Vigilantes Inc: The Shocking Truth About the 2024 Election
The past is still alive. But so is resistance.
2025 is here, and the struggle for democracy has never been more urgent. The last election is a story of a White House hijacked by voter suppression powered by the actions of vigilantes.
In a review of our award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen, Robert C. Koehler of the Chicago Tribune syndicate captures the terrifying truth of the 2024 election:
“As the Trump presidency digs its claws into the country — winner, take all! — I look on in terrified amazement as he begins arrogantly instituting what can only be called his plan to devolve America back to the good old days: back to the era of Jim Crow…”
This isn’t speculation. In Vigilantes Inc., narrated by Rosario Dawson and introduced by Martin Sheen, I uncover the brutal mechanics of voter suppression that helped Trump seize power — not by winning votes, but by erasing them.
Watch Vigilantes Inc., the movie that tells the hidden story of 2024. (The full movie is available to stream for FREE on YouTube thanks to the generosity of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx.)
Koehler writes:
“Palast’s documentary doesn’t just expose an election stolen by purging voters — it forces us to confront America’s long history of racist voter suppression, from Jim Crow to today’s ‘vigilante’ name-checkers targeting Black and Brown voters...”
The investigative documentary reveals that by August of 2024, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters had challenged the rights of 317,886 voters, and the NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone!
Koehler goes on to say:
“What I found utterly compelling about Vigilantes Inc. is the race-based — and historical — context in which the vigilantism is carried out. This documentary is about far more than the 2024 election. America’s present-moment racism is put under the harsh, glaring light of its own past — its post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow-era past, when efforts to “get around the 15th Amendment” included not only poll taxes (for blacks only) and spurious questions (‘how many jellybeans in the jar?’) to outright intimidation and vicious violence…”
Trump’s return to power wasn’t a triumph of democracy — it was a masterclass in disenfranchisement. Our film lays bare the ongoing war against voters of color, linking today’s suppression tactics to America’s darkest past.
Georgia’s Brian Kemp played ringleader, reviving Jim Crow-era tricks in a modern data-driven war against democracy. As Vigilantes Inc. reveals, America’s democracy isn’t broken — it’s rigged by design.
The past is still alive. But so is resistance.
There is hope, and that hope lies with YOU.
As Koehler so eloquently puts it:
“This documentary opens our souls. Oh my God, the past is still alive, but the film’s primary vision is transcendent. This is not a film of us vs. them, but of love and extraordinary courage: the courage — of so many people — to create the democracy the country has not yet become…”
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