Democracy Now! 2026-01-14 Wednesday
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
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Headlines for January 14, 2026; “Federal Invasion”: Minnesota Officials Condemn Violent ICE Raids, Arrests; Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check; ”ICE Is OK with Renee Good’s Killing”: Journalist Ken Klippenstein on ICE Tactics & Recruitment; ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase; Supreme Court Appears Poised to Uphold State Bans on Trans Student Athletes
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | You're not going to say anything? You're not going to say anything. is Democracy Now. |
| 0:35.6 | protests continue in Minnesota over what local officials are calling a federal invasion by immigration agents. We'll speak to the vice president of the St. Paul |
| 0:39.3 | City Council. Then what happens when ICE hires agents with minimal screening, then sends them onto the |
| 0:47.0 | streets armed and masked? We'll speak to a journalist who applied for a nice job and was offered it without even a background check. |
| 0:57.6 | We'll also look at the rapid expansion of ICE detention in Trump's first year in office. |
| 1:02.3 | Then the Supreme Court appears poised to uphold state bans on transgender youth participating in school sports. |
| 1:11.6 | In this moment, in so many halls of power, it feels like people are debating whether or not transgender people exist. |
| 1:19.3 | Whether or not we deserve protections under our Constitution and our civil rights statutes. |
| 1:24.0 | And today, in the Supreme Court, we were able to remind the nine justices that we do exist. |
| 1:29.3 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:36.8 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:42.9 | In Iran, over 2,500 people have died and anti-government |
| 1:46.9 | protests over the collapsing economy. This according to the U.S.-based human rights activist |
| 1:51.6 | news agency. CBS's reporting sources inside Iran say between 12 and 20,000 protesters have been killed. |
| 2:00.0 | A 26-year-old protester, Airfanantzoltani, who is detained last week, |
| 2:04.5 | is reportedly set to be executed today. An ophthalmologist in Tehran told the Guardian that a single |
| 2:11.8 | hospital documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots. Meanwhile, Iranian authorities claim to have regained control of |
| 2:20.2 | the country after two weeks of mass protests. Funerals for security forces killed during the |
| 2:25.2 | protests have turned into large pro-government rallies. Iranian authorities have imposed an |
| 2:31.3 | internet blackout across Iran. Meanwhile, President Trump vowed to |
| 2:35.8 | intervene in Iran saying, quote, help is on the way and urge the protesters to, quote, |
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