Vigilantes Inc.
Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen is an American documentary film that premiered on YouTube in October 2024.[1] The film was produced by Martin Sheen.[2][3]
Led by investigative journalist Greg Palast, the film documents voter suppression in the United States by "vigilante" challenges of self-appointed electoral fraud hunters, not government officials, who are targeting well over one million people to challenge and block the counting of their ballots. The majority of the vigilantes' targets are young voters and minorities. Currently, the Donald Trump-sponsored group True the Vote has gone from 88 vigilantes to over 40,000 “volunteers” in 43 US states.
In January 2025, Greg Palast summarized his latest voter suppression investigation, "Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.," with this statement, “If all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes.”[4][5]
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[edit]- ^ Rampell, Ed (16 October 2024). "Red Alert: Muckraker Greg Palast Uncovers How Trump Plots to Do It Again". The Progressive.
- ^ Kurtz, Judy (October 1, 2024). "Martin Sheen sounds the alarm on voter suppression from 'MAGA vigilantes'". The Hill.
- ^ Notheis, Asher (October 1, 2024). "'MAGA vigilantes' are attempting to suppress voters: Martin Sheen". Washington Examiner.
- ^ Palast, Greg (24 January 2025). "Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won". Greg Palast. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ^ Hartmann, Thom (26 January 2025). "Shocking Proof: Trump's VICTORY WAS RIGGED Through Voter Suppression! w/ Greg Palast". Thom Hartmann Program. Retrieved 2 February 2025.