The Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead: Rapidly Moving the U.S. Toward a Police State, Trump Labels Critics ‘Domestic Terrorists’

Oxfam CEO Abby Maxman: Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

Documentary filmmaker Rick Goldsmith: Documentary ‘Stripped for Parts’ Examines Vulture Capital’s Role in Demolishing Local Newspapers

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump cronies still fixated on annexing Greenland, where socialism works
• Trump administration planning to reopen notorious prisons for ICE
• Colchester, Vermont mobile home park experimenting with cooperative housing

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Free Press General Counsel Matt Wood: Trump’s FCC Takes Action to Suppress Free Speech

University of Arizona professor emerita epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs: RFK Jr.’s War Against Vaccinations and Science Reaches New Dangerous Phase

Gulf of Mexico Youth Climate Summit Co-Founder Armon Alex: Petrostate Tour of U.S. Capitol Shines Light on Fossil Fuel Industry’s Attack on Environment/Climate

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Refugees from Western Sahara fuel humanitarian crisis in Algeria
• Tuberculosis is spreading in ICE detention centers
• Anti-opioid drug less available in black and latino communities

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Independent journalist Justin Glawe: Trump Exploits Charlie Kirk's Murder, Vowing to Investigate and Dismantle Progressive Left Groups

Connecticut Visibility Brigade founder Katherine Hinds and defense attorney Margaret Donovan: Protest Leader Arrested for Exercising Free Speech Rights

Youth climate activist and Fridays for Future Cape Cod lead organizer Madison Sheppard: ‘Make Billionaires Pay’ International Mobilization for Climate Justice Sept. 19-21

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Growing U.S. military partnership with the Philippines, threatening China
• Trump has fast-tracked deep-sea mining, despite global opposition
• Utah unions fight ban on collective bargaining with historic referendum

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Stand Up America's Brett Edkins: New Guardrails Must Be Enacted to Defend Democracy Against a Future Trump-like Dictatorship

National Immigration Law Center attorney Hilda Bonilla: Trump’s Cruel & Traumatizing Attempt to Deport Guatemalan Children Temporarily Blocked by Federal Judge

Center for International Policy and former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman: Trump’s Erratic and Destructive Foreign Policy Alienates Adversaries and Allies Alike

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Global plastic pollution talks collapse
• Russian-backed Wagner Group floundering in Africa
• Trump administration escalating attack on anti-ICE activists

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International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber: Will the U.N. Support a Plan That Could End Israel’s Gaza Genocide?

Environmental Protection Network Executive Director Michelle Roos: Former EPA Staff Defend Federal Environmental Regulations Being Weakened or Eliminated by Donald Trump

American Doom newsletter Editor Justin Glawe: A Desperate Trump Could Order the National Guard to Intervene in the 2026 Election

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• Mineral-rich Congo's peace negotiations collapse
• Staffers warn Trump's FEMA cuts portend another Katrina-like catastrophe
• Democrats lacking working class support by ignoring progressive priorities

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Salon.com columnist Heather Digby Parton: Floundering Democrats Urged to Embrace FDR New Deal-Style Popular Economic Policies

CT Students for a Dream Executive Director Tabitha Sookdeo: Effort Underway to Build Bridges Between Diverse Immigrant Communities Facing Trump Mass Deportation

University of Washington's Dr. Ferric C. Fang: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Cuts Federal mRNA Vaccine Research Funding, Endangering Public Health

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• More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred in Sudan
• Republicans are laser-focused on purging noncitizens from voter rolls
• Zohran Mamdani must confront the NYPD in reform effort

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Partnership for Civil Justice Fund's Mara Verheyden-Hilliard: Trump’s Militarized Occupation of Washington, D.C. a Rehearsal for Takeover of Other U.S. Cities

Professor Jason Stanley: Authority on Totalitarianism Leaves U.S. for Canada to Fight International Fascism

Stop Cop City defense attorney Xavier de Janon: Domestic Terrorism Charges Dismissed in One ‘Stop Cop City’ Defendant’s Trial

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Respiratory disease is running rampant through "Alligator Alcatraz"
• Health experts predict mental health crisis for low-income Americans
• North Korean laborers have been sent to Russia

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Author David Daley: Trump and GOP’s Unprecedented Gerrymandering Scheme Aim to Rig 2026 Election

350.org US Campaign Manager Candice Fortin: Trump EPA to Eliminate Virtually All Climate Regulations and Research

U.S. Gulf South climate activists Manny Robinson and Roishetta Ozane: Gulf South Activists in NYC Protest Banks’ and Insurance Companies’ Role in Exacerbating Climate Crisis

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