Martin Sheen was on his way to the White House to meet with President Biden when he took time to join me in an interview with The Hill, the political Bible of Washington.
Martin is the Executive Producer of our film, Vigilantes Inc., America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen. You can watch it for no charge.
As Martin warns us, “You can’t trust a lot of this villainy that has been sparked by this new fandangled Republican Party, whatever the hell it is. This crowd is criminal and immoral, and their efforts to subvert the vote — I mean, my God, look what happened to the last national election with the Capitol.”
Hereeeeeere’s MARTIN!
Martin Sheen Sounds the Alarm on
Voter Suppression from ‘MAGA Vigilantes’
The Hill – by Judy Kurtz – 10/01/24
[Washington DC] He’s been a vocal Vice President Harris supporter and is hitting the campaign trail to back several Democratic Senate bids, but Martin Sheen says he can’t think of “anything more important to do in relation to this year’s election” than sound the alarm on voter suppression from “MAGA vigilantes.”
Sheen, who famously portrayed President Jed Bartlet on NBC’s long-running political drama, “The West Wing,” is an executive producer of the new film, “Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen.”
The documentary-style project from journalist Greg Palast, currently streaming for free, “hones in on 8,500 self-proclaimed vigilante ‘vote-fraud hunters’ who have already challenged the rights of 851,000 voters of color in the 2024 election” in Georgia and beyond.
“If we have 2 million vigilante challenges, we don’t know how many will go through, but you have to understand the tiny margins of these states. And that’s the real threat to this election,” Palast told The Hill in an exclusive joint interview with Sheen.
“This is something that we really need to expand the public’s knowledge on and make them aware that this is going on and how egregious and illegal, not to mention, immoral it is,” Sheen said.
“The fact that they are attacking newly registered voters — young people, people of color and immigrants, or people with foreign-sounding names — it’s very egregious, it’s racist and it’s going to have a powerful effect on the outcome of the election,” the actor said.
“Our purpose in making this film is to make sure that the voters — not the vigilantes — pick our next president,” Palast said.
“That’s the entire point. I’m not being partisan. I’m not trying to elect Kamala Harris. I’m trying to let the voters make that decision, not the vigilantes. And so we’re exposing them and helping people to save their votes,” the filmmaker and author added.
Vigilantes raises the possibility of the results of November’s presidential election being overturned by the Supreme Court. It’s a scenario that Sheen said he is “absolutely” concerned might play out.
“You can’t trust a lot of this villainy that has been sparked by this new fandangled Republican Party, whatever the hell it is. It used to be a fair fight in the old days. Now, it’s like it’s going on behind our backs, or under the seats, or wherever they can get away with whatever they get away with,” Sheen, 84, exclaimed.
The Emmy Award winner, a self-described “lifelong Democrat,” pointed to the 2020 White House race and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot by supporters of then-President Trump: “This crowd is criminal and immoral, and their efforts to subvert the vote — I mean, my God, look what happened to the last national election with the Capitol. And the results of that are still being felt.”
Help us warn America. We are raising funds for free community showings and an education campaign in battleground states—the prime targets of the vigilantes.
And join me at theater screenings of Vigilantes Inc. in Madison (Oct 17)and Atlanta (Oct 25)—and an on-line showing of Vigilantes Inc. hosted by PDA on Oct 9 at 8pm Eastern.
Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and the book and documentary, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
His latest film is Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen.
Palast is currently working on a new documentary Long Knife, exposing the Koch Brothers' theft of Osage oil, to be released in 2025.
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