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…

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…

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.”

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.”

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…

Do you know about Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13950?  If you don’t, be afraid. Be very afraid. 🧵 Trump has a plan to enforce amnesia by law — teaching history will be a criminal act. gregpalast.com/trumps-plan-to…

🚨 Instead of counting Joe Biden’s brain cells, we need to be counting “vigilantes,” the self-proclaimed vote fraud hunters who, under new state laws, can challenge the vote of their fellow Americans and stop their votes from being counted. In 2022, 88 self-appointed GOP vote fraud hunters challenged 180,000 voters’ registrations in Georgia. They successfully removed thousands of voters from the rolls in that state. gregpalast.com/the-real-issue…

While most of the press is busy blathering about whether another Trump conviction will affect the vote, literally a million voters are losing their ballots with hardly a peep in the press. One such voter, whom you’ll meet in our film Vigilantes Inc., MAJ. Gamaliel Turner, had to fly thousands of miles and bring in a Washington lawyer to have his 2022 ballot counted. gregpalast.com/warrior-on-two…

Trump's plan for 2024 is taken from the KKK Plan of 1946.

If we don’t expose it, this old Klan scam will pick your next president...

#VigilantesInc #Election2024 In 1946, the Ku Klux Klan incorporated itself in Georgia as Vigilantes Inc. – specifically to eliminate every Black citizen from the rolls.  It worked. Vigilantes Inc. elected their Klan strategist, Eugene Talmadge, as Governor.  gregpalast.com/trump-plan-for…

#Ukraine: It’s not aid, it’s our obligation under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum #UkraineNeedsAirDefense | #ArmUkraineNow Under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons in exchange  for security guarantees from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia. So, we had an obligation to defend Ukraine if they were ever invaded. hartmannreport.com/p/the-failure-…

In 1996, I filmed an investigation that never saw the light of day. It was about the richest guys you’d never heard of, Charles and David Koch — and their theft of a mind-blowing $2 billion in oil from Osage tribal land. Now, I’m blowing open the files in a new film... 🧵 It’s said that behind every great fortune is a great crime. This is the crime, the genesis of the Kochs’ $120 billion empire — and the foundation of the fearsome Koch Network, that political Death Star, created solely to keep Charles Koch out of prison. gregpalast.com/what-charles-k…

This week, Scorsese releases his film Killers of the Flower Moon: the true story of the mass murder of the Osage and the theft of their oil wealth. But the story doesn’t end when the credits roll. For 27 years, I've been investigating what happened next... 🧵 Over the past century, the #Osage Nation has continued to suffer massive oil thievery, poisoning, and impoverishment on their Oklahoma reservation.

“It’s not over,” Osage principal chief, Geoffrey Standing Bear, tells me. “It’s still happening.” gregpalast.com/americas-osage…

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!