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November 7, 2017
Wilbur Ross: Heart of Coal
By Greg Palast
Image: Our 79-year-old Secretary with Mrs. Ross (#3). Dig the Stubb-Wootton slippers he’s sporting — with the Commerce Departments logo embossed on top! ($600, no logo.)
I’ve met Trump’s billionaire Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the one who forgot to sell his tanker partnership with the Russians before being sworn into office — a venture with Putin’s son-in-law, no less — as revealed by the Paradise Papers! It was just before Wilbur’s 2005 purchase of Sago Coal Mine of West Virginia through his International Coal Group.
In the first six weeks under Ross' ownership, the Sago mine suffered two roof collapses. Ross said that, "We were comfortable, based on the assurances from our management, that they felt that it was a safe situation." Safe financially, maybe, but a third roof collapse in January 2006 caused twelve miners to suffocate to death.
There were no working emergency phone lines to reach them, to get them to safety, as required by law.
But Wilbur — the man Fortune Magazine dubs "a revered vulture investor" — has a heart. In light of the tragedy, he has asked Americans to donate to the his mine victims' families. He didn’t say, however, if you should send your money to his mansion in Palm Beach, or to the other mansion in the Hamptons or to his penthouse on Fifth Avenue.
- from Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast
*****
Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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November 2, 2017
Do I have to set my hat on fire?
Do I have to set my hat on fire to get America’s attention?
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I released a movie last year, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, that told exactly how Trump and his billionaire buddies were going to steal the election.
DID ANYONE LISTEN? YOU did — but the Dummycrats and the pin-head media already bought their party dress for Hillary’s inauguration.
So I’m trying again:
Today, this moment, I’m releasing the new Trump-Stole-It update of our hit film. DOWNLOAD IT HERE NOW
I was going to sub-title it: "This time, pay attention!" But instead, the new subtitle is: The Case of the Stolen Election.
It will be released commercially next year. But you can get it right now — here, and only here, for a tax-deductible donation to the Palast Investigative Fund.
Warning: If you get "Best Democracy" on Amazon or iTunes, you’re getting the OLD version.
The NEW edition tells you exactly how Trump pulled off the heist. Follow me as I hunt for 75,355 missing ballots in the snows of Michigan. And as I find the voters from Ohio to Arizona who were shafted out of their vote. Voters of color — Hispanic, Asian-American, Black — and all "Blue."
Get the download of the feature length film right now, right here; or donate for the DVD which comes off the presses in one week — which I’ll sign and personalize for you. Note: Donate for the new DVD and you also get a download link today.
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Did you already get the old DVD for a donation to the Palast Fund? If so, you’ll get the new film’s download link automatically at no charge.
We sure could use the donation: Right now, the ACLU, Brennan Center for Justice, League of Women Voters, Indivisible and NAACP have launched lawsuits and legislation based directly on the findings of our film and my Rolling Stone reports. I remain the only journalist with the actual Crosscheck purge lists, the millions of voters secretly targeted by Trump’s Vote-Thief-in-Chief Kris Kobach. We need to get our hands on new evidence for the legal teams.
[image error]But that’s not enough. We need to keep digging. Can you help us? Help us before they shoplift the 2018 and 2020 elections.
The new edition of our film retains the best stuff of the old version: The jump at the Hampton’s dinner of Steve Mnuchin’s billionaire partner, "JP The Foreclosure King," Willie Nelson as a stoner musician (he plays the part remarkably well), Rosario Dawson, Law & Order detectives Ice-T and Richard Belzer — and Shailene Woodley who takes me back to Sun Valley, California, where I grew up with my school chum, Steve Paddock. Yes, THAT Paddock.
Does our work matter? Right now, the Governorship of Virginia is in the balance — and Kobach had the state remove 79,000 voters — a list with a whole lot of Black names. That could be the election — or the Congress in 2018, or the re-election of Agent Orange in 2020. This isn’t about Republicans and Democrats, it’s about the return of Jim Crow as Dr. James Crow, database magician.
[image error]And if you can make a donation of $500 or $1,000, we can list you as a Producer (or Co-Producer) of the special Activist Version of the film commissioned by the Reverend Jesse Jackson for showing in 1,000 churches. (It’s also scheduled for showing at 67 colleges and at 13 training sessions of the ACLU).
Most important, share this note, get the film, download it now, or get the DVD (which includes an instant download link), and watch it with people prepared to laugh, to cry, to get angry enough to stand up and make America great again — because what made us great is The Vote.
And then, I can put out the fire on my hat.
- Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team.
* * * * * *Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, out as major motion non-fiction movie: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election (the brand new, updated, post-election edition).
Stay informed, get the signed DVD, a signed copy of the book companion — or better still, get the Book & DVD combo.
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October 31, 2017
Crosscheck Overwhelmingly Purges Legitimate Voters, New Study Finds.Researchers From Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Penn, and Microsoft Independently Corroborate Our Work.
By Greg Palast
Hall-Trump-elujah! Profs finally back up what I’ve been screaming for years. The Kobach-Trump Crosscheck program is the Alt-Right Godzilla of voter suppression.
"We find that one of Crosscheck's proposed purging strategies would eliminate about 300 registrations used to cast a seemingly legitimate vote for every one registration used to cast a double vote."
And even that 1 in 300, say the profs from Stanford, Harvard, Penn, Yale and Microsoft, is probably just clerical error.
In their quiet academic way, the profs are effectively proving a massive crime wave of vote thievery the GOP has aimed at "common names" — i.e. Hernandez, Washington, Kim —voters of color (see study). And the color is Blue. Wake up, Dummycrats, it ain’t the Russians.
For more on how the Crosscheck voter-purging program was used by the GOP to steal the 2016 election, get the new, #TrumpStoleIt, post-election edition of our hit film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy — available exclusively from our store!
*****
Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
Stay informed, rent or buy the film on Amazon or get the signed DVD, a signed copy of the companion book — or better still, get the Book & DVD combo.
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Crosscheck Overwhelmingly Purges Legitimate Voters, New Study Finds.
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October 30, 2017
Left Forum Presents The World Premiere Of…The Best Democracy Money Can Buy:The Case Of The Stolen Election
Left Forum presents… The world premiere of the new #TrumpStoleIt post-election edition of Greg Palast’s hit film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case Of The Stolen Election. Greg Palast and KPFK’s Harvey Wasserman will be present for a live post-screening discussion.
WHEN: Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 1:10 PM
WHERE: L.A. Trade Technical College — Main Hall
400 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015
TICKETS: left-coast-forum-2017.eventbrite.com
INFO: leftforum.org/clone-session/film-screening-best-democracy-money-can-buy
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: facebook.com/events/139091586815660/
Follow Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast as he hunts down Trump’s Vote-Thief-in-Chief, Kris Kobach, and confronts Kobach with the secret documents from Kobach’s own files.
Join Palast and his sidekick Ms. Badpenny, as they go undercover to get the evidence the election WAS rigged – and not by Russians – but by Trump’s operatives and the greed-crazed billionaires behind the ballot heist. Billionaires with names like The Vulture and JP The Foreclosure King.
Featuring Rosario Dawson, Shailene Woodley, Ed Asner as Santa Claus, Ice-T and Richard Belzer of Law & Order — and Willie Nelson as a stoner musician (believe it or not!). With animations by Keith Tucker (“Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”).
Not in LA? Can't make the screening? Get the DVD or film download with a tax-deductible donation to support our work — available exclusively from our store!
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– Noam Chomsky
“Funnier than Michael Moore and more informative than Naomi Klein. Palast is up there with Woodward and Bernstein.”
– The Guardian
“The best documentary I’ve ever seen.”
– John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.)
*****
Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
Stay informed, rent or buy the film on Amazon or get the signed DVD, a signed copy of the companion book — or better still, get the Book & DVD combo.
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October 25, 2017
Bombshell: Election Stolen — But NOT By Russia!Palast Discusses The Theft Of The 2016 Election With Comedian Jimmy Dore
by Nicole Powers
Palast discusses the theft of the 2016 election with "Aggressive Progressive" (The Young Turks) comedian Jimmy Dore. To find out how Trump's billionaire buddies stole the White House, get the brand new, post-election edition of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy — only available with a tax-deductible donation from our store!
*****
Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
Stay informed, rent or buy the film on Amazon or get the signed DVD, a signed copy of the companion book — or better still, get the Book & DVD combo.
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October 13, 2017
I went to school with the Vegas shooter
By Greg Palast
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Mobile home on tracks, Sun Valley CA, birthplace of the Vegas shooter. From the film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
[Los Angeles] When we were at Francis Polytechnic High in Sun Valley, Steve Paddock and I were required to take electrical shop class. At Poly and our junior high, we were required to take metal shop so we could work the drill presses at the GM plant. We took drafting. Drafting like in "blueprint drawing."
Paddock. Palast. We sat next to each other at those drafting tables with our triangular rulers and #2 pencils so we could get jobs at Lockheed as draftsmen drawing blueprints of fighter jets. Or do tool-and-dye cutting to make refrigerator handles at GM where they assembled Frigidaire refrigerators and Chevys.
But we weren’t going to fly the fighter jets. Somewhere at Phillips Andover Academy, a dumbbell with an oil well for a daddy was going to go to Yale and then fly our fighter jets over Texas. We weren’t going to go to Yale. We were going to go to Vietnam. Then, when we came back, if we still had two hands, we went to GM or Lockheed.
(It’s no coincidence that much of the student population at our school was Hispanic.)
But if you went to "Bevvie" - Beverly Hills High - or Hollywood High, you didn’t take metal shop. You took Advanced Placement French. You took Advanced Placement Calculus. We didn’t have Advanced Placement French. We didn’t have French anything. We weren’t Placed, and we didn’t Advance.
Steve was a math wizard. He should have gone to UCLA, to Stanford. But our classes didn’t qualify him for anything other than LA Valley College and Cal State Northridge. Any dumbbell could get in. And it was nearly free. That’s where Steve was expected to go, and he went with his big math-whiz brain. And then Steve went to Lockheed, like we were supposed to. Until Lockheed shut down plants in 1988. Steve left, took the buy-out.
And after NAFTA, GM closed too.
Land of Opportunity? Well, tell me: who gets those opportunities?
Some of you can and some of you can’t imagine a life where you just weren’t give a fair chance. Where the smarter you are, the more painful it gets, because you have your face pressed against the window, watching THEM. THEY got the connections to Stanford. THEY get the gold mine. WE get the shaft.
This is where Paddock and Palast were bred: Sun Valley, the anus of Los Angeles. Literally. It’s where the sewerage plant is. It’s in a trench below the Hollywood Hills, where the smog settles into a kind of puke yellow soup. Here’s where LA dumps its urine and the losers they only remember when they need cheap labor and cheap soldiers when the gusanos don’t supply enough from Mexico.
I’ll take you to Sun Valley. It’s in my film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. In the movie, a kind of dream scene, the actress Shailene Woodley takes me back to my family’s old busted home in the weeds and then down San Fernando Road, near Steve's place. Take a look, America. Along the tracks that once led in to the GM plant, you see a bunch of campers that the union men bought for vacations. Now they live in them.
No, Steve’s brain was too big to end up on the tracks. He lived in empty apartments in crappy buildings he bought, then in a barren tract house outside Reno. I laugh when they say he was "rich." He wanted to be THEM, to have their stuff. He got close.
It’s reported that Steve was a "professional gambler." That’s another laugh. He was addicted to numbing his big brain by sitting 14 hours a day in the dark in front of video poker machines. He was a loser. Have you ever met a gambler who said they were a Professional Loser?
It’s fair to ask me: Why didn’t I end up in a hotel room with a bump-stock AR-15 and 5,000 rounds of high velocity bullets?
Because I have a job, a career, an OBSESSION: to hunt down THEM, the daddy-pampered pricks who did this to us, the grinning billionaire jackals that make a profit off the slow decomposition of the lives I grew up with.
But I’m telling you, that I know it’s a very fine line, and lots of crazy luck, that divided my path from Paddock’s.
Dear Reader: The publication that pulled this story at the last moment was plain scared — that they’d be accused of approving murder.
Paddock slaughtered good people, coldly, with intense cruelty, destroying lives and hundreds of families forever. If you think I’m making up some excuse for him, then I give up.
But also this: The editor of the Beverly Hills-based publication, a Stanford grad, could not understand that, just like veterans of the Vietnam war who suffer from PTSD even today, so too, losers of the class war can be driven mad by a PTSD that lingers, that gnaws away, their whole lives.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it ...fester like a sore? Does it stink like rotten meat? Sag...like a heavy load?
Or does it explode?
Steve, you created more horrors than your cornered life could ever justify.
But, I just have to tell you, Steve: I get it.
Poem by Langston Hughes
*****Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now out as major motion non-fiction movie: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election (the brand new, updated, post-election edition).
Stay informed, get the signed DVD, a signed copy of the companion book — or better still, get the Book & DVD combo.
Visit the Palast Investigative Fund store or simply make a tax-deductible contribution to keep our work alive! Alternatively, become a monthly contributor and automatically receive Palast's new films and books when they're released!
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October 10, 2017
Charlottesville: Victim of Neo-Nazi Beating Charged With Assault — No Kidding!
By Greg Palast with Zach D. Roberts for Truthout
We can't make this up:
African-American school teacher DeAndre Harris, victim of a beating by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville in August, has been — ready for this? — charged with assaulting the white supremacists who beat him with boards, iron rods, and brass knuckles.
That is correct. Harris, in photos released by Truthout and carried worldwide, was shown being beaten close to death — has now been charged with the same crime as his attackers: “unlawful wounding”.
Several of Harris' attackers remain on the run — and local and federal officials show little interest in going after them. Yet, a Charlottesville magistrate issued a warrant to arrest Harris yesterday, October 9.
Harris is accused of taking a swing at a neo-Nazi who tried to stab a friend of Harris' with the staff of a flag pole holding a Confederate flag.
It should be noted that our photographer, Zach D. Roberts, was also attacked with what appears to be a wooden flagstaff by a man identified as Dan Borden of Cincinnati, one of those charged in the attack on Harris.
White supremacist Borden, hours before attacking Harris, threw the metal-tipped wood at photographer Roberts’ head. Our photographer remained calm enough to photo the weapon as it whizzed by his head.
A magistrate judge, without talking to witness Roberts, issued a warrant, according to Lee Merritt, DeAndre's attorney, apparently on the complaint of lawyers for the white nationalists.
Roberts, for Truthout, spoke with Merritt, a legal specialist on police brutality and corruption. Merritt stated:
“This is probably the most extreme case I've seen. Not only is [the victim] charged with a crime but he's charged at the same level as the men who broke his bones, who caused serious bodily injuries, caused him to get 18 staples in his head… the men who beat him with in an inch of his life. [Harris] is getting the same charge as [those] involved in a violent supremacist group who were involved in attacks, not only of DeAndre, but attacks of other people all weekend.”
Charlottesville police have charged two of Harris’ attackers, but only after a national campaign led by the New York Daily News. One of the charged, Dan Borden, is shown here beating Harris with a four-foot piece of lumber. The other, Michael Ramos of Georgia, who claims he acted in self-defense, is shown striking the Harris with brass knuckles while Harris is crawling helpless on the ground.
On August 14, US Attorney General Sessions said that neo-Nazi brutality in Charlottesville was the Justice Department’s top priority. “There’s no bigger case right now we’re working on.”
So far, have federal authorities taken no action to identify the man holding what appears to be a 9mm Glock semi-automatic handgun threatening Harris despite high-resolution photos supplied by Roberts to the FBI.
Crossing state lines with intent to cause harm is a federal offense. Nevertheless, direct pleas to FBI agents by this reporter have failed to get Justice Department action to charge Harris attackers and Roberts’ assailant with these crimes.
Days after the attack, one FBI agent assigned to the investigation told Truthout he was “appalled” by the lack of immediate response to Roberts’ offer of photos to identify Harris’ attackers, but insisted the Department would act. As of today, two months on, there is no sign Sessions’ Department has moved to identify nor apprehend Harris’ attackers.
Photos by Zach D. Roberts, © 2017.
*****Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now out as major motion non-fiction movie: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election (the brand new, updated, post-election edition).
Stay informed, get the signed DVD, a signed copy of the companion book — or better still, get the Book & DVD combo.
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Warrant Issued for DeAndre Harris’ Arrest in Charlottesville
DeAndre Harris beaten in Charlottesville, VA Copyright: Zach D Roberts
Tonight, we have learned that the DeAndre Harris story has taken a twist that would in a different era be surprising. With several of Harris' attackers still on the run - and police showing no interest in going after them, DeAndre Harris just had an arrest warrant issued in his name. According to a media release issued by the Charlottesville Police Department October 9th, the warrant was for "Unlawful Wounding (Va Code 18.2-51)
That's right, the young man who you can see here being beaten to an inch of his life by half a dozen white supremacists will be walked into the police station tomorrow and processed.
A magistrate judge, without talking to me (a witness to DeAndre's beating), or DeAndre himself issued a warrant - according to Lee Merritt, DeAndre's attorney. Merritt, whose focus is on police brutality and corruption said: "This is probably the most extreme case I've seen, not only is he charged with a crime but he's charged at the same level as the men who broke his bones, who caused serious bodily injuries, caused him to get 18 staples in his head, fractured his tooth - the men who beat him within an inch of his life - he's getting the same charge as them - for someone who was involved in a violent supremacist group who were involved in attacks, not only of DeAndre but attacks of other people all weekend."
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DeAndre Harris received staples in his head, stitches above his eye and a broken wrist... and he's being arrested. Copyright: Zach D Roberts
[For use of photos and republishing contact Zach at zdroberts@gmail.com]
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October 9, 2017
Unsealed Kobach Docs Shed More Light On Tactics For Trump’s War On Voting Rights
On Friday, August 6, thanks to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, a federal judge unsealed two documents relating to Kris Kobach’s proposed amendments to the National Voter Registration Act (a.k.a. the “motor-voter law").
The first document was a memo that Kobach brought to a meeting with President-elect Trump in November 2016, which was partially exposed during a photo op and revealed that Kobach wants to "stop aliens from voting" by drafting amendments to the National Voter Registration Act "to promote proof of citizenship requirements." The second unsealed document offers more insight into precisely how Kobach intends to do this.
As we've previously reported, the requirement to prove citizenship to vote already stopped 36,000 Kansas students from voting because they didn’t have their passport or original birth certificate. Not one was busted as an alien, but all were busted as likely Democrats.
For more on Kobach and Trump's war on voting rights, get the brand new, updated, post-election edition of our film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy — which is only available from our store!
*****
Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
Stay informed, rent or buy the film on Amazon or get the signed DVD, a signed copy of the companion book — or better still, get the Book & DVD combo.
Visit the Palast Investigative Fund store or simply make a tax-deductible contribution to keep our work alive! Alternatively, become a monthly contributor and automatically receive Palast's new films and books when they're released!
Or support the The Palast Investigative Fund (a project of The Sustainable Markets Foundation) by shopping with Amazon Smile. AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your purchases to the Palast Fund and you get a tax-deduction! More info.
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September 28, 2017
May we add your name to the credits?
The massive success of our film has led to demands from NAACP, ACLU, Transformative Justice Coalition for a post-election update of the The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
We are about to go to print with this post-election-heist edition.
Our new subtitle: "The Case of the Stolen Election.”
And this is your chance to get your name in the credits!
For a tax-deductible donation of $100, we’ll list you in the movie credits as a Supporter and send you both the new signed DVD and a link to download it.
There’s a deadline: Sunday, Oct 1 at midnight PT
(If you are already on the credits from last year, you’ll remain in the new film.)
If you don’t have an extra Ben Franklin, we’d still appreciate a tax-deductible donation to continue our investigations for any amount.
And if your wallet got a ’Trump Bump’—hey, unload those guilty bucks in defense of democracy:
Donate a $1,000 – we’ll add your name to the movie credits as a Producer ($500 for Co-Producer).
Over TWO MILLION have seen our film — and it’s had one hell of an impact: The NAACP and League of Women voters have sued the State of Indiana to stop Kris Kobach and "Crosscheck" voter purges based on our film’s findings. After viewing our film, Indivisible and the ACLU have drafted legislation to kill off the Jim Crow Crosscheck operation in Illinois. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is showing the film in 1,000 churches. And we were way ahead of the media when we exposed Kris Kobach, now Trump’s Vote Thief-in-Chief heading Trump’s laughably named "Elections Integrity Commission."
Our investigation continued all through and past the election…and you’ll get it all in the new edition. Plus, your tax-deductible donation will help provide, without charge, the film for hundreds of showings by activists ready to shake the system with the cry, ‘Let my people VOTE!"
And get ready for the big broadcasts we’re now negotiating worldwide … which will have your name proudly displayed as a Superman of truth, justice and the American Way.
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