To understand how this mass attack on voting rights will work, we have to go back to Dec 21, just before the Georgia Senate runoffs, when True the Vote challenged the right of 364,541 Georgians to cast ballots... #SB202 gregpalast.com/hidden-horrors…
County elections boards rejected the challenges, noting that the numbers were too huge to be credible.

One voter can challenge another if they have personal knowledge that the other voter is a fraud. The local shills used by True the Vote knew nothing of those they challenged.
But #SB202 specifically authorizes unlimited challenges and True the Vote is crowing that Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger has virtually invited them to challenge more voters. gregpalast.com/hidden-horrors…
So, under #SB202, Georgia Republicans can use True the Vote’s challenge trickery to avoid the strictures of federal law, and circumvent limitations previously placed on challenges. gregpalast.com/hidden-horrors…

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Remember my @DemocracyNow report on that gutsy little non-profit bank that took on Goldman Sachs? The Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union (@LESPeoplesFCU) is owned by its customers, including Occupy Wall Street, 80% low-income Hispanics... gregpalast.com/goldman-sachs-…
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#AmericanRescuePlanAct #PPP #PPPLoan
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The federal government, which has restored a modicum of protection, can only police utilities that are connected to the national grid. So, Texas literally cut itself of from the rest of the USA’s electric system.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott blames windmills for this week’s deadly disaster. Some wind farms froze — but they manage to keep 'em going in the Antarctic! nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_d…
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“Deregulate” is a misnomer. “De-criminalize” describes it best. With the “free market” supposedly setting the price of power, Texas-based Enron was free to blow prices through the roof when weather shut down power plants.
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Here is the smoking gun...

Trump’s GOP defenders say that Trump merely called for a march to the Capitol, a legal act of protest.

Except for this: it wasn’t legal. And Trump and his team knew it. gregpalast.com/insider-white-…
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