folks earlier we talked about how
Republicans are doing all they can to
suppress the vote we talked about what
happened in Texas but we see what's
happening in Georgia uh Greg Palace the
investigative reporter has a new
documentary it is called Vigilant Inc
America's new vote suppression Hitman uh
is narrated by roserio Dawson produced
by Martin Sheen is about the latest
attacks on the right to vote here is a
sneak peek
you're telling me
2,600 Mi
away 2 days before an election that if I
want to vote all I have to do is show
up and
prove as American
citizen that I have the right to vote
again
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is this an attempt to remove a lot of
Democrats black people from voting to
win the election far from that sir and
you have crossed the line and today to
come out and not be able to vote and no
one can give you an explanation like
it's extremely emotional and it bothers
me it bothers me to my core
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Greg joins us now from Los Angeles Greg
glad to have you here so I mean you
really spent a lot of time uh in Georgia
looking at what's going on in that
particular state in all of the ways uh
that they are doing all they can uh to
frankly steal the 20 24 election they
are scared to death of losing Georgia
again and Republicans are hellbent in
that state and others to ensure they do
not
lose oh yeah so here's the New Deal the
reason it's called Vigilant Inc that's
the name that the clux clan Incorporated
under but now and they came up with
these vigilante attacks in 1946 where
individuals are challenging voters black
voters saying they shouldn't be allowed
to vote that was considered illegal in
46 but they brought it back Donald Trump
brought it back with his
cronies in 2020 but they only had 88
vigilantes in only in one state Georgia
but those 88 Vigilantes you heard that
woman throwing me out you you heard when
I asked her is this an attempt to remove
black voters Democrats from the voter
roles and that woman personally are you
ready for this Roland she personally
challenged
32,000 voters she's a she's a Republican
Party official and she challenged 32,000
voters in cob County Georgia alone so
they so what they did was they by
changing the law they allowed one
individual to literally challenge
thousands of people no standing no
requirement they could just come up and
make an allegation and all of a sudden
you're
screwed yes and and one of the people
that was screwed as you say you heard a
uh and so those of you're watching that
was Major galel turner He's America's
expert on warfare the future he was from
uh he's from Columbus Fort Benning
Georgia he was assigned by the military
to uh Fort wiimi
California and the Republican Party
chairman in southern
Georgia challenged his right to vote
because he said well he doesn't live in
Georgia anymore he's he's in California
this
vigilante Republican official remember
this is not a government official this
is a Republican Party official and this
Republican Party official challenged
major Turner and 4,000 other black
soldiers can you imagine black soldiers
assigned assigned to Afghanistan black
soldiers assigned to uh Germany and
California but I but but I thought but I
thought they love the
military oh they love the military if
you're white military if you're
Republican military but remember the
military has an awful lot of
African-Americans people of color so
they challenge these people cuz they
know that the military doesn't love
Trump
you know this is the guy who said you
know uh oh the guys in the military
graveyards are just a bunch of losers no
they don't like him and so they took
away major Turner's vote and you heard
him say so he calls up now again this is
not government it's as if Greg Palace
said oh Roland Martin doesn't live uh
wherever you live in your state I don't
know DC or wherever Roland Martin
doesn't live there don't let him vote
but they're not doing it with one voter
where they fill out a form they're
sending in emails with list of thousands
of Voters this guy sent in a list of
4,000 black soldiers blocked them from
getting their vote the major calls from
California says where's my vote where's
my ballot my abs ballot said oh no
you've been challenged Mr Turner so uh
if you want to get your ballot all you
have to do all you have to do is fly
2600 miles to our office and prove
you're an American citizen
what white voters didn't have to do this
and it was 180,000 voters he and by the
way major Turner as you'll see in my
film major Turner does go to Georgia and
he brings and he brings so he flies
5,000 miles round trip and he also
brings in a uh a voting rights attorney
Mark Elias who is now comma Harris's
voting rights uh
specialist and he got his vote back he
had to go to Federal Court imagine he
had to drive go 5,000 miles roundtrip go
to Federal Court his vote was restored
but you know the judge would not allow
the other 4,000 black men to get their
votes the 32,000 votes we were able to
block that lady because people saw my
film vigilant's
Inc and the elections board even the
Republicans said we're not going to
accept this stuff but now it's getting
worse so this was here's the danger
Roland now again my film is called
vigilante s and I want to mention
something very very quickly you can
actually stream the film starting today
for free if you go to savey your
vote.org
and thank you very much to Jamie Fox and
Leonardo Dicaprio and and George
DiCaprio my producer um one of my
producers who is saying go you know you
can go to oh you can go to gregp
palace.com gregp palace.com G G
p.com and Download the film for free or
savey your vote.org and they've made it
available for free streaming send around
the link and by the way if you go to
savey vote.org we show you how to check
your registration we show you how to we
give you the phone numbers in case you
need lawyers when you're at the polling
station and you find out you've been
challenged we're going to help you get
through this we got to fight it back I'm
working with black voters matter with
the Reverend Jesse Jackson who I spoke
to this morning Martin Sheen um uh and
daacp uh we're we're not standing here
letting these Vigilantes pick our
president rather than the voters
question from so question for the
panelist kwami you're
first you know when I look at this
incident one want to give you a lot of
commendation for making this movie come
together but I've of looked at some of
the stats where they say they're
basically the people of color represent
around 30% of the electorate but we only
cast about 22% of the actual ballots so
if we have that gap of about 8% what do
you think that's driven by is this
driven by all the things you highlighted
in your movie or do you see more yes yes
uh absolutely when we say that that
there was a lower turnout amongst uh
minority voters especially black
voters it's not that they're not trying
to vote did you know that you know you
go in you've been challenged or you've
been purged and they hand you something
called a provisional
ballot I call it a placebo ballot they
make you think you voted but you haven't
according to the United States
government
2.7 million provisional ballots were
thrown out rejected in the last
presidential election 2.7 million
ballots and dig this if you're black the
chance you're provisional ballot won't
be counted is 700% higher than if you're
white 500% higher if you're Hispanic
then if you're white so basically this
so black people are trying to vote but
they show up and like major Turner you
don't get your ballot because someone's
challenged you you've been purged and
you know at the end of that little clip
we had a woman in an African-American
young woman in tears you know why
because her grandmother had been voting
in the same polling station for 50 years
shows up and they say you can't vote
here you're not on the voter roles
anymore because you don't live in
Georgia anymore I went to her house you
had if you had to offer one solution to
that what do you think we can focus on
like a laser between now and the
election what do you think that one
thing that we can work on if you want to
make a recommendation to the
audience absolutely we have to stop the
vigil like uh KLA Harris's voter
protection person says the number one
threat in this year brand new is this
massive vigil antiv voter attack um in
Georgia they took it they they took it
out for a test drive in Georgia in 2020
and they had 88 Vigilantes the group
that uh the Trump group that's behind
this true the vote they've gone from 88
Vigilantes are you ready for this
they've signed up 40,000
Vigilantes they've already mounted
they've already as of five weeks ago
they challenged 832000 voters this story
is not being covered and that's why
Harris and and Elias are are losing
their minds actually Reverend Jackson
was talking with KLA Harris about this
on Saturday and talking about our film
so we're using the film as a weapon it's
not a movie it's a movement I just got a
message from the head of the NAACP in
Georgia Gerald Griggs that we have to
have we're going to be showing the movie
and using that as a basis for a planning
discussion of the Voting Rights
leadership not only in Georgia but I'm
going to uh Houston I'm going to uh I'm
I'm going to be in other cities but most
important is to get this thing out for
people to see the film pass it around
and protect learn how to protect
yourself Candace there's gonna be a
million challenges Candice I understand
that this is a film that takes a look at
two families who are these two families
that you explore in the film and and how
does it
unfold well you saw major galel Turner
the the military expert uh they picked
on the wrong guy because his father
Harold Turner
with Ralph abery and Martin Luther King
founded the southern Christian
leadership conference they picked a
major voting rights civil rights family
of Georgia when they picked on major
Turner so we follow him versus the guys
who really set him up that is Governor
Brian Kemp of Georgia and Kemp um is
behind all this vote suppression
trickery uh and in fact now his family
they call themselves Kemp now but they
used to be called Habersham he doesn't
like to use that name you know why
because it was his family it was the
current Governor's family who first
brought enslaved Africans to Georgia it
was a slavery was against the law in
Georgia until just before the American
Revolution and the Kemp's family got a
special dispensation to bring in slaves
from King George
II and that started the whole plantation
enslavement system in the South was
started by his family and the source of
this guy's many millions many millions
is from is literally taken off the backs
of black people Scott hey thank you so
much for your movie I'm gonna put my law
hat on my legal hat I know Mark Elias he
does great work but if but if I'm in
Georgia and I've been taking off the
voter roles don't I have some due
process rights doesn't the state have to
give me notice of that and give me an
opportunity to respond and to be heard
and to cross-examine whoever's
challenging my ballot and wherever I am
I I understand California but let's say
I'm in Georgia I mean they don't just
throw me off the ballot because of a
challenge or am I just being naive here
with
this uh well I wouldn't say it you're
naive you just don't you have to know
Georgia oh boy and some of these other
states um and so they're supposed to
send you a postcard but it looks like
junk mail you've been challenged but
listen unlike if if you got challenged
by the government all you have to do is
send back a postcard or call them up and
make a contact and you're back on the
roles but when you're challenged by a
vigilante under Georgia state law and
other Southern state laws especially and
in Arizona and other places you have to
physically go into the to the office and
prove you are an American citizen and
you live where you live so so you have
all these
absent uh black students you have black
soldiers you have all these people who
are temporarily moved especially this
was during covid the last time um and
you have to actually go into that office
and prove you are them what do I have to
show them birth certificate voting
registration card what you have to show
them that you're a citizen and that you
live where you live um and but the the
problem is people don't even know about
these cards a lot of people never get
the cards or never see them and they
don't know they've been challenged so
they don't get their ballots or even
worse most Georgians who are challenged
got their ballots but when they mailed
in their ballots they weren't counted
and those people don't even know it it's
really horrific and it's and it's spread
to 43 States but mostly the Battleground
States Trump is working on the
Battleground States well real quick real
quick the certification of the vote
after November 5th in Georgia is now
discretionary it's not ministerial can
you comment on that change in the law
and how you believe the Republicans are
going to try to uh try to undermine the
elections now that it's
discretionary well in my in vigilant's
Inc which again you can get for free at
savior vote.org vigilante Inc I actually
have uh Helen Butler who was on the
elections board and she talked about the
need to certify the vote they try to
pressure her not to certify the vote and
she said I won't go along with it so the
governor used his new authority to
Simply remove her from the her elections
board and she said this is a real danger
people if you don't know what
certification means it's a fancy legal
term but what it means is is that once
you have the vote someone has to say yes
this is the correct vote the the County
elections board and then it goes to the
state elections board and that's and
they they certified it now the current
Republican and not just Republican the
Maga controlled elections board has
already said
that they may not certify the vote in
Fulton County understand Fulton County
is Atlanta y last time uh Joe Biden won
Fulton County by a quarter million votes
if they don't certify
Fulton um Georgia's gone Georgia's
gone well those are the those are the
games that they're playing and so listen
uh lawyers are going to be very busy
because Republicans are going to be
continuing to do this all across the
country uh folks you want to check the
film Out vigilant's Inc go to gregp
palace.com g r g p l a s.com you can
also uh go check uh it out uh on uh the
other site uh go ahead and tell us what
it is Greg yeah save your vote not save
my vote not save Roland's vote but save
your vote.org and you can not only
download the or stream the film but you
can check your registration there and
get other help and advice so thank you
great doing God's work here man we
appreciate it keep the good work thanks
a lot in 2016 Donald Trump said he would
choose only the best people to work in
his white house now those people have a
warning for America Trump is not fit to
be president again here's his vice
president Anyone who puts them over the
Constitution should never be president
of the United States it should come as
no surprise that I will not be endorsing
Donald Trump this year his defense
secretary do you think Trump can be
trusted with the nation's Secrets ever
again no I mean it's just irresponsible
action that places uh our service
members at risk places our nation's
security at risk his National Security
advisor Donald Trump will cause a lot of
damage the only thing he cares about is
Donald Trump and the nation's highest
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or a dictator and we don't take an oath
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