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Investigative journalist and author of the NY Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

My new documentary, Vigilante, exposes the most brazen, racist attack on voting rights yet.

Catch my reports at: GregPalast.com

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This anti-enslavement paragraph was removed from the Declaration at the insistence of the Habersham family of Georgia, the ancestors of the current Governor Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Vote Suppressor-in-Chief, whose wealth today was born out of the whippings of his family's African workers.

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I know that there is legitimate reason to be sickened by Jefferson’s slaveholding but, weirdly, we should also recognize that he was a staunch ABOLITIONIST! In other words, he knew well that owning other human beings was wrong. www.gregpalast.com/jefferson-th...

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This was ONLY paragraph of the Declaration of Independence removed by the Continental Congress: “Slavery is a war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty by captivating and carrying Africans into slavery and miserable death.”

#July4th #IndependenceDay

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We've already been to Arizona, Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan, and back to Georgia to confront the vigilantes, for our film, Vigilantes Inc. Help us complete it, and get the word out before the election: palastinvestigativefund.org/vigilantes-2024/

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Finally, the lame stream media has discovered that vigilante vote challenges are the big new threat. What they've missed is that it's spread from Georgia to a dozen other states.

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Georgia and Texas are not red states: if people were allowed to vote they’d be Blue. www.gregpalast.com/can-voter-su...

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GOP operatives are mass challenging literally hundreds of thousands of voters, and True The Vote has put out the call to get 100,000 volunteers to submit these challenges. They’re probably the most effective vote suppression organization since the KKK.

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Catch Palast in San Francisco on Weds, June 26 at 7pm — the event is FREE!

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#Politics | #Poetry | #SpokenWord

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Right wing groups have launched new “vigilante” challenge operations in swing states and are signing up over 100,000 “volunteers” to challenge a million – yes, a million – voters of color.

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🔨 El Martillo – The Hammer strikes again! Greg Palast (aka El Martillo) & Matt Sedillo (aka “the greatest living political poet”) join forces for an evening of political poetry in San Francisco Weds, June 26 at 7pm SunnyCo Studio Gallery, 480 Francisco St, SF, CA 94133 Entry: No charge!

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The Election Crimes Bulletin is back!

In this week's episode we reveal how the Trump plan for 2024—to use an army of vigilantes to challenge Black voters—is the exact same plan the Klan successfully used to elect Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge in 1946.

🔊 gregpalast.podbean.com/e/election-c...

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Your voter registration may not be safe. Listen to this!

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...Unless we do our best to expose these schemes. We succeeded in 2020, but new tactics to steal our democracy in 2024 will overwhelm us unless we shine the light on the new cockroaches of vote suppression evils.

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While it's tempting to pour Cointreau down our throats to celebrate the conviction of Agent Orange, let's not forget the jury found him guilty of crimes which we were all aware of before the 2016 election. Yet he won thru vote suppression tactics which may make his next election all but inevitable.

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Brian Kemp and John Barrow both call Athens, GA their home and have a long history of butting heads politically. In our film Vigilantes Inc. we spoke to Barrow about Kemp’s phony “self-made man” story. Barrow knew it wasn’t true — and we have the evidence.  www.gregpalast.com/john-barrow-...

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How Brian Kemp always ended up with a golden shovel, as explained by former Congressman John Barrow, who's facing off against the Kemp appointed justice Andrew Pinson in the Georgia State Supreme Court judgeship race. youtu.be/uAx7Ge4KC7w

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When Kyle Rittenhouse came to Kent State: A report by PIF fellow @zdroberts.bsky.social about how the young acquitted murderer is being paraded around campuses to stir up controversy to promote Turning Points USA, an organization that promotes the far right agenda to students across the US.

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And while Putin is laughing at US “sanctions”, which are about as serious as canceling his Walmart discount card, here’s how lifting the Venezuelan oil embargo could bring Putin to his knees — and lower prices at the pump! www.gregpalast.com/venezuela-ca...

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Right now, I'm on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma where Charlie stole his first billion. The Osage have been trying to warn this planet about these poisonous billionaires. I'm filming what they have to say to us. This time, let's listen. palastinvestigativefund.org/longknife/

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In 1996, I made a documentary about the richest guys you never heard of, the Koch Brothers, but no one gave a f*k about some schmucks from Wichita. Well, now it's time to give a f*k. 
www.gregpalast.com/what-charles...

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Don't be fooled by Charlie Koch's "opposition" to Trump. When Trump wins, Koch will control judicial appointments through his Federalist Society and executive policy through the Heritage Foundation. 
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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Days after the #ExxonValdez slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives of Alaska. It was their coastline. This is the real story that remains largely untold...

www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exx...

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But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests — the profit-driven disregard of the law — made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.

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The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident.

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Today is the 35th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster. The official story is, “Drunken Skipper Hits Reef.” Don’t believe it. vimeo.com/528283428

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We’re currently updating our film, to reveal how the tactics first unleashed by Brian Kemp in Georgia are now being used by the GOP nationwide. The new film, Vigilantes Inc.: America’s Vote Suppression Hitmen, will come out in the fall. palastinvestigativefund.org/vigilantes-2...

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These are the same mass challenge tactics I’ve reported extensively on and that I exposed in my film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman, which was released before the 2022 election. youtu.be/8hj3TZZRebo?...

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In a recent article, the New York Times reports on what they say is an “all but unnoticed effort” by Trump’s allies to challenge voters in critical battleground states. But it's only “unnoticed” because they've previously refused to cover it.

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One week after Alexei Navalny’s death, Oleg Orlov, a 70-year-old human rights advocate and co-chairman of the Nobel Prize winning human rights group Memorial, was sentenced to two years and eleven months in a penal colony. www.gregpalast.com/70-year-old-...

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Alexei Navalny’s death requires me to remind Putin apologists that the ultimate form of vote suppression is assassinating your opponents. Navalny's sacrifice follows in the footsteps of Boris Nemtsov whom Putin assassinated in 2015 after he called for a protest against the first invasion of Ukraine.

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We need to return to the swing state of Georgia where they've removed 75% of the ballot dropboxes in the Black-majority counties, while increasing the number of dropboxes in white counties.

I can’t make this up.

But I can expose it. With your help.

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#FREECOMIC

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This year, the state of Georgia has just purged 189,000 voters from the voter rolls. Overwhelmingly — no points for guessing — voters of color. How do they do it? Read our FREE comic!

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Indiana has not had A SINGLE CASE OF VOTER IMPERSONATION FRAUD IN 100 YEARS OF RECORD-KEEPING. This is a law not to prevent a crime — which doesn’t exist — but to prevent voting by people whom the GOP guardians of the ballot box would keep away…

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Join us in making this film, Long Knife, which begins where Killers ends, and tells the rest of the Osage story — which is America’s story.

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And we thank the DiCaprios and the Osage Nation for helping us tell the story of the continued thievery and pain inflicted on them by the villain who showed up after the Killers story ends: Charles Koch. youtu.be/inoqKRlvav4?...

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