From New York, this is Democracy Now.

There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs.

They load the boats up with drugs, so we hit all the boats.

U.S. officials claim the CIA carried out a drone strike on a Venezuelan port.

We'll go to Caracas for an update.

Then Israel bans dozens of humanitarian groups from operating in Gaza

beginning January 1st, including Doctors Without Borders and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

If we're no longer on the ground present with our teams able to support the people who are going

to suffer the most are are going to suffer the most

are the civilians who are the most in need. And at midnight New York time, Democratic socialists

saw on Mamdani will be sworn into office as New York City Mayor. And then again on New Year's

Day by Senator Bernie Sanders with a block party outside City Hall.

Mamdani calls it the inauguration of a new era.

My sincere hope is that New Yorkers who have long felt on the margins of this city,

the homeless veterans straining to survive, the patient searching for the care that they need,

an immigrant trying to get by, will feel that they now have leaders in their corner,

who understand their struggles and care to fight for them.

That is the city I want to build.

We'll speak to New York City, DSA co-chair, Grace Mouser, about building municipal socialism in New York.

And we'll go to Norman Solomon, Director of Roots Action, about his new book, The Blue Road to Trump Hell,

how corporate Democrats pave the way for autocracy.

All that and more coming up.

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