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Are You Still on the Voter Rolls?

U.S. citizens across the country soon will vote on all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, for 35 U.S. senators and three dozen governorships. The House of Representatives and possibly the Senate are up for grabs.

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I’m in Wichita to Sue Trump’s Purge’n General

To stop Kobach from stealing Stacey Abrams’ votes in Georgia race — Plus 26 other elections!

On the basis of Kobach’s phony accused "fraudulent voter" list, 27 states, almost all GOP-controlled, have already removed 1,067,046 voters - not counting

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I’m In Wichita To Sue Trump’s Purge’n GeneralTo Stop Kobach From Stealing Stacey Abrams’ Votes In Georgia Race — Plus 26 Other Elections!

I’m suing Trump’s "Purge'n General"  Kris Kobach. Rev. Jesse Jackson is joining me.  Will you? Support this action and help put and end to this vote thievery once and for all. Sign up for info on the suit and how you can join in.

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I’m in Wichita to sue Trump’s Purge’n GeneralTo Stop Kobach from Stealing Stacey Abrams’ Votes & 26 Other Elections

I’m suing Trump’s "Purge'n General"  Kris Kobach. Rev. Jesse Jackson is joining me.  Will you?

Support this action and help put and end to this vote thievery once and for all.

Sign up for info on the suit and how you can join in.

And, for gosh sakes, watch our movie, pass it around. Out just today, the very latest update of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election. Free on Amazon prime or heck, get a signed DVD for a tax-deductible donation.

And if you’re near Wichita on Friday, join me and Women for Kansas at the Orpheum Theater, 8pm, for the film — and a plan of counter-attack to stop Kris Kobach’s latest "purge by postcard" operation which the GOP is conducting, with racially poisonous intent, in 27 states that has wrongly removed 1,067,046 voters.

I’ve invited Kris Kobach, Secretary of State (and the GOP’s nominee for Governor for Kansas) - the better to serve him the papers.

Details of our Lawsuit

With the pro bono help of the firm of Mirer Mazzocchi Julien, we are filing under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to get the names of every one of the million voters purged from voter rolls using Kobach’s infamous "Interstate Crosscheck" program, the one our team uncovered for Rolling Stone and similar Kobach-ian tricks.

And we’ve sent legal notices to all 27 states in Kobach’s Crosscheck program to turn over their secret lists. While Kobach has stonewalled us, a number of states including Michigan and Oklahoma, have turned over their hit lists rather than face us in a federal court.

Next. it’s on to Atlanta, Georgia—where I will personally serve Secretary of State Brian Kemp with the federal suit. Kemp, like Kobach, has refused our demand for the names of those he’s purged. And when Brian purges, he doesn’t mess around: blacking out 591,000 voters in the latest election cycle.

And we know why

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Florida Still Using an Old Katherine Harris Trick to Purge Black Voters

Tallahassee African-American attorney removed because his name “matched” a felon with a different middle name living 200 miles away. Florida's up to its old tricks again, using dubious lists of felons and computers that come up with criminal mismatches to rob votes from people of color

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Florida’s Still Using An Old Kathrine Harris Trick To Purge Black Voters

Tallahassee African-American attorney removed because his name “matched” a felon with a different middle name living 200 miles away. Florida's up to its old tricks again, using dubious lists of felons and computers that come up with criminal mismatches to rob votes from people of color

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Florida’s Still Using An Old Kathrine Harris Trick To Purge Black VotersTallahassee African-American attorney removed because his name “matched” a felon with a different middle name living 200 miles away.

Florida's up to its old tricks again, using dubious lists of felons and computers that come up with criminal mismatches to rob votes from people of color.

This is a prime example of how the vote heist — first mastered by Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris in 2000 — works: In yesterday's Florida election, an African-American attorney named Thomas Joseph Brown, who lives in Tallahassee, had his vote stolen. When he showed up to his polling station in Leon County, he was told he’d been purged from the rolls. When he took the matter up with the Election Supervisors they said it was because his name “matched” that of a felon called Thomas Jerald Brown, who lived 200 miles away in Daytona. Seems the fact that the middle names, addresses, and other identifying information didn't match wasn't an impediment for the state when it came to stripping a citizen of his or her right to vote. Fortunately, as an attorney, Thomas Joseph Brown knew exactly how to steal his vote back, but most people in his position would’ve had their vote irrevocably snatched by the state.

It’s the same exact scam that stole the race from Al Gore in 2000. I demand y’all watch this cartoon about the original theft of Florida. It’s by Keith Tucker who drew Who Framed Roger Rabbit and is featured in my film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case Of The Stolen Election. View the clip here then watch the whole move — available for FREE on Amazon Prime or with a donation from our store.

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Have You Checked Your Voter Registration Yet?Plus 5 Tips to Make Sure Your Vote Counts

Don’t assume you’re registered. I looked up my own registration — just to show people how you do it — and I wasn’t on the rolls.

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Greg Palast, Jesse Jackson Sue Kris Kobach over Voter Purge

Greg Palast and Rev. Jesse Jackson are on a mission to fight back against the elections that are, as usual, victim to the contrivances of the far-right branch of the GOP and in Congress, co-partisans that vote with them. The accuracy of Election 2018 results are bound to

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How Democrats’ NAFTA-Love Lost The Working Class

Al Gore said, in selling NAFTA, "We can create hundreds of thousands more [jobs]. We know this [free trade] works. If it doesn’t work, you know, we give six months’ notice and we’re out of it."

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