Greg Palast

Greg Palast

Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone. You can read/watch his reports at GregPalast.com. He is the author of the NY Times bestsellers The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse, and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic. You can stream his new film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman — introduced by Martin Sheen and narrated by Rosario Dawson — for a limited time at: VigilanteMovie.com

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September 3, 2026 4 mins
"Show us your papers," is the new line they'll use to block you from voting. Under Trump's executive order, to vote, you will have to show proof of citizenship.    In Episode 2 of our Jim Crow Reloaded series, Ed Ward tells you how they can stop you from voting and what you can do about it.   Learn more & support our work at: https://SaveYourVote.org
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You think you're registered to vote? Well, think again. Donald Trump's Dept. of Gutting Elections a.k.a. DOGE (yeah, still there) is racing thru the nation's voter rolls with a plan to purge 4 million voters. In Episode 1 of our Jim Crow Reloaded series, Ed Ward lays out why it’s increasingly likely that the purge will come after YOU!

Learn more & support our work at: SaveYourVote.org

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📬 You're asking postmen to suddenly become election officials, and they’ve taken an oath that they deliver the mail. You can't have a law that says we're telling our postal workers to violate their own contracts. If you're a postman, delivering the mail is kind of your thing. It’s contractual and it's also the law of the land. 

🗳️ Learn how to #SaveYourVote: https://SaveYourVote.org
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The Supreme Court has temporarily cleared a major legal hurdle for Trump’s Executive Order 14399 targeting mail-in voting — but SCOTUS did not rule on whether the order itself is constitutional or lawful. In its August 24 decision, Trump v. California, the Court said the states challenging the order had not established the legal standing necessary to block it at this stage. Other court orders still prevent...

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Over a hundred thousand people lost their right to vote in Florida. That's why Florida turned red. It's not that the voters turned red, the voter rolls turned red. That’s why we’re launching an emergency operation put together by the A-Team in voting rights: NAACP Atlanta, Rainbow PUSH, Black Voters Matter, Transformative Justice Coalition, top voting rights lawyers, and the Latino vote group SVREP. Learn how they can t...

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What happens when voter purges, restrictions on mail-in voting, disappearing ballot drop boxes, and new proof-of-citizenship requirements collide? In this edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin, investigative journalist Greg Palast joins Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein to give listeners an exclusive preview of his new “Jim Crow Reloaded” project, which highlights the growing number of obstacles that ...
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On the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Greg Palast joins WVON's Cleopatra Draper to discuss the alarming erosion of voting rights, and Palast's new project, Jim Crow Reloaded, a 6-part PSA series produced for SaveYourVote.

Support the Save Your Vote campaign: https://donorbox.org/save-your-vote

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Don’t be lulled into complacency by the mockery surrounding Donald Trump’s claims about election "fraud," the Big Lie, or his insistence that he won the 2020 election. And please, don’t take the Democrats winning in the upcoming midterms as a given because of Trump’s sagging poll numbers. The plot against American democracy and freedom is accelerating. On this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Greg Pal...
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“It’s not about the color of your skin, it’s about the color of your vote.”   Investigative journalist Greg Palast joins WCPT's Joan Esposito to discuss his new six-part video series, Jim Crow Reloaded. The PSAs aim to expose the latest tactics used to suppress and manipulate votes while educating voters on how to avoid these pitfalls and ensure their ballots are counted.   Donate to support the p...
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In his new film, The Welcome Table, Josh Fox has traded the point-and-shoot of his seminal Gasland for lush cinematography on five continents. But it ain’t some Discovery Channel travelogue. Fox has brilliantly melded the burning issues of immigration and climate change. Even if you just think global warming is a bunch of hot air (pun intended), this documentary will just knock you out.

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The Election Crimes Bulletin returns with a special extended edition. KPFA host Dennis J. Bernstein and investigative journalist Greg Palast discuss the dumpster fire that is Graham Platner's candidacy in the Senate election in Maine. With so much on the line, and Platner’s qualifications for the job being conspicuous by their absence, Palast agues it shows a severe lack of political acumen and focus on behalf of the Democrat...
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Trump's cage fight genius: He's the Distractor-in-Chief.   Forget the UFC fight, here’s what you should be focusing on instead.   The Election Crimes Bulletin returns with investigative reporter Greg Palast and KPFA host Dennis J. Bernstein.   Get the full story: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/trumps-cage-fight-genius   For more from Palast, subscribe to his Substack: https://gregpalastinve...
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May 6, 2026 3 mins
It’s kind of embarrassing. Donald J. Trump was my business and character reference for my investigations firm, Union Associates, when, in the 1980s, I applied for government contracts. But Frank Sinatra put an end to it.   Get the full story: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/frank-sinatra-donald-trump-and-my   For more from Palast, subscribe to his Substack: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com...
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This explosive interview between investigative journalist Greg Palast and KPFK Solartopia host Harvey Wasserman dives deep into the shocking hidden realities of nuclear power.

Palast has led investigations of multi-billion-dollar frauds in the nuclear power industry, while Wasserman, is an author, activist and expert on all things nuclear. Between them, the pair have insider knowledge on the industry going back decades, with Wasser...

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Gregg Phillips’ group, True the Vote, challenged over 300,000 voters in 2024, crucial to Trump’s victory.   How can they do that? True the Vote is using old Jim Crow laws that allow any voter to challenge another voter’s ballot.   And now, ahead of the next election, Phillips is training literally 40,000 MAGA vote challengers who’ve exchanged white sheets for spreadsheets.   Get the full story...
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Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out through my nose.

But I’m not laughing anymore. Mr. Colbert, Phillips may choose our next president. Here's how.

Get the full story: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/mr-colbert-im-not-laughing-anymore

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April 8, 2026 25 mins
There is nothing new under the sun. Five centuries ago, the Portuguese conquistadors imposed a toll (“cartaz”) for ships trying to get through the Strait of Hormuz. Yet Trump and Hegseth didn’t know what every ship captain has known for centuries: the importance of securing the Strait. And the wee problem with Trump’s plan to collect passage tolls in partnership with Iran is that it violates intern...
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In one of my most elaborate undercover operations for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump's attack on Iran. It was 2004 and the plan was secretly drafted BEFORE George W. Bush invaded Iraq.

I’m only bringing up 20-year-old history to tell you that, while Bush’s hidden plan for the oil fields of Iraq evidenced greedy secret scheming to grab Iraq’s oil industry, at lea...

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Investigative Journalist Greg Palast talks to Rick Smith.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, passed away on February 17, 2026, at age 84, surrounded by family. On The Rick Smith Show, host Rick Smith welcomed longtime friend and investigative journalist Greg Palast for an emotional tribute. Palast, a New York Times bestselling author known for exposing voter suppression, shared intimate s...

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For 50 years, the Reverend and I fought side-by-side, and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed, a year ago, when I kissed him goodbye. 

Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941-2026): Investigative journalist Greg Palast talks to WCPT’s Joan Esposito.

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