How Paxton Will Steal Texas
Image from original article at GregPalast.com
In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because on the Steve Bannon podcast, Ken Paxton proudly crowed about his felonious attack on Black voters. It’s unbelievable, but if you watch our video, you’ll have to believe your eyes and ears.
Ken Paxton on Steve Bannon’s War Room boasts of blocking 2.5 million mail-in ballots.
Paxton, not coincidentally, is running for the US Senate in Texas against James Talarico. Control of the Senate, control of our future, may come down to this Texas ballot robbery scheme.
Here’s a bit of Paxton’s boasting confession:
“Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas. Harris County [Houston] mail-in ballots that they wanted to send out were 2.5 million. Those were all ‘illegal,’ and we were able to stop every one of them. Had we not done that, Donald Trump would have lost the election.”
What few Americans know is that Houston, Harris County, has the largest Black population in the USA. Not Detroit nor Atlanta nor DC. If a candidate loses Houston big, they lose Texas.
The only way Texas stays Red is if they can block the Black vote in Houston. (And no, Mr. Paxton, sending ballots to Black people is not “illegal.”)
So, just eliminate mail-in voting and force Black voters to wait in line for hours and hours, and hey, you’ve kept the state Red.
And it’s not just Texas. The Georgia Senate race, where Sen. Jon Ossoff is running for his life, may come down to the same game. Under new laws passed by the State’s GOP legislature, the number of drop boxes have been slashed by 75%. Worse, the state has ordered all drop boxes locked in offices at 5pm, meaning Black voters working for a living will have to face hours in line if they want to drop off their ballot.
In our 5-minute video, Jim Crow Reloaded Episode 3, you can watch me wait in line (2 hours long) with Black voters in Atlanta and the 5-hours long wait I observed in Dayton, a “Chocolate” city, versus my hunting for a line in Toledo — there was none — a white city. So, it’s no mystery why African-Americans turn to mail-in or drop box voting.
All over America, an orange despot in the White House has gone on the warpath against mail-in voting. His weapon is a documentary. Called 2000 Mules, it accuses Black men, thousands of them, of taking $10 from Jewish billionaires for each ballot they stuff into a ballot box. You may think the accusation a bit psycho, but it’s been damn effective, the excuse for Georgia and Texas to severely restrict access to mail-in balloting.
2000 Mules accuses this man of illegally stuffing ballots into a drop box. In reality, this Georgia tech executive is just guilty of VWB (voting while Black).
What can YOU do about it? First, sign up at SaveYourVote.org. At SaveYourVote.org you can get the real skinny on what is politely called “vote suppression.” Let’s call it what it is: “Ku Klux Klanning the Vote.”
At Save Your Vote you can also watch the full series, Jim Crow Reloaded with Palast Investigative Fund vote protection activist Edward Ward. And you can find out how to save your own vote, then save others.
And spread the video, share it with everyone you know. That’s the request, the DEMAND, of our partners at the NAACP Atlanta, RainbowPUSH Coalition, Transformative Justice Coalition, and SVREP’s Latino Mobilization.
And if you think this video and the prior two are important, then, for the Lord and Justice, give us the funds to produce the remaining six episodes. These films are used in training young activists like Edward to not just get out the vote, but to get it COUNTED.
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