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🗓️ 5 December 2025
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Headlines for December 05, 2025; Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage; 5,000 Arrests? ICE Descends on Louisiana to Carry Out Raids in World’s “Incarceration Capital”; Trump Calls Somali Community “Garbage”: Minnesota Responds to Racist Rant and Immigration Sweeps; “Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:19.2 | Texas is now more red in the United States Congress. |
| 0:24.5 | In a major victory for President Trump, the Supreme Court rules Texas can use a new congressional |
| 0:30.6 | map that dilutes the political power of black and Latino voters and could help Republicans |
| 0:36.1 | pick up five new House seats. |
| 0:39.0 | We'll speak with Mother Jones reporter Ari Berman, who says the Roberts Court just helped |
| 0:44.3 | Trump rig the midterms. |
| 0:47.2 | Then immigration crackdowns continue. |
| 0:50.1 | We'll go to New Orleans, where agents aim to make 5,000 arrests and to Minneapolis as President |
| 0:57.2 | Trump escalates his attacks on the Somali community there. |
| 1:00.7 | I don't want them in our country. I'll be honest with you. Somebody who said, oh, that's not |
| 1:05.6 | politically correct. I don't care. I don't want them in our country. Their country's no good |
| 1:10.1 | for a reason. Their country |
| 1:12.0 | stinks. Weaponizing ice to target black Somali immigrants. This is not immigration policy. |
| 1:19.7 | This is racism being directed from the president's office. |
| 1:24.0 | And finally, the U.S. blows up another boat, this one in the Pacific. |
| 1:29.5 | As senators watch video of two September strike survivors clinging for life to a boat for more than 40 minutes, |
| 1:38.9 | countering Secretary Hegseth claims of fog of war. |
| 1:43.7 | We'll speak with a lawyer for the family of another boat strike victim. |
| 1:47.8 | This one, a Colombian father of four. |
| 1:50.6 | The families filed the first formal challenge to the strikes. |
| 1:55.0 | We filed this petition before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. |
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