Greg Palast

Uncovered: Illegal Attack on 364,000 Georgia Voters

A little-noticed provision in Georgia’s new voting restriction law, SB202, threatens the rights of 364,000 voters. The new provision signed into law in March allows private citizens to challenge an “unlimited” number of other voters’ ballots. The result is that hundreds of thousands of voters individually targeted by a conservative group from Texas may not have their ballots counted in next year’s crucial US Senate race and the expected re-match for the Governorship between Stacey Abrams and incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp.
Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/uncovered-illegal-attack-on-364000-georgia-voters/

Election Crimes Bulletin: Is it time we made Manchin a verb?

Who would have ever thought that it would be one lone Democratic Senator that would finally put an end our democratic voting system? The one person, one vote ideal we've been trying to achieve in this country. Maybe it's time now to make Joe Manchin’s name into a verb, as in “Manchining” — as in crippling a structural system of voting. As in, he “Manchined” the voting system, and can you believe it, he's a Democrat?
In this week's edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin, Greg Palast and Dennis Bernstein talk about this and other insanities happening in the world of elections.
Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/is-it-time-we-made-manchin-a-verb/

Texas: Are the Republicans going to sweep back in next year?

If you let Texans vote, and you stop gerrymandering them, it's not even a purple state, it's a deep blue state, but...

Deepwater Horizon: The Lies & Bribes That Keep Big Oil Flowing

The poisoning of the environment can only happen because of the poisoning of politics.
Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/deepwater-horizon-corporate-homicide/

SB202: Follow The Money – FlashPoints ECB

#SB202: Follow the money… It's not just about letting black people vote, it’s about letting a progressive agenda advance. Jim Crow has been a profit center for corporate America for generations, and we're calling it out.
Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/hidden-horrors-in-the-georgia-vote-law/

Fault Lines: SB202 — Jim Crow Horror Show

The only person who’s safe under Georgia’s new anti-voting law is Jim Crow. The bill’s 95 pages long and every page is a new horror show — it’s like Stephen King wrote it.

Why Asian-Americans were the main target of GOP vote suppression in Georgia

Even before this act of terror happened, I can’t overemphasize how brutal the voter suppression was aimed at the Asian-American community — particularly in Georgia. And when you don't have political power, you don't have protection. The intimidation factor is very high — and it's coming from the top.
Learn More: https://www.gregpalast.com/voting-gangnam-style-the-rise-of-kim-crow/

Election Crimes Bulletin: It’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow.

The Asian-American community is the fastest growing community in Atlanta and it’s the one that put Warnock and Ossoff over the top — and that scares the out of Georgia Republicans. So the Asian-American community are the prime target of their vote suppression attacks — it’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow.

#DCRiots: Why Did They Let The Perps Go?

The FBI is congratulating themselves on finding and arresting Capitol rioters — BUT WHY DID THEY LET THEM OUT OF THEIR CUSTODY IN THE FIRST PLACE?
The FBI manual REQUIRES sealing off a murder crime scene — and arresting or at least getting the names and CELL PHONES with incriminating photos.
Instead the rioters were given a f#@!ing police escort out of the crime scene.
The investigation of January 6 must include the decision to let killers walk away — and FBI/police sympathy or even infiltration.
Greg Palast on The Chip Franklin Show — March 12, 2021

GOP Trail of Tears: Giving Thanks to Indigenous Voters

For those of you who wanted to see Donald Trump skedaddled from the White House, this is the week you should be celebrating Thanksgiving giving thanks to Indigenous peoples for giving Biden the White House. The Native People’s vote provided the margin for Biden in Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.
In Arizona, for example, the Tohono O’odham nation voted 98% Democratic!
If it were up to White folk, Trump would have walked away with Arizona, but Indigenous precincts in Navajo Nation lands reported a 60% to 90% vote for Biden-Harris.
The Indigenous vote has been crucial before. In 2004, Native Nations gave John Kerry the votes he needed to win New Mexico and the presidency, but Kerry was never inaugurated… Because those native votes were never counted.
That’s right. Never counted.
Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/gop-trail-of-tears/