Democracy Now! Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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- Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City Mayoral Race
- Democrats Dominate First Major Elections of Trump's Second Term
- Federal Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History
- Israel Continues Striking Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire
- U.N. Secretary-General Warns Sudan's Civil War Is "Spiraling Out of Control"
- Pentagon Announces Another Deadly Strike on Alleged Drug Boat
- NBC News: Trump Admin Looking into Possible U.S. Military Mission Inside Mexico
- U.N.: World Likely to Surpass 1.5 Degrees Celsius Climate Goal
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Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis on the day they publish their new book, Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department, which looks at how the DOJ during the Biden administration was overly cautious in pursuing cases against Trump and his allies over 2020 election interference, the January 6 riot and more. Attorney General Merrick Garland felt it was important to “turn the page from Donald Trump” and not look too closely at abuses of power, says Leonnig, who also stresses many “stubbornly brave people … tried to do the right thing and could not succeed in this institution.”
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Dick Cheney, the former vice president and one of the key architects of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died Monday at age 84. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming’s lone representative before serving as defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush, when he oversaw the first Gulf War and the bloody U.S. invasion of Panama that deposed former U.S. ally Manuel Noriega. From 1995 to 2000, Cheney served as chair and CEO of the oil services company Halliburton, before George W. Bush tapped him as his running mate. As vice president, Cheney was a leading proponent of invading and occupying Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and destabilized the entire region. Dick Cheney also steadfastly defended warantless mass surveillance programs and the use of torture against detainees of the so-called war on terror. We speak with The Nation’s John Nichols, author of multiple books about Cheney, who says the neoconservative leader had a “very destructive” impact on the world.
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Dick Cheney, the former vice president and one of the key architects of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died Monday at age 84. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming’s lone representative before serving as defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush, when he oversaw the first Gulf War and the bloody U.S. invasion of Panama that deposed former U.S. ally Manuel Noriega. From 1995 to 2000, Cheney served as chair and CEO of the oil services company Halliburton, before George W. Bush tapped him as his running mate. As vice president, Cheney was a leading proponent of invading and occupying Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and destabilized the entire region. Dick Cheney also steadfastly defended warantless mass surveillance programs and the use of torture against detainees of the so-called war on terror. We speak with The Nation’s John Nichols, author of multiple books about Cheney, who says the neoconservative leader had a “very destructive” impact on the world.
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Voters in the United States are casting ballots in several closely watched elections on Tuesday, including mayoral races in New York, Seattle and Minneapolis, and gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia. The Nation's executive editor John Nichols says Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York, in particular, has “captured the imagination of the country.” He notes many of Tuesday’s races could help shape the agenda of the Democratic Party and move it toward being “an activist party that uses government to really tip the balance in favor of the working class.”
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Voters in the United States are casting ballots in several closely watched elections on Tuesday, including mayoral races in New York, Seattle and Minneapolis, and gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia. The Nation's executive editor John Nichols says Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York, in particular, has “captured the imagination of the country.” He notes many of Tuesday’s races could help shape the agenda of the Democratic Party and move it toward being “an activist party that uses government to really tip the balance in favor of the working class.”
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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- Trump Endorses Cuomo, Threatens to Cancel Funding to NYC If Mamdani Is Elected Mayor
- Trump Administration Will Only Partially Fund Expiring SNAP Benefits as Shutdown Drags On
- Fed Warns of Weakening Labor Market as U.S. Companies Announce AI-Driven Layoffs
- 10 Richest U.S. Billionaires Have Expanded Wealth by $700 Billion Since Trump's Return
- Dick Cheney, Architect of Iraq Occupation and U.S. Torture Program, Dies at 84
- U.N. Says 36,000 Have Fled North Darfur's Capital Since Paramilitaries Seized Control
- Israel Continues to Attack Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire
- Israel and Hamas Exchange Bodies of Captives, with More Signs of Torture Against Palestinians
- ICE Agents Shoot U.S. Citizen in Los Angeles Area
- U.S. Courts Halt Deportation of Man Wrongfully Jailed Under Murder Charges for 43 Years
- At Least 26 People Killed as Typhoon Kalmaegi Strikes Philippines
- Trump Admin Says It Will Not Send Any High-Level Officials to COP30 Climate Talks
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- Trump Endorses Cuomo, Threatens to Cancel Funding to NYC If Mamdani Is Elected Mayor
- Trump Administration Will Only Partially Fund Expiring SNAP Benefits as Shutdown Drags On
- Fed Warns of Weakening Labor Market as U.S. Companies Announce AI-Driven Layoffs
- 10 Richest U.S. Billionaires Have Expanded Wealth by $700 Billion Since Trump's Return
- Dick Cheney, Architect of Iraq Occupation and U.S. Torture Program, Dies at 84
- U.N. Says 36,000 Have Fled North Darfur's Capital Since Paramilitaries Seized Control
- Israel Continues to Attack Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire
- Israel and Hamas Exchange Bodies of Captives, with More Signs of Torture Against Palestinians
- ICE Agents Shoot U.S. Citizen in Los Angeles Area
- U.S. Courts Halt Deportation of Man Wrongfully Jailed Under Murder Charges for 43 Years
- At Least 26 People Killed as Typhoon Kalmaegi Strikes Philippines
- Trump Admin Says It Will Not Send Any High-Level Officials to COP30 Climate Talks
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We speak to Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old celebrated Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate, who recently had his U.S. visa revoked after he made comments critical of Trump. As Trump threatens U.S. military action against Nigeria over claims of a “Christian genocide” in the country, Soyinka says, “when religious differences began to be invoked as a means of political power, and even social and economic powers, we’ve had unquestionably the issue of impunity.” By “expanding the force of hostility,” he adds, “Trump is not making things easy for there to be a resolution.”
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President Trump is threatening to bomb Nigeria, alleging the country is failing to protect Christians from persecution, even as many victims of the fundamentalist insurgent group Boko Haram are Muslims. “This theme of persecution of Christians is a very politically charged, and actually religiously charged, theme for evangelicals across the world,” says Anthea Butler, the author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. Despite the fact that the country’s conflict cannot be reduced to religious enmity, for extremist evangelical Christians, Nigeria “is a place where the administration could prosecute a holy war” using a “savior narrative.”
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Democracy Now!'s Anjali Kamat reports on working-class South Asian support for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. South Asian voter turnout increased by 40% during the Democratic primary, contributing to Mamdani's upset victory against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is now running as an independent candidate. “We’ve had several South Asian or Indo-Caribbean candidates, and none of them elicit this response. And I think the fact that the campaign spoke to the very material issues of working-class people has, first and foremost, has really made a very significant difference,” says Fahd Ahmed, director of the South Asian community organization DRUM Beats, whose members have been canvassing for Mamdani’s campaign.
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