From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Those bragging about overturning road

we would have no clue about the power of women but they found

out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot we won in 2022 and 2020 and

we will again in 2024. President Biden delivers his state of the Union.

We'll play excerpts and on this International Women's, get response from the nation publisher

Katrina Vandenhovel, Israeli peace activist Netahim and Mina, whose mother was a

hostage in Gaza, and Palestinian-Egyptian-American University

of Chicago Professor Iman Agalhati, who gave an alternate so-to last night, called the State of Genocide.

Tonight's State of the Union is the State of the Genocide because our leaders have followed a familiar

playbook.

Investing in power, money, and blood at the expense of humanity.

All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy Now. Dotorg, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

President Biden delivered the State of the Union

Thursday night as he faces the likely prospect of an election

rematch with Donald Trump in November and amidst mounting public anger

over his enabling of Israel's assault on Gaza.

Biden announced plans to tax the wealthy, vowed to restore federal abortion rights, and touted his record

on relaxing federal marijuana restrictions and punishments.

But he also doubled down on his efforts to pass a hard-line border and immigration

crackdown and repeated far-right Congress member Marjorie Taylor Green's use of

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