Greg Palast

The flood in Kerrville, Texas, was not an Act of God, it was an Act of Trump. My new 1-hour special, All Washed Away, shows the horrific connection between the drownings in Texas and in New Orleans — 20 years ago this month — and the Trump/DOGE scheme to sell off FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Trump and his DOGE buddies had, just before the Texas flood, cut the heart out of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) slashed one out of three FEMA staff employees just before the Texas flood. The head of FEMA’s National Response Coordination Center, Jeremy Greenberg, whose job was to warn of such floods, was forced out just weeks before the Texas catastrophe. And since the DOGE massacre of April, FEMA’s San Antonio office has had no permanent Warning-Coordination Meteorologist.
Trump has announced he’s planning to close FEMA by this December. His fantasy is, ultimately, to privatize emergency evacuation.
Been there. Done that. The privatization of emergency evacuation led to over a thousand Americans floating face down in New Orleans in 2005. 
Back in 2006, I did an investigation of the drownings in New Orleans for a program called Democracy Now! hosted by Amy Goodman.
Watch the film of the investigation, All Washed Away, which I've just updated with an exposé of the Trump drownings of 2025 — available for free on YouTube and Substack. ▶️ https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/all-washed-away

In this episode of Counterpoint, host Scott Harris talks to Greg Palast about his latest article, “The Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million Voters,” which reveals how control of the US Senate could come down to ugly ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls.
 
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Palast discusses Trump, tariffs, FEMA and that birthday parade with WVON Midday Show host Cleopatra Draper.
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"Steel was strong, but the truth is cold, He sold out the workers for a bar of gold."
This song, which was created by the Thom Hartmann Program, was inspired by Greg Palast's latest article for the Hartmann Report,The Great American Tariff Scam — read it here.
 
The Great American Tariff Scam Lyrics
 
[Verse 1]He stood in a mill with his red tie tightTold the boys in hard hats, “I’ll stand and fight”But behind that grin and the photo flashWas a deal with the devil and a payday stash
Steel was strong, but the truth is coldHe sold out the workers for a bar of goldLaid off in Gary, gone in DuluthWhile the billionaires laughed in their tailored suits
[Chorus]🎶 It’s the Great American Tariff ScamA fist full of promises, a smoke screen shamJobs fall down while the prices climbAnd the ones who get rich are the friends of the crimeHe said “I’m here to help,” then he took what he can—That’s the Great American Tariff Scam 🎶
[Verse 2]Steel rolls rustin’ by the railroad trackWhile Wall Street wolves keep slappin’ our backsThey killed the deal that could save the plantNow the furnaces cool and the wages slant
Imports rise with a tariff taxDomestic jobs? Ain’t comin’ backFrom cars to cables, we all pay moreWhile they cheer from behind their private doors
[Chorus]🎶 It’s the Great American Tariff ScamWrapped in a flag with a glory camHe blocks the fix and blames the flameSays “I’m the hero!”—but he lit the gameHe’s the arsonist in a fireman’s van—That’s the Great American Tariff Scam 🎶
[Bridge]He said, “I’m here for the working man”But he hands the loot to the richest handsFrom Nippon Steel to the union hallIt’s always the worker that takes the fall
[Verse 3]Now the ladle’s dry and the silence loudAs the union boys stand heads unbowedThey know the truth from the spin and smokeFrom every empty promise that the huckster spoke
[Final Chorus]🎶 It’s the Great American Tariff ScamWith a hard hat lie and a photo glamThe jobs went south, the truth went coldBut he sold you pride like it’s solid goldSteel don’t bend, but a worker can—In the Great American Tariff Scam 🎶
[Outro – spoken over a slow fade]“Praise me,” he said, “I stopped the fire.”But he was the one with the gasoline and the lighter.
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You can ignore Trump slyly hinting to the Lord’s chosen that he just might call off the next election.
But don’t ignore this: Trump won’t be calling off the election because he doesn’t have to. The Fix for 26 is already in.
“Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.”
The Republican plan is to win next year’s election this year. Yes, the voting will be bent, jacked and hammered this year, 2025, one year before the official voting.
Find out how. Listen to this Election Crimes Bulletin and read my latest report at: GregPalast.com
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The Asian American community is the fastest growing voter group in America. Since the last presidential election, 2 million more Asian Americans have become eligible to vote. There are now 15 million potential Asian American voters.
When you look at swing states, like Georgia, there are 328,000 Asian Americans eligible to vote in Georgia. That's the state that Biden won by less than 12,000 votes. And there’s almost 1.1 million Asian Americans in Texas.  If they are allowed to vote, Texas turns blue. 
It's also a young demographic, and Asian Americans tend to vote three quarters Democratic. So, the GOP's doing everything that they can to crush the Asian American vote. It is racism by statistics.
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Let's stop counting Biden's brain cells, and start counting vigilantes. This election is going to be a Vote Suppression Bacchanalia — I’ve never seen anything like it. Mark Elias, who's considered the number one voting rights attorney these days, has said it’s is a virus coming out of Georgia. And it is.
Before the last election we found that under a little-noticed provision of Georgia’s 2021 voting restriction law, SB202, 88 GOP operatives had filed challenges to block a breathtaking 180,000 voters from having their ballots counted. One woman alone had challenged a staggering 32,379 voters in Cobb County.
This new Georgia law circumvented restrictions on states removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of an election, by allowing individuals to challenge an unlimited number of voters. And now this vigilante vote challenge tactic is spreading to other swing states.
The organization that created the challenge lists is a group out of Texas called True the Vote. In Georgia in 2022, when they first launched this vigilante game, they had 88 vigilante vote challengers, now they have an army of 44,000 operating in battleground states across the US.
 
But understand where this vigilante voter challenge scheme comes from. The Ku Klux Klan created this system in 1946 when they incorporated themselves as Vigilantes Inc. According to the FBI, the Klan challenged every single black voter in many counties in Georgia. And it worked. The Klan got their chief strategist, Eugene Talmadge, elected governor. 
Here's the strange thing... In 1946 — before the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act — Harry Truman's FBI was about to arrest Talmadge for leading this mass attack on Black voters, but days before they were going to arrest him, Talmadge drank himself to death. So, it was illegal in 1946, and now we have the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Civil Rights Act, and somehow mass challenges of voters of color are perfectly fine with our federal courts?!?
The NAACP and Reverend Jesse Jackson, of Rainbow PUSH, have begged Biden to sign an executive order to stop these vigilante vote challenges. They're a clear violation of federal law, even without the Voting Rights Act. They're also a violation of our Constitution. And that's what the FBI under Harry Truman thought — so why isn't the FBI saying the same thing today? It was illegal in 1946, and it ought to be illegal now. 
 
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The Election Crimes Bulletin is back for the 2024 Election season.
In this week's episode we reveal how the Trump plan for 2024 — to use an army of vigilantes to challenge Black voters — is the exact same plan the Klan successfully used to elect Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge  in 1946.
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35 years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground, causing America’s greatest environmental disaster, investigative journalist Greg Palast explains why you shouldn't buy big oil's fable of the drunken captain. Get the full story at: https://www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/