The 2026 and 2028 elections start NOW. And so, our investigation of vote suppression revs up NOW.
This is the dangerous moment, when progressives who gave literally billions for their candidates, cry into their beer and crawl back into their burrows.
But the Palast Team won’t, and I trust you won’t either. First, we are working feverishly to get the data to calculate the effect of racist voter suppression trickery on the election’s outcome. Not unexpectedly, we are getting stonewalled by red-state officials about the number of provisional ballots uncounted (above 42.3% we find from well-hidden data), the number of mail-in ballots discarded (we know it’s way over two million), and the number of vigilante challenges to legit voters (we’ve counted 852,000 so far).
U.S. media will write about vote suppression tactics during an election. But never would the media report on the effect of suppression on the November 5 vote count.
But the Palast Team does, with precision, based on data and facts. And here’s what the numbers are telling us so far. Absent vote suppression tactics,
“The wholesale attack on votes and voters cost Kamala Harris Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia—which would have brought her to a winning 286 Electoral votes.”
As Gerald Griggs, President of the Georgia NAACP told me, “Vote suppression and voter intimidation won.”
Stay dialed-in to this space for the full explanation, with hard numbers, of the cost of denying the vote to Americans like Major Gamaliel Turner (Ret.) of Columbus, Georgia, who, like so many African-American soldiers, was denied his vote twice.
Major Turner’s fight for his ballot and the votes of hundreds of thousands of others, is featured in our film, Vigilantes Inc., America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you must.
Who says so? Rev. Jesse Jackson. The Reverend and his daughter Santita met with President Biden and Kamala Harris a few weeks before the Election and told Biden and Harris they had to, “Watch Greg Palast’s film”—and then take action. Harris, I’m told, replied by saying she’d sign the John Lewis Voting Rights Act once she took office.
Excuse me, Kamala, but as you know from the results, if you don’t do something about vote suppression before the Election, you ain’t getting elected.
In fact, if we don’t restart the voting rights movement now, the 2026 and 2028 elections will be decided by vigilantes and violence, not voters.
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We can still have a Happy New Year.
Yours,
Greg Palast and the Investigations Team
Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and the book and documentary, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
His latest film is Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen