Charges have been dropped against Georgia Senator Nikema Williams, who was arrested at her place of work — the Georgia State Capitol — while observing a Count Every Vote protest last November. “My charges might have been dropped,” says Williams, “but this is ...more
While pundits are falling all over themselves spewing about the "civility" of the patrician George H. W. Bush, l must honor the memory those 50 men who were buried alive in a gold field in Africa so Bush Sr. could cash in.
To me, this is the most important story of my career ”” and almost ended it when Bush's gold mining company sued my ...more
Of the thousands of bless you and f**** you messages that arrived at The Guardian papers after we broke the Florida vote swindle story in November 2000, none ruffled my editors' English reserve but one: a letter demanding we ...more
Brian Kemp purged half a million voters in 2017 ahead of his race for the governor's office against the Democratic Party's candidate, Stacey Abrams. He said they left the state. (There must have been moving vans everywhere!) Our experts went ...more
Stacey Abrams, who refused to officially concede defeat in her bid for Governor, filed suit today in federal court in Atlanta charging the entire election process was hopelessly tainted. Charging Kemp "grossly mismanaged" election and "unconstitutionally ...more
[Jackson, Mississippi] In the vote-stealing biz it's called "push polling" in which a fake pollster cons a voter out of their vote. Mike Espy, US Senate candidate, reveals the return of an outlawed vote suppression tactic aimed at
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 and asked to submit to a strip search. ...more
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 solve the problem of Republicans using the Help America Vote Act to block people from ...more
Days ago, I received a call from Stacey Abrams' lead attorneys. Our investigative team had "gold," as they put it, for litigating the election: Expert analysis proving 340,134 voters were wrongly purged. Plus, we had ...more
In 18 years of covering elections I've never seen such hate, as captured on camera this week by my team on the frontlines in Broward County, Florida. ...more
Today, I filed an affidavit filed today in Federal District Court in Atlanta in support of Common Cause Georgia's case filed against Brian Kemp, Secretary of State. (When Kemp resigned, the case continued against his ...more
My very first US investigative report was published by Salon in 2000 about the theft of the vote in Florida, then still in progress. Fast-forward to 2018 and the photos are nearly identical to 2000 — GOP bullies trying to ...more
Watch this one-minute video of Ashlee Jones on the 21 "easy" steps required of a voter of color to cast a ballot in Georgia.
Spoiler alert: Step 21 is ...more
Georgia state police have arrested 12 Black Lives Matter activists for hoisting balloons in front of the capital that spell out "340,134" — the number of voters the Palast team uncovered as wrongly purged from ...more
Half a million Georgia voters were purged with no notice — and their provisional ballots likely won't be counted. Brian Kemp, who until this week was Georgia's secretary of state, is stealing the gubernatorial election from Stacey Abrams. It begins with ...more
[Atlanta] "I was blocked from voting for Stacey Abrams." Yasmin Bakhtiari is upset, horrified and determined. Her family had fled Iran for American democracy. But New York born Yasmin found democracy disappeared now that she's located ...more
There are elements of about the current Georgia governor's race that may fundamentally ...more
It’s not close, the Democrats won, if you counted all the votes...
Thom Hartmann and Palast discuss Ohio 12th District Race and Kansas GOP Gubernatorial Primary between Colyer and Kobach ...more
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