Trump’s Wall of Shame
Trump's strategy as a president is to fuel the fears of Americans. The whole country suffers from the aggression and division. People are in need of hearing that decency and courage make sense again. ...more
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from Greg Palast and the investigations team.
It's still not too late to make an end of year tax-deductible donation to support our work — and pick up some great premiums too! ...more
Look what Santa Brought from Georgia
Ho ho ho! Now that Brian Kemp is no longer Secretary of State of Georgia, his office has informed The Palast Investigative Fund attorneys that they are throwing in the towel in the Palast and Butler v. Kemp suit we filed in Atlanta Federal Court in October. This opens up ...more
Bush Sr. Made a Killing – 50 Miners Buried Alive
While pundits are falling all over themselves spewing about the "civility" of the patrician George H. W. Bush, l must honor the memory those 50 men who were buried alive in a gold field in Africa so Bush Sr. could cash in.
To me, this is the most important story of my career — and almost ended it when Bush’s gold mining company sued my ...more
How Brian Kemp Illegally STOLE The Georgia ElectionCenk Uygur talks to Palast on The Young Turks' Rebel HQ
Brian Kemp purged half a million voters in 2017 ahead of his race for the governor's office against the Democratic Party's candidate, Stacey Abrams. He said they left the state. (There must have been moving vans everywhere!) Our experts went through the list name by name and found ...more
Abrams’ New Voting Rights Org, Fair Fight Georgia, Files Suit
Stacey Abrams, who refused to officially concede defeat in her bid for Governor, filed suit today in federal court in Atlanta charging the entire election process was hopelessly tainted. Charging Kemp "grossly mismanaged" election and "unconstitutionally ...more
Mississippi: Ugly Old Trick Targets Espy Voters
[Jackson, Mississippi] In the vote-stealing biz it’s called "push polling" in which a fake pollster cons a voter out of their vote. Mike Espy, US Senate candidate, reveals the return of an outlawed vote suppression tactic aimed at
Georgia Senator Nikema Williams: Black, Female and Under Arrest
Georgia state Senator Nikema Williams didn't plan on being arrested last week. She certainly didn't think she'd be zip-tied by cops and asked to submit to a strip search. ...more
Here’s how Republicans Hijacked a Bill Designed to ‘Help America Vote’
There’s a fascinating history to what Joe Madison calls “James Crow, Esq., voting suppression” — and that history tells us what we can do to solve the problem of Republicans using the Help America Vote Act to block people from ...more
What We Must Do Now: Abrams, Georgia & Something Extraordinary
Days ago, I received a call from Stacey Abrams’ lead attorneys. Our investigative team had “gold,” as they put it, for litigating the election: Expert analysis proving 340,134 voters were wrongly purged. Plus, we had ...more
Shocking Level of Hate on Display on Election Frontlines in Florida
In 18 years of covering elections I’ve never seen such hate, as captured on camera this week by my team on the frontlines in Broward County, Florida. ...more
Palast Files Affidavit in Common Cause v. Kemp
Today, I filed an affidavit filed today in Federal District Court in Atlanta in support of Common Cause Georgia’s case filed against Brian Kemp, Secretary of State. (When Kemp resigned, the case continued against his ...more
Salon: They’re Trying To Stop The Count — Again!Eighteen years on and it’s still the same.
My very first US investigative report was published by Salon in 2000 about the theft of the vote in Florida, then still in progress. Fast-forward to 2018 and the photos are nearly identical to 2000 — GOP bullies trying to ...more
Voting in Georgia in 21 Easy Steps
Watch this one-minute video of Ashlee Jones on the 21 “easy” steps required of a voter of color to cast a ballot in Georgia.
Spoiler alert: Step 21 is ...more
Black Lives Matter, Georgia Busted for Protest Balloons
Georgia state police have arrested 12 Black Lives Matter activists for hoisting balloons in front of the capital that spell out “340,134” — the number of voters the Palast team uncovered as wrongly purged from ...more
Here’s how Brian Kemp is Stealing the Georgia Election
Half a million Georgia voters were purged with no notice — and their provisional ballots likely won’t be counted. Brian Kemp, who until this week was Georgia’s secretary of state, is stealing the gubernatorial election from Stacey Abrams. It begins with ...more
Georgia Mass Purge Victim:“This was a strategy from Kemp”
[Atlanta] “I was blocked from voting for Stacey Abrams.” Yasmin Bakhtiari is upset, horrified and determined. Her family had fled Iran for American democracy. But New York born Yasmin found democracy disappeared now that she’s located ...more
Martin Luther King’s Cousin Blocked by Kemp from Casting a BallotDespite Voting in every Election for 50 Years
Today I visited 92-year-old Christine Jordan, who was blocked from voting in Georgia. Brian Kemp took away her right to vote exactly 50 years to the day since she ...more