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Jun 3 7 tweets 5 min read
MAJ Turner's a warrior on two fronts. As the guy who conceived the AT4 anti-tank weapon, he’s supporting the people of Ukraine. And as an African-American voter who’s had his ballot challenged under Georgia’s #SB202 anti-voting law, he’s fighting to save democracy at home.
Due to the war in #Ukraine, MAJ Turner was assigned to a base in California. Because of this, he applied for an absentee ballot, which was challenged under #SB202, which allows any #Georgia citizen to challenge an unlimited number of voters. gregpalast.com/warrior-on-two…
The only reason MAJ Turner even knew that his vote had been challenged was because the county made a mistake and didn't send him his ballot. #SB202
Here's the awful thing with these #SB202 challenges: most people don’t even realize their vote has been challenged. You get your ballot, you mail it in, but it doesn't get counted—you have to know that you're supposed to go into the county offices and prove you are who you are.
MAJ Turner was in California, so he flew all the way back to 3Georgia — at his own cost and on his own time — to defend his vote. Flying to Georgia to save your vote — that’s kind of a heavy poll tax, don’t you think? #SB202
And this isn’t one odd case. Republican operatives have challenged thousands of voters in #Georgia. We called 800 of them, and we couldn't find one illegal voter that they named. Altogether about 300,000 people are facing the non-count of their ballot. gregpalast.com/uncovered-ille…
Support our investigation into the #Georgia election. Help us blow open the hidden, most vicious vote suppression tactics yet, by making a tax-deductible donation to support our work: gregpalast.com/georgia-action… #SB202 #VotingRights #ElectionFraud #Ukraine #Putin

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May 30
Know his name: Maj. Gamaliel Turner. He conceived this weapon that may be #Ukraine’s last, best hope of stopping Putin’s cruel armored columns. #MemorialDay gregpalast.com/warrior-on-two…
I’m in this soldier’s home near Fort Benning, Georgia because his ballot was personally challenged by the county Chairman of the Republican Party. We will hunt him and confront him. gregpalast.com/warrior-on-two…
In World War II, Black soldiers called this ‘The War on Two Fronts’: the fight for democracy in Europe — and democracy in America. #MemorialDay2022
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May 23
To #Putin’s useful idiots who say that sending weapons to #Ukraine “just prolongs the war”~~ meaning , “#Zelenskyy should just surrender”... I’m old enough to remember when #Russia supplied weapons to Vietnam against the American invasion... 🧵
The Russian equipment prolonged the war, that’s true, prolonged long enough to allow Vietnam‘s victory. And that was good for the US, curtailing America’s imperial fantasies and producing in Vietnam a staunch US ally...
And if it were not for weapons from the French, that bastard German King George would’ve crushed our revolution.
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May 17
State Senator Doug Mastriano, Donald Trump’s pick in the Republican Primary for Governor of #Pennsylvania, spent thousands to lead a busload of protesters to the January 6 “protest” at the Capitol in Washington. gregpalast.com/two-january-6t…
His chosen running mate for Lt. Governor (PA elects Gov and Lt. Gov separately) is Teddy Daniels. Daniels was also at the January 6th Capitol protests. gregpalast.com/two-january-6t…
In 2021, PIF photojournalist @ZDRoberts filmed Daniels speaking at the Unification Church — made famous by their worship services that include AR-15’s. Here is the wannabe Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania...
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May 17
#2000Mules: Dinesh D’Souza’s new film claims to prove the 2020 election was stolen by stuffing drop-boxes with 817,765 fraudulent votes. But where did these ballots come from? gregpalast.com/2000-mules-bel…
A ballot cannot simply be printed and stuffed into a box: every mail-in ballot is assigned and coded to an individual voter (your vote choice is secret but not the ballot envelope nor the fact you voted). gregpalast.com/2000-mules-bel…
It would have been easy to call the voters whose ballots were supposedly stolen and used to vote without their consent to prove these were fraudulent votes. (Yes, it’s time consuming: Our Georgia investigation required 1,200 phone calls.) gregpalast.com/2000-mules-bel…
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May 12
#2000Mules: A more accurate name for the film would be “2000 Mailmen” or “2000 Dog Walkers”. I went to several drops-boxes in Georgia while I was covering the 2020 election, so according to D’Souza’s cellphone ping “evidence” I could be one of the mules. gregpalast.com/2000-mules-bel…
#2000Mule is slick. Real slick. With an air of science & hard statistics. They use “geo-tracking”, buying (as anyone can) “pings” from cellphones in 5 cities. D’Souza shows a satellite in space & the damning evidence — photos of Black men casting ballots. gregpalast.com/2000-mules-bel…
They say (but don’t show us) that these Black men, inexplicably, went to drop boxes “on average 23 times”. That’s pretty damning, if true...

But it’s not true.
Read 5 tweets
May 11
In D’Souza’s new film, #2000Mules, they have damning evidence caught on camera, but they … just don’t, uh, show it?!? Why not show us at least a couple of film clips of the 27 times they claim a Black “mule" repeated the felonious crime of couriering ballots to a drop-box?
I was so angry at this criminal voter, I wanted to bust him! Expose him. Arrest him. They have his photo, his car, his license plate number. In fact, their “expert” says these ballot mules have, “bad backgrounds, bad reputations…violent guys.” Whoa! gregpalast.com/2000-mules-bel…
So, If D’Souza identifies their “backgrounds,” they must have their names. So why don’t they show us the files? Name the names? Show us their faces? Confront them. Call the cops, the feds!
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