Democracy Now! 2026-02-04 Wednesday
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
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Headlines for February 04, 2026; “No Means No”: AZ Secretary of State Calls for Resistance as Trump Pushes to “Nationalize” Voting; Why Was Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard at FBI Election Raid in Georgia? Ex-DOJ Attorney Speaks Out; A New Nuclear Arms Race Could “Spiral” as Last U.S.-Russia Treaty Expires: Dr. Ira Helfand; “Geopolitics of the Weak”: Colombian Senator Urges “Collective Action” Against U.S. Aggression
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.2 | The Republicans should say, we want to take over, we should take over the voting in |
| 0:24.2 | at least many, 15 places. |
| 0:28.2 | The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. |
| 0:30.7 | President Trump's calling for elections to be nationalized in his latest bid to keep Republicans in power. This comes after the FBI |
| 0:41.7 | raided an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia to seize ballots from the 2020 |
| 0:48.4 | election, which Trump falsely claims he won. We'll speak with Arizona's Secretary of State and with a former |
| 0:58.3 | Department of Justice voting official. Then arms control groups are warning the world is moving |
| 1:05.5 | closer to nuclear war as the U.S. threatens to attack Iran and a major U.S. Russian nuclear treaty known as New |
| 1:13.4 | Star expires Thursday. |
| 1:15.9 | For the first time in over half a century, there will be nothing preventing a runaway nuclear |
| 1:22.6 | arms race. |
| 1:23.6 | Then we look at the White House meeting between President Trump and Colombian President |
| 1:29.4 | Gustavo Petro. |
| 1:31.2 | In recent weeks, Trump had repeatedly threatened to attack Colombia, but Trump struck a very |
| 1:38.4 | different tone on Tuesday. |
| 1:40.6 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:45.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:53.0 | President Trump doubled down on his calls for the Republican Party to nationalize voting in the United States, even as the White House tried to walk back his comments. |
| 2:03.3 | Republican lawmakers also criticized the idea with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, saying, |
| 2:10.4 | quote, it's harder to hack 50 election systems than it is to hack one. |
| 2:15.9 | Speaking to reporters yesterday in the Oval Office, President |
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