Pollsters were wrong once again.

The projected and predicted red Republican wave in the midterm elections failed to materialize,

but racism and voter suppression showed themselves once again to be a hallmark of a tortured

form of democracy here in the United States. We need a new system.

We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible

even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable,

but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of this week's episode of the Socialist Program.

I'm your host, Brian Becker.

Today we're talking with author, investigative journalist, and filmmaker Greg Pallist.

Greg has a new film about voter suppression called Vigilante.

Greg Palist, welcome.

Glad to be with you.

Thank you so much.

The red wave that all the pollsters told us was coming yesterday did not materialize,

but I wonder what the impact would have been on these midterm elections or the past elections or

the future elections if in fact voter suppression or as you say, because you said you don't like

to use the expression, voter suppression, you can explain why. I thought that was well put.

If it wasn't for voter suppression, what would these elections actually look like?

Let's just talk about the dimension, the magnitude of voter theft.

And also a little bit about what you discovered in your movie, Vigilante.

Let's just talk about the scope of this.

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