- “When countries have successfully prevented or reversed authoritarian control, unions have played an important role in stopping it,” says Claude Cummings Jr, president of the Communications Workers of America.
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- Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene of Alex Pretti's killing, where protesters clashed with federal agents.
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- “ICE Out”: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids
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- 11:17
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- 8 months ago
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Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/minnesota_strike_ice_out
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans braved the bitter cold in Minneapolis on Friday to demand ”ICE out.” The march was organized by faith and labor leaders and was accompanied by calls for an economic blackout. Seven hundred businesses reportedly closed in solidarity. Democracy Now!’s John Hamilton filed a report from the streets. John Reuss, an English teacher, said his students are afraid. “The fear is so tangible,” said Reuss. “If we do not shut it down right now, your city is next.”
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- Activist Nekima Levy Armstrong Out of Jail, Faces Prosecution for Anti-ICE Protest
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- 5:54
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- 8 months ago
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Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/nekima_levy_armstrong_arrest_minnesota
Civil rights attorney, minister and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, who was arrested by federal officials for participating in an anti-ICE demonstration at Cities Church in St. Paul, was released from federal custody on Friday. “They have altered the facts, just as they altered my image as a way of trying to criminalize nonviolent, peaceful protests and lawful dissent against their unlawful and unjust actions,” says Armstrong, noting images posted by the Trump administration that digitally altered her to make it appear as if she was sobbing during her arrest.
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- RIP Alex Pretti: Colleague Remembers “Compassion,” “Deep Empathy” of ICU Nurse Killed by Feds
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- 7:55
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- 8 months ago
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Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/aasma_shaukat_alex_pretti
Democracy Now! speaks with a former colleague of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who hired Pretti for a research job over a decade ago, says he lived with “kindness, compassion and a strong sense of civic duty to help his fellow citizens.”
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- "He Was Executed": Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti
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- 11:39
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- 8 months ago
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Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/alex_pretti_shooting_minneapolis
Protests have intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, on Saturday. Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene of Pretti's killing, where protesters clashed with federal agents. “We’ve seen everything from people that are unconscious, that have fainted, tear-gassed, bruised, bloody noses, can’t breathe,” said Melissa, a local resident. State Senator Omar Fateh responded to the killing with outrage: “He had a camera on his hand. He was tackled, he was pummeled, and he was executed.”
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 26, 2026
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- 13:59
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- 8 months ago
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- DOJ staged activist's arrest for "trophy" photo
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- An attorney for activist Nekima Levy Armstrong says the Justice Department staged her arrest in order to film it and humiliate her. Levy Armstrong was part of a group that interrupted a church service in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to protest a pastor's employment with ICE.
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- Book revisits Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson history
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Journalist Howard Bryant's new book "Kings and Pawns" looks at two iconic Black Americans — Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson — and how their paths intersected during the Cold War at the height of McCarthyism.
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- Why Did Jackie Robinson Join McCarthyist Campaign Against Paul Robeson?
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- 10:34
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- 9 months ago
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson's death on January 23, 1976. The actor, singer, athlete and scholar was once famous around the world, but he was attacked, blacklisted and hounded by the government for his political beliefs. Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers star who had integrated the all-white major baseball leagues, was hailed as a national hero in 1949 for testifying against Robeson before the House Un-American Activities Committee run by Senator Joseph McCarthy. For more, we speak with sports journalist Howard Bryant, author of the new book "Kings and Pawns" that looks at how Robeson and Robinson's paths intertwined at the height of the McCarthy era.
"History writes people out of the story, and it's our job to write them back in," Bryant says. Fifty years after Paul Robeson's death, "it's time for a reappraisal of one of the great Americans."
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- ICE Out of Minnesota: Unions & Churches Lead Economic Blackout in "Day of Truth and Freedom"
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- 3:03
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- 9 months ago
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Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota have closed for the day as part of an economic blackout to protest the surge of ICE agents into the state. Organizers of the strike include faith leaders and unions, who are encouraging people to stay home from work, school and shopping.
Kieran Knutson, president of the Communications Workers of America Local 7250, says the strike comes "after weeks of living under the heavy weight of this racist campaign of terror by ICE agents" in the Twin Cities area. "Nothing runs without the working class in this country, and today we're going to show our power."
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- Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul
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- 9:54
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- 9 months ago
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The Justice Department said Thursday that it had arrested three people in Minnesota who interrupted a church service in St. Paul to protest a pastor's role as a local ICE official. The activists involved in the protest now face charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law written to protect abortion clinics.
One of the arrestees, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, had her appearance digitally altered in a photo posted online by the White House to make it look like she was crying while handcuffed. Her attorney, Jordan Kushner, tells _Democracy Now!_ that Justice Department officials refused to let Levy Armstrong turn herself in, instead demanding an arrest at the hotel where she was staying. "This was their trophy," says Kushner, who adds that the government "used more manipulative tactics to keep her in jail" even though "no one is detained in a case like this."
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- "Emperor" Trump's So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance
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- 20:22
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- 9 months ago
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As President Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, his son-in-law Jared Kushner presented his vision of turning the Gaza Strip into an upscale seaside resort with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities. The proposal is said to require an investment of at least $25 billion, and Kushner's presentation showed a map of the besieged territory divided into different zones. This all comes as Palestinians in Gaza struggle to survive with little food or shelter amid ongoing Israeli restrictions on aid.
"It's hard to take these people seriously. I mean, they're buffoonish. But the problem is, is that they control the largest military and economy in the world," says Sharif Abdel Kouddous, the Middle East and North Africa editor at Drop Site News. He calls the Board of Peace "a parody of a colonial body" and says the ...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 23, 2026
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- 11:24
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s new world order
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Yanis Varoufakis calls Trump’s “Board of Peace” and the U.S.-led plan for the reoccupation of Gaza “one of the most despicable developments” in his lifetime and slams European leaders' ineffectual, largely symbolic resistance to Trump’s imperial ambitions.
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- ICE targets Maine’s Somali Americans
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Safiya Khalid is the first-ever Somali American city councilmember for Lewiston, Maine's second-largest city.
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- Born in Evin Prison, Iranian Author on Protests Against “Authoritarian, Theocratic Regime”
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- 13:58
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- 9 months ago
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Trump's deportation machine has touched down in Maine. As the state, home to a significant share of the Somali American community, faces a surge of ICE activity, we're joined by Safiya Khalid, the first-ever Somali American city councilmember for Lewiston, Maine's second-largest city. Lewiston's "streets are completely empty" as residents of all immigration statuses fear harassment and violence from unchecked federal agents. "If a white woman was shot in the face, none of us are safe," warns Khalid, referring to the recent killing of Renee Good by ICE in Minneapolis. She advises "people to stay home and do not leave your home."
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- "Catch of the Day": Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community
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- 7:18
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- 9 months ago
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Trump's deportation machine has touched down in Maine. As the state, home to a significant share of the Somali American community, faces a surge of ICE activity, we're joined by Safiya Khalid, the first-ever Somali American city councilmember for Lewiston, Maine's second-largest city. Lewiston's "streets are completely empty" as residents of all immigration statuses fear harassment and violence from unchecked federal agents. "If a white woman was shot in the face, none of us are safe," warns Khalid, referring to the recent killing of Renee Good by ICE in Minneapolis. She advises "people to stay home and do not leave your home."
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- “An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order
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- 21:15
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- 9 months ago
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We speak to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War II international consensus. “Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, 'Right, I'm taking over the world,’” laments Varoufakis as he draws a connection between Trump’s pay-to-play diplomacy and the mercantalist policies of European colonial powers. Varoufakis comments on plans for the reoccupation of Gaza by the U.S.-led “Board of Peace,” which signed its founding charter this week; Trump’s designs on the Danish territory of Greenland; and European leaders’ ineffectual, largely symbolic resistance to Trump’s assertion of U.S. supremacy on the world stage.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 22, 2026
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- 12:26
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Facing Possible Arrest, Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Activist and attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong spoke with Democracy Now! from an undisclosed location after Trump officials vowed to investigate her for leading a protest in a Minnesota church where one of the pastors, David Easterwood, also leads a local ICE field office in the Twin Cities area.
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- Canadian Prime Minister declares that the U.S.-led international order is breaking down
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney received a standing ovation at Davos after a speech in which he declared that the U.S.-led international order was breaking down.
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- NYC Nurses' Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line
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- 14:15
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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The largest nurses' strike in New York City history has reached its 10th day, as negotiations stall. Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are fighting for a contract that includes higher pay, a staffing increase to manage patients, improved benefits and workplace protections against violence. Senator Bernie Sanders and Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined the picket line at Mount Sinai West Tuesday with the New York State Nurses Association. "This is a fight for our patients," says Michelle Gonzalez, a nurse at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, who notes one of the nurses' priorities in contract negotiations "is to have ICE officers not be allowed into our facilities."
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- Oxfam Warns of Rising Authoritarianism & Billionaire Boom
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- 15:26
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- 9 months ago
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World leaders are gathered in Davos, Switzerland, site of the World Economic Forum — which has turned into an emergency summit over President Trump's threats to take over Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. This comes as Oxfam International has released a report finding economic inequality creates "fertile ground for increased authoritarianism." Amitabh Behar, executive director of Oxfam International, says "the entire multilateral structure seems not just fragile, it's broken."
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- Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official
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- 12:19
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- 9 months ago
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We speak with activist, civil rights attorney and ordained minister Nekima Levy Armstrong about her role in a protest at a St. Paul church on Sunday, where one of the pastors, David Easterwood, also leads a local ICE field office in the Twin Cities area. "I believe that if someone professes to represent the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to preach it, that they should not be allowing ICE agents to drag people out of their homes," Levy Armstrong tells _Democracy Now!_ She spoke from an undisclosed location after Trump officials vowed to investigate and possibly arrest the demonstrators.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 21, 2026
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- 13:33
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- 9 months ago
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- Greenlanders reject Trump annexation plans
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Locals reject U.S. plans to annex Greenland, says Julie Rademacher, chair of the organization Uagut, which represents Greenlanders in Denmark.
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- ICE agents violently arrest observers in Minneapolis
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Minneapolis resident Patty O’Keefe, who was violently arrested by ICE, says one agent told her that "obstructing" ICE activity is "why that lesbian bitch is dead,” referring to Renee Good, the mother of three killed by an ICE agent in early January.
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- “No Going Back”: Trump Escalates Threats to Take Greenland & Tariff European Allies
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- 8:48
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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Tensions are escalating between the United States and Europe after President Trump threatened to impose tariffs on eight European allies that oppose his push to take over Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. Thousands took part in protests in Greenland and Denmark over the weekend to oppose Trump’s annexation threats.
Julie Rademacher, chair of Uagut, an organization for Greenlanders in Denmark, tells Democracy Now! that Trump’s rhetoric is a threat to everyone. “This is not only Greenland being attacked. This is democracy, freedom and the world order as we know it that’s being attacked.”
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- A Distraction from Epstein Files? Trump Ramps Up Chaos in Minnesota, Greenland & Beyond
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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One month after the deadline set by Congress for the Justice Department to release all files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump administration has made available less than 1% of the files. This comes as President Trump has dramatically expanded immigration operations in Minnesota while attacking Venezuela, threatening to bomb Iran and maintaining that the United States will annex Greenland.
Trump’s campaign promised “that the files would be released, all of the files. Now, that’s not happened,” says legal expert Michele Goodwin, calling it a “travesty.”
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- "Not Above the Law": Law Prof. Michele Goodwin Decries Violent ICE Activity in Minnesota
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- 11:44
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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Federal agents carrying out the Trump administration's sweeping immigration actions in Minnesota have been widely accused of using excessive force, arresting U.S. citizens, denying people access to legal counsel and other violations. Now President Trump has put 1,500 U.S. military troops on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota under the Insurrection Act, which would mark another major escalation in his attack on dissent.
"The federal government is not above the law," says legal expert Michele Goodwin, who says the administration's violent crackdown in Minnesota marks a "reversal" of how federal force was used during the civil rights movement to protect peaceful protest. "It's quite horrific."
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. E...
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- ICE vs. People of Minnesota: Community Resists Trump's Militarized Crackdown – Special Report
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- 19:27
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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Democracy Now! producer John Hamilton reports from Minneapolis, where residents say ICE agents are violently targeting legal observers and community members as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Patty O'Keefe, who was arrested while monitoring ICE activity in her vehicle, said agents "broke our two front windows and dragged us out," then taunted her in custody. She said one agent told her, "You guys got to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead," referring to Renee Good, the mother of three shot dead earlier this month by an ICE agent.
Indigenous residents have also been detained. "Nobody is more American than the American Indian," Oglala Sioux attorney Chase Iron Eyes told Democracy Now!, adding ICE's actions against Native Americans are "a legal impossibility."
This comes as the Pentagon has placed 1,500 soldiers on standby for a possible de...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 20, 2026
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- 13:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- “All That’s Left of You”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family’s Love & Loss Since 1948
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- "All That’s Left of You" is a new feature film that looks at 70 years of Palestinian history through the lens of one family’s experience over three generations.
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- MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
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- 54:52
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, which he delivered at New York City’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, as well as his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” that he gave on April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated.
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.<...
- Title
- ICE loosens recruitment requirements for radical deportation mandate
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- ICE and Border Patrol have relaxed recruitment and deployment guidelines in an effort to fill the administration’s sweeping deportation goals.
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- Could the 1979 Iranian Revolution have gone differently?
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was a high school student when he joined protests against the Shah in the late 1970s. He says what the population wanted "was freedom," but the revolution was hijacked by "the clerical class" that had its own priorities. Now, 47 years later, the country is experiencing a new wave of protest.
