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CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress
Democracy Now • Feb 18, 2026

CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress

The Trump administration has fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program manager Alexis Goldstein for documenting a meeting a year ago between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. “I have been on admin leave ever since, until I was fired last week,” says Goldstein, who says the Trump administration’s gutting of the CFPB removed key oversight of the financial industry. “So, essentially, no one is watching the biggest banks.” Goldstein is now running to represent Maryland’s 6th Congressional District.

"Extremely Dangerous Situation": Trita Parsi Warns U.S. & Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict
Democracy Now • Feb 18, 2026

"Extremely Dangerous Situation": Trita Parsi Warns U.S. & Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict

As U.S. and Iranian officials continue negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, President Trump has ordered a buildup of U.S. forces in the Middle East, including two aircraft carriers. “This is an extremely dangerous situation, which both sides are actually incentivized to escalate,” says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. “Both sides actually believe that a short, intense war may improve their negotiating position.”

Jesse Jackson Fought for Justice at Home & Abroad: Juan González & Bishop William Barber
Democracy Now • Feb 18, 2026

Jesse Jackson Fought for Justice at Home & Abroad: Juan González & Bishop William Barber

Tributes are pouring in from across the globe for Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died on Tuesday. The civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate was 84 years old. Democracy Now!’s Juan González recounts his experience as a reporter visiting Cuba and Puerto Rico alongside Jackson. “Jesse was always there when people were fighting for some form of social justice,” says González. “Of all the U.S. leaders of the past half-century, I believe none had a more international view and a commitment to worldwide social justice as Jesse Jackson did.” Bishop William Barber, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, met Jackson 40 years ago as a student when he asked to work with Jackson’s student campaign during his 1984 presidential run. Jackson “was somebody that was serious about people uniting to save humanity — PUSHing — that he was serious about an agenda of uplift,” says Barber.

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