The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in the latest installment of Jim Crow Reloaded, “only one side is armed.”… READ MORE
There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE
Yvette Nicole Brown has a secret weapon. But we’re not going to keep it a secret anymore. Because last week, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to Jim Crow the voter rolls, ruling that Donald Trump could make up the list of citizens who can vote. Think about that. America does not… READ MORE
Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE
The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE
You’ve seen it in a dozen World War II movies. Some menacing German officer in a Hugo Boss trench coat stops the family / spy / hero / refugee to demand citizenship papers. And now, it’s baaack! Trump’s Executive Order 14399 requires Americans to “show me your citizenship papers” to vote. But you can fight this … READ MORE
This is why I was banned from The Guardian for several years. Beginning in 1997, I was an investigative reporter for The Guardian of Britain and a columnist in its Sunday paper The Observer. Until I was banned.Here’s the story that did it: “Two Symbols of American Capitalist Hegemony“
I was, as far as I know, the only … READ MORE
Since that moment when George W. Bush Jim-Crowed his way into the White House, I’ve been on the racist “vote suppression” beat. “Vote suppression” — a polite term for screwing Black people of their vote. And Hispanic, Asian, students — targets spreading like Covid. And after exposing one vicious voter-blocking trick after another, look where we are: it’s like the 1950s but with AI. Gestapo-style citizenship tests to vote, the Post Office used as … READ MORE
The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in the latest installment of Jim Crow Reloaded, “only one side is armed.”… READ MORE
There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE
Yvette Nicole Brown has a secret weapon. But we’re not going to keep it a secret anymore. Because last week, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to Jim Crow the voter rolls, ruling that Donald Trump could make up the list of citizens who can vote. Think about that. America does not… READ MORE
Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE
The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE
You’ve seen it in a dozen World War II movies. Some menacing German officer in a Hugo Boss trench coat stops the family / spy / hero / refugee to demand citizenship papers. And now, it’s baaack! Trump’s Executive Order 14399 requires Americans to “show me your citizenship papers” to vote. But you can fight this … READ MORE
This is why I was banned from The Guardian for several years. Beginning in 1997, I was an investigative reporter for The Guardian of Britain and a columnist in its Sunday paper The Observer. Until I was banned.Here’s the story that did it: “Two Symbols of American Capitalist Hegemony“
I was, as far as I know, the only … READ MORE
Since that moment when George W. Bush Jim-Crowed his way into the White House, I’ve been on the racist “vote suppression” beat. “Vote suppression” — a polite term for screwing Black people of their vote. And Hispanic, Asian, students — targets spreading like Covid. And after exposing one vicious voter-blocking trick after another, look where we are: it’s like the 1950s but with AI. Gestapo-style citizenship tests to vote, the Post Office used as … READ MORE
