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Democrats: To Beat Trump, You Need to Buck Your Leadership

This essay is for rank-and-file Democrats.. Many of you are focused on the 2020 election, which you hope Trump will lose. Of course. But you cannot trust the leadership of your party to do what it takes to make that happen.

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We Don’t Have a Working DemocracyWhat happened, how we can fix it

Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the vote theft party’s started. They’re removing voters from rolls even more aggressively, especially in

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We Don’t Have a Working DemocracyWhat happened and how we can fix it — Palast on Real News Network

Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the vote theft party’s started. They’re removing voters from rolls even more aggressively, all over America, especially in the preclearance states that had additional protections under the VRA.

Jacqueline Luqman interviews Palast for the Real News Network

As a result, last year alone, 14 million voters were purged from the voter rolls. This changes elections, because it’s not just anyone’s vote that gets stolen. Overwhelmingly, these are voters of color, young voters, and low income voters — in other words

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King Koch is GoneDavid Koch Dead at 79

King Koch is gone. He made his billions the old-fashioned way, stealing from Native Americans. Watch my two minute investigative report on the Kochs.

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Tee Jay McNichols, our Producer’s Cousin, Murdered in Dayton Massacre

Thomas “Tee Jay” James McNichols Jr., 25, the cousin of our assistant producer Jevin Lamar, was one of the 9 people murdered Saturday in Dayton, Ohio, by a racist gunman.

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Palast & Badpenny: An Announcement

High in the thin, cold air where the ridge of the Alps marks the border with Italy, by local tradition, weddings are announced by leaving a small purse of candied almonds with the names of the betrothed at the doors of village homes. The ribbons announce that on July 31, Leni Badpenny will marry Greg Palast at

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New Orleans will drown again, maybe in the next few days

In 2005 I explained exactly how New Orleans drowned and would drown again, maybe in the next days.

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How Katrina Took the Rap for Destroying New Orleans, the Real Culprit was Big Oil

Mother Nature took the rap for destroying New Orleans when the real culprit was the surge up MR-GO and the missing marshes. MR-GO was Katrina’s

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How Katrina took the rap for destroying New Orleans when the real culprit was Big Oil

Mother Nature took the rap for destroying New Orleans when the real culprit was the surge up MR-GO and the missing marshes. MR-GO was Katrina’s welcome mat to the city — a "Hurricane Highway.”

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Ross Perot tried to save Democrats from ThemselvesHow Democrats’ NAFTA-love lost the Working Class

Ross Perot (1930-2019) was a bit of a flake. But he also tried to save the Democratic Party from itself by attempting to warn it away from NAFTA. Clinton wouldn’t

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