Coronavirus

Palast & David Cay Johnston: How Trump Stole 2020 — A Warning!

by Greg Palast
May 9, 2020June 2, 2020

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.

Palast & Hartmann: How Trump Stole 2020 — A Warning!

by Greg Palast
April 30, 2020June 2, 2020

Trump & Co are stealing the election right now, but we can steal it back. We can beat the ballot bandits. Watch this video of my conversation with constitutional expert and broadcaster Thom Hartmann — then pre-order my new book, How Trump Stole 2020, to find out how!

We Won’t Lift the Quarantine on Kemp

by Greg Palast
April 26, 2020May 10, 2020

When Donald Trump thinks you’re Looney Tunes, time to get professional help, Mr. Kemp.
But in the storm over Kemp’s goofball “opening,” Kemp’s other threat to Georgians has gone unnoticed

Election Crimes Bulletin: How Trump Stole 2020
— And How We Can Steal It Back!

by Dennis Bernstein
April 23, 2020May 21, 2020

Bernstein delves into Palast’s new book, How Trump Stole 2020, which serves as a warning — and a guide to how we can steal the election back!

Palast on Staying Home with Josh Fox: Let voters choose the politicians not other way around

by Greg Palast
April 22, 2020May 8, 2020

There is much to fear, especially for minority and young voters, with a switch to all-mail voting — unless our system is fixed. Palast and Fox discuss the challenges our democracy faces during the coronavirus pandemic and what we need to do to

The Coronavirus is Voting for Donald Trump
Voting by mail is no cure; we're heading for a "pretend election"

by Chauncey DeVega
for Salon
April 13, 2020May 9, 2020

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.

25 Million Ballots Could be Lost in Shift to Mail-in Voting

by Greg Palast
for Between The Lines
April 9, 2020January 14, 2022

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

Our Choice May Be Vote By Mail Or Die
Election Crimes Bulletin: Pandemic Edition

by Greg Palast
for KPFA's Flashpoints
April 7, 2020

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

Elections in the Era of COVID-19
How we can vote without killing ourselves — and ensure every vote counts!

by Greg Palast
for Igniting Change
April 2, 2020March 8, 2022

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

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Corona Crow: The Virus is a Racist

by Greg Palast
March 25, 2020May 9, 2020

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.”

Democracy vs Pandemic

by Greg Palast
March 19, 2020

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