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Sep 1 12 tweets 6 min read
In November, you not only have the rematch between Stacey Abrams & Brian kemp for Governor, but Sen. Rev. Warnock's running for reelection against Herschel Walker, the big football hero. We have a 50/50 Senate, so there’s a lot at stake. via @FacepalmUSA
gregpalast.com/brian-kemp-wil…
If the public says no more Warnock, or we don’t want Stacey, I have no problem with that. I’m kind of a fan of democracy, of counting the votes. The problem in Georgia is that they are at the cutting edge of what we politely call “vote suppression”. gregpalast.com/its-jim-crow-2…
The only reason #BrianKemp is Governor is that he removed over half a million people from the voter rolls before he ran against #StaceyAbrams four years ago. truthout.org/articles/gops-…
In 2018 Kemp was Secretary of State, which meant he was in charge of counting the votes when he ran for Governor against Abrams. If you're the Secretary of State, it's traditional that you resign if you’re going to run for Governor 'cause you shouldn’t be counting your own votes.
In 2018, #BrianKemp refused to resign as Secretary of State, he knocked off Stacey Abrams’ voters, and this year he’s taken back control of the election from his own Secretary of State — that he appointed by the way. gregpalast.com/georgias-brian…
In March 2021, #BrianKemp signed a brand new voting law, #SB202, which gives him the authority to take over elections. So, once again, Kemp is counting his own votes, and in 2024, SB202 will also give him the right to overturn what any election board says. gregpalast.com/kemp-resists-g…
It’s not like #BrianKemp won’t use this power, because literally as soon as he signed the law he removed a very vocal election expert, Helen Butler, from the Morgan County elections board.
gregpalast.com/the-new-vote-f…
Then #BrianKemp removed 9 more local elections board officers. He’s removing the people with real expertise, because he knows that they’ll get in his way.
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#BrianKemp’s new law, #SB202, says that any voter can challenge an unlimited number of other voters’ right to vote.
There is one woman, you’ll meet her in my new film, she’s a GOP operative who has personally challenged 32,379 voters in Cobb County. gregpalast.com/uncovered-ille…
This GOP operative challenged so many names, she said she didn’t wanna spend the money to print them all out, so she handed in a thumb drive and said, don’t let these people vote.
gregpalast.com/doj-suit-misse…
This has got no national attention, but in total, 88 GOP operatives have filed a breathtaking 364,000 challenges to #Georgia voters, who are now facing a blockade of their vote.
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Aug 24
Why is #Georgia Governor #BrianKemp playing hide and seek with the Atlanta grand jury investigating whether Trump and associates attempted to tamper with the 2020 election results? Why is Kemp resisting the subpoena? gregpalast.com/kemp-resists-g…
Kemp’s resistance to testifying seems all the more odd because Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has bent over backwards to accommodate the skittish pol, agreeing he could appear by video — she was even going to let his attorney sit in with him!
It’s always dangerous to speculate on what’s going on in #BrianKemp’s brain, but let me suggest that he knows his benign status as mere “witness” may quickly change to something far more serious. gregpalast.com/kemp-resists-g…
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Jul 26
Rather than raise interest rates, the Fed should simply throw a virgin into a volcano. It would have the same effect on inflation: zero.

#InterestRates #FederalReserve #Economics #Oil
nytimes.com/2022/07/25/bus…
As a recovering economist I can tell you that this is a supply-push inflation. Putin’s invasion (and Saudi collusion) have sent oil, fertilizer, grain, and edible oils prices through the roof and that pushes everything through the roof. gregpalast.com/how-to-stop-pu…
So chilling demand by raising interest rates is voodoo economics at its worst.
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Jul 19
📽️Vigilantes: Georgia’s #VoteSuppression Hitmen

Our team bust the most brazen, racist attack on #VotingRights yet — engineered by #Georgia’s Brian Kemp to ensure victory in his rematch with Stacey Abrams gregpalast.com/vigilantes-geo…

For release, Fall 2022.
Featuring @MsLaToshaBrown, co-founder of @BlackVotersMtr — and a host of Confederate “reenactors” waiting for next insurrection — our film busts open the secret source of #BrianKemp’s ancestral wealth and power: slavery. gregpalast.com/vigilantes-geo…
#BrianKemp has kept his history of privilege and political fixes well hidden — including the long history of exploitation by his family aimed at both enchained Blacks and politically helpless poor whites.
Read 5 tweets
Jun 21
Faux “hero” #BradRaffensperger will take a bow in front of the #January6thCommittee for supposedly standing up to Trump’s demand that he “find” 12,000 votes. But where did Trump get the idea of massive vote fraud in Georgia? From Brad. gregpalast.com/stealing-georg…
McCathy-like, he told the press that over 1,000 Georgians had voted twice. (Never named one; not one arrested.) And just weeks ago, he said thousands of non-Georgians voted. (Never named one; not one arrested.)
Worse, Raffensperger DID try to “find” Trump votes: his operatives disqualified tens of thousands of ballots in 2020, challenged over 100,000 voters, and directed an illegal purge of 198,000 voters. gregpalast.com/democracy-now-…
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Jun 20
I have a problem with #BenGinsberg, who said the election wasn't stolen. He stole it. I'm talking about the election of 2000, when he was the lawyer for the Republican National Committee for George Bush. #January6thCommiteeHearings soundcloud.com/gregpalast/ele…
#BenGinsberg successfully argued that it doesn't matter how the people of Florida voted, the Florida legislature has decided that the real electors are the Bush Republican elector slate.
You can't say just because someone challenges Trump, that they are moral and correct. #BenGinsberg is really dangerous. He's actually said that legislatures not voters determine the slate of electors. That's an opening for Trump 2024.
Read 5 tweets
Jun 3
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
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