Popular Democracy in Action's Analilia Mejia: Overwhelming Opposition to Trump-GOP’s Extreme Medicaid, SNAP Budget Cuts

Democracy for the Arab World's Raed Jarrar: Trump Visit to Oil-Rich Gulf Monarchies Produces Mixed Outcome

Democratic Constitution Blog's Luke Pickrell: Repairing the Constitution’s Democracy Deficit Key to Challenging Trump Authoritarian Power Grab

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• South Sudan conflict escalates
• New policies criminalize homelessness
• Unique labor organization organizes ex-convicts

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Lawyers for Civil Rights Senior Attorney Jacob Love: Challenging Trump’s Unconstitutional Effort to Eliminate Birthright Citizenship

Economic Policy Institute Senior Policy Analyst Margaret Poydock: New Report Finds 100 Ways Trump Has Hurt US Workers

International Association of Machinists Union member Phil Clarkin: Machinist Strike Against Pratt and Whitney Over Job Security Enters 2nd Week

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Russian drone strike's multi-million-dollar damage at Ukraine's nuclear plant
• Dairy farmers fear loss of workers from ICE raids
• Several pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionists arrested again

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' former NYC Office Director Craig Mokhiber: Israel’s Gaza Food Blockade Triggers Famine, Hospitalizes Thousands of Children for Acute Malnutrition

The nation's leading public interest lawyer Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Labels Trump’s 100-Day Attack on Democracy a ‘Fascist Dictatorship’

Memphis Community Against Pollution Executive Director KeShaun Pearson: Memphis Resident Fighting to Shut Down Elon Musk’s Polluting Super-Computer Data Center

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Halted Agent Orange cleanup outs thousands at risk
• Trump border nominee accused of ‘cover-up’
• FEMA eliminates popular disaster adaptation program

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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.