Democracy Now! Audio

We spend the hour discussing one of the most pivotal figures in the history of struggle for gender equality and racial justice, Pauli Murray, a hero to many in the trans rights movement, whose story is told in a new documentary "My Name Is Pauli Murray.”

We look at the state of vaccination campaigns in the U.S. and internationally as new COVID-19 variants spread at alarming rates; the leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group is a prolific government informant.

Biden issues four executive orders around racial equity, including phasing out private federal prisons; Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash on Biden's plans to combat the climate crisis; Millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses are missing in the U.S.

President Biden reverses Trump's transgender ban in the military, but trans rights remain under attack; What should Biden do about Obama-era deportations?; Oxfam warns COVID-19 could lead to the biggest increase in global inequality on record.

Former Senate aide Adam Jentleson on how the upper chamber undermines democracy; Rev. Dr. William Barber says Biden must focus on the poor; Workers at Hunts Point Market in New York agree to a new contract after a strike that garnered national attention.

Biden unveils a sweeping COVID strategy after Trump left him with no plan for a national vaccine rollout; Three tribal leaders on the devastating impact of the pandemic on Indigenous communities; Calls grow for Biden to cancel the Dakota Access pipeline.

We get reaction to Joe Biden's inauguration as the 46th president of the United States from scholar Cornel West and pioneering journalist Maria Hinojosa; We hear the inaugural poem by 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history.

As Biden and Harris take office, author and academic Michael Eric Dyson and Waleed Shahid of Justice Democrats talk about the role of social movements in the next administration; CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou on seeking a pardon from Trump.

Rashida Tlaib on Trump's impeachment and what needs to be on Biden's to-do list; The presence of police officers among the Capitol rioters raises alarm over right-wing radicalization in law enforcement; The ACLU warns against new domestic terrorism laws.

MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words

Rep. Ro Khanna on new efforts to remove President Trump from office; Looking at Joe Biden's Justice Department picks with The Nation's Elie Mystal; We speak to Rebekah Jones, a data scientist who blew the whistle on Florida's misleading COVID-19 numbers.

A violent mob incited by President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, some carrying Confederate flags like the one torn down by Bree Newsome Bass. We talk to Bass; Manisha Sinha, historian of slavery and Reconstruction; and journalist Allan Nairn.

Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff appear to have won the Senate runoff elections in Georgia; Washington braces for possibly violent protests by Trump supporters; The white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, won't be charged.

Republicans in Georgia denounce President Trump's efforts to overturn the state's election results; Polls open in Georgia for two key Senate runoff races; Israel vaccinates a record number of people, but not Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

A British judge blocks the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S.; President Trump pressures Georgia's Republican secretary of state to "find" enough votes to overturn Biden's victory in the 2020 election in an hour-long phone call.