Ten years ago, April 20, 11 men on the Deepwater Horizon were incinerated when the BP/Transocean oil rig blew out and exploded. Just 17 months before the Deepwater Horizon destroyed 600 miles of Gulf Coast, BP covered up a
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!
I get it: We all must vote by mail—or we die.
There is really no other safe choice. But there is much to fear, with a switch to all-mail voting—unless our broken absentee ballot system is fixed. Here’s what the “Go Postal” crowd doesn’t tell you
Mail-in voting, as it currently exists, is likely to guarantee Trump’s victory in the 2020 election. However, new Democratic mail-in voting proposals can be improved so the will of the people can be fully realized at the ballot box.
We may have to vote by mail or we die. But 22% of mail-in ballots are never counted — that’s well over one out of five. That means, if we go to 80% mail-in voting, we’ll have 25 million lost votes in November. If it were random, it obviously
Greg Palast and Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein discuss the problems we face exercising our democratic rights during a pandemic. Voting by Mail may seem like the solution, but mail-in ballots could deliver the election to Trump
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
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
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.”
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
[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
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
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
