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HAND-COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS FOR IA GOP CAUCUS-GOERS!
Great news! Though, hypocrisy, thy name is GOP...
Newt Gets Busted in the 'Dept. of Shameless Schadenfreude'
Maddow Show on the hypocrisy of Gingrich's massive VA 'voter fraud', after he'd decried ACORN's massive (if non-existent) 'voter fraud' years prior...
Video: Brad Talks GOP 'Voter Fraud' Fraud on Thom Hartmann's 'Big Picture'
Newt Gingrich is hoisted on his own GOP petard in VA & the DoJ pushes back against voter disenfranchisement in SC...
GINGRICH ADMITS CAMP COMMITTED MASSIVE 'VOTER FRAUD' IN VA
(At least by GOP/Fox 'News' ACORN standards, anyway)...
HYPOCRISY: GOP REQUIRES NO PHOTO I.D. TO VOTE IN IOWA CAUCUSES
Though the GOP itself sets the rules and runs the entire thing, the party is placing no Photo ID restrictions on their voters...
93-Year Old Who Cleaned the TN Capitol for Decades Told She Can't Vote Without New ID
Born at home, Thelma Mitchell never had a birth certificate, but she did have the right to vote...
LA Times' Hatchet Job on Elizabeth Warren, Occupy Wall Street
The corporate media outlet continues its 'fair and balanced' advocacy on behalf of the oligarcy...
DOJ REJECTS SOUTH CAROLINA POLLING PLACE PHOTO ID RESTRICTION LAW
Feds find racial disparity in state GOP's new voter suppression law in violation of Voting Rights Act...
FEDS CONFIRM: BALLOT SCANNERS MADE BY ES&S; DROPPING VOTES
U.S. EAC finds serious flaws found in ES&S; paper ballot op-scan systems used in many large, swing states...
INDIANA'S REPUBLICAN SEC. OF STATE ORDERED REMOVED FROM OFFICE
Judge finds state's chief election official, Charlie White, accused voter fraud felon, ineligible to serve, lied about own voter registration...
TODAY: New coal plant rules; Aid to Africa; China 'occupy' against coal; Nigerian oil spill; Melting Arctic...
Previous GNRs: 12/20/11 - 12/13/11 - Archives...
Brad on KPFK: 'War on Democracy' Special
The latest battles to try and see votes counted in some places, and to keep voters from even voting in others, as 2012 Election Cycle finally set to begin in January...
PROGRESSIVE RADIO TO REMAIN IN SAN FRAN...BUT W/ BECK ADDED?! YUP.
Bizarre line-up changes as Clear Channel reverses plan to kill Progressive Talk in progressive Bay Area...
THE BRAD BLOG'S RECOMMENDED #OWS 'DEMAND'
All citizens 18+ get to vote. Period. And on hand-counted paper ballots...
VIDEO: 'Rise of the Tea Bags'
Brad interviews American patriots...
'Democracy's Gold Standard'
Hand-marked, hand-counted ballots...
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce 'Terror Tools' Spy Plot...
Wisconsin 2011 Supreme Court Election Debacle...
It Isn't Journalism: Woeful MSM Coverage of Wisconsin's Supreme Court Election 'Recount'
Corporate media fails to tell story of massive irregularities, e-vote failures...
Japan Quake/Tsunami/Nuke Emergency...
6/4/11: Fukushima Radiation at Highest Level Since Crisis Began
Germany announces plan to dismantle all nukes by 2022...
5/12/11: TEPCO Admits Unit 1 Reactor 'Meltdown', Fuel Rods Exposed
Radiation believed leaking through hole in bottom of containment vessel...
3/30/11: AUDIO: Brad on KPFK w/ Fukushima News and More...
Joined by the lovely Desi Doyen of the Green News Report...
3/29/11: 'Maximum Alert': Crisis Continues, TEPCO Prez Hospitalized
PLUS: A glimpse at living conditions for the heroic plant workers...
3/29/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Japan Fallout
Fukushima's nuke disaster leads to political shift in Germany; Congressional concerns about US nuke evacuation plans...
3/27/11: TEPCO 'Very Sorry': Radiation Spikes, Work Remains Perilous
Plant operator apologizes, again; AP reports they 'all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history' in designing safe-guards'...
3/25/11: 'Grave And Serious': More Comparison to Chernobyl Levels
Rupture feared; Workers contaminated; New evacs 'recommended'...
PLUS: German study uses French data to corroborate findings from Austrian, U.S. scientists, suggesting Fukushima disaster should be reclassified as 'level 7' accident, on par with Chernobyl...
3/25/11: Brad on 'Randi Rhodes Show' on Disaster, US 'Fallout'
Breaking developments and speculation on the supposed 'nuclear renaissance' previously scheduled for the US...
3/24/11: 'Step at a Time & a Few More Steps': Disturbing New Science
Stabilization continues, as new data suggests 50% of radioactive cesium released by Chernobyl already released by Daiichi's reactors...
3/24/11: 'Green News Report'- Special Coverage: Japan Disaster
Death toll rising; Tap water warning lifted in Tokyo, spreading elsewhere; Radiation hospitalizes workers; Support for nukes drops in US; PLUS: Struggling to maintaining tradition amidst disaster...
3/23/11: Brad's KPFK Intvw w/ VOA's Steve Herman in Tokyo
'Neutron beams', water 'panic', black smoke and the public responses from TEPCO, the government and the people of Japan, LIVE from Tokyo...
3/23/11: Setbacks: Black Smoke, Evacuations, Tokyo Tap Water
'Panic' reported as stores run dry of bottled water after government says iodine in metropolitan water unsafe for infants...
3/22/11: 'Razor-Thin Margins', Positive Progress at Fukushima
Control room re-opened as some power returns, workers attempt to restore cooling systems; U.S. NRC offers mixed signals...
3/22/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Nuclear Crisis
Fukushima on edge; Japan's wind farms to the rescue; New US nuke reviews; PLUS: Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico...
3/20/11: 'Closer to Bringing Situation Under Control': Sun & Mon
Stabilization precarious; UPDATED: Gray smoke forces evacuation...
3/19/11: Some Reactors 'Stabilized' as War Breaks Out Elsewhere
PLUS: Radiation detected in food, water; New Gulf oil slick discovered; War protesters arrested; Slow news week continues...
3/18/11: 'Renewed Nuclear Chain Reaction Feared': Friday Fukushima
Spent fuel rod danger; Fallout detected in S. California; Wind 'saving Japan's ass'; Coulter: Radiation 'good for you'; PM's office tweets...
3/17/11: Brad Interviews Palast: TEPCO Plans for New Nukes in TX
Govt fraud investigator on "bankrupt, corrupt, criminal" nuke companies...
3/17/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Crisis in Japan
Compounding natural, humanitarian and spiraling nuclear disasters - desperate measures to hold off a nightmare...
3/17/11: VIDEO: Close-up Aerial Footage of Crippled Plant
TEPCO offers most detailed view yet of ravaged Fukushima reactors...
3/16/11: Desperation: Helicopters Drop Water On Hot Nuke Reactors
Def Minister: 'We could not delay further'; Four risky drops on Unit 3; Water said in Unit 4 fuel pool; Water cannon trucks next | VIDEO...
3/16/11: Dozens of Countries, Not U.S., Tell Citizens to Leave Tokyo
UK, Germany, France more worried than us. Who ya gonna believe?...
3/15/11: SMOKE BILLOWS FROM FUKUSHIMA'S REACTOR 3
Workers evacuated as radiation levels rose quickly; Govt's chief spokesperson says smoke believed to be radioactive steam...
3/15/11: 'Green News Report': Japan on Brink of Nuclear Disaster
Natural, humanitarian and now man-made disaster, as 50 nuclear plant workers stand in the way of nuclear meltdown...
3/14/11: PM: RADIATION DANGER, EVACS WIDENED, 'STAY CALM'
Explosions at Reactors 2 & 4; Fuels Rods at Unit 2 'Half Exposed';
All but 50 workers evacuated from plant...
3/13/11: EXPLOSION AT FUKUSHIMA'S NUKE REACTOR UNIT 3
U.S. 7th Fleet repositioned after exposure to radioactive cloud
Sunday live blogging 2nd EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/13/11: VIDEO: From Within the Tsunami, a Town Engulfed
Watch as a town disappears in minutes...
3/12/11: EXPLOSION ROCKS FUKUSHIMA NUKE REACTOR UNIT 1
Cooling System Fails at Unit 3 | Govt: 'Partial Meltdown' Under Way Saturday day, night live blog following 1st EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/11/11: NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES AT 5 REACTORS
Friday day, night live blog until EXPLOSION at Fukushima reactor...
3/11/11: 'Big Government Tyranny' Saved Countless Lives
Strict building codes in Japan likely impossible now here...
3/11/11: 8.9 QUAKE, TSUNAMI STRIKES JAPAN - VIDEO
Unprecedented disaster strikes, towns washed away in seconds...
WikiLeaks / Julian Assange...
More Special Coverages Pages...

SPECIAL COVERAGE: New Mexico Republican/Rep. Heather Wilson 'Vote-Buying' Scandal

KEY BRAD BLOG ARTICLES IN THE SERIES SO FAR
(Newest articles at the bottom.)

3/4/08: Rep. Heather Wilson Accused of Felony Vote-Buying in New Mexico; Reporter Quits After News Director Scrubs Story
Republican Delegate Convention Attendees Paid by Wilson Senate Campaign, According to Report Sourced by Three Eye-Witnesses, Removed from Air After Complaints to Station by Wilson
Memo From News Director to Reporter: 'Don't you think if there was anything to it the bloggers would have picked this up?'

3/5/08: Exclusive: Former Republican Governor Says New Mexico State Officials Investigating Rep. Heather Wilson Vote-Buying Charges; Says Republican U.S. Congresswoman 'Shrugged' at Allegations When Confronted With Them
News Director of Albuquerque's KKOB Offers New Reason for Spiking Stories; Anchorwoman Who Resigned in Protest Dismisses New Excuse, Says Powerful Station Buckled Under Pressure from Wilson's Campaign
BRAD BLOG Obtains Scripts of Original Spiked Radio Reports...

3/6/08: Reporter Issues Full Statement Blasting New Mexico's KKOB for Ethical Violations in Spiking Republican Vote-Buying Stories
Laura MacCallum Slams Former Employer, News Director, for Buckling to Complaints from Rep. Heather Wilson's Campaign
Recently-Resigned Anchor Writes: 'This is Not journalism. It is Extortion.'...

3/6/08: 'Vote-Buying' Congresswoman's Campaign Rep Worked for Blogger Who Mercilessly Slammed Story
Heath Haussamen Failed to Disclose Rep. Heather Wilson's Spokeswoman, Whitney Cheshire - at Very Center of the Emerging Scandal - Wrote a Weekly Column For Him Until Late Last Year
Indignant New Mexico Blogger 'Journalist' Stands by Lack of Full Disclosure...

3/7/08: AUDIO: New Mexico Republican Vote-Buying Scandal Covered on Peter B. Collins Show
Guests Include Myself, Former NM Republican Governor, Former KKOB Anchor Who Broke Story...

3/11/08: NM GOP 'Vote-Buying' Scandal: Unapologetic Republican Operative Pat Rogers Caught in Two Lies
Former ACVR Stooge Produces 'Magical Invoice', is Forced to Retract Swiftboat-style Attacks on Former Republican Governor Dave Cargo...

3/11/08: New Mexico's Corporate Media Covers Up the Coverage of GOP/Heather Wilson 'Vote Buying' Scandal
A Week After it Broke, the Albuquerque Journal Reports and Buries the Laura MacCallum Story, Demonstrating Again Why the Blogosphere is so Crucial...
-- Guest Blogged by Dennis Domrzalski

3/12/08: Exclusive: NM Sec. of State Says Rep. Heather Wilson's Payment for Voters 'Very Odd'
SoS Mary Harrera Investigates, Questions 'Vote-Buying' Allegations, Has Never Heard of Campaigns Paying People to Show up to Vote
Former Republican Governor Vindicated as Checks Made out by Wilson Campaign Scrutinized by State Attorney General, as Confirmed by Local GOP Chair...
-- Special to The BRAD BLOG by Dennis Domrzalski

3/19/08: State GOP/Rep. Heather Wilson 'Vote-Buying' Scandal Finally Covered by New Mexico's Largest Newspaper...Two Weeks After it Broke
Article Vindicates Radio Journalist Whose Stories Were Spiked, But Front Page Albuquerque Journal Coverage Otherwise Fails Miserably
Key Legal Point, Reported by Blog Long Ago, Entirely Ignored by Paper...

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