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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Strangling of John Lewis Voting Rights Act could be death blow for democracy
The strangling of the John Lewis Act by filibuster, unlike the overhyped For the People Act, could be the death blow to a democratically elected Congress. Even with its limitations, the John Lewis Act would’ve been a very powerful weapon. For example, the act would absolutely have prevented … READ MORE
Biden refuses to use political capital to bust the filibuster and save voting rights
Palast joins the By Any Means Necessary crew to discuss the blocking of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act by Senate Republicans, the history of the filibuster as a tool of racist disenfranchisement, Biden’s refusal to use political capital to bust it, and how Democrats’ inaction on issues such as voting rights contributed to their recent electoral defeats. … READ MORE
John Lewis (1940-2020)
John Lewis, whom we filmed in 2016, was nearly beaten to death in Selma, Alabama in 1965, so that all Americans could vote. He made history. What will WE make? And when?
We Don’t Have a Working DemocracyWhat happened, how we can fix it
Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the vote theft party’s started. They’re removing voters from rolls
How Do We Defeat Voter Suppression?A Tribute to the Spirit of Selma
How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it’s fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 50 years ago
Democracy Now:How they’re stealing Ohio Vote machines audit function disabled-and worse
Greg Palast on the ground in the battleground state of Ohio: where he finds three ways the vote is, indeed, “rigged”
Greg Palast on MSNBC with Joy Reid GOP Effort to purge millions from voter rolls
Rolling Stone reports on a Republican-orchestrated effort to compile lists of voters who they allege are registered to vote in multiple states. Reporter Greg Palast and Dale Ho of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project
The Trump Who Cried Wolf
During an interview on Faux News, Donald Trump told Sean Hannity that the November 8th presidential election was going to be rigged
Mike Pence walks 10 Nuns out of the Voting Booth
Mike Pence is the poster boy for voter ID laws. No one has benefited more from this legalized form of vote theft than the Republican nominee for VP. In his acceptance speech at the
New York voting fiasco just the warm-up for the November game
Buckle up, America. The voting demolition derby that was the New York primary on Tuesday was merely the crash test for the coming voting wreckage in
Lee Camp Arrested At Democracy Spring
Lee Camp, host of RT’s Redacted Tonight and resident Palast Investigative Fund humorist was arrested Tuesday afternoon
Scalia's Black Beemer
It was one of our team’s weirder investigative discoveries: The recently departed Justice Antonin Scalia – alev ha shalom – in 2011, was ticketed for recklessly driving his black BMW. To his family, I offer condolences. To my readers, I offer the facts
Scalia’s Bad Habits: How the late JusticeNixed Nuns from the Voting Booth
No man’s passing should be a source of joy. But neither should it be a source of false histories and false tears. Justice Scalia was a right wing warrior who never let
Who hatched Rubio?
The big boys are confident that Sen. Marco Rubio has locked up the Republican nomination. But who’s locked up Rubio?
From White Sheets to Spreadsheets
I hate to spoil a happy ending. The movie “Selma,” like this week’s commemorations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march
Dispatch from Battleground North Carolina
[Greensboro, NC] Jim Crow has risen from the crypt of Segregation. But now he’s working as Dr. James Crow, database expert. Read Greg Palast’s Election Day dispatch from Dixie, for Al Jazeera
Karl Rove’s Carolina Scheme Faces Justice
Updated from the original article published on TheMudflats.net
