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Court Approves Vigilante Mass Voter ChallengesDevastating Threat To 2024 Election

Be afraid. A federal court in Georgia ruled on Tuesday that the challenge to 360,000 Georgians' right to vote, suspiciously targeting Black voters, does not violate the federal Voting Rights Act. Judge Steve C. Jones slapped aside the suit brought by Stacy Abrams’ Fair Fight against the right-wing Texas group True the Vote, which had created... READ MORE

What Charles Koch Paid to Elude 70 Years in Prison

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... READ MORE

Norman Lear (1922-2023)

On December 5, 2023, Norman Lear died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 101. On June 16, 2015, I met up with Lear, who is the proud owner of a rare Dunlap broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence, to talk about voting rights... READ MORE

Court Rules only Voting Rights CriminalsCan Sue Voting Rights Criminals—No Kidding

This week, Trump-appointed judges permanently barred the NAACP from suing government voting rights violators. Only the government itself may to sue to stop government itself from committing gross racial vote suppression. If you think that’s crazy, ... READ MORE

“Incompetent” Indians????

Osage Nation Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear is officially designated “incompetent” by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs — though he is one of Oklahoma’s top trial lawyers. Here, the chief shows me the thick official book that lists him as “incompetent,” unable to handle his own affairs — along with other “incompetent” Osage who graduated from Stanford and ... READ MORE

This is truly the end of the Voting Rights Act

A federal court has ruled that citizens may not sue governments that commit crimes against voting by Americans of color — and that only the government, that is, those who commit the voting crimes — may sue. Tellingly, ... READ MORE

The Osage want you to know their story doesn’t end with Killers of the Flower Moon

This week, director Martin Scorsese releases his film Killers of the Flower Moon: the true story of the mass murder of Osage Native Americans and the plot to steal the tribe’s oil wealth. But the story doesn’t end when the credits roll. For the past 27 years, I have been reporting on what happened afterwards. My documentary Long Knife – produced by George DiCaprio – recounts... READ MORE

America’s Osage Natives want you to know their story doesn’t end with Killers of the Flower Moon

This week, director Martin Scorsese releases his film Killers of the Flower Moon: the true story of the mass murder of Osage Native Americans and the plot to steal the tribe’s oil wealth. But the story doesn’t end when the credits roll. For the past 27 years, I have been reporting on what happened afterwards. My documentary Long Knife – produced by George DiCaprio – recounts... READ MORE

Until They Killed Them…100 Crucial Seconds of A Story Buried

The Osage of Oklahoma were the richest people on the planet.Until they killed them.For their oil. Long Knife is an investigation I have worked on quietly for 27 years. And now I’m finally able to give you... READ MORE

EL MARTILLO – THE HAMMER (a.k.a. Greg Palast?)WILL PERFORM "I SHOT THE DONALD"

Is that investigative reporter Greg Palast under that mask? Wednesday night, 7pm, Book Soup bookstore will present El Martillo Press authors Margaret Elvsia Garcia, Ceasar K. Avelar, Donato Martinez and El Martillo – The Hammer (is that really Greg Palast working undercover as a poet?!?!) who will... READ MORE