Democracy Now! 2026-01-20 Tuesday
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for January 20, 2026; ICE vs. People of Minnesota: A Special Report on Community Resistance to Trump’s Militarized Crackdown; “Not Above the Law”: Law Prof. Michele Goodwin Decries Violent ICE Activity in Minnesota; A Distraction from Epstein Files? Trump Ramps Up Chaos in Minnesota, Greenland & Beyond; “No Going Back”: Trump Escalates Threats to Take Greenland & Tariff European Allies
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | They broke our two front windows. is democracy now. |
| 0:25.6 | They broke our two front windows and dragged us out, arrested us and brought us to detention. |
| 0:30.6 | One of the agents, the one who had sprayed the pepper spray into my car, |
| 0:35.6 | proceeded to say, |
| 0:37.7 | you guys gotta stop obstructing us. |
| 0:39.9 | That's why that lesbian bitch is dead, |
| 0:42.5 | referring to Renee Good. |
| 0:45.2 | As nationwide protests continue to call for ice out for good, |
| 0:51.0 | referring to the ice killing of Renee Good, |
| 0:54.0 | Trump puts 1,500 military troops on standby to deploy |
| 0:59.3 | to Minneapolis, to add to thousands of ice agents already there, dwarfing the local police |
| 1:05.6 | department. We'll get a report from the streets of Minneapolis and speak with constitutional scholar Michelle Goodwin. |
| 1:13.6 | Meanwhile, thousands protest in Greenland and Denmark wearing red MAGA hats as in Make America Go Away. |
| 1:24.6 | We are not interested in being Americans. We are here for show, Mr. Trump, and we will have Greenland to the Greenlandic, and not |
| 1:34.3 | for the United States. |
| 1:37.3 | We'll go to Denmark to speak with the chair of a group for Greenlanders in Denmark who help organize the mass protests. |
| 1:46.4 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:52.2 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:58.2 | Tensions are escalating between the United States and Europe after President Trump |
| 2:02.6 | threatened to impose tariffs on eight European allies that oppose his push to take over Greenland, |
| 2:09.3 | a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. On Sunday, Trump sent a text message to Norway's prime |
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