Here’s what you know: In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes. Officially.
Here’s what you don’t know: 75,355 ballots were never counted. That’s official, too. Just “spoilage,” that is, ballots that were, for some technical reason, un-tallied. But not just anyone’s vote “spoiled.” Most of these vanished votes were cast in… READ MORE
“Oh, Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.”
I’ve been singing that Animals’ tune for a month. I move my lips, but I’m not sure my words are understood.
It begins with a stone-cold fact: Mail-in ballots are lost by the millions—especially the ballots of … READ MORE
Mary Trump’s book tells you how little Donald was a whiny grifter even as a toddler.
That’s history. This is now: How Trump Stole 2020 tells you how Trump’s minions have already erased 16.7 million from the voter rolls (guess their color)—I show you how to … READ MORE
It’s been a rough primary season, and the presidential election is going to be even worse if thousands of voters can’t vote because their names have been wiped off the rolls. Voters are going to have to learn how to… READ MORE
Jerry Thomas got his Georgia Primary ballot on June 10. The Primary Election was June 9. Getting shafted out of your … READ MORE
If you’re not sick and outraged and ready to vomit, then don’t talk to me.
When I see a cruel bucket of garbage and winky-winky racism and bullshit and venom like Mike Pence, fawning to an orange-stained bloviating bigot, then talk to America like he’s some kind of Boy Scout, I want a… READ MORE
The GOP has refined its strategy of voter suppression, voter intimidation and vote theft in elections across the country, and the planned chaos during the recent Georgia Democratic primaries is a preview of how they intend to … READ MORE
When the only way you can win is by depriving people of their vote, long lines are a feature, not a bug of GOP election strategy. It’s no coincidence that the worst lines tend to be in young, poor and minority neighborhoods — in others words places where people tend to… READ MORE
The images that we’ve seen on our screens over the last week have been very challenging to digest not only for adults but also for kids.
At this point, they’ve seen the videos and the protests and have probably … READ MORE
The cop raised his weapon shouting, “Forty millimeter up! Curfew! YOU WILL BE FIRED UPON.”
It was just past the 8pm curfew meant to stop the riot.
I shouted, “PRESS! PRESS! PRESS!” holding my reporter’s ID over my head, hoping … READ MORE
The Republicans could use the fraudulent hysteria they’ve whipped up about vote-by-mail fraud to steal the presidency in the event that Donald Trump fails to win the Electoral College. The GOP-controlled Legislatures could claim
Donald Trump will win reelection. I take no pride in saying that. We — the American people — have a right to participate in the last vestiges of this tattered democracy. I will feel no thrill or joy to witness the Oval Office occupied for another four years by the most
They don’t steal votes to steal elections. They steal votes to steal the money. If you can steal an election, you’ve stolen the keys to the treasury — our treasury. In this conversation, award-winning investigative reporters and authors Greg Palast and David Cay Johnston follow the (stolen) money, and expose the billionaires and ballot bandits who are systematically stripping the United States of its assets, just as a vulture fund would with a corporate entity caught in its talons.
