Is Your Judge for Sale? Dark Money Groups Pour Millions into Judicial Races...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to the 2014 midterm elections, which take place Tuesday, and the increasingly outsized role played by groups that don’t disclose their donors. A new investigation zeroes in...
View ArticleGubernatorial Candidate Howie Hawkins Calls for a "Green New Deal for New York"
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: As we continue our election coverage, we’re joined by another Green Party candidate, Howie Hawkins, who is running for New York governor against Democrat Andrew Cuomo, Republican Rob...
View ArticleHow to Buy a City: Chevron Spends $3 Million on Local California Election to...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to Richmond, California, where the oil giant Chevron is being accused of attempting to buy the city government. The company has spent more than $3 million to back a slate of...
View ArticleJim Crow Returns: Interstate "Crosscheck" Program Could Strip Millions of the...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to Jim Crow, sadly. That’s right, "Jim Crow Returns." That’s the headline of a new report by investigative journalist Greg Palast on how new Voter ID laws risk disenfranchising...
View ArticleGOP Threatens a Senate Takeover, But State Votes Could Bring Rejection of...
AMY GOODMAN: Our guests are Lee Fang of The Nation and Republic Report and John Nichols, whose latest book is Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America. Why don’t you...
View ArticleThe Priciest Midterms Ever, Brought to You by "Dark Money" and Election...
AMY GOODMAN: You’re talking about now money in politics, which brings us to Lee Fang, who writes for The Nation, is a reporting fellow at The Investigative Fund, blogs about money in politics at the...
View ArticleNew Voter Suppression Laws Could Decide Key Races, and Turn Back the Clocks...
AARON MATÉ: As we continue our coverage of the midterm elections, we turn now to the overall picture. The most expensive midterms in history could see one of the lowest turnouts in years. Voting...
View Article40,000 Voters Missing in Georgia? After Registration Drive in Areas of Color,...
AARON MATÉ: It’s Election Day across the country, and control of the Senate is up for grabs. One of the most tightly contested Senate races is in Georgia, where a controversy about voter registration...
View ArticleElection Night 2014 Coverage with Democracy Now!
With control of the U.S. Senate up for grabs, Democracy Now! aired a five-hour midterm election special on November 4. Amy Goodman and Juan González co-hosted the broadcast from our New York City...
View ArticleMark Udall, Leading Senate Voice on NSA Surveillance and Environment, Ousted...
AMY GOODMAN: As we turn right now from one mountainous state to another, we go to Colorado. Both also states suffered massive flooding during storms. We go to Colorado, where Republican Cory Gardner...
View ArticleCan Push for Single-Payer Healthcare Survive in Vermont After Shockingly...
AMY GOODMAN: And we’re going to stay there in Vermont, where the incumbent Democratic governor, Peter Shumlin, has nearly been unseated in a shocking upset. In a process unique to Vermont, projections...
View ArticleSen. Bernie Sanders: The United States is on the Verge of Becoming an Oligarchy
AMY GOODMAN: [This is] Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, on this day after. That’s right. Last night, Tuesday night, during Democracy Now!’s five-hour special...
View ArticleGrassroots Activism Helped Elect Obama in 2008 — Will It Resurface to Push...
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to move right now from Kentucky to Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, we’re joined right now by John Nichols, John Nichols who writes for The Nation, a political writer there, where his...
View ArticleA Big Win for Climate Change Denial: Republicans to Target EPA Regulations...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. And this is the day after—I’m Amy Goodman—the day after the midterm elections of 2014 that cost $4 billion. Our guest...
View ArticleThe Citizens United Senator: After GOP's Midterm Rout, Mitch McConnell Likely...
AMY GOODMAN: A Republican rout. That’s how Tuesday’s election, the most expensive midterm election in history, is being described after the Republicans took control of the Senate, strengthened its...
View ArticleMidterm Voters Reject U.S. Drug War with Victories for Marijuana Legalization...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We end our show looking at the wave of drug policy reform measures that passed Tuesday. Voters in Oregon and Alaska joined Colorado and Washington in making pot available for adults to...
View ArticleObama & McConnell Pledge Cooperation; Will Fast-Tracking Secretive TPP Trade...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: With Republicans set to take control of Congress for the first time in eight years, President Obama has pledged to focus on compromise with the party. Republicans emerged from the most...
View ArticleMaui v. Monsanto: Hawaii County Voters Defy Agri-Giant's Spending to OK...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Ballot initiatives to require labeling of foods with genetically modified ingredients, or GMOs, failed to pass Tuesday in Colorado and Oregon, after agribusiness giants Monsanto,...
View ArticleRalph Nader on GOP's 2014 Wins: Democrats Can't Use Citizens United, Voter...
Watch Amy Goodman and Juan González interview longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader during the Democracy Now! 2014 Election Night Special. "We shouldn’t let Citizens United and voting restriction laws...
View ArticleNew GOP Majority Backs Amnesty for Corporate Tax Dodgers, But Not...
AMY GOODMAN: Before we move on to our Democracy Now! exclusive, Juan, well, this is the end of election week, and you did a very interesting piece in the New York Daily News about the issue of...
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