Democracy Now! 2026-05-07 Thursday
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for May 07, 2026; Gaza Faces Public Health Collapse Amid Rat Infestation & Disease as Israel Blocks Reconstruction; India’s Modi Gov’t Purged Millions of Voters Before Elections in “Direct Attack” on Democracy; “Gerrymandering Arms Race”: GOP Rushes to Erase Black Representation After SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights
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| 0:00.0 | From Austin, Texas and New York, This is Democracy Now. |
| 0:21.6 | Today we are not talking just only the war, but we are speaking about a systematic transformation |
| 0:29.4 | of life into maybe something un-leavable. |
| 0:33.6 | Gaza is facing an unfolding environmental and biological apocalypse. |
| 0:40.3 | That's the warning from a Palestinian NGO in Gaza. |
| 0:45.3 | We'll go there for the latest as an Israeli airstrike kills the son of one of Hamas's top negotiators. |
| 0:52.3 | Then to a political earthquake in India, the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP, led by Prime Minister |
| 1:00.3 | Narendra Modi, has further consolidated its power after millions of voters were purged from |
| 1:07.2 | the rolls ahead of regional elections. |
| 1:11.6 | We fought against all machinery, where prime minister and home minister is also involved, |
| 1:19.6 | directly interference. |
| 1:21.6 | So how they play the dirty, nasty and mysterious games. |
| 1:26.6 | I have never seen this type of election in my life. |
| 1:32.1 | Then to voting rights under attack at home, Republican lawmakers in southern states are racing |
| 1:39.4 | to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act, but civil rights |
| 1:46.1 | activists are pushing back. |
| 1:48.8 | No new maps. |
| 1:50.8 | No new maps. |
| 1:52.7 | Black voters matter. |
| 1:54.8 | Black voters matter. |
| 1:56.8 | Black voters matter. |
| 1:58.8 | Black voters matter. |
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