How Trump Has RIGGED the Next Election Already w/ Greg Palast

Donald Trump and the GOP rigged the 2024 election, and they already rigged the next election. Investigative Reporter Greg Palast explains how America's future elections were stolen and what we can do about it. MORE FROM THOM 📃 Thom's Hartmann's 'Daily Take' Newsletter: https://HartmannReport.com 🎦 Watch a full program re-run anytime: https://www.patreon.com/thomhartmann 🎧 Audio Podcast: https://thom.tv FOLLOW THOM 📕 AMAZON: https://amzn.to/2hS4UwY 📝 DAILY TAKE: https://hartmannreport.com 👥 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ThomHartmannProgram/ 📸 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/Thom_Hartmann 🎦 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thomhartmann 🐦 X: https://www.twitter.com/thom_hartmann Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hartmannreport.com 🌐 WEBSITE: https://www.thomhartmann.com 📺 YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=thomhartmann 👕 Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/thom-hartmann-program-2 🍺 Thom Merchandise: https://teespring.com/thom-hartmann-mug?pid=522&cid=101870 ABOUT THE PROGRAM The Thom Hartmann Program is the leading progressive political talk radio show for political news and comments about Government politics, be it Liberal or Conservative, plus special guests and callers. #MoreFromThom ✔ Amazon links are affiliate links TRANSCRIPT Greg: This is a clear and present danger right now. KLA Harris would have had another 3,565,000 votes if not for Jim Crow vote suppression tactics. She would have won the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia—and the presidency. Thom: How Trump and the GOP fixed the 2026 election—yes, 2026. Greg, welcome back to the program. What's up with this? Greg: Oh boy. Well, if you remember, three weeks ago, I gave you a report on an analysis I did. My day job is as a data economist, and I conducted technical studies for the ACLU, the NAACP, and Black Voters Matter. I went through the numbers on vote suppression—how many votes were lost. We talk about vote suppression, but what actually happened? I made a very careful calculation—I'm still working on the newest numbers—but these are the numbers I have presented and will present in federal court. KLA Harris would have had another 3,565,000 votes if not for Jim Crow vote suppression tactics. She would have won the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and the presidency. The reason I'm going back to this is to say—wait a minute—things are not getting better. They're getting worse. These vote suppression tactics are being cranked up, and while I’m not partisan, it's being done by the GOP. So, what do we have to look for in 2026? I know Trump said, "Oh, you just have to vote once in 2024, and that’s it, my beloved Christians," as he put it. But they’re not going to do something as dramatic as calling off an election. All they have to do is crank up the vote suppression. Let’s look at some of the things that bent the last election. In 2023, the year before the election, there was a massive purge. According to the United States Elections Assistance Commission, in the year leading up to the 2024 election, there were 4,776,076 voters purged. That’s the exact number from the federal government—almost 5 million voters—removed using methods such as the ERIC Purge System. I did a name-by-name analysis for the ACLU and found that this list was 63% wrong. That means about 3 million voters were wrongly removed—overwhelmingly voters of color. This year, 2025, will bring the next move in the Great Purge. Will it get worse? Let’s look at the trajectory. In 2021, Georgia purged about 500,000 voters. Of those, 198,000 were wrongly purged—I have their names and addresses. But this past election, they cranked it up to 875,000 voters in one state. They removed about one in five voters. And it's only going to get worse. Why? Two things. First, Eagle Eye—Thom, you might remember that program. It was originally run by William Rehnquist in Arizona in the 1960s. He rode that all the way to becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. What they did was challenge Mexican American and Native American voters in Arizona and other states. Well, it's back. But now, it's called Eagle AI—spelled "Eagle AI" because they're using artificial intelligence to challenge even more voters. This system was created by Cleta Mitchell, Trump's lawyer, who was on those infamous calls trying to get the Georgia Secretary of State to overturn the election. Now, she’s revived Eagle Eye as Eagle AI.