[2020 General Election]
Palast: “The dirty little secret of American elections is that we don’t count all the ballots — and we sure as hell don’t allow every citizen to vote. In total, no less than 5,872,857 ballots were cast and never counted in 2016.”
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[COVID-19 Voting]
In this interview with Igniting Change host Barbara Arnwine, investigative journalist Greg Palast says that rather than creating a precedent for canceling elections, we should embrace mail-in ballots so we can vote without the risk of dying.
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[COVID-19\Minorities\Poor]
Palast: “The virus attacks ‘the vulnerable.’ And in our society, ‘vulnerable’ does not refer to billionaire reality show hosts.”
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[COVID-19 & Democracy]
Palast: Decades ago, the right wing said, “Better dead than Red.” Today: “Better postal than Orange.”
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[California Voter Suppression\Sen. Bernie Sanders]
Sanders, as expected, won the plurality of California’s votes, but he could well be shorted out of hundreds of thousands of votes [553,000] and scores of delegates.
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[Super Tuesday\California\Independent Voters]
Palast: “Independents legally have the right to vote in the Democrat primary, but the Democratic Party has created an inscrutable obstacle course for them to do so, one that amounts to another type of voter suppression.”
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[Voter Suppression News\Stacey Adams lawsuit]
Stacey Abrams’ non-profit Fair Fight has retained the Palast Investigations team experts to provide court testimony, based on our six years of investigation, in Fair Fight’s federal lawsuit to overturn Georgia’s massive, racially-biased purge of voters.
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[Entertainment News\Music]
As a tribute to Tee Jay and those that tragically died alongside him, Jevin has created an extraordinary track, “Still Holding On”. The heartfelt lyrics take on the economic devastation of Dayton that served as a background to the shooting.
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[Energy News\PG&E]
Palast: Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton and other deregulation snake-oil salesmen, and the PG&E greedster bosses, should be imprisoned for the people already burned to death. Where is the California utility commission?
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[Voter Suppression]
Greg Palast on voter suppression: “Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the dark art of vote stealing is on steroids. Voters are being removed from rolls more aggressively — especially in the preclearance states that previously had additional protections under the VRA. As a result, last year alone, 14 million Americans were purged from voter rolls.”
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