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 short film series, Ed Ward lays out why it’s increasingly likely that the purge will come after YOU!
4.7 Million Will Lose Their Vote
Leading up to the 2024 election, 4.7 million Americans were wiped off the voter rolls, a daylight robbery of democracy, an outcome not based on the will of the voters but on the cruel, racially poisoned trickery we politely call “vote suppression.”
To prevent another electoral crime wave sabotaging the 2026 midterms, the Palast Investigations team is launching the counterattack. Joined with our action partners at Black Voters Matter Fund, RainbowPUSH Coalition, NAACP Atlanta, Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and other vote protection warriors, we unveil our Save Your Vote campaign.
It kicks off with a series of 5-minute films, Jim Crow Reloaded. Each film short tells you how they are jacking with the voter rolls, who the perps are behind it, and what YOU can do about it.
You can start by watching Episode 1. Five minutes well spent — and you’ll want to spread the link far and wide.
Because we can beat the vote rustlers. We have.
What the hell happened in 2024?
In 2024, we were overwhelmed with Jim Crow attacks in two dozen states. The figure of 4.7 million voters, wrongly removed from the rolls, their ballots cancelled, comes from rarely accessed federal data and our team of top statisticians who produced the technical reports for the ACLU and the federal courts where I testified.
Unlike 2020 where we had a huge impact, in 2024, I’ll be straight with you, we had to face a multi-state onslaught. But we barely had the resources to spit into the wind.
You know me, unlike those other outlets, I rarely, rarely ask for donations. But now I must because we have no time while our ballots are literally under the gun. (See Jim Crow Reloaded, “Episode 7: Violence”.)
We’ve completed two episodes of Jim Crow Reloaded, but we’ve got to finish the other six — and RIGHT NOW!
The next episode is “The attack on the mail-in ballot.” We’ve filmed it, we need to finish it and get the series into the churches and meeting halls where our partners will take the message — focussing on Georgia, Texas, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Can we count on a half dozen heroes to put up $5,000 for each of the remaining episodes?
Don’t have the $5K? OK, but I know you have $5.
Your donation is 100% tax deductible. Every dollar you can put in will save another voter from getting illegally bounced from the voter rolls, challenged at the polling station or having their mail-in ballot deep-sixed.
Watch the films, sign up, spread the word and the links, donate because you give a damn.
