How do we defeat voter suppression tactics?
How do we defeat voter suppression tactics when they’re fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won over 50 years ago… READ MORE
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Steven Donziger sentenced to six months in prison
[Oct 1, 2021: New York] Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger was sentenced to six months in prison today for contempt of court. For the first time in US history in such a case, he was prosecuted not by the US Justice Department, but by a private attorney who worked for Chevron. He received the maximum sentence for… READ MORE
Why We OccupyOccupy Wall Street: Protecting the People from the Powerful for 10 years!
Why We Occupy, my talk for Pacifica Radio, is my detailed J’accuse against the 1%. It’s as fresh and relevant today as 10 years ago — a summary of eight of my most crucial investigations into the war between Them and Us. And to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street’s occupation of Zuccotti Park, in New York’s financial district, we’re offering … READ MORE
I will not let them put Steven Donziger behind bars without raising hellPalast and supporters of the rights lawyer speak at the #FreeDonziger rally in LA
This is the first ever case in which we have a corporation acting as a criminal prosecutor — a prosecution that is blatant retaliation for a successful lawsuit against them. This, by itself, is deeply, deeply, dangerous. And if you think I take this personally … READ MORE
Uncovered: Illegal Attack on 364,000 Georgia Voters
Pamela Reardon wants to stop Tamara Horne from voting. Reardon of Marietta, Georgia who is running for Vice-Chair of the state Republican Party, has filed a legal challenge to Horne’s vote — one of 32,379 voters in Cobb County Reardon has challenged under a little-noticed provision of… READ MORE
The Big Purge: 364,000 Voters Disqualified in GeorgiaHow one woman challenged eligibility of 32,000 voters
This week on Brian Ross Investigates, investigative reporter Greg Palast takes on Georgia’s new election law, asking how this one local Republican party official was able to personally challenge the eligibility of some 32,000 voters. … READ MORE
The “mind-boggling” hidden threat in Georgia’s restrictive new voting law364,000 votes in jeopardy from little-noticed provision of SB 202
How do you think the election in Georgia would have played out, or how do you think the election in Georgia next year will play out, if the Republican party is successful in throwing 364,000 Georgia voters — largely people of color — off the voting rolls? In this … READ MORE
Pizza outlawed in GeorgiaTo Suppress the Vote
I can’t make this up. The state of Georgia passed a law this week, HB 531, that outlaws handing out pizza slices and water to voters waiting for hours to vote.
But Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger objected to the law because, he said, his office had already ruled that pizza… READ MORE
GOP Trail of TearsGiving 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
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White Power and the RecountThe Far Right Fights for Trump
[November 19th, 2020, Atlanta, GA] The fight over what’s left of the soul of the Republican Party has moved from Washington DC to Georgia with the far right continuing to rally for Trump.
When I first drove by the rally, a Christian white nationalist and anti-immigrant named… READ MORE
How Trump Stole 2020: A Facebook LIVE Event
How Trump Stole 2020: A Facebook LIVE Event — previewing Palast’s new book, which reveals how Trump’s already got the November election in the bag, featuring exclusive reports from the scene of the crime. Hosted by Thom Hartmann and incl. interviews with Barbara Arnwine, Lee Camp, Nomi Prins, David Cay Johnston, Dennis Bernstein, Cary Harrison, Josh Fox & more!
Chelsea Manning, Assange, WikiLeaks, and The Deepwater Horizon
If the U.S. jails Julian Assange, they should jail me, and my colleagues at The Guardian and NYT. We ALL used the
Trump's Regime Change in VenezuelaPalast on The Scott Horton Show
Palast explains the situation in Venezuela, where the Trump administration has recently been signaling for
MLK Senior Center voters: "Not the Republicans!"From The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Palast talks to Georgia voters (clip from The Best Democracy Money Can Buy)
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
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
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
