Breakthrough

**The controversial and “courageous” (Glenn Beck) James O’Keefe, who Slate.com says “has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist,” goes behind the scenes of the 2012 election cycle to reveal how our nation’s highest office is won—and lost.**Beginning with his release of video recordings of workers at ACORN offices in 2009, James O’Keefe has been on the front lines of journalism, exposing fraud and corruption at some of our most entrenched institutions, private and government alike. Expecting the 2012 election to be similarly unscrupulous in terms of voter fraud and political manipulation, he has rounded up a team of citizen journalists from his organization, Project Veritas, to investigate and chronicle the events of this critical election cycle.

As fair as we like to think our elections are, they are not. As protected as we like to think is our right to free speech, it is not. As free as we like to think ourselves, we are not. In fact, the nation is being sapped of its democratic vitality by this loose coalition of forces—government, media, political parties—that see themselves as progressive but that conspire to protect the status quo.

O’Keefe shares his team’s adventures during this cycle against the backdrop of the larger election story. Starting at the state houses, continuing up through Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, and ending up at the White House, James O’Keefe provides a hard-hitting look at the unseen action behind the campaigns of our nation’s 2012 election process.