Epstein survivor: ‘We will not stop’

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

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The Department of Justice released 3.5 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019. Liz Stein, a survivor of Epstein’s abuse, said she and other survivors will not stop fighting for the other 3 million files to be made public.

Then, the FBI seized records from the 2020 election from an election center in Georgia this week. And the Justice Department is also creating a database of voter information and trying to make it easier for states to reject mail-in ballots. Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows talks about election integrity ahead of 2026.

And, a number of people, including journalists, have been arrested in connection with a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, last month. Reporter Georgia Fort is one of them. She shares more about her experience.

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0:28.0	If this was meant to dissuade us from moving forward, it's not going to work.
0:33.7	I think that this maybe gave us even more energy to continue fighting for justice.
0:44.5	An Epstein survivor speaks out after the Justice Department failed to black out the names of dozens of sexual abuse victims, some of them minors.
0:58.3	It's Tuesday, February 3rd, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.
0:59.5	I'm Chris Bentley.
1:13.1	Today on the show, Maine's Secretary of State shares concerns about election security after the FBI seized voter records in Fulton County, Georgia.
1:19.2	This is ominous and shocking. The states, not the federal government, are in charge of our elections under the Constitution.
1:24.7	Also, a Minnesota journalist says she was arrested for covering a protest.
1:29.3	We cannot get to a place where we are criminalizing journalists because it is our very documentation and record keeping
1:33.9	that allows us to have an objective record
1:38.8	of how things transpire.
1:47.0	But first, the latest dump of Epstein files included millions more pages of emails, photos, and other
1:56.6	documents uncovered in sex trafficking investigations.
2:00.0	The files are not organized, but even an initial scan of what's in there reveals connections
2:05.2	to rich and powerful people from Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and multiple governments.
2:11.0	Elites, who in many cases continued to associate with Epstein after his conviction as a sex abuser
2:17.2	in 2008. Epstein after his conviction as a sex abuser in 2008.
2:19.5	Epstein died in jail in 2019.
2:22.8	To date, the only other person prosecuted in connection with his alleged sex trafficking ring
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