Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files, where reason’s still in hiding and truth’s been subpoenaed so many times it now answers to an alias. Today’s episode: a crime so vast, so bureaucratically polite, that it almost passes as democracy.
You’re told Washington “won.” Not because of a shining beacon of support from the citizenry, but because millions of ballots—legal, living, breathing, voting human ballots—were tossed in the electoral trash like week-old sushi in the Georgia sun.
It wasn’t hacking from Mars, nor some interstellar plot from Elon’s moon base. No, it was good ol’ American ingenuity: poisoned postcards, phantom voter purges, a few polite threats of violence at polling stations, and the return of that ancient ghost: Jim Crow, now wearing khakis and a name badge that says “Poll Worker.”
Our guest today is Greg Palast, a forensic bloodhound for democracy’s autopsy. He’s the guy who counts the votes that didn’t get counted—and trust me, there are more of those than there are promises at a Senate fundraiser.
You’re going to hear about:
* ballots rejected for using the wrong middle initial,
* mail-in votes deemed "late" after arriving early,
* and provisional ballots—those placebo pills of civic participation—handed out like candy, then incinerated in procedural hell.
In Georgia, one Black military officer mailed his ballot a week early. The state said “too late.” In Texas, if you forgot to write your driver’s license on your envelope, well congrats—you just cast a ghost vote. And don’t get Greg started on the signature-matching Gestapo.
Here in the Land of the Fee and the Home of the Braved-Into-Silence, we’ve replaced poll taxes with paper cuts, and disenfranchisement now arrives via bulk mail. We’ve made a sport of targeting Black voters with all the precision of a drone strike, and then told the media, “It’s just procedural.”
Oh, and if you're one of the millions who didn’t respond to a fake-looking government postcard asking if you still live in your own damn house? Congratulations—you’ve been purged. Like spam. By algorithm. In Georgia, they dropped 875,000 voters for that alone. But don’t worry, Heritage Foundation (authors of Project 2025) calls that “integrity.”
We’ll ask Greg how the courts blessed this slow-motion coup. How a party that fears voters more than facts weaponized democracy’s paperwork into a blunt instrument. And how silence—from the very party that lost—helped grease the skids.
Washington didn’t win the election so much as outmaneuvered democracy on a technicality. Millions of legal ballots? Vaporized. Voters of color? Targeted with all the grace of a banker foreclosing on a food bank. This wasn’t voter fraud. This was voter frauding—the art of removing the voter altogether.
While you were watching headlines about space billionaires and AI girlfriends, the real election story was written in disappearing ink—postcards no one returned, ballots tossed for missing initials, and vigilantes dressed like Doc Holliday purging voter rolls in the name of freedom.
Our guest Greg Palast has done the math, and spoiler alert: democracy lost. Again.
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$45 billion for camps across the country and another 175 billion for a masked paramilitary police state. With the Admin complete clawback of public media funds, my work, your work, matter more than ever. And here we are together. I thank you for your direct support on this platform!
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