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Brian Tyler Cohen sits down with legal expert Marc Elias of Democracy Docket to break down the Trump administration's devastating defeats in their efforts to block the new Democratic maps in California and Virginia that would add NINE new blue House districts!

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Patty Murray to White House: No funding increase for ICE
Senate Democrats have drawn a definitive red line in the high-stakes negotiations over the Homeland Security Appropriations bill: there will be zero funding increases for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The standoff, which threatens to push the government toward a partial shutdown on January 30, pits a determined Republican subcommittee chair against a Democratic leadership core that says it has seen enough “militarized policing” on American streets.

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Freshman Democrat under ATTACK for standing up to the GOP
Nellie Pou for Congress: Nellie Pou has only been in Congress a few months, but she’s already facing a barrage of GOP attacks for voting against their destructive budget bill that would hand out huge tax breaks to the wealthy while RAISING taxes on working families. Just a few days ago, the NRCC issued an error-filled press release written by Big Business lobbyists that falsely smeared her with lies. She’s one of the few Democrats to win her seat in a county that voted for Trump; she’s going to need all the help she can get if we want to protect the MUST-HOLD seat and retake Congress. Will you chip in to thank her for doing the right thing and helping her weather the storm against GOP attacks?

ICE says Cuban immigrant died while attempting suicide. A witness says guards pinned and choked him
A Cuban immigrant died in a Texas immigration detention facility earlier this month during an altercation with guards, and the local medical examiner has indicated that his death will likely be classified as a homicide. The federal government has provided a differing account surrounding the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, saying the detainee was attempting suicide and staff tried to save him. A witness told The Associated Press that Lunas Campos died after he was handcuffed, tackled by guards and placed in a chokehold until he lost consciousness. The immigrant’s family was told by the El Paso County Medical Examiner’s Office on Wednesday that a preliminary autopsy report said the death was a homicide resulting from asphyxia from chest and neck compression, according to a recording of the call reviewed by the AP.

Immigration officers around Minneapolis are approaching people and demanding proof that they’re U.S. citizens
The officers and agents the Trump administration has unleashed in Minneapolis and nearby communities have turned to stopping U.S. citizens, apparently at random, demanding identification and grilling them about their citizenship, residents who have recorded these encounters on video say. The “show me your papers” encounters are showing up on social media and have even prompted podcaster Joe Rogan, a Trump backer in the 2024 campaign, to ask, “Are we really going to be the Gestapo?” One man, Gage Diego Garcia, said he was held for six hours on Monday in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, after an encounter with officers that he told NBC News began when he was leaning into his friend’s car in an alleyway. “They came off pretty aggressive and asking for my ID. I refused because I had done nothing wrong,” Garcia said. He said that, as he started to blow a whistle draped around his neck, agents “got angry and grabbed him.”

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Justice Department opens investigation into Minnesota governor and Minneapolis mayor
The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a U.S. official said. The official sought anonymity because were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Frey said in a post on X on Friday: "This is an obvious attempt to intimidate me for standing up for Minneapolis, local law enforcement, and residents against the chaos and danger this Administration has brought to our city. I will not be intimidated." Walz, in a post on X, did not explicitly address the news reports, but said: "Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her." Walz, Frey and other Democrats in the state have been vocal in their criticism of ICE's presence in the state.

Trump says he could impose tariffs on countries that oppose his goal of acquiring Greenland
President Donald Trump said Friday that he could impose tariffs on countries that don’t accept his goal of having the U.S. take control of Greenland. “I may do that for Greenland, too,” Trump said during a White House roundtable on rural health care after discussing his tariff policies. “I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security.” The president didn’t elaborate further, including which countries he could target. U.S. tariffs imposed on European Union exports are currently capped at 15%. The E.U. is America's largest trading partner and largest source of imports.

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Schatz says US "absolutely rolled" by China-Canada trade deal
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said Friday Americans would be hurt by a trade deal between China and Canada as foreign nations seek new trade partners amid the Trump administration’s tariff wars. “We just got absolutely rolled in this Canada – China deal. A stark foreign policy failure with domestic economic consequences,” Schatz wrote in a post on social platform X. “The most basic principle in politics and geopolitics is loyalty to friends. And we weren’t just disloyal – we were hostile. So here we are,” he added. Under the deal, Canada dropped its 100 percent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and raised its cap on EV imports in exchange for Beijing lowering tariffs on Canadian farm products, including canola seeds. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the “historic” visit to Beijing heralded a “new strategic partnership” that “created massive opportunities for both our peoples.”