Yale professor and author Jason Stanley: Trump’s Methodical Assault on Democracy Closely Mirrors Authoritarian Regimes Through History

Pastor Jamal-Harrison Bryant: Target's Elimination of Its DEI Policy Provokes 40-Day Nationwide Boycott

Greenpeace USA Interim Executive Director Sushma Raman: In Effort to Suppress Climate Protests, Fossil Fuel Company Energy Transfer Sues Greenpeace USA

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• Canada's newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney challenges Trump tariffs
• Project 2025's architect dismissing Consumer Finance Protection Bureau cases
• Peace deal could boost development in Senegal's Casamance region

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RootsAction.org Co-Founder Norman Solomon: Confronting the Democratic Party’s Weak Opposition to Trump Coup

New Haven, CT Mayor Justin Elicker: Nearly 2 Dozen U.S. Cities Sue Trump Regime for Threat to Withhold Funding from Sanctuary Cities

Committee to Protect Journalists Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen: Trump Launches Campaign of Threats and Intimidation to Suppress US Press Freedom

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Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump-GOP Plan to Slash $880 Billion from Medicaid

Horizons Project Co-Lead Maria J. Stephan: Civil Resistance Strategies and Tactics to Effectively Resist the Trump-Musk Coup

Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Director Michael Gerrard: As NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Generates Funds for Mass Transit, Trump Wants it Shut Down

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• New DNC chairman: Democrats are “true party of labor and working people"
• U.S. firm accused of Guantanamo migrant rights abuses
• Impeachment calls for Argentina president after cryptocurrency crashes

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Constitutional lawyer and Free Speech for People President John Bonifaz: Trump’s Illegal Demolition of Federal Government Provokes Constitutional Crisis, Calls for Impeachment

Journalist and author Fred Pearce: After Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Civil Infrastructure, Palestinians Face a Water & Environmental Crisis

Former CIA analyst and author Melvin Goodman: Trump’s Ukraine War Peace Overture to Russia Creates Rift with European Allies

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary

• Trump executive order awards refugee status to South African Afrikaners
• New U.S. protectionism leaves power vacuum for China to fill
• Red states create their own DOGE task forces

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Institute for Policy Studies Fellow Phyllis Bennis: Trump Doubles Down on His Criminal Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Palestinians from Gaza

Salon Senior Politics Writer Amanda Marcotte: Elon Musk’s Racist Hacker Army Illegally Attempting to Eliminate Multiple Federal Agencies

50501 Organizer Praisely McNamara: Nationwide 50501 Anti-Trump Protests Mobilize to Protect Democracy from Authoritarian Power Grab

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:

• Germany’s AfD migration bill fails
• Māori protesters turn their backs on right-wing ministers
• New Orleans nurses call strike coinciding with Super Bowl

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Democracy in Color podcast host Steve Phillips: Back in the White House, Trump Launches Spiteful White Supremacist Policy Agenda

Bethlehem University professor Mazin Qumsiyeh: After Gaza Ceasefire, Israel’s Military Launches New Deadly Offensive in Occupied West Bank

Hunter College distinguished professor of public health Stephanie Woolhandler: RFK Jr. Poses Grave Danger to U.S. Public if Confirmed as HHS Secretary

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Rwanda-backed M-23 rebel army stokes carnage in Goma, Congo
• Uyghurs held in Thailand go on hunger strike
• LA housing activists see signs of illegal disaster profiteering

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American Friends Service Committee's Amy Gottlieb: As Mass Deportation Begins, Immigrant Rights Groups Organize Resistance

University of California Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies' Lawrence Rosenthal: Trump’s Pardon of 1,500 Jan 6 insurrectionists: An Endorsement of Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert: Trump-Musk ‘Government Efficiency’ Advisory Group Sued for Lack of Transparency

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Elon Musk endorses German far right party
• United Healthcare reports $35 billion in profits
• Embattled NYC Mayor Eric Adams attends Trump inauguration

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People's March protesters: Washington, D.C. and National Protests Pledge Resistance to Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda

Sunrise climate activist Alejandro Sobrera Barboza and U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez: Youth Climate Group Protests Nomination of Fracking CEO to be Trump’s Energy Secretary

University of Wisconsin-Madison's Jennifer Loewenstein: The Israel-Hamas Gaza Ceasefire Takes Hold, But Fails to Address Future of Palestinians in Crisis

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• How will Trump support global security in China-Taiwan conflict?
• World Bank changes course to now back mega dams
• Trump cryptocurrency plans include cashing in on his family's bitcoin

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