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Greg Palast
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Greg Palast's personal blog at gregpalast.com covers politics and economics. Since 2010, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Greg Palast's reporting on US voter suppression and election theft, mostly his post on whether Trump lost, plus pieces on voter roll purges, Ohio 2004 and Ukraine.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won8 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2025-01-26
- Deadly Men in Funny Hats2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-16
What Hacker News says?
That's the official counts. How many voters in Georgia were disenfranchised? How many provisional ballots were thrown out? Stuff like this https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
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on “Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting”Submitted The banks’ secret endgame as a story · 42 points
HN discussionThat is not what they did: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/ Passing laws to make it harder to vote, and easier to challenge a persons voter registration and ballot, and then running an operative campaign to specifically target voters on the other side of the political spectrum is a bit different than "just politics". Legal, sure. Ethical, moral, fair, absolutely not.
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on “The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE”Submitted Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThis is a link I stumbled on earlier today: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
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on “The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE”Submitted Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won as a story · 20 points
HN discussionNot sure how true this is and I guess it is moot at this point (except as far as thinking how to ensure all legal votes are counted in the future): https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/ "Trump lost. That is, 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. Vice-President Kamala Harris…
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on “DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes”Submitted True the Vote admits it can't backup Dropbox fraud claims in 2000 Mules film as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWho said I was crying wolf? I believe Trump would have lost if this was a fair election. So does Greg Palast: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast See: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/ I believe Trump is a fascist who is extremely dangerous and everything he did so far ticks all the boxes. And by the way: In the wolf story you refer to the wolf was real . The real moral of that stor…
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on “CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised”Submitted Trump, the Pirate of Hormuz as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVoter suppression: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
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on “Buy European Made. Support European Values”Submitted Deadly Men in Funny Hats as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI mean, he kind of stole the election. https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
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on “U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter”Submitted Donziger: Facing Prison for Fighting Chevron as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of "interstate crosscheck", in which a "Tyrone E. Brown" voting in Pennsylvania was enough to kick a "Tyrone M. Brown" off the voting rolls in Kansas. https://www.gregpalast.com/interstate-crosscheck-on-the-verg...
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on “Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster”Submitted TrumpCare dies, XL flies. And the Secret Winner is… as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"Chávez himself read my findings on potential elections theft – to his nation on his TV show – and then he moved swiftly, establishing an election system that Jimmy Carter, who has headed vote observer teams in 92 nations, called, 'an election process that is the best in the world'. Here's how it works: every Venezuelan voter gets TWO ballots. One is electronic, the second is a paper print-out of the touch-screen ba…
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on “Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong”Submitted How Bain Capital helped BP blow up the Deepwater Horizon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI am positive that you have the facts about George W. Bush's military record wrong. The real story there is that all of the pertinent facts, with evidence, appeared in the BBC. Greg Palast was responsible for a lot of it. When CBS wanted to report on the story, they were given all of that, then went and did their own digging. In the process of digging they were given a perfect memo that they ran with without authent…
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on “How to Leak to the Press”Submitted Slick Operator: The BP I've known too well as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.gregpalast.com/rubios-billionaire-wins-ransom-fr...
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on “Elliott Management buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey”This was posted recently on HN, but I'll repost it here. My main take away is that these two regions are really more Russian and want to be a part of Russia. They were given to Ukraine as part of an old agreement internal to the USSR https://www.gregpalast.com/7-facts-about-ukraine/
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on “Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions”For more background, read Greg Palast. He's been on the vote theft beat forever: https://www.gregpalast.com/
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on “United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden”If you discount the blatant voter suppression and other forms of voter disenfranchisement. Greg Palast has an interesting article [1] on the level of disenfranchisement happening. According to the numbers calculated by him and other organizations the are _millions_ of US citizens that get their voter thrown out. [1] https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
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on “People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test”Please look for 'Stupid in America' show on YouTube and watch it. It will seriously change your opinion about public schools. I'm aware of the documentary, and as usual, it completely misses the point. I'm intimately familiar with the inner workings of America's public and private schools (both the best and the worst on both sides). For the past several years I've had daily exposure to pretty much all angles of this…
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on ““There is no longer enough mail to sustain six days of delivery.””Funny, I googled "programmer testifies..." and the first autocomplete was "...about rigging elections": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjvtSquZkhs Journalist Greg Palast also has evidence of electronic voter in Ohio in 2004. (Disclaimer: I have not delved deep on his claims, but the mere fact of their plausibility is deeply concerning.) http://www.gregpalast.com/how-they-stole-ohio/
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on “Source code of Polish electoral voting system?”At present the memo is available via one of the links. http://www.gregpalast.com//vulturespicnic/pages/filecabinet/...
Comment linking //vulturespicnic/pages/filecabinet/chapter12/Geithner_Summers%20Memo.pdf
on “The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis”Not being a US citizen, I'm always quite stunned by what I perceive as an obsession with polling results. Especially when fundamental flaws in the US voting system (see, for example, http://www.gregpalast.com/latinos-too-lazy-to-vote/ ) seem to get widely ignored. Sites like http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ may be great in bringing insightful reflections on statistics to a larger audience, but by focusing e…
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on “Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released”Greg Palast has been someone worth looking into when it comes to these issues http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm http://www.gregpalast.com/2004/ http://www.gregpalast.com/store/?id=13
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on “Forget Anonymous: Evidence Suggests GOP Hacked, Stole 2004 Election”
