In the 1920s, after discovery of the massive oil field on the #Osage Reservation, the US government took away the Osage’s right to their wealth, instead appointing a white Guardian for each Osage to “protect” their money. gregpalast.com/until-they-kil… Here’s how their guardians protected them: Anna Brown was shot in the head, her mother Lizzie poisoned, and her sister Rita was burnt to death when her home was dynamited.

Sixty—and likely many more—Osage were assassinated.

Their murderers inherited their oil rights.

On June 25th, 2013 the US Supreme Court gutted the #VotingRightsAct, when they ruled 5 to 4 that Section 4 was unconstitutional. The case, Shelby v. Holder, was financed in part by multi-billionaire hedge fund manager Paul “The Vulture” Singer.

🔊 #SCOTUS https://t.co/Rjy07i8OV3gregpalast.podbean.com/e/the-justice-…
Earlier this week, @ProPublica revealed that #PaulSinger flew #JusticeAlito on his private jet to Alaska for a luxury fishing vacation in early 2008 (a gift which Alito failed to disclose).
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Yesterday @ProPublica revealed that #PaulSinger flew #JusticeAlito on a private jet to Alaska for a luxury (undisclosed) fishing vacation. Singer subsequently had multiple cases before SCOTUS — including his vulture attack on Argentina, which forced the nation into default. I’ve been hunting #PaulSinger The Vulture for BBC TV since 2007, when he pocketed the money meant to aid those affected by the cholera epidemic in the Republic of Congo.

Vote Vigilante group ordered to trial in Georgia gregpalast.com/vigilante-grou… On March 9, US District Court Judge Steve C. Jones ordered True the Vote — the right wing "election integrity" organization that attempted to overturn the 2020 and 2022 elections with mass voter challenges — to stand trial in Atlanta gregpalast.com/vigilante-grou…

On March 9, US District Court Judge Steve C. Jones ordered True the Vote — the right wing "election integrity" organization that attempted to overturn the 2020 and 2022 elections with mass voter challenges — to stand trial in Atlanta. gregpalast.com/vigilante-grou… In Judge Jones’ summary judgment he noted that True the Vote’s expert, Gregg Phillips “candidly admits that there will be voters on the challenge list that are eligible to vote.”

▶️ Full story: gregpalast.com/vigilante-grou…

Now we have proof of the #OctoberSurprise. The NY Times got the story from former Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Ben Barnes. But they never asked why he's been silent for decades. It might have to do with a payment of $23 million... gregpalast.com/reagans-treaso… In 1999 I uncovered a DOJ doc saying that Barnes was the fixer who arranged for George W. Bush to avoid the Vietnam draft by joining the elite Texas Air Guard as a fighter pilot, the only person to have been allowed that post without flying experience. gregpalast.com/still-unreport…

We now have to bail out Signature Bank because the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act — sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank to prevent bailouts — was gutted in 2018. wsj.com/articles/barne… Under the new law, Signature, despite over $100 billion in assets, was excused from the higher safety reserve margins once required of banks that size.

Today is the 58th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday when racist white cops and their Klan posse nearly murdered the young marchers crossing the Pettus Bridge. Six decades. And we are still asking, When will America allow Black people to vote? #Selma58 gregpalast.com/two-old-guys-a… We aren’t fools. Advances have been no less than breathtaking, revolutionary. But, dammit, here we are, 58 years on, and from Georgia to Florida to Wisconsin, the vote suppression trickery is getting uglier and uglier and, unfortunately, more sophisticated.

Congrats to NBC on their "EXCLUSIVE" that GOP vigilantes challenged nearly 100,000 voters before the Georgia 2022 Senate race! That’s nearly a year AFTER we gave Maddow the story—which, according to her producer, she spiked because "It’s too Greg Palast." Yes, it’s VERY Palast. God bless real live reporter @BrianRoss for taking it and running it BEFORE the election!

Putin has this fever dream of history. #Ukraine has never, ever in history been a part of Russia, but he wants to recreate this mythical single nation and become Vlad the Great. gregpalast.com/putin-invasion… Putin doesn't blame NATO, he blames the Bolsheviks, because they always recognized the independent nation of Ukraine. But it's not just about creating a larger Russian-Slavic empire — one that has never existed.

Is #GeorgeSantos the "Manchurian Candidate" for Brazil’s #JairBolsonaro? Forget Santos’ monstrous lies. Follow the money.

➡️ Full story: gregpalast.com/is-santos-the-…

➡️ Full @Thom_Hartmann interview: #GeorgeSantos, who couldn’t pay his $1,800 apartment rent and whose last verified job was in a call center, somehow lent his campaign over $700,000?!?

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The 800-page gorilla of a report from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol seems strangely silent on a few matters that, apparently, were a bit too uncomfortable for them to take on... gregpalast.com/the-secret-his… #January6thReport Yes, the #January6thCommittee did acknowledge our report, filmed by @ZDRoberts, that showed that BEFORE the #January6th storming of the Capitol, riot instigator and Trump ‘bro #AliAlexander declared: “We’ll light the whole sh*t on fire!” gregpalast.com/the-secret-his…

The Department of Justice has finally taken on True the Vote, the right-wing group behind the wrongful challenge of hundreds of thousands of legal Georgia voters.

True the Vote's challenges were the subject of our film Vigilante. Stream it for FREE: VigilanteMovie.com I know what you’re thinking: Why did Justice sue two weeks AFTER the #GeorgiaRunoff election?

Luckily, the film and our related reports got out in Georgia before the election. gregpalast.com/dept-of-justic…

A "record turnout" in Georgia? Not quite. A one-million-vote nose-dive in turnout for the Runoff was well-concealed by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp to cover up the effects of “Jim Crow 2.O” at the launch his presidential campaign. gregpalast.com/record-turnout… From the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, math-challenged reporters have repeated the completely upside-down fable of a “record turnout” in the Georgia Runoff. But the official count shows the turnout fell by a breathtaking one-million votes. gregpalast.com/record-turnout…

The Wall Street Journal has just endorsed Governor #BrianKemp for president. And the New York Times has also virtually endorsed Kemp as the proper nominee for the Republican Party. This is the guy who created and signed #SB202, or as the NAACP calls it, Jim Crow 2.0! Today, on the runoff ballot, it's not between Warnock and #HerschelWalker. The real race is between Senator Reverend #RaphaelWarnock and Jim Crow. gregpalast.com/mail-in-ballot…

I'm in Douglas, Georgia, an hour and a half from nowhere, where you are greeted with Confederate flags at the town entrance. I’m here for Olivia Pearson, the first Black city commissioner. Olivia Pearson was arrested by #BrianKemp for supposed vote interference, that is, helping disabled voters. Even a white jury threw it out in minutes.

https://twitter.com/Greg_Palast/status/1597384226189774848

You only see these long lines in Blacklanta, where state law eliminated most dropboxes.

The official wait times in white rural counties and suburbs was 10 minutes or at most half an hour.

#Georgia #Runoff #RunoffGA #gapol #BlackLivesMatter #BlackVotesBatter #BlackVotersMatter The people we spoke to in #Atlanta told us that the lines have tripled, not because of higher voting but because it was a practical impossibility under the new law to mail in your ballot. #SB202 gregpalast.com/raphael-warnoc…

#RaphaelWarnock’s in real trouble. Don’t be fooled by the long lines of Black voters. Here’s the real story... gregpalast.com/raphael-warnoc… #Georgia #RunoffGA #gapol Two years ago #RaphaelWarnock won his Senate #Runoff only because he got three-quarters of a million mail-in votes — winning the mail-in vote by more than 2-to-1 gregpalast.com/raphael-warnoc…

BREAKING: Cheryl Moses, editor of @BlkGwinnett Magazine, teamed with the Palast Fund to file a formal complaint with the US Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division. The legal action demands the reversal of severe restrictions on dropboxes in Georgia. #gapol gregpalast.com/justice-dept-t… Last week, our investigations team reported what media missed: the number of mail-in votes in #Georgia plummeted by 83%, by over one million ballots since the last Election — almost all lost in the non-white majority Atlanta counties. gregpalast.com/mail-in-ballot…

Olivia Pearson was the first African-American to serve as Commissioner of Douglas, GA. When #BrianKemp became #Georgia’s Sec of State, he falsely charged her with vote tampering, a felony crime which meant she was threatened with 5-years in prison. gregpalast.com/marching-vigil… Olivia Pearson was acquitted, of course, but Black turn-out dropped as voters were not unreasonably fearful of the new Jim Crow laws. Meanwhile the episode earned #BrianKemp the designation by the NYTimes as the “pioneer of present day #VoterSuppression.” gregpalast.com/marching-vigil…

#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…