Take a Red Pill and join me in the future for the reading of the electoral vote. The year is 2025. It’s 1pm on #January6th and Vice-President Kamala Harris has begun opening the envelopes with the electoral vote from each state, alphabetically... gregpalast.com/what-do-you-ca…
When she reaches Georgia, new Republican Senator Herschel Walker objects to accepting Harris’ choice of the slate of Electors pledged to Joe Biden, the slate submitted by Georgia’s Governor Stacey Abrams. gregpalast.com/what-do-you-ca…
Instead, Sen. Walker demands Harris count the vote of the slate submitted by Georgia’s GOP-controlled legislature with Electors committed to Donald Trump. gregpalast.com/what-do-you-ca…
Republicans, holding the majority in the House since the 2022 mid-terms, have rejected Biden’s Electors from Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin and Michigan. VP Harris is therefore compelled to invoke the Constitution’s procedure for disputed elections outlined in the Twelfth Amendment.
Under this little-known Constitutional process, each state receives but a single vote. Republicans control the Congressional delegations of 27 states. Though that represents just a tiny portion of America’s voters, Donald Trump wins “re-election” with a vote of 27 to 23.
You’re thinking, “Palast, do you really believe this could happen?”

You betcha. gregpalast.com/what-do-you-ca…
Forget the whack-jobs who invaded the Capitol a year ago. These “insurrectionists” were schmucks with no chance of overturning the election. (I don’t dismiss the gravity of their actions—they crushed the skull of a policeman & threatened other murders in the hall of the people.)
But truly, the real danger was in the Oval Office when, two days earlier, Trump peddled a memo by attorney John Eastman. Eastman’s memo laid out, in detail, the dark scenario I described above, in which Republicans use the Twelfth Amendment to overturn the choice of the voters. Image
As a journalist, it’s not my job to tell you whether Biden or Trump should be President. How about we let the voters make that choice? But that’s not easy. Whether we have a democracy in 2024 depends on whether we can preserve democracy in 2022. gregpalast.com/what-do-you-ca…
And once again, it will come down to Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin — where voting is about to get a lot harder for people of color, as we’ve uncovered in our latest investigation.
Can we stop this coup? Yes, but only before it happens: by protecting the vote in Georgia and other swing states.

If we wait until 2024, it will be too late. The work begins this midterm year.

Right now... gregpalast.com/what-do-you-ca…
Help us stop this brutal assault on democracy. Support our new investigations and film series for 2022 that will blow open the hidden, most vicious vote suppression tactics yet. gregpalast.com/georgia-action…

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23 Nov 21
Roger Stone and Alex Jones, key planners of the January 6 Stop the Steal rally and illegal march that led to the deadly storming of the US Capitol, have been subpoenaed by the US Congressional committee investigating the attack. gregpalast.com/alex-jones-rog…
At the heart of the #AlexJones subpoena is the Infowars broadcast in which a guest host told Jones’ audience to go to Washington and “if necessary, storming right into the Capitol..If you have enough people, you can push down any kind of fence or wall.” gregpalast.com/alex-jones-rog…
The #Jan6Committee seeks details on Alex Jones' astonishing statement that the White House itself asked him and Ali Alexander to lead a march to the Capitol from the Ellipse where President Trump spoke to a rally of supporters. gregpalast.com/alex-jones-rog…
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These are the only states that would be policed under the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act requirement to “pre-clear” new, racially biased, voting procedures, such as early voting limits:

Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia
Don’t get me wrong, 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.
In 2013, Justice Kennedy said the Voting Rights Act would have been constitutional if it didn’t target specific states, a suggestion from New York City which was then under pre-clearance review.
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28 Oct 21
Jury selection began this week for the civil trial of the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in #Charlottesville. The rally ended with the murder of #HeatherHeyer and injuries to dozens of other activists, including #DeAndreHarris. gregpalast.com/hate-goes-on-t…
The attack on #DeAndreHarris in #Charlottesville was witnessed and filmed by our reporter, @ZDRoberts, which helped lead to several arrests & convictions.

"They came there for violence," says Roberts. "They knew what they were doing and they planned it.”
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27 Oct 21
BREAKING: #HumanRights lawyer @SDonziger was admitted to the federal prison in Danbury, CT, today.
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The Court of Appeals denied @SDonziger's request for bail yesterday — despite the ruling of the judges of the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ordering his immediate release. #FreeDonziger gregpalast.com/human-rights-l…
#StevenDonziger has been sentenced to prison for 6 months — punishment for winning a $9 billion judgment against Chevron for destroying the Amazon with oil sludge — and is currently appealing his conviction. #FreeDonziger gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
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30 Sep 21
I am in New York today, filming @SDonziger, whom the United Nations' human rights justices have identified as America's political prisoner and ordered his release.

Read the full UN ruling here: static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac2615…

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#StevenDonziger's crime? Acting as the successful attorney in a suit against Chevron oil, who poisoned the Cofan people of Ecuador’s Amazon. #FreeDonziger gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
Tomorrow, @SDonziger faces sentencing and could be given up to 6 months in a federal prison. I will be in the court room. Stand by for our report... #FreeDonziger
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BREAKING: Highest U.N. Human Rights Body Rules U.S. Government Must Release @SDonziger from “Arbitrary” Detention and Compensate Him for Legal Violations #FreeDonziger makechevroncleanup.com/press-releases…
"The charges against & detention of @SDonziger appears to be retaliation for his work as a legal representative of indigenous communities, as he refused to disclose confidential correspondence w/ his clients in a very high profile case against multi-national business enterprise.”
"The appropriate remedy would be to release Mr. @SDonziger immediately and accord him an enforceable right to compensation and other reparations, in accordance with international law.” static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac2615… #FreeDonziger
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