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Democracy Now! 2024-08-28 Wednesday

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Democracy Now!

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for August 28, 2024; “Trying to Repeat the Nakba”: Israel Launches Largest Military Raids in West Bank in Two Decades; “Five-Alarm Fire for Democracy”: New GOP Rules Could Block Election Results in Georgia and Beyond; Latino Rights Groups Urge DOJ to Investigate TX Attorney General for Raiding Homes of LULAC Leaders

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0:00.0

From the From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.0

The Trump-aligned majority on the State Board of Election in Georgia is rigging the rules so that local

0:26.4

election officials don't have to certify an election if a Democrat wins.

0:31.6

That is a crisis for democracy that has the potential for mass chaos, disenfranchisement, and confusion in November.

0:41.0

In the key battleground state of Georgia, Democrats are suing to halt new election rules that could

0:47.4

be used to block certification of November election results.

0:52.3

We'll speak with Voting rights journalist Ari Berman.

0:55.1

And we go to Texas where the Republican Attorney General just let a series of

1:01.3

raids on Latinx leaders and members of Lulak, the country's oldest

1:06.7

and largest Latino civil rights group, accusing them of voter fraud.

1:12.3

Lulak is calling for the DOJ to investigate the Texas Attorney General.

1:18.4

But first, the Israeli military launches its biggest operation in the occupied West Bank in close to two decades,

1:25.5

with hundreds of troops raiding the northern cities of Janine and Tolkaram.

1:31.0

At least nine Palestinians have been killed.

1:33.0

We'll go to Ramala to speak with Palestinian physician and politician Dr. Mustafa

1:39.0

Barguti.

1:40.0

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

1:45.0

Democracy Now.

1:49.0

The War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

1:52.9

At least nine Palestinians were killed overnight

1:56.3

as Israel's military cowered out its largest raid

1:59.5

in the occupied West Bank in two decades.

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