We need to embrace mail-in ballots so we can vote without the risk of dying in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are pitfalls. Urgent changes to our voting system must be implemented to ensure every mail-in ballot counts. Palast breaks down what these essential fixes are ...more
Civil Rights leader Rev. Joseph Echols Lowery died at home, surrounded by his daughters, on Friday, March 27, at the age of 98. He did not put down his sword until his last day. It was Rev. Lowery who agreed to have Helen Butler, the Executive Director of his organization, the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda, join me as a co-plaintiff in our successful federal suit against Georgia’s GOP Sec. of State, now Governor, Brian Kemp. Sadly, this is ...more
You hear from every pol and pundit: The coronavirus does not distinguish between Black and White, rich and poor, Republican or Democrat. That’s just bullshit. This virus is one highly partisan little bug. And a racist. Call it “Corona Crow.” ...more
Let's not create a precedent for Trump to cancel the November election. Rather than argue about cancelling primaries and elections, let’s talk about how we can vote without dying ...more
A shout out to Greg Palast, an independent journalist who has made it his mission to investigate what he sees as efforts to deny Americans the right to vote. Palast has his own investigative fund and has been working with the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda to produce some powerful lawsuits and some powerful stories. ...more
The state’s arcane and complex voting system is stealing hundreds of thousands of votes from Bernie Sanders.In February, California mailed 3.7 million primary ballots that, to the astonishment of many who received them, excluded the ...more
In the California Democratic Primary in 2016, 750,000 votes were DISQUALIFIED, mostly No Party Preference (NPP) voters — three out of four of whom were Bernie voters, according to a Roper poll. While the media is misdirecting concern to touchscreen machines in Los Angeles, this November the BIG steal will happen by ...more
A federal judge has rejected Georgia officials' arguments in an election-related lawsuit and ruled that information being sought by a journalist and an activist is subject to public disclosure. ...more
[Atlanta-Feb 9] In an extraordinary and unexpected move, Federal Judge Eleanor Ross has declared Gov. Brian Kemp the loser in a lawsuit brought by investigative journalist Greg Palast for the State of Georgia to open up its complete files on the mass ...more
The 2018 Gubernatorial election in Georgia became ground-zero for Republican-led vote suppression when then Secretary of State Brian Kemp ran against Democrat Stacey Abrams. As State Secretary, Kemp had unique access to the state’s voting systems in the same election in which he ran for higher office. Now, a lawsuit filed by investigative reporter Greg Palast ...more
The Election Crimes Bulletin returns for another season. In this edition, we go to Iowa, Milwaukee and Wisconsin to report on election fraud. But first Palast reveals some huge breaking news out of Georgia ...more
Today, we honor a man whose courage must now be ours; and then we can make America truly great again. On October 19, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Georgia for driving with an ...more
My dear Californians, I know you filled out that registration form at the DMV. Well, you know what? There's a 45% chance in California when you sign up to register to vote on a piece of paper, your name is never entered on the voter rolls. And we have the California presidential primary on ...more
Palast discusses the theft of the 2020 election, which is happening right now, right under our noses, with Sabrina Jacobs on KPFA's A Rude Awakening. ...more
Two new court decisions have blessed mass purges of voters in 2 swing states, Georgia and Wisconsin. This could be the launch of a new system for purging masses of voters of color and young voters that is expected to ...more
Go ahead, pop the champagne! It took us six years of investigating and reporting on the nationwide Jim Crow Interstate Crosscheck purge operation but, finally, Kansas, which generates the Crosscheck secret scrub lists for other states, has agreed to ...more
Boris Johnson’s crushing win in Britain should be seen by progressives as a huge victory for the anti-globalization movement that grew out of the 1999 Battle of Seattle. This election was another referendum on Brexit, on the public’s overwhelming resistance to the massive ...more
As my chief investigator, Leni Badpenny, a British subject, notes, Jeremy Corbyn's line that Boris Johnson was entertaining the sale of the NHS, "is complete bollocks." Corbyn, like Joe McCarthy, is waving a "document," but has never ...more
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