#BrianKemp ordered the arrest of the first African-Americans elected to the Quitman school board – whom he charged with the felony crime of ballot stuffing! The #Quitman10 were paraded before cameras in handcuffs and orange suits, like they were terrorists in Guantanamo. #gapol
All charges were dropped — eventually — but not until one school board member, Latashia Head, who suffered from lupus, died. Her father said the cause was “stress brought about by Brian P. Kemp.” gregpalast.com/marching-vigil…
In our film, Vigilante, we talk to local journalist George Rhynes, who extensively covered Kemp's persecution of the #Quitman10. Ahead of the #GeorgiaRunoff elections on Dec 6, Rhynes wants to hold a showing of our film in Quitman, but he needs your help. gregpalast.com/georgia-screen…
Indeed, with the #GeorgiaRunoff looming, many #VotingRights activists are asking for our help in quickly setting up screenings with get-out-the-vote events. All these screenings take 24/7 organizing – and money. Lots of organizing…but not lots of money. gregpalast.com/marching-vigil…
The logistics of one screening — these are go-to-the-polls meetings so we also provide food — cost about $500 per venue. Donate what you can, but if you can donate $500, we’ll list you as the sponsor. gregpalast.com/georgia-screen…
I want to thank you for your generosity so far, but we simply don’t have the budget for a run-off and we are still paying off bills. And I’m returning to #Georgia, not just to show the film but to update it with new investigative findings. gregpalast.com/marching-vigil…
Let’s get this film into the rural #Georgia townships that face the sharp edge of Jim Crow 2.0.
No joke. On Tuesday, Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator” — that is, Elmo — access to the voter files of every state for the purpose of purging millions of Americans from voter rolls.
The Executive Order, with its Orwellian title, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” will require every American to prove their citizenship when they register or re-register to vote. gregpalast.com/trump-executiv…
The justification: Trump claims that the Democratic Party has registered three to five million non-citizen voters. But after four years of intense hunting by his prior Justice Department, Trump’s alien-voter hunters haven’t charged even three.
Vote suppression cost Kamala Harris no less than 3,565,000 votes. If all legal voters were allowed to vote, and if all legal ballots were counted, Harris would have topped Trump’s official total by 1.2 million.
The 2.3% suppression factor I’ve calculated undoubtedly cost Harris the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. If not for the wholesale attack on votes and voters, Harris would have won the election with 286 Electoral votes. hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-v…
For a full breakdown of the means, methods and, most important, the key calculations, read my special report. gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vot…
The Palast Investigative Team worked itself into the Trump rally in Duluth, Georgia on Wednesday, where the themes were denial of Trump’s election defeat in 2020 and threats of armed violence if he’s not declared victor in two weeks. #Election2024
In a red-white-and-blue tutu, Trump socks, earnings and other Trump gewgaws, one die hard supporter repeated a line we heard over and over, “They [the Democrats] cheated. There was bushels and baskets full and car loads of, votes that came in in the middle of the night.”
How will the MAGAs react if Trump loses? Another Trump supporter, Derek Molenhour, showing off his AR-15 assault weapon T-shirt — he sells piles of them — said, “If [Trump] loses this, then it’s it’s impossible to say that it was not rigged.”
Get ready for the quiet coup in November. Trump’s dreams of overturning the vote count of 2020 can now come true in 2024, thanks to a new rule passed by the MAGA-controlled Georgia State Election Board. 🧵
Let me break this down. Four years ago, Trump called the Secretary of State of Georgia and demanded: “What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.”
The Republican pol he was calling, Brad Raffensperger, has been played as a hero, supposedly standing up for the principle that the vote of the people cannot be overturned.
Georgia launches new voter registration cancellation website — then leaks data of EVERY GA voter. What could go wrong?!?🤦♂️
This week Georgia rolled out a new website where people can let the state know they’ve moved (or their relative has died) and cancel their voter registration online. It’s super easy; you just plug in your info and, poof, your voter registration vanishes. gregpalast.com/georgias-lates…
The problem with the new “cancel my registration” site is that bad actors, if they know a person’s name, address, DOB, and either Social Security or drivers’ license number, can simply go in and cancel other people they don’t want voting.
Just weeks before he was fired by America’s voters in 2020, President Trump issued this piece of nastiness which was quickly rescinded by just-inaugurated President Biden. law.ucla.edu/news/biden-rev…