Greg Palast
Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone. You can read/watch his reports at GregPalast.com. He is the author of the NY Times bestsellers The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse, and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic. You can stream his new film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman — introduced by Martin Sheen and narrated by Rosario Dawson — for a limited time at: VigilanteMovie.com
Episodes
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
In this week’s Election Crimes Bulletin, Greg Palast and Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein discuss the problems we face exercising our democratic rights during a pandemic. Voting by Mail may seem like the solution, but mail-in ballots could deliver the election to Trump.
Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/our-choice-may-be-vote-by-mail-or-die/
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
COVID-19 has caused eleven states to reschedule their elections. Several more are still scheduled to be held this month. As states attempt to figure out how to safely run elections in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic, many see voting by mail as the solution. But there are pitfalls. In this interview with civil rights leader and Igniting Change host Barbara Arnwine, first broadcast on NewsTalk 1450 FM on March 31, investigative journalist Greg Palast says that rather than creating a precedent for cancelling elections, we should embrace mail-in ballots so we can vote without the risk of dying. However, he also explains that we need to make urgent changes to our voting system to make sure every mail-in ballot counts — and breaks down what those essential changes are.
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
From the studios of KPFA in Berkeley, California, the Election Crimes Bulletin with investigative journalist Greg Palast and Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein returns for another election season. In this edition, Palast and Bernstein go to Milwaukee and Wisconsin to report on election fraud. And as DNC chair Tom Perez continues to obstruct the real results from Iowa, we also take a look at the efforts to deprive Bernie Sanders of a win there. But first Palast reveals some YUGE breaking news out of Georgia…
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Trump's going to steal the 2020 election. It doesn't matter how good the Democrat's campaign is, or how much they spend on ads, because we have an apartheid voting system that takes away the votes of Black, Brown, Hispanic, and young people en mass.
Most Americans — Republican, Democrat, white, Black, whatever — actually believe that everyone who’s a citizen should be allowed to vote and that every vote should be counted. I think most Americans are actually quite horrified by these games.
But there's a simple cure for all this vote-thieving trickery — but you have to know you've been purged or never had your name properly entered on the voters toll. So check your voter registration, and if there's a problem, reregister online.
Do it NOW... before it's too late!
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Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
The latest voter suppression trick is called use it or lose it. If you don't vote in two elections, they send you a postcard. If you don't respond to a postcard, you're removed from the voter rolls. Now, it is illegal to remove someone from a voter roll for not voting. Because in America you have the right not only to vote, you have the right not to vote.
So how can they remove people for not voting? Because they're saying if you don't vote in a couple of elections, you don't respond to postcard, well, you've obviously moved. I tested this in Georgia. Georgia removed half a million people from the voter rolls before the election between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp. Abrams is the first black woman in American history to run for governor. She was running against Brian Kemp, who like Kris Kobach was also Secretary of State in charge of the voter rolls. So Kemp removed half a million people from the voter rolls — overwhelmingly voters of color — and runs for governor.
He refused to resign his post running the election while he was running for governor. I sued him, got the list of people he removed from the voter rolls on the grounds that they had left the state or they'd moved. I had experts from Silicon Valley, four expert firms, go through name by name — not a sample, but actually named by name — and we found 340,134 voters were wrongly removed from the voter rolls, who had never left their homes. They didn't move, they didn’t even move down the street. And that elected Kemp as Governor of Georgia over Abrams. And the one thing that's refreshing is she’s suing the state — the very first Democrat ever to sue a state, saying an election was stolen by racist means.
Learn more at GregPalast.com
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
"Trump stole the election. He did it the old fashioned way — by blocking a lot of people of color from voting.”
Palast talks to Michael G. Haskins on WBAI's Living For The City.
Listen to the full show and more Living For The City here: https://wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=5935
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Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Stolen again. Democrat Dan McCready supposedly lost the special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District to Republican Dan Bishop by less than 4,000 votes. However, racially biased vote suppression schemes easily account for the supposed GOP victory margin. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/jim-crow-steals-n-carolina-9th-cd/
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Stolen again. Democrat Dan McCready supposedly lost the special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District to Republican Dan Bishop by less than 4,000 votes. However, racially biased vote suppression schemes easily account for the supposed GOP victory margin. Learn more: gregpalast.com/jim-crow-steals-n-carolina-9th-cd/
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
On this edition of Flashpoints we talk about how Trump’s Mexico tariffs will crush the US economy.
Saturday May 25, 2019
Saturday May 25, 2019
Greg Palast discusses the new charges WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange faces under the Espionage Act with Critical Hour host, political scientist, author and nationally syndicated columnist. Dr. Wilmer Leon.
"We have a First Amendment for a reason, and it doesn't say unless it's embarrassing to the U.S. government, unless Hillary Clinton doesn't like it, unless it makes it difficult for the State Department to play the games it plays," says Palast. "The point is we are government of the people, by the people. It's not their information. It's ours. And all Julian Assange did was give us our information which our own government was wrongly and illegally concealing from us."