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How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America's Vanished Voters Paperback – Illustrated, July 14, 2020
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Follow investigative reporter for Rolling Stone, The Guardian and Democracy Now! Greg Palast as he hunts for the vanished voters of Trump's America.
Yes, the election's stolen but Palast shows you how to steal it back!
"Read this book. It might just save us! Greg Palast is the most incisive journalist on elections. Plus he's @##$% hilarious." --Josh Fox, The Young Turks
Palast lets you in on the nasty secrets of Trump-merica's democracy:
- One in five mail-in ballots are never counted.
- The chance of your vote being thrown in the garbage is 900% higher if you're Black than if you're white.
- 16.7 million voters were purged from the rolls in the past two years. Guess their color.
In How Trump Stole 2020, you meet the scamps, scoundrels and grifters (or "Governors" as we call them in America) doing the dirty to voters of color. Check out the photo of Palast confronting GOP Governor Kemp of Georgia whom Palast catches under a neon pig at a bar-b-que joint to ask Kemp if he's wiping away Black voter registrations to steal the election. The response: Palast gets busted.
The book includes an exclusive interview with Stacey Abrams on vote thievery--and a 48-page comic book from the piercing pen of Ted Rall.
You may know Palast as the fedora-wearing gum-shoe old-school investigative reporter who busted the theft of Florida in 2000 for The Guardian and in his New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
"Palast is one of our great investigative reporters. If you are not outraged by what Palast has uncovered, you have no heart. A searing indictment of our rigged electoral system." --Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
"Palast's work is invaluable for our community." --LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSeven Stories Press
- Publication dateJuly 14, 2020
- Dimensions4.98 x 0.71 x 6.97 inches
- ISBN-101644210568
- ISBN-13978-1644210567
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2020If you read one book before November's contentious, horrifying election, I recommend you check out this seminal, groundbreaking one on democracy and voting by Rolling Stone and Guardian reporter Greg Palast!
In his inimitable, rousing, feisty fashion Palast within chronicles past and present weaknesses and vulnerabilities of voting in America, and provides crucial instruction on how you can assure yours gets actually counts and is not deterred or thrown out. (Real possibilities you might be unaware of!)
The short, highly readable, artfully illustrated work also contains an informative treasure trove of excellent research and information regarding deceptive practices and unnerving implications, from willful purging of blacks, seniors and college students from voter rolls to shocking indications regarding electronic voting machines' very plausible past and present compromise.
Palast is a positively delightful writer to read, the quintessential gumshoe doing an excellent job of reclaiming a conspicuous void of honesty and integrity discernible in today’s modern media landscape by the characteristic dearth of investigation and truth telling in print and televised media.
He steps up here and many places elsewhere to take an impressive stab at filling big shoes left behind by the likes of Woodward and Bernstein and Hunter S Thompson, as so many other reporters bury heads in the sand or full on collaborate with perpetrators of these heinous crimes and promote their continued successes.
Somewhere between Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Humphrey Bogart in Maltese Falcon, as a narrator and colorful iconic character the author never disappoints or bores.
There are also a slew of delightful cameo appearances throughout by interesting and significant progressive figures, from Jill Stein to Stacey Abrams, and even Willie Nelson and MLK’s elderly cousin appear briefly.
I would never have thunk it possible to take all these concepts and data, complex delving into corruptive institutional mismanagement, and turn it into a riveting, intensely enjoyable and humorous read, but Greg Palast does so triumphantly despite all expectations to the contrary.
It's worth noting this book was also enthusiastically praised and recommended by Chris Hedges, Lee Camp, and Esquire.
It's rare something can be of great sociopolitical import, timely, and also intensely delightful!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2020Greg Palast is hands down one of the most important and skilled writers I have ever had the pleasure of reading. He’s funny… he’s informative… and his investigations are CRITICAL right now. This book is a must read for everyone concerned with the United States being a democracy: it doesn’t really matter what issues are at the top of your list if your vote doesn’t count in the first place. Representation matters and right now the politicians that the people want, are not the politicians that end up in office. Millions of people have gotten their vote stolen right out from under them, why is this not national news DAILY? Palast makes everyone - regardless of previous political knowledge - able to enter this important conversation informed and armed with ways to protect their vote. BUY THIS BOOK. IT’S TOO GOOD TO PUT DOWN!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2020Greg Palast’s How Trump Stole 2020 is a tour de force of critical reporting on how recent U.S. elections have been stolen by those acting to disenfranchise legitimate mostly-non-white-or-young voters with barriers to registration, massive purges of registered voters, destruction of provisional or absentee ballots for minor technical errors, or outright failure to count ballots because of inoperative scanners, the latter of which occurred for 75,355 ballots in Michigan in the 2016 election, and which the then Republican Attorney General ruled should not be counted because the number of physical ballots – not all of which were counted in the first place, and therefor were not included in the scanner count -- did not match that scanner count. According to the book: in two years leading into the 2016 election, under then Governor Mike Pence, Indiana purged 22.4% of its registrants, which likely explains a dramatic shift from blue to red in that election cycle; and in Georgia alone, based upon a detailed analysis of the particulars of the affected voters -- bringing to mind a fox-guarding-the-chicken-coop scenario -- at least 340,134 voters were WRONGLY purged in Georgia by Secretary of State Brian Kemp, prior to his “election” as governor over Stacey Abrams, the latter who refused to concede on account of this fraud on the election process.
Our country is sorely in need of leaders who will stand for, and abide by, the very principles upon which our country was founded, as set forth in the Declaration of Independence. Those who would steal another citizen’s vote are the worst kind of thief. Hopefully, after Trump is deported from Office following the 2020 election, the disenfranchisement of legitimate voters will be federally criminalized, so as to put an end to the shenanigans described in the book, and to provide for free and fair elections, and justice for all.
To non-white or young voters who have been the target of the voter suppression efforts described in the book, the future of American democracy may hinge on your efforts to make sure that you are (still) registered to vote, that you vote, and that your vote is properly counted. You can save our democracy.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2021So glad that the title was, finally, proven to be incorrect. But the information Palast provides in this book shows why this outcome was eminently possible. I'm so glad Palast's prediction didn't come true but am so glad he was making and publishing this prediction.
I think Greg Palast is the best investigative reporter working anywhere in the world! His beat is the U.S., but he writes for the Guardian in the U.K. becasue major U.S. media outlets won't carry him. That right there should tell you a lot about him and whay you should read everything you can from him.
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Philip KienholzReviewed in Canada on August 4, 20205.0 out of 5 stars Good Investigative Reporting on US Election Processes and Frauds
In a true democracy, where voters were allowed to be truly informed so as to allow their collective choice to fully integrate the "wisdom of the crowd," Greg Palast's book would be all over the news. He has documented how the recent Georgia election was rigged, and claims this is how the upcoming US federal election will also be defrauded in favour of the Republicans. His work appears to be excellent investigative reporting. If America's reluctance to accept that their government is no longer democratically chosen, that their government represents the will of the extremely wealthy, and that their presidential elections since Bush/Gore have been plagued by fraudulent practices -- if that reluctance to see American democracy's grievous flaws were to be overcome -- say by corporate news broadcasts -- there could be more trust in the governmental systems that are now so scorned by so many. But it is capitalism itself, of which news and social media are a part, that is at root the problem. Democracy or capitalism, which way are you going, Billy? And which way allows a living environment to sustain life?
Rafael LinoReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 20215.0 out of 5 stars Didn't happen - but it was this close
The thesis that this book puts forward was KEY to understanding what really happened in the 2020 elections.
Donald Trump and some in the Republican Party fully expected to win - because they were going to turn the election through voter suppression. The book particularly focuses on the state of Georgia, which turned out to be absolutely key to the overwhelming defeat of Trump in the election, because Democrats managed to register people and avoid the trap that was laid to them by Georgia Republicans.
The book takes the example of the non-election of Stacey Abrams, who was key to waking up national Democrats to what was going on with voter suppression in Georgia. And how they were working against it, which turned to be the making of which turned out to be a huge win for the party in 2020.




