American Doom
I’m Justin Glawe, writer and journalist, and I’ve spent my career chronicling the violence, unrest and chaos of American life.
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The overwhelming scale of corruption and election interference (opens the original)
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A quick note: Last week, we detailed Trump’s extreme efforts to sow distrust in — and likely try to overturn — the November election. You can read all four parts of the Start the Steal series at Zeteo. In the planning stages, we called these stories Doomsday , Omnibus , Wargame and Intel . I hope you’ll check it out. Also last week, American Doom intern Ava Shook and I detailed Trump’s historic corruption and wasteful spending on vanity construction projects at Public Notice . I’m sorry I didn’t
The 'Doomsday Scenario' looming over November (opens the original)
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For more than a year now, I’ve been picking the brains of many sources throughout election administration, legal nonprofit and Democratic political circles to see what they’re doing about final move that Republicans will try to pull if and when they lose the midterms . Some folks are prepared; others are not. Probably many more just aren’t talking about their preparations to me, or maybe any reporters. Bottom line: the lawyers who’ll end up fighting Republican challenges to elections — which are
How a small-town Facebook comment led to a Georgia election investigation (opens the original)
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We’re really cooking now. Here’s the latest bit of reporting from an ongoing series I’m conducting with Zeteo called Start the Steal, which will detail how Trump and Republicans are working to sow distrust and/or outright overturn the results of the November mid-terms. Today, how a Facebook post led to an official Georgia State Election Board investigation. Things are going to move fast heading toward November, so we’re going to need your help to keep us running at this high rate of speed. If yo
Trump promises a smoking gun on the 2020 election, wastes nation's time (opens the original)
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The era of Start the Steal has begun. I’ll have some more exclusive findings tomorrow about election interference efforts in Georgia. For now, a rundown of Trump’s address last night. Subscribe, support and share. - jg Last night, President Donald Trump spoke to the nation in an address in which he hyped overblown claims of fraud in the 2020 election as he kicked off Republican attempts to overturn the results of November’s mid-terms . The speech will be looked back upon as one the strangest and
EXCLU: Meet Georgia's newest election "investigator"— a PI who backs Trump (opens the original)
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Good morning and welcome back to the madness. The plan to steal the November elections — led by Donald Trump and backed by Republican elected officials and everyday citizens across the country — is about to kick into overdrive. American Doom will be on top of this just like we have been on all Republican efforts to undo democracy over the last six years. But we can’t do it without your help. Please choose a paid subscription or drop a few dollars in our Coffee Fund . Your money directly funds ou
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