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Progressive Democratic activist David Hogg has called the media and establishment Democrats’ obsession with Hasan Piker “weird” as influential figures ignore “incredibly horrible” remarks and actions by far right figures in order to attack the left-wing streamer. “To be honest with you, I find it kind of weird,” Hogg said in an interview Sunday with MeidasTouch commentator Ja...

A court filing Tuesday morning in the federal case against 15 anti-ICE protesters contained more than 200 pages of undercover agents’ notes and photos from the Department of Homeland Security’s widespread surveillance operation during Operation Metro Surge. The documents reveal new information about groups and events targeted by the agents — and contain dozens of photos of ca...

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is entering its seventh month after a series of attempts at diplomatic negotiations moderated by Pakistan and other countries in the region. The U.S has embroiled itself in a conflict without a clear exit strategy, and Iran has shown no interest in bending under President Donald Trump’s pressure. As Washington and Tehran continue this agonizing yo...

Dozens of Democrats from both chambers of Congress are demanding the release of U.S. citizen Sami Safi from Israeli prison, where officials have held her for nearly two months without charges. The Democrats, led by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), raised concern over doctors’ assessments that Safi is at risk of “irreversible and life-threatening damage to her internal organs”...

“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July. Hill is one of nine protesters convicted of terrorism-related charges after feder...