DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY DIGEST Lizzy Ratner: "Nobody Wanted to Take Us In: The Story of Jared Kushner's Family, and Mine" & Resist or Resign: Facing Grassroots Pressure, Democratic Lawmakers Intensify Fight Against Trump & More 2FEB17

Thursday, February 2, 2017 democracynow.org Stories Nazis Once Published List of Jewish Crimes, Trump Now Pushing to Do the Same for Immigrant Crimes The Trump administration has announced plans to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants living in so-called sanctuary ... Read More → Lizzy Ratner: "Nobody Wanted to Take Us In: The Story of Jared Kushner's Family, and Mine" As attorneys and activists continue to fight Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, a new article takes a ... Read More → Resist or Resign: Facing Grassroots Pressure, Democratic Lawmakers Intensify Fight Against Trump During a chaotic day on Capitol Hill, the Senate confirmed Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson by a vote of 56 to 43. Reuters reports it was the closest vote—by a wide ... Read More → Meet the Attorney Suing Trump for Barring Children from Entering U.S. to See Their Parents New information is emerging that the U.S. State Department has provisionally revoked all nonimmigrant and immigrant visas of nationals from Iraq, Iran, Libya, ... Read More → The "De-Judification" of the Holocaust?: Trump Avoids Word "Jews" on Holocaust Remembrance Day Prominent white supremacist and Donald Trump supporter Richard Spencer has praised Trump for not mentioning in a statement commemorating ... Read More → Headlines → Longtime Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson Confirmed as Secretary of State Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Sessions as Attorney General Mnuchin & Price Approved by Committees, Despite Democratic Boycott DeVos Confirmation in Doubt as 2 Republicans Say They'll Vote Against Her Trump Urges Republicans to Use "Nuclear Option" If Dems Filibuster Supreme Court Nomination National Security Adviser Michael Flynn: Iran is "On Notice" Trump to Australian PM: "This Was the Worst Phone Call by Far" AP: Trump Threatened to Send U.S. Troops to Mexico in Call with Peña Nieto Delaware: Prisoners Launch Uprising to Demand Education & Rehabilitation Standing Rock: 76 Arrested After Police Raid New Protest Camp Jury Fails to Convict Climate Activist Ken Ward for Turning Off Valves of Tar Sands Pipelines Nearly a Dozen Dead Amid Increase in Fighting in Eastern Ukraine Israel to Build New Settlement in Occupied West Bank Protests Force UC Berkeley to Cancel Speech by White Nationalist Milo Yiannopoulos At Black History Month Event, Trump Suggests Frederick Douglass is Still Alive

TRUMP'S CABINET Watch our coverage of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks FROM THE VAULT As George Orwell's 1984 becomes a best-seller, listen to our dramatic reading COLUMN Frederick Douglass: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand