Democracy Now! 2026-04-13 Monday
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for April 13, 2026; Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Iran After Failed Talks, Iran Threatens Retaliation in Gulf; Viktor Orbán’s Era Is Over: Hungarians Celebrate as Longtime Far-Right Leader Suffers Landslide Loss; Trump Fires Judges Who Blocked Deportations of Student Activists Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi; Automatic Draft Registration Would Expand U.S. Surveillance State: Antiwar Activist
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.3 | The bad news is that we have not reached the agreement. |
| 0:22.0 | And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America. After the U.S. and Iran |
| 0:27.3 | fail to reach a deal, President Trump orders a naval blockade of Iranian ports in the |
| 0:33.8 | Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. A move Iran has decried as piracy. |
| 0:39.3 | We'll get the latest. |
| 0:40.3 | Then Hungary's Prime Minister, Victor Orban, concedes defeat, |
| 0:45.3 | ending 16 years of far-right rule. |
| 0:48.3 | Hungary's opposition leader, Peter Magyar, |
| 0:51.3 | celebrated after winning by a landslide. |
| 0:55.0 | Today the Hungarian people said yes to Europe. They said yes to a free Hungary. |
| 1:01.0 | They said yes to represent them, to help them, to put the country in order, because this is a Hungarian government, the responsibility of the Hungarian government. |
| 1:10.0 | Then the Trump administrations fired six more immigration judges, |
| 1:15.6 | including two who blocked the deportation of Ramesa Ozturk and Mosomadali, |
| 1:21.6 | students who'd advocated for Palestinian rights. |
| 1:24.6 | Plus, the federal government's preparing to begin automatically registering |
| 1:29.6 | eligible men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool. We'll speak to an organizer with the |
| 1:36.9 | anti-draft coalition. Readiness for a draft enables planning for larger, longer wars without having to think about whether people are willing to fight them. |
| 1:47.4 | Our goal is to take the draft off the table as an option by repealing the Military Selective Service Act. |
| 1:54.1 | All that and more. |
| 1:55.7 | Coming up. |
| 2:06.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. |
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